The age-herald., 1900-03-24
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE ORDERED
 AUTAUGA TO CALL A CONVENTION
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the proxy of said Zimmerman to said Liv- ingSton and direct the said committee to follow the instructions of the party as en-
 bodied in said resolution adopted by the county convention in 1S9S and for such other further and different relief as the facts and circumstances of the matter and as justice fairness, honesty and the sov- ereign wishes of the party in said Autauga county may justify
 The committee. after hearing the above recessed for dinner.
 When the committee was re-convened in the afternoon after some discussion both sides announced ready for the hearing. MT Pettus wanted to know if both sides would agree to abide the action of the state com
 mittee in the cause. To this both sides gave consent
 Judge w F. Wilkinson. of Prattvile. opened the argument for the contestants He made a clear, forcible argument sus- taining the position of the contestants l Judge George S. Livingston replied He first read affidavits from W. J. Zimmer- 1 man and G. s. Livingston to the effect that no trade had been made between them for appointment to position at Speigener's for the former, in return for his proxy to the latter in the county committee. Judge Livingston claimed that the resolution by the convention in 1898 did not expressly or der beat meetings, but merely made provis-
 
 tion. The convention had for the nomina- tion of eandidatn' ia a confitutional con vention had ignored the prorate resolution He presented twelve petitions with the ai- legged signatures of 637 white voters in the county asking that the action of the com mittee in ordering a primary election be en- dorsed by the state committee He said that there were probably 1000 white voters in the county.
 Presented Another Petition Judge Livington presented another peti- tion which he said contained the sigma lures of seventyone men who were dele gates to the convention of 1S9 alleging that only one hundred delegates had partici- pated in that convention, forty-one bolting The prorate resolution, he said, was passed out of order, never having been referred to the resolutions committee. This petition also prayed that the action of the n1aioritv of the executive committee in ordering a. straight primary be endorsed. The contes- tants, he said. were not in good standin g< | because they had refused to take an appeal to the state committee. but had attempted to create new committee and had called A. separate convention He declared his in- tention to abide the action of the state com
 mittee
 An Exciting Episode J. H. Livingston supplemented the argu-
 ment of Judge Livingston. He made a prolonged, rambling argument and some of
 the members were very inattentive During bis talk MT. Livingston created little excitement by charging that the author of a, certain article attacking the majority of
 the committee, which appeared in the Au- tauga News over the signature of "Black Belter,' had been written by a member of the state committee, who thus prejudiced the case he was now sitting on.
 Pressed by Chairman Lowe to give the
 name of the member. he said it was MT Rowan.
 Judge J. M. Chiffon, attorney for the con testants spoke for twenty-five minutes dis cussing ably the legal aspects of the case. l He took up each of the contentious of the | contestees and sifted them until there was l little left. He denied the contention that l there were but 1000 white voters in Au- 1 tauga county, the census showing that there were some fifteen hundred. | Morgan M. Smith closed the case for the contestants. He said that the fight had | been made in the county convention on | the prorate resolution, Livingston endors- | ing 1t, and had 1t not been for it's adoption | the democrats would have lost control of | Autauga county.
 The Geneva Contest l This closed the hearing for the Autauga l case. and thes Geneva contest was taken l up the same being a fight between the Nor l ris and Pierce factions as to which was