The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-04-04
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1t cannot yet be determined whether the
republican and populist parties will advance
or Identical or similar lines in opposition
to the Alabama constitutional convention.
/ Indeed, there is little basis upon which 10
build conjectures. The platform or address
adopted by the state republican executive
committee on Saturday last, and published
Ia The Age-Herald of Sunday, provides for
the appointment of a campaign committee
| OF nine members and an advisory commit
tee of five. These committees have not yet
been named by Hon. William Vaughan, the
| state chairman, and nothing can be known
until after they are named and have taken
formal action. Asked last night If the re-
publieans and populists would work in con-
cert to defeat the call for convention,
a leading republican declared that he could
not possibly know what action would be
taken; but that he felt quite confident OF
the defeat of the convention. Democratic
| Chairman Robert ]. Lowe said he was UNI
| aware of any movement looking to the
| union of the republican and populist forces.
Nor is there anything to know at the pres
ent. The public must wait for Chairman
| Vaughan's committees, and for such nego-
| tjations as they may enter upon. But it Is
| esteemed not impossible that the republi-
cans and populists will unite against the
| conventions; being materially encouraged by
| limited but noisy faction of democrats,
| who appear to get their inspiration from
| Montgomery.
| State Chairman G. B. Grove. of the pop
| ulist committee, was seen last night and
/ asked as to whether there would be concert
/ of action between the republicans and pop
| ulsts against the constitutional convention.
| ''That Is question cannot answer said
| Chairman Grove. "Our state convention
| will meet In Birmingham on the Sd of May,
| and it will decide upon the rule OF proce-
| dure in opposing the constitutional conVen-
| ton. We intend to oppose this convention,
/ and my personal opinion is that the popu-
| lists will make a straight fight on their
| own account, without alliance of any sort.
| 1 am free to say that / favor straight
| fight on the part of the populists asa state
| organization, leaving 1t to our party In the
respective counties to make such combina-
lions as may seem locally desirable in the
work of accomplishing our general purpose
| of defeating the call for constitutional
| convention. II is my wish to preserve the
| populist party organization intact, as much
| in view of next years election as anything
else. am honestly confident that in 1900
| the populists will carry Alabama and Geor-
gia and have an excellent chance for car
| rying. Mississippi and Arkansas. Our or
| ganizaton will be kept in fighting order,
| and we will win next year" Chairman
Grove appears to be perfectly confident.
The innumerable friends of Mr.. w. p.
Pinckard will gladly welcome him home
from New York and offer him hearty con-
CALCULATIONS. 1t is understood that Mr..
Pinckard conducted the negotiations where
| by the Birmingham Rolling Mill, the Ala
| bama Rolling MIL at Gate City and the
| Thomas furnaces were brought into the
| great combination of the bar iron and steel
rolling mills about which much has been
published in the newspapers within the
| past few weeks. Mr. Pinckard's profits in
| the transaction are sad to approximate
| 100000 and this will be pleasing news to
| everybody in Birmingham. Mr.. Pinckard
was one of the greatest and most progress
sive developers here in the boom days, and
| by his skill and enterprise he accumulated
| a large fortune. Business reverses, how
| SNOiy SdHio " Ilill, d. " VI OlH-
ers; but his great energy and ability have
reasserted themselves, and there is not a
man in Birmingham who will not rejoice
with him in the return of his well-merited
good fortune.
Professor Reynolds, the able and ener-
getic head of the Girls Industrial school
at Montevallo, has been in town for two
or three days for the purpose of seeing
| builders and others in the matter of extern
| sion of the school accommodations. The
| school authorities will begin at once the
| making of million brick for new build
| ings, and the work will be vigorously pros
| ecuted. The building accommodations at
| Montevallo are very inadequate, Professor
| Reynolds says, and the management
| will remedy the matter as soon as possible.
| congress, will be remembered, during
| its last session set apart 1000 acres OF
| public lands for the use of the school. The
| board of trustees have appointed one or
| their number, Hon. T. 8. Plowman, of Tai
| ladega, to select the lands, and he has been
| engaged in the work for the past week.
The selection of Mr. Plowman commends
| itself to the general public, which is SO
| deeply interested in the school. Congress-
| man Bankhead, who takes hearty inter-
| est in the school, is hopeful that the lands
| chosen may average in value five dollars
an acre. Professor Reynolds says the
school actually needs 100000 at this time.
| There are now 800 pupils in the school, and
| everything is progressing most satisfac-
| torily. In the millinery department, for
| example. the sales range from SIS to 500
day; the profits on which go to the pupils
| as their own money. The dressmaking de-
| partment is also very prosperous.
| Birmingham and the district enjoyed an
| ideal Easter day. though the weather was
1 perhaps trifie cool. Almost until nightfall
| the sunshine was remarkably brilliant, and
| everybody was tempted out of doors. The
| churches that especially celebrated the
| great festival were crowded during the
l 4.