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Rappahannock Democrats held their mass meeting at the courthouse in Washington last Saturday with approximately 40 persons attending to elect delegates to the district and state conventions. The atmosphere was serious and business-like as party members lined up to register to vote but the formality slipped slightly when a tie in the results forced a straw drawing contest.
Mary Edna Schaeffer, Dorothy Davis and Hubert Gilkey were the three top vote getters in the secret ballot cast for delegate. Diana Bird and E. H. Bailey tied for fourth with Sherman Williams sixth. According to rules adopted at the outset of the meeting, the four persons with the highest number of votes would be delegates while the fifth and sixth place finishers served as alternates.
“The way to do this in the rules is to draw straws,” reported Schaeffer who served as presiding chairman for the mass meeting. “That's what the rules say,” he repeated as a volunteer dashed downstairs to liberate a couple of straws from the courthouse broom. Mrs. Bird and E. H. Bailey each grabbed hold and Mrs. Bird
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