Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1896-03-10
THE LATEST ALABAMA NEWS
Morgan County News Delight
ed the Johnston Men 3.
MONTGOMERY Is ALL RIGHT
A Poll of Highland Park, Part of Beat q,
Gives Johnston SO to Clarke'S RE
pubcans Badly Mixed.

Montgomery, March 9.-(Speeial.) 1.-The
Johnston men in the city are feeling in
the best of spirits today. The news from
Morgan has buoyed them up and they
firmly believe that it means that tide
has set in for Johnston which cannot be
stemmed and which means that he will
be certainly nominated here in April.
A gentleman who lives at Highland
Park, one of Montgomery's suburbs, said
to your correspondent today that a can
vass of the voters in Highland Park
showed that of a total of sixty votes in
that suburb all were for Johnston except
one Highland Park is a portion of beat
4, this city, and this news makes 1t more.
certain that beat 4 will go for Johnston.
The men in this beat living in the city
claim that there is no doubt that the beat
will go for Johnston anyhow. Beat 3,
the other beat in the city, is thought by
some of the best informed workers in the
beat to be safe for Johnston, and they
are claiming that it will give Johnston
a larger vote than the other city beat,
No. T.
The Johnston men in the country are
equally as confident of success as the
city men, and they tell the city men that
if they do half as well as the Johnston
men in the country there is no doubt on
earth about how the county will go on
April IL. OF the country beats, 1t is
claimed by leading men in them, eleven
will give majority for Johnston, and il
this Is fact the county gives its vote to
Johnston, as ten country beats alone Will
control the convention.
During his stay here Sunday night Cap
tain Johnston was called upon by large
number of the leading Johnston men in
this city, who congratulated him on his
success N Morgan
Republicans Badly Mixed.
The republicans of this part of the
state are pretty badly mixed up as to
choice for the presidential nomination,
though it Is evident that Mckinley has
by far the best of the fight in this state.
He has in his ranks the leading white
leaders, and though they comprise only
about one-tenth of the party, still they
practically control the action of the par
ty, and the outlook now is that Mckinley
will get at least sixteen or eighteen of
Alabamas twenty-five delegates to the
ST. Louis convention. The others will be
divided between Reed and Morton.
The fight over the delegates to the con-
vention, like all political struggles. is
making strange bedfellows. 1t Is divid-
ing families and is turning brother
against brother. A notable instance of
the latter Is to be seen In the attitude of
the Booth brothers. Dank Booth of Au-
tauga, who was formerly collector of the
port of Mobile, Is strong Reed man.
His brother, Sam s. Booth, who is resi-
dent of this city, but who claims his home
in Henry county, is one of the Mckinley
leaders. Sam was raised in and for sew
eral years lived in Autauga, and when
some of the Mckinley men of that county
told Dank they would bring Sam over to
fight him in Autauga for a Mckinley del
egation to the state and congressional
conventions, Dank assumed look of ex-
treme innocence and asked: Sam
why, when did he turn republican? He
has always been a democrat" Sam ran
as a Weaver elector in 1892, and 50 far as
it is known that is the only time he was
ever allied with anything but the republ-
can party. but Dank wanted to kill off
Sans influence in Autauga, and that
was the best way to do ito question his
fealty to the party. When Sam heard of
this charge he said: well, in 1892 we
fused and was put on the Weaver cleo
toral ticket, and if DanlS was not with me
he must have been fighting the party
along with General Shelley. That would
make him more of a. democrat than ever
was
Railroad Bill's' Remains.
Railroad Bills remains were brought
from Atmore here on the $50 train this
afternoon and were viewed at the depot
by crowd of curious watchers. The Of
f1cers who killed the outlaw brought the
body here for the purpose of satisfying
the authorities of the state and the
Louisville and Nashville railroad as to its
identity so as to facilitate the collection
of the reward offered