The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-08-23
IN HOTEL LCBBIES
AND ELSEWHERE

| l"The good work goes on" said a eorpo-
ration lawyer as he walked away from the
Board of Revenue session yesterday. "Ev-
erybody gets a raise. If you are deter
mined to see the back tax commissioners
hand you must appeal to the curtis, and
that costs more than a whole years taxes
would come to-"
Judge Pet Caffee announces today"
said the hotel lobby politician. that Gov
ernor Johnston has come out of the woods
and is a full fiedged candidate for the SEN
ate. l am glad of 1t. because want to
see straight rough and tumble fight be-
tween Morgan and Johnston. Both are
strong men. Morgan has been recognized
the most popular man with the people
Alabama has produced in this generation.
Johnston was never accused of being per-
sonally a popular man, but he is persistent
shrewd. and knows when and how to
strike a popular chord He is the kind of
a fellow who finds out the way the process
sion of people is marching. and runs
around the block to get at the head of said
procession. which he leads in the path it
ston knows a whole lot of things. He
knows human nature. He is shrewd and
he believes the end justifies the means.
So, L say. you are going to see flint and
steel fight
Morgan has been waiting for Johnston
to come out of the woods. Johnston is out
now. The fight is up to Morgan. Watch
the grand old warrior. There's fun ahead.
tbar stn for
campaign funds" continued the lobby poll
tician. There is one man in this country
to whom Morgain's defeat would be worth
a full forty miles of railroad valued at
twenty-five thousand dollar mile. Figure
that out for yourself. This man looks up
on Morgan as the fountain source of the
Nicaragua canal. and he don't want that
canal built. You can guess at the balance.
I'll tell you more when the leaves begin to
turn"
81 regret to see some of the white boys
of Birmingham going into the bootblackng
business" said Colonel Breck Musgrove
yesterday. "Such a violation of the white
and black boy agreement may lead to the
negro boys developing into newsboys, as
they have done in Atlanta. That might
PiONe uHIOItutdle LOT the WHfte boys.
Il was in New York few weeks ago."
he continued during the newsboy strike.
The boys boycotted the Evening World and
the Evening Journal because of high
prices. These papers employed men at
large salaries to sell their papers The
only thing the boys could do was to fight
Tor their rights. They are as a rule tiny
little chaps, but they were as thick as
blackbirds. I saw about hundred of them
tackle two men selling Worlds in front of
the Marlborough hotel one afternoon. The
first few boys making the attack were
thrown and kicked right and left, but on
they came until they got the men down
and beat them so that ambuiances had to
be called, The boys fought not only with
fists and feet, but with their teeth. In
deed, they almost chewed up one of the
men. Several hundred people gathered to
see the contest, and I don't think there
was one in the crowd in sympathy with
the men. The crowd was unanimously with
the boys.
and by the way. during the tendency
of the strike 1 understand the Evening
Telegram, which with the boys in
their contest, sold four hundred thousand
papers a day.