The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-26
DOMINICA NAMED TO HEAD DRIVE
 FOR MAYOR RULE
Woman To Be Elected
 Vice Chairman Of Campaign

Frank Dominick. wildly known at- torney, Monday was elected chairman of the campaign to abolish commission rule and establish q modified mayor aldermanic form of government in Bir- mingham.
 Air. Dominica was the unanimous choice of q mass meeting held at the court house. A committee notified him of his election and he accepted, pledg- ing his best efforts "in this drive to give Birmingham d representative form of government"
 Hunter Armstrong, register of chan cery court and the man who launched the campaign, was elected | easnrer. Judge Edgar Allen of municl pal court was elected seeretaFy. At another meet ing Thursday afternoon; a won1an will ea eeefea ns vice -ehairmnn pf the a
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 9ihnS werN ehAped fo opam the drive at full speed without further delay. A committee composed of T. S. Smith, " F. Barnard, ID. A. CardweII, J. R. Stull and Hunter Armstrong was named to organize the campaign in every pre- cinct in the city. Each precinct will have two ehairmen, one man and one woman.
 L. K. Bowen, John Hinton and W. R. Crumley were named on commit- tee to take charge of the circulation of petitions calling for special election to decide the issue.
 Judge Horace Wilkins0n was asked by resolution to prepare at once a com prehensive summary of the mayor-al- dermanic ordinance for city-wide distri- button. Y
 Another resolution authorized the dis trict leaders to arrange for rnnss meet ings in their territory. It was decided to begin this series of meetings before the end of this week. The first may be held in Woodrow Wilson park. The public was invited to attend inc meeting Thursday afternoon, which will De held in Judge John Denson's court room, beginning at 3 o'clock. Chairman Dominick will probably address this gathering and outline the issues on which the drive will be fought out.
 Mir. Dominick's idea. Is to avoid per! sonalities and present the issues to the voters in e dignified way. He believes that the people, after acquiring clear understanding of the proposed or- dinance, will pile up tremendous ma ioFity for it. 3E
 Judge Wilkinson's summary of the proposed changes will be ready for dis tribution at Thursdays meeting. Some people" the judge said, ''have an idea that we are trying to go back to the old-fashioned aldermanic form of government. Such is not the case Our plan is, in fact, modified man. ager form of government. It makes the mayor the executive head of the city and gives him as much authority and fixes definite responsibility for the conduct of municipal affairs. After our speakers get on the stump and ex- plain the ordinance, the opposition will quickly fade away"
 Addressing the meeting, Judge Allen, who is to be secretary of the campaign, declared the outstanding issue is 'auto- cratic government against representa- tive government" Other speakers told how they had sounded out sentiment in their sections of the city and found the people anxious to smash" the commis- sion system.
 Mir. Armstrong told the meeting that requests for mass meetings in ev- cry section of Birmingham had been received. A corps of 50 speakers has been organized, he said, and will be placed on the stump immediately. 4
 Chairman Dominick will confer Tues day with Mir. Armstrong and Judge Allen and other campaign leaders, and complete arrangements for Thursdays mass meeting They expect that this will be the biggest meeting of the cam paign to date.
 Advocates of the proposed change asr nls eiIsS'tIn os tS oh.i .irs Aa loral ten with the drive Is being awaited with interest.