The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1898-11-13
DR.. l. Hensley erubbs. editor of the peca-

DIR. L. Hensley Grubbs, editor of the Deca-
tur News.
For assistant secretary there are also
three candidates: Dick Banks, of Mont
gomery; W.. A. Ramsey, of Sumter, and
Francis Purifoy, present private secretary
to President Powers, of the State uniVer-
sity.
For enrolling and engrossing clerk there
is an interesting race between Mrs. Gesner,
of Montgomery; Miss Jem Weakley, OF
Laudrdale, and Dugald Frank Mccall, OF
the Montgomery Journal.
There are many candidates for the minor
positions of doorkeeper, secretaries OF COM
mittees and so on.
Speaker of the House
1t is generally conceded that Charles E.
Waller, of Hale, will be chosen speaker OF
the house. There are two other announced
candidates, Thomas L. Bulger, OF Talia-
poosa, and John p. Hubbard, of OF Pike
Mr. Walters friends claim him an easy
winner on the first ballot.
John Burns, of Dallas. is a candidate Tor
clerk of the house. against Massey Wilson,
of Clarke. who has held the position pre-
viously. The strong popularity OF these
two candidates makes this race OF much
interest There are several candidates for
assistant clerk, among whom Is Frank
Julian, of Colbert
For enrolling clerk the candidates are:
T. p Taylor, of Jefferson; OFT, of Morgan;
howell, of Cleburne, and Kennedy, OF 81
more. Val Taylor, of Perry, will probaoiy
succeed himself as engrossing clerk. There
are a number of other minor offices in the
house with several times over their num-
| Der of candidates to fill them
| Following the organization of the two
| houses will come the governors message,
| probably on Thursday. This message Will
| be awaited with much interest, as the gov
| ernor will outline much important legisia-
| ton desirable for the state. Then will come
| the announcement of the senate and house
| committees. The present legislature is one
| of the strongest ever elected In Alabama,
| and there are many good men in both
| houses to shape legislation. In the senate
| may be mentioned such leaders as D. j..
| Meador, A. 8. Lyons, f. 8. Moody, A. A.
| Wiley, r. M. Cunningham, B. NJ. Sowell, s.
| p. Rather, John W. Abercrombie, A. E.
| Caffee, Isaac Grant, Sam Jenkins, W. D.
| Jelks, w. ]. Boykin, C. w. Thompson and
others. Among the populists of prominence
is G. B. Deans, of Shelby, late candidate for
governor. He is a hold-over senator, and
| is the probable leader of his party in the
| coming session.
| House Leaders
There is plenty of good material in the
house. Among the leaders are John j.
Mitchell, o. Kyle, Chas. E. Waller, e. NJ
| Robinson, Thomas L. Bulger, A M. Tun-
stall, Bernard HARDWOOD, ]. B. Gibson, Jno
T. Harris, c. p. Rogers. W. H. Hurt, w. C.
| Davis. C. L.. Lavretta, B. A. Har-
die, p Hubbard, Tom Hef1in. Fl. b.
Foster, w. w. Brandon, w. H. Sey-
mour, w. c. Mcclure, Horace Hood, w. C.
| Bibb, ]. j. Delchamps, j. H. Wallace, John
| Mcqueen, w. NJ. Vaughan, L. H Lee, Eli
| Haynie and a long list of others.
| There will be much important legislation
before this session. There are several bills
| of state importance that will be considered.
1 Among them will be the school question,
the revenue laws, legalizng of primary
elections, the prison question, the election
of circuit solicitors by the people, constitu-
tional convention, the regulation of pay
! ment of wages the dispensary question,
Greater Birmingham and others.
So far as is known there is only one seat
| in the house contested. that of ]. A. s..
Palmer, republican. of Winston, contested
by ]. r. Dawes, democrat.
There is one vacancy in the house, caused
by the death OF B. L. Dean, of Tallapoosa.
| An election to fill this vacancy will be or
dered.
Much talk is heard as to the probable
date of the joint caucus to nominate can
didates for solicitor. Most of the candi-
dates seem to favor an early caucus Next
Thursday or Friday night seems to nave
the preference, but there are those who
prefer to wait until next week for this eau
GUS The argument in favor of an early
/ caucus is the cutting down of expenses by
the horde of candidates. most of whom
are now in Montgomery. The argument for
| a postponement is that the candidates viii
1 have time to become better acquainted
i with the members.
There is long list of candidates. the fol-
lowing embracing a majority of them
First Circuit-Choctaw, Clarke, Marengo
and Monroe: b. F. Gilmore, Demopols: o.
L. Gray Butler; T. w. Davis. Thomasvi''e.
Second-Butler Conecuh. Crenshaw, Es-
Gambia. Lowndes and MONTGOMERY: N.
Stallworth Evergreen; J. F. Jones, Ever
green: c. r. Bricken Luverne.
.Third-Barbour, Bullock, Dale, Lee, Rus
sell: j. " Smith, Scale.
Fourth-Bibb, Dallas. Hale, Perry and
Wilcox: w. w. Quares, Selma.
Fifth-Autauga, Chambers. Chiffon. Coo
sa, Gilmore, Macon, Randolph and Talla-
poosa: S. L. Brewer J. r. Wood. Tuske-
gee: George A. Sorrell Alexander City
Sixth-Fayette, Greene, Lamar, Pickers
Tuscaloosa and Sumter: s. c. NJ. Amason