The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-08-09
PEOPLES FORUM.
Letter From DIR. Ken dig.

Editor The virginian:
Sir.--There appeared In The Rich
mond Virginian on August 3. 1915, an
article concerning q mass meeting
held at Victoria. Va, on Friday night,
July 80, which does me a great In
Justice. IN order that the public may
know the facts leading up to this meet
ing I will go back to the beginning
1 am chairman of the Democratic Com
mtttee of Lunenburg County, and called
n meeting OF this committee on May 10.
1918, at the courthouse. Mr.. George T
Allen. the secretary. notified each mem
Der Of the committee. and in addition
to this / published in the Lunenburg
Call and the Free State News. the only
two papers in the county, the follow
Ing notice:
ITO the Members OF the Democratic
Committee and Citizens of Lunen-
burg County:
"A meeting of the Democratic Com
mittee OF this county will be held at
LunenhurE Courthouse on May 10, 1915,
at il A. NJ, 1t Is expected that each
nemhor of the committee will be pres
emit and all citizens OF the county In
terested are invited to attend.
"E. L. KENDIG.
Chairman Democratic Committee"
This notice appeared on May 7. 1915.
fed and there We're present a ma
jority OF its members. 1t has been n
custom Of this committee for a long
time to allow a member to vote by
proxy, when expressly authorized SO
to do by the power appointing him.
This Ia permitted under section Of
our party law. On account OF the dis
lance from the courthouse to some
parts of the county, It has been hard
at times to get a quorum, and for this
reason the use of proxies has been al
lowed. However at this meeting on
May 10 there were present in person
n majority of the members. and In adj
dition to those several were repre-
scented by proxies
AT this meeting resolution was
unanimously adopted providing for the
election OF new County Democratic
Committee. The following are num-
Der Of the sections of this resolution:
1. That new Democratic Committee
for Lunenburg County be elected on
August 3. 1918.
2. That the names of the candidates
for the committee be placed on the
ballots of their respective precincts In
the primary to be held on that day.
3. That each precinct shall have the
exclusive right to elect It's own COM
mitteemen, and the number of these
committeeman at each precinct shall
be determined by this committee.
4. That every candidate for this
committee shall file his notice of can
didacy. witnessed by two persons, not
later than sixty days before August
3, 1915. with the chairman of this COM
mittee. and this notice shall state pre-
cinet and district in which he Is a can
didate.
s. If, after the time has passed for
the fling of the notices of candidacy
with the chairman. there is no oppo-
sstien I'm a precinct, then the chairman
shall declare those unopposed candi-
dates elected, and no election for COM
mitteemen shall be held at this pre-
cinct.
On the day following this meeting I
sent to both of our papers an account
of the meeting, and under the date of
May Ia. 1915. there was published n
notice OF this meeting, which con-
tanned the following:
I'm accordance with party custom II
was ordered that new committee be
elected this year, and August 8. the
day OF the regular primary, was select
ed as the day this election shall be
made"
In addition to this on May 10. 1918.
! posted on the bulletin board Of tine