The age-herald., 1898-08-12
GOLFERS WERE BARRED OUT
By the District Committee In Its ACtltn
 Yesterday.
HAD ENDORSED HANNIs TAYLOR
Washington County Furnishes Food for the Controversy, and Chairman Nose ly Says it Would Require TeH
 Years to Healthe Breach.
Special Dispatch to The Age-Herald.

Special Dispatch to The Age-Herald. Mobile Aug. 1.-The First district execu- tive committee met at Thomasville today and adopted a resolution defining qualif- cations of voters in the coming district beat meetings and barring out the men who voted for Rawls and Sullivan in Wash ington county in the recent state election on the ground that they are populistA The gist of the resolution adopted by the con- vention is as follows:
 Resolved, That it is. the sense of this committee that the invitation extended by the state democratic executive committee inviting all conservative voters, irrespect- i've of past political associations or differ ences, who can unite with us in the effort for pure economical and constitutional gov ernment and who will support the nomi- nees and principles of the democratic party to join with us in sending delegates to the approaching state convention, etc., was not extended, and cannot be construed as extending to those voters who e1tner did not in good faith enter the said pri- maries or to those who having entered the said primaries failed to support the regular nominees ofthe democratic party fin the election held Monday, August ], 1S9S''
 The second resolution extends an invita- ton to conservative voters who did support the nominees and forbids others from talk ing part in the district "maries.
 Beat meetings are ca led for August 20, county conventions for August 22 and dis trict convention for August 26.
 Appeal Taken
 A. s. Lyons and J. P. Kenny, Mobile members of the committed gave notice of an appeal to the state executive commit tee. They have telegraphd to Chairman Lowe to call the state committee together as early as possible. believing that beat meetings have been called for so early date as the 2Oth, so that the action of the district committee cannot be interfered with.
 The action of the district committee arose from the fact that thirteen members of the former populist party in Washington county met at St. Stephens before the Au- gust election to determine what attitude they would take. They decided to disband their party and go back to democracy, but recommended that Rawls, Sullivan and Hannis Taylor be supported by the voters of the county. Rawls and Sullivan asked that their names be placed on the regular
 
 a ticket of their own and were elected by a large majority.
 Barred Out Men for Hannis
 Now they and those who voted for them are barred out by the district committee, and it is recognized that unless they are allowed to vote Wash Taylor will get the county, since the barred out men have endorsed Hannis Taylor.
 Mosley, chairman of the Washington county committee, who is popularly be- lieved to be the father of the refusal to let Rawls' and Sullivan's names go on the county ticket, voted against the adoption of the resolution by the district commit tee saying that it would take ten years for the county to get over such action.
 State Committee Called
 In compliance with Mir. Lyons request from Mobile the following call was issued last night by Chairman Robert J. Lowe and Secretary Nathan L. Miller, of the state democratic executive committee.
 '.The state executive committee of the democratic and conservative party of Alabama is called to meet in the city of Montgomery on 17th day of Au- gust, 1S9S for the purpose of hearing an appeal from the action of the execu- tive committee of the First congress sional district and for the transaction of such other business as may come