The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-02-29
RUNNING FEES MADE KNOWN Assessments of Candi- dates in Primary. FATHER DIFFICULT TASK Campaign Committee in Session at
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The State Democratic Campaign Committee met with just a quorum last night in the Exchange Hotel and after going through the tedious prelimina- ries of interpreting the doings of ths State Democratic Executive Commfttee several days ago finally agreed on scale of assessments for candidates in the pirppmary to be held on May 16.
 The amounts to be paid to Chair man Fl. S. D. Mallory of the Cam paign Committee before the candidates below can have their names printed on the primary ballots are as follows:
 Delegates to the National Democratic Convention: At large (4). 3lc0.
 Delegates to the National Convention from each Congressional District (2), $50: alternates, s1O.
 Electors for President and Vice Press ident: At large t2l, $50: from each Congressional District, s25; alternates,
 Asaoeiats Justices of the Alabarna Eupren1a Court SI5O.
 President of tho Alabama Railroad Commission. si50.
 State Came and rish Commissioner, $50.
 Congressnien, SITS.
 Chancellor of the Southeastern Chan cery Division. SIS.
 Solicitors of the new Judicial Cir- cuik szs.
 The foilcwing members of the Cam pnian Committee were present at last s,srnf meeting: Chairnan H. g. D. {. Mallory, of salrna; [. D. Jeffriea, oK Enffnn: R. IT walker. of Athena. H. Al Mitchell, of Aiabana City, and Gcns sfai pshh Graves, of Montgomery. The nbaaat raashbers were q u. Crunap. tes, 6f caaiitnn; ". D. Neknitt, ex Air. 4 ssl slInnhnm and R. D Erwin. of Mobtia.
 mssf fpvv of xha candidates or preas neo{iva candidates who nra inteFeHtad in fIae aBneaaEnente eixed for them pX ti,a eefsfnittae last night were ta ba saen about the hetai inht evantHGs Tgseig ideas if they had aHYa vars prebabix made iEnpwH psfnFa the err ~ ina 10 Msaksesasry yenteydAy nk sha fsszsr.frsta fsneAFntktee. Thens MEaa gse' ona fa iatetpoee aHg pleas no oAs tS
 Fshsps tfaa 1tsa maa, however, wha. gaaS 9st tha aiasinatiea of beinG tge fsFat candidate ta SC as the state pais iof whs paid his running zee LAsA was f4oE Thenaaa | Haiis os n4oHt- saeeaaFv. m ann0nReed candidate Fer fJsnSYesa from the Second District. Mp, FFn9S mam ea hand at tho eiaae ee tae eaFnEai4tae's asIibeFatieha and tefsdeFsd isia eissah for ttTs. AZ to whether ~ was iH sEdae Go aeeept and atya tiH
  ee4<aiasa for the hensfnittes waHted q breathing spsii before even accepting
 fhIs yeeF's meeting of tho campaign eeasmitfaa furnished . departure from tile work ef previous committees charged with running the state prls sssaFiSe. T7sia was SO on account Of tisa aesartnres from past methods adeptad by the meeting of the State i1nsa.ltiys Committee in the early part af RessFnaYy, Such, for instance was dspFivIng the county committees of the fighk e make asssssnaents on any can- didatss ether than strictSy canuioates fae county ofaces.
 bssldea fixing the assessments of can dldateS was to place all other powers in runnine the primary in the hands af Chairman H. S. D, Mallory, the sage Of the primary system in Ala hama, F5e will issue instructions gen. nrryS ana special to all subordinate iinils of the party in Alabama about fhe Forthcoming election and will be yesponnlbfe for the preparing. print inR and sending out the tickets ana other supplies to the various county eoraYnitteeb. The county primary offi- COTS will then be required to distribute
 The problem of fixing the assess rnents to furnish the expenses of the primary was perhaps more dihicuit one this year than for any previous primary election. Not that tne ex- pensss are going to be higher than ever before. Let not the prospective candi- dates be alarmed on this score. The Campaign Committee last night bent It's most Ingenious efforts to the task of reducing these expenses to a minimum.
 The Committee was trying It's pest Co put every office which Is to appear on the ballot within the reach of every agpirant.
 But the complexities of the task come from the troubles caused by the rather } hasty adoptions of the State Execu- tive Committee which met here several days ago. When the members of the Committee last night sat down and be- gan to pour over the record of acts done by the State Executive Commit tee they found in the minutes some hing they did not know was there. For instance there was the provision for contributing to the various coun- ties a s.pro rata" of the expenses of conducting the primary.
 The members of the committee last night asked themselves what this pro rata should be. Then they asked again and scratched their heads They all agreed that they must fix this pro rata arbitrarily because no one could tell what was going to be charged by the county election officers for carry ing the ballots to the remote precinct voting places in every county. It is likely that the decison will be reached to make e contribution of probably five or ten dollars for each county for the purposes mentioned.
 Some nominal contribution will have to be made in order to follow the man dates of the Executive Committee. It looked like piece of unnecessary reg ulation by the Executive Committee and seemed to come from lack Of ex- perience in handling primaries Tn the past the distribution of the ballots in the various counties has been done practically gratis. But this year the Executive Committee declared that the counties should not asaess any of the candidates for offices that called for voting ln more than one county. m order to compensate. therefore. for this stripping Of the powers of the county Sxooutive committes. proviston about