The age-herald., 1900-02-21
COMMITTEE WILL
 MEET AT HIGH NOON
Will Decide Question of Direct -V Vote for Governor.
SiGNERS OF THE PETITION
Uncertain as to Other Candidates Names on Shelley Club Roll Are
 Strong Tomlinson Men-So - Declare Themselves

The Jefferson county democratic execu-
 tive committee will meet at noon today in
 the court house for the purpose of consid-
 ering the question of ordering a direct
 vote for governor and to transact such oth- CT business as may come before it.
 The committee, it is believed, will order
 the names of the gubernatorial candidates
 printed on the ballots to be used in the
 primary on April 14. MT. Tomlinson mas
 urged this action by the committee and General Shelley has stated several times
 that he had no objection to that plan. He
 says he will be satisfied with whatever &C., tion the committee may take. MT. Tomlin-
 son believes he can carry the county either
 in convention or by direct vote, but he
 prefers that the people be given a chance
 to express their preferences in this mat. ter
 As a matter of interest to the people of
 the county the names of the committeeman
 who signed the petition for the meeting of
 the committee are herewith given. They
 are as follows: J. s. Kennedy D. R. Cope
 land, R. L. Sumner, w. l.. Kelly, W, A.
 Wright, E. A. Little, Edgar L. Mitchell
 Charles B. Powell, R. H. Thatch, Frank Culverhouse, T. A. Langford, Syl Daly, M.
 H. Collins, Dr. J. E. Robbins, T. M. Tate,
 David ,Mims. E. A. Paschal, W. B. Will
 jams, Lee Cowart. W. R. Howell, T. W.
 xu T., Wbaa1ar
 N. M. Strickland, G. L. Jones, John Far
 rington, James Hillhouse, W. J. McMur-
 ran, c. l.. Dabbs, F. M. Vines. w. A.
 Murkel, g. s. Shores, J. D. Lokey, William
 Atkinson, D. G. Knight.
 J.B. Darlington, J. L. Parker, Tom Du-
 gan, G. w. Sherling and s. V. Travis did not sign the petition, but have stated that they are in favor of direct vote for gov ernor.
 Hands Of There seems ito be willingness on the part of all the other candidates, so far as expressions have been made, not to inter fere with the effort to procure a direct vote l for governor, if the candidates for governor desire that Neither Senator Morgan's friends nor those of Governor Johnston, so | far as they have permitted themselves to talk about the matter are anxious to mix l up in the local or dhe gubernaforial contest | and each will fight shy of it. But the ques- | tjion of a direct vote for United States sen- l ajtor is a different thing. The Morgan peo- | pie want direct vote, while the Johnston | people are opposed to that method of in- structing. The latter want convention | This being the position of the leading can- | cidates for the federal senatorship, the l question will be up to the committee when it meets at noon to-day.
 The committee has been looked upon all the time as favorable to 'the governor, and | in fact he did control 1t last year, but there l are some who claim to speak ex cathedra, i as it were, who contend that the governor | has lost his grip on the committee, and | that it may change the method of the pri- mary regardless of the governors wishes | Whether this be the case or not will be de- | termined to-day at the meeting. In the Wrong Pew If was given out from Tominson head quarters yesterday that some of the men | whose names appeared on the Shelley club l membership list printed last Sunday had not authorized their names to be placed on it. Several men whose names were on une llSI nave WiitteH eo thS ioi'iiiiSci committee stating that they are for MT Tomlinson and hat they will vote for him on April 14. Among the letters received were the, following:
 'nhis is to say that I am for John w Tomlnson for governor; that l wear one | of his campaign buttons and have been for | him since he announced. A party saw MT. Tomlnson's button on my coat and asked me if I did not want to sign list for Tomlinson club. said I did, and signed | what I thought to be list for Tomlinson club, but am surprised to learn it was not. am we'll known business man in Birm- ingham and am for MT. Tomlinson. "tSigned) MAX ROBINSON" "I am for MT. Tomlinson for governor and did not authorize my name for Shel- ley club.
 l "(Signed) J. K. WARREN" 'I am for MT. Tomlinson for governor and shall vote for him in the primary April II. 1900.
 l "(Signed) E. GUSFIELD." These letters, the Tomlinson committee l say, are not intended to cast any refiec- tioons on w. M. Bethea, president of the l Shelley club, as he did not get up the list | of the members.
 Not Street Commissioner McCartIn