The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-02-07
Conner and Others Agree to
This Plan
CONVEN TON is PREFERRED
All State and Congressional Officers
As Well AS Delegates May Be
Selected In the Gen.
eral Primary.
BY HERVEY w. LAIRD.

Montgomery, February 6.-(Special.)-
The prospects tonight are that the state
democratic committee will on tomorrow
call a general primary for alN state and
congressional offices, including the dele
gates to the national convention. Chair
man II. S. D. Mallory and several others
would prefer a convention for selection
of delegates to Denver, but they seem to
be in the minority At a meeting of the
State Bryan club tonight w. 7. Brown
of ST. Clair, ]. B. Ward of Henry and
Horace Hood of Montgomery were named
to select a state campaign committee to
work for Bryan delegates in every dis
trict.
The Bryan meeting was a session of the
executive committee of the State club,
with representatives from practically
every county. The reports were unani-
nous that everybody was for Bryan
everywhere THE idea" said Chairman
Tomlinson. lis to get out as large
popular vote as possible at the Novem-
Der election"
The meeting discussed informally many
question of method or mode, but took
no action that would be taken as an
effort to instruct the state committee.
The object of the campaign committee
will be to get the Bryan men to the
polls,
Consents to Primary.
Though it is said to be contrary to
his Judgment Governor Conner has agreed
to the primary plan for the selection of
delegates to the national democratic con-
the stump in the state for the nominal
ton of William j. Bryan, if the leaders
think this is necessary. At the same
time the governor says that he will not
under any circumstances be a candidate
for delegate at large to the Denver con-
vention.
1t is an open secret that the governor
favored a convention. With it the entire
Bryan-Comer strength could have been
brought to a focus in an all-Bryan dyed
in-the-wool delegation. With pr
there will be some, at any rate
will get in that are not fully +
pathy with the dominant elemen
party. An anti-Comer man indi
feeling when he said today:
favor of trying the issue with
ernOr. Let it all be for Bryf
us have try out and see
strong as ever"
Some Anti-Comer
Conscientious men must
from every indication he
Will be some anti-Comer me-
toriOus ranks of the primary.
the delegation viii be as much
crowd as il would be possible to
gether in any way save by conventls-..
1t was thought by many that the safest
way was to have the convention and let
the members thereof select the delegates
by vote of the entire crowd, as the state
committee was selected However some
of the leaders were committed to the
primary plan and they decided to stand
by it, feeling that anything else would
be backing down.
At meetings here tonight the Bryan
club, with j. w. Tomlinson as the chair
man, decided to put out a campaign COM
mittee to see that Bryan men are chosen
to the convention Every beat will be
organized and the idea is to have none
other but men who will not only stand
by the Nebraskan, but see that a plat
form is made in line with his ideas. Mr..
Tomlinson, by the way, is a candidate
for delegate at large. He has been the
enthusiastic friends of Mr. Bryan for
many years. Capt. E. w. Booker, also
of Birmingham, is a candidate for one
of the places at large.