The age-herald., 1900-02-26
POLITICAL TALK
 AT THE CAPITAL All Kinds of Candidates Visit
 Montgomery ONE HUMOR0USLY INCLINED Fight Between Bingham and Vau hn Has Grown So Bitter That E1 cry one Believes It Will Result
 in Two Conventions
ONE HUMOROUSLY INCLINED

Age-Herald Bureau, Hotel Mabson Mont gomery, February 25.-(SpeciaL)-There is nothing at the capital of interest save pol itics. There have been a good many visitors here during the past week, all apparently coming on political missions. They are in- terested in politics of every hue and de- gree.
 The fight for the control of the state re- publican machine is one of the hottest The friends of both Vaughn and Bingham are using every argument to influence the drift of tide to their candidate. The Vaughn fol- lowers attempted to create the opinion hero that Bingham would soon withdraw from the -5ca. at T #ques - bur telegram finn N se ..sl yefa lay teHta# 4Hlz r-.a=4 re- faa|8 .1 The raes
 HH= u-ht taHUs.a Hfrlham z vaughn #Hes 1v. sa H#H=H ttrt ayas- ope no. hs5leg t.4. f s.a ss-lit ls #s sl- lions. B.nefan lonlee,s et9 aasa e5nn.-- tee, and thus mas the advantage 4n od dsei- izing the state convention. The following member of the committee are reported fa- vo1able to Bingham:
 P D. Barker of Mobile, J. c. Deftwich of Montgomery, J. B. Ardis of OpeIika, J. A. Bingham of Talladega, J. W. Jones of Lowndes, D. N. Cooper of Marion, J. c. Wilson of Jefferson, from the state at large; F. H. Threet, A. N. Johnson of the first district; w. c. Calhoun of the third district, J. H. Goldsby of the fourth district Dr. Smith, H. R. Shivers of the fifth district; Dempsy Wtnn of the sixth district, J. C. Kennemer of the seventh district, H. c. Cashin, John c. Lanfer of the eighth dis trict; Al Wimbs of the ninth district.
 For vaughn-C. D. Alexander. John A. Steele, from the state at large; c. w. Buck Icy, J. G. Scott of the second district; D. B. Smith of the third district, w. F. Aldrich of the fourth district. I. Green of the sixth dis tric,t, S. c. Adams of the seventh district J. ". Hughes of the ninth.
 The republican state convention will be composed of S32 delegates, If called under the old apportionment of two delegates for each representative in the lower house of the general assembly. with two additional delegates from each county. The counties that have acted up to date have been se- les-i.ing delegates on this basis though no state convention has yet been called. Both sides are claiming advantage to date. Bing- ham claims the delegates from the follow ing counties:
 Tallapoosa 6, Marion A. Lawrence 4, Eto- wah 9, Winston 4, Pickens 4, Green 4, Franklin 3, Chiffon 4, Cullman A. Mobile B. Clarke 4, Chootaw 4, Washington 4, Monroe 4, Marengo 6-total 69.
 Vaughan claims these counties-Etowah 2 Franklin 1, Henry G. Covington 4, Coffee f. Crenshaw f. Chambers 6, Tuscaloosa 5, Macon 4-total 53. There are contestihg dele gations from Chambers, Tuscaloosa and Macon, which, if taken from the Vaughn column, would leave him only 37 instructed votes.
 A meeting of the state committee will probably be held during March to issue call for the state convention, and deter mine the place for holding the same. Mont- gomery, Birmingham and Mobile are bid ding for the convention.