The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-05-07
DIMMICK APPEARS
 AMID APPLAUSE

Am4O 3LA O0L.
 The entrance of Captain Dimmick. Ma the special committee, was the signal for applause. He was called upon for speech.
 He was there, he said, in response to the invitation of the conference. He would support, he said. any suggestion for peace and harmony and the confer- enee had his best wishes. The report of the Committee on Reso- lutions was presented by Nathan Alex ander a Montgomery negro. It declared. first of all. that as long as the present Constitution was the organic law of the State that it should be supported by Re- | publicans. but that every legal and hon. or able effort should be made to secure | relief in the courts from the suffrage ar | ticle.
 l The report declared that all qualified Republican voters without regard to color
 should have representation in the councils ! of the party.
 The third section of the report repudi- | ated as ''un-American and un-Republi- can'' the action of the Birmingham con vention in refusing to admit negroes. | tionary and void." the report declared. The allegiance of the conference to the Republican party was reaffrmed and the
 report declared "all suffrage restrictions must operate equally and uniformly upon | all classes and colors. The report de | clared the conference stood for the equal- | tty of all men before the law. It de- clared that the negro question could not
 REPREsENTATIoN MUST BE REDUCED. The sixth section of the report said | that 1t was the sense of the conference | that the representation In Congress Of | Southern States which had restricted suf- frage by constitutions or constitutional down vided for in the Fourteenth Amendment of the Federal Constitution. President Roosevelt was heartily en- dorsed by the report. Section says:
 "Sesolved further. That 1t is the sense of this conference that our present pre- tended Republican organization is out of harmony with the National administra- ton and the National organization and as such is not entitled to the respect and support of loyal Republicans It Is the purpose of this conference to place the organization In harmony with the Nation members of the Executive Committee who
 are present and endorse them for places | on the new committee to be formed" The referees were thanked for the able manner in which they had restored
 harmony to the party. The report fixed the basis of representation In the next State Convention at one delegate for each county and an additional delegate for
 
 Roosevelt in 1900
 The report was satisfactory to all iu the conference except in two paragraphs. The negroes were entirely satisfied with 1t. The whites were opposd to the sec tion recommending the reduction of rep resentation in the Southern States and the section declaring for the reorganiza- ton of the party.
 The first fight was on the reduction section.
 Referee Aldrich took the floor in op- posing it.
 Johnson, the Mobile negro, also opposed 1t. saying that retaliation would do the negro no good.
 A. N. McErvin. a negro. of Mobile spoke for the section. The negroes voted al- most solidly for the section and number of whites voted with them. The three referees and the other whites voted against retaining 1t. It was adopted. ayes 99 nays, 56.
 MT. Aldrich also took the floor in oppo- sition to the section declaring for re- organization of the State Committee. He was supported in his fight by Joseph Martinez of Mobile. N. B. Spears of Pell City, F. F. Powell of Marion, J. O. Thompson of Birmingham and Ad Wimbs of Greensboro.
 The section was endorsed in warm speeches by A. N. Johnson of Mobile. A. N. McErvin of Mobile, Nathan Alexander ot Montgomery and H. V. cashin ot Huntsville.
 All the negroes but four voted for the section. Four whites, including Judge A F.. Stratton and w. M. Warden of Lee County, voted for 1t. Four negroes, in cluding Ad Wimbs voted against it.
 The section was lost, ayes 76, nays, 8S.
 H. V. Cashin, speaking foP-the negroes. sad the result would be accepted with good grace but A. N. Johnson said the action was not satisfactory to the me- groes.
 W. 1T. Nixon was also dissatisfied and intimated that a black Republican party would be formed. The officers of the con ventlon were thanked on motion of H. V. Cashin of Huntsville.
 The convention then adjourned and most of the Republicans left the city last night.