The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-03-05

vention out of all proportion to their le- | gitimate democratic strength and these precincts had turned the county from 1 him to Jones.
 | The Barbour county democratic con lvention assembled at Clayton by beat representatives. appointed on the beat
 vote for Jones in 1890. The returns
 from that county for the election of 1890 gave Jones, democrat, 1892 to 5ss
 for Long, republican.
 The attempt to debate in the county convention proved futile. Extreme tur-
 moil on the floor resulted in the with
 drawal of large part of the beats with
 two years before had sent instructed Kolb delegates to Montgomery now
 sent instructed Jones delegates. The
 young and eloquent leader of the Kolb
 forces, Henry D. Clayton, of 1920, in ] 1892 led the Jones forces of Barbour. The Perry county convention accepted the prorate plan of representation at
 Montgomery, for Jones, for Kolb. | In Hale the Kolb strength lay in the
 northern, or white beats. These with
 drew from the county convention on
 the ground that they were ignominious- | ly pitted against the southern negro
 beats. After the joint debate at ozark.
 the Dale county convention met and leach side went to itself" as in the I | Kolb and one for Jones. In Lowndes ] the convention split by parties on the prevailing state issue and in Talladega the convention split on a county issue. 1 Certainly the counties universally
 were distressed. inharmonious. and the
 outlook for state convention capable of restoring peace and amity was most
 discouraging as the spring closed. | The democratic and conservative party of 1874 was rent in twain in its sources. Suddenly a third element en- tered the confused situation. In April
 Joseph c. Manning. native of Clay county. the veriest boy in appearance,
 just arrived at mans age, came to at tend the Jefferson county Alliance
 meeting, with intent to proselyte the
 order. He had attended the very recent organization of the peoples party at | St. Louis Twenty-one organizations of labor, representing a 5,000,000 member
 ship had there assembled to organize 1 a political movement.
 | Manning spoke with singularly per suasive tongue. He was not an apostle of Kolb. He took no side in the Jones' Kolb controversy. He spoke for the new party only.
 The Jefferson County Alliance meet | ing, with two dissenting votes, con scented to adopt the peoples party in April. in the midst of the hot campaign TOT dSCenudnCy p6IWeen JOneS dHu
 Kolb in the approaching state conven- | tion of the democracy.
 Following the precipitate action of the Jefferson County Alliance in in- dorsing the new peoples party. Presi- dent Adams resolved to sound the Ali liance membership of the state at large.
 He called conference to assemble at
 Erswell hall, Birmingham, on May 90.
 and invited "Evanger' Manning, the boy orator, to speak. The president was disappointed. The hall with a seating
 capacity of 400 was not half filled.
 Among the audience sat a delegation from the Dallas county colored AL liance. Adams himself spoke, eX- pressing fear that the Alliance was
 losing heart He complained of ma chine politics."
 The Adams conference sat to late hour in the afternoon. Manning then called in the same hall a meeting of those favorable to the peoples party. George F. Gather of Etowah alone of Alliance men attended. The meeting was insignificant
 JOHN w1THERSPooN DUBOSE.