The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-01-27
CAMPAIGN COMMITTEE
 PROVIDES FOR TWO TICKETS

George A. Searcy of Tuscaloosa. John F. Proctor of Jackson, and Jones G. Moore Of Jefferson.
 The two abeentees of the committee were II. D. Merrill of Calhoun and John J. King of Marengo.
 Plan to Fill Vacancies.
 In addition to deciding that two tick cts should be voted in the primary, one to be printed and distributed by the State Committee and the other by the County Committee, the committee pro- vided a plan for the filling of vacancies on the party committees of the various political subdivisions.
 It will be recalled that the State Ex- ecutive Committee, at it's meeting on January 6. ordered a convention to be held in Montgomery, May 25. at which delegates to the National Democratic Convention are to be selected. The Cam paign Committee decreed that the dele gates to this convention should select members of committees for the congres. sional circuit and chancery divisions wherever vacancies have occurred. These selections are to be made by the dele gates to the convention from those polit- ical subdivisions.
 This action by the committeeman was looked upon as in a. degree infringing upon the primary principle. Still 1t was tho unanimous action of the committee. It was pointed out that to have the voter in the primary i'll the vacancies in .le various committees, would necessitate a long and cumbersome ticket, a ticket which would have printed on it not only the names of the candidates for the va rious State,, judicial. chancery and con- gressional offices, but the names of can- didates for the places on the various congressional, judicial and chancery com- mittees. In apprehension lest the ticket should be cumbersome and unwieldy, the committee directed that the vacancies should be filled by the delegates to the May convention.
 Grave Question Discussed.
 A grave question and one which may yet confront the committee for settle- ment, the question as to whether the names of candidates for circuit solicitors should be printed on the tickets in coun- ties in which they do not pros scute, was discussed by the committee. but no final action was taken by the committee to set- tie the question. "A law passed by the last Legislature has a bearing upon the question as to whether the voters in a county. where a circuit solicitor does not prosecute, should vote in the election for a solicitor. There are several counties in several circuits of the State which have county solicitors and into which the cir- cult solicitors do not come. It was held by several members of the committee that the voters of such counIies did not participate in either the primary or the election. There were two sides to this question: however, and the committee did not finally. decide upon 1t. The commit tee agreed to cross tl..s bridge when 1t came to 1t.
 The meeting of the Campaign Com mittee was entirely informal. The mem- bers of the committee sat at ease about the long table of the city clerk in the Council Chamber. At the head of the table sat Chairman Mallory A sugges- tion would be made by a member of the committee. After 1t had been informally discussed and thoroughly understood by the committee 1t would be embodied in a motion which would be put by Chair man Mallory. The meeting was thor oughly harmonious, On only one ques- tion did there appear to be two opinions.
 Late in Assembling.
 The committee was little late in as. sembling, because of delayed trains. It was after l o'clock before the committee got down to work
 To begin work of the committee, Chair man Mallory read the communication which he had received from the nine Alabama congressmen. This communi- cation suggested that only one ticket should be printed, on which was to be