The age-herald., 1900-03-24
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE ORDERED
 AUTAUCA ID GALL A CONVENTION
The Session Lasted Ten Hours and Many Important Questions
 Were SeHed--MGeing Free from Bitterness,

nation, and as thus taken to be considered by the nominating convention. This shall be the rule of the party which said reso- luton has never been appealed or amended in any manner, either directly or indirect ly, expressly or dmpliedly, and is now the law for the government of the party and it's committee in said county.
 That at a meeting of the county democratic committee of Autauga county, held in the town of Prattville, on the 2Nuh day of February, 1900, the said committee, by majority vote, in utter disregard and in violation of sad resolution. directed that a general primary of the party be held on the 14th day of Apri 1900, in the several beats of the county for the selec- Tlon of candidates of the party for the various county offices and for delegates 10 the various conventions of the party to be held for the nomination of candidates Tor state officers and the selection of a new county comGnittee; and further direct ed that the various beats should make re- turn or the said primary to the said com mittee for the purpose of having said com mittee to estimate the vote cast and declare who are the nominees of the party for county officers, the names of the persons who are selected as delegates to the vari- ous conventions of the party and those Wlo were chosen to compose the new counsy executive committed
 4 Petitioners further represent that at said meeting of the county executive com mttee, held on said 27th day of February, l90O, one w. J. Zimmerman, who was a member of said committee from beat 12 in said county, on account of his recent em- pioyment at the state farm at Speigners', was unable to attend said meeting of the committee and sent his proxy to one J. S. Livingston, to- represent him in said meet ing and vote on all questions arising in said meeting as the said Livingston might deem proper; that a large majority of the white democratic voters of said beat protested against the said Livingston acting as proxy, because he was not a resident of said beat and because they knew that he Was opposed to carrying out the wishes of the party expressed in the resolu- ton set out in paragraph two of this pe- tition. Petitioners further represent that said protest was Tn writing, presented to said committee, and by a duly authorized delegation of the democratic voters of said beat That notwithstanding said protests the said committee, In total disregard of the expressed wishes of an overwhelming ma jority of the democratic voters of said beat permitted said Livingston to represent said Zimmerman and vote he saw proper, thereby overthrowing the action of the sovereign power of the democracy of the county as expressed In said resolution adopted in 1S9S
 "The premises considered your petition CTS respectfully appeal of said county democratic committee of Autauga county in permitting said Livingston to act as the proxy of the said Zimmerman, and in dis regarding the sovereign law of the party as expressed by the democratic voters of said county in convention assembled in 1S9S and pray that your honorable body will di- rect said committee to reassemble reject
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