The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-08-12
STORMY MEETING
MR. COMPTON USES HIGH HANDED
 TACTICS.
Chairmen of Various School Districts of Mnrengo County in Big tumble. Election HeIa Without
 Camusom.

-@a41~eA*M-@-@@ Linden. Aug. ii--{special.) )--The chairmen of the various School Dis tricts in the county. met at the court house at Linden on last Saturday. The meeting was called to order by S. W. Compton, County Superintendent A committee of three on credentials was immediately announced without having elected a secretary or having made any enrolment of members entitled prima facie to seats.
 Mir. J. E. Perkins offered. as q sub- stitute, the names of i've members as the Committee on Credentials. Mr. Compton declared Mir. Perkins out of order. and refused to put the motion on the substitute. He then declared the meeting adjourned untn 1 o'clock. at which time the committee he had ap- pointed on credentials would be ready to report.
 The committee was, however. not furnished with any data in the interim from which to make their report. At about quarter past one the meeting was again called to order, and the committees on credentials was furnished with the names of parties said to be eligible to membership. A. ter considerable delay the committee A as being eligible to seats. leaving out quite number of members who were present, and who claimed that they had been duly elected chairmen. and had sent In to the Superintendent their nafnes as chairmen. receiving from him certificates of their election.
 Mir Compton then directed that all the members whose names were read out by tho committee come within the bar of the court room After this some member offered motion that all mem befs present who would state on oath that they had been properly elected chAirmen of their local boards of triis- tees be Allowed to participate In the election. This motion Mir. Compton de- clined to put. ruling 1t out of order. Thereupon some member appealed from the ruling Of the chair. and the appeal was sustained by a good majority. A general wrangie eflsued for some time. until the hour for meeting of tho Cir- cult Court had arrived. Judge Lack land huspended the court for an addt- tional hour for the completion of the election, but the general disorder of the meeting prevailed.
 The judge, seeing that 1t would be considerable length of time before the work of the meeting would bo com pleted, requested the meeting to be re- paired to the grand jury room for the further transaction of their business. After getting into the grand jury room, Mir Compton again called the meeting to order and about the same confused condition of the meeting as that held in the court room continued for more than an hour. He then called for all the members whose names had been re- ported by the Committee on Credentials to meet him in hIs offiee in the court house just across the hall from the grand jury room, and that the others should be admitted. After getting into his otice, he placed Mr. W. W. Wynne In the chair as temporary chairman. The motion to admit all members who would take oath that they had been duly elected chairnien be admitted to membership was again renewed, and the same being put by Mir. Wynn was carried by a vote of 17 to Il. Soon af- ter this, Mir. Compton put motion to adjourn, which was lost by about the same vote as the last named motion. Mir. Compton declared the meeting ad- jcurned and left the room together with eighteen members. there being fifty-two members remaining.
 Mir. ". ". Wynne was elected per- manent chairman and Mir. H. F. MaIIe, secretary. On motion T. S. Low ry, B. F. Glider, L. J. Jones and W. W. Barr were elected by exclamation as members of the County Board of Edu- cation for Marengo County for the next ensuing four years. Certificates ot election were Issued to the said mem- bers of said board, the same being signed by the chairman and secretary, and the meeting adjourned, sine die,
 
 The criminal cases are being dls- posed of in the Circuit Court in quick order. So far five defendants have been sentenced to the penitentiary for terms averaging more than five years; one for four years, one for three years, two to hard labor for six months each, and one for one year. The fines will amount to more than $1,000.