The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-02-16
REPUBLICANS
 HAVE A SPLIT Two District Conventions Held at Eufaula. BOTH SIDES MAKE CLAIM Referee Scott Present and Claims
 Regularity. usssrs. TrsmmelI snd snish Dsaders of The opposing Factions Unite in
 MakinE Circamstantial Astatement.

Ethe Third District, the first to be held Ktthis year in Alabama, was held yester- 3day at Eufaula, and wide split re- F suited ebtween the Scott and the Thompson factions. Two delegations will be sent to the Chicago convention, and the way paved for other splits in
 Captain Charles H. Scott. President iai Referee reached the city last night from Eufaula, where he attended the convention. He declared that his con ventfon was the regular" convention, called to order by S. NJ. Murphy, prtn- cipaI Of the negre schools of EufaulA and the Chairman. of the Third Dis- trict Executive Committee. The Com .unittee was regularly organized. He further claimed that only nine dele K gates took part in the other convention, of which Postmaster Byron Trammell sof Dothan. was the moving spirit lie deriares that in his wing of the party aconvention there were present twenty Beven delegates.
 on the other hand, Postmaster Tram. mefI of Dothan. and Postmaster D' B smith, of Opeiika, who also reached lne &scify, gave out circumstanuai account account x3of the convention in which they ciaAln 10 have participated and whicn thsy eay is the regular" convention M Ths Scott convention elected two oei- exafes to the National Republican Con 4IWDHft0n 1fraua the Third Congressional DistrlcL arha delegates are s. NJ Murphy or 6ar- Nbo,ar County. and c. M. Cox or Dale Nxsoslnty. The alternates selected are A. #C. Walter of Bullock County and .. 6 McGriR of Houston County
 Aside from the defection of the Houston County delegation, the fea- ture of the convention was the adop- <tion of a resolution complimentary to William H. Taft. All expressions on khis score were, however. very circum- speet. and while the resolution was or a Complimentary nature and the .ad- tninistration was endorsed. the dele katas go to Chicago uninstructed
 The faction headed by Mir ~IrAmmel did not so into the, convention at all and 1t is said did not respond to the oficfal call of the Executive a&eHMN&tN ess. but held a meeting simultansously in a different hall on their own ac- count. This element, strange to say, named as one of their national deIe- gates, Prof. Murphy of Barbour Coun- ty. who was the choice of the other conyention, but selected as the second delsgats Postmaatef D. 8. smith of Opelika.
 1t is known thaA there were two con- testing delegatiohs from Lee County but as only one of the delegations pre- sented themselves to the convention only that one was recognized. Thus khereswere no contests heard. It 10 un- derntoed that there was also one mem Der from Henry County ip- the. factiof which withdrew,
 The ScoA convention assembled at npen and lasted for more than two hours.
 < Nessrs TrammelI and Smith last night gave out the following account of their resolution:
 2 @The District Committee of the Third sCongressional District of the Republi- saa pa rfV at fa IvffF in the City of Eufaula on the night ot February IA, 1908 at g p. m. A majori- ty of the District Committee were present and appointed committee of two of its members to call upon the chairman and request him to preside over it's deliberations. Next morning the Chairman, S M Murphy was re- quested by the Committee of two so appointed by the majority of the Dis trict Committee. to preside over its de- Alterations. This request, the Chair man, S M. Murphy refused. Thereupon the majority of the District Commit tee who were present organized the District Committee, selected a presiding officer and Secretary and proceeded with such business as might properly come before that District Committee. The first thing that was done was to pass a resolution. which was duly seconded and passed. revoking the power and authority of S. M Murphy to appoint a committee of three from the District Committee to select tempo rary officers of the Convention and to pass upon any contests that might come up from any county in the District, which said power had heretofore been given to said Murphy by former reso- lution of said District Committee
 "Ae resolution was then duly passed by the District Committee that s. Nj. Murphy should be notified of this action. which notice was served upon him before Murphy called his con yention to order. A motion was then made in the District Committee nomi- hating Frank Slocum to be temporary Chairman and J. w Matthews for Tenn porary Secretary of the Convention for the Third Congressional District to be held at Eufaula, February Is, 1908. This motion was duly made, seconded and passed by the Committee A com nittee of three was appointed by the District Committee, upon proper motion made, seconded and passed. to make up temporary roll of the delegates to the District Convention who are entitled to seats on the floor temporari- ly of the District Committee. This Committee of three made up a tenn porary roll of delegates entitled to seats from the delegates who reported present, This Committee gave notice to all the delegates present that 1t was making up a temporary roll, and re- ported its action and the roll of dele gates back to the full District Commit tee, which report was read, received filed and approved as the temporary roll Of deleRates entitled to seats on