Birmingham age-herald., 1894-09-19
THE SIXTH DISTRICT.


 Since the adjournment of the Sixth con- gressional convention at Guin much has been said in reference to the legality of it's action, as to what it had right to do and what not. Democracy teaches that sov- ereign power rests with the people. In party affairs democrats maintain that party sovereignty resides with the democratic people. A convention of democrats is the democratic people asSen bled by delegates. convention thus assembled has sover- eighty and power. The powers of an ex- ecutive committee are only advisory. It is a creature of the convention, ana has no right to order the convention to do any thing.
 At the beginning of the congressional campaign, the con gressional executive committee recommended that congress sional convention be held. The county executive committee recommended that beat meetings he held throughout the sev- eral counties, and thus delegates were elected to county conventions, which se- lected delegates to the congressional con- vention. This convention of delegates, when it assembled at Guin, was conven- tion of the democratic people of the Sixth Congressional district. As soon as 1t or ganized, it was the supreme authority of the organized democracy of the Sixth dis trict upon all matters pertaining to that organization. It's delegates had been elected by the prescribed rules of the party. II the duty of this convention was to make nominations, who but the con- vention itself had any right to say how it should be done. If it had the right to make nominations, it certainly had the right to pass the necessary resolutions to bring about the nomination.
 There are more ways or methods than one known to democracy for making nomi- nations. The state executive committee nor the congressional executive committee has any power to prescribe the method which should be pursued. It must neces- esarily be left to the convention to deter mine wi. 1t plan should be pursued. The convention at Guin saw proper to adopt the D1ajority rule, allowing a majority of the delegates to name the nominee. They might have adopted the two third rule, or they m ght have adopted a prorate rule, or still they might have adopted the primary election plan, ordering the several cou nties to hold primary elections and de- jclarlng the nominee to be the one receiving the highest number of votes in the district.
 Alter balloting five days and no nomina- ton being made and no prospect of one under the rule first adopted, ir fact no Fchange of result from the first ballot cast, who will question the right of that conven- tion, by majority of it's votes, to adopt another method of making the nomina- tion? No executive committee has the power to say they could not do it and do it legally, for no executive committee has the power to prescribe the method of nomina- tion.
 What have the other districts to do with making nominations in the Sixth? What have the methods of Tuskaloosa county convention to do with the methods of Greene county convention? No one will undertake to deny that the Sixth congress sional convention had the sole right to de- ttrmine how the nomination should be made, and it necessarily follows that the convention had the rightto to pass such reso- intions as would put into operation the necessary machinery that would bring about the result.
 The only error h The resolution of the