The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-03-05

so thoroughly organized that a paid or- ganizer Is now travelling from beat to beat preaching the gospel of acreage and fertilizer reduction. In all the counties engineers are employed all | ready surv eying the lands which were | last year devoted to cotton growing with instructions to mark lines which will guarantee 25 per cent. reduction I in this years acreage With a man of this ability speaking throughout Ala | bama it will no doubt be profitable | to the many earnest hearers that await | him.
 MT. Vaughan Enthusiastic. | President Vaughan yesterday called | the meeting to order at II o'clock. He | once again thanked the association for
 the honor conferred upon him by elect | ing him to the head of the county or l ganization on February 16 He appre-
 ciated the responsibilities of the of- | flee and pledged his time and cner- | gies to the movement for which the l organization was perfected. He de-
 clared the campaign for better cotton prices inaugure ted at New Orleans, a little over a month ago, to be the
 greatest ever undertaken by Southern | farmers when measured by the actual | success thus far achieved. Upon motion, Secretary Charles L.. Gay read the recent written address or President Seymour of the State As sociation, to the people of Alabama. The constitution framed by the Ex- ecutive Committee of the Southern As sociation in Atlanta recently to be uni form throughout the cotton growing States and applying to the State. Coun- ty and beat organizations, was read. It was unanimously adopted. Copies of 1t. at the end of the meeting, were dis tributed among the several beat chair men Tor purposes of further education as to all the objects and methods of the cotton movement.
 ] President Vaughan called upon State President Seymour to address the meet ing. MT. Seymour had just returned from the meeting in Opelika Friday night at which at least 500 men, most ly planters from Lee, Macon and ad- joining counties, gathered to hear the address of President >Harvie Jordan, of the Southern Cotton Growers Associa- tion, the parent organization of the en- tire machinery of the South.
 MT. Seymour told of the enthusiasm which prevailed, the unmistakable earnestness of the hearers and declared
 the belief that if a canvass of the gathering had been taken at least 95 per cent of those present would have firmly pledged themselves to a reduc- tlon OI cotton acreage this year. Mr Seymour said the leaders of the cotton movement need have no fear of the sturdy planters of East Alabama. At Opelika to hear Mir. Jordan were farm CTS not only from the adjacent coun- ties. but from Columbus, Ca, from West Point, Ga. and from other places across the States borders. The Accredited DeIexateg 1 After the speech of Mir. Seymour the Secretary was ordered to enroll the delegates from the various beats of the County They were found to be as follows:
 City beats-Dr. A. St. C. Tennille. NJ. B. Houghton. NJ. c. Scott and J :. G. Thomas.
 Beat 7-M. F. Flynn. J. R. Relic. Dr. T. E. Rushing.
 Beat ST. B. Thompson, w. G.. Jones' G. W. Dickey and F. M. Jones. Beat 9-Dr. F. McLain, J. L. Ches- mutt E. B. Chesnutt, J. H. Chesnutt and T. A. Fowler.
 Beat 10-J. c. Supple, c. H. Shack leford.
 Beat 11-H. B.. Jones. J. W. Under wood and J. B. Walters. Beat 12-J. P. Downing. Beat 13-A. H. Eubank, J. NJ. Jones and M, s. Guice.
 Beat 15-J. R. McLendon and M. O.. Merritt.
 Beat lew. J. Sellers. s. J. Grey and NJ. Boyd.
 Beat 17--J. L.. Witt. J. M. Stuckey and George Turner.