The age-herald., 1899-04-07
IN HOTEL LOBBIES AND ELSEWHERE

| the returns of the late primary election, Mr. Lowe and MT. Hewitt 'tied,'' each being declared to have received 2,119 votes. | This same question came nearly to causing civil war in the United States once upon time. In the celebrated case of Tiden against Hayes for the presidency in 1876. and in which an infamous result was ar rived at, it was held by the electoral com mission that all facts behind the face of the returns as certified by returning boards | of Louisiana, Florida and South Carolina were aliunde-that is without the province of the court and not to be considered. The | returning boards of the states named were anti-democratic and in the most part, | alien, and therefore the infamous "S to ! commission" a body wholly unauthorized by law, declared Hayes to be president of the United States Everything back of the | returns was held to be aliunde.
 
 The story recalls an episode in the life of Samuel Sullivan ('Sunset) Cox. some- time member of congress from Ohio and for many years a congressman from New York, and all the time one of the best loved men in the states. Cox, along with the famous Matt Carpenter republican
 
 the democrats before the "S to T." Cox was making an argument to the commission, and with his usual impassioned and elo- quent manner He asked permission of the president of the commission to quote from the 1OSd Psalm, wherein reference was had to the voraciousness of the ravens The president denied the request, whereupon Cox threw his hands towards the heavens and, with most dramatic effect, exclaimed, Alas! alas! the Bible is aliunde tool" The effect is said to have been electrical.
 '"The story about Sunset Cox recalls ono about Matt Carpenter" chimed in another lounger in the lobby. Senator Carpenter whose untimely passing away all the na- ton mourned, was the most eloquent man in either branch of congress at that time, and one of the best in the United States. Carpenter, being the first orator of congress, was selected to make the well coming speech to King Kaliakao of the Sandwich Islands, on the occasion of the kings reception by congress in the nall of the house of representatives in 1876. The senate had gone to the hall of the house, and the president and all the great digni- SN of those isles which now constitute part of the United States was received with truly regal honors. At a nod from tho speaker of the house, who presided, Sena- tor Carpenter arose and made one of the most beautifully eloquent speeches of his great career as an orator. Amongst other things, Senator Carpenter said, addressing the king: May the relations existing be tween this country and that of your maj esty ever be as calm and peaceful as the mighty ocean that rolls between! That sentiment sounded very eloquent, but mo- body applauded To the credit of every one present. nobody laughed. Senator Car Penter had confused the name of the earth's greatest ocean with the significance of the name that Balboa gave it, when riding into it up to his saddle girth he took possession in the name of the king Of Spain and proclaimed, T call thee Pacific!' <"
 "All of which carries me back to the last time I remember to have seen Sunset Cox" said another lounger in the lobby. "I believe it was in November, 1882. Samuel J. Randall, John G. Carlisle and Sunset Cox were candidates in the democratic eau GUS for the speakership. The fact that Carlisle won in that memorable contest is a matter of our political history. The cau- GUS was held at night, and it was after 10 o'clock when a nomination was made. A committee was sent out to invite Mir. Car lisle to address the caucus. This he did in a singularly eloquent and modest man. ner. And members were reminded that two years before Carlisle was such an insignifi- cant member of the house that the speaker forgot to assign him to any committee. J. Warren Keller, of Ohio was the speaker at that time; and Keller was made a volun- teer major-general in the recent war with Spain. Cox, like Randall, was brought in. Cox had indulged in glass too much. He was supremely funny. Everybody roared with laughter. Randall was sedate, as usual Randall never took drink.
 "All this is very interesting" declared the growler with the briar-root pipe, but we started out to talk about Robert J. Lowe and Robert G. Hewitt as possible demo- cratic nominees for delegates to the consti- tutional convention from Jefferson county. | These gentlemen have decided between themselves to run it over before the peo- | ple ol lHe primary elecuOn Will take place next Saturday week, April 15. The contest | is of more than local interest. The entire | state is interested, for MT. Lowe is the | chairman of the state democratic executive I committee, and is at the same time chair l man of the county committee of Jefferson | MT. Lowe is the official head of the demo- | cratic party in Alabama and his own county | and therefore the present contest claims | the attention of the state, throughout all the counties of which MT. Lowe is highly honored and esteemed. Naturally enough | the democrats of the other counties | sympathize with MT. Lowe. But it must be said of MT. Hewitt that he is one of the best and most popular citizens of Jefferson. | Whether he would he as useful in the con- stitutional convention as Nr. Lowe would be, the democrats are now called upon to | decide"
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