Birmingham age-herald., 1894-09-23
STILL ANOTHER.
Four of the Counties in the Sixth Send ConGlomerates to Fayette to
 Name Victim.

FAYETTE, Sept. 22.-[Special Corre-
 spondence. IA farce was enacted here
 yesterday, which terminated at 10 p. m.
 The conglomerates, consisting of republi-
 cans, quondam democrats and pseudo
 Jeffersonians, convened in congressional
 convention in our court house. Out of the
 eight counties in the district only four had
 delegates here, viz: Fayette, Lamar, Tus-
 kaloosa and Pickens; Walker, Marion,
 Greene and Sumter having no representa-
 tioR.
 D. G. W. Hollis Of Lamar was made
 chairman and always addressed the dele- gates as "brethren. ' It was amusing 10
 see him preside. It reminded one of a sophomoric chairman of a schoolboy's de- ba1ng society.
 A committee on credentials was ap-
 pointed, and going out, made their report, seating delegates only from bali the coun- ties in the district, and the farcical results of their report was so manifest that some ingenious delegate, equal to the occasion |, made motion to appoint q committee on
 rules of order and ''procedure, the in- tention being, of course, to manufacture four counties on short notice. Some dele-
 gate, however, objected to this, seeing | that it might be "doctored' to nomiEa ate
 some favorite "brother." So this scheme failed, and the play went on, notwlth- standing the said counties were conspicu-
 ous by their absence. Whether they ever had quorum ot delegates or not l do not know, put certain It is that great major ity of the popular vote of the district had no voice. or brother,' in their midst. Big speeches were pronounced and | many resolutions were passed during he
 progress of the meetin', and the declara- ton of independence was again seriously
 adopted, with few minor mod fications and Accompaniment" in their belicose platform of denunciation and "abolish- ments.'
 At D. m., after the birth of the said platform and 'resolutions,' nominations
 were pronounced in order. The names of George s. Youngbood of Pickens, James R. Maxwell of Tuskal. .sa and John B.
 Sanford of Fayette were placed in jeop-
 ardy. On the first ballot Maxwell received Is from Tuskaooss, Youngblood 9 from Pickens and from Lamar and Sanford Il from Fayette and 2 from Lamar. Two or three other votes were taken with no ma terial change ofresult.
 Then the chair delivered a lecture to the brethren, and persuaded them that noth- | ing could be done unless some body WAS withdrawn, or something. The lecture brought down the persimmons, for on the
 next ballot John B. Sanford received 8 ma jorlty of those voting, and was declared the nominee. He came forward and made 0 speech that had one merit in it-it was brief.
 Bankhead, of course, will beat him from 4000 to 5000. MT. San ford is not conspcu- ously strong man, on the stump or other wise.
 The end of the farce is this: The Alliance Age, published here, as the champion of
 Jeffersonian democracy, has in it a stand
 ing hackneyed editorial, reading thus;
 And yet the first chance presented they
 embrace to nominate a lawyer, John B.
 Sanford, over at least one good farmer MT.
 Maxwell. How is that for highl and for
 consistency? Ehf