The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-05-24

an appeal fro.r: the Chair was a mat | ter of the highest privilege. Mir. o'Neal renewed his motion to | appoint committee 10 consider the Williams case.
 Mir. Beddow moved to table Mir. O'Neal's motion and the caucus tabled
 Mir. O'Nears motion. . MT. Wilson then moved that the | name of Williams be added to the list | of delegates in the Democratic caucus. MT. Lowe ruled that MT. Wilson was out, of order.
 MT. Wilson appealed from the decis- | ion of the chair and Mir. Lowe declined | to entertain the appeal.
 Mir Beddow said the regular order | was the consideration of the Fillmore County case. He said the proceedings were disgraceful.
 Mir. Lowe, MT. Fletcher in the chair. called MT. Beddow to order, and said | he had no right to characterize the proceedings as disgraceful.
 A Harsh Controversy. for his statements.
 Mir. Lowe made motion to have the
 remarks of MT. Beddow expunged from
 the records.
 There was no second to his motion.
 The chairman. MT. Fletcher, ruled
 that the caucus was ready to begin the
 hearing of the Williams case. This
 was at 6:10 o'clock.
 The Hearing Begins. MT. Fitts, conducting the case for MT. Williams, called Mir W. l.. Lancas- ter of Wetumpka as a witness. and he was sworn. MT. Lancaster testified that he was a member of the County Committee of Elmore County. MT. T zF Committee and of the ordering of an election. There were several candi-
 dates in the primary and MT. A. E. Williams was declared by the commit | tee to have been nominated The Coun- ty Convention also declared that MT. Williams was the nominee. MT. Lancaster was handed the origi- nal proceedings of the County Conven- tion and read the result of the election as follows: Williams. 29S; Mckenzie, 2S6: Swindle, PIP; Hall 197; LuIl, 136.
 He said he represented MT. Lull and was not a supporter of MT. Williams until after he was nominated. MT. Lancaster said that Mir. Mckenzie re- ceived about 225 votes in Tallassee, which Is his home beat. The beat | usually returns about seventy Democratic votes. He said that ques- tion was raised by MT. Hall as to the
 vote of MT. Williams in his home beat. MT. Hall asked MT. Williams how 1t happened that he had twenty more votes than he had told him of on the day of election. MT. Williams told MT. Hall he had merely made an estimate
 Cunningham Was Satisfied. MT. Lancaster swore that MT. Mo
 Kenzie never submitted his claim to the County Committee, and MT. Cum ningham of Jefferson said the only point of difference in his mind had been removed by this statement. Continuing MT. Lancaster said: A second primary was held after ev- cry effort had been made to get the matter satisfactorily adjusted. MT. Lancaster said he tried to get McKen- zie and Williams to withdraw. Then Williams was taken down and anoth-
 CT primary was ordered. MT. Williams | was nominated, receiving about 800 votes. There was another meeting of | the County Committee, which declared Mir. Williams to be the nominee and | his name was filed as the regular nominee.~H He said he had known MT. Williams all of his life and he had | always been a Democrat.
 Mir. Smith of Mobile, conducted the cross examination and questioned MT. Lancaster about the vote in Tallassee. The caucus applauded the statement | of Mir. Lancaster that the deciding vote in the County Committee on the | question of second primary was cast l by the Chairman of the Committee who was a legally authorized member | of the Committee.
 Mir. Lancaster concluded his testi- | mony by denying that he had anything | to do with fraud. He said he cared
 nothing for Williams or Mckenzie. He l voted for Williams because he was the i Democratic nominee. On the motion of MT. deGraffenreid of Hale. the rules were suspended and the caucus resolved to take as much time to consider the case as was nec- essary.
 Dr. Howle Testifies. Dr. Howle. Chairman oG the Demo- | cratic Committee of Fillmore County, was the next witness. He was sworn and said he had been Chairman of the Committee three years; he had known | MT. Williams fifteen years and knew
 him to be a good Democrat. (Ap- plause.)
 pr. Howle went over the same tes- timony as that elicited by the exami-
 nation of MT. Lancaster.
 Cross-examined by MT. Smith, Dr. Howle denied that he told several men
 in Montgomery yesterday that he (Dr. 11OWiSI hdu DccIl TuHIiliS pOlltiCS HI Fillmore County and he would continue
 to do so. He said, however, that he
 may have said the Democrats were
 running politics in the County. Mir. Smith introduced an affidavit as to statement made by Dr. Howle. MT. Guy Coleman of Mt. Willing,
 Lowndes County. testified that he was present yesterday when a conversation
 took place in Montgomery between Dr. Howle and MT. Mckenzie but he Howle that he had been running pol
 itics in Elmore County.
 Testimony of MT. Williams. Hon. Arthur E. Williams, the dele
 gate from Fillmore was the next wis
 ness. He is g years old and a young
 man of quiet address.
 Questioned by Mir. Fitts he said he
 had voted the Democratic ticket all of his life and had spent about g, 900 in the interest of the party. MT. Will | Hams reviewed the history of the two primary elections in Fillmore County. He said he was declared the nominee of the party. He did not run ip- the | spirit of arraying himself against the
 State Executive Committee. MT. Will Hams said that he was never against | the State Democratic Committee and
 no matter what the caucus might do he | would continue to be a Democrat. | At this point MT. Pettus of Lime
 stone, who had vigorously opposed the ! seating # Mir. Williams undertook tn
 have a suspension of the rules in order
 to introduce a resolution seating MT. l Williams n the Cauclls in fha