The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-09-01
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 ID GET TOGETHER Davidson Writes Letter to Chairman Lathrop SUBMITS PEACE PLANS Object of Warning Factions Is To Pre- sent United Front To the Enemy
 h the November
 Election.
SUBMITS PEACE PLANS

The dove of peace seems to be lowering over the warning republican factions of Alabama. The effort to harmonize the members of the so-called Davidson and Thompson factions appears to have taken on new life since the recent election of Frank H. Lathrop by the Thompson ex- ecutiYe committee as campaign manager of the state. # Both factions have candidates in the field for state officers and the contro- versy as to the regularity of these can didates has even been carried to the courts through mandamus proceedings which were instituted by the Davidson faction in Montgomery.
 It now appears, however, that strong efforts are being made to get together ! in order to present a united front to the enemy in the approaching election. The following letter has been written to Chair man Lathrop by J. W. Davidson: Birmingham, August 51. l90S Hon. Frank H. Lathrop, Chairman, Bir-
 mingham, Ala
 Dear Sir:-Confrming what l said in our conversation Saturday relative to an attempt to harmonize the republican party of Alabama, by uniting all fac tions so as to poll the largest number of votes possible at the next election, I beg to say:
 1. That 1t is the opinion of the attorneys who represent the nominees of the coD- vention which elected me chairman of | the republican state executive commit tee on April 29, 19OS in the mandamus proceedings now pending in the city court of Montgomery, eoneurred in by the vast majority of the republicans of the state | represented at that convention, that the old state executive committee abandoned it's office and authority to further repre- | sent the republican party when it delib- | erately refused in 1908, to call a con- vention or otherwise to provide a means ] of nominating republican candidates for office, this refusal being followed up | by the assembling of a republican mass | convention, pursuant to a published call | made prior to the time of such refusal, which mass convention did nominate re- publican candidates for office and elect ed a new state executive committee which alone conducted state campaign that year for the republican party: and that the new committee thus elected and acting, became the legal republican state executive committee, and that the old committee could not. as it attempted re- sume it's former office or power in 1908.
 ?. Conceding that the state executive committee of which MT. J. O. Thomp- son Is chairman, and which by resolution
 
 paign committee, to harmonize all fac tions, and the attorneys of said commit | tee, are equally sincere in an opinion | opposite to that above expressed, and | believe that the Thompson committee is l the legal organization of the republican | party of Alabama, I am confirmed in the | belief that these differences ought to be adjusted by a consolidation of the two | committees, or upon some other equitable | ha eic hat vii he hut ganization claiming t0 represent the re- ' publican party of Alabama. I, therefore, 1 make you, as the authorized representa- tive of the Thompson committee the fol- | lowing proposition:
 | (a). That you, by virtue of the author- ity delegated to you, issue a call for a meeting of the Thompson committee in | cluding its chairman and secretary. and
 all nominees of both conventions, in which l hope, if made, the chairman and secretary will join, and a similar call for a meeting at the same time and | place, of the state executive committee of which I am chairman, and in which I will join, or will make a separate call as you may prefer.
 (b). That each committee, by resolution upon aye and nay vote. decide whether it agrees to such consolidation, and if each does so agree, that a joint ses- sion of the two committees, to be pre- sided over by you, or some dsnterested person to be named by you, be held and by resolution, approve or disapprove of such consolidation upon an aye and nay vote.
 If this plan is carried out I will re- sign and recommend the election, by the consolidated committee of J. O. Thomp- son as chairman, N. L. Steele as secre- tary. and yourself as chairman of the campaign committee, with full power to complete the same.
 Any arrangement about uniting on a single ticket and a party emblem adopt ed by the consolidated committee and nominees will meet my approval JULIUS W. DAVIDSON Chairman Republican State Executive
 Committee.