The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-01-09
ALate Primary Will Be
 Ordered. A VOTE FOR SENATOR'S Two Matters Seem to Have Been
 Agreed Upon. Important Gathering VIII Be Called to order At Council Chamber Today At Noon-Great Crowd Is Ai-
 ready Here.

On the eve or what promises ~ DS the most largely attended meeting or the State Democratic Executive com mittee in the history of the body two important actions of the committee were looked upon last night as practi- cally assured.
 First a late primary, primary some time in August, will be ordered for the selection of a Demicratic candidate TOT Governor. -
 Second. the general primary will in- cIude the selection or two Democratic nominees for Senators to succeed Sena- tors John T. Morgan and Edmund W. Pettus: tt5 .
 So much of the action of the commit tee at it's meeting today was tett py the crowd in the hotel lobbies last night to be assured. The advocates Of an early primary came in iast night cher ishing the forlorn hope that something would turn up to help along an Apri urinary but the hope was delusive one. when the lobbses thinred out at midnight last night, and the various leaders who had come to Montgomery had gone to bed. there was no other Feeling but that the committee would order the general primary, selection or Democratic candidates in an August urinary. probably towards the latter part of that month
 4s To Vote For senators.
 If thero was any whit Of opposition to a senatorial primary 1t did not snow itself. The people of the State VIII hsya the same opportunity to vote for United States Senator that theyswih have 5tt,i vote for Governor. The propo- sition for a Senatorial primary, now ever. has several phases more or less important and none of which appeaIeo 10 be decided. In the first place sne con1,ntttee will havesto decide whether .ba senatoriaI primary will be a tigweepstakes" affair, or a simple PIT niary in which only two eandiastes shall be named, By < a fisWeepstShseo s primary'' is meant a primary al Wnlch el4ernate Senatorial candidates are tV hS selected, that is candidates wno sLs to De selected ey the peoP.e novsss,og sra in ir ,he evAut there. is a vancancy. Inis proposition. If 1t is brought torwaru; todav will spring a discussion anu sofne sort of a contest. ,,,
 The Senatorial primary has stiii euother important aspect. VIII the senatorial, candidates oe selected py saaSar;tv of the voters of the State as wboIe. or will the representatives III inc Legislature from each county pc III. .Str,,cted to cast their votes Tor the -anAidates who receive malorttS o the votes of their country rms @ committee is to decide and III oeclu.hs .I.s his question there is chance oi
 sr talk and another contest:
 Big Crowd on Hand.
 rhe biurest advance crowd that ever .s-anohied on the eve Of meetihS oA gbe Executive Committee filled the SoI r,dors of the Montgomery noteIs ttNe n;ght. It was more like. conVenIioi' ts. man A meeting of the ExecotiEe Cou, In- kao o4yA a I,tie. 1athered from every section or p;ahams Men who had been proml- at in nolItics in other years men are prominent in politics pow' ana ",a,, who hope to be prominent Tn poli- p ,sst night, but another large oeies ae'ol' ' nr +o shoulder and elbow 10 eIDow ni ssosteonery's Hobbies and restaurants; Monls hes been a sort of political
 .ana ;n Alabama politics. Tnere mas s,o convention, no comfnttes .,aS oeeu no assembling of the Legis- ,s,,rn iY many months Men "ho no, rAe ,Al .sn,ttics have had to go hungry .i. 1san Mallory's call for tooas s,.it,, th=, gave them chance to hiee'
 boys.' noa Sor tho New -tI.a,.s-a hotel to be given It's poiltlce,l s-antiann- but alas, the nhlshnis r, ~, Ihe handsome lobby or 'i.e tio,' str,ctnre lacked a little Of com t'l i .nd fine Alabama political leaue' Thnrc
 err,anent and abiding home Inete ,l no per araI meeting place as in the Ss.,. nf the old Excnange Hotel. lnere
 os nn siick log" where anyoody wa wa a',rad of seeing and meeting every tsaS., elsA, The big crowd Wnlch as narnbIed on the eve of the committee nneetinc was, by force of cimcuIlsAai'o es. forced to divide itseH. ,,oIIo,
 The lobbies of Montgomery sIlaiiei A,t attractive hotels were hllec .Srouqhout the evening. Flemings .tta ala time gathering place, stlll heIt ;ta charms Rut the man who Wahte. ,o see everybody and get a line on al thai was doing had to fit from note 10 hotel, in hurried trips aCross .1' ,,,' iI.es n,,ite too large for any one hote lobbv to hold it.
 '""N' Meets in Council Chamber.
 Tne committee will assemble todd! ot noon in the City Council Chamne' s, ,rs t,ie. crowd will be further enlarged The DIE .,'a morning trains will hay,
 ,,,a in Birmingham was well repre- n.sd in the advance guard on han' err,,gated iron ware house. It Is tt is looked for today ., |.
 The Committee will certainly o' o,I1nd upon to fill two Vacancles todaS and perhaps more. Ihe Ilst .,a NaCa,it Saat, ,n he filled is that caused by tne deati
 James H. Meigs, of the Sixth Con "l SsJnnsl SS,l District. There are tw, entrants for the place, both wei town young Democrats Of the noun ie' counties. They are Leon McCord s1'" st present Secretary of the suprem Court m and Hugh Nj. White of Centre. orcttv fight has developed betweel i,,ose young men as both are held Il tio bis,b favor by the men who knov them. ~-.,,, .s +ho r,,a,,evtl ,gteisJ Circuit will today submit hi ' Tesignation as member member of ooG.4n the Com n1tt. s that circuit by Governo yoits Jo1s and in consequence of what h believes to be the iudiGial l.t,dr pT9pTety T1,S t5 rto+at Democratic Committee. His pre- Secessor e.ee on the bench, Judge E. B. Al mon will in all probability be name 1es HIn,ou 1t will be recalled. resigne' from the bench to enter upon the prae flee of law.
 If was understood last night tha A.rhanR the committee will be calle'