The age-herald., 1898-03-26
TWO TICKETS IN
 CLEVELAND BEAT Result Of the Democratic Mass Meeting
 Held Last Night FOUR MEN ON BOTH TICKETS The Reflin- Greene Contest for Solicitor
 Figures in the Fight.
DR. A. T. HENLEY ON HIS "MeTTLE"
Meeting Held in Chancery Court Room-DeIe- gatlon Was Selected by Committee Madison, WoodIawn and North High
 land Beats Name Tickets.

Cleveland Is the first beat in the county to put out two tickets of delegates to the county convention to be voted for in the coming primaries.
 The supporters of both tickets are thor oughly in earnest, and the fight Is likely to prove a very interesting one As announced in yesterdays Age-Herald, the Bimetallic club of this beat met at the court house Thursday night and selected the following delegates: N L. Miller, J. T. Garretson, Arthur Crowder, J. F. B. Jack son, T. L. Robertson, Joseph Melghan, Mel Drennen, w. R. Green, Wyatt Hefiin, James N. Cunningham, J. E. Wilson, G. B. Me- Way.
 A democratic mass meeting was held at | the court house last night and second ticket put out It is as follows N. L. Mill | ler J. T. Garretson, Arthur Crowder, J. F. l B. Jackson, J. A. Going, A. H. Stevens, B. | A. Thompson, M. M. Williams, A. c. Howze | w. A. Walker, J. A. Mitchell, J. J. Shaver | A. T. Henley, and M. M. Boggan. It will be noticed that the first four names l on each list are the same. The first of | these lists is the Hefiin delegation and the second the Green delegation. Each side | says the other is a weak delegation and | "dead eaSy'' to beat.
 There is no doubt that the two meetings
 were to large extent the result of a mis- unQerStand1nS. B. A. InOmpSOH, lie coii-
 mitteeman from Cleveland beat, called a
 mass meeting of democrats for last night. Afterward the Bimetallic club meeting was called for Thursday night. An effort was
 made to bring these two meetings to- gether before the calls were announced in The Age-Herald, but owing to misunder- standing the effort failed, with the result noted above.
 The Cobbs- Carmichael race for the chan cellorship of this division, did not "cut as much ice' in the two tickets named above as did the Green-Heflin race for county solicitor, but the first ticket named Is said to be largely in favor of Carmichael and the latter about half and half
 The Meeting Last Night
 There were about forty democrats assem- bled in the chancery court room whe' the meeting was called to order last night. Dr. NJ. M. Williams was elected chairman of the meeting and Henry Howze, secretary.
 Judge Howze moved that a committee of five be appointed to select the fourteen del egates to which Cleveland beat was enti- tied. This motion was amended so as to permit any democrat present to .sug- gest names to this committee. The mo- tion as amended was carried and twenty one names were suggested to the commit tee. Besides the fourteen which were mentioned above, there were W. 8. Brown, G. M. seuikshanks, Mel Drennen, E. M. Tutwiler, M. Well, Alex Dallas and T. c. Merriweather.
 A little difficulty was experienced by Chairman Williams in appointing his nom- mating committee. pr. J. S. Gillespy de- clined to serve on the ground that The ought not to-" Dr. Williams said he thought he ought to serve to act as a check to Dr. A. T. Henley whom he intended to appoint on the committee.
 At this pr. Henley jumped to his feet and said he wanted to explain to the meeting m said he, to the bimetallic club dictating what delegates the democrats of this beat shall support. They are good democrats. I do not deny and have a perfect right to suggest any names they please, but there are other democrats besides the bimetal- lists. Just because some of us do not be- lieve in all of the Chicago platform that is no reason that we are not as good dem ocrats as the most ardent silver man pres ent and our voice is not to be excluded from party councils l am perfectly willing to indorse any delegation the bimetalic club may propose, provided this meeting see fit; but we ought at least to go through the form of an independent democratic nomination."
 B. A. Thompson declined to serve on the nominating committee on the ground that "he had been accused of working up this second meeting in the interest of a cand- date for solicitor" and that he felt that he ought to be excused.
 Finally pr. Williams secured the fol- lowing committee: Judge A. c. Howze, Dr. A. T. Henley, J. A. Mitchell A. H. Stevens, and James A. Going. The com mittee reportet1 above, and their re- port was adopted.
 N. l.. Miller moved that the democrats of Cleveland beat vote for B. A. Thomp- son ito succeed himself as beat commit teeman. This was passed unanimously and the meeting then adjourned
 Madison Beat
 The democratic bi-metallic club of Afadi- son beat met last night at the Russell building on Twenty-fourth street. with ;. A. Downey presiding and Dr. John Davis secretary. On motion of Walter Moore, committee of three was appointed to nominate eight delegates to the county convention, these names to be recommend ed to the democratic mass meeting. The committee selected the following gentle ment who were accepted by the club unani- mously: J. A. Downey, A.. B. Johnson, James O'Connor. Hugh Morrow. John c. Pugh. George A. Evans. Joseph L. Me1de, and J. J. Moore.
 After the bi-metalhc club adjourned Hon. Frank V. Evans, the beat commit teeman, called the mass meeting of demo- crats to order. There were a number pres- ent who were not members of the bi- metallic club. The meeting unanimously adopted the names recommepded by the bi-me taInc club.
 resolution, which was unanimously adopt ed:
 Resolved, That we, the democrats of Madison beat, in mass meeting assembled do hereby heartily indorse the able, fear less and successful administration of Gov Joseph F. Johnston"
 The meeting then adjourned.