The age-herald., 1898-09-27
ABOUT POLITICS
 AND POLITICIANS

It is but a few weeks more until the
 converting of the legislature. As the date | approaches the candidates who will sub
 init their claims to that body are becoming
 more active. Birmingham a goodly number of these candidates daily now. Of course more interest is centered in the race
 for solicitor than anything else The win l ners are difficult to name this early, for | trading is just now getting in real shape | to worst some of the fellows who have all along had a "soft snap" Trading should not be tolerated in politics, but how to | stop it is a puzzling question. Every man | goes in on a trade. I hear great deal Of l trading talk around the hotel lobby. some l men seem to think that they control the | earth and will trade members of the legis- | lature without even consulting them. SeV- l eral instances of this kind have come to | light in the last few days. Some of them | are causing great deal of trouble to | prominent candidates. The candidate who | can't put up something to trade had about | as well quit the race. There will be some surprises in Montgomery when the caucus | finishes its work
 Some politicians say there will be no caucus. They say that the populists arc l going to ask to come in with the d. mo- I crats and they claim that under the late l rulings of the state committee they can | not be kept out. A prominent politician, | who is a candidate, suggested yesterday | that this is all poppycock. Of course there | will be a caucus. Some of the populistS l may ask admittance to the caucus, and l some may gain it, but not the fellows who fought all of the democratic ticket in Au- l gust, and who are still fighting the con- l gressional nominees. This class will be | kept out, they should be. A rumor yes | terday was to the effect that among those | who would ask admittance are four hoid- | over senators, George J. Hall, or the f4l- n | district, G. w. Brooks, of the Twenty ;th-rd | district, D. c. Case, of the Twenty-thlrd | district and G. N. Buchanan, of the TWen- | ty-hfth district If these members get into | the caucus it would leave a lonely trio out in the cold. The only other populists arc | Hurst, from the Fourth G. B. Deans, of | the Fifteenth, and A. w. Deems, of the | Seventeenth. Hurst was elected over In- | ger in August G. B. Deans led the popu- | list ticket to defeat and is now Aldrich's
 campaign chairman in the Fourth district, | and A. w. Deems is said to still be radi-
 cal populist. If the four populists get into
 the senate it will give some candidates
 more work to do. In this instance slxten n
 votes would be a majority of the caucus.
 In the house there will be eighteen popu-
 lists, from Butler, Calhoun, Cherokee, | Chiffon, Choctaw, Cenecuh, Etowah,
 Franklin, Geneva, Marshall, Shelby, Clay,
 Fayette, Lawrence, Winston, St. Clait and
 Washington. Sullivan, of Washington, and
 Kelley, of Choctew, have both participated
 in the congressional primaries of the First
 district, and will ask admittance to the
 caucus There are a few who were elected | without democratic opposition who may | ask to get in. Among those are Cornelius | of Cherokee and Reynolds, of Chiffon. i There may be still others who will apply | for a seat in the "holy of hoies,' and again | if may be that not a man of them will get | in 1t is a question for consideration ~
 the candidates.
 There were several prominent visitors in
 the city Sunday, among them Hon. Siias | P. Rather, senator-elect from Morgan and | Lawrence; R. N. Bell, member of the state
 committee from Marshall, and John F.
 Proctor, member of the state committee
 from High Jackson,'' and candidate for
 secretary of the senate. MT. Proctor has | served one term as secretary and made a | very good official. t1e Is a strong candidate | for reelection.
 The press of the state is almost unani-
 nous in support of the candidacy of Mrs. | George c. Ball. editor of the New Era, for
 expressing and enrolling clerk of the sen-
 ate. Mrs. Ball is one of the most popular
 ladies in Alabama and Is perfectly qualified
 for the position she seeks. She will prove
 a very strong candidate. The other candi-
 dates for the position are Mrs. Gesner of | Montgomery, who held the position during | the last session of the senate; Miss Jem | Weakly of Florence, who has been con-
 nected with the several offices of the leg
 ishlature for several terms, having also | filled this position; Frank Mccall, city edi-
 tor of the Montgomery Journal The race | is an interesting one. KERSH