The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-03-07
Minter a Candidate.

host Of friends Tn this city.
 Minter a Candidate.
 J. A. Minter of South Side, has an- nounced that he will be candidate for member of the Board of Revenue from South Side. Mir. Minter Is. successful bu mess man and although he Is quite young man. has shown his ability to man. age his private affairs successfully, and has amassed quite . hand ome property He Is a large planter and has a mercan- tile business at Tyler. and supplies the hands on his various plantations. MT. Minter is one of the best men in Dallas County. He Is honorable and upright in his dealings with his fellow man. and Is respected wherever he is known for his straightforwardness and singleness of purpose.
 If Mir Minter had not announced his candidacy. Hon. Calvin Young, Sr.,D a member of the last Legislature, and one of the most honorable. upright. popular citizens in Dallas County, would have announced. On account of the great personal and political friendship existing between MT. Minter and Mir. Young. they will not run against each other. MT. Young announced some time ago that he would be candidate if MT. Minter did not run. but he would support him If he did run. Now that MT. Minter has decided to become a candidate. 1t Is more than likely that MT. Young's friends will insist on his standing for reelection to the Legislature. He made fine Repre- sentative the last time, his every action being guided by what he conc ived to be the best interests to his people. Dallas County has no purer, better citizen than Mir. Young. and he has host of friends who would like to see him reelected to the Legislature. ttH
 The announcement of MT. Minter for member of the Board of Revenue brings up the question as to how the members of that body afe to be nominated. In reconstruction days. when Dallas County was under the heel of Republicans and negroes, the Legislature passed an act taking away from the people the right to elect their commissioners, and created a Board of Revenue to take its place, mak- Ing the members thereof appointive by the Governor.
 At the last session of the Legislature, the right to elect the members of the Board of Revenue was restored to the people, and the county was divided into four divisions. and the bill was so drawn that one member has to be selected from the thirteen beats on the South Side of the river, one from the city of Selma one from what Is known as the Fork, and one rom west Dallas.
 It will be left with the Dallas County Democratic Executive Committee to de- eide how these members Of the Board
 are to be nominated. The act is so drawn that the members from each one of the four grand divisions is to be voted for by all the people of the county, but the Executive Committee can say wheth- CT such member Is to be voted for by the Democrats of the whole county or wheth- CT each division will select it's man and have his name put on the ticket to be voted for by the rest of the county
 From the best information that your correspondent can gather, the concensus of opinion is that all the Democrats in the county should have the privilege of voting for the member from the various divisions, as all four of them are to pass on the local legislation of the county and therefore, the whole people should have voice in the selection of candi- dates to fill these important positions.
 Some few contend that each division ought to have the right to select its can didate in the Democratic primary and pre- sent his name to be voted for at the general election as the nominee of the Democratic Party. The Dallas County Democratic Executive Committee will settle that question. and whatever deci- sion Is reached will be satisfactory to the Democracy of the county.
 In the meantime a good many good men are announcing their intention of becoming candidates and 1t is a foregone conclusion that good and true men will be put out for the four places to be las. County.