Henderson daily dispatch., 1934-06-11

M. Peace was reelected chairman
and B. P. Wyche was named secretary
of the Vance County Democratic Exc
cutive Committee by members of thai
committee at a meeting held following
the county convention in the court
house here today The convention
elected Jere P. Zollicoffer as a mem
ber of the Democratic State Execu-
tive Committee from Vance county
by the convention itself, with Mrs. J.
Alderman as the woman member OF
the State committee.
c. M Cooper, Jr., was elected secre-
tary, and Mrs. Alpheus Thompson was
made vice chairman of the county
executive committee wnen the COM
nnittee met and named the other Off
GERS.
The convention was fairly we'll at
tended, and unanimously adopted
resolution offered ~ A. A. Bum en-
dorsing the Roosevelt national Demo
cratic administration. The resolution
which was very brief, follows:
BE it resolved, That the Democrats
of Vance county, in convention this
day assembled, go on record as ap-
proving the policies of the Nationa
Democratic Administration under the
mastery and courageous leadership
our matchless leader; Franklin Delant
Roosevelt.
1t was ordered that the resolution
be certified and sent to Presiden
Roosevelt.
A lengthy list of delegates to the
DemoC! attic State Convention
Raleigh next Thursday was elected BY
the convention, and in addition /.
these. it was provided that any othe
Democrat in good standing who i.
present at the State convention be al
lowed to sit with the delegation an
vote.
The delegates to the State conven
tion was nominated by a committed
consisting of one representative fron
each Of the 13 voting precincts in the
county. The comN~ttee named one
delegate from each precinct and one
alternate from each precinct, and the
remainder of the allotment of 26 given
the county was selected at large.
On motion of j. G. Kittrell com
mittee was appointed by the chain
man to draw suitable resolutions t(
the memory of the late Congressman
Edward w. Pou, the commit:Sc beint
named to consist of ]. C. KittreK
Henry A. Dennis and A. A. Bum.
j. M. Peace, county chairman, open
ed the convention, and spoke briefly
I'M setting forth the purpose of tn;
gathering and at the same time out
lining his work in the past |two-years
He told of making two APPOINTMENT
to; the Vance County Board Of Elec,
ticn, and supervising the appofntnaen!
Of poll hof6erse anG Rald high tributs
to the Roosevelt admins Stration in j,tas.s
nation and the State admtnistr atf6f
of Governor Ehringhaus He said he
had worked hard for the party, anc
had sought to serve it to the best in
terests of the organization He was
given a round of applause at the close
]. H. Bridgers was elected tempol
ary chairman ard Henry A. Dennis
temporary secretary of the county
convention, and the organization ther
was made permanent. After that the
roll of the precincts was called, anc
all 10 were SHOWN 10 De represented
Appointment of a credentials commit.
tee was dispensed with.
The motion as to the method OF
choosing delegates to the State co:.,
vention was made by r c. Kittrell
A. A. Bum nominated Mr.. Zollicof.
fer as a member of State Democra-
tic Executive Committee. Mrs. G.. M
Cooper was nominated for the woman
mem;er of the State committee. bu
withdrew in favor of Mrs. Alderman
whose name had already been present
ed. Both were named by acclamation
A. A. Bum as member and Mrs
Eugene Teiser, alternate, on the dis
trict congressional committee, an;
Irvine &. Watkins as member O.
the judicial district executive commit
tee were all named by acclamatior.
w. s. Corbitt was similarly chosen a!