The age-herald., 1900-08-10
HEADQUARTERS
 HAVE BEEN CLOSED
Democratic Campaign Commit
 tee Shuts Up Shop.
CHAIRMAN SMITH AT BL0 0UNT
Will Call Meeting to Arrange Details of National Campaign -Populists to Nominate Candidate in Eth
 District-McGill's Gall

Democratic headquarters in the Morris Hotel have been closed and Chairman John V. Smith is out of the city. He and Mrs. 1 Smith went to Bount Springs yesterday af | ternoon where they will remain several , days
 On his return home early next week MT. Smith will stop over in Birmingham for day or two. Before leaving the city MT. ,, Smith stated that the campaign committee would be called together about September 10 for the purpose of arranging details for the national campaign in this State. The committee will be called to meet in either Birmingham or Montgomery, more proba- bly, the latter place.
 MT. Smith stated that in the great vic tory just achieved by the Democracy of
 Alabama a Constitutional Convention and suffrage reform had been sounded as the . key notes of the next campaign. The over- whelming victory of Democracy, he said, indicated that the white people of Alabama wanted reform in the suffrage system now in vogue in the State.
 In the campaign that has just closed State Senator Jones G. Moore and Hon. Wilson R. Brown rendered the chairman able assistance and gave much of their time. They are both old party workers and are able lieutenants in conducting a cam paign.
 Call for PopuIIst Convention Chairman N. B. Spears of the Seventh District Populist committee has issued call for Congressional Convention to be held at Cullman on August 2S for the pur- | pose of nominating a candidate for Con-
 gross. The call is as follows:
 Pell City. August Q. 1900 The Populists of the Seventh Congress- ! ional District are hereby called to meet in 1 Congressional Convention in the city of Cullman on the 18th day of August, 1900, at P o'clock, noon, for the purpose of nom- mating a candidate for Congress and the transaction of all other business that may properly come before the convention. The i basis of representation will be one delegate for each 100 voters and every fraction over fifty that were cast for Hon. o. D. Street, i'opulist candidate for Congress in 1898. The chairman of the County Executive l Committee of each county composing the l district will issue d call for beat meetings l to be held by the Populists on the 23rd day 1 of August at their usual places of voting | for the purpose of electing delegates to d | county convention to be held on the 25th | day of August, 1900, at place to be desig- 1 mated by each county chairman in his call The chairman of each county committee is urgently requested to take prompt ac- llOn Tn tniS important matter. All news papers in the district without regard to party are most respectfully requested to publish this call. N. B. SPEARS, 1 Chairman of Populist Executive Committee for Seventh Congressional District. McGil Calls Convention Rev. William McGill, editor of Hot Shots has issued a call for convention of ne- groes to be held in Montgomery on Au- | gust 30, for the purpose of effecting a re- organization of the Republican party in Alabama. In his call he says:
 "Therefore, I call upon all true and loyal l Republicans to meet in convention in the
 | city of Montgomery on the 30th day of Au- | gust, 1900. at 12 m., for the purpose of talk
 {. ing steps for the effective reorganizati ton | of the Republican party of Alabama, and | to guarantee to William Mckinley the elec- | toral vote of this State.
 | "In this matter I ask the cooperation of
 | all good people of the State.
 CIVILIAN M'GILL."