The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-09-13
COMMITTEE TO MEET
REPUBLICANS TO PASS UPON
TWELVE. CONTESTS. .-
Committee Meets Today and Fight on
Negro Delegates Will Be Sprung
Twelve Delegations are
Contested.

A number of the members OF the Re-
publican State Executive Committee pass
cd through Montgomery last night en-
route to Birmins ham to. attend the meet
ing Of the committee in that city. TO-DAY.
The meeting will be held for the purpose
of arranging the preliminary details OF
the Republican State Convention In Biz
mingham on Tuesday, September 70, =.
The committee is composed Of twenty
seven members, three from each of the
nine Congressional districts. The mem
bers of the committed from the Second
| Congressional District are Capt. Lee j..
Bryan of Montgomery, Fred Herbert OF
Greenyille and Lee Scott of Evergreen.
Postma ster j. o. Thompson of Tqskegee,
who is a member of the committe. from
the Fifth Congressional District, spent
yesterday in the city en- route tie Biz
mingham A number of other Republicans
went up to the Magic City last night
with proxies of members of the commit
tee.
The meeting of the committee today is
perhaps the most important in its his
tory In the committee the fight to to-
tally eliminate the negro from all party
councils will be sprung. The committee
meets to pass upon all contested delega-
lions. Contests from twelve counties will
come before 1t for settlement. In nearly
every instance the delegation has split
on the question of admitting the negro
delegates to the convntion. In the. coun;-
ties where negro delegates weys1 chosep
a second delegation was se4tschy the
lilly whites to contest their RlS6es.
The most important fight in the conf
mittee will come up from Mobile County.
The Republican Party in that county
has heretofore been led by p. d. Bar
ker and the regular mass meeting which
was held on the 3Oth of August was DOM
mated by him. In Mobile is organized the
strongest Republican club in the State.
This club was dissatisfied with the dele
gates named by Mr.. Barker and his as
s0ciates and a second county convention
was held which named a new delega-
ton.
Montgomery County also sends up two
delegations one selected by the mass
meeting held at the court house August
80 over which Rev. A. J. Stokes presided
and the other delegation was selected at
a meeting OF Republicans held at the
Genmore Hotel The delegation selected
at the court house contained the name of
two negroes. The Glenmore Hotel meet
ing selected the same delegation with the
exception of the two negroes for whom
two white men We're substituted.
The court house delegation is composed
OF w. .. noOse, lbODSiA boA ptiI LIZ -.
Bryan, Henry Irwin, l. Pollak, s. II.
Washington and N. Fl. Alexander The
last two are negroes. The Genmore Ho-
tel meeting struck their names from the
list and substituted the names of two
white men, ]. P. Burton and A. p. Will
som -
TIE State Commute will not finally
pass upon the rights of the contesting
delegations The committee will. how
ever. decide which of the contesting del
egations in its opinion should be admit
ted to the convention. To all delegates
who are admitted by the committee adj
mission cards Will he granted and the
other delegates, It is said, will be kept
out Of the han. -,-.
The fight will. however, be resumed
in the convention hall when a Commit
tee on Credentials is appointed. 1t was
confidently expected that all defeated
contestants will appeal from The decision
of the State Committee to. the Creden-
tlaIs Ccmmitte of. the convention. The
convention will finally settle whether the
negroes shall participate in the party
councils of the Republican Party.