The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-09-11
for Governor alo s Convention
 Absolutely. ADMINISTRATION OF GOV.
 w. D. ELKS ENDORSED Tyson Nominated for Chief Justic and DowdeIl and Mcclellan
 Associates. Throughout Sessions of Meeting Dom- ination of Gubernatorial Candi- date is CompIete--Opposition Ontnumbered Two to One
 ana is Trodden Un-
 der at Every

The Democratic State Convention nt itself fin any woy on the argument oi government Oy-ns =zhip of Saiiroads. A resolution was introduced In com- mfttee on platform, and recommended by that body to the convention, to the effect that any action taken by tn. convenuon should not in any way bind ft to the government ownership prop osttion.
 Congressman J. Thomas Heain in . minority report on the resolution moved thRt government ownership should be endorsed. After eonsidera- bie discussion, both resolutions were tabled. 8i
 The platform prepared by Mr. Co., mer and his friends was adopted with out chnnge.
 Tine eonyentiOn ndJourned AnaIlv mt IsO5 o'clock.
 Braxton Bragg Conner, in ene Of the liveliest conventions held by the De- mocracy of Alabama since the Popu-
 
 Executive Committee of the Den&- cratic party and tied it to his triumph al chariot along with the Holse and Senate of the Alabama Legislature.
 There were no more political worlds in Alabama for MT. Conner to conquer when the Convection which met at noon yesterday in she Auditorium had adjourned tate fast nighr.
 Out of the mass Of resolutions and How of oratory there emerges the fact that Hon. Hugh S. D. Mallory of Sei- ma is elected to be Chairman of the incoming state Committee, the Com nllttce which was selected and snt on the shelf in Birmingham the otlsr day to await the coming to Montgomery of the Democratic delegates. MT. Mal- Iory was nominated by Captain Frank s. White of Birmingham and his eiec- tion was unanimous.
 Another interesting fact was the enthusiasm with which a resolution was passed endorsing the patriotic and able administration of Governor Jelks. The resolution was prepared by Hon. Henry D. Clayton of Barbour, who asked for a suspension of the rules. This was granted and the delegates cheered the unanimous passage of the
 MR. CONFER IN CHARGE.
 While MT. Conner and his friends held full sway in the convention, m able and aggressive minority made the dominant faction pay the highest price for its victory. Mr. Comcr. him. self, was on the floor of the conVen- tion. here, there and everywhere and his leaders were flying from delegation to delegation. The bugle was blown for every vote that could be summon ed. A minority, intelligent and alert, ran parliamentary rings around the unwieldy majority only to be crushed while fighting to the last For hve hours the convention fought out this. the principal fight of yesterdays con- vention, the fight to control the State Committee.
 MT. Corners victory consisted In having the members of the State Com mittee selected by the convention and in having the membership of the com mittee increased from thirty-six to forty-hve. The new plan is a depar- lure from Democratic custom and Democratic usage and the minority made the most of it. They were no less alert in making the most of the attack the plan made on home rule, but all to 10 purpose.
 The Conner plan went through by a vote of 3S4 1-2 to 223 1-2
 The opposition was willing to consent without a fight to the increase of the Committed. but stood out for the old Democratic custom of selecting from the Congressional Districts. until the fipht was crushed out of them by the final vote
 The prettiest joint discussion that ever q convention sat under, was had on this very question. For the Conner men, Captain Frank s. White stepped for ward and thundered out his phillipics while the courtly and eloquent Edward M Robinson of Mobile. bore the banner of the opposition in the oratorical com hat The Conner men would not gain sav that Major Robinson had the better of the encounter when the two had come together and shivered an orator. ical lance. The address of Major Robin son was one of the finest appeals for home rule. for harmony. for due and inst consideration of beaten minority, that was ever heard In a Democratic gathering in Alabama. His thrusts at his more vehement, more passionate am tagonists were as keen and as true as ever a skilled fencer gave.
 The thing which most set the tongues of the delegates to wagging was the fact that a committee sent out from the hall as a Conner committee returned a straightway Cunningham report. The Conner people to this good hour. do not know haw 1t happened. But commit tee made up of members, two-thrds of whom were supporters of Mir Conner, returned a report that was so strongly against his expressed wishes of dlcta- ton, that his leading supporters grew vehemently indignant at 1t and fired the report back to the committee for another trial
 CAME NEAR LOSING.
 And yet the report which contained the things for which the Cunningham men had been striving. came within an ace of passing through the convention rnd losing for all time the things for which the Conner men had fought through all the convention. While the