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ballot and declared MT Sowell to be the nominee there was considerable cheering, and Mr. Sowell was called for, but he was not present at the time
 When the result of the first ballot hao been announced MT. Pettus moved that a recess of twenty minutes be taken but some of the members of the committee de- sired to return to their homes on the aiter- noon trains, and therefore opposed the mo- tion. MT Pettus did not insist, and the second ballot was called for.
 Chairman Lowe called attention to the difficulty that will be met in getting the name of the new nominee on the tickets In all the counties, and requested Chairman Smith of the campaign committee to make a statement
 MT. Smith stated that under the constitu- ton of the State, under which the commit tee was acting, it would be necessary to prepare a petition with 800 signatures ot qualified voters requesting Mir. Sowell to become a candidate for State Auditor and that the petitions must be in the hands of the Probate Judges of the different counties in the State not later than midnight next Monday.
 MT. Smith requested every committeeman to take one of the petitions home with him and see that it was filed with the Probate Judge of his county before Monday night. He said there might be some ----iculty in getting Mr Sowelrs name on the official ballot in some of the counties, but the law provides for just such emergencies as this.
 sixty-' ix Petitions Prepared
 MT. Smith stated that sixty-six petitions would be prepared in time for the members of the committee to get them by night. Counties that are not represented by some member of the committee will be looked after by the campaign committee, and to most of them special messengers will be sent with the petitions
 MT O'Neal suggested that the roll be called, and that the members present sig nifty what counties they would look after. and this was done. T. M. Stevens said he would take the petitions to Mobile and Baldwin; MT. Pettus will look after Dallas and Perry; Steve Smith will take the peti- ton to Sumter and MT. Hefiin to Cham bers and Randolph The petitions to Bull lock, Russell and Barbour were placed in the hands of MT. Frazier, while MT. Merrill will look after Cleburne and Calhoun. MT. White takes Coosa, and Judge A. P. Smith Greene and Pickens. Etowah will be taken care of by MT Mitchell, and DeKalb by Mir Haralson.
 Mir Pettus offered the following resolu- ton.
 s''Resolved, That the chairman of the State Committee and the chairman of the Campaign Committee be, and they are di- rected to send telegrams at once to the pro- bate judge of each county in the state an- nouncing the death of Judge Matthews and requesting that his name be not print ed on the ticket and that the name of MT. Sowell be substituted, and also stating that the petition will be presented Monday"
 The resolution was adopted.
 The chair announced as the committee to draw up resolutions on the death of Judge Matthews Messrs. Tennent Lomax, F. l.. Pettus and John V. Smith The res olutions will be reported to the chairman.
 On motion the committee adjourned
 Sketch of MT. SOweil
 Thomas Lamar Sowell the Democratic nominee for State Auditor, is a native of Monroe County, having been born at Fort Claiborne, in that county, on February A, 1858, and is 42 years of age He began the practice of law in his home county twenty