The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-03-02
CHARGED THAT THERE WAS
A MONETARY CONSIDERATION
WILL THERE BE MEETING
OF THE COMMITTEE
Majority of Members Petition for IL, and
Chairman Montgomery Writes Card Civ
ing Reasons fof Not Doing So.

Next to the sensational charges in connec-
tion with the action of the German-Amer-
lean Union. the matter of holding a meeting
of the city executive committee attracted
the most attention yesterday.
A petition signed by majority of the
members was gotten up calling on Chair
man Montgomery to call meeting This,
Mr.. Montgomery declines to do and gives
his reasons in a card printed below. The
petition is as follows:
Hon. JOS. H. Montgomery, Chairman Demo-
cratic Executive Committee City of Bir-
mingham:
The undersigned members of the demo-
cratic executive committee of the city Of
Birmingham, request you to call meeting
of said committee at the city hall in Biz
mingham, on Thursday, March 2, IL o'clock
noon, to decide whether or not it is advis-
able to have a registration of voters for
the primary election, and to consider any
other questions which may properly come
before tho committee.
Yours respectfully,
G. b. BURKHALTER.
GEO. L. THOMAS.
JOHN d. ELLIOTT
LEO K. STEINER.
r. P. MNALLY.
w. II. WILDER.
c. F. DOUTHIT.
JOHN j. MOORE
WALTER l.. HOWARD.
w. A. WRIGHT.
d. L. BRENNAN
Chairman Montgomery's reply is as fol-
lows:
To the Members of the CITY Democratic
Executive Committee City
Gentlemen-1 am just in receipt of a re-
quest signed by a large number of your
members asking me to call the committee
together at II o'clock tomorrow for the
purpose of considering the question of reg
iStration.
This request reached my office late in the
afternoon of today, and after | had APP
pointed ]. ]. Altman, John d. Elliott, Wal
ter L. Howard. j. ]. Moore and M. ]. Gregg,
five of your number a subcommittee to
prepare a plan of election to be submitted
to the full committee at it's next regular
meeting on March the 18th.
The gentlemen constituting this sub-com
mittee are from our very best business
men, free from prejudice, conscious and
capable.
L have canvassed the matter of registra-
ton with some of our leading citizens, also
with a large NUMBER OIL the CdnuIudleS ana
members of the committee, and the concen-
sus of opinion is, as | find 1t, that there
should be a registration provided in the
general plan and my judgment is that your
subcommittee will report to you plan
providing for the registration of voters and
giving each candidate fair representation
at the polls on the election day
shall take occasion to communicate to
the subcommittee that the demand for
registrati is a very popular demand.
In addition to what / have said, and CIV
ing the real reasons for not calling you to-
gether the committee is at present without
a. secretary, and l did not know the busi-
ness address of the members sufficiently
well to communicate with them in time to
get a full meeting by - o'clock tomorrow.
l deem 1t necessary, in the midst of
heated campaign, such as we now have.
that sufficient and ample time be given to
all the members, that a full meeting be
had. I have conferred with some of the
gentlemen who signed the request, and they
concur with me in the foregoing views
Respectfully, -
JOS H. MONTGOMERY.
Chairman.
Mr.. Montgomery yesterday named the
committee which will formulate plan for
the primary, to be submitted to a meeting
of the executive committee to be held on
March H. The committee Is as follows:
M. ]. Gregg, J. J. Moore, John D. Elliott,