The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-09-11

lconvention was on the eve of adopting She things that the Cunningham men lad been striving for, Captain White, and Captain White alone. caught the significance of the report and made d fight that sent the report back to the committee for another try. And this Happened in a convention which, on the show down. had two votes to one. It was this fight that kept the 500 delegates sweIteriag in the Audito- rum until nearly midnight. Judge John R. Tyson was nominated for Chief Justice without the slightest trouble fin the world Chief Justice Weakley had his fne complimentary vote recorded in the minutes of the name, Nar Nfaa any move trouble ex- perienced in the nominatfon of the cadidates for Assoclase Justices. Judge J R. Dowdell and Hon. Thomas c. Mcclellan. Having received the plu-. rality vote in the primary they were given the nomination by exclamation. In turn the names of Judge Thomas W. Coleman. Judge J. A. Bilbro and Chan cellor W. l.. Parks were withdrawn from the official list of the vote sent the convention by the state Commit tee. None of these gentlemen would be Q candidate against the men who had received the leading vote from the people.
 The minute of the greatest enthu- slasm during the day was that minute in which Captain White named Hon. H. s. D. Mallory, Chairman of the now Committee and he was enthusias- tically nominated by the Convention. He was Chairman of the late Commit tee which. although it was elected in a primary, had been repudiated for one reason or another by the Conner forces. But notwithstanding this the Conner and the Cunningham men united in paying the remarkable tribute of a unanimous reelection to the distin- guished citizen of Dallas.
 COMMITTEES NEW COAT.
 Expectation was primed and keyed up for the fight on the State Commit tee. Nor was expectation disappointed. The fight was quite as lively as 1t was expected to be. The preliminary skir- mish was fought out in the committee room where the Committee on Program. Organization end Order of Business held it's session.
 This committee had been named by Chairman R. R. Barnes of Opelika, him. self Conner man, but against whose Fairness no charge Was brought during the day. It retired a Conner Commit tee. It came back a Cunningham Com mittee. The plausible explanation as to how It all happened is yet to be made.
 But whsn it made a report that re- port was an anti-Comer report and 1t was signed by the entire committee. The report was presented to the con- vention by Hon. Carson Whitson of ralladegas he having been named the chairman of the committee, The re- port recommended that the State Com mittee be increased from thirty-s six to fOrfV-fWA n0apOhaFa hnt members from each Congressional dis trict and the fifth from the State at large upon the recommendation of the Congressional District Committee. There was great deal more to the re- port, but this was the fighting matter in 1t.
 The convention settled back as though there would be no trouble at all and the report would be adopted instanter But before MT. Whitson had finished he made mention of the fact that prominent Conner leaders on and off the committee had agreed to the re- port, which was good reason for its adoption.
 NEAR POINT OF ROW.
 And right here there came up question of misunderstanding that was so serious that 1t amounted to a aues- tion of veracity. The Cunningham men insisted that such an agreement had been reached in the committee and that such a concession had b6en prom ised the Cunningham men. There were some Conner men who would have testified to the same agreement, but they never got chance.
 Captain White denied any such agreement. He rejudiated it on the part of the Conner men.
 "J move that the report be referred to the committee for further aetion." he exclaimed.
 Mir. Whttson again came to the plat form and spoke for home-rule. but the convention was so dsorderly that he could not be heard. He and Mir. JeS- fries were cheered enthusiastically. It looked as though the convention was cheering one way and voting another, for. when the time came, the motion of Captain White to make the committee take it's job back and do it over. was carried by a vote of 412 to 202
 The committee went into the Council Chamber and fought the battle over again. And again the Cunningham