The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-06-12
DENVER B|G FOUR
 NOT YET CHOSEN Delegation From Mississippi
 Slew In Formation PLANNING 10 HOLD COTTON Members of Mississippi Farmers Union Will Hold Special Meeting.
 pr. Rowland Is Collecting
 Facts on Life of Davis.
PLANNING To HOLD COTTON

l of the democratic leaders of the state l just now. The state convention Is due 1 to be held here on June IT, and there
 has been little or no discussion a to the personnel of the delegation till the
 past day or two. It has heretofore been the custom to select the two United States senators. the governor l and an ex-governor but this time tn ere are practically three United States sen ators and two ex-governors, al well as governor
 It has been suggested that Senator
 Money. being in bad health will not desire to attend the national conven-
 ton, and that he will use his influence
 to have ex-Governor Vardaman sent to the convention as one of the state-at- large delegates. In the event that Is
 done the delegation would consist of Senator A. J. McLaurin, Senator elect
 John Sharp Williams Governor Noel and Ex-Governor yardaman. No other ! names have been mentioned in this con- nection and this slate will be accepted no doubt, in the event Senator Money declines to attend the convention. Sh ould Senator Money express a desire
 to go to Denver there is more than likely to be a very lively scrap for a place on the delegation between John Sharp Williams and yardaman before the state convention.
 It is possible that Senator McLauri1
 will not want to go to Denver but it is believed that he will accept the com-
 mission and go if elected as one ot the delegates from the state-at-largA
 The trip to Denver is long and tiresome one, and Mississippi never dil
 want to go there to hold the national convention. For this reasoz and be- cause of the cost of making the trip the democrats of Mississippi are not
 going to be found clambering over each other in their efforts to get to the national convention, and the great majority of them are utterly uncon-
 cerned as to who shall be the dele gates.
 | G. R. Hightower of Oxford, president of 1 the Farmers union of Mississippi has
 called a meeting of the county presidents
 of the organization to be held in Jackson
 on July 8, and has written each sub 1 official a personal letter urging hls at
 tendance.
 1 The purpose of this called meeting is 10 discuss the policy of the organization during the gathering and marketing season, with special attention to the per- | centage of the cotton crop that is to be | held back in the event prices are lower fan fn.. tl,;. .Iy. they should be. The system of holding | cotton for better prices is in it's infancy as yet. The movement was started last fall, and while thousands of bales were held, it soon transpired that there were not sufficient warehouses in which to l hold anything like the number of bales necessary to have the effect desired on prices
 Word comes from every section of the state that cotton warehouses are now going up Tn every town of any importance By winter there will not be a county ill the state where there is no warehouse Ten or 12 have been chartered during the past month, and several others are build ing under charters granted a year ago.
 The farmers are in first-rate shape finan- cially and they are subscribing literally
 tc the capital stock of the warehouses,
 so that there is no doubt that the ca- pacty of the union to hold next winter will be twice or three times what it was last winter.
 Arrangements have been made with sev- eral of the strongest banking institutions in the state to advance all the money 
 union to hold the distressed cotton that may be placed on the market-cotton that is under deed in trust for supplies rents
 etc, and if plans are carried out as formed the cotton holding movement will
 be felt even unto Wall street six or eight
 months hence.
 Dr. Dunbar Rowland. director of the department of archives and history Jf i Mississippi has formulated a plan by which he hopes to collect great deal of information bearing on the life and
 character of Jefferson Davis, and ;li l which he invites the cooperation of the l press of the country, regardless of sec
 tional lines or prejudices.
 l Dr. Rowland has sent to l50 leading newspapers and magazines of the country
 letter of explanation of what he wants l and desires, in which is the following | paragraph:
 | In order that those who interested | may know the kind of papers wanted, it l may be well to state that all writings l of MT. Davis, public private, official i or unofficial, in manuscript or printed ] form, worthy of preservation and are l desired In. other words, any paper m l his hand writing. or signed by him, is 1 of value. The papers which are apparent | ly of the least value may give impress s;ons which are of the greatest histori- cal importance It has been truly said that the account books kept by Washington
 and Jefferson have afforded to historians an insight into their habits and character istics which could not have been obtain
 ed from the Declaration of Independence 2 or the farewell address. It may be gath | cred from this illustration that the pri- | ate papers of great men are by no means unimportant to the historian" Dr Rowland states that the demand for the collection and publication of the 1 writings and speeches of MT. Davis has
 become so insistent among historians that the Mississippi department of archives and history has been prompted to collect
 and publish them.
 Tn his mail today Dr. Rowland received
 letter from Judge Brown of Kentucky
 iu which he stated that he had a personal | letter from Mr. Davis accepting an invita- | tion in 70 to visit his old home at Fair- view and that he took dinner with him in the log cabin in which he was born. The ,udge would not part with the original | letter for any consideration, but will doubtless forward the certified copy which will answer the same purpose.