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The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-02-26
The FIGHT AGAINST Shelby.
Editor

Senator Bacon, 1t seems, takes to himself
the credit of creating the additional judge
ship in the Fifth circuit and on that &C.
count he considers himself entitled to name
the appointee. He takes the position that
the appointee must be a Georgia man, al
though Judge Pardee has been shown to be
a resident of Atlanta by the allowances he
took while holding court in New Orleans.
He has bought house in Atlanta, and is
beyond reasonable doubt resident of that
ambitious and unusually pert city.
But Senator Bacon does not mind such
trihe as that, nor did he hesitate to press
the name of Colonel Glenn, whose repub-
licanism dates from the time of his candi-
dacy for this particular judgeship. The
scheme did not fill, however, and the pres
ident sent in the name of David D. Shelby,
who is an Albanian and a consistent, life
long republican.
Senator Bacon now cries out Hanna did
it," and confirmation is held up, ostensibly
to give Senator Bacon opportunity to in
vestigate David D. Shelby's record. He will
find Mr.. Shelby's record all right in every
respect from the viewpoint of a republican.
He is straight-haired. He had the misfor-
tune to be born Albanian, when he
should have been born a Georgian, but he
really had no control over the circum-
stances of his birth, and Senator Bacon
may as well stop this matter. Mr.. Shelby
will be duly confirmed, and in the course
of time he will hold courts in Mr.. Bacons
bailiwick, and he can be trusted to act more
before him than one Georgia senator is
acting towards him.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-02-26
The Combine Against Alabama Iron,

The Age-Herald is not prepared to say
how much or how little Senators Morgan
and Pettus did before the senate commit
tee or before the senate itself in support
of the Warrior river Improvement; they
may have done all that could be done; they
fully for the house appropriation as
Messrs. Bankhead and Underwood did in
the house, but if they did they lack In the
senate the influence that Messrs. Bankhead
and Underwood exercise in the house. For
the latter secured an appropriation of
$4,000 and a continuing contract clause in
house, and were then able to carry the
item through the house. Alabama's two
senators were not able to retain what
Messrs. Bankhead and Underwood had
gained in the house. This is the long and
short of the matter, and this district at
least should know the truth. and the whole
truth.
The case is all the stranger because of
the comparative injustice involved. I'M
mense sums had been expended on the
upper reaches of the Monongahela in order
to serve the coal and iron interests of
western Pennsylvania, and the pending bill
contains heavy appropriations for Cleve-
land harbor in the interests of the furnace
and ore interests of Ohio and Pennsylvania
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-02-26
Johnston and Silver.

Governor Johnston has seen fit on more
than one occasion to abandon the platform
upon which he was elected governor. and
to go outside of the principles of his mes
sage declarations in his appointments. He
went In upon a hurrah free coinage of sill
yer platform. No one was more enthusiast
tic in denouncing one Grover Cleveland,
democrat, because of his gold alignments
and appointments Yet this free coinage
democratic governor not only lost courage
after the national republican victory and
practically eliminated this great question
from his speeches in the last campaign, but
he has since been silent upon national DEM
ocratic issues, and has apparently been UNI
able to find men in the state, who stood up
on the platform upon which he first won
the governorship sufficient to fill the Of
fees. Into the outside ranks he went to
fill offices allotted to him. 1t seems to have
been democracy secondarily; personal am
bition primarily. His two latest chief ap-
pointments have gone to men who voted
to make him governor. If this is loyalty
to a cause then what is treachery? Grover
Cleveland was loyal to his beliefs and prin-
ciples He announced that he was a gold
man. He stuck closely to his announce
ment and he appointed men of his own
faith.
Lomax, Lowe, Tomlinson, Cunningham.
Pettus, Stallings, Bankhead, Hibbard and
the great Morgan, and all the other speak,
ers in the last campaign had the temerity
to uphold the platform of the national
democracy. Yet the governor handled it
with timidity and followed by turning down
men who upheld 1t and appointing men who
openly stabbed it. There is a clear vein of
suspicion attached to the governors alleged
straight democracy. There is none in the
record of Morgan and Pettus. There shall
be mono in their successors. No man I'M
true to principles can be elected senator or
to any other great office by the people of
Alabama.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-02-26
"Judas Ise ariot"

Correspondence of the Selma Times.
Joseph f. Johnston, the twice-honored
governor of Alabama, floats today dere-
lict upon the sea OF politics. When a man
dies politically from supporting some prin-
cple be that principle what it may, all men
honor and respect him, If he has been hon
est in his convictions; but, when man
deserts his friends, when he turns his back
upon men who placed him in office and for
selfish motives alone does them a glazing
injustice, he deserves to go down in ignomy
and shame forgotten even by his enemies.
Ingratitude is the objectionable sin in poll
tees, and the governor of Alabama has
shown himself migrate. From the hills
of Jefferson comes that cry of migrate"
and from every county in the state the one
word "Trickster," is borne to the capitol
itself When Senator Morgan comes to lay
his wreath of untarnished honors at the
feet of the people of this grand state and
ask them to relieve him of the duties of
office, Joseph f. Johnston may lift up his
voice and ask the state to honor him with
that high position Then men will say,
"Thou Judas, the man that will sell his
friend will sell his country" We bid fare
well to our business governor" He car
ried his business of barter into the high
office of governor, and In selling his pie
has lost his prestige.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-02-26
ECHOES OF THE
GOVERNORS ACT
An unpardonable SIN

From the Scottsboro Progressive Age.
The ''sin of ingratitude' is one of the
most objectionable in the catalogue of
vices. The Age-Herald does not stand alone
in this charge; the governor will find the
same thing laid against him in many eoun-
ties, and the evidence not wanting to sus-
tain it. OF course, no one supposes that
he should sacrifice the public good to pro-
mote the interest of friends, neither should
he sacrifice friends to promote his political
success; either is reprehensible. The jury
of his countrymen VIII demand trial on
these charges when he comes on the hust-
ings again, and if the charges are sus-
tained judgment and sentence will fol-
low.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-02-26
The Governors Mistake
From the Mobile Herald.

From the Mobile Herald.
We are astonished at the governors lack
of political perspicacity. He wants to go
to the United States senate. Every act and
every appointment of his administration
have been affected by this ambitious de-
sire. Why, then, should he throw away the
support of Jefferson county? Does he ex-
pect to get the support of Jefferson county
with Cunningham, Tomlinson and The Age
Herald against him. If he does he will be
the worst disappointed man that ever was
When a man governs his official career
mainly by considerations of personal poiti-
cal advantage, he is apt to make just such
a mistake as Governor Johnston has made
Unselfishness pays sometimes even in poll
tics, and too intense devotion to self in
terest sometimes does not pay in politics.
If Governor Johnston does not do better in
the future we will soon have to write an
editorial on "The Passing of Joseph"
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-02-26

From the Montgomery Advertiser.
Alabama has never had a governor who
appointed a railroad commissioner from
either house of the general assembly, no
matter what legislation the governors may
have desired to put through, or how anx-
ious they may have been to subserve their
political fortunes. Members of the con-
stitutional convention will find it a good
thing to put clause in the constitution
which will prevent such use of patronage
in future to influence legislation. The re-
cent use made of the power to appoint
railroad commissioners to coerce or subdue
the independence of the peoples represent
atives in matters of legislation, is a SER
mon in favor of our late platforms, declar-
ing that the commissioners ought to be
elected by the people.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-02-26
THOS. L. BULGER
Writes of The Age-Herald's Work for Bet
ter Schools.
To the Editor of The Age-Herald:

To the Editor of The Age-Herald:
In behalf of the toiling masses OF our
state, please permit me to return heartfelt
thanks to you for the energetic, courage
Gus and patriotic manner in which you
have stood by us in our efforts for the bet
terment of the public schools. 1t has been
a contest for the everlasting principles of
right and justice. With your valuable aid
and encoura cement we have gained the
victory. We have passed measures through
the house providing system for our public
schools, and for revenues to support and
maintain the same. 1t will give us free
public school for six months in every
neghborhood in the state. 1t will be no
longer said that Alabama is at the bottom
of the list in illiteracy, but will now take
her stand in the front rank with the great
states of the union.
THOS. L. BULGER.
Montgomery February "a, 1889.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-02-26
He Did Not Want a Rival

From the Mobile Register.
Gratitude is a lively sense of favors to
come. Tomlinson had done everything he
could for Johnston. There was nothing
more he could do. He had no vote in
either senate or house; he could back up
none of the governors legislative schemes
save with his voice, and the governor
wanted actions, not words. In the second
place, Tomlinson has been rather -thick
with w. j. Bryan, and has even been
even been talked of is a possible candidate
for the vice-presidency with Colonel Bryan.
Tomlinson was getting to be large politi-
cal factor in Alabama, and were we to dig
into him beneath his waistcoat we would
perhaps find germina ting there a political
ambition of no ordinary kind. Could
Johnston be expected to assist In the ag-
grandizement Of a possible rival?
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-02-26
Father Hecker and the Pope.

Father Hecker, whom the good pope
Numbered, or at least argued deliberately,
against last week, was an evangelist, as
the Protestants would say-a missioner, as
exhorted people to join the church, and TO
that end he organized a new order, che
Paulists, the members of which take no
special VOWS, and from which any priest
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-02-26
FOOL KILLER REMIss IN nIs DUTY

From the Louisville Courier-Journal.
"Of course" says the Boston Advertiser,
"when the Island of Luzon is pacified' by
the slaughter of perhaps $4,000 natives the
American forces must go to the next island
and do some more killing and SO on through
the 400 islands," Not necessarily. If kill
is is our main object we can find inviting
territory nearer home and especially in
those parts of New England where the
fool killer seems to have been sadly re-
miss in his duty.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-02-26
The States Boss

From the Oneonta Democrat
Governor Johnston seems to think that
this state belongs to him and he has some
of our legislators SO completely under his
control that they will do just any thing he
asks of them. 1t seems ia be his purpose
to put every man out of office m this state
that opposes his election to the United
States senate. The constitution and laws
of the state amount TO nothing when one
of his friends wants an Office that one of
his enemies is legally holding.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-02-26
A just DenuncIation

From the Athens Democrat.
In this issue of the Democrat will be
found an article from The Birmingham
Age-Herald on the subject of Joe john
stonism" To say that the criticisms by
The Age-Herald of the governor of Ala
bama is just to our minds, puts it lightly.
Such wanton ingratitude, such useless ex-
posure of a friend to the carping criticism
of those who ever regard defeat as dis
grace, as that displayed by Governor john
ston in his treatment of Mr.. Tomlinson,
the close personal and political friend OF
many years standing, was never before
Witnessed in the state of Alabama. There
is every reason to believe that the governor
traded these offices for services rendered
in passing pet measures through the legis-
lature and to be rendered in his sena-
torial ambitions.
1t was thoroughly discourteous and hui
initiating to Mr. Tomlinson to have him
remain a candidate up to the very moment
of appointment of the commissioners, when
it is well known now that the governor
had not the slightest idea of appointing
him to the position which, 1t is said, he
was led to seek by the favorable repre-
sentation of one quite close to the gov
ernor. More odous treatment of a friend,
even by a politician, was never recorded.
However, the treatment accorded Mr.. Tom
linson by the governor has not in the least
affected our opinion of the latter. We Ak
ways considered him thoroughly selfish
politician and our opinion has been con-
firmed in his action in the appointment or
the railroad commissioners.
As for Mr.. Tomlnson, he has lost nothing
by the ungrateful treatment meted out TO
him by Governor Johnston. 1t is the gov
ernor who has lost prestige by his action.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-02-26
There Are Others

From the Opelka Pest.
Tomnson was not the only ardent friend
and supporter of Governor Johnston who
was led to believe UP to the last moment
that he had a good chance to receive the
coveted appointment. The governor has
doubtless succeeded in Disappointing many
of his friends.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-02-26

can depart whenever he chooses In all
other respects he made 1t easy for people
to join the ancient church. He tried to
modernize Ito bring 1t up to date--to
make all Christian churches one.
He died in 1888, and the publication la.
the French tongue of a biography of the
dead and gone preacher aroused the pope
to a protest against the innovations that
Father Hecker advocated and to some ex-
tent inaugurated. The truth is, Father
Eecker's spirit inspires today Archbishop
Ireland and other liberals of the church in
this country, as opposed to the spirit that
Archbishop Corrigan.
The matter is to be fought out within
the Catholic church, and other churches
are only spectators. But above and be-
yond the disputes that have arisen over the
grave of Father Hecker, is the deep and
sure proposition of the absolute oneness OF
Christianity. 1t may be dream now, but
along down the ages a time will come
whom warning sects will cease to be- 1t
may be delayed, however, until tho world
discovers that material prosperity Is not
necessarily, or even generally, real prog
ress, and that war is but official savagery
The tail end OF the twentieth century may
bring about all three, but the chances are
that 1t will take more than a century 10
undo the prejudices and misconceptions
and passions that have held sway in the
hearts of men from time immemorial.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-02-26
THE FRUIT OF THE coMMoN SCHOOL

From the Alexander City Outlook.
OF the legislators who have made history
for themselves, Hon. Thomas L. Bulger, of
Tallapoosa ranks among the foremost. His
educational bills have been the chief theme
Of the state. and though many of his coll
leagues failed to give him the proper aid
in carrying out the provisions of the law
they had help him make by voting down
the necessary revenue, he Is classed az
one of the men who have stood by fhe
common schools of the state.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-02-26
HARRISON WIN Retire

Baltimore, February 25-W. H. Harrison,
superintendent of motive power of the Bal
! thnore and Ohio railroad west of the Ohio
river, after forty-five years of service, has
decided to retire from active duty. He will
be succeeded by l. N. Kalbaugh, superin-
tendent of motive power east of the Ohio
river.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-02-26
Not One of the Few

From the Huntsville Mercury.
When Governor Joseph Forney Johnston
runs up against Hon. John w. Tomlinson,
DR.. Russell NJ. Cunningham and The Bir
mingham Age-Herald he will find the COM
bination top heavy. Few men could defeat
such opposition, and the governor of Ala
bama does not count among that few.
When he retires from his present office his
political career will be ended.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-02-26
Weighed In the Balance


From the Selma Times.
His excellency, Governor Joseph Forney
Johnston, of Alabama, must be stole OF
the stoics If he can calmly sit and read
unmoved the scathing criticisms by the
press and people of his home city and
county and of the state of his course in
the Jefferson county commissioners mud
die and in the appointment of Kyle as rail-
road commissioner instead of John w.
Iomlinson, his friend, who has stood by
him through thick and thin, through good
and evil, working day and night, regard
less of comfort and expense, in his inter-
est, and who had more endorsements from
the people all over the state for the posi-
ton than all the others combined.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-02-26
From the Florence Times.

From the Florence Times.
The Age-Herald of last Sunday was
great paper-a credit to the management
and to Birmingham. 1t showed up the
Magic City in great shape, and was an
advertisement that will be worth thousands
of dollars to the city. We wonder if Bir-
mingham people properly appreciate such
efforts of their newspaper men.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-02-26
ACandidate for Governor
From the Selma Times.

In this matter the Times believes thegov-
ernor has, in his overmastering desire to
score point in his race for the senatorship
but with no desire or intention to do so,
made It both possible and very probable
that according to the eternal fitness of
things" Colonel John w. Tomlinson will be
the democratic paty's candidate for COVER
nor In 1900. His record for silver Is as
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-02-26

From the Alexander City outlook.
The governor is not the first public DILL
cial to carry something up his sleeve
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-02-26

The barbarous Atlantic-coast climate has
sorely stricken the brightest, bravest gent
us in the world. All the world loves and
admires Rudyard Kipling, and all will
await with anxiety the outcome of his seri-
Gus illness. The hope is that his compare
tive youth and his native yigor will carry
him safely through the peril he Is in.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-02-26

Five deadlocked legislatures are frightful
examples of the selection of senatorial rep
resentatives by politicians, at least four Of
them being deadlocked by fat pocket
books.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-02-26
The Fate That Awaits Him

From the Columbian Chronicle.
If the governor is building up a machine
to put him into the United states senate,
his will be the common fate of all gov
ernors who have tried 1t.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-02-26

Mr. Mckinley and the only Alger return
ed from Boston to sit for their pictures to
Mr. Johnson, republican artist of repute
from Indiana.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-02-26
Fpom the Montevallo News.

Sundays Age-H Herald is wonderful feat
of journalism. 1t has invaluable Informal
ton as to the mineral resources of this dis
trict. The maps and other illustrations are
clean and elaborate. Great is the BIZ
mingham district. Great is Alabama.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-02-26

Egan is still true to the ring of Chicago
contractors. He admitted before the court
of inquiry that canned roast beef became
in Cuba repulsive in appearance, but 1t was,
he said, really very good Egan is simply
incorrigible.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-02-26

The Spanish grandees in the cortes think
they know how the Yankee pigs could have
been licked out of their boots. Fighting in
the cortes reads we'll at least.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-02-26

Alger should reconvene his whitewash
board. 1t is his only chance for getting
even with Boston-a coat of whitewash for
every hiss
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-02-26

Men who voted against Pettus for the
senate and Bryan for president are right
in it with Joseph. They are the boys.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-02-26

The good old Barnum Bailey circus
has been Anglicized and fully adopted, the
shares in the new limited liability COM
pany.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-02-26

Aguinaldo is playing for an American
bride that will outmatch his Spanish bride
of year ago.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-02-26

bright as the governors, and his staunch-
ness to friends is as strong and steadfast
as the governors Is weak and vasciIlating.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-02-26

Democracy is not in it. I'm for Joseph"
-one of the forty-five governors.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-02-26

General Fitzhugh Lee is endeavoring to
enrich the Cubans by banishing the lottery
and other forms of gambling This is q
harder task than whipping Spaniards.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-02-26

The report sent out from Washington
to the effect that Alger was not Kissed in
Boston, is denied by the Boston papers.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-02-26

The Billy Mason-Ben. Tillman treaty de-
bate is being acted over in the cortes, but
1t was never a lofty scene.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-02-26

A wholesome fear of the people is what
carried the Bulger one-mill school bill into
the statute books.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-02-26

Thirty thousand Spanish soldiers had the
good sense to prefer New Cuba to Old
Spain. They refused to be repatrioted.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-02-26

The motto of Alabama is Here We
Rest" The senatorship is in sight. but
there are those who will continue to rest
here.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-02-26

The white mans burden is becoming
heavy near Omdurman again.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-02-26

II you voted for Bryan In the last cleo
ton, your chances are nil at Montgomery.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-02-26

The political pull sticks out in every
portion of the Hull-Hawley army BILL
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-02-26

Every witness before the beef court vim
dicates General Miles.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-02-26

When personal ambitions outweigh party
loyalty, parties are rapidly becoming ex-
tinct.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-02-26

Joseph has a gold lining. Or, rather, ii
seems he is lining up in that direction
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-02-26

The Oregon is steaming to Manila. The
Oregon and Mr. George Dewey are good
pair to draw away from.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-02-26

And Senator Jim Nunnelee has "a word
to say, too. Senator Jim Is hoid-oVer
senator.