Birmingham age-herald., 1894-09-14
THE EDITORS ADJOURN, After Having Most Enjoyable
 and Instructive Session. GOVERNOR THOMAS G. JONES Addresses the Quill Drivers and Talks of Lynch Law.
 Tie New Officers.

MoNTaoMERY. Sept. 13.-lSpecial. r. The Alabama Press association adjourned tonight, after profitable and pleasant ses- sion of two days.
 The programme today was full of inter- est. The feature ot the morning session was the address of Editor Lane of Hunts vile on immigration and the general de- velopment of the state.
 Major Screws of the Advertiser was ap- pointed to prepare an historical paper on journalism In Alabama.
 Editor Neil's timely resolution on the English intermeddlng with mob violence in the south, with an insignificant change in the phraseology, was unanimously adopted.
 The time and place for holding the next meeting was referred to the executive com mittee.
 At noon the association went in a special rendered by the Louisville and Nashville railroad to Jackson Lake, where the citl- zens of Montgomery had prepared boun- tifui spread for them.
 The business session was continued at the lake. A resolution was adopted rel ative to immigration, recommending that reasonable expenditures be made by the state to secure desirable immigrants aDd pledging the best efforts of the press in this behalf.
 Another resolution prevailed asking the legislature to take the proper steps tc in. crease and improve the states educational facilities.
 Editor Williams of Talladega read a strong paper on the uses and abuses of edi- torial courtesy.
 A resolution indorsing the Atlanta expo sition was passed.
 Editor Nicely of Guntersvilie presented stThe Duty of the Country Paperp in a logical address.
 The an ual election oi officers resulted as follows: President, D. l.. c. Ward of Bridgeport; first vice. president, Robert Rawls of Athens; second vice president, J. B. Stanley of Greenville; third vice. presi- dent, James B. Simpson of Montgomery; secretary, ]. Asa Rountree of Hartselle; i; treasurer, w. M. Meeks of Gadsden. Most of these officers were reelected. Executive committee-Editors Nicely f, Stanley, Glass, Meeks and Williams. Legislative committee-Editors Glass, Rountree, Williams, Lawrence and Stan ley. Essayist, ". H, Judson. Poet, H. T. Doster. Historian, w. w. Screws. Governor Jones, who was tue honored guest of the editors, was called upon for & speech and responded in his usual grace ful manner. He thanked the editors for the assistance they had rendered the gov- ernor in the maintenance of law and order iu the recent troublous times. and advised | them, among other things, to frown on mob law no matter how heinous the of- fense nor how greatly the passions of their communities or themselves might be stirred. Continuing he said: This is one | of the living issues, which, for time at l least, should call forth your wisest and l best efforts. We have resented and will continue to resent all outside interference. l We alone can settle these problems, and l settle them wiser and better than any other l tribunal. While this is SO, and the stranger may not meddle with 1t, it makes
 all the greater the duty and trust which 1 burdens us to see that the laws shall re- main supreme and that no man shall be l touched in life, property and reputation l save in the manner that our civilization l demands and by the instrumentaiitiei | which the law ordains. After passing the usual resolution O l thanks the convention adjourned sine die