The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-06-30

terward He had gone into the first. and seeing Mir. Brown seat Mir. Yorks in tho chair as secretary of the meet ing, had declared in loud voice an- other meeting in a lumber yard ad- joining. and there had held another election.
 It was at this point that the con- troversy over the political principles of MT. Yorks came out. The marshal declared the person in question had voted the Republican ticket for fifteen years When MT. Merrill asked him whether 1t was not a fact that the par ty had had to buy him at every cleo tion for the last four years, things looked sQually. Chairman Mallory poured oil on the waters, however, and the interrogation continued. J. w. Pounds, of Beat 8, Cleburne County, said that to the best of his knowledge the delegation elected to the convention in his beat was Irregular. There were forty-three ballots cast and some eight or nine of these were cast by persons who had not the right to vote. If their votes had been expunged, another ticket on which his name ap- peared would have been elected. When asked by Mir. Merrill whether he would abide by the action of the State Committee, he replied he had new CT refused to abids by the decision of the Democratic Party in his beat or county. Pressed further, he said he thought he would abide by the com mittee's decision.
 Question of Democracy. At this point J. B. Christian, of Perry, started a debate by declaring that 1t was due the committee to know whether the contestants would abide the decision of the body. As for him, he believed in sticking to the organization.
 q have been brought up to believe in that sort of thing" he declared. | His remarks caused ripple of ap- plause among the members. He was followed by A. H, Merrill, | of Borbour, and Leon McCord of Marshall, who spoke to the same ef- feet.
 Tipton Mullins. of chilton, urged that an answer to the question should not be pressed.
 we are going on the assumption, that everyone interested in the con- tention Is a good Democrat" he said.
 At this juneture. w. B. Merrill jumped to his feet. can say for myself" he said. that I shall abide by the committees de- cision, whatever 1t is. I am a Demo- crat."
 Only one witness was called by MT.
 Merrill in his belief. w. c. Porter,
 temporary chairman of the convention,
 gave his version of that meeting. It
 differed in no respect from that of the Hurst witnesses, except that he de-
 nied he had declared the judge out of
 order.
 Tn reply to a question from Judge
 Almon. he said it had been the custom
 in Cleburne for several years for the chairman of the executive committee
 to name the temporary chairman of
 county convention. He was willing to
 abide by the decision of the State Con-
 mittee, and in the event of an adverse
 decision, would support the candi-
 dates chosen at a primary for office.
 Under cross examination he denied that he had declared Judge Hurst out of order. "I said, The convention will come to order'" A brass band out side the convention hall had creaSd considerable confusion. and he might have been misunderstood.
 With the conclusion of Mir. Porter's testimony, MT. Merrill rested his case. announcing that he would close his case without argument. Judge, Hurst made his argument. drawing especial attention of the committee to the al- leged irregulartties in the elections of convention delegates. {. @aT
 The committee went Into executive session at this point, remaining in con- sultation for half an hour behind closed doors. At o'clock the com mittee adjourned. It was given out that the decision in favor of the exec uttve committee chosen hy the regular convention, with MT. Merrill as chair man, was practically unanimous