The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-04
BIG SQUABBLE| IN
 REPUBLICAN CAMP
Mass Meetings May Be Held to Choose Chairman MOr-
 gan County Committee

Decatur April S.-(special)-With Capt. Eli P. Jennings of New Decatur and R. E. Minter of Massey both claiming to be the chairman of the Morgan county re- publican executive committee republican politics are pretty badly split in this county. The result will likely be two mass meetings for the election of new organization and the selection of dele gates to the next state convention. The indications are now that two sets of dele gates will be elected to the state and congressional district conventions the next time and that contests of the warmest kind will be the result. As to the per- sonnel of the county committee, exclusive of the chairman, there is no dispute. Both Captain Jennings and MT. Minter claim to be chairman of the same committee of the county
 Captain Jennings had been elected chair man of the county executive committee at a mass meeting of the republicans of the county held at Hartselle last spring.
 On account of Captain Jennings sup port of Mir Scott for governor the Mor- gan county republican executive com- mittee met and by strong resolution re- moved Captain Jennings from the chair manship and elected in his stead R. B. Minter of Massey, who supported Joseph O. Thompson, the regular republican nominee for governor.
 Captain Jennings says he was elected by a mass meeting of the republicans of the county and that the county commit tee having had nothing to do with his election, had no right or authority to re- move him from an office to which the re- publicans of the county had elected him.
 Friends of Capt. Roy c. Horton cap tain of Company F.. Decatur, were sur prised to read in yesterdays newspapers a special from Anniston saying that the election for major in the Third regiment had resulted in tie vote between Cap tain Horton and Capt. J. F. Carlisle of Birmingham, each man receiving + votes, and that the result would have to be de- cided by Adjt. Gen. J. B. Scully.
 Several days ago friends of Captain Horton here received telegrams from semi-official sources saying Captain Hor- ton was elected without question and Captain HOrtonS friends here, both in military circles and without, are at a loss to understand the present turn of affairs. lip to this time no official mo- tice, announcing the result, has been re- ceived in Decatur.
 The Junior Order United American Me- chanics is now meeting with a most re- markable growth in Alabama, according to National Organizer J. H. Junghans. A new lodge has just been instituted near Guntersvile and another one was insti- tuted near Gadsden tonight Within the next few days new lodges will be put in at Jackson, Florence and Sheffield. Many new lodges have been organized in the state during the past year and the mem bershic of the old lodges has grown.
 The state council of this order will meet in Huntsville on April IS. and it is said that at this session of the order it will be shown that the growth in the state has been greater than for any year previous. This meeting of the state coun- eli in Huntsville will be the fifteenth an nual session.
 The national council of this order will meet in Mobile in June, next. This will be the first meeting of the national body ever held in Alabama and will be largely attended by members of the order from all parts of the state. The national body meets every two years.