The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-09-08

to the Convention every fraction of delegate to which he is entitled" The contention of Judge Almon was supported by Mir. Thach Of Jefferson. It was not only the right, but the duty, of the Committee to pro-rate the vote. | 1t could not possibly do harm to any tcandidats The Convention might or might not adopt the operating of the Committee, but it was plainly the duty of the Committee to make the pro- l rate.
 MT Stevens, of Mobile. argued in a | similar strain The Committee was not lseeking to in styuct the Convention That had already been done by the peo- pie through the machinery furnished 1t by the Committee. He had in pre- l vious meeting denied the power of the Committee to instruct Democratic Convention, but this time the instruc- | ton had come from higher source 1 than the Committee. It had come from the voters direct.
 | The motion of MT. Eyster, with it's I amendment by Judge Almon, was then adopted b-- an overwhelming vote. l The chair announced the committees called for by the resolution as fol-
 To Tabulate Returns on State ofi- lcers-W. H. Sanford, Milo Abercrom- 1 bic and A. H. Merrill.
 | TO TaDulate tRe OA (RAASA Justice--T. M. Stevens, R. H. Thach and R. A. Mitchell
 | TO Tabulate the Returns en Assoei- ate Justices-E. B. Almon, J. R. Por- l terfield and B. F. Roden
 1 To Tabulate the Returns on the | Chancery Division--John c. Eyster, w. A. Carter and A. P. Smith. Committee to Hear Contests-H. D. 1 Merrill, c. c. Whitson. A. J. Driver, Leon McCord and George w. Jones Upon the announcement of these | committees the Committee adjourned until 2 o'clock fin the afternoon. ! In the report of the Auditing Com 1 mittee, which was submitted to the | Executive Committee when 1t was call | ed together for the night session, 1t was shown that Judge Tyson had re- | ceired for Chief Justice q total of 45,s6s votes, ana that Judge Weakley Areceived total of 41.7O4. ProsRatIng of Votes. | The majority of Judge Tyson was {! therefore 3.659 votes. The Committee reported further that Judge Tyson had 1 in the convention 3e2.55 votes. while
 Judge Weakley had 2sl.44 votes.
 This part of the Auditing Commit
 tees report was submitted by Judge
 E. B. Almon. He explained that the | Committee had had in itc service ex- | pert accountants and an adding ma- | chine The Committee had done its work laboriously and carefully. Judge AImon explained how 1t was necessary
 under the pro-rate system, to change | some votes to profit and loss." He
 explained this by taking the county
 of Limestone, for instance. In this county, Hon. Thomas c. Mcclellan re- l ceived thirty-nine votes more than majority. The Committee had awarded him the vote of every delegate from l that county, but 1t was necessary that | ( |. t.f.twr -p~fN. ah fn fa as they could not be justly placed to
 the credit of either MT. Mcclellan or any other candidate
 The pro rata of the delegates in the convention as announced by the com mittee was as follows:
 l J. A. Bilbro, 25995; Thomas w. Coleman, 212.72; J. R. oDwdell, 2S718; Thomas c. Mcclellan 2S0.S5; w. L. Parks, 17S.60. The committee report ed that this was the vote as it would
 be cast on the first ballot in the con- vention.
 From these figures It is seen that
 no candidate has a mapority on the
 race will be open, and the delegates
 will get to a nomination as best they
 may.
 OHciaI Nominations. | The report on State officers was sub mitted by Hon. w. H. Sanford. The | committee recommended as result or 1 the primary, that the following nomi-
 nations be declared:
 Governor, B. Conner; lieutenant Governor, H. B. Gray; Auditor, Will liam W. Brandon: Treasurer, w. D.
 Seed; Attorney General, Alex Garber; Superintendent of Education. H. c. | Gunnels; Associate Railroad Commis-
 sioners, Charles Henderson and John
 G. Harris.
 The report was adopted and the nominations were declared by a unan- l imous vote. Not a word was said against the title of Major John G. | Harris, for the nomination he won fer | Associate Railroad Commissioner. 1 The figures presented to the coP.mit-
 tee by the aduting committee, showed | that Henry B. Gray had won for Lieu
 tenant Governor by a handy majority.
 They showed. too, that Frank N. Julian | had gotten more votes than his two opponents combined, while Brandon, for | Auditor, won over his nearest opponent
 by a majority of more than 17,000. l Henderson led in the race for Itail- road Commissioner by the handsome vote of 33,172. Harris came second
 with 29, 500, while Compton, the thivd
 man. received total of 20,72S, more tran 5000 votes separating him from the second man. Major Harris.
 The largest vote on the whole ticke- was that boiled by Senator Morgan. | Hisatotal was S1.l95. The vote Of Sen ator Pettus was 7S,34S
 Brooke Turned Down.
 The appeal of H. Y. Brooke. from crenshaw, asserting his claim to seat on the CrenshaW County delegation. was turned down b ythe sub-commit- tee on contests. After hearing the contest, the committee awarded the place to George Holland. Mir. Brooke
 will appeal to the State Convention. The subcommittee was at work until late hour, oettling the controversy between Jesse Lon gand J. A Huggins, both claiming to have been nominated Sheriff of Walker County. This, more than anything else, prolonged the meet ing of the State Committee
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