Birmingham age-herald., 1894-10-04
BILLY IN TIE LOW GROUND Will Tote His Democratic Skillet
 in the Seventh TO A TRIUMPHANT VICTORY Exhonerated of All Charges Made Against Him, He
 Stands the Nominee.
TO A TRIUMPHANT VICTORY

The democratic executive committee or the Seventh Congressional district, met in room 1 of the Morris hotel, at o'clock | yesterday afternoon at the request of Col. William H. Denson, the nominee for con- | gress.
 Colonel Deneon wanted the charges that | had beeu preferred againat bim nvestigated and as will besseen hsshis letter, he was willing to resign if in the opinion of the committee it was thought bestU The committee did not think 1t best, MT. 1 Brown of Culman being the offly member who showd any antagonism to Colonel Denson. eis saE Y The Advertisers representative, MT. D :, w. McIver, was on hand at the invitation | of Chairman Nicholson, but after the | adoption of the resolutions, requiring all | who appeared before the committee to der
 clare their acquiescence in theI action of
 the committee and to promise to support 1 the nominee, he declined to make any l statement.
 1 The proceedings here published were l furnished by the secretary.
 | At a meeting of the democratic executive committee of the Seventh Congressional 1 district of the state of Alabama, held ia Birmingham, Wednesday, October 8, 1894, 1 the following members were present.: l B. H. Nicholson, chairman; z. T. Law renee, Cherokee N. G. Canning, Etowah;
 T. M. Jones, St. Clair; w. J. Brown Gull 1 Newman, Winston.
 1 Absent: D. c. Williams of DeKalb and l w. H. Norris of Franklin.
 The object of the meeting was explained l by the chair to be the consideration of cer-
 tain charges that had been made against | the Hon. William H. Denson the nominee | of the democratic party sfor congress from | the Seventh district.
 l MT. P. H. Newman of Winston offere
 the following resolutions: l Resolved, That no person be permitted to appear before this committee unless he first pledge his support to the nominee of
 the democratic party and to abide by the l action of this committed.
 Mir. Canning of Etowah offered the fol- ! lowing as su ostitute.
 Resolved, That the executive committee ] of the Seventh Congressional distr jet now l go into executive session, and that the | chairman be and he is hereby directed to | invite any gentleman who has any matter | whatever to lay before the committee 1 touching the loyalty of Hon. w. H. Den- | son to the democratic party, to be present | and present the same, and that after all such | evidence is closed the committee shall con. 1 slider the same in such executive session. 1 Resolved, further, That every member of 1 this committee hereby pledge himself not to disclose any of the proceedings or evil l dence before the committee, except such as | be made public.
 | Mir. Newman moved to lay the substitute
 on the table, which was lost tor want of a
 second.
 The substitute of Mir. Canning was then adopted, all voting in favor thereof ex- l cepting Mir. Newman. MT. Newman then again offered his orig | inal resolution, which was discussed at l considerable length. 1 The chairman called MT. Lawrence to the | Choir nd eli ofo1 M ha n fouo of the resolution he would vote against it's 1 adoption because he had invited the Mont- 1 gomery Advertiser to be present and prefer any charge they desired against Hon. W. representative of that paper might be cut off from appearing by the resolution. The resolution was then adopted. MT. N. G. Canning then offered the fol- lowing resolutions:
 Resolved CD by this committee now in executive session, That every imember of this committee hereby pledge himself to support the nominee of the democratic party of the Seventh Congressional district or the state of Alabama.
 Resolved (2) by this committee now in
 executive session, That every member of
 the committee hereby pledge himself to
 abide by and stand by the final result, whatever 1t may be, or at the last resort of
 the state executive committee, should an
 appeal be taken from any of the proceed ings hereof.
 Resolved (3) by this committee in exec-
 utive session, That any member hereof, should there be any such, who will not hereby pledge himself to abide by, staud by and support the foregoing resolutions now retire from this committee. This was then adopted, no one voting against it.
 The committee then invited Coiouel Den- son 10 appear before it. When he ap. peared he read the following communica- tion 10 the committee: COLONEL DENsoN's LITTER. To the Democratic Executive Committee of the Seventh Congressional District GENTLEMEN: 1 have asked your chair man to call you together to consider the extraordinary condition of affairs in this district. The democrats of the several counties composing this district recently sent delegates to convention which as- sembled at Culiman to nominate candi- date for congress. This convention did me the honor to give me this nomination by more than two- thirds vote on the first ballot. accepted that nomination as 8 democrat, espousing and maintaining the doctrines of the party as declared by our greatest leaders.
 Charges have since been preferred against me by certain enemies of our party, in substance, that did not espouse their cause. Notwithstanding the fact that never at any time or place did by voice or vote abandon or fail to sustain the cause of true democracy, we find certain alleged papers making war upon me and demand ing that executive committees of the party shall not only cashier me, but drive me
 into hostility. to the long estab- lished principles and policies of our party. lappeal to my record of uu broken
 service to my party, to my votes at the
 polls and in congress, and 10 my unfaiter- ing devotion to the interest of the people as
 evidence Of my allegiance 10 the true doc.
 trlnes of our party. That l have never
 erred, never stumbled, never siumbered,