The age-herald., 1899-08-03
IN HOTEL LOBBIES a AND ELSEWHERE

candidates for local offices and for the leg
 islature is more agitated,.. said member
 of the democratic committee of Jefferson
 county. "1hree men have informed me to-
 day that they will be candidates for the
 legislature, and have honored me with re- quests for my support l made no prom
 ises, but took occasion to say that l my self might be a candidate fer the lower house. l do not know whether l shall of
 fer myself a willing sacrifice upon the altar of political duty, you understand, but may. Candidates for the legislature next
 year will be compelled to state their con-
 victions as regards the United States sena-
 torshdp. Members will not be nominated
 and elected in the dark. The senatorship
 is involved, and every voter will demand
 to know the choice for senator of the man
 he votes for. That is the proper action to take. A vote for a legislator is a vote for United States senator. Here ba Jefferson
 county we are likely to have a large crop
 of legislative candidates. but we can elect
 only seven, and all of us intend to know
 before election just how the candidates stand, for we wish to vote inteligently. The chances for dodgers to succeed will
 be very slim, whatever form the canvass
 may assume. So citizens desiring to serve
 tne state in the, general assembly next year must come out and fight in the open' The fact that the next legislature will be
 charged with the duty of eleeting United States senator makes membership of that body of much mTe political importance than the purely county offices that are to be filled. Some several hundred of these county officers are to be chosen, including sIxty-sx sheriffs, the most important of them all perhaps For the legislature there | will be a lively scramble. It is estimate that there will be forty candidates for the | six places from Jefferson. Last year there | were twenty. Apart from the election of senator, other important matters will be l disposed of by the legislature of 190O-190l, | chief of which will deal with the constitu-
 ton, and possibly with the redistricting of tne state under the next census. Thus it is easily seen that a member of the next legislature will be charged with the gravest
 of public duties.
 Adjutant General Brandon arrived in Bir-
 mingham from Washington yesterday. He went to Washington for the purpose of ob- taining repayment of ST, ,210 expended by
 the state in getting volunteers for the late
 war to the points of mobilization and to secure proper equipments for the reorgan-
 ized National Guard of Alabama. In all of his objects Colonel Brandon was entirely successful, returning with a treasury draft for the money due the state and with or | ders for all the equipment desired for the | national guard. Colonel Brandon declared
 that he was determined to pursue his can- 1 didature for congress from the Sixth dis
 trict, in succession to Colonel Bankhead. Edgar l.. Mitchell, of Bessemer has &C., cepted a position with Bradstreet's agency in Birmingham. succeeding Shelby Smith, | who returns to journalistic work. Mir Mitchell will be engaged in reporting and canvassing for Bradstreet's and his energy
 and ability will be a guarantee of good
 work for the great mercantile agency MT.
 Mitchell is one of the best known young
 men of Jefferson, and one of the best liked. His high character has made him trusted
 and admired by the whole community. MT. Mitchell will retain his residence at Besse-
 mer.
 The machinery for the practical exhibit of
 the Lowry Round Bale of cotton at the
 Paris exposition next year is being made by
 the Munger-N r-Northington-Pratt Gin com- pany, of Birmingham, and it will be a
 model of the finest ginning and pressing
 machinery constructed. It will be put up in
 the American building in Paris. and will
 operate with American seed cotton, show
 ing the old world for the first time the cot
 ton as it comes from the field. and as it is aI ,,1 hx,f fha lat anI
 scientific method. The exhibit will be in part in charge of men from the Birming-
 ham factory. The Lowry bale weighs 25o pounds and Is so powerfully pressed that
 a farmer might take it to market in the foot of his buggy.
 The astral body of the senator from Jeff ferson, Dr. Russell M. Cunningham. was
 seen at the Morris last night and recog-
 nzzed by dozens of men. Sitting together
 just under the archway of the main en-
 trance to the hotel were Dr. Davidson and
 Captain Demere. A man passed along the
 broad pavement near the outer edge, and Captain Demere called out "Doctori' The
 man paid no attention to the greeting, but passed a few paces further on, seated him.
 self in an unoccupied chair. "Ah, doctorr
 cried pr. Davidson at him whom he sup posed to be Dr. Cunningham. The man regarded Dr. Davidson with silent amaze ment whereupon the latter shook his fist vigorously at Senator Cunningham CD. The senator CD was alarmed. The truth then
 became apparent and fifty men laughed loudly Senator Cunningham was at that moment many miles away. The figure sit-
 ting there was unmistakably the senator's
 other self. The resemblance was amazing. The stranger and the senator were physi- cally identical.
 Representative John H. Bankhead, of the
 Sixth district, is in the city, and last night
 was the guest of Representative Oscar W. Underwood al the latter's residence on the
 South Highlands. Former Representative Thomas s. Plowman, of the Fourth district,
 is also in the city. The three leaders were
 together last night, but they affirmed that they had not discussed politics.