The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-07-10
T|[TON EXPLAINS
 BOLT 0F MALONE Pell City Man Now Regards His Own Election to
 Board as Certain

In regard to the conference at Mont romery Wednesday, in which no banks were represented, McLane Triton of Pell City, one of Alabama's candidates for the position of director of the reserve bank to be located at Atlanta, while a visitor yesterday, commented freely on the sen sational bolt from that conference of his opponent, George H. Malone of Dothan
 He said:
 'snIr Malone knew his only chance to win at Washington and to defeat me was to obtain sole indorsement for himself at Montgomery. When he saw the con- vention as a whole was going to refuse to do this when he saw the plan was for each group to separately indorse three candidates, when he saw that one of these candidates was to be myself, he preferred to bolt the conference.
 INT. Malone was unwilling to leave his candidacy to the entire convention He was also unwilling to leave it to group 8, for that is what the convention did, afterwards ratifying the action of the group. He introduced a resolution in tending to make himself the sole nominee of group 8. This was beaten Il votes to
 
 with him, about his entire strength in the district
 That such is true is proved by unbiased delegates, and by the resolution itself The resolution aimed to limit each state to one candidate each group to one can didata. l had publicly opposed this plan in letter to all member banks mailed last Monday The convention opposed the plan nearly two to one MT. Malone's only hope to beat me for this director ship was to have the plan agreed upon. He knew that if adopted it would make the contest for group l class A between Tennessee and Georgia; for group Class between Mississippi and Florida. There was no candidate for group Class A from Louisiana, so this would have been left for Alabama and himself, as my friends did not attend the conference.
 Such was the sole purpose of his res- oution it was decisively and properly beaten, so he bolted rather than see my nomination made regular" hoping to use this action to win some votes from absent group 8 electors. This hope is a vain one because my election is as certain to- day as 1t was from the beginning.
 
 officer worked hard to bring out his en- tire strength to Montgomery yesterday He was in honor bound to abide it's re- suit under such circumstances. Yet he tried to break up a caucus held before the convention. He tried to break up the convention while it was being or ganized. He tried to force an issue solely in his own favor, was badly beat en- and he bolted. In the fact of such Mr. TaI ha a,1xr p,.ft icized me for failing to abide a former conference when had in advance notified every bank that under no circumstances would the meeting bind anybody. "I was not present at yesterdays con ference, nor was Pell City's elector The 15 banks closest to Pel City were not represented. In letter of June to every group bank I advised them to stay | away. I also stated in that letter that ' by an appeal to my friends I could as- semble in Montgomery a clear ma ajority in my favor as the sole candidate for group 3 whether the convention acted as a unit or each group acted separately This I now repeat. I could have won this sole indorsement, but did not want this advantage.
 ''But MT. Malone did want 1t, he tried desperately to have enough electors pres ent to win it. the meeting was held where he could best assemble them at least ex- pense. He was disappointed and he bolted rather than see me one of the regular nominees
 "I ask for no support on the ground of being one of the three candidates rec R ommended.' The conference was mean fngless except to prove MT. Malone's small following, his unwillingness to abide by conference which he and his friends insisted upon calling; his selfish desire to use the conference to his own advantage his determination to rule or ruin it, and his capacities as boter''