The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-01-28

formed by a reputable Democrat, who was present Tn Montgomery that tne chairman of the Ninth Congressional District Committee, Hon, E. K. Camp bell, was anxious to be beard in the caucus and failed to gain an audience MT. Whitson shows conclusixeiy tIa, tnat by railroad attorneys; they made the plan on Monday night and Mir. Whitson worked from nine till twelve o'clock mittee had assembied) when he sre- wrote that portion of the original draft changed in the conference, while the and the plan was type-written, com plete, at about two o'clock after the re- cess of the committee" The. Birmtnsy ham News has heretofore declared that subcommittee was appointed and the possibility The sub committee sim amended by the causes of Monday
 When the State Committee met on TSesdIay, SgsI 1t MT MhitsGa Ss %9o Sqso ated to draw up. and present a plan for a general primary, etc, On that committee were apPointesd Stesraa: Messrs: (railroad attorney(s Almon. Sanford. (railroad attorney)s and Moore (rail- road president)--three of them mem And that was the subcommittee to shape and direct. and which did shape and direct, the action of the State Democratic Executive Committed. :. a committee purporting to represent the Democratic voters of Alabama, who. in their last primary, by an oyerwhelm- ing majority, registered their VIII as those who were in the caucus and those who were on the subcommittee. Yet MT. Whitson declares that never to my RnGSwledgs; has the state Gom@ttss tSs party" He has never known 1t do more than honestly, conscientiously and fairly carry out the party's wishes. but leyidently he has never heard of Comer's majority over John V. Smith, or he must think the people of Ala
 The construction put on Section g of the primary law by Mr. Whitson may Or may not be correct. There Is noth- ing that prohibits State Conmittee, such committees" (tfat is of political sub-divisions) "to adopt the State pri- mary in calling primaries for the same the very purpose of preventing, as far as possible, a, multiplicity of prima- fies." Ye gods! Then why did not the subcommittee. or MT; Whitson;1 that all such com mittees' adopt August 2fth as the day of their prIina3Eies? Just look Is,s at the the
 
 bailiwick of Jones Moore!
 When the plan was reported by Mir. Whftson, and even after his "argu- ton and an appeal for a little time so | that the members of the committee, who had not been in the caucus or been advised of its degree, might study the "Whitsona plan" was "railroaded
 MT. Whitson makes a singular omis- ,s- f,, M ,.-k refer to a partial return to the con- veption system, which he knows, or ought to know, is very odious to the Democratic rank and file; he fails to common people" why they are not good enough or wise enough to choose judges of the Supreme Court and to name the State Democratic Executive Committee. The assumption that lawyers, above all others, are better qualified to judge of the qualifications clared in his argument" before the committed, carries about as much con viction to the average Democrat as that other calm assurance, made by convention called for September 10th, where there can be no means of favor and where there can be no trading or traficking." The shallow pretense that the Judicial ermine must be pro- tected from being dragged into the mire of politics, when the convention I4dL nOiliAidlto hllS JuuSGS VIII lH the same hour name the State Executive Committee, might be arrant nonsense if It was not such illy-disguised hypoc- , risy. The Birmingham News believes that if there had not been an Executive Committee to be named, no convention would ever have been called.
 Mir. Whitson declares 1t is apparent that ."the committee has met with the approval of the great majority of the people, That is matter of opinion. The Birmingham News differs from MT. Whitson on this point Who is right only will be determined when the roll of the new State Committee is made up. There will be many names miss ing-note the prophecy-when the peo- pie have had a chance to pass on the record made by the railroad attorneys on the State Committee It is not a crime to be railroad attorney The Birmingham News has never expressed such an opinion, but it will be criminal negligence or criminal indifference to their rights and liberties on the part of the people, If they shall not, retire several railroad attorneys. now mem bers of the State Committee, on an in- definite leave of absence to private life. '..
 Read Mir. Whitson's confession care fully. He establishes beyond doubt that the plan was conceived by rail- road attorney, considered and ratified by a caucus dominated by railroad at. torneys. and promulgated by the whole committee, without time for proper de- bate or consideration, through the in strumenatality of a subcommittee, con- trolled by railroad attorneys.