The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-07-12

influence 1--WE country fellers have to
| the felers in the big cities" The county
| which he represented, Mr.. Scale said, was
| great big county until Thursday, but
since the action of the Committee it had
become "a little bit of fellow"
1--WE little old country fellers have sure
shackled ourselves" continued MIR. Scale.
THE thinly settled white counties hadnt
no more sense than to say they wanted
primary. Well, they've got it; you've
given it to 'em. l hope you're satisfied
now"
Yes" he went on, Sumter County
wants member of the State Commit
tee but. know we amt agoing to. get
it, We've just done fixed ourselves! Oh,
we've done it now! I'm against pri-
mary, and I've been against 1t all OF the
time. There's no use of saying anything
more! We've done been tixed.'
Mr.. Lowe sent up an amendment to the
section. The amendment provided that
the members of the State Committee
should be elected from the Senatorial
Districts. Hon. ]. v. Smith opposed
the amendment. and after some informal
discussion, it was withdrawn.
Then Judge A. P. Smith OF Eutaw
offered ar amendment to strike out the
words from the different counties"
Mr.. Hall moved to table the amend
ment, and demanded the ayes and nays.
The vote resulted:
Ayes-Messrs Dunn, Miller, Sanford,
Fraser Mallory, Whitson, Scale. Haral-
son, Hale.
Nays-Messrs Lowe, ONeal. J. V.
Smith, Tunstall, Stevens, Steven Smith,
Mullins, Graves. A. P. Smith, Mitchell,
Jones, Given, Sanders, Kumpe Z. b.
Smith.-15.
And the committe refused to table the
amendment which was thereupon adopt
ed. Section as amended was adopted,
and the new State Committee will there
fore consist of four members from each
Congressional District, and chairman
to be elected by the committee.
Section 10 and II were adopted without
division, and Section II, fixing the quail
fication Of voters, was then read.
Hon. j. V. Smith sent up an amend
ment to the second subdivision of the
section. providing that those electors who
were disqualified by reason of sickness,
or were otherwise prevented from voting
in 1900, or had since become of age, were
qualified to vote in the primary
The amendment was adopted by viva
voce vote,
Mr. Graves of Montgomery at this
juncture moved to lay on the table all
of the subdivisions of the section after
the first clause. He said he thought the
only necessary qualification was for a
voter to subscribe to the principles of the
party. He said the committee ought to
make it possible for every white man
in Alabama who desired to do so to vote
with the Democratic party.
These statements from Mr.. Graves
brought out brief but passionate speech
from Mr. Miller of Wilcox. Mr.. Miller
said he thought the time had come for
putting up the bars instead of letting
them down. The black belt counties had
submitted to many things. but they did
not want, he said, to have their Demo-
cratic votes killed by Populist votes in
the white counties of North Alabama,
"And they are not going to be-" quietly
interpolated Mr.. Mallory of Dallas.
mo. they are not, echoed Mr.. Miller
vehemently.
Al the conclusion Of Mr.. Miller's re-
marks. Mr.. Graves moved to table all of
section -, after the first subdivision,
and demanded the ayes and nays.
As the call of the roll proceeded, 1T
develoDed that Mr. Graves was the only
committeeman who voted to table the
ouaIification clauses of the section, there
was such laughter and Mr.. Graves was
chaffed by his associates as being the
lonely man in his position
On motion of Mr.. Smith the~3mended
Section u was then adopted by a viva
voce vote.
The committee then REQUIRED to Section
g. fixing the date of the committee meet
ing. Mr.. Tunstall of Hale and Judge Slmth
OF Greene had been at work upon the
matter of dates. and it. was informally
agreed that the primary should be heIo