The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-04-06
IS A DEARTH
 OF INTEREST Little Attention Paid
 State Primary. NOVEL FEATURES OF PLAN Chief Interest Centers About
 Justice Race. 60 Little Interest is Felt within the Party on Elections and Dele gates Claim Is Made That
 Pisn Is Failure.

The only interest taken in the com ing State primary of May IS IS the Tn terest which centers about the seiec' tlon of two members of the Supreme Court of Alabama Even with that u is the duliest primary ever held In the State.
 There is abso' l'ely no interest paid in the primary for delegates to Dem yer and Democratic electo;s. There will, of course be full held or canoI- dates for delegates. yet they are mighty slow in getting into the race. As to electors-it is expected that there will have to be some conscript- ing. In several of the Congressionai Districts no candidates have onereo' In all districts they have been notaoIy slow. As for Alternate Electors anu Alternate Delegates nobody knows where they will come from.
 This is the first time in the history of the Democratic Party of Alabama that delegates and electors have been selected in a primary. Heretofore county primaries have been held and delegates selected to go 10 state convention which nominated delegates to the National Convention and cleo tors. to be voted for on the ticket Tn November. But precedent was over thrown by the Committee which plain iy declared its purpose to go the limit on the primary plan. Their opponents begged for a conveption for nominat1 ing National Convention delegates. but their begging fell on deaf ears. Their opponents argued that the convention could not be abolished and pointed out that tho delegates when selected in the primary would be selected to go to a convention. fer the gathering af Denver would be first. last and all the times, convention.
 Tn view of the dearth of candidates and sn view of the refusal of several well known Alabarsians to enter primary to become a delegate to Den. yer, the opponents of the primary With in the party lines are already claiming that the plan is a failure. Be that as is may, electors and Denver delegates win be selected in a primary.
 From the State at Large the candi- dates for the four places on the ticket will be John ". Tomiinson, Rufus N. Rhodes. Captain E. W. Booker. Con- gressman J. Thomas Hefiin and Con- grsesnaan H. D. Clayton. Chairman H. Committee steadily refuses to permit the use of his name. He was an out spoken opponent of the overthrow of the old custom and traditions of the party
 In the Second District. the candi- dates will be it is said Solicitor S. If. Dent, Jr.. of Montgomery. Representa- tive J. Lee Long. of Butler and J. C.. McLendon, a lawyer of Montgomery.
 On the ticket to be voted for in May, there will be two candiates who will have no opposition. President Charles Henderson, of the Railroad Commission will make his race unopposed and State Game and Fish Commissioner John H. wallace will go back into his place without opposition.
 The big contest in the primary and the one which Is monopolizing its in- terest is in the race for two places on the Alabama Supreme Court. By reason of the withdrawal of Judge Jonathan Haralson, 1t is certain that there will be one new member of the court. Judge R. T. Simpson. of the present court, Is candidates are Judge John M. Chiffon. of Montgomery; Judge J. T. Mayneld, of Tuscaloosa; Judge A. H. Alston, of Clayton; Judge J. A. Biibro. of Gads- den and Senator John A. Lusk of Marshall. Several of the candidates travels they have covered large Fart of the State.
 notable feature of the coming pri- mary Is the instructions to be given in the primary as to how the Alabama delegation shall vote in the Denver convention. On the application of Euficient number of voters the name or names of Presidential candidates will be printed on the ticket and the candidates receiving the highest num- Der of votes will have the Alabama delegation instructed for him.
 The provision was inserted in the primary plan by the friends of Will liam Jennings Bryan. MT. Bryan will get the Alabama delegation without opposition.