The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-02-16

the floor of the District Convention. l upon proper motion being duly made. | seconded and passed. Upon proper motion being made that the acting Chairman of the District Committee be authorized and empowered and directed to call the Convention to order. the same was seconded and passed A motion to adjourn the meeting of the District Committee was made. seconded and passed. E@s. ~
 "Thereupon. the Acting Chairman of the District Committee, in obedience to the authority vested in him by the District Committee, called the District Convention to order in the regular way. He announced who the temporary offi- cers were in the regular way and in accordance with the authority given him by the District committee. The temporary officers assumed their offices, Frank Slocum, temporary chairman, and J. W. Matthews. temporary sec- retary. By direction of the temporary chairman. the temporary secretary then read the temporary roll of delegates to the District Convention entitled to seats and announced that the Conven- ton was ready for business. mo- ton was thereupon duly made. second ed and passed to make the temporary officers and the temporary roll of dele gates permanent. The chairman then announced that the permanent organ ization of the Convention had been perfected and that the Convention was ready for business. A motion was then duly made, seconded and passed that the chairman should appoint two com mittees to be composed of three deie- gates each one on credentials and one on resolutions. These. committees were announced by the chairman and re quested to make up their reports. The Committee on Credentials reported back to the Convention that there were no contesting delegations and that It was glad to say that all delegates then on the floor of the Convention were duly and properly elected delegates to the Convention. The Resolutions Commit tee then made It's. report of the follow ing resolutions, which report and res- oluttons. upon proper motion, seconded and passed. were received. hlsd and ap- oroved:
 Resolved by the District Convention of the Third Congressional Convention, ;n convention assembled at EufauIa' Ala:
 First--That we admire the courage ous and unswerving devotion 10 duty of our heroic President and leader Theodore Roosevelt.
 second-That we endorse his admin istration and policies as being for the interests of our people.
 Third--That we endorse the wise ad. minsstration of Hon. !. o. Thompson as Chairman of the Republican State Ex- ecutive Committee of Alabama, and comend him for reelection to that honorable office for the succeeding four years at the hands of the State Con vention.
 Fourth--That the delegates and al- ternates alected to the National Con- vention of the Republican Party to be held at Chicago. H., June Is, 1905, be, l. 44mfW TrtA directed to vote for and use all non orable means to secure the nomination of that peerless leader of men and thought, William H. Taft, for Presi- dent of the United States.
 Firth-That we commend the selec- tion of Hon. Frank IF Hitcncock as campaign manager of Hon. William H. Taft's political Interests and the clean methods lie has adopted.
 Respectfully.
 T. J. TenniIle.
 D. B. Smith,
 J. M. Ellis, a Committee on Resolutions.
 A motion was made. seconded and passed. that the next order of business. were the nominations of delegates, two of which nominees were to De elected as delegates to the next National Re. publican Convention to beheld at Chi- cago, Ill, on June IS. 1908. Thereupon' Fl0 cN0fFInan 6nHOuuCCU bhoN ADt-A-AeAN tiSns were In order. Capt. D. B. Smith of Lee County and S. M. Murphy 0f Harbour County were then nominated and elected as such delegates to the National Convention. and J. W, Mat thews and Joe ". Richards were nom hated and elected as alternates lin the rerulare way. A district ehaiFm4n and Secretary, together with "a S district cornnfittee for the sucoeedingt four years were duly nominated and elected.
 A motion to adjourn sine die was duly made, seconded and passed. The convention then adjourned.
 stiII Another Account.
 Eufauia Feb. 15.-(Special )--The Republican District Convention assem- bled here today about noon and dt- vided before it convened.
 One end, with s. M. Murphy, prin- cipal of the negro school here. and chairman of the Executive Committee, assembled in one part of the Court House, while the other conducted their deliberations in another. The trouble grew out of MuFphey's refusing to re- coRnize certain delegates and 1t was thought for 6 long time the two fac" tions would never become reeonciled. Ike two, however, finally merged into one when the matter of selecting del. egates to the National Convention was discussed and resulted in the selection of Clifford Cox, postmaster at Ozark, and Prof. s. M Murphey of this city.
 State Referee Charles Scott of Mont. Romery was among the delegation and figured conspicuously in the proceed ings of the convention.
 The body was composed of about twenty-five men, eight or ten of whom were prominent negroes Of the dis" trict.
 Full proceedings are in the hands of the stenographer and will not be given out before tomorrow or next day. It was learned that the delegates to the National Convention will go unin- structed.