Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-08-31
THOMAS ]. MUNCEY
NAMED BY c. 0. P.
Bland County Man Will Oppose
Westmoreland Davis for
Governor of Virginia.
FULL TICKET PUT IN FIELD
Republican Convention Declares
Itself for Prohibition and
Woman Suffrage.
FULL TICKET PUT IN FIELD
Especial to The Times-Dispatch.] ]

Virginia. in State convention here, to-
night nominated Thomas J. Muncey. OF
Bland County. to oppose Westmoreland
Davis for Governor in tho November
election, and placed themselves on rec
ord as squarely in favor of prohibition
Candidates were nominated for every
State Office. The nominations follow:
observation-disclosures J. Muncey, of
Bland County
Lieutenant -Governor-B. A. Davis. of
Rocky Mount
Attorney ey-General-w. w. Butner, of
Fredericksburg.
Secretary of Commonwealth-Hen
Reed. of Botetourt County.
State Treasurer-James Mclaughlin.
of Lynchburg.
Superintendent OF Public instruction
James II. Roebush, of Rockingham.
Commissioner of Agriculture-R. D.
Bowman. Of Shenandoah.
SaUARELY IN FAVOR
OF PROHIBITION LAWS
The republicans. in their platform
placed themselves on record as square
ly in favor of the prohibition laws now
OIL the Virginia statute books. They
believe that the enforcement of those
laws will be rendered more certain
when placed in hands of those who
sympathize with the cause of prohi-
bition. rather than with those who have
not always opposed this great moral
movement. but who IL placed in power
viii! seek any favorable opportunity II
restore the liquor traffic in the State
They also favor the enactment O. such
additional laws as time and expert
ence may show are necessary to make
the prohibition laws effective.
Reasonable hours of service for en-
ployees. the placing Of restriction
around the employment of women and
children. equal compensation for WON
en- doing mems work. the enactment
of a reasonable workmen's compensa
ton Jaw and the extension Of tn.
right Of suffrage TO the women of the
State equally with men were favored
DIRECT ELECTIONS BY -.
THE PEOPLE WA NTEE
Election of members of the State
Corporation Commission. judges of the
courts. school superintendents and
school trustees. road officials, exten-
admission Of women to the Universit,
- - Si'iio "SiC diSo favored.
The Republicans denounced the "un.
fair Democratic system of Legislative
and congressional Eerrymanderinr
whereby great part of the people
OF tho State are Denied their fair pro
portion OF representation in the coun-
CHS OF the State and nation" and al
legged the Democratic party has re.
fused to abide by the plain mandate
OF the law and redistrict the State in
accordance with the population as as.
ccrtained By the last census
They also denounced the failure
of the Legislature of Virginia, con.
trolled by the Democratic party, tc
enact legislation looking to the sup
preston of illegal combinations and
trusts existing within the State for
the purpose of extortion of high
prices"
In the absence OF Congressman Bas.
com Slemp. the meeting was called
TO order by Chairman B. O.
Crockett. Several hundred Republi-
cans were in attendance.
Prominent among the Republicans In
attendance was Senator James h. Wat
sen, of Indiana. whose address was
the principal feature of the afternoon
session. Senator Watson. in speaking
of the war. dwelt upon some of the
causes, he said, that tended to make
it unpopular, but declared. that. being
in 1t. the only thing for America to
do was to fight it out. He declared
that party politics should disappear a,
the Atlantic shore and that the United
States should present a united front
to every foe.
PEOPLE ENPECrI5D WILSON
TO KEEP THEM OUT OF WAR
Senator Watson declared the war un-
popular because thousands of men and
women had voted for Woodrow Wilson
believing he would keep the country
out Of war. He said Democratic com
mittees throughout the country pla-
carded billboards with the doctrine
that the election of Wilson meant
peace; the election of Hughes meant
war. People voted for the President
with this in mind. he said. and In six
weeks after his Inauguration the ma
tion was plunged into war. This, the
Indiana Senator characterized as "the
most astounding pieco of treachery
that ever shock this country"
Lack of sufficiently clear and re-
peated statement of Americas reasons
for being In the war, he assigned as a
cause of much Of the wars unpopu-
larity. He declared it none of Ameri-
cas- business what the boundaries OF
Belgium and of Alsace-Lorraine might
be, none of her business what sort OF
government the German people live
under. 1.-The world must be made
safe for democracy may sound fine
he said. but it Is little too ethereal
to go to war over" He declared
America had entered the war because
her citizens had been slain on the
high seas, because her vessels had beer
destroyed, because Germany had de.
MED to her the freedom Of the seas
that freedom "over which our fore.
fathers fought England in 1912"
Senator Watson gave as another
cause OF the wars unpopularity its