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ment be had until tomorrow at Ii o'clock.
The motion carried.
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ment be had until tomorrow at Ii o'clock.
The motion carried
Democratic Caucus.
The Democratic caucus was called to
order at o'clock by Hon. Robert ].
Lowe of jefferson. Hon. j. Thomas
Hef1in of Chamber moved the election of
| Hon. &. r. Morrisette of Monroe as tenn
| porary chairman of the coycus. The mo-
ton was carried and Mr.. Morrisette as
cended the stand and thanked the mem
bers for the honor, declaring the caucus
| ready for business.
| Upon motion of Hon. Frank s. White
John T. Ashcroft of Lauderdale and John
F. Proctor of Jackson were elected Sec
| retaries.
Hon. J. Thomas Hefin moved the ap-
pointment of committee of nine to pass
upon the rights of delegates as members
of the caucus, the committee to be select
| ed one from each Congressional district.
| The chair named on the committee
Gregory L. Smith of Mobile, Tennent Lo-
max of Montgomery, M. Sollie of Dale,
H F. Reese of Dallas. J. T. Heflin of
Chambers. T. L. Long of Walker, George
| III. Parker Of Cullman, T. w. Sanders of
Limestone and Frank s. White of JEFF
| ferson.
Fourteen Ruled Out.
1t was o'clock when Gregory L. Smith
reported for the committee. The report
included al of the delegates elected as
| eligible to seats in the caucus, excluding
| fourteen, as follows:
Sloan of Bloupt Reynolds of Chiffon,
Phillips of Clay, Forshee of Conecuh,
Porter of Coosa, Case of DeKalb, Cofer
of Cullman, Williams of Elmore, Stud
dard of Fayette, Byars of Franklin, Null
key of Geneva, Bartlett of Marshall,
Spears of St. Clair and Freeman of Win
ston.
The report of the committee was the
signal for a rather stormy debate, which
was begun when Mr.. Parker moved that
i the name of A. e. Williams of Elmore
be added to the list of those entitled to
seats. Mr.. Heflin had moved the adop-
tion of the report when Mr.. Parker offered
as a substitute the addition of the name
of Mr.. Williams. A motion to table the
substitute was declared carried, but a
delegate declared that a division had
been demanded, and for the purpose Of
reopening the case Dr. Cunningham of
Jefferson moved the taking from the ta-
BILE of the substitute and the motion car
ried. Mr.. Fits of Tuscaloosa then moved
that Williams name be added to the re-
port. and he spoke in defense of the
Democracy of the Emore delegate.
~. Observation-Disclosures Question.
Mr.. Fits speech caused a re-opening
in the caucus of the Mckenzie Williams
case before the State committee, in
which it was decided that Mckenzie was
the Democratic nominee, but the Elmore
county committee rebelled and ordered a
second primary, in which Mckenzie re-
fused to participate. The result was that
both candidates ran the race through,
Williams winning. The debate on the ad-
mission of Williams lasted through two
hours. and the discussion was very
heated at times.
j. Thomas Hehin of Chambers led the
fight against the admission of Williams,
being assisted by Messrs. r. ]. Lowe,
Gregory l.. Smith, John F. Burns and w.
T. Landers. A. c. Fits championed the
cause of Williams, with the assistance of
Messrs. John H. Parker. R. M. Cunning
ham and Sam c. Jenkins. Party loyalty
was the burden of the debate. After
much wrangling and much motioning, the
previous question was ordered and Will
Jams was excluded by a vote of 72 to 81.
The next business was the selection of
a permanent chairman. and Mr.. Heflin of
Chambers presented the name of Mr..
Robert ]. Lowe, who was unanimously
selected.
John 3. Knox Nominated.
Mr.. DsGraffenried of Hale offered an
order of business which was adopted and
the chair called the nominations for pres
locuI VI tuc SOISIlluIlOndi 1OHNentlOn
Mr.. Heflin placed in nomination the name
of Hon. John B. Knox, and upon motion
of Mr. Sanford of Pike the rules were
suspended and Mr.. Knox unanimously
declared the nominee
The names of Frank N. Julian of Col
bert and r. E. L. Neil of Dallas were
presented for secretary and the caucus
adopted the unusual method of each dele
gate calling the name of his choice Julian
won the race by vote of 72R to 591k
Judge Thomas w. Coleman of Greene
cast half vote for each candidate Gre
ating some merriment in the caucus.
There were three names presented for
assistant secretary and a second ballot
was necessary to decide the race On
the first ballot w. F. Herbert of Mont
gomery received 62, John F. Gillies of
Clarke 30 and ]. A. Kyle of Jackson 36.
Herbert won on the second ballot. Rob-
ert Hasson of Etowah won the nomina-
tion for doorkeeper on the second ballot,
over John B.. Lasseter of Barbour. B. F.
Merriwether and e. ]. Harris of Mont
gomery were candidates for assistant
door keeper, but T. ]. Fain of Dale won
on the second ballot.
The chair appointed Messrs Oates,
O'Neal and Lomax on the committee to
notify Mr.. Knox of his nomination for
the presidency.