The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-01-10
His Protest Was OnIy Thing
 4 Relieved MOROtORy of , "RairOading'' Process
MANY OPPOSE TIE PLAN FOR
 SENATORIAL SUCCESSORS
Gray. Meador and oNea Meet at Table and Have Lively Tilt. Joke Is on the Flor
 ence Man.
BY SEYMOUR RANSOM.

BY SEYMOUR RANSOM.
 Montgomery. January 9.-(Speeial)-rhe dog days of August won a victory over , the vernal attractions of April in the contest here today before the democratic executive committee for the date of the state primary election After two ses- sions. the first of which lasted thirty minutes and the second almost three hours, the committee fixed August 2 as the date of the election.
 Compressed into three words, the meet ing of the committee was from start 10 finish "cut and dried" It's work was done promptly. almost automatically. The programme framed Monday night by few members of the committee deliber- atlng behind closed doors was carried out successfully and without effort. Details of ths programme, the scope and method of the democratic primary elee- tion. as embodied in the report of the subcommittee. will he presented in D report printed elsewhere in The Age- Herald "Railroaded through summar- izes in two words the action of the com- mittee regarding the adoption of the sub- committees report
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 There was only one feature in the de- Alterations of the committee, and that feature was the brief speech made by Bob Thach II fell upon the monotonous routine of the meeting as the gentle rain falls upon famishlng desert.
 The subcommittee had submitted it's report c. C. Whitson of Talladega had read the voluminous document in finely oratorical style The reading of 1t alone consumed twenty minutes Then Mr. | Whltson proceeded To eXpound. explain and elaborate in detail the interesting propositions contained in the report At length he ceased speaking
 Bob Thach arose. Mr Thaeh isn't an orator of the Cieeronian school. He doesn't deelain He only talks. And he does even that quietly yet distinctly.
 His modest, retiring manner was in | sharp contrast to the confident. self-as- sertive air of the preceding speaker
 Causes Repressed Laughter.
 "Mr. Chairman said MT. Thach. Il have listened with a great deal of inter- est to the voluminous if not luminous re- port of the subcommittee and cannot re- frain from expressing my unstinted ad- miration for the wonderful amount of work it has succeeded in doing in so mar velously brief time
 Repressed laughter greeted this sally of Mr Thach when it was remembered that the subcommittee had adjourned soon after noon and met at 3 o'clock with ten-page typewritten report complete, if not satisfactory in all details.
 .Aud Mir Chairman MT Ilack went on T listened with unwonted interest to the ornate and embellshed if not alto- gether convincing exposition of the report that has been made by the distinguished chairman of the subcommittee. think. sir. that the thanks and admiration of the state committee as a whole are due 10 the subcommittee for the remarkable industry which the latter has displayed. T am inclined, sir" continued Mir. Thaeh, Ito say no more-to let my speech rest right there. But fl occurs to me, MT. Chairman, that the propositions sub nltted by the subcommittee are so ni- portant, so varied so far-reaching and so manifold that they need to be con- sldered somewhat before they are wholly adopted IL occurs to me that they pre- sent to this committee what is nothing less than an innovation, and l am quite sure. MT. Chairman, that the conservative members of this committee-and are nor all Of us, Sir cOnSefNHQNtt-l dlIl uuhe sure, sir, that the conservative members of this committee should at least con- slider, If not ponder these remarkable proportions before they unthinkingly adopt them. l therefore move, MT. Chair man. that we now take a recess till O clock"
 MT. Thachs motion, seconded by Mir. Wimberly was decisively lost, the noes sounding loud and long above the yeas
 RaiIroading Process Begins.
 Then the "railroading of the report began section by section. All debate was promptly cut off by motions to table ob- jections and the opposition appreciating the situation prudently adopted the poll icy of non-resistance. There was no con test regarding the date of primary for the governorship. August was easily pre- ferred apparently by all, 10 April There were. however. serious objections to the plans proposed for the election of various officers and especially regarding the election of United States Senators To- night this and other features of the sub committee report are coming in for Virile and i'm some circles virulent criticism.
 In anticipating, as 1t does, the passing from life of Alabana's two United States Senators and in providing for their sue cessors the adopted report Is being round- lv characterized as ..unbecoming and nn- eemocratic.a II is the talk everywhere and the prediction Is almost everywhere made that the action of the committee will be keenly resented by the great mass of The people.
 Prominent Men Disapprove Plan.
 former governor of Alabama said to- night.
 ''The proposed plan of electing United States senators is based not upon democ- racy but upon population in certain com