The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-01-24
TO REMAIN
 SECRETARY G. C. Dave Gives Out
 Interview. MAY LEAVE CITY wITHMYEAR Reported Resignation is Declared Immature. Hss No Intestion Of Resisnlss seere- tsryshir to which He Was Elect-
 es sy Dirsesers on Thsrs-

Secretary c. c. Dave. of the Com
 merclai Club. said last night regarding
 a report that he would resign his DO
 sitian that 1t was incorrect. Regard. ing t he says:
 | "The Announcement in an afternoon
 paper regarding the possibility of my mature and in order that there may be no misapprehension on the subject
 wish. with the approval of Mir: Fred s. Ball president of the comnaercial lC1ub, to explain the matter fully.
 1T have not resigned from the Com mercial Club. and have no intention Of
 doing so. When the directors met on
 Thursday to elect treasurer and a
 secretaryf for the year. I felt 1t was due to my friends the directors to Ssve
 them full understanding of what might happen within the year in re1a-
 ton to the Southern Commercial Con-
 gresa and thus have them proceed to the election fully informed. They ap- preciated my frankness and reelected me without a dissenting vote.
 "It Is true that I am now occupied in part with the formative work of the Congress. there being laid upon me the responsibility of outlining for the executive committee the. whole broad
 detail of the broadest move ever taken In the United states: outside of g0v- erumental departments; but I am still secretary, of the Commercial Club of
 Montgomery and shall remain so. The directors enacted no pledges of loyal | ty from me. for they wore kind enough to express complete satisfaction with
 my work for 2 greater capital to our great State and to voice the expecta- ton that what had been begun In un- seifish effort for our city would still be carried forward. Perhaps Q DOT ton of my letter to the directors will
 make clear the position occupy
 Through the public press and oth- erwise. you have learned of the prog
 ress that is being made with the or- ganized effort for q greater South, en- titled .The Southern Commercial Con-
 gress." It Is impossible at this date to
 foresee when the executive commit
 tee of the Southern Commercial Con- Egress win be ready for me to under takas the managinE-d E-directorship in Washington, but as matters are pro- gfessing and, I am liable to be called to Washington within the year. be- lieve 1t best to advise you now of this
 possibility. 50 that steps may be 'un- l.dertaken for providing secretary to carry on the work of the club here. 1n the meantime. If it meets with your
 approval, I win continue to do the
 cltb'th work. until it becomes neces.
 sary for me to move.
 1 You gentlemen may have learned
 during the year to understand the mo.
 tives that have prompted my work ir
 the, South and you will believe me
 therefore. when I state that notiIine
 could induce me to give up promotion work, My only willingness to take the manag g-directorship of the Con- tgresa was because it Id along the line | of Southern development, and not dis
 tinct from Southern development.
 ''The Southern Commercial Congress will he an Organization of all organ ] izations in the South and able to do l through this united force. more than
 any one individual organization can dc
 to lift out of the way. the obstacles
 that lie before rapid Southern recogni-
 be- directly along the line of this and l'other clubs, but an amplihcation of the
 work necessary to a greater South.
 'As long as I live, shall be grate-
 full to- the directors of this club for
 their kind sympathy and support in the work done here, and both Mont lgOmery and Afhbama will always oo- cupy place of warmest affection in
 my heart Though shall move to
 Washington some time this year, 1t is
 my determination to remain a citizen of Alabama and to retain here my vct. ing rights; for only through this place and State have come to an under betanding of the South ana what it needs iu organized effort and sel9- Knowledge. to bring it to it's own" 'krt
 The MaxAeweP fs in Pensacola bat
 we will send yea four quarts of it for