The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-09-05
State Committee AdiOurns to
Meet Again After the
Second Primary
LOWE WILL Be ELECTED
WITHOUT OPPOSITION
Julian and Tanner Endorse Commit
tees Action and Congratulate
Mr.. HefIin on His Victory.
Alfred M. Tunstall Seated.

Montgomery, September 4-(Special.)-
The state executive committee adjourned
this afternoon to meet again in Mont
gomery on the 24th instant for the pur-
pose of canvassing the vote of the Sec
ond primary and declaring the result.
At the same time and place the new COM
mittee will meet and organize and the
present committee will go out of exist
ence.
The question as to who will be chair
man Of the new committee has already
been settled, as far as the declaration Of
a large majority of its members can set
tie It, in favor of Hon. r. ]. Is we, chair
man of the present committee. 1t is con-
ceded that he will be elected without op-
position.
The proceedings today had been an
ticipated and were merely formal. The
necessary resolutions were adopted put
ting Mr.. Wilson and Mr.. CARRIER into the
second primary, and also Professor Hill
and Major harris. The resolutions pro-
vide that the same inspectors shall con-
duct the second primary that managed
the first and that the same rules Of pro-
ceedure shall govern. Major Harris later
withdrew from the contest.
An effort was made to have the meet
ing of September "A in Birmingham, but
Montgomery won by vote of Il to g.
Julian and Tanner Supported Heflin.
Just before adjournment Mr.. Sanders
arose and said that he had received au-
thority from Mr.. Julian and Mr.. Tanner
to say that they heartily indorsed the
action Of the committee last night in de-
clining to go behind the official returns
from Conecuh county; that they cheer
fully and cordially accepted the result Of
the election as declared and sent their
congratulations to Mr.. Hefiin, to whom
they would give hearty support.
Thereupon Mr.. Hefin was called on
for a speech and responded in his usual
eloquent style. He said in part:
HeflIn Speaks.
Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen of the
COMMITTEES: ( appreciate and accept this
nomination coming from the democracy
of Alabama. From the earliest glimmer-
ings Of history men have contended with
one another for position and power. Con-
tending armies have clashed in deadly
stituted authority a kingly crown. Grim
visaged monarcns, with apparent delight,
have tossed away the lives of their people
that they might hold the sceptre of kingly
power. Through the heat of human con-
tentions for right and the clash Of de-
termfned armies the American republic
was born and with it's birth came the
great tribunal of the people. The mon
arch's voice no longer determines the
political fortunes of the individual, but
an honest patriotic people. by the ex-
preston of their will, determine In party
council and otherwise who shall or shall
not be their public servants.
"A happy condition of things exists in
deed, where the humblest citizen can
aspire to the highest position in the gov
ernment where without money or with
out price his fitness is passed upon at
The judgment bar of the people, an< for
tunate for as in the democratic p.<rty
that those aspiring to become public SER
wants do so with a cheerful determination
to accept with the utmost good grace the
verdict of the party. The fairest and
simplest was to obtain the desire of a
democratic people is through a democrat
ic primary, where everyone can give ur-
trammeled expression to the individual
desire.
There is new and high order of
things in Alabama. The purity of the
honest man in the state. The new con-
stitution has entombed forever the ne
cessity for unfair election, and hence
forward the manly men of this state
will not countenance for a moment fraud
and corruption in political contests. Here
indeed and in truth the sovereign au-
thority of the state shall assert itself
and we will have in reality the rule of
the people. Let all those who believe in
Of ha
ready to march with the armies of de-
mocracy In glorious victory In Novem-
ber.''
Several errors were discovered in the
returns as cast up last night by the SUBJ
committee, but none of moment, and
none that could in any way affect the
result.
TunstaII Seated.
The report of the subcommittee was
made, recommending that Mr.. Tunstal
be declared the nominee for the legisla-
ture in Hale county, and this was unan-
imously adopted.
The report in the contest from Henry
county, that the highest two candidates
for superintendent of education, Mr.. J.
B. Espy and Mr.. r. W. Miller, be re-
uuired to run 1t over, was opposed nv
Chairman Lowe on the ground that the
county committee had declared Espy the
nominee, and there did not appear to
have been any wrong committed on any
one which this committee was called on
to right. Espy was six hundred votes
ahead of Miller, and that indicated the
will of the people, and the county COM
mittee had construed its own law to
have meant a plurality to nominate The
vote on allowing the nomination of Espy
TO stand In spite of the report of the
subcommittee was tie, and was thus
lost So that race will be run over be-
tween Miller and Espy on September Is.
The Florence Contest.
In the contest for the place of beat
committeeman from Florence beat in
Lauderdale county, brought by G. w.
Porter against Paul Hodges, the SUBJ
committee reported Hodges to have beeen
regularly and lawfully elected. and the
report was unanimously adopted.
In the hearing of this contest quite
the most breezy incident of the session
look place in passage between Hodges,