The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-09-13

n,. the action of but seven men. He Ssc,ared that 1t would cost s3,ooo to hold a primary in the Chancery Divis- ion. and 1t would have to be paid by the candidates.
 MT. Browne closed at is:eb o'clock. and Capt. T. D. Sanford of Opelika inn
 msdiste tely began his argument for MT. Oliver. He referred to the lateness of ths hour and the physical exhaustion of she committeeman. He also expressed hi. rerArd for all persons involved In inc controversy, and said he would not deal in personalities
 Captain Sanford said he appealed with some confidence to the fairness and Justice of the members of the committee. In his experience as t member of the committee and the ob- servation of several years as a Demo- erat he said he had not known of one singls instance. where the committee had failed to act with fairness, with out partisanship and only with an eye 10 the interest of the Democratic party.
 Tn response to a demand of the peo- ple. Captain Sanford said the Demo- cratic party. had declared in favor of prtnnaYiss. without regard to cost and without regard to trouble. The Demo- | cratic party he said was nota party of committee nominations. He declared | that 1t was unwise for the committees to nominate except in extreme emer- l wencies, and showed that extreme ! emergencies existed in the cases cited by Mir. Browne as precedevts. ThTe | was plenty of time he said in this case | for a primary to be ordered and con- ducted.
 Captain Stamford declared that either Mir. Oliver or any of his friends had been authorized to recognize the com mittes which met at Anniston. He said he could not believe that the State | Committee could ratify the action of that Anniston meeting. He belived such l actin by the State committee would have a tendency to disrupt the party.
 The people opposed the convention sys- tenn of nominating candidates. Surely l said Captain Sanford the committee system was worse.
 | Captain Sanford spoke of the irreg-
 ular and illegal election of chancery committeeman. He said if the commit l teemen wese not legally elected then Mir whiteside could not have been le- laglly nominated.
 1 In concluding Captain Sanford crit
 icised the conduct of MT. Acker in fail- ing to ascertain about the regularity of his committee and urged that the | committee order a primary. Committeeman Speak. Captain Sanford closed at 20 a. m.
 and MT. Eyster of Morgan was rccog- nized MT. Eyster said he had always | believed that committees should nom- l mate in emergencies. Consequently he sent up this resolution: Resolved, That the action of the | Executive Committee of the North | eastern Chancery Division in declar- | ing Hon. w. w. Whiteside the Demo- cratic nominee for Chancellor of said division in lieu of Hon. H. J. Gillam | deceased, be and 1t Is hereby ratified and affirmed; and that the contest and | appeal from the action of said com | mittee, now pending before this com | mittee be and the same Is hereby dis missed.
 The resolution of Mir Eyster was seconded by MT. Christian. Judge Harlan, of Tallapoosa, mem Der of the committee, tried to get in
 substitute annulling the action of the Anniston meeting and calling
 primary. but MT. Sanford of Troy was recognised.
 He sent to the desk of the clerk the following resolution as a substitute:
 "Whereas, as the office of Chancel- Tor of the Northeastern Chancery Di- vision of Alabama is a State office and
 not local office and, whereas, the committee for that division has never had the authority delegated to 1t by this committee or by any convention in the State to make nominations, therefore be 1t
 Resolved, by this committee. That a, convention composed of Demo- crats of the Northeastern Chancery Di-
 vision Is hereby called to meet at Dadeville on the day of October, 1904, for the purpose of nominating a
 Chancellor.
 Be 1t further resolved. That in said convention the counties composing the division shall be entitled to the same
 representation as is provided for in
 State conventions"
 MT. Smith of Hale moved to lay the Sanford substitute on the table.
 Crisis of the Question. MT. Mullins was recognized.
 "I agree with Mir. Sanford" began Mir Mullins, but he was cut off with the statement that he could not debate a motion to table.
 There was rising vote of g to 8. and the hopes of MT. Whiteside and his friends was high.
 Count me as voting against the motion to table," quietly said MT. Nal lory.
 "The vote is to g." reported the clerk.
 And the motion to table is iost." said Mir. Mallory. 'The substitute of Mir. Sanford Is ready for discussion.
 MT Mullins was recognized. He spoke in favor of the Sanford reso- lution. He said that Mir. Whiteside was his friend and he did not know MT. Oliver. He knew what was the best interest of tho Democratic Party and he did not approve of the manner in which Mr. Whiteside was nomi- mated.
 Mir. Merrill of Cleburne spoke against the Sanford substitute. There was no clamor in the Division. he said. over the defeat of Mfr. Oliver. The Committee seemed to him to have been regular and Mir. Whiteside should remain as the nominee.
 Mir. Nathan of Colbert made an earn est and careful argument against the Sanford substitute and in support of sustaining the committee
 MT. Morrill, of Barbour argued that after the primary had been held. the power of the State Committee ceased. and that the contingency having arisen, 1t was clearly within the right of the Chancery Committee to make the nom nation. The only matter, he said. for the State Committee to consider was