The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-02-21

MT. Boyd of Marshall placed the nam' Of Col. W. c. Oates of Henry in nomina ton. but Colonel Oates declined to allow the use of his name.
 Colonel Jolly was then nominated D! exclamation for Congressman-at-large and all the candidates pledged suppor to the nominees.
 Delegates to Baltimore.
 General Clayton from the committee ap pointed for the purpose. reported the fol lowing as delegates to the Baltimore Con vention from the State-at-large: W. M Byrd Eli s. Shorter. Levi w. Lawler J. B. Clarke, Thomas A. Walker. F. Sykes, Jones M. Withers, P. M. Dox.
 Alternates-R. H. Smith, A. N, Worthy W. H. Barnes, F. s. Lyon, s. H. Moore E. A. O'Neal, R. H. Powell, John Phe- Ian. f
 The following were reported from the districts:
 1. c. L. Scott Wilcox; J. W. Posay of Monroe; Alternates, B. M. Woolsey of Dallas, P. D. Page of Conecuh.
 ?. A. c. Gordon of Henry, Albert Strassburger of Montgomery; alternates s. H. Dent of Barbour, B. W. Young of Lowndes
 8 Daniel Crawford of coosa, C. J. Bryan of Macon; alternates, B. D. Fry J.
 {. Allen c. Jones of Hale; L. M. Stone of Pickens. Alternates M. A. King of
 TheTuscaloosa; T. D. Cory of Autauga.
 ,. S.. D. Cabiniss of Madison; Thomas B. Cooper of Cherokee. Alternates, T.. D. Osborn of Jackson; L. W. Cant of Calhoun. S-
 6, Alberto Martin of Jefferson; H. c. Jones of Lauderdale. Alternates, Lee Crandall of Morgan; Robert Mcfarland of Lauderdale.
 All of which wero unanimously ratified by the Convention.
 MT. Porter of Clarke from the Com mittee on. Resolutions made the follow ing report;
 Resolved, first, That in the opinion of this Convention, under existing clrcum- stances the National Democratic Con- vention ought not to make nominations in opposition to the nominations recently made at Cincinnati But this resolution is not intended to instruct the delegates to be sent to Baltimore.
 Second. That the Democrats and con- servatives of Alabama will abide by the action of the National Democratic Con- vention.
 Third, That this convention condemns. as alike demoralizing and dangerous to good order and peace, all associations of men formed to evade or violate the laws, whether State or Federal That 1t is the duty of every good citizen to obey the laws, until repealed by the law mak- ing power or decided to be unconstitu- tional by court of competent jurisdic- tion.
 Fourth, That this convention de- nounces as alarming to the citizens, and destructive to constitutional liberty, the use of the military in the execution of the laws. on the pretence of protecting the freedom of elections. That every person who, by law, is entitled to vote should be permitted to exercise this great privilege of freemen unseduced by cor rupt influences and unawed by power, that the purity of the ballot box is the life of Republics"
 Mir. Boyd moved to lay the first reso- lution on the table. which was lost. yeas 105; nays. 26S.
 Mir. Boyd then offered the following as a substitute for the first resolutions:
 Resolved. That no instructions shall be given to the delegates to the Baltimore Convention. believing they will vote for and sustain that policy which the true interests of the State demands and the Democratic and Conservative Party of Alabama will endorse their action and abide by and uphold the decision of the National Democratic Party. in convention assembled"
 Mir. Judge of Montgomery moved to lay the resolution on the table, which was carried; yeas, 256; nays. 103.
 Mr. Boyd then offered the following:
 Resolved. That we refer the whole question of policy to be pursued in the ensuing contest by the Democracy to the Baltimore Convention. pledging ourselves to abide by It's action"
 General Henry D. Clayton of Barbour offered an amendment to the effect that the Baltimore Convention should ratify the nominations made at Cincinnati.
 Mir. Boyd and General Clayton both withdrew their resolutions and the pre-. vious question on the resolutions report ed by the committee was ordered and car ried-ayes, 2S7; nays. S5.
 There was some discussion of the reso- lutions pro and con, when they were adopted-yeas. 254; nays, s4, on the first resolution and the others unanimously.
 State Executive Committee.
 Mir. McCaa from the committee re- ported the following State Executive Committee from the several districts.
 First-Price Williams of Mobile, E. w Martin of Conecuh, Joseph F. Johnston of Dallas.
 Second-Thomas J. Judge of Montgom. erp. R. H. Powell of Bullock, H. D. Clay. ton of Barbour
 Third-osceola Kyle of Fillmore, R. F Ligon of Macon, w. D. Bulger of Talla- poosa.
 Fourth-H. M. somerville of Tuscaloosa, w. B. Modawell of Perry, E. w. Smith of Sumter
 Fifth-James Crook of Calhoun. W. M
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