The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-12-11
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| OF election commissioners mad decided InaL
Taylor the republican candidate, had been
elected governor of Kentucky" said
Kentuclxian in the lobby of the Morris. 1T
don't believe the statement to be true. For
| fifteen years 1 have known State Senator
| Goebel and in all that time have not seen
| him SMILE not to speak of laughing. I am
| Goebel man, in the Sense that I favored
| his election, and that 1 am an Organized
| democrat; but don't believe he ever laugh
| ed during the whole course of his life.
| Moreover, don't believe Goebel can laugh;
! I very seriously doubt If he can advance so
| far in geniality as to smile. He is not only
man without the gift of laughter, twin
| sister of joy as Bob Ingersoll termed it,
| but he is nearly may be a smieess man.
! Ordinarily such a man is not to be trusted;
| but I, together with almost half the citi-
| zens of Kentucky, trust him, albeit he is
the coolest man whom ever knew. If you
| should cut Goebels veins, l verify believe
they would bleed icicles. Yet he is a strong,
| resolute, valiant man, notwithstanding the
| villainous stories related concerning him.
| He is a man of boundless ambition, spirit
very likely to be checked by the result Of
| the Kentucky election. 1t would seem to
| the outsider quite probable that Goebels
political career is ended, but he is the sort
| of man who never gives up any sort of
| fight. He Is fighter, and believe he will
| take the gubernatorial matter before TIE
legislature in contest. Whatever bis own
| friends or the democrats of the country out
| side of Kentucky may desire in that direc-
| ton, you may rely upon it that Goebel will
| follow his own inclinatons regardless of
| all other considerations. He Is the coolest
man in all Kentucky, and the most self
| reliant. The certified result of the Kentucky
| election must be to him unspeakably bitter;
and If he laughed when he was informed
| of the official declaration that Taylor was
| elected governor. it must have been a dia-
| bolical LAUGHING laugh at all-merely
articulate sheer and an expression of hate
| and resentment. 1t would be interesting 10
| hear from Goebel regarding his own secret
| feelings at this time
THE newspapers quote Senator Mason as
| making a declaration to the effect that he
| would resign his office unless the senate re-
Duke President Mckinley account of his
policy respecting the Philippines and our
other colonial possessions, or, in other
words, repudiate the president" said D.
| l.. Ball of Chicago at the Morris last night.
81 fear that this is too good to be true.
The senate will not rebuke the president
nor repudiate his policy; and if Senator
Mason said what is attributed to him. and
will keep faith with the public Illinois will
have a happy radiance, in so far as the
United States senate is concerned: though
there is no certainty that Mason would
not be succeeded by man quite as I'M
speakable in humbuggery and political
blackguardism. Mason in the senate fat,
greasy, 1oud-mouthed person that he is,
should make Illinois blush for it's own
transgression. There was a time when that
great state sent none but men intellectual
ly and morally great to the senate; but
that day is passed, unhappily. Senator Gull
lom is a good and able man, one to whom
you might as we'll compare Hyperion to a
satyr as compare him with the vulgar
mouthed Mason. The man who came near
est to defeating Mason for the senate was
Martin B. Madden, whose only visible
means of support consisted of the three
dollars day he received as a member of
the Chicago board of aldermen If one
should shake Madden and Mason together
in bag, and then hold the bag up the
open end downward, it would be difficult to
correctly guess which would fall out first.
They are a noble pair of brothers, truly!
1t is amazing that the third state of the
Union should elect a man like Billy Ma
son to the senate, and consider for a mo-
ment a man like like the ambitious per-
son Madden. But we have got to bear in
mind that Illinois has elected Altgeld and
Tanner governors respectively. Illinois Is
gone to pot!''
1t ds said that Former Mayor Thomas
Jeffers will be a candidate in 1900 for the
office of coroner of Jefferson county. Apart
from all other contests, this will add an
unwonted picturesqueness to the canvass
for county offices. tom" letters was may
or of Birmingham more than twenty years
ago, when this town had just begun to grow
into Importance Together with Frank p
O'Brien, Willis J. Miner, Ben F. Roden,
John A. Miner and Dr. Luckie, he was a
citizen of Birmingham long before this city
had put off its swaddling clothes, and was
one of the first men to come to this material
Mecca of the south. For a time he was
mayor, chief of police, and city clerk; and
thousand good stoSAes are told on the old
man in connection with his official life. He
was at one time a principal owner of the
gas plant one of the proprietors of the wa