The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-29
STATE COMMITTEE ID MEET DEC. 70 Call to Be Issued in a Few
 Days SOME POLITICAL TALK Not Yet Determined Just What Mat ters Will Be Taken Up by
 the Committee for
 Disposition
SOME POLITICAL TALK

Tile state democratic executive com mittee will meet in Birmingham Deeem- Der 20
 The call for the meeting will be is sued within the next few days. It is not definitely known as yet whether the com l5ittee will simply elect a member of the national democratic executive committee to take the place of John W. Tomlin- son, deceased, or whether in addition 10 | tiiat election, all other business Laying | 10 do with politics in 1912 will be trans acted.
 There is a meeting of the national committee in New York January s. It was the original intention of Chairman K. Tyler Goodwin to call the state com mttee together shortly after Christmas for the purpose of eecting a member of the national committee in order that | this state might be represented when that committee meets.
 Should the state committee determine to transact all the business which it is slated to discharge at the meeting De- I'cember 20 it will be determined whether or not there shall be a primary for the election of delegates to the national democratic convention, or whether those QtlNSdleS lSldil De 6l6tlRu III d COHNtu- ton. It is presumed, too, that the com mittee will dispose of the effort to be made by a certain faction in favor of ti nomination of Woodrow Wilson to bring about the expression of the people concerning a second choice for the presi- dential nomination.
 It is certain that in addition to a primary. convention will be called, for It has been decreed that supreme court q .ls.lI hA ala 19,r The three judges of the supreme court whose terms will expire next year have no opposition up to the present time to their reelection. The state primary will be called for the purpose of elect ing delegates to the state convention, a congressman at large. president of the railroad commission and a chairman of the fish and game commission. There is nc announced opposition to either Charles Henderson, president of the railroad commissioner or John Wallace. Jr., chair nan of the fish and game commission, although it has been reported that there might be opposition to both developed There will be many candidates for con- sressman at large.
 One of the problems to confront the state committee in it's session December 2 will be the determination of the rep resentation of the counties. Chairman Coodwyn recently issued a table showing the number of delegates to the conven- ton based on population, the vote for O'Neal and Mallory in the primary, or tce vote for O'Neal in the last general state election. Whatever plan is adopt ed, the convention will contain a lager number of delegates than any previous state convention.
 As soon as the state committee sets the date for the state primary the various county committees will get together and set dates for county primaries This will be the signal for the awakening of politics in Alabama, for 1912 is expected to be one of the biggest political years in the recent history of the state
 The membership of the state commit tee follows:
 R. T. Goodwin, Montgomery, Mont gomery county chairman.
 State at Large-John J. King, Consul. Marengo county; George W. Jones, Montgomery. Montgomery county; J E. Foy. Eufaula, Barbour county: L. F. Greer, Choccolocco, Cal houn county; M. B. Abercrombie, Tus- .kegee. Macon county: T. L. Long. Jas per, Walker county; J. Gardner Green, Pel City, st. Clair county; R. E. Sprag gins, Huntsville, Madison county; r. G. Bowman. Birmingham. Jefferson county.
 First Dictrict-R. T Erwin, Mobile, Mobile county; F. L. Barefeld, Butler. Choctaw county; E. P. Wilson. Grove Hill, Clarke county; B. D. Turner, Jr, Chatom, Washington county. Second District-John Gamble, Troy, Pike county: Walter Lee, Evergreen, Conecuh county; Alexander Troy, Mont | gomery, Montgomery county c. r. | Hamilton, Greenville, Butler county. 1 Third Distrct-W. w. Rainer, Union Springs, Bullock county; B. Dec. Wad- dell, Scale, Russell county; J. W. Cor bett, ozark, Dale county; E. F. Reid, | Dothan, Houston county.
 | Chambliss Keith, Selma, Dallas coun- | ty: Kelly Dixon, Talladega, Talladega county; W.I@. McCaa. Anniston, Colhoun county H. D. Merrill, Hehin, Cleburne l county.
 Fifth District-J. C. Wood, Hayneville,
 Lowndes county; w. M. Lackey, Dade- l vile, Tallapoosa county; George D. Rob- | ison, Wetumpka, Fillmore county: D. M. | White, Goodwater, Coosa county | Sixth District-J. w. Cook, Eutaw Greene county; pr. A. K. Collins, Millport. La