The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-11-19
CALLS COTTON MEETING
GROWERS TO GATHER IN MoNf-
 GOMERY NOVEMBER go.
xsr~s,deut Seymour Urges Farmers to stand Ffrm-Harvie Jordan Has
 100000 Bales Pledged for TX Cents.

president w, H. Seymour of the | Alabama division of the Soutnern Soe ~
 toR AsSoe1s9SR WSS Presdene srssF an asrve dan in Atlanta yesterday, issued a call
 for special meeting of his division to be held in Montgomery Thursday' Ns-
 'eW While tn the address of President sey- of the different County associaLion,ss ,s does not allude to it in particular, It | is known that one of the main pur- poses of the meeting is to insure q tighter grip of the growers on the cot ton that Is now being held back rom
 'nT The % meeting. for this reason, Is the outgrowth Of the 15-cent propaganaa that Is going the swift rounds 9a tns ns President Jordan, issued early In the
 In the telegram to President sey,, mour which announced his intention oL coming to Montgomery on the last os this month to address the conventlon, President Jordan declared that ne naa 100000 bales of cotton aIrsady E)iease"
 oS"Pubiish broadcast over the belt your call for the meeting and us opJscts;
 One hundred thousand bales pieoseo
 This is part of a message received
 mour from the leader d,ccsas in Ala1f tor tSs trn half week of the 15-cent movement. The lines of the Association in all the cotton States are being drawn ugns inc producers. President Jordan has after a most careful Investigation of both the productive and the consump- and he is determined to bring the loy-
 atty of the Association members to the test. e.,,. ...L,.A was made out yesterday and sent into every county in the State is as follows: gro the County Presidents and Secre.
 taries of the Alabama Adansd Diyision, dsio f,o0 Of and all others interested:
 "For the purpose of devising ways
 and means by which more ensctiye ern Cotton Association may be carried on, I hereby call a meeting to pc neld on November 30th: at Montgomery, Ala: Ala
 All county presidents ana secretanies a,ss all friends of the movement who desire to attend will be welcome.
 "President Harvie Jordan will be pres ent and will speak on the conditions tnat now obtain and especially on 15-cent cotton. It is probable that F ID. smith, Field Agent of the Association, will
 it is expected that arrangements will
 be made by which reduced rates Will
 be given on all railroads in the State to
 those in attendance. should; however,
 is suggested that at such places re-
 ceipts be taken for money paid for tickets.
 We have reached the stage where it
 behooves every county official to make
 sacrifices in order to be present. The
 fight is a long. hard one, but we are go-
 ing to win.
 "President Alabama Division.
 Those who heard Field Agent E. D.
 Smith, of the Southern Cotton Associa-
 tfon on the occasion of his visit to
 Montgomery soon after the organiza- tion of the Alabama Division, feel exu- berant over the probability of his be- ing able to make a second visit. He Is decidedly the most eloquent speaker in behalf of the cotton movement that the State of Alabama has welcomed. He Is now engaged in canvassing work in Texas. but is expected to break away from that section in time to come to inc aid of the Alabama leaders
 To awaken the Alabama producers to
 the urgency of keeping their hold on
 inc residue of the years crop until something like the real value of the sta- ple is realized, President Seymour has
 printed the following circular which he
 Is sending into every beat in the State: