The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-10-31
SECRETARY ROUN-
 TREE SUSPENDED Af8 FROM OFFICE
Continued from rage one.)

U stunned Rountree was going to bear off any honors from the investigation. but he was entitled to & fair trial. The pro- ceedinge were regular. he said. down to the time the executive committee usurped the authority of the associa- ton. He was not defending Rountree. he declared, but he was defending a prin- cipie; It had required courage. he said. for Rountree to sit here and not expose members who were equally guilty
 At this juncture. Mir. Glass introduced telegraphic proxies from Editor Stanley of The Greenville Advocate. and Editor Grubbs of The Decatur News.
 Rountree Suspended.
 The substitute of MT. Conway was then put to the meeting and was adopted. It suspended Rountree from office pend ing a trial before the annual meeting. and denied the right O. the executive committee to remove him.
 Rev, s. P. West was named for tenn porary secretary.
 MT. Conway moved that the association proceed to investigate the charges against Rountree.
 R. N. Rhodes made point of order that the association could not act on the case until the annual meeting. and Pres ident Yerby sustained the point.
 MT. Conway appealed to the association IlOt u pputpOHt dCtiUii uHt1l IL renewed itself of the stigma.
 Mr. Judson of Bessemer said perhaps Rountree would waive the constitutional point.
 'I stand on my constitutional right" exclaimed Rountree.
 MT. Wilson of Opelika moved to adjourn and insisted on the motion.
 Mir. Yerby ruled that MT. Conway had the floor and MT. Conway proceeded with k~s L. I.~ .k-xI out of this meeting and say to the people of Alabama. that if Rouftree had been guilty of misconduct he should be ex- pelled.
 Mir. Wilson of Opelika moved to ad- journ and yielded the floor to MT. Rhodes, who offered this resolution.
 Rhodes Whitewash Bush.
 Resolved, by the Alabama Press As sociation, that the lending, giving away, or sale of transportation by any news paper or newspaper owner publisher, manager or editor, except under the terms of contracts with transportation companies. and the use of transportation by any one. except 1t be issued in his or her name. is both illegal and inn proper and such conduct is condemned by this association"
 Mir. Conway protested against this reso- lution. He declared it was begging the question, and was a white wash.
 The resolution was adopted, 39 to 1T, Mir. Glass was among those who voted against the resolution. He said it Was worthless, as a similar resolution had been repeatedly adopted by the Associa- ton.
 W. M. Meeks of Gadsden, amid a great uproar and cries of Adjourn! Adjourn!' said he merely wanted to say as an old member of the Association, and he would say 1t unless he was carried from the hall, that Rountree had acted outrage ously and should be expelled.
 With his face livid with rage. MT. Meeks. an old man, declared Rountroe should not get whitewashed. It was shameful. and the Association should purge itself.
 Friends of Rountree led by Mir. Wilson, of Opelika, MT. Hard of Bessemer and MT. Benners of Greensboro, were de- manding adjournment, when W, M, Cam per of Florence, appealed to the Associ- ation to vote quietly for adjournment or no adjournment. The issue. he said earn estly, was whether the conduct of Roun- tree was to be condoned. vote on tho motion. he said. would settle the ques- tion, and those who were deeply con- cerned about the disgrace could quietly resign If the Association adjourned with out action.
 Asked to Behave.
 Confusion became so great that Mir. Williams of Talladega, appealed to mem- bers to behave themselves.
 Mir. Glass also appealed to the Associa- tion. He said every man should have an oportunity to put himself unequivocally on the question. Unless the opportunity was allowed, the Association would be ruined.
 MT. Rosson of Cullman. declared the members were acting like lot of hood lums. MT. Rosson introduced a resolu- tion to condemn Rountree and calling up- on Rountree to reimburse al persons of money secured illegitimately. On the suggestion of MT. Rhodes he struck out the sentence about reimbursing members.
 Rountree appealed to the Association not to fire him without a trial. At this juncture there were misses. cat-calls and misbehavior. President Yerby was wholly unable to control the meeting.
 MT. Brooks of Luverne got the floor and was listened to quietly a few min utes. He said he wanted to talk com mon sense; he wanted to go about the matter orderly and decently. To go about 1t as hoodlums was a disgrace to the pro- fession If the Association wanted to adjourn now he said 1t had better never meet again.
 MT. Wilson of Opelika, insisted that hls motion to adjourn was the order and the resolution of Rosson was out of or der.
 Adjournment Carries.
 MT. Rosson protested against giving the motion to adjourn precedence. The ques- ton was then put on adjournment. and it was adopted. 34 to 30, at o'clock.
 MT. Conway of Huntsville. protested against adjournment and voted against it. He said he introduced the resolution suspending Rountree merely as a tempo rary measure and to relieve the meeting of having a secretary representing each faction He hoped to purge the Associa- ton of the scandal before adjourning, he declared.
 '''rhe meeting resulted in a dog-fall," said an old member of the Association l tonight. "Rountree is ruined, but the l Association has not relieved itself of the | odium. It was a mistake to hold the meeting in Birmingham. thereby enabling | Rountree to pack 1t with men who have no business in the Association"
 J. H. Meigs, editor of The Marshall Banner, who was chosen chairman of thirty editors who met in Montgomery l several weeks ago to organize an Asso- citation of weekly newspapers, says after | today's worl: another Association is i'm | perative He will call a meeting in Mont | gomery soon for this purpose
 Some of Those Present.
 The following were among those attend | inc, tba rneet ing of the Associations: D q. White. Moulton Advertiser; A. B. | Kenpedv F. P. Class. Montgomery | Advertiser: c. J. Hndreth, Decatur Ad- ,,artteor. IT C. Benners, Greensboro