The age-herald., 1897-08-04
ABOUT THE STATE HOUSE.
Chats In the Corridors of the Capitol at
 Montgomery

Chats Tn the Corridors of the Capitol at
 Montgomery.
 Montgomery, Aug .2.-(Special.)-Gov Johnston is devoting his time mostly to the business affairs of ..he sta,e with dhe result that ths convict department shows net gain in receipts. The books of county officers are being strengthened ou., es- capped property gotten on the tax books, old claims settled and a general spirit of noious nness infused throughout the reveaue branch of the government
 Inc cr.emies of Gov. Johnston s.art | out to cpitfcise every aet of his admin istlationr and among the otJ@cts of thei' fam finding was the creat ,n of two as- sistant examiners of public accounts Tt is only scheme to create a place for couple of his henchmen," they said. This was so silly shat it was promptly drop ped, for the people at once ana universally Recognized the governors wisdom. So it is with the tax commission law.
 Sirea th9 passage Of the act cf the last general assembly creating two assistant examiners Of accounts, the offices in the sfollowing counties have been examin ad: Crenshaw, fCoosa, Marshall, Jeffsi son and Etowah. The examiners are HOW at work AIlu iaSpOGlS DtlHS pIepdIcu oih ie1'ie'0, Henry and >Chilton It wil take more than a year to cover the sta te' on this first round of examinations. The need for them is so evident from the results that yearly examination will no doubt become at established practice of the state government.
 Chief Justice Brickell will not stand for a renomination next year. This will probably act as a prelude to the an- nouncement of mum; rous candidates who would not have entered the race had the present beneh asked soldly for rs-elec- ton. Justice Mcclellan will stand for chief justice. Judge Tyson, of the Mont gomery circuit is an avowed candidate for place on the supreme bench, and there is now little doubt but that Cham ceilor Dowdsll will also enter. And others will follow.
 By the nearly unanimous consent of the bar Chief Justice Bickell ranks as the gteatest in all the long line of emi- nent men who have sat on our supreme bench.
 The recent so-called humorous attack on the governor for attending a singing convention that never met and never was to meet, was purely and solely in the way of bringing the chief executive into ridicule. If the governor had chosen to attend a singing convention instead of going on a quiet fishing expedition to a Coyinston county lake, it would have been all right and remarks on it by way of pleasantly quite in order. But the animus of the newspaper enemy who con- eocted the story for purpose was too thinly yelled under guise of so-called humor to fool anybody. A man out in the hill country was digging a ditch and paused to pass the time of day" with a prominent democrat who happened by and talking politics as well as other things he gave his point of view: '1 see an allegedanewspaper has been attack ing Gov Johnston about going to singing convention. The other govern ors could go off to the springs or any where they liked and stay for weeks and spend the states money sometimes I reckon, too, and it was all right. But Johnston can't go to a gathering of any sort here at home without being abused forlit, We country people think we are as good as the rest of the world and when the governor comes among us 10 at- tend singing convention or any olher convention we are glad to see Eim and think all the more of him.
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