The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-10-16

this the Committee thought that some- thing ought to be done
 The ultimate solution of the Ques- tion was that in the city beats where there were moro than one candidate who had the second highest vote in the primary should have his name printed on the ticket and in the beats where there were no candidates the six city members of the County Committee should select candidates for Justices of l the Peace. Temple Seibels made an earnest eff fort to have his beat. Beat 3. excepted from the ruling of the committee. He | asked in the name of the people of his beat that & nomination by petition be l alloted. The committee declined thls | and MT. seibels protested, saying that
 this committee has. without cause. turned down the people of my beat" Charles B. Teasley also opposed the action of the committee. He said that he had always contended and still con- tended that the committee did not have the right to make a nomination. The members of the committee who attended the meeting were Chairman A. H. Arrinston; Secretary W. A. Gunter. C. P Anderson, T. W. Oliver, S F. M. Jones, I. D.. Collier. s. ]. Naftel, c. B. Teasley and c. H. Shackleford. Justice W. c. Fuller made short statement to the committee He said that he did not want to run as an in- dependent. He was a Democrat and he wanted to run as a Democrat. He hgreed to resign if the Supreme Court should hold that the law was valid. Former Attorney General W. |. Mar n tzr gAA the legal aspects of the situation. His view of the law in the case was similar
 to that advanced by Justice Fuller. It developed that John H. Browder had filed petition with Probate Judge Gaston to have his name placed upon ticket as an independent candidate for Justice of the peace in Beat 3 the same beat In which Justice Fuller was u can didate and in which Judge B. c. Tarver nad been nominated in the April pri- mary. e An informal discussion nearly two hours in length followed. Nearly every member of the committee spoke and some of them spoke five and six times.
 Chairman Arlington and c. P. Ander- son expressed the views of the majority Of the committee after Judge Gaston
 had told the committee that the Court
 had directed him to have the words
 vote for two" placed over the names
 or the candidates for justices of the
 peace in each beat.
 Messrs Anderson and Arlington held
 that it would be better for the commit
 tee to have an additional name au-
 thorized as Democrat to safeguard
 the interest of the regularly nominated candidate. The candidate to be au-
 thorized by the committee would agree In each instance to resign in favor of the regular nominee after election If the Supreme Court should hold that
 there should be only one justice of the
 peace in each city beat. If this was not done it was possible for an inde- pendent candidate to get more votes than the regular nominee and to hold the office If the justices act should be declared unconstitutional.
 c. H. Shack1eford was strongly in favor of the committee taking some action which would give two Demo. cratic nominees.
 Messrs Teasley and seibeIs were op- nomination.
 After he had seen the drift of the sentiment of the committee Mir. .Geibels asked that Beat 3 be excepted from inc committees action. He said that ha did not want the committee to show any favors to Justice Fuller that if could not or would not show to Mir. Browder, who was also a candidate for justice of the peace. He asked that in that beat a nomination be by petition. ehe man "ith the most names to his petition to get the nomination.
 Justice Fuller asked if MT. Browder had not already circulated a petition for the nomination and had secured sig natures.
 MT. seibels answered in the afarma- tive.
 Justice Fuller then declared that the proposition was unfair to him ana he would not go before the people ask- Ing them to sign any petition.
 Tne committee finally adopted fife resolution of Mr. Anderson providing that the names of the candidate in each peat who ran second should be filed by the chairman of the committee wifh tne Judge or Probate as the second Democratic candidate. In the beats where there was only one candidate ir the April primary the six city members of the committee will select candidates,
 MT. Seihels and MT. Teasely voted against this resolution on the viva yoce vote. / MT. Seibels then urged the commit tee not to make the resolution apply to Beat and he offered a resolution to that effect. but 1t was voted down.
 The situation since the adoption of the resolution In reference to the con- test for justices of the peace Is as fol- ] lows:
 In Ward J. L. Williams is the nomi. | nee and W. A. Taylor will be the second candidate.
 In Ward ? Stephen Beasley is the