The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-04-21
STATE COMMITTEE COUNTS
 VOTES AND NO CONTESTS

~ Av ~SAN ~ A@I - " Sixth District-Rufus A. O'Rear. c. | Brooks Smith.
 Seventh Dfstrict-James L. Herring, ]. H. Meigs, and R. A. Mitchell. Eighth sDistrict-John. C. Eyster, Joseph H. Nathan and John F. Proctor. | Ninth District-J B. Christian, Jones C. Moore, Ben F. Roden and Robert H. Thach.
 Parker Is New Member. | The attention of the committee was call l ed by Secretary John c. Pugh to the fact that there was a vacancy on the commit tee caused by the death of Senator w. I. Bullock. George H. Parker of Cullman was put in nomination for the vacancy and was elected by exclamation.
 As Mir. Parker went to his seat he was l applauded by his fellow members of the committed. He returned thanks in few words for the honor that had been con- ferred upon him. It would be his con- stant endeavor. he said, to meet the full | requirements of his duty to the commit- | tee and to the party.
 Chairman Mallory announced to the | committee that 1t had been called togeth- | CT to canvass the returns from the State primary of April Il, and declare the re- | suits.
 MT. Proctor of Jackson County suggest ed to the committee that the work could be best done by a subcommittee. He | moved that a committee of five be ap- pointed to tabulate the returns and re- port back to the committee. The motion was adopted.
 On that committee Chairman Mallory named John F. Proctor c. Brooks Smith, John C. Eyster, W. A. Carter and J. 5. hChristian.
 | Mir Thach moved that the committee adjourn until 2:30 o'clock p. m., at which I time the report of the subcommittee
 would probably be ready. The committee
 adopted the resolution and went out for
 dinner.
 The subcommittee assembled in the
 private office of Mayor Thomas H. Carr
 and went to work on it's task. The sub
 committee received valuable assistance | iron, the adding machine of the Merchant
 and Planters-Farley National Bank, op-
 erated by Josh Jones. an attache of the
 bank. By the help of Mir. Jones and the
 adding machine. the work of tabulating
 the returns from sixty-seven counties was
 greatly lessened.
 Work of Counting Vote.
 It took the subcommittee longer to fin-
 isl, the tabuiation than it had thought pece Instead of reconvening at
 2.30 o'clock it was 3:45 o'clock before
 Chairman Mallory rapped the committee
 to order.
 The members of the committee had in
 the meanwhile discussed the proposition | of Walker County to have it's representa-
 ton in the State Convention increased in proportion to its increase in population,
 It was even then evident that the senti- ment of the committee was not for i'm mediate action for any one county or for
 any group of counties. but the commit tee recognized that changed conditions as
 to population called for some change in
 the encouragement in the basis of repre- sentation. It was gathered from the groups of the members of the committee . which discussed the matter that the re- ] sronsibility of such a change. one that might be called sweeping, should be left
 with the State Convention which is to assemble in Montgomery May 25. As soon as the committee was called to : order Mir Proctor from the sub-commit-
 tee presented the tabulation made by the committee from the official returns which had been sent in to the secretary of the committee. This table showed but few
 ane slight changes from the semi-official returns received by The Advertiser and published last Friday morning. The com mittees table and The Advertisers table Of last Friday were singularly alike. MT. Proctor before reading the tabu- lated vote stated that the committee had | J County, but they were in possession of
 unofficial returns from that county. The total results were added up. he explained
 without .uorgan County's vote and to this
 total result the Morgan County vote as given unofficially was added.
 He also explained that there were cer-
 tain deficiencies in the official returns 2 from Bullock, Barbour, Choctaw and , Washington counties These deficiencies , applied only to certain of the candidates
 on the State ticket and in many in- : stances they were supplied by the unoffi-
 cial returns from those counties. Vote for the Candidates. .
 As to the vote for President of the , Railroad Commission no official returns were made and this deficiency was not to f be supplied with unofficial returns.
 The total vote for President of the
 Railroad Commission as read by MT. ' Proctor was as follows:
 , B. B. Conner. 56.O75; Morgan County, l. , III; total. 57240. J. c. Compton, 1045!; , Morgan County, 2S; total, 1,073 R. F. z Kolb. 6.466; Morgan County, 12; total, , 659O. John V. Smith, 3O.Ss9; Morgan Coun- ' ty, 7s0; total. 31,169.
 For Chief Justice of the Supreme Court I-Thomas $. Mcclellan, 61 435: Morgan l G unty, 645; total, 62,Ss4. For Supernumary Judge-A. H. Alston. , 63,4e9; Morgan County, 1,137; total, 64,6O1.
 No returns were made to the committee , as to Supernumary Judge from Washing . | ton and Bullock Counties. For Associate Justice of the Supreme Ccurt-John c. Anderson. 4S.02S: Morgan G unity. 3S4; total 4S,412. w. W. Calla-
 han. 29.116; Morgan County, 1,794; total,
 Se9l0. N. D. Denson, 50 635; Morgan Coun- ty, 491; total, 5l,116. J. R. Dowdell, 44,0S4;
 Morgan County, 416; total, 45O1. J. H. | Haralson. 42,6s9; Morgan County. 5SO; to- tai. 43.29 R. B. Kelly. 3S.453 Morgan
 County. 620; total, 34,073 A. D. Sayre, 36,-
 732: Morgan County. 4S3; Barbour unoffi-
 ciaD. SS5; total, 3S.OOO R. T. Simpson. 4l.465; Morgan County. S16; Choctaw (un-
 offciaD. 349 total 42.626 H. C. Selhei- ner. 23,S50; Morgan County. 362; total. A,- . 2l2 W. s. Thorington. 2SS13; Morgan County. 202: total. 2e,O15. J. R. Tyson
 57,s55; Morgan County. 674; total, 5S,629.
 After the report had been read Chair
 man Mallory asked:
 Would the official returns from any of
 the counties not in change the results Tn
 any way?"
 They would not" responded MT. Proc
 tor
 Mir. Eyster of Morgan, presented the
 following resolution:
 Resolved, that the following named
 persons be declarel the nominees of the Democratic and Conservative Party of
 Alabama for the respective offices for
 which they were candidates, they hav-
 ing received the largest numbers of. votes | east in fba nrirnarv haId Anrt II IoOA