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On the evening of Tuesday. May 24, the Republican Party of Rappahannock County held a mass meeting in the courthouse in Washington.
The main purpose of the meeting was to choose delegates for two upcoming conventions: the first, June 9, in Luray, the Convention of the 2(ith Senatorial District Republican Party, for the purpose of nominating a candidate for the Senate of Virginia: the second, June 11 in r
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