The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-05-11
THOMPSON
 WINS FIGHT Elected Chairman of Con- yentiOnl NEGROES IN A wRArGLB |Ad Wimbs "R0asts" HIS Colored Brethren. Today Platform wnl Be Adopted and Delegates at Large to the Cha- - caso Convention wll
 Be Chosen.
NEGROES IN A wRANGLB

Birmingham, May Especial. )~-& The State Republican Convention be< gan here today with over 300 delegatex In attendance. every county in the Stata being represented. The meeting is bee ing held in the armory in the city hall. There was wrangling almost all afternoon until the two factions, ona headed by J. o. Thompson. the ColIec- tor of Internal Revenue, and the others headed by W. F. Aldrich, both re1eree3 of Federal patronage, had determined their strength in the convention
 ]. o. Thompson made decided sweep of the convention. w. T. Hutchens of Huntsville was made temporary chairs man and afterwards permanent chair man. Contests from Montgomery and Chambers Counties were settled as de@ sired by Mir. Thompson. the Montgom-I cry delegation. headed by c. H. Scott, a referee of the President. being seated. J. O. Thompson was elected unanimuus~l ly chairman of the State Committee. He delivered an address after his electicns advising the Republicans as to theis future policy.
 Negroes in wranale.
 During the night session, A. N Johns son of Mobile and s. H. H. Washinston of Montgomery, both negroes. presented resolutions adopted. by the Suffrage Ass sociation, in which they ask for dela< gates to the National Convention to res quest action reaffirming the Fourteenths Fifteenth and Sixteenth Amendments of the United States Constitution. Tha resolutions requested also that one of the four delegates-at-iarge from tllis State to the National Convention be q negro, and several names were mem tioned. There was intimation that Ad Winabs, colored. of Greensboro was not f 4 As.Nr a1rFes to roast his colored colleagues on the floor This aroused 10 Johnsons wha answered in a bitter speech, charging that wimbs claimed much when he said he had created the referees and had res faaed 10 endorse a negro for ppsfyras~ ter of Marion. whom such endorsemens could have been followed to the ems barrassment of the administration. Committees on Resolutions and Piaf- form were appointed. and q number of resolutions introduced and deferred. Oscar R. Hundley of Huntsville intro~ duced platform in which unwavering loyalty to the principles of the Rarub- | iican party is declared.
 The Platform.
 Among the blanks are the endorses nent of President Roosevelt for nom~ | ination at the Chicago Convention Is given; delegates to the National Con~ ventt0n are inatrucpeu TOT fFSalucAe
 Roosevelt for President and Senator
 Fairbanks of Indiana for vice-Presi- dent; a pure and free ballot Is demand- ed; a demand for the protection ana | permanency of all civil and political | rights of citizens without discrimina~ tion as to race or color; a condemna- ton of injection into political arena | fin this State of any question tending:
 to disturb the peaceful relations hith-
 erto existing between the people and | railroads. and other instruments of de- velopment and adjuncts of commercei and affirming protective tariff.
 The convention adjourned until to-
 morrow morning at 3 o'clock. Tomor-
 row four delegates to the National Con~ vention will be chosen and the platforrs adopted. l There were about fifty negroes in the | convention. Thompson's leaders on the floor were Oscar Hund1ey of Huntsville
 and Joseph H. Montgomery of Bir~ | mingham, while w. F. Aldrich with F. F. Conway and J. J. Curtis made the | fight for the opposition.