The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-09-09
Will Strike in State
 Convention. WOULD DICTATE TO PARTY
Fight May Effect Associate Justice
 Nominations.
followers of Gubernatorial Candidate In Birminsham and Montgomery
 Map Out Program to Gaia
 Control of organi1ation.

T am ready to submit to the axe. but they'll have to show me that they've got the ax.v
 This is the way a prominent. mem Der of the State Executive Committee expressed his attitude, and inciden tally the attitude of the State Conr mittee in the contest for the control of the new State Committee in the State Democratic Convention tomor- row between the friends of &r. Conner and his opponents. Both sides are ready for fight on the matter, and whichever side gts the control of the committee will have to fight for it in the committee.
 soiutely confident that his friends will not dictate to the Convention what it shall do They are confidnt that a great majority of the delegates elected to the State Convention are not fol- lowers of Mir. Conner. or course 1t will take the Convention to tell whether or not the confidence is well founded. But the political opponents of Mir. Conner are declaring that when the delegates were selected great majority of them were for Dr. Cun- ningham. They assert that whatever Mir. Conner wins, will have to be won after the delegates have reached the city. for as they were selected, they were not his supporters.
 MT Corners friends are -qually posi- tive that they control the situation.
 Hon. Reed Barnes. who was selected hv the State Committee as Temporary Chairman, is a Conner supporter. me State Committee so fas as mapoFlty goes. is undoubtedly opposed to Mr. Conner. Friends and fees alike recos- nfze this. It is undeniably true that If the Committee had so desired. T co,,ld have selected an anti-Comer man Somo of the friends of MT, Conner have sought to create the impression that the selection of Mir. Barnes py the State Committee was taclL sur ~ander of the opponents os MT. Comer' ana a notice that they would not con duct A fight in the Convention
 y,aficc Fight Overnhndowed.
 Tnia is authoritatlveiy denied Tne a,tt "a going on just the same. "s srhs Selection of Mir. Barnes had notnz d.. ,.,nafevAr 10 do with the etrugEte to he fought out on MohdaS MI Tsarnes. while Conner man, was agree able to both sides. HIS name mas agreed upon both by Conner ieauels and by anti-comer ieadeLs. ota.a eam- ,oent was ratified by the state Com mittee without any dissension or any sort. ~ ,,.a.+ ovar tha control of the new committee ls overwhelming, even the uncertain out come of the nominations for associate SustIces The conference held yester- Sass n Fsirminahaan and the smaller conference in Montgomery, Friday, was taken to have meant but one thing, a fight for the control of the state Committee.
 Tine present State Committee is com nosed of four members from eacn or the nine Congressional districts, nav FinR in all a membership of thirty-slx. Tt ts the only State Executive Commit fee the party has had that was select ed in A primary. In conventions. the custom has prevailed of letting each Congressional district name It's own members of the committee. The dele gates in each Congressional district having made their choice of commit tee members, their choice would De ratified by the convention.
 The result of the conference yester- day at Birmingham, clearly evidences the purpose of the Conner men Of try ing to get the convention to abolish the old plan and the old precedent. They will ask for the wiping out of the old system of selecting committeeman. In effect. their plan will be blow at home rule. For it seeks to destroy the old precedent of allowing the dis tricts to select their own committee men. In its place 1t proposes to make the election wholesale and general. The man from Jackson county will have just as much influence in select ing the committeeman from Mobile as the man from Mobile will have. The man from Winston county will have the same power in the selection of a committeeman from Calhoun county as the man from Calhoun county will have.
 Would Destroy Home Rule.
 There will be no more of the Dem ocratic precedent based upon home rule if the program adopted yesterday at the Birmingham conference goes through.
 To suit their own purposes, the Co., mer men propose not only to change the system of selecting Executive Committeeman. but they propose to rearrange the body of the committee. They propose to take another stop away from home. For as 1t is at present constituted the committee has four men from each Congressional District. Under the Conner confer ence plan, each Congressional Dis trict is to have those same four men, but the committee. that there may be more Conner men upon 1t, is to be in- creased to forty-hve members. The extra nine men are to be selected from the State at large.
 The Convention under this plan, is to pick out nine men from anywhere in the State and put them on the com mittee. The question naturally arises. how many of the nine will come from Birmingham? In the last primary, Jefferson county had nearly as many candidates as all the rest of the State together It is natural to suppose that when nine places as committee men are being handed around, Bir- mingham will be equally as modest. The proposition to put nine extra men on the committee glves JeSeI son county another opportunity for place and power.
 There /has been some regret locally expressed that MT. Conner hsa seen fit to force the fight on the Executive Committee in a Convention called for the nomination Of judicial offices. The fight has already thrown the judicial Convention Into politics, and 1t is evil dent that. notwithstanding the judi sial nature )f the Convention, it will be filled with politics from start to Hnish.
 Tt ia belieyed that Mr. Corners fight