The age-herald., 1900-02-22
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE ORDERS
 4 DIRECT VOTE FOR GOVERNOR
Great Victory for Hon. John W, TOnfHon Who Has Strongly
 Advocated Modification of the Primary Pan

l lands; w. J. Bell, Huey's.
 Chairman Lowe came in while the suio- l committee on credentials was making up l its report, and was greeted with applause wrangIe Over Prox'es The chair appointed former Chief of Po- I lice T. c. Mcdonald to act as sergeant at arms to keep the spectators outside the [ railing.
 The question of seating J. T. Weed of I Williams beat, evoked considerable discus | sion. The committeeman from that beat, | s. W. Nunnally, has moved out of the coun- | ty and 1t is said has declared his intention | of voting in Bibb county. The minority contended that for this reason he was no | longer member of the committee and had no right to give proxy The majority re- port, favorable to MT. Weed, was adopted. In the case of Mr Paschal it seems that he gave proxy to R. J. Beasley and that it was dated February 20, the twenty being written over nineteen. A typewriter proxy given to John House, signed by MT. Pas ehal and witnessed by State Mine Inspec- tor J. Deb Hooper, was also presented. This proxy MT. Hooper stated was signed on Monday afternoon MT. Cowart in guing in support of the majority report, stated that the proxy in pencil which had been presented by MT. :Beasley was not in the handwriting of MT. Paschal. Chairman Lowe asked him if he charged forgery. Mot exactly" replied MT. Cowart, but it looks like it. The committee had no evil dence that MT. Paschal ever signed it.' w. L. Kelley, in answer to MT. Cowart's remarks, said that Mr. Cowart had stated in the sub committee meeting that he would almost swear that the pencil writing was the same as that in ink. MT. Beasley stated to the committee" said Mr. Kelley, "that the proxy had been sent to his house and that he was not able to say rfho sent it. MT. Cowart stated in tle committee meeting tha: t-s saw a arEn in town this morning who sait H.%.. MT. Paschal had signed the b.asley oroxy."
 Walter Moo.as p:ved to lay the minority report on tn. table and the motion was adopted by vote of 2S to g. MT. Blackburn offered a motion declaring a vacancy in beat 43, Ensey, recently cre- ated, but the chair held that he was out of order. The committee on credentials had suggested that the vacancy be filled, but the chair said that was beyond the commit tees jurisdiction Mir. Blackburn appealed from the decision of the chair, but the chair refused to recognize the appeal. Fir.t Resolution J. S. Kennedy offered the following resolution:
 Resolved, That the plan of the demo- cratic primary election on April 14, 1900, be so amended or changed that the names of the various candidates for governor of Alabama shall be placed upon the official ballot and be voted for directly by the sev- eral, voters in said primary and that the candidate for governor receiving pu- rality of the votes cast in said primary election for governor shall be entitled to nominate to the county convention the delegation to the state convention from Jefferson county"
 MT. Kennedy moved the adoption of the resolution and MT. Blackburn offered as a substitute that the resolution be referred
 to committee composed of c. B. Powell,
 Walter Moore, Lee Cowart, J. $. Kennedy and w. l.. Kelley. The substitute was adopted.
 The following resolution offered by R. H. Tnach went to the same committees:
 Resolved, That the committee on rangements be and is hereby instructed to
 place on the official ballot to be used in the primary election to be held on April 14, 1900, in this county the names of the candi- dates for senator to the end that the peo- pie may by direct vote for such candi-
 
 should represent in part Alabama in the United States senate.
 Be it further resolved, That the mem bers of the legislature nominated py the democratic party be and they are hereby instructed to vote for and use all honorable means to secure the election of such can didate for senator receiving the highest aggregate vote at said primary election" Chairman Lowe called attention to the presence in the hall of Captain James E.
 Webb, who desired to present a petition from the advocates of the dispensary system.
 MT. Blackburn moved that all resoIu- tlons be referred to the committee on resolutions. The motion prevailed.
 Another Resolution
 MT. Thach also introduced the resolution
 which went to the committee on resolu- tlons instructing the arrangement com nittee to publish at least ten days before the primary election tine plan for the said primary and what candidates are to be voted for and how the votes are to be cast. He also referred resolution providing for increasing the arrangement committee from three members to nine. While waiting for the return of the s,tb committee to the rooms Captain James E. Webb was invited to address the committee on the dispensary question. He said: "I am advocating the regulation of the whisky traffic by what is known as the dispensary. One of the strongest arguments made against ddspensary law before the last Legislature was that 1t was not fair to pass such a law until the great voice of the people of Jefferson county could be heard. and now come here to ask the committee to allow the question to be voted on. This may be done in two ways; first, by direct vote for or against the dispensary; or second, by vote for state senator and rep resentatives. The democratic voters have a right to be heard and ought to be heard on the question of who shall represent them