The age-herald., 1899-09-07
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 l AND ELSEWHERE

LIN F1OlEL LO0DlES
 AND ELSEWHERE
 Public interest in the pending contest
 for the democratic gubernatorial nomna-
 lion is distinctly revived by apparently
 well-founded gossip to the effect that Sen- 1 ator Cunningham will this week formally | declare himself to be candidate to sue
 eeed Governor Johnston. He has not yet
 announced" but his declaration may be given out today. It seems now almost cer-
 tain that he will speak out in meetin' " | before next Sunday, and things political | will begin to shape themselves more clear
 ly and definitely The senator came to town 1 yesterday afternoon and saw some of his | friends, amongst them being Representa-
 tive Bankhead of the Sixth district who
 arrived in town from Fayette on Tuesday. l Representative Bankhead is generally
 credited with the work of grooming l Senator Cunningham for the gubernatorial
 race; but gossip of that nature may arise | from the close relations of friendship puD- l licly known to exist between the two men.
 II Senator Cunningham becomes a candi- | date for governor, the most likely lining in i politics at the moment, he will receive MT.
 Bankheads support in all probability. 1ne senator may open the ball in Jefferson at
 any hour.
 1 The numerus good citizens of Jefferson l who nave up their lightning rods are some | what backward in coming forward with
 the announcement that they desire office
 at the hands of the unterrifed In Mont gomery county the contest of the candi- 1 dates has been hot for several weeks, and
 it is still a-heafing. as reports run. In 1 Dallas, Jackson, Madison and other coun- | ties those citizens who would serve the
 people for reasonable consideration are shelling the woods nightly. Jefferson
 candidates are doubtless doing about l but they seem to be mostly on still hunts l l. Is said that when the showdown comes 1 fully fifteen candidates for sheriff will be | on the list. For the other offices no es-
 innate as to numbers appears to have l been arrived at. For the senatoTsihip but l two names have been discussed-Sheriff O'Brien and Representative Burkhalter. | Last year there were twenty candidates
 for the six places as representatives from l the county. That number will probably be | considerably exceeded in the primary eiec- 1 ton that will be called within the next | few months; for the legislature which is
 10 be elected next summer will be of vastly 1 more importance than the general assem- 1 bly now in office. A United States sena- tor will be elected, something will be done | by amendment or otherwise for the better ment of the constitution, and the state will
 likely be redisricted for congressional and l legislative purposes under the census of
 June, 1900.
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 By the way the census will probably
 show a population of 10000 to 10000 in 1 Jefferson county, as compared with 5000
 in 1890, the percentage of increase in l population up to the present time has been l very great; and men most competent to i form estimates in such matters declare 1 that the industries now being built at Ems l ley alone, and which will be put into oper- l ation within a few months, will add 10000 | inhabitants to the county. These people 1 will come from the west and east, chiefly l from the Pittsburg district. This increase l in population will give Jefferson three or | four additional representa- atives in the leg l islature. making nine ten members to be | elected in 1902. The senatorship will not be l effected for the present constitution pro- | hibts the division of any county in form- 1 ing senatorial district. The constitution | as it stands fixes the number of senators | at thirty-three and the representatives at | one hundred and provides that every coun- 1 ty shall have at least one representative. | Assuming that the constitutional provis-
 ions respecting the general assembly shall | remain as they are, very reasonable as-
 sumption. and the counties are not chang
 ed. the census of 1910 will give Jefferson
 practically all of what may be termed the l odd members of the house. Assuredly l there will be tremendous gains in other counties, such Talladega, Calhoun, Shel-
 by, Bibb Walker, Tuscaloosa, Franklin,
 Marion and Colbert, and great advance
 ment in all the sixty-six counties, but it is
 not in the nature of things that any other
 county or district can approach the pro-
 digious strides of Jefferson with it's large territory of incomparable richness.
 1
 E. N. Cullom the new president of the l North Birmingham Land company, will
 take up the duties of his office on the 1st
 of October; and from that time forward | the company will put forth every possible
 effort towards the development of its i splendid property. The recent increase of
 the stock from ss0O,0G0 to $1 200, 900 places
 the company in an easy position financially,
 and the purpose is to spare nothing in the
 work of upbuilding North Birmingham and
 that immediate locality. The land com l pany owns 3,000 lots, and the splendid North i Birmingham Park, in which there Is one i of the most beautiful woods in this dis l trict Within the next twelve months 1 great work of development will be done.
 MT. Cullom is eminently qualified to direct 1 this work. He Is a man of restless energy and enterprising spirit; and he has had
 many years of experience in building up
 waste places On Eleventh avenue he has
 built and sold 125 attractive dwelling 1 houses. and has made that one of the most
 beautiful residential streets in this or any 1 other southern town. What he has done I there is an earnest of what he may do at | North Birmingham.