The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-09
BRYAN-HEARST BOOM DOES
 NOT ALARM POLITICIANS

Washington, March s.-(specia1 )-There is no longer fear here that the Bryan Hearst movement will amount to much when the show down comes. While it is true that here and there throughout the south and west Bryan and Hearst will be indorsed the best political judgment, based upon general conservative senti- ment so far hear from at Washington is that when the democrats get down to real business at St. Louis there will not be two hundred votes in the convention for the Bryan-Hearst combination.
 Great interest is now centered here in the New York situation as democrats generally are conceding the right to the D~~<<~s><>%c->>% who does not file the declaration al above set forth, and provided, further, that the chairman or secretary of the committee or the committeeman having charge of the territory in which and by which such candidate Is to be voted for and nominated shall certify to the person having charge of the printing of the official ballot, the name of such person who has duly filed a declaration, as above provided for and the names of such persons and none other shall be printed on the official bal- lot.'
 MT. Nathan moved the adoption of the report which was done with a single 'no," !"
 Mir. Whitson voted the death of w. l. Bullock of Franklin, and moved that the chair appoint committee to draft reso- lutions on his death and also to proceed to the election of the successor to MT. Bullock. On the committee the chairman reported Messrs Wntson. Proctor, ns nd 1oil Mr sfh the postponement of the election of a successor until the next meeting which was adopted. A motion here rame to ad- journ and several committeeman seemed surprised that 1t failed.
 Washington Springs Resolution.
 MT. Douglas of Washington. immediate ly sprung his resolution to change the plan of the primary from the pluralty to the majority idea. The resolution offered by him was as follows:
 Resolved, That all candidates to be voted for by. the entire state must re- ceive a majority of the votes cast for the office for which he is candidate.
 Resolved further, That ID tho ev,nt no candidate receives majority If all the votes cast for the office Tor which he is a candidate then there shall be d primary held on May l6' lyO4, Tn Wnicn sdlu last primary the two candidates receiv- ing the largest number of votes In the first primary shall be candidates.
 MT. Roden of Jefferson was quickly on his feet to declare the proposition em- bodied in the resolution hoax. He thought we were having too many cleo tions Mir Stevens of Mobile offered strong resistance to the proposition It was a question, he said that had been settled in the original plans. Since Its adoption many candidates had announced under the plurality idea. A change would be unjust to them. He declared 1t the duty of the committee to so conduct the affairs of the party as to iuaintain har- mony within the party ranks-to keep its skirts clean of any taint. We had just as well call a spade a spade. This new proposition only rferred to one office, that of chairman of the railroad commission.
 He asserted that there was no cause for the proposed change. It was for the benefit of some candidate and the detri- ment of others. MT. Stevens said that when he had first heard of the proposition during the morning that he had sought to find some eason for it. He could not converse with all the candidates for rail- road commissioner. but he .lad seen Rob ert J. Lowe. and In answer to the ques- ton of how he stood upon the proposition MT. Lowe had promptly asserted that he