The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-08-31
NOMINATE GAMBLE FOR JUDGESHIP IN
 SECOND CIRCUIT  State Committee Takes Action Over Protest From Coun-
 ties of Circuit
COUNTY CONTESTS ARE
 ALSO DISPENSED WITH
Committee In Session At Montgomery Decides In Favor Of Judge Brown In Mobile Case-Other
 Contests

Montgomery, August 30.-(Special )-The democratic executive committee of Ala
 bama firmly established itself as the arbiter of the democratic destinies of the commonwealth when, in a meeting which continued almost uninterruptedly from noon until midnight, It nominated Judge A. E. Gamble of Greenville to the of flee of judge of the Second judicial cir cult over the protest of representatives of the counties of that circuit, who plead that tho vacancy be filled by judiciary convention or circuit primary. Judge Gam ble is the present appointee to the office which was vacated a few weeks ago by the tragic death Of Judge J. c. Richard son.
 Short shift was made of the judgeship contest In the Thirteenth judicial circuit, when the contest of ". S. Anderson of Mobile was decided in favor of Judge S. B. Browne of the same city, who is the democratic nominee for the office.
 Autauga county was chided for not set ting it's own sheriff dispute, in which w. ". Goolsby is contesting the nomina- ton of V. A. Spinney, the nominee of the party, and the question was remanded to the committee for settlement. sub committee at the same time was appoint ed by The state committee to invesh- gate the Macon county contest for sheriff, in which B. c. Gibson Is cGntesting the nomination of ". c. Daniel, alleging H. legality and fraud
 Gamble Nominated
 Ginger developed at once on the issue of the nomination by the committee of a candidate for judge of the Se;ond cir cult A E. Gamble, appointed for the vacancy caused by the death ot Judge Richardson, was nominated for the full term beginning next January, the cleo ton being in November
 The battle was drawn on the right and justice of the committee making the nomination Some contended that 1t had the right and should do so. Others that the selection ought to be made by the peo- pie of the circIit in convention or by primary It was argued that the history of the committee is for vacancies to be filled in this way if they occurred late. On the other hand it was urged that un- der local option principles it was the right and the duty of the people to make selec- tion-
 Just after the committee met Mr Reid of Houston moved to make nomination for the Second circuit at once. Roll call in tervened, showing many more than a ma jority- A motion to dispose of unfinished business was lost
 MT Erwin of Mobile wanted a primary. MT Bowman of Jefferson opposed, urg ing nomination by the committee. MT Erwin intimated that the nominee for governor, Emmet O'Neal, was not in favor of committee nomination On motion that men from the counties, not members of the committee, be heard, the following spoke: R. LA Goldsmith, Lowndes. for primary or convention; G. w. L. Smith, Escambia, primary; E. c. Page, Conecuh, primary; ". H. Stoddard, Crenshaw, primary, saying 9S per cent of his people were for such plan J. Lee Long of Butler was emphatic in the gument that the committee must make the nomination
 Motion of MT Erwin for a primary or a convention lost. ? to 13.
 C. F. Hamilton of Butler was for nom ination by the committee. R. D. Turner, Jr-, of Washington spoke for the pri- mary Colonel O'Neal accepted invi- tation 10 speak and stated that he had no suggestion to make. being agreeable to the wishes of the committed Judge J. C. Wood of Lowndes, in de- lending the convention idea, took occa- sion to question the democracy of MT. Bowman, and the Jefferson man replied warmly, but the matter passed off pleas antly-
 Tn nominating for the judgeship it was agreed that there would be no eulogies. MT Hamilton of Butler named A. E. Gamble and he received the entire vote. Though there were two other well known candidates other name was presented. These were J. D. Burnett of Conecuh and C. R. Bricken of Crenshaw. MT. Burnett was very much disappoint- ed that the committee acted as it did, saying that he thought the plan of primary or convention would have been right. He made references that brought out J. Lee Long of Butler, who said he had made no statements about Butler that could not be sustained.
 Colonel Bricken stated that the mat ter was one for the people. Feeling as he did about it, he would not have ac- cepted a committee nomination. AndersOn-BrOwne Contest
 Immediately after recess was taken the committee got to work on the Anderson Browne contest for the Thirteenth judi cial circuit. in which allegation was brought by ". s. Anderson of Mobile that the nominee of the party. Judge s. B. Browne, was not legally entitled to office, owing to the allegation of the con testant that some had voted in the pri mary who had not paid their poll taxes. though no ncapacities in this respect were shown. Evidence brought before the com mittee was to the effect that the ballots