The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1906-10-14
THE USE OF EMBLEMS
FACTIONS ARE STILL
IN A ROW.
Letter to Secretary OF state
McDavfd Concerning Cam
didates for COngress,

The failure OF the Republican party
of the State of Alabama to file it's
party emblem with the Secretary of
state thirty days prior to the date
OF the coming State election. as pre-
scribed by. law. has led to no end of
party is divided by the contentious of
the "ins" and outs" it has left room
for uncertainty and argument on the
it seems have not been long to arise.
Joseph o. Thompson. Of Birming-
ham. the chairman Of the Republican
state Executive Committee. whose
wing Of the Republican party was DIS
regarded at the convention which re-
Gently nominated Asa F. Stratton for
the governorship. is the first man
to interpose argument in the situa-
tion, since the opinion rendered last
week by Attorney General Massey Will
son that the emblem Of the party can
not. be used on the ticket.
In letter received by Secretary of
State f. f. McDavid yesterday, Chair
man Thompson entered a request that
since the emblem had not been changed
from that adopted and filed two years
ago, that it be permitted on the print
ed ticket over the names of the two
nominees for Congress from the
Seventh and Eighth districts. That it
cannot be used over nominees for State
offices he recognizes: but contends
not be considered under the same head.
In the event, however, that the Secre-
tary of State should not agree with
him. he asked that the names of the
nominees Charles B. Kennemer and DR..
j. T. Masterson. be printed in a sepa-
rate column. to place them under diff
ferent party consideration from the
State ticket put in the field by the Da-
wilson wing OF the party. which Is op
posed to the wing of which Chairman
Thompson is the leader.
In his reply. Secretary of State Nc
David stated that the emblem could
copies OF the same shall be filed with
his office sixty days before the cleo
ton. This was not done. The request
for separate column for the Con-
gressional nominees in the Seventh and
Eighth districts was refused because
the certificates of nomination indicated
that the aspirants for Congress had
been selected at Republican gather
ngs and the state official could not
discriminate between the disrupted fac
tons of that organization.
The letter of Chairman Thompson
to Secretary of state McDavid follows;
Birmingham. Ala. Oct. IL, 1905.
Hon E. r. McDavid,
secretary of State,
montgomery. Ala.
Sir: I beg to direct your attention
to the fact that the Republican party.
through this committee. has now on nile
in your office a party emblem which
has not been changed.
BY reference to section o. OF INC
Acts of 1908. page 461, you will note
that the law provides as follows:
THE emblem once adopted, pre-
pared and filed as aforesaid. shall con
Time the emblem of the party adopt
ing the same until it is changed by
the same or like authority as prepared,
adopted and filed. the original emblem:
and the changed emblem, as prepared
and adopted. is fled and accepted by
the Secretary Of State as in case or
the original emblem.
You have already decided that the
emblem proposed to be filed by the
Davidson faction. could not be filed,
because not within the time prescribed
by law.
file in yOCr office except the one filed
therein by this COMMITTEE two Years
ago.
Since there are no nominations for
state officers made by the party ill
ing this emblem. there, of course. can
he no emblem used for state officers.
I desire, however, to call your attcn-
ton to the fact that the following per
sons have been nominated for Con
gress by the same party heretofore FL
ing the said party emblem with you,
as follows Charles B. Kennemer. nom
inee in the Seventh Alabama District,
and DR. ]. T. Masterson, in the Eighth
Alabama District.
The premises considered, | respect
fully ask that you certify to the vari-
Gus Probate Judges in the above Con-