Evening star., 1937-08-28
REPUBLICANS OPEN
STATE CONVENTION
Virginjans Expect to Name
Full Slate at Richmond
Today.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
RICHMOND, August 28.-Virginia
Republicans. recalling their 1928 Old
Dominion victory, laid plans in their
State convention today which they
hope will bring the party to Its pre-
New Deal strength.
Their immediate task included 4
decision on whether to offer candi-
dates for State Offices, q revision Of
their 12year-old party plan of or
ganization and laying a platform
foundation for their appeal for votes
In November.
Representative Dewey Short of the
seventh Missouri district offered the
initial attack on the opposition tn the
keynote address at the Acca Temple
Mosque.
Expects Full Slate.
AS the delegates filed into the huge
convention auditorium Clarence r.
Ahalt, State chairman, expressed the
lief full slate would be offered,
including candidates for Governor.
Lieutenant Governor and attorney
general
The question of nominations was
not broached in last nights committee
sessions, but at least four names were
widely mentioned as likely to 60 before
the convention this afternoon
They included w. C. Deming Of
Front Royal, Taylor Vaughan of Galax
and DR.. S. A. Reynolds of Pittsylvania
County, regarded as possible guberna-
torial choices, and Commonwealth s
Attorney J. L. Dillow Of Giles, sug-
gested as possible candidate for the
nomination for attorney general
Deming, seventh district chairman,
said he had not changed from his
position that private business would
forbid him considering a political
campaign, but friends persisted in in
jecting his name into their discus
sions
Ran for Congress.
Vaughan is a member OF the State
Senate and was an unsuccessful candi-
date for Congress from the NTH dis
trict in the last election.
Some delegates expressed the be-
lief the lieutenant governorship NOM
ination would fall to the runner" to
the gubernatorial choice, if a contest
developed for that place on the ticket.
At least one controversial question
threatened convention harmony. Rob-
ert Woods Of Pearisburg, chairman of
the ninth district, after losing an ef-
fort last night to obtain the concur
renee Of the Executive Committee.
said he would offer a proposal to
change the present method Of electing
the State chairman.
Instead Of choosing the chairman
by the Executive Committee. he pro-
posed his election by the convention
itself. The Executive Committee voted
favorably on the proposal when it was
offered last night. but later recon-
sidered and let it die by 6-6 tie vote.
Presented the convention for It's
final action, after approval by q
divided Executive Committee, was a
proposal to permit district conventions
to elect members of the State Execu-
tive Committee, in place of the pres
ent method Of having one of the two
from each district elected by the dis
trict meeting and the other at the
State convention.
T. x. Parsons Of Roanoke, backing
S. G. Proffitt of Floyd, author of the
proposal, declared last night the
change would prevent State conven-
ton packing of the party's guiding
council.
Approve Revised Plan.
After number Of revisions, the
executive committeeman gave their
approval 8-6 to the revised party plan
presented by Fred w. McWane OF
Lynchburg, chairman of a subcom-
mittee named to bring the 12-year-
old plan up to date
Ahalt said the party would strive
during the next two years to increase
its representation in the House OF
Delegates from the present seven to
"25 or 30' and offered a list of i've
counties which he said could have
been carried by change Of 100 votes.
In the first group he placed Scott,
Stafford, Bath, Green and Rocking
ham, and in the latter Bland, Bote-
tourt, Craig, Madison, Mathews, New
Kent and the cities of Buena Vista
and Radford.
He listed total of II counties and
cities as Real possibilities, q fertile
field in which to do some good work
with success"