The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-04-27
REPUBLICANS WILL
 MEET ON JULY 12 Full State Ticket to Be Put in
 the Field ADDRESS TO THE VOTERS Party Men Urged to stay Out of Demo- cratic Primary and to Cooperate in Building Up Strong
 Republican Party
ADDRESS TO THE VOTERS

Calling a state convention for July 12 and adopting rules for the nomina- ton of full state ticket, the republi- can state executive committee yester- day afternoon adjourned with an ad- monition to all republicans to keep out of the democratic primary.
 The committee was in session about two hours. Some time was taken up with the selection of a date, July F | being finally selected for the conve- nienee of the farmers. Dr. George R Lewis of Bessemer was elected to fill the place on the committee of John T. McEniry, resigned. It was notice able that pr. J. W. Hughes, former opponent of the organization, held a proxy and took part in the delibera- . tions.
 Maj P. B. Barker of Mobile, who manages state affairs jointly with ,. | O. Thompson, was elected chairman in the place of Chairman Thompson, wh Q could not attend on account of his in juries.
 | Resolutions were adopted indorsing the administration of President Taft, expressing sympathy with Chairman Thompson in his suffering, and indors- ing the joint administration of the af- fairs of the party by P. D. Barker and J. o. Thompson, expressing con- fdence in their loyalty and leader | ship.
 The committee in another resolution made a bid for all factions of the | ar+t ,lI 4l,a ;,,I T ent voters to unite with them and par ticipate in the convention A commit tee, consisting of P. D. Barker, J. O. Thompson, O. D. Street and George Byers was appointed to draft a suit a ble address to the people of the state This was given out yesterday after noon.
 ITO the republicans and other patriotic
 people of Alabama:
 | Tn advance of the approaching dem ocratic primary we desire to assure the people that it is the purpose of the re- publican party to place in the field this year a full state ticket and to urge all loyal republicans and all others who wish to assist us to abstain from participating in the immediate primary.
 Tn this connection we call attention to the rigid qualifications and pledges ex- acted, with the exception of one district. l. is required not only that one must have voted the democratic ticket in the last election, but must pledge himself to vote it entire in the next election. It will be urged in season and out of season that the voter in this primary has honorably bound himself to support the nominees, regardless of what their platform and their personal characters and records may be. They seek by participation in this primary to pledge the political fealty past, present and to come of every man in Alabama to the democratic organiza- tion, regardless of both its men and it's measures.
 If we of the south are ever to arise from the political slough in which we have long foundered and resume the proud position we once enjoyed in the government of this nation, we must free ourselves from many of the party shaclxles and traditions which have bound us in the past and which still bind us.
 'It cannot be denied that for nearly half century all political questions and all political contests have been determined in the south from the purely local stand point.
 Can anyone imagine such a thing as president being chosen from any south ern state so long as present political conditions continue? In the calculation for votes in presidential contests the dem ocrats figure that it Is unnecessary, and the republicans, that it Is useless to take a candidate from the south. In lesser degree the same consideration enters into every question.
 'The first 75 years of our national life demonstrated that no people ever lived on earth who were capable of greater political conceptions or nobler political achievements Nothing in governmental affairs is impossible with a people who against tremendous odds could wage such military conflict as that which 50 years ago brought imperishabe fame to Amer ican valor. and endurance. But it must be sorrowfully confessed that for more than a generation there has been written over the portal of our political temple the fearful word Ichabod. Thy glory has departed.
 We do not question but that even in recent years the south has sent to Wash ington some really great men, but they have been to degree stupefied by a knowledge that their every act and utter ance would be judged at home in a mar row, and unappreciatlve spirit.
 'It may not be pleasant to be reminded | of these conditions, but recognition and | frank acknowledgement of them is the l first step toward their removal. If we are ever to become again a great and respected national political force we must broaden our horizon, and cease to allow | our minds to be influenced by appeals to local preiudices.
 l "If we have correctly described polit- | ical conditions in the south and in Ala boma, the question is, shall they be all l lowed to continue forever? If not. who | will help to abolish them? Every man can do something to rid us of this mental thraldom in matters political which now afficts and dwarfs the south. He can at least declare his own political freedom by voting for those | men and measures which he honestly | believes to be best. It cannot be truth fully claimed that we have always done this; how often have we done just the reverse and proudly plumed ourselves on tho possession of the wholly imaginary | virtue of having never scratched a | ticket?
 "Others can with voice and pen wield an even more powerful influence in put tins an end to a blghting and whitening