Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1912-05-24
NO|NSTRUCT|0NS
FROM VIRGINIA.
Wild Cheers for Wilson; Also for
The Other Candi-
dates.
PERFECT HARMONY PREVAILED
Alexandria Delegation Will Leave To-
night for H0me-A. ]. Wedderburn
Prominent Figure in Convention.

Norfolk, Va, May 24.-Except that
Richard Evelyn Byrd, Harry St
George Tucker, and r. Tate Irvine
vii have the privilege of sitting in the
National Democratic convention in
Baltimore and casting their votes on
the first ballot only for Woodrow Will
son, the campaign for the New Jer-
sey governor in the state of his nat
ivity has come to naught.
Including the district delegates who
are for Wilson, his total vote from Vir
ginia will be six and one-half. After
the first ballot according to the agree
ment in the instructions given by the
convention, the unit rule may be ap-
piled by two-thirds vote of the dele
CATION.
Save in the very remote posslblll-
tv of Governor Wilson's nomination
on the first ballot, this state will give
him no aid whatever in his presden-
tial aspirations, unless it should ap-
pear to the party leader that ne is the
NOSE available man and that it would
be advantageous to go to him.
It is true that Stuart Gatewood
Gibboney, of New York, a Wilson
manager, takes more hopeful view
OF the situation. He claims that thlr-
teen of the twenty-four votes are for
Wilson, and that by no possibility can
q two-t thirds vote be secured to take
the entire delegation away from him.
But the organization has attended to
this, and those on the inside know
better.
James R. Cation, of Alexandria was
elected temporary chairman; Congress
man James Hay, permanent chairman
and J. N. Benneman, of Shenandoah.
Temporary and permanent secretary.
The Party Platform
The party platform deals with few
ouestions which seem likely to arouse
great contention on the floor OF the
st,te convention. Aside from nation
al issues, and the usual pointing with
pride to the record of the party, ana
endorsement of the acts of the Demo
cratic House of Representatives, the
significant feature was the approval
piyen to federal income tax. The
LEGISLATURE is asked to ratify this pro-
nosed amendment to the constitution
While there was strong OPPOSITION to
tbis plank in the committee of reso-
,ut;ons no fight on it was had in the
convention itself.
Reaffirming the belief OF the party
IN the state in the doctrine OF primary
elections, the convention refused TO
po further than the Byrd law, when
has not yet gone into effect. All OF
the proposed resolutions were re-
farred to the state committee WIN
;rstructions to report at some future
time, presumably four years hehee
Tho only latitude given the commit
too is to readjust the party primary
n,an 90 as to make it conform TO tne
new statute.
The only real fight of the conven-
,;on was engaged in last night over
tha doctrine of holding preferential
nr;maries to indicate the choice OF the
Democrats of the state between ea"a',
d,tes for president, along the lines OF
those recently held elsewhere Al,
though strongly urged by several Al
sneakers, the proposition to commit
the party to preferential primaries
was defeated by the overwhelm'hs
vote of 21l ga ayes, to Ss9 Ia noes
The only other business at the op.
enine session was the appointment %
the standing committees, composed
| of three from each district oeieea-
ton.
The following were unanimously
n elected delegates-at-large to the Bal
n t;more convention with half vote
k each:
d Senattr Thomas Staples Martin,
|] Senator Claude Augustus Swanson
Governor William Hodges Mann, Rep
resentative Henry Deleware Flood
n p;nhard Eyal1.n RYrd former