The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-01-10
Convention to Nominate Justices of Supreme
 Court. IT WILL BE HELD
 ON SEPTEMBER 10. Voters May Select Candidates and Alternates for Federal
 Senate. Districts and Counties May Hold Pri- maries When Committees See Fit. Four Vacancies on the
 state Committee are

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 A sweeping primary to be held Au- gust 27, for the nomination of not only Democratic candidates for. State offices and United States Senators, but for the nomination of two alternate candidates for Senator, men who are to be appointed to the Senate in the event of vacancies was ordered yester- day by the State Democratic Executive Committee.
 A party convention was ordered for September 10. in Montgomery at which two candidates for Associate Justice of the Supreme Court are to be named and members of the Democratic Com mittee are to be elected.
 Moreover. the committee required of each candidate for Governor that he Ihall give written pledge that If elected Governor he will fill any va cancy in the office of United States Senator by appointing the man reconl- mended to him by the people of the State in the result of the primary election of August
 Thus all officials of the State will he nominated In a primary except Jus tices' of the Supreme Court. All prt- mary nominations are to be made by q plurality, not by majority vote.
 Freedom and leeway were Riven the subordinate committees From the Congressional Committees on down authority was given them to order their primary at any time they think best It was further provided. too, that the vote for United States Sem ator should be by Senatorial districts, that Is, both the Senator and tine rep resentative in the lower House should be Instructed as to their vote on the question of United States Senator by the vote of that particular district re- gardless of what the remainder of the s1 " Sss.atseac.t,.,.sn ear yoseYn AS to the qualifications of voters in the Democratic primary the bars were put up no higher nor were they let down any lower. The committee declared that those qualified to have a part in the primary, were all white voters who did not vote against any Democrat in the last election.
 In every sense of the word the meet ing which was held yesterday at noon in the City Council Chamber was one of the biggest meetings the committee ever held. In attendance of members in the attendance of interested lockers on, in the importance Of what was done, the gathering yesterday was per" haps, the most important that the com. nlittee has had in recent years. Ana at inc same time 1t was one of the most harmonious gatherings that the com ulittee ever had.
 The general primary plan adopted IS what Is known as "The Whitson Plan. It was prSDdFSu Dy HUI. Ns V. "A's ron of TalladeEa, the chairman or a spe- rial subcommittee named to prepare ruIes and regulations for the primary He presented the plan to the committee in an able, convincing and eloquent speech. His presentation or the plan and his arguments in favor or IL was In fact a notable deliverance. Ills ad- dress to the committee was in truth an event in the parry history of the State.
 Opponents of the Plan.
 It swept the opponents of the plan on their feet. For there was opposition snoong certain members of the commit fee R. A. Mitchell, O. Gadsden, when Mr Whitson had concluded, got on his fcet like he was going to say some lining stinging and sarcastic. lie stI us rIed a moment or two 10 get hls voice hut knnat he had to say was let unsaiu' Sonehodv on the other side or the snano hroke in and Nh. Mitchell resumed his seat. He contended himself with votinp against the Whitson primary nlan every time he got cnanee .
 R H. Thach, of Jefferson, made the first effort to stem the tide put U was not strong effort. He tried to peat o tre n,an hv the old time honored way of a postponement. The plan was an Iynnortant one; the committee dld not have time to digest it; 1t ought 10 oe considered further and so torth. " "he therefore moved a recess TOT thISs 6ours But MT. Stevens of Mobile saIo ..f ro.~ve to table the motion for post rononent" and Mir Thach's proposition was mashed as flat as a founder.
 Tben came Hon. John F. Proctor IeadinC a forlorn horc. He wanted to strike out tho provisions Tor con vention for Justice or ato 1ne suprst%e sup sort oS . urinary for United States Senators TIa raduoed his motion to writing and that was the last he saw or lt' MT proctor was apparently so appahed ny tbe sentiment of the committee that Sa aid not feel like making a speech ne u @ ra+e the committee laid Mir. At 4nS nootion on the tabe with ease WaIorIty Was TriumPhant'
 That was all tHe opposition had Tbere was nobody to get up on tnt Inor ana fight back the plan after II iloor ao nnt forward Tn the eloquent n'av MT. Whitson advanced It. A teenle ttomnt- was made by the minority eo sound horn and raise rally, pu' tbev never had a call that would sum mons a corpafs guard. ,.t On the other hand the majority "ltI
 DnArs flying, and 70 the music oi na and flute marched forward tC the fruits of vlctorq.
 1,bere was much in the plan to com -,ond If to the favorable consideration
 T ths assembled Democrats. In thu Srst place 1t was first, lasi and all th' .iroe primary & Of course. tn saiection of Justices of the suprem Court was left out of the plan. becaus the committee believed that Suprem Court judicial authority was unsatis Snctory alike to the bar of Alabami and to a majority of the people of tn state. In all else the most arden X ndvocate of primary could not fint N objection to the plan.
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