The age-herald., 1900-12-19
STATE COMMITTEE ASSEMBLIES TODAY It Meets at Metropolitan Hotel
 at Noon
TO FIX THE FINAL PLANS
For Naming Democratic Candidates for Delegates to State Constitutional Convention, Which Will Meet
 In May-Best Men Needed.

The State Democratic Executive Commit tee will assemble at the Metropolitan Hotel, Birmingham at noon today, in response to the call of the chairman, Hon.. Robert J. Lowe issued ten days ago.
 The object of the meeting is to provide for the selection of Democratic candidates for delegates to the constitutional conven- tion to be elected April 2l, 1900, and which is to assemble in Montgomery next May.
 The committee will adopt and promulgate plans and fix dates for the nomination of county candidates for the convention, dates for beat meetings, primaries, county con- ventions, and selection of delegates to the State convention, which Shall name candi- dates for the State at large, at a date to be agreed upon and fix the qualification of voters who shall participate in the pri- maries, manner, method, and place of vot- ing, and so on.
 Otherwise stated, the committee will to- day devise plans for the canvass and cam paign for the constitutional convention, after the manner heretofore adopted for campaigns for the ordinary State elections. Presumably these plans will be identical with those adopted for the constitutional convention the call for which Governor JODnStOn SQcCeeuRu III udhlIlS dUOttlNS AAh
 1S99
 Doubtless there will be a general inter- change of views between the various com mitteemen as to the general outlook for the convention and as to candidates; though as yet there is not apparent any serious op- position to the constitution, and there is very noticeable lack of declared candidates for delegates This is true of all the coun- ties, it seems, for as yet no man of con sequence has formally declared himself to be candidate. Here in Jefferson the ques- ton of delegates has not been so much as discussed in any sort of effective way; and the same apparent inattention on the part of the people and the office-seekers alike is said to exist in the other counties But the call which the State committeee will issue today win be the signal for great outpouring of candidates. Two years ago there were over twelve hundred can didates for convention, or about ten men for each place, there being twenty-one candidates for the six places from Jefferson county.
 'If simply ordinary and inexperienced men be suffered to control the constitution | al convention 1t will be an unspeakable ca- | lamity to Alabama and he Is no true lover of his State, however powerful and busy he be, who is unwilling to make material sacrifices for the well-being of the con- vention," said a widely known citizen last
 night.
 This is not time to reward anybody for political service, or to elect any lame duck jackleg, or ignoramus simply because he wishes to be a delegate and draw four dollars day. It is silly gibberish to talk about this interest or that class being representative want the whole people rep resented by able and honest men, no mat ter what their occupation. Let them all be lawyers, or all merchants, or all farmers, or laborers, just they are all able and thoroughly competent to frame the funda- mental laws for the people"