Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1916-06-03
No Discords Are Heard in
Great Gathering Of
Democrats
ADOPTION OF SLATE
Glass Selected National Committee.
man, and James Chairman of State
Committee

Roanoke. Va, June 3.-"Let MS
remain o united Democracy. Let us
no longer speak of factions and feuds
in this great body of Virginians
banded together for human rights.
Let us remember that truth and pa
triotism was never the exclusive pos
session of one particular faction, and
that these virtues aoeain their mob
lest growth in harmony"
Pleaded Judge p. T. w. Duke, yes
terday addressing the mightiest as
semblage of Democrats ever gather
ed under single roof in the history
of Virginia. AS temporary chair
man of the State convention, he was
sounding the keynote speech. 1t was
a plea to delegates who less than a
week before were busy in prepara-
ton for what promises to be the bit
terest factional struggle in a genera
ton.
The plea bore fruit. Through the
long hours that followed before mid
night hardly an utterance came from
the floor OF platform that did not
echo the sentiment. The major cleo
tions followed without deviation the
peace program that was promulgat-
ed last week in Washington.
~" Rorer A. James of Danville, and
Garter Glass; Of stynchburg; mount
ed the platform a few minutes apart.
Each in his own words paid his tri-
butte to the united Democracy that
had honored them so signally.
Strictly in accordance with the
terms of the peace of Washington,
the convention elected Mr.. Glass as
the Virginia member of the National
Democratic Committee and Mr..
James as chairman of the State COM
mittce, Both Offices had been held by
Lieutenant- Governor J. Taylor Ely
son for more than 20 years. Likewise
in accordance with the peace terms,
Representative Hal D. Flood, OF the
Tenth District, was elected one OF
the four delegates at large to the
St. Louis convention. The other three
delegates at large, chosen in accor-
dance with established precedent,
are Governor Henry c.. Stuart, and
Senators Thomas S. Martin and
Claude A. Swanson.
Late at night, when the 1900 dele
gates and 5000 spectators had cheer
ed themselves hoarse at every recur-
ring: mention of President Wilson's
name, and had greeted with patriotic
denlioonstration long succession OF
favorite sons, the convention with
one voice adopted the report of its
committee on resolutions, indorsine
unreservedly the policy of the pres
ent national administration and dir
ecting the "a delegates from Vir
einia to vote as unit for the re-
nomination of Staunton's son-Wood
row Wilson.
To the preparedness issue tht
convention adverted twice. One sec
tion of its formal resolution notes tht
fact that mo navy in England or Am
erican history ever endangered th'
liberties of the people," and approx
es "any reasonable expenditure which
may be necessary to equip and main
tain the efficiency of the American
navy" Another section, reviewing tn,
constructive acts of the administra
tion, registers the conventions ap
proval of the party's action in enact
ing measures looking to the nation
al, defense, one, of which assures
basis for such expansion of the arm
and militia of the States as to, pre-
vide adequate protection against an
immediate or future foreign aggre:
sion"
The convention expressed its al
proval of the business-like administr'
tion of Governor Stuart. and the r
cord of the last General Assembly
The resolutions are prefaced with tt
request that the State Democrat
Committee call a State conventit
prior to June l, 1917, for the pu
pose of adopting a platform GOVERN
State issues.