The age-herald., 1898-05-19
THE DEADLOCK
 IS UNBROKEN And No Nomination Has Been Made by the
 Judicial Convention. SECRET BALLOT NOW USED And Still the Votes Amount to Just AEOlt
 the Same. L. c. DICKEY AS A DARK HORSE He Failed to Show Up We'll Last Night -Sev- eraI Exciting Debates-533 BaIl,ts Have Been Taken-Delegates
 Becoming Inpatient
L. c. DIcKEY AS A DARK HORSE

Resolved That this convention owes it to the democracy of this, the Tenth Judi cal Circuit, to make a nominations. Resolved further, That the secretary of this convention shall make a roll of the delegates in alphabetical order, that he shall then proceed to call the roil of de e. gates so arranged; that each delegate when his name Is called, shall cast ballot of his voting strength in the convention in a hat or other suitable acceptable, upon which shall be written the name of one of the candidates now in nominations; that the candidate receiving the highest number of votes. shall be declared the nominee, pro- vided he receives the majority of the votes of this convention; that the ballotting shall continue in the above manner until a nomi- nation is made, provided that in no case, shall the ballots when aggregated exceed thirty the total strength of the con- vention.
 Resolved further, That the delegates to this convention having served their respec- tive cadidates whom they represent, faith fully and well without effecting any nomi- nation, are hereby absolved from any and all personal moral or political obligations to any candidate and shall be free to vote as they deem proper, it being the sense of this convention that they owe a higher duty to the democracy of this circuit than to any one candidate.
 Resolved further, That all unit rules heretofore adopted and enforced by any delegation are hereby revoked and abol- ished."
 The above resolution offered by Musgrove gives the plan under which the convention to nominate a judge of the Tenth Judicial is now working.
 The second radical plan offered as solu- tion of the deadlock is Altmans resolution given below. It was finally withdrawn by MT. Altman.
 hereby refer the nomination of circuit fudge of this circuit back to the people, and that. the old executive committee Of this circuit be and it is hereby instructed to order and supervise the primary election in this circuit to make nomination TOT said office, the candidate receiving the highest vote at said election to be the nominee"
 A Restless Day
 The meeting of the convention yesterday was a tiresome one, although there were several exciting debates and there were many outbreaks of wit and repartee. The monotonous balloting never varied more than three or four votes for any candidate and nomination now seems as .mucn d thing of the future as ever. The Mus grove resolution given above which "let the bars down." releasing the delegates from all obligations to vote for the candi- dates by whom they were selected, and allowing them to vote as they please, didn t have the desired effect and the ballots added up to almost the same old figures
 The delegates are becoming very restless and all agree that they will either nomi- nate or give it up today. A number or the Walker and Winston county delegates returned home last night, saying they couldn't afford to fool away any more time.
 Morning Session
 Balloting under the old unit rule was resumed yesterday morning and the four hundred and forty-fourth ballot resulted the same as ballot No. i. Tanner moved that one member of each delegation cast the fractional votes in a vive voce ballot, which was tabled. Banks strength went to Coleman on the four hundred and forty first ballot, giving the latter 1889 votes. Robert Thach was made assistant secre- tary in Crowder's absence. The exertion of standing up to announce the results of the ballots became too great for Chair man Powell and he was allowed to keep his seat. Waldrop offered resolutions to adjourn between every ballot from the four hundred and ninety-third to. the five hundredth but was voted down with uni form regularity. In fact, the convention spends almost as much time in discuss ing adjournmentJas in balloting. But some of the delegates say they must have variety.
 Musgrove and Altman Resolution Musgrove introduced his resolution on the five hundredth ballot, which was closely followed by the Altman resolution. Both were referred to the committee on permanent organization, consisting of w. A. Walker (Ward), J. L. Tanner (Banks) F. E. Blackburn (Miller) and M J. Gregg (Coleman). The convention then adjourned to meet at o'clock. at which time the, committee was instructed to report
 Two O'Clock Session
 At 9 o'clock the committee returned Walker and Gregg reported in favor of Altman's resolution to refer the nomination back to primary. Tanner and Black burn favor the Musgrove resolution to let delegates vote as they please. This was considered poor report, but it was the best the committee could do Some want ed to discuss and settle the matter then and there but the base ball cranks in the convention who wanted to see a portion, at least. of the Brmingham-Augusta game, prevailed and after another long "adjourn- ment debate" further deliberations were postponed until clock. This occurred at 2:s0, on the 526th ballot, only 10 ballots hav- ing been cast since dinner
 Payne, of Winston. the fun-maker of the convention, then addressed the delegates who were hanging around. giving them cordial invitation, in his humorous way, to come over and make democratic speeches in the coming campaign Plenty of good food and "mountain dew awaited them, said he
 s.If Jefferson will help us out" said MT. Payne, "we'll not only go solid for the state ticket, in which believe Jefferson is some what interested (applause), but we'll send a legislator to Montgomery to Tote for the constitutional convention which is now so ardenflx chamnianed by The Age Herald