The age-herald., 1899-10-11
PARTY LAW LAID DOWN BY STATE
 DEMOCRATIC EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
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 MT Hefin's motion was lost by vote of 16 to A..
 MT. Jones proceeded with his remarks. The adoption of the majority report, he said, would be a radical departure from the customs and usages of the party, and that it would be disastrous to the party to adopt them. He explained the difference of the minority report from the majority, that the latter sought to take from the people their right to say when, where and how that they should nominate their can didates for members of the general as- sembly.
 q want to say to you gentlemen" con- tinued MT. Jones, that the democrats of my county will revolt against any such &C., tion of the committee. It is the most as- founding proposition I have ever known the committee to make. The democrats of Lauderdale will not heed it, and they ought not to-"
 Chairman Lowe-"Does the gentleman from Lauderdale intend to say that he and the democrats of his county will not abide the action of the party?'
 'Yes, sir," responded MT. Jones, very heatedly. "I do not want to be misunder- stood they will not heed such action. I don't care who hears me make this state ment I propose that every man fere shall go on record, and that the people shall know who has voted with them.'
 Concluding, MT. Jones said that the people of his county had always decided upon the time and manner in which members of the general assembly should be chosen. and that no one had the right to dictate to them.
 MT. Jones' remarks caused much excite ment and enthusiasm in the committee. His adherents who were onlookers ap- plauded his remarks, and the chair cau- toned them to remain quiet.
 
 MT. Lowe (Mr Mcdowell in the chair) ob- served that Mr. Jones' of Lauderdale, had declared that if the committee fixed the date for primary elections, qualification of yotes and so on such action would be un- precedented. His friends zeal, he said, had outrun his recollection and his Judgment, as his record of long service on this com- mittee and in public life would go to prove. If MT. Jones, of Lauderdale, was properly understood from his own remarks, he would not abide by the decision of the committee. If that was the gentleman's position, the only honorable course left open to him was to withdraw from the committee forthwith. This was a democratic party assemblage, and a place for democrats only. If the state committee hadn't the power to fix the time and place for a state convention, fix the time for and qualification of voters In primary elections, what power has 1t got! he asked? 'If it has such power, and that point could scarcely be said to be In dls- pute, then no member of the committee should shirk his duties. Rules must be fixed; yet if fixed throughout in their en- tirety MT. Jones threatens to quit the party If the committee had the power to provide for the nomination of the governor of the state, 1t certainly had the power tc provide for the nomination of members oi that coordinate branch of the state gov ernment, the legislature.
 "phe truth was that all this trouble had arisen over the United States senatorship for in the selection of the legislature the senatorship was involved. Everybody knew what 1t meant The word had been saunt If the gentleman from Lauderdale sayf he will quit the party should he be in the minority on this committee, his sense oi justice would suggest to him that he quit before he finds his minority. The purpose | to have the county primaries on hxet date meant that every candidate interested