The age-herald., 1899-04-21

CONVENTION AND
 EXTRA SESSION TALK From the Mobile Register.
 The press of the state now stands ten papers-including five republican and pepur- list-for the governor, and seventy-two against the governor.
 From the Guntersville Democrat
 It will cost less to defeat it at the polls than to hold an extra session of the legfsla- ture. It is hoped, therefore, that an extra session will not be called.
 From the Evergreen Courant.
 We believe that the white voters of Con- ecuh county, regardless of party. will vote for constitutional convention, since they are assured that no white man shall be de- prived of the privilege of voting They re- gard 1t as necessity.
 From the Greenville Advertiser.
 We have seen statements from a number of the members who are opposed to the repeal and if it is done it will be with the aid of the republican and populite mem bers, for we do not believe that majority of the democratic members are in favor of 1t.
 Fro m the Tuscumba Dispatch.
 Governor Johnston is the whole ''push,'' and the democratic party must accept his views as paramount. The press of the state, with few exceptions, Is in perfect sympathy with the action of the lezisiI- ture, and too much Johnstonism will not be tolerated.
 From the Camden New Era.
 We are unable to see in it anything but a determination to dominate the state of Alabama for the accomplishment of some political ends, through an utter disregard of his party, his people, and the aspirations of that large class of citizens who value manhood and love the honor of citizenship. From the Athens Courier.
 The Courier more than a year ago charged that the present governor of Ala bama, while making a good practical gov ernor, was trying to build about him a. ring that would control the party in Ala bama and use it for his own selfish pur- poses, to further his political aspirations. It develops that the Courier was prophet.
 From the Uniontown Herald.
 We cannot see what motive he has, nor indeed can we see any reason why he should thus attempt to slap the party in the face-the party which has honored him. We have heretofore supported Johnston. We have been for him in both his cam paigns, and have never before criticized him, but we are now free to say that he has come to tine parting of the ways, and no democrat can follow him without vio- lating fealty to his party.
 From the Athens Courier.
 It seems at this writing, Monday, that Governor Johnston has determined to call an extra session of the legislature of Ala bama for the expressed purpose of repeal ing the act calling constitutional conyen- tion. He does this, professing to save the state the expense of a constitutional con- vention. This cannot be the true end in view, for it will cost much to hold an extra session of the legislature as it would the convention, and if he is honest in his views that the people of Alabama do not wish a constitutional convention, why not let them vote it down at the July election and save the cost of either the extra session or the convention. But all the people of Alabama are not as blind as the governor would think, and they see through his scheme as well as he. It is a desperate effort to keep control of the party ma- chinery and to further his own ends politi- cally This will be the undoing of Joe Johnston, politically, in Alabama. A slap in the fact of the great, unterrified de- moeracy, such as he is giving, will be tho finishing touch to any man.
 From the Mobile Herald.
 It was one of the great commanders of ancient times, Hannibal we believe. who said of one of his victories that it cost him so dearly that many more such victories would ruin him. History repeats itself, and now we find Governor Joseph F. John ston in pretty much the same predicament that Hannibal was in. If he gets the leg- isature to agree to reassemble, and then persuades the members to repeal the res- olutions providing for a vote on call for a constitutional convention, his partisanS will throw up their hats and shout "Vic- tory!" but it will be a dearly bought vic- tory, for it will be-one that will mean de- feat for Joseph F. Johnstons ambitious hopes for the future. The governor has the reputation of being man of great tenac- ity of purpose, but he Is not the only man of that kind in the state of Alabama. There are hundreds of able and determined men who have fully made up their minds that the democratic party of Alabama shall not submit to a dictatorship, and that the interests of the people of Alabama shall no be subordnated to personal ambition. From the Oneonta News-Dispatch.
 Now comes Governor Johnston and says that a number of democrats have urged him to call an extra session of the gene-al assembly of Alabama for the purpose of considering the propriety of an act passed by the last legislature calling a constitu- tional convention and states as a reason that the act above referred to has created some dissatisfaction in the democratic party of this state. If the governor and a few others constitute the democratic party of Alabama (which we do not concede), there might be something in the matter worthy of consideration. But we have neither seen mol hard of any developments since the legislature adjourned which would cause single member of that body to so change his; mind who voted for the measure as to vote for it's repeal. If there was ever any serious obieetion to the act in