The age-herald., 1899-05-27
HARMONY AND
 YET NO HARMONY Anti-AdminiStFatiOn Citizens Of Wood
 lawn Nominate Ticket. FORMER GOVERNOR COBB Is Selected to Make the Race for
 Mayer. EVERY SPEAKER TALKED HARMONY And Yet Almost Every One Raised a Scrap-This Action Means Hot .a.
 Contest Between the Two Factions
EVERY SPEAKER TALKED HARM ONY

Harmony" ''harmony," "harmony," was what every speaker at the big peace meeting at Woodlawn talked last night, but | the meeting was anything but harmon | ious one, and finally adjourned after having | precipitated what seems to be one of the hottest municipal campaigns Woodlawn | has ever had. "I am heartily In favor of | harmony" was the preface which each | speaker would use, and then the majority | of them would say something to make the | otherside madder than ever. The result of the meeting, however, was | to nominate the following ticket, called by | it's supporters the "anti-machine," or the
 'anti-administraAon" ticket, and by it's | opponents the west pocket" or the "cau- | cus' ticket.
 For Mayor-Former Governor Rufus ". | Cobb.
 For alderman, ef% First Ward-Ben w. Sherrod. Second Ward--V. c. Smith. | Third Ward-J. G. Snedecor. | Fourth Ward-E. Brewer. l Fifth Ward-J. B. Helm. Sixth Ward-J. B. Chamberlain. Seventh Wardrobe c. Hale. The following are the present officials of | the town of Woodlawn, in opposition to | whom the ticket last night is supposed to have been put out
 John T. Hood, Mayor; A. B. Parkes, | clerk and tax collector; F. M. Wood, treas
 urer; J. s. Remedy, attorney; F. s. Me- Glathery, health officer; aldermen, w. E. Perryman, J. W. Boggs, G. L. Clapp, J. B. Gibson, J. B. Burris, A. c. Jerngan, l J. D. Revis.
 The Platform A platform was also adopted by the meeting. It was prepared by committee composed of J. B. Burrlss, chairman; R.
 F. Yancey, G. b. Brooks, Jack Graves and w. J. Parkes, secretary. The platform,
 which was adopted without amendment, is as follows:
 First-We favor a systematic and gen. eral improvement of our streets, as au- thorzed by our new charter, especially on all streets where one-nalf or more of the property fronting thereon, is oc- cupied by buildings.
 Second-We favor using every effort to induce the Birmingham Railway and Electric company to improve and main- tain their tracks and adjacent right of ways in the similar condition to that in which the town may place the streets which said line traverses. Ihlrd-We favor an economical ad- ministration Of the city affairs, adjusted according to its revenues; and keeping in view our solemn duty of meeting the towns obligations.
 Fourth-We demand Q statement oe the towns financial condition, pulp lished once a quarter, in some news paper having general circulation among our citizens
 Fifth-We favor the most efficient free schools which may be maintained by fhn at tla oI s1r without mourning indebtedness. Sixth-We favor the opening of suf- | ficient streets across the railroad tracks to give the people of the south side of the town the outlets they need. Story of the "sIate' | It seems that on last Wednesday night | about twenty citizens of Woodlawn gath | cred at the residence of R. Du Pont | Thompson and there "indicated'( but did | not ''nominate) a ticket to be formally | nominated by the mass meeting held last l night. This "slate" was just the same as | the one nominated, except that the names 1 of Messrs. Wheeler, Sims and Dolby were | originally in place of Messrs. Sherrod, | Smith and Brewer. The substitution of | these three names was made between the | time of the caucus Wednesday and tho
 meeting last night, after various citizens of 1 the town had been consulted with. The Meeting Organized The meeting last night, which was held | in the public school house, was called to | order by R. P. Yancey, and Dr. Chisolm l was elected chairman and R. Du Pont sec l retary.
 The first business transacted was the ap- 1 nointment of the committee which was to | draft a platform for the Harmony ticket l to be nominated later. As stated, this | committee's report was accepted without | amendment.
 l If was decided to appoint committee on l nominations and after some discussion as | to how this committee should be named l Chairman Chsolm announced the follow | ing. who are from the First to the Sev-
 enth wards respectively: Jack Graves, ". | c. Smith. G. E. Brooks J. D. Burriss, ID. 1 McPberson, s. w. La Rosse and R. R. 1 Yancey. The committee retired, and after | an absence of ten or fifteen minutes | brought in the ticket named above, and
 then the discussion began on the adoption 1 of the report.
 Capt. Parle Gets Sensational Tn to this time the discussion had all l been harmony" and no personal refer
 ences had been made, but after the com
 mittee made it's report Captain w. J. Parke
 took the floor and made the first sensa- | tional speech of the evening. He said that
 he objected to nominating this ticket be-
 cause none of the proposed candidates had
 been asked, nor had any of them made
 any declarations as to their opinions on the | platform which had been adopted. He then
 made the charge that the whole ticket had
 been slated, on Wednesday evening at MT.
 Thompsons house, and that now it's friends
 were trying to run it rough-shod over the
 people of Woodlawn. He begged that the | meeting be thrown open, and that nomina-
 tions be made and voted on by the meet
 ing itself, and not through committee. If.
 however, the meeting insisted on pushing