The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-01-13
STATE COMMITTEE FORMALLY CALLED Will Arrange Primaries and Fix
 Convention Date SELECTION OF DELEGATE Some Opposition to Bryan May De- velop But His Friends Feel Con-
 fident Delegation Will Go h.
 structed for Nebraskan.
SELECTION OF DELEGATE

A formal call for the meeting of the state democratic executive committee for February ', in the city of Montgomery, has been issued by Secretary E. ". Pet tus, Jr., of Selma, and received in Bir- mingham.
 The formal call follows:
 Selma, January Il, 1908. To the Members of the Democratic State Executive Committee:
 You will please take notice that meet ing of the executive committee of the democratic party of the state of Alabama is hereby called to meet at the council chamber in the city of Montgomery on Friday, February :, 1908, at 12 o'clock noon.
 The purpose of the meeting is to take action with reference to the party pri- maries and convention to be held this year, and also for the purpose of transact ing such other business as the committee may see fit. H. s. D. MALLohf,
 Chairman. E. w. PETTUS, JR., Secretary.
 Exclusive of the chairman and the -sec- retary, there are 45 members of the eX- ecutive committee of the state, four from each of the nine districts and nine from the state at large. Of the nine members from the state at large, one is w. D. Nesbitt of Birmingham, associate railroad commissioner.
 Of the members of the committee from the Ninth district, two are Birmingha citizens E, K. Campbell and B. Asbury Thompson The other members are L. H. Nunnellee of Centreville, Bibb eoun- ty, and M. c. Allgood of oneonta, Blount county. Among the members of the com mittee are some of the best known resi- dents of the state, and the body is con- sidered one of unusual dignity
 Purpose of the Meeting.
 As stated in the official call, the purpose of the meeting is to arrange for the state primaries, and to set date for conven- tion, at which delegates to the national democratic convention, to be held in Den yer, will be selected. The state prim aries will be called for the election of two su- preme court judges. While this is an off year in politics in Alabama, it is expected that there will be several prominent men asking for these positions on the supreme court bench. At the last convention, E. K Campbell of Birmingham stated last night, the precedent was set whereby the state officers were to be nominated in primary although they may be elected in convention, this election, of course, being a matter of form. At the primaries, too, delegates to the state convention will be elected, the convention to be called by the executive committee.
 Talk of Instructine Delegation.
 From lote developments in Birmingham it is indicated that there will be warm fight in the convention as to whether or not the Alabama delegation shall be in- structed for MT. Bryan for the presi- dency. An anti-Bryan movement was set on foot sometime ago in Birmingham by Walker Percy and other representative citizens. The gentlemen identified with this movement will work for anti-Bryan delegates to the state convention, and in case of their election these anti-Bryan delegates will work in the state conven- tion for an Alabama delegation to tns Denver convention instructed against MT Bryan.
 However, there was another movement put on foot at the same time in Birming- ham in the interest of Mir. Bryan, and from reports gathered from nearby com n1unities, Bryan is the prime favorite in Alabama.
 Bryan men in Birmingham are free to predict that if the Alabama delegation to be elected in the state convention is not instructed for MT. Bryan it will not be instructed for any other.