The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1906-10-06
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LILY WHITES DENIED USE OF
| PARTY EMBLEM.
DIR. J, A. Hurst, Repudiates His Nomi-
nation For Lieutenant G"ver-
nor and Is a Candidate
Against His VIII.

The DEVELOPMENTS yesterday In the
row between the two factions or Ala
bama Republicans were the declinatlon
of DIR. ]. A. Hurst. of Walnut Grove
date for Governor by the Lily Whites
and the filing of an opinion by At
torney General Massey Wilson that the
Republican emblem wos not certitled
to the Secretary of State in legal time
to be printed on the Republican pai-
lots.
Both of these developments are re-
garded as favorable to the Black ana
tan faction of the Republican party In
Alabama, the faction that Is now In
control. This faction met in Birming-
ham and resolved not to put out
State ticket The Lily Whites. led by
Jules Davidson. met in Birmingham
and nominated a ticket headed by A.
L. Stratton, of Montgomery, for Gov
ernor and DR.. J. A. Hurst OF Walnut
Grove, St Clair County. for Lieuten-
ant Governor
Yesterday morning DR.. Hurst, who Is
a State Senator, representing the Sixth
District. wrote letter to Secretary or
State McDavid protesting against the
use of his name on the Republican
ballots and saying that ne had not been
nominated by the regular party ma
chinery and in a regular way. There
not to have his name printed on the
ticket.
AS the law provides that persons
nominated and certified by parties as
candidates must formally resign, the
Secretary of state wrote DR.. Hurst
that he would use his name on the Re-
publican ticket us a candidate for
Lieutenant Governor. unless his resig-
nation as such reaches the Capitol to-
day.
The law requires that all entries
must be closed and that preparation
Of the ticket must begin thirty days
before the election. which is today,
Failing to get his resignation as a
candidate to tho Secretary of State to-
day, DR.. Hurst must tile resignation
as such with each OF the Probate
Judges of the sixty seven counties OF
the state or be continued as candl-
date. Within twenty days OF the cleo
ton Probate Judges may take name
| off the ticket when properly authorlz
| ed to do so.
II will be remembered that Erastus
]. Parsons. United states DISTRICT At
torney at Montgomery protested
against the use of the Republican en-
bIem filed several days ago by the
| Birmingham meeting OF Republicans
that nominated the Stratton ticket.
| The point was raised that the law
| required the emblem OF Il parry W p'
filed with the Secretary OF state SIX
| tI days in advance of an election. IN.
| ticket of a party must DE- IN the once
of the Secretary of State thirty days
| before an election.
| Secretary of State McDavid asked
| the Attorney General for an opinion
and the Attorney General yesterday. IL
| "A lengthy review of the matter. de-
cides that the Republican emblem cah-
not be printed on the ballots. but
| that the ticket can be printed and
designated as a Republican ticket.
| Concluding his opinion Attorney Gen
eral Wilson says:
| The certificate of nominations OF
| State officers above referred TO was
! filed in proper time. The nominations
| purport to have been made at a mass
meeting of the Republican party. Inc
| certificate complies with the statute III
all respects. No other certificate OF
nomination has been filed with you
| on the part of the Republican party.
You are informed by Joseph o
Thomson. Chairman. and n. l.. steele
secretary of the Republican state
| Executive Committee of Alabama. thar
the said committee in convention as
sembled on September 25th 1906. voted
and determined for the SAID RepuoH
| can party not to put out State tlcK-
ct or make nominations for state ON
| Gers in the coming state elections, anu
| protest is made against the use OF the
original Republican party emblem.
| NO Republican emblem car =" used
| or the reasons before pointed OUT A