The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-04-15
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The democrats of Jefferson county will
today decide who will be the sixth dele
gate to the constitutional convention.
ut appears to me that 1t is the duty Of
Jefferson county to send Mr.. Lowe to the
constitutional convention" said a promi-
nent state democrat yesterday. "Jeffe1 SON
county has been honored by Mr.. Lowe be-
ing made the official head of the democratic
state organization. Several campaigns have
been conducted from this city, and this is
not of inconsiderable benefit to Birming-
ham. The chances are that the next stale
convention will be held in this city and this
can all be attributed to Mr.. Lowe. 1t Is
/ almost question of party fealty to elect
him to tho convention. Aside from this,
the county could not find better repre-
sentative. He is chairman of the county
executive committee, and man who could
wear any honor gracefully. He has con-
tributed willingly much of his time in fight
ing the battles of Jefferson county and
nothing that jefferson can give is too good
for him. The entire state is looking TO this
county to place him in the convention
which will revise the states organic law.
This is the view of an outsider"
Captain w. p. Lay, a prominent demo-
crat and citizen of Gadsden, is in the d.y.
He has been here two days attending the
sessions of the state board OF fire insurance
underwriters. He was in the party which
made a tour of the Birmingham district
yesterday, and was very much impressed
with it's developments.
Birmingham is on a regular BOOM" said
he. Never a day passes but that some
new deal is on foot. Birmingham is cef-
tainly in prosperous condition"
'I have had many peculiar, as well as
unique, experiences in pardon.ng crimi-
nails" said former Governor Thomas u
Jones while seated in cafe entertaining
crowd of his friends. Some of these ex-
periences were comical. and some very pa
thetic. The funniest incident that L now
recall was that of a middle-aged negro
who had been sent up for stealing chickens.
1 CHANGED to be at Wetumpka, and went out
to the state penitentiary early in the morn
ing. I was alone, and took walk about
the walls to satisfy my own curiosity. L
passed an old negro who was working in
dustriously to fill wheeIbarrow with
trash. l noticed that he looked all around,
apparently to see if guard was watching.
He seemed satisfied, and called to me,
Boss! tBossI 1 stopped, and the CONVEX
sation began. He finally told me that he
would give me $50 if 1 would get him in to
see the governor. He had heard the gov
ernor would be there on that day. He told
me that he had been sent up for stealing
chickens, and when 1 questioned him he
rl0I
the matter He said he knew he could get
a pardon because the guards had told him
they could arrange it for $50. told him
that l would guarantee that he would get
an audience with the governor. 1 asked
HIM to pay over the money, but he was
too clever for this.
81 left him and went on to the warden's
office. l Immediately sent for the negro,
and he was ushered into my presence. He
didn't seem to recognize me, and went on
with a pitiful story of how an innocent man
had been convicted. When he got through
l let HIM know that 1 was the same man
he had seen in the morning The old negro
was so abashed that promised to sign his
pardon, and he went away happy"
Rev. Homer T. Wilson, of Fort Worth,
TEX, is registered at the Morris.
Representative Burnett of Gadsden ar
rived in the city last night, and will leave
this morning at $40 for Montgomery.
The following were among the Alabam-
ians registered al the hotels yesterday:
}. f. Dimmick, L. L. Turner, w. A. Kirk
patrick, of Admission.
Henry F. WHY, Mobile.
Frank Fitch, Brierheld.
T. l.. sowell and j. Fl. Mcclure, Jasper.
Robert L. Stephenson, New Decatur.
f. II. Lathrop, Riverside.
S. s. Peasants, Huntsville.
w. A. Walker, Ganadaque.
II. A. Schey, Eufaula.
S. Wilson, Eufaula.
w. c. Dyer, Stanton.