The age-herald., 1900-10-30
SERIOUS ERROR
 IN THE PRINTING Names of Electors Are Not Prop
 erly Arranged WOULD INVALIDA1E TICKET Law Prescribes That Candidates Shall Be Placed in Alphabetical Order List of the Electors to Be
 Voted For
WOULD INVALIDA1E TICKET

Montgomery, October 29.-(SpeciaL)- Within two weeks of the date of the gen. eral election, it Is understood that several of the probate judges of the State have already caused to be printed the tickets to be voted with very serious error. The several electors are named upon the tickets first from the State-at-large and then by districts, beginning with the first and con- tinung in rotation. This error would in- validate the ticket, as the code expressly provides that the names of any candidates for any office shall be placed upon the ticket in alphabetical form, using the ini- tial letter of the surname. There are elev- en electors to be chosen from the State of Alabama, and not one from each Congress sional District, and two from the State-at- large, as seems to be the prevailing im- pression. The matter of selecting electors by districts is merely the act of a nominat- ing convention.
 The following is the section of the code governing the case:
 "Secton 1653. On the day prescribed by this code, there are to be elected by gen. eral ticket, number of electors for Presi- dent and Vice President of the United States, equal to the number of Senators and Representatives in Congress to which this State is entitled at the time of such election; and there shall be elected one Representative in Congress for each Con- gressional District"
 Section 1907 of the code, referring to the contents of the ballot, contains this clause: "The order in which the titles of the several offices to be filled may be arranged upon the ballots shall be left to the discre- tion of the Judge of Probate but the names of all candidates for the same of- flee must be jointed together and arranged alphabetically, according to the initial let ters of their surnames irrespective of party"
 The following is the correct order in which the names of the electors should ap- pear upon the ticket, with the name of the party to which the elector belongs left off: For electors for President and Vice Pres ident of the United States:
 (Vote for eleven)
 John D. Burnett, Democrat.
 D. c. Bachelor Prohibitionist.
 William M. Bailey, Republican. D. B. Boothe, Republican.
 w. A. Carter, Democrat. G. B. Grove, Populist
 Moses w. Garden, RepuHican.
 E. c. Crenshaw, Prohibtionist. O. E. Comstock, Prohibtionist.
 G. H. Davis, Prohibitonist.
 D. W. Day, Populist.
 A. F. Davis, Populist.
 James Embry Prohibitionist.
 Newman H. Freeman, Republican. J. F. Goldman, Prohibtionist.
 J. P Gains, Populist.
 H. R. Golson, Populist.
 J. c. Hicks Populist.
 Ebenezer H. Hubbard, Republican. w. M Howard, Populist.
 C. J. Hammett, Prohibitionist.
 William Henderson, Republican.
 William w. Kirkland, Democrat.
 l.. s. Knight, Populist.
 Tipton Mullins, Democrat.
 William T. Masterson Republican s. N. Mlligan, Prohibitionist.
 W. W. Milliken, Republican
 J. H. Nathan, Democrat.
 B. IT. Nicholson, Democrat.
 I. Pollock, Republican.
 Joseph Prantl, Socialist Democrat Robert T. Robinett, Democrat.
 G. W. Robinson, Prohibitionist.
 s. A. Russell, Prohibitionist
 James W. Strother, Democrat.
 Mike Sollie, Democrat.
 c. C. Sheets, Republican.
 c. H. Spencer, Populist
 O. P Speigle, Prohibitionist
 J. B. Talley, Democrat
 w. F. Tebbetts, Republican.
 Ebert Willett, Democrat.
 I. E. Watson, Populist
 J. H. Wilson, Populist.