Zlbe Xextngton (5a3ette VOL. NO. 27 108, LEXINGTON. VIRGINIA, WEDNESDAY, JULY 3. 1912 $100 PER YEAR DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL TO GATHER BY THE SEASHORE TOWN PLANNING IN CONVENTIONS OF PAST DEMOCRATS AMERICA CONVENTION BOLTERS Rural Carriers to Meet in Norfolk DENOUNCE MORAL INELUENCE IS This Week The Model Town Must Be Planned IN BOTH BIG PARTIES Baltimore Has Been Place On a Business Meeting Great preparation is made PREDATORY WEALTH Basis Times being HER GREATEST ASSET Historic Many for tbe entertainment of the dele- If for no other reason, therefore, Incidents Gathered from The Democratic National Conven¬ Kates to tbe of tbe Resolution ls the model town must be considered, Past Experiences tion meeting Virgin Adopted Rebuking Educational Power ofWashington which mat io Baltimore last ia Kural Letter Carriers' Associa¬ Wall Street and Lee organized and developed on a busi¬ In pointing out what Colonel weak, was the twenty-first national tion to be held in Norfolk this week. ness basis; and tbe value of the ex¬ Roosevelt's bolting party shojld ol the assemblage Democratic party. Officers of the organization are W. perience acquired or any success expect in the light of history, the Born io the back GREAT DISORDER FOLLOWED achieved will controversy of Ls. Hamersley. Randolph, Va, pres¬ EVER TRUE TO TRADITIONS depend first and last Phildelphia Public Ledger calls at¬ 178-1, chi isteoed by Jefferson, its ident, and C. B. Conner, Lexington, on obtaining results in the face of con¬ tention to thes« historic facts ditions no founder, in 1792. and strengthen¬ secretary-treasurer. The secretary W. J. Bryan and H. D. Flood Have Fundamentalism and Thoroughness more favorable than "The Republican party had ita. ed in the division the met with in other bimble in among people has prepared the following .n forma Passage-at-Arms Are Characteristic [ordinarily land de- origin the conventions of with the neutrality ol Washington's tion for tbe I velopments, and by the useof means the Liberty party in 183!'and 1840. benefit of those caring William Jennings Bryan wrote BY ll. WATHON JAMIES, M.. D. proclamation at the beginning of tbe to attend the convention: the most ordinarily available in other in- in the latter year the sensational and dramatic It is a very broad assertion Liberty party Anglo-French war io 1793, the Dem¬ The ninth annual convention of chapter of the Democratic National that stances. In fact the future of town nominated James a. Hirney for ocratic its Washington and I.ee in America and party passed centennial the Virginia Letters Carriers' As¬ Convention when he rose the University planning depends on President, in 1844 put forward upon stands to day as one of tbe corner¬ mark more than a decade ago. sociation will be held in floor of that whether it can be shown to pay. the same candidate. Hirney, in But the of the Norfolk, body Thursday night stones if not the corner-stone of the Tbe so-called model history party's July 4, 5 and 6, 1912. The meeting and. after declaring that tbe Demo¬ town must 1840, got exactly 7,05;' votes, as conventions dates back to American Republic. Yet the thesis succeed on a commercial compared with only 1832, will be called to order tbe evening cratic party was about to be sold basis. It Harrison's 1.276,017. in which tbe national is absolutely, argumentatively and must even do better in this and in 1844 be year delegate of tbe 4th at8:30. Among the prom¬ into bondage to the predatory inter¬ respect got iio.tJOS to Pile's convention method of historically defensible. On the than the ordinary commercial or 1,387,343, and nominating inent speakers are Hon. P. V. ests, demanded tbat Thomas F. ruins of Clay's 1,299.068. candidates for President and vice- and Liberty Hall Academy is speculativedevelopment. Itu educa¬ Their successors, the Fret* OeGraw, Fourth Assistant Post¬ Ryan August Belmont be cast builded an President was adopted. The first institution with nearly tional, architectural, and ers. got but master General; Hon. W. D. Brown, out of the convention. a sociologic¬ 291,863 votes in lMv Democratic National million of dollars of endowement, al possibilities, in which dwindled to Convention, Editor R. F. D, News; Hon. Edgar Stunned for a minute by the sud¬ therefore, the 156.149 in ItibS, held on Carrying on a work of modern educa¬ last deuced on out in May 12. 1832. at Balti¬ Allen, Postmaster at Hicbmond; denness of the blow dealt the analysis, its economic 1856 the total allied forces of two by tion in classics, science, law, but success. The the more, adopted rules which Hon. Stetb Bolling, Postmaster at Commoner, the convention appeared equation is funda Republicans, with whom the have the actions of illustrating tradition, holding fast mentally an economic Free Soilers had guided all sub¬ Petersburg; Hon. P. St. J. it first not to know what to do or one, however now coalesced, Wilson, to tbat which was good and it were sequent conventions. One of these State wbicb to pres¬ aesthetically may be put upon the able to get 1,341.265 votes as Highway Commissioner, and way turn. Recovering a sing forward to tbe mark provided that tbe delegates, when several Norfolk speakers. uoiuont later, however, the high of slate, and its solution must he against 1,838,168 votes for Buchanan body forming characier. Ti ere is hard¬ found in >n so instructed, should cast the votes broke into a terms of dollars and cents. the Democratic ticket. Even Every Carrier is urged to attend storm of protest and a prominent by of their States as u and the ly incident in the con¬ .From "Model I860, 20 years after the unit, this meeting. This is tbe first time lalf a hundred jelegates leaped to struction Towns.in America," convention other tbat no candidate should be period of the rep.iblic in by Grosvenor in the A the we have been able to get Mr. DeG raw iheir feet crying for recognition. which the Atterbury, Liberty party, which is syn¬ a progenative of Scribner. with nominated without two-thirds ma¬ to meet with us and be would like to Against this wave of furious Washing¬ July onymous the birth of the Re¬ Andrew pro¬ ton and Lee does not figure. She is publican jority. Jackson was nomi¬ meet every Carrier in the State. test rose another wave of Find party, the vot« for Lin¬ approba¬ impressed on the baptismal sacred- Bones of Three-Toed Horse coln on nated for President, and Martin Mr. DtUraw bas been to tion from the the Republican ticket tvaa quite a Bryan men throughout ioss of the nation. that is Marvlous discoveries of Vao Buren for Vice President. number of conventions and he hall. Anything pre¬ nearly a million less than the con¬ says written about her must historic mammals in thc shale fields fined The second Deni'jcratic National that be finds that tho Carriers that Members of the Virginia and New necessarily *-ote tor the other candidates. ae reminiscent. on the desert 28 miles east of Mina, Lincoln received in Convention met on May 25,1830, also are interested in tbe Association are fork delegations, the this election resenting In Convention that carried Vir Nev., are announced as the result at Baltimore, and nominated Martin the oaes tbat are the most in nove of Colonel turned I.S66.352 votes, while Don, doing Bryan, ,tinia into tbe Union men who were of the explorations of Prof. Law¬ Van Buren for Presidentand Rich¬ upbuilding the service. There are iercely upon him with a refusal to Democrat) got 1.375,157: John C. irustees of Liberity Hall Academy- rence Baker, of the department of ard If. Johnson for Vice President. many interesting places in Norfolk ueet such a challenge. They de- held the Jreckenridge (Independent Demo- balance of power, and vot- geological research of University of ¦rat) got 847,514 votes, and The third convention, held on May and vicinity: Virginia Beach. lured that Mr. Bryan had no i John Cape right :d against the instructions of their California. Professor Baker is as¬ 3ell 5, 1840, at Baltimore, renominated Ocean o dictate to their Staten (Constitutional Union) recei veal Henry, View, Hampton Roads who should constituents. Otherwise the in- sisted in his researches bv Profes Van Buren, but named no and Yards. r should not sit a 87,830. candidate Navy in Democratic luence of Patrick Henry and Dr. sor Buwaldo, also of the "When for Vice President, leaving tbat to :onventiou as their representatives university Grant, 1-72. got 3,597,070 Value of [<braham would have prevented Vir¬ faculty. otes as tbe the several States. It also put for¬ Good Roads The Bryan resolution as regular Republican adopted kginia from a of the The rard the first The editor of ran as follows: becoming party investigations disclose tbe lominee, and <ireely received 2.- complete platform tbePeinberville, (O.) I <j :ompact. The name of the fact tbat tbe ever Lrader has Liberty region Mina was once 34,070 votes from the adopted by the party. condensed the library Tbat ' Democrats "Resolved, in this orisis in Jail Academy was changed to Wash- an immense body of tropical water. nd Liberal In 1844 tbe Democratic National written up_m the subject of good ar Republicans, Ch.i? party's career, and in our conn- ' ngton Academy by the act and re- The bones of a three-toed horse Convention again assembled at Bal¬ roads, into a single, short para¬ ''Connor of New York, the secea.