The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-17
RECOMMENDS PRIMARY
 BE HELD ON MARCH 2
Subcommittee of the City Democratic Executive Committee WIT Recommend That Police Commission be Abolished and That City Own WaterWorks-ASo Endorses
 Greater Birmingham Movement

1 of Birmingham, accept the above estab. lished precedent and approve of the good resulting therefrom, and thereby declare that the candidates for the following city l offices, viz, mayor, aldermen, police com mlssloners, chief of police be required to submit their candidacy to the qualified voters of the city of Birmingham for their endorsement for said office and offices.
 Be it further resolved, That no candi- date for any of the aforesaid offices shall be declai cd the nominee for the office for which he is a candidate until he shall have received a majority of the votes cast for said office, and in said primary. should any candidate aforesaid fail to re- ceive a majority of the votes cast as be- fore mentioned, then the two candidates receiving the highest number of votes cast in said primary shall be required to enter into a second primary under the same rules and conditions as heretofore mentioned before he shall be declared the nominee of the democratic party for the office for which he is a candidate: said second primary to be held within fifteen days after the canvassing of the returns of the first primary.
 Be it further resolved, That the mem- bers of the board of aldermen and the police commissioners hereby pledge them selves to nominate and elect the candi- dates thus nominated.
 Abolish Police Commission. The question of recommending the abol ishing of the police commission, came up and after short discussion the follow ing resolution was adopted: "Whereas, the law creating the board of police commission of Birmingham has been given a fair test by all the citizens therein, and
 "Whereas, 1t Is the sense of this com mittee that it has been proved inadequate and inopperative in many and material respects, in that the department of police Is placed under two heads, namely, the board of police commissioners and the board of mayor and aldermen, thereby placing the responsibility and liability upon neither of the aforesaid boards, and which has brought about constant fric- tion between them, the result being that | the citizens of the city of Birmingham have not had the proper police protec- tion, the direct result of the division of the above authorities therefore be it
 Resolved, That it is the sense of the democratic executive committee that the law creating said board of police com missoners be repealed and that the police
 
 the complete control of the members of the board of mayor and aldermen; and further that the members of the leg1s- lature from this county be requested to use their influence in having the afore- said law repealed.
 'Be it further resolved, That the ques- ton as to whether said board of police commissioners be abolished and placed under the control of the board of mayor and aldermen be submitted to the people at our next democratic primary
 Primary March 2. The committee then decided to recom- mend the holding of the primary on the 2d of March, and adopted resolution to this effect as follows
 Be 1t resolved by us, the Birmingham democratic executive committee, That Monday the second day of March, be designated as the day on which the democratic primary shall be held.'' The other resolutions adopted were as follows:
 "Be 1t resolved, That the city demo- cratic executive committee heartily in- dorse the movement for greater Birming- ham,"
 Be it resolved, That we, the city demo- cratic executive committee indorse the municipal ownership of a water works system"
 All of the resolutions adopted by the committee last night will go before the executive committee Iext Monday night. As to whether there will be a fight in the committee relative to placing the names of candidates for captain and lieu tenant of police on the ticket is hard to say, but 1t Is more than probable that 1t will be done, as a number of the commit teemen are known to favor such action.