The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-09-11

will be held in Montgomery County on
 September 16 to nominate . candidate
 for County Treasurer to succeed the
 late W. F. McGehee. The first sem
 sation, was brought about by state
 ment of MT. Gilmer at the previous | meeting that an attempt was being mode to coerce him into voting against
 his convictions and before he would
 submit to 1t he would resign as a member of the Committee. This he l did. but as soon as the business before | the Committee had been finished MT |. ] Gilmer was reelected.
 l Charge Against MT. Gilmer. | Some days later a card was pub | llshcd in which 1t was charged that MT. Gilmer had voted against the sen- | timents of the-voters of his beat and
 the card implied that he had violated an agreement in doing SO. The third
 sensation before the CommJttee was
 Mir. Gilmers hot answer to the
 charges yesterday.
 The second sensation was the charge | in open session by c. B. Teasley that | an attempt had been made to bribe Q member of the Committee by an offer
 of $1.00o if he would vote for the Com mittce to elect the nominee without . primary. This charge figured yester- day but to no considerable extent.
 The Committee took official cognizance | of 1t as we'll as of certain newspaper publications concerning 1t.
 It was brought before the Commit | tee in the form of resolution which was offered by w.. T. Seibels. The
 resolution recited the fact that in | open session the charge had been
 made that bribery had been attempted | upon a member of the Committee; that l certain newspapers had criticised the Committee for not Investigating the charge. The resolution recited the fact that the Committee was not vest l ed with power to compel at.1ndance of witnesses or to conduct a thorough | investigation. In view of these facts | 1t was resolved that the Committee
 condemned and censured by every
 means in its power such fragrant and pernicious conduct. The resolution | was unanimously adopted.
 The meeting was called to elect managers for the twenty-one beats for
 the special primary of September 26. but this task was accomplished with
 out any trouble or discussion. | When Chairman Arlington called the tcommittee together the following mem-
 bers were present: Beat w. A. Gun
 ter. Jr.; Beat 2, A. H. Arlington; Beat
 3. W. T. Seibels: Beat 6, J. J. Farley; | bedt (, dOTSdH D. 1llHneTp beat o, F. | M. Jones: Beat 9, s. J. Pettus; Beat 10,
 G. H. Shackelford: Beat 12 c. B.
 Teasley; Beat IS. s. J. Naftel; Beat IS.
 John c. Carter.
 E. J. Harris held the proxy of I. D. Collier of Beat 14, and Tyler Goodwin | held the proxy of W. c. Ray of Beat IT.
 l Statement by MT. Gilmer. Before the committee got to work
 MT. Gilmer rose to a question of per | sonal privilege.
 "As all of you are aware" he said, "on the goth of last month caGd
 came out condemning this Executive
 Committee in general, and Charles B. Teasley and Morgan s. Gilmer in par ticular as conspirators. and Morgan S.. | Gilmer as betrayer of a trust. I ask this committee to allow me the privi- | lege of purging myself of these alle- gations. I had notified the parties who accused me of betraying my trust to
 meet me and face me in 1t. ] gave mo- tice in the same paper in which they accused me of the betrayal of trust. see none of them here today and am | sorry they are not all here."
 They say I betrayed trust" Mir. Gilmer continued. because 1 did not notify my constituents of what in tended to do. That is the only thing they say, but I know that there is an implied meaning. They meant to imply
 that there was an agreement between
 MT. Solomon and myself, which I did not keep. I had said that I thought my beat was in favor of a primary MT. Solomon came to me and said, I | understand that you are a primary | man. I told him that those were my | convictions. He then asked me if was presented with a petition asking me to come down. would I do it. I | replied that I would If the petition was
 a representative one. but would not | go against my convictions.
 "On Friday following this conversa-
 tion I announced to MT. Solomon that | would vote for a primary because l believed a majority of the people of
 my beat desired 1t. After some par
 leying we then agreed. as MT. Solomon contends. to leave 1t to the decision of
 one of four men. as to how the vote of the beat should be cast. The very
 statement contradicts itself If did
 that ought to be branded as a fool | Instead of a traitor.
 At the committee meeting Mir. Sol-
 omon asked me for my proxy for MT.
 Lawson, but refused to give 1t to him.
 told him that would live up to my agreement To prove that the repre- ! sentative men of the beat had notice to
 be here for just such a contingency as
 did arise. several of them were here | on the floor that day. For fear that
 some of them might not be here. MT.
 Solomon had their proxies in his pocket.
 | "Is not that so. MT. solomon?" asked
 MT. Gilmer. but Mir. Solomon, who was
 standing within ten feet of the speaker. did not reply.
 They accuse me of being a traitor.
 a traitor to my friend. The terms are
 as far apart as the poles" MT. Gu- l mer went on. T hurl back into the teeth of MT. Lawson such charges. A man may stand up and accuse me of betraying a trust but he can never &C., 1 cuse me of taking a seat in the caucus of friend and selling out for a clerk
 ship in the Convict Bureau I may
 have conspired to defeat the nomlna- | tion by an improper method of a friend but I have never conspired to defeat
 the nominee of Democratic conven- | tion, Jesse F. Stallings, as MT. Lawson knows he did. l submit my resigna- l tion as a member of the committed" MT. Gilmer's resignation was accept | ed and H. A. Belser was elected to his place. vacancy having occurred by
 the death of Major George Jones, Mir. Goodwin nominated J. A. Walters for
 committeeman from Beat II, and the committee elected MT. Walters 1 Chairman Arlington announced that
 the cost of the special primary would
 probably be about s35o, to pay which
 the candidates would be assessed their | prorata share.
 l MT Goodwin moved that A commit l tee of three he named to saYact o F,,I,