The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-16

vention held at Montgomery, Ala, in 1922, in repudiating an effort to change the manner of choosing the delegates from this common wealth to the national conven- tion, and leaving their choice with the qualified voters of their respective districts and the state at large.
 4. That this committee con- strues the action of the last state democratic convention in refusing by vote to change the manner of electing delegates to the national convention as instructions to this committee not to change the man. ner of naming delegates to such conventions; that we consider our our own action in that conven- ton; and that choosing delegates to national democratic conven- tions by popular vote of the peo- pie Is the fixed policy of the party and is a sound principle of un- biased and untrammeled democ- racy::
 5. That concentrating too much power in one person, be he high or low, President or private citi- zen, is dangerous in practice, un- sound in principle, impractical in theory, unsafe and undemocratic in application; that the party re- sponsibility Is too grave and too great for any one member, or any two members, to assume, especially in the absence of any legal or moral right, to take such unwar-- ranted liberties with the sacred political rights of the people of the state of Alabama.
 6. That we commend the ono candidate for the high office of President of the United States who has spoken on this subject and who has declined to accept such a responsibility as naming the entire delegation from the state to the national convention; that we hold that he has no au- thority by law or morals, to dele gate such authority to anyone else, nor has anyone even the slight est right to assume such an arro- gant and presumtive attitude in this connection.
 mittee in calling a special pri- mary for March Il, 1924, for the purpose of expressing preference for a democrat from this state as the nominee of the democrats of the country for nomination as the candidate of the national party for President of the United States IS hereby rescinded, for the reason that 1t is unconstitutional, null, void, undemocratic, abhorrent in principle and of none effect.
 5. That democrats of Alabama are invited to announce them selves as candidates in a primary election to be held May 13, 1924, for delegates from their several districts and from the state at large. this election to, be final; that two democrats be elected in the May IS primary from each of the ten congressional districts of Ala bama, and that four be elected in said primary election from the state at large; that the same rules and regulations shall apply to election of such as were in force TOT election of delegates to the last national convention, except such changes as have been caused by the ratification of the nine teenth amendment to the United States constitution.
 5. That law enforcement is one Of the main issues in the present political campaign in this state. ana that to proceed with an cleo tion under a law admittedly un- constitutional would be to encour- age disregard for law.
 10. That this committee re- affirms and asserts that the pri- mary election plan of choosing delegates to national democratic conventions Is the fixed and per- manent policy or the democratic party of this state.