The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-09-10
Wants to Control State
 Committee. DEMOCRATS FILL THE CITY Reed Barnes Will Be Permanent
 Chairman.
 - Tyson win Re Nominated for Chief gustice--Frank White Has writ- ten the Platform Which En- dorses Bryan.

It was evident at midnight last night that the Conner forces would insist on part of the program adopted at the Birmingham conference. and in doing so will precipitate fierce factionai fight in the State Democratic Conven- ton. which will meet at noon today in the Auditorium.
 It has been decided not to make an attempt to jam the full program through. As adopted by the Birming- hsm conference. 1t was too radical for the convention to stand and the senti- nent Of the delegates was made so clear last night that decided nodi- fication was made If 1t by the Conner leaders. The belief that the Conven- ton would subserviently adopt any suggestion which came out Of the Conner headquarters, attested officially by the great seal. proved erroneous. An unexpected independence on the rart of the delegates was encountered. The delegates were not unwilling that Mir. Conner should have a majority of the members of the State Committee. but they would not stand for the frank and bold effort to make the committee wholly a partisan and factional body. It was made clear that the convention was not willing that every Democratic precedent should be overridden in or der that Mir. Conner should have perfect and absolute control of It.
 To Control ComEnittees
 As adopted at the Birmingham con ference, the program called for the in crease of the State Committee from tIiirty-six to forty-fIve members, 1t, moreover, provided that the nine extra
 e1bers of the Committee should De
 from the State-at-large. It
 -avided that in the selection
 >rs of .he committee dis-. be wiped out and the
 ~tmittee should be
 of the conven
 lowevet. that
 fiet members
 he convention.
 med to the dis-
 was that plan to
 Alabama that the su, Conner, after look ing 0, nd, hurriedly decid- ed to cl4. The temper of the delegates We plainly in opposition to the undemoC. atic principle aimed at home rule that Mir. Corners leading supporters in conference at the Ex- change Hotel hurriedly agreed to a change. But their open purpose of making the committee subservient to Mir. Conner was not changed. They could not do this by overriding Dent ocratic custo mand destroying Demo- cratic precedent. They discovered early that they had made a tactical mistake hnfr fn form them on another plan of attack. The original purpose to get control of the Committee is still in the minds of MT. Corners leading supporters, but they are going about 1t in a more adroit way.
 It Is goirg to be a pretty fight The men are going to permit the Comerizing of the Committee only over their dead political bodies. They ere going to fight the issue out to finish on the floor of the convention. Efforts were made by both sides last night to reach an agreement whereby a floor fight on the convention would be avoided, but nothing came of the efforts. When the big crowds which thronged the hotel Hobbies last night separated. both sides were pluming for & fight.
 According to the notifications of the Conner plan. as forced by the exigen- cies of the situation, the extra nine men. although they are to be from the State at large, will be apportioned to the nine Congressional districts. The delegations from these nine dis tricts will meet, each to itself, and recommend four from each district and these fQpr men will be elected by the The districts will be ask cd also to recommend one man from each district for member from the State at large.
 a But the Cunningham men in. the con- vention will stand out for the old sys- tenn and the old custom. They will contend on the floor that the Committee should be selected as 1t has always been selected and if Mir Conner has a majority, well and good. But they will object to the destruction of every Democratic precedent and Democratic custom that MT. Conner may make his control assured. They will insist that the original plan was changed from the way it was officially given out, for no other reason than the supporters of Adr. Conner found that 1t could not be successfully carried out. They will in- sist that no man is large enough in the Democratic Party to destroy pre- cedence and custom for no other req son than that 1t is expedient for the carrying out of his plan.
 WhAS At M0y meaMs
 The Cunningham men were charging last night that the Conner men were so insistently bent upon controlling the Committee for two reasons; first. that the Committee would be subservient when the Miller and Beddow contest for the Senatorship of Jefferson County comes up; and second, that the Commit tee could absolve the new Governor from his promise to appoint the nom- lnees for Alternate Unified States Sen ators in case of a vacancy. The latter hardly seems probable. but some of the men were expressing their firm belief last night that this was one of the moving impulses back of the attack nthe Committee. and on Dem ocratic precedent. They contended that the claim could be made that the prom Ise from the nominee for Governor was made at the demand of the State Com mittee. and that 1t could be withdrawn at the demand of the Committee.
 Other gossip had 1t that Hon. H. & D. Mallory of Selma. Chairman of the present Committee. would be accorded a place on the new Committee even though the Conner forces were success Iul in their fight. It was stated, how ever, that Mr. Mallory would not be re- sleeted Chairman. This place was to