The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-09-11

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 "oh, my number is 2s." replied the Chief Executive of Andalusia. Mir. Opp was quite cheerful in his political bondage. He was engaged in the process of getting on the outside of a plate of strawberry ice cream. It was a good sized plate. too.
 Good Speech Was Lost.
 One of the liveliest speeches of the convention was lost in it's delivery Be- cause of the noise and excitement prob ably not man in the convention heard the arguments During the moments of the greatest excitement Chairman Rountree of the Dallas County Exec utive Committee arose to address the convention. He was in deadly earnest, too The chairman rapped for order, but pandemonium had succeeded orders Mr. Rountree was launched on his speech and no sort of a noise could deter him. With broadbrimmed felt hat in his right hand. he came down the aisle towards the chairman The convention knew he was speaking for his hands went out in earnest gesticu- lation. Again and again the hat was lifted to emphasize point-and still the speech was lost in the noise.
 There was q Plenty "Doing." While the opposing sides were en- gagged in a noisy vocal warfare. and no business could be transacted, Chair man Barnes was sitting quietly in his seat waiting for some sort of order to be restored.
 What's doing? Whats doing." a delegate asked excitedly. rushing to the platform.
 Mir. Barnes said clearly and distinct- ly, and without hurry:
 The chair is endeavoring to remain in a judicial and equitable frame of mind"
 Washington County n Unit. Solicitor J. N Granade of St Steph- ems, voted the entire Washington Coun- ty delegates on every proposition. MT. Granade was the whole works so far as the Washington County delegation was concerned. He was the chairman. the secretary, and the body of the delega- tion. The other three members of the delegation could not come to Montgom- cry, and MT. Granade had all the prox- les in his pocket. It might be said that the Washington County delegation voted as a unit on all propositions. As To Democratic Precedent. In the midst of the excitement Solici- tor R. H. Parks of Pike. took the floor to speak and that he was taken off his feet by a motion on the previous ques- tion was a source of regret to con siderable part of the convention. MT. Parks, from his preliminary remarks, had some warm utterances on theway the convention was going about in the destruction of Democratic precedent and the Democratic policy of home rule. He also wanted to say something of the intolerance of Democratic convention that would refuse hearing to Dem- ocrat who wanted to advocate a Dem- ocratic policy. Mir. Parks is an eloquent speaker, and the Cunningham men were keen1y disappointed that his protest went unregistered.
 Wns Aimed At Two Men. It was an open secret that the great est feature of the fight on the old State Committee was aimed at the represen- tation on the Committee from the Fourth and Second Congressional Dis tricts. It was generally recognized that the Conner men were after the scalps of Hon. Carson C. Whitson of Talla- dega and Hon. George w. Jones of Montgomery. The only way, how ever, in which those scalps could be lifted was to throw the election of the committeeman in the convention for the Congressional delegations would the comittee. It Is said that a propo- osition was made to the Calhoun County delegation that 1t could name two members of the State Committee if 1t would turn on Whitson, who was a member from Talladega. But the Call houn County delegation was for Whit son and preferred to go down in defeat with him.