Birmingham age-herald., 1895-09-25
pEAcE REreNs SUPREME.

and that which promised to create friction and possibly a disruption be- tween our local contemporaries seems to have been amicably adjusted the Age Herald, without the boasted head lines, will give first the news" it will treat all fairly sustain the right and condemn the wrong fearlessly."
 In this particular instance ito give first the news to 8 wondering and much be-fuddled public as to the cause of this thusness between our local contempor- aries, the Evening News and the Daily State, would not be only unbecoming but unjournalistic.
 It is well known that our amiable friends sip the nectar of inspiration from under the same roof-serve their patrons from out of the same spoon, wash their inky fingers in the same basin, and drink water from the same hydrant, their dif- ferences being only in the class, style and flavor of the literary staples and del icacies placed by each before an ever hungering public.
 The public thirsts for the fountain head whenever it sips from a warm running stream, and however much the Age Herald would like to satiate that thirst it cannot and it would not enter the sacred sanctum-sanctorium of the home of it's contemporaries and expose family feud to satisfy any public greed, and here asks pardon for simply entering it's protest to a few minor features of the controversies that have reached the pub lie ear
 We are astonished that our amiable F,;. x,-ft h IaII from cellar to garrett to separate him from his morning neighbor, has permit ted his pen to mislead an unsuspecting public by the strictures ndulged in against the young gentlemen connected with the State in his Saturday and Mon day paper, whereby the public might misjudge their journalistic rank or ques- ton their ability.
 The News, it would appear, seems wont to leave the impression that Mr Telfair Hodgson is managing editor and MT. Aubrey Harvell, city editor of the Daily State, and totally responsible for what appears in it's columns
 Now, the editor of the News, whose fairness and common accuracy he him self would resent on the slightest inn pulse if called into question, will not tell the people, as a fact that the above named young men are the authors, in their respective stations of what ap- pears in the columns of the Daily State He cannot afford in the face of his past record to attempt to sustain such an as- sertion.
 Who among us has read the Daily State for the past six months does not lrD bot ho h1,II nf that paper is not that of the young man and aspiring journalist, MT, Telfair Hodgson. nor that of his able and dis tinguished father. who while he poses IS it's chief editor basks in the sunshine of Mobile Bay and sniffs the gulf breezes, while his name sings the songs of more devout laborers? Who knows our own fellow citizen, Capt Joseph F. Johnston, or has heard his clarion voice declaring for "the principles of the fathers" from the Tennessee line to the Florida coast, could mistake his writings, who among us has not contemplated the character of this, our honored and ever aspiring fel- low citizen, caricatured in nearly every paragraph that appears in the Daily State; and what regular reader has not
  so true to nature when the author is ab- sent speaking to his constituents or fish ing on the coast?
 And as to the work of the city editor, the Aget Herald if it could would not disparage the work of MT. Aubry liar well. Mr. Harwell was once on it's force. and we know him well. We would not rob him of q single laurel he may achieve in any field, but what reader in Birming ham, who knows the personnel and the amiabe and attractive disposition and social relations of our talented and much beloved fellow townsman, Hon. John w. Tomlinson. who can fail to see his fine Italian hand in this department. and who knows his extreme carefulness and adept shrewdness would rob him of that Scriptural honor which he practices, "Know myself" or that he well under lands the truism of the couplet his out side actions to the contrary:
 Larger vessels may venture more,' But smaller craft must keep near the
 shore.'
 The Age II erald only desires to pour oil on the troubled waters as between its contemporaries, and with neither envy nor malice towards either. We are only glad to state to much distressed pub lie the trouble between the Evening News and the Daily State is now settled.