The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-09-29
MAJORITY PLAN IS
 ADOPTED BY Il TO7 City Democratic Committee ,At- tended by Every Member SECOND PRIMARY NOV. 28  Chief of Police onI. Department Head On Tleket-voters to Say In
 November Whether others
 Shall Be In Future.
PRIMARY NOV. 28

This was decided upon last night at the
 meeting of the city democratic executive
 committee, which was held in the coun-
 cil chamber at the city hall.
 The committee voted to place upon the ticket the names of the candidates for
 mayor, city council, judge of the inferior
 criminal court and committeeman. The question of placing the candidates for
 other city offices in future was left to the
 vote of the people. In other words the
 democrats of Birmingham are to decide
 at the coming municipal primary whether or not the candidates for city officers.
 other than chief of police. are to be voted
 for by the people in succeeding years.
 Last nights meeting was called to or
 der at o'clock by Judge H. B. Aber-
 nathy, the chairman. Every member of
 the committee responded to Secretary
 Rich's roll call.
 Chalrman's Remarks. | In calling the committee to order Chair man Abernathy said in part:
 "Gentlemen of the committee I desire
 to state to you that l took the lib- erty of calling the committee 10 meet to- night. We have been called on two pre- vious occasions to meet but both of these meetings were practically without re- suits, other than to fix the date for the primary. Now is the time to act. Now in this meeting tonight I hope that every member of the committee will vote as he thinks is his duty. When you elected me as the chairman of this committee l stated to you that I would abide by the decision of the party and I want to tell you right now that I am here for that purpose tonight"
 | Committeeman Walter Bennett: 'Mr. Chairman. I move that we now proceed | now exists in the various wards of the city of Birmingham"
 | Committeeman G. B. Burkhalter: Let
 me tell you, MT. Chairman, that you 1 cannot bui.Uoze any member of this com mittee. I now move that we proceed
 with the election of a committeeman from
 the First ward. Have I a second?" Chairman Abernathy: '1 hereby ap- point the snief of police as the sergeant
 at arms of this committee. He will ar- | rest any member who violates the rules | of the body"
 Committeeman Burkhalter: MT. Chair
 man. you do not have to rule upon my
 motion unless you care to- l The vote On the Burkhalter motion was
 then put to vote and it was adopted by
 a vote of to 6.
 Committeeman Frank S. White, Jr.: 'Mr. Chairman, now move that we pro-
 ceed with the elections in the various l wards"
 In the Fifth ward Major John T. Yeat-
 man and Lave Alien were nominated to fill the vacancy existing in the commit
 tee. The vote stood:, Yeatman. g; AL | len, 6.
 c. P. Bsddow and P. H. Moore were nominated as candidates for committee
 men from the Sixth ward. The vote
 stood: Beddow, 10; Moore 6. In the
 Eighth ward Two democrats were nomi-
 mated. They were William B. Fort and
 Hines Peevey. The vote stood: Peevey, | g.; Fort, 8.
 Committeeman Herbert then offered the | following resolution:
 "Be it received, That any candidate for l office in he democratic primary for the selection of city officers. to be held on November 21, who receives a plurality of | all the voses cast, shall be the nominee
 of the democratic party for said office.' Resolution. for Majority. As substitute Committeeman Smyer offered the following resolution Resolved That in the coming primary election that any candidate for office re- ceiving the majority of votes cast for such office shall be declared by this com mittee the nominee for such office. Provided in case no candidate receives such majority then second primary shall be held on the 9th day of December, 1904. at which election only the two candidates receiving the highest vote in the elec- | tion on November 21 shall be voted for as candidates for such office. | Provided further, that if any such | candidate shall within two days from the | declaration of the result of the election ! of November 2l declines in writing to this
 committee to be candidate in said sec- ond primary, then the candidate rece.v- 1 ing the next highest vote in the first | primary shall be voted for as a candidate | for such office in said second primary" Committeeman White thought that only one week was necessary to intervene be-
 fore the second election. and offered an | emendmnt to that effect. Mir. Smyer ac- cepted MT. Whites amendment, and his
 resolution was then adopted by vote of l Il to7.
 The City Offices. Committeeman Hawkins then offered | the following resolution: Be it resolved by the city committee of Birmingham that only such names ap-
 pear on the ballot at the coming primary | as are required by law to be elected in | the general election in May. 1905, except | ing the names for candidates for the | committee
 | Committeeman Walter Bonnet offered | the following as a substitute: Be 1t resolved, That the names of
 each qualified candidate for the follow
 ing offices shall be printed in appropriate
 places on the tickets to be used at the
 democratic primary election for the SC. lection Of officers of the city of Birming- ham to be held on November 21, 1904, and | that the candidate of each office receiv- | ing a majority vote shall be the nominee
 of the democratic party for this office:
 "Chief of police.
 City license inspector and street tax l collector.
 | City auditor.
 City engineer.
 | "City treasurer.
 | "City tax collector.