The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-03-14
JUDGES MUST GO IN PRIMARY But State Convention Will Nominate. STATE COMMITTEES WORK No Change in Plan of Selecting Senatorial Candidates. nreoks smith Resigns As Committee man and Judge smith, of Eutaw, Succeeds hini.--six Hours
 Session.

The State OeEuOcTdllC yGor 4srday met in the Montgomery City Council Chamber and revamped that part of the whitson plan relating to the selection of Justices of the Supreme Court and provided that instead of selecting the nominees in convention. that they should be selected by pri- mary and then be endorsed by a State convention
 The committee provided candidates for places on the Supreme Court bench should be voted for in the State pri- mary on August 27. but that the win ners in the primary should not receive their nominations until the State con vention had passed upon the primary. It was further provided that no candi- date could receive a nomination unless he had gotten majority of the votes cast in the primary. The plan adopted yesterday by the committee, and which was presented by Judge E. B. Almon of Tuscumbia, declares for a pro rata reps resentation in the convention in ac- cordance with the vote received by the candidate in the primary. that is. each candidate in the convention shall get the credit for the votes he received in the primary.
 Senatorial Plan Untouched.
 There were those who had hoped that the committee would do something with the senatorial Succession" fea- ture of the Whitson plans but they only had their hopes for their pains This part Of the original plan was hNy ha impious hands were laid upon 1t. In fact, not even a suggestion was voiced in the meeting of the committee for any sort of change, affecting the Sem atorial feature.
 It was understood tat, some of the interested onlookers would have the plan so changed that the race for United States Senator and for the sue cession should be a sweepstakes affair with the two highest getting the regu- lar nominations for the two places and the next two highest getting the va cancies should any occur. Others would have had the committee to so change the plan that the vote should be by Senatorial Districts. But the commit tee would hear of no change and its original handiwork still stands.
 The protest of J. Lee Long, of Green vile, against the late action of the Second Congressional District Commit
 
 but the committee took it up gingerly. After spell of oratory the whole af- fair was dismissed and the Second Dis trict primary will be held as ordered unless some new and unexpected move is made.
 To Fix Representation.
 Since the last State Convention Hous- ton County has been created and there- by the boundary lines of Geneva, Hen ry and Dale counties were affected. Moreover, since the last convention slice of Blount County has been cut off and given to Cullman County. All of which interferes with the old basis of convention representation. Where fore, the State Committee raised committee yesterday to fix new rep resentation of all these counties and made Jones Moore of Jefferson chair man of it.
 c. Brooks Smith, who is announced candidate for Auditor, submitted his resignation as me mber of the Com mittee because of that fact. It was accepted and a iaudatory set of reso- lutlons commenting his work for the party were adopted. One or two mem bers of the Committee seeing in this something like an endorsement of MT. Smiths candidacy. handled the reso- lutions rather gingerly, but the Com mittee adopted them by an overwhelm- ing vote.
 The charge that important business was "railroaded" through by the Com mittee at the January meeting can not be brought against the Committee for it's yesterdays proceedings. Ger tainly no 'railroading" was done Ora tory was on tap throughout the day Anybody that had a speech to deliver got it off without any trouble And there were several members of the Committee primed and charged with speeches. Everybody gR a chance
 The silent members lit their cigars. settled back and took 1t easy until the orators should work off their eloquenee. But in one sense at least the Commit tee was said to resemble the United States Senate-7no votes were changed by the oratory.
 The Committee held it's meeting in the City Council Chamber, and it is possible that the association of the place where so much municipal eIo- ouence is regularly worked off had something to do with the surplus ora tory of yesterday. The Committee took A full six hours to do it's work.
 The adjournment was had before 6 o'clock and most of the visitors went to their homes on night trains.
 Thirty Were Present.
 The committee attendance was un- usually large. When Chairman Nal Iory rapped the crowded Council Cham her to order with bur six exceptions inc entire committee of thirty-six were
 On the formal call of the roll by ] Eecretary Pugh the following members were found present;
 First District, W. A. Carter. How and Douglass, J.\J. King, T NJ. Stew
 Second District w. c. Coker, George w. Jones. J. B. Porterfeld.
 Third District, R. H Arlington, H H. Foster. A. H. Merrill.i