The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-07-30
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
AND ELSEWHERE

1t Is not out Of place to repeat the sus-
gestion that state politics is growing
warm. There is heat ahead. The skirm-
ism lines, long ago thrown out, are being
called in The lines of the real battle are
being formed. Men on the fighting line are
being warned that time is up. The flag
of fight is flung ahoat, and we are in for
the fray, whatever form it follow. Whether
Governor Johnston, Senator CUNNINGHAM,
General Shelley, John w. Tomlinson Or
Capt. w. C. Ward shall lead from Jeffer-
son. or whether any two or all of them
shall be in the race for the prize of the
high calling is not OF great moment, and
the people will not know-not today, or
tomorrow. or possibly for several days to
come. Those Of the supposedly possible
candidates from Jefferson are douotless
doing much thinking, but by my hall
dom!" they are not doing any great deal
of talking, either for publication or as a
guarantee of good faith AS was suggested
of Senator Cunningham many days ago,
these gentlemen are holding their tongues
in all the known languages.
These statements in so far as they go
are truth. Doubtless many attempts at
combinations are being made for securing
the delegates from Jefferson county demo-
Gratis. Curiously enough, nearly all the
local gossip about county alliances in Jef-
ferson is associated in some way with the
name of Governor Johnston. The chief
matter dealt with, apart from the various
candidates themselves, seems to be as chow
the governor stands" As a matter of fact,
If not as a matter of course, the gov
ernors attitude in this particular is of
great moment to all those citizens of JEFF
ferson who are or may be candidates for
the governorship This is also true OF cam
didates or would-be candidates in other
counties. after all is said and DONE"
said politician. there has got to be a
reckoning with Mars joe"
A long letter signed j. w. Oates. and
coming from California, is printed by the
Montgomery Advertiser. The writer is J.
Wyatt Oates. formerly from Henry
county, the younger brother of
Former Governor William Calvin Oates,
and for some twenty years a prosperous
lawyer on the Pacific slope. Wyatt Oates
removed from Alabama to California in the
dawn of a bright young manhood, and has
greatly prospered there. He married there
a gifted woman of large fortune, and al
though lone of the Oldest inhabitants
now, is still a young man of great physical
jpowers-one of the strongest Alabamians
who have gone out to make their fortunes
in other states.
Representative John Hollis Bankhead, of
the Sixth district, is at the Morris.
Everybody in salubrious Jones valley has
been swearing at the weather for two
months, and very properly so swearing, but
yesterday was the worst day yet expert
enced and last night the worst night for
heat. The temperature of the atmosphere
was not so high as 1T has been on other
days but the humidity was abnormal by
several degrees. The air was steamy, al
most suffocating. 1t was crushing in its
oppressiveness and left every poor wretch
in the valley washed out"
Hon. Thomas NJ. Owen and Mrs. Owen,
of Carrollton, who have been spending sew
eral weeks in Jefferson, returned home last
night
Captain ]. L. sMcConnaughy of Monte
vallo was in town yesterday.
j. Lamotte Morgan, who has just re-
turned from Buefields and who was re-
ported by the Associated Press in yester-
days Age-Herald as saying that the
Nicaraguans were opposed to American
aggression, formerly resided in Birming-
ham, and is we'll known here 1t is I'M
derstood that he still claims this city as
his legal residence. For several years he
was secretary of the United States lega-
ton at Mexico.
john deb. Hooper is in Admission.