The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-11-17
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will cross swords in joint debate at Athens
tomorrow. Many will perhaps go up from
| Birmingham to hear it. The governor
| leaves here tonight and the senator win
probably reach Athens today.
Athens is the only point yet agreed upon
for joint debate. But it is understood that
Senator Morgan desires to divide time
with Governor Johnston wherever the gov
ernor may speak in the promotion of his
own interests for the United States sena-
| torship. 1t is further understood that
| if, the governor does not consent to this
amicable arrangement Senator Morgan
| will follow him at all places where he shall
| speak. 1t is not given out that the senator
| shall speak on the same day as the COVER
| nor at each place, but that he shall follow
! him Immediately
This will make the canvass of intense in
| terest to all the state. Apparently Senator
Morgan has determined to make vigorous
| fight for the retention of his seat the
senior senator for Alabama. 1t seems that
| the people are to see Morgan as he used
| to be''-Morgan of the unsurpassed elo-
quenee, Morgan of the terrible irony and
| inveetive Morgan 5 he was when he thun-
dered with appalling force against misgov-
eminent five and twenty years ago.
In Limestone, it is understood, William
| M. Hundey and Judge Hayes have retired
from the contest for the house of represen-
tatives leaving Earl Pettus to make the
fight for the house and to make it as the
avowed supporter of Senator Morgan. Mr.
Pettus is a member of the present house.
The various candidates for sheriff of JEFF
ferson county to succeed Hon. Frank P.
o. Brien, who is ineligible to reelection and
who is an avowed candidate for the lower
house of the legislature, are beginning ito
bestir themselves in their own interests,
though as yet there seems to be we'll
defined organization in favor of any one
man. The candidates for sheriff, in so far
| as aseertainable at the moment, are as fol-
lows George A. Shirling, Coalburg; An
drew Burgin Birmingham; T. S. Smith,
Elyton; James A. Pounds, Birmingham
James A Estes. Woodward E. L. Hgdon,
Woodlawn; James A. Downey, Birming-
ham.
He was unregardful of great movements
who failed to perceive the full significance
of NEGRO Day. at the Alabama State Fair
Yesterday. There appeared to be thousands
of negroes in attendance and undoubtedly
thousands of representatives of the eolored
race were present. They were orderly, in
happy mood and bent upon their own
ioyment; and there were perhaps fewer ar
rests than were made upon any other day
of the fair. The outward appearance and
the general conduct of the negroes were a
revelation and a useful lesson to the
thousands of white persons present. Well
dressed, perfectly orderly, good hammered,
they presented an object lesson almost be-
yond all belief in its eloquence They didn't
eat chewing gum. they didn't eat tobacco
they didn't eat cheap cigars. but they wore
clean Clothes comported themselves Clearly
and orderly, and demonstrated to the world
their right to a place in the great plan of
material salvation. Tho negroes gave to
Alabama yesterday the most convincing
display of their own advancement, and they
gave 1t modestly and in all respects becom-
ingly. The negro showed himself at his
best advantage, and he had no favors to
ask of 1.-The white man. or any man. The
negro showed himself better than hitherto
he has ever shown himself in the south
elsewhere, and this morning he has nobody
but himself to thank. He did the work
He won the prize of the high calling. The
children of the old slave-owners who were
bern years ago still love tenderly the old
darkey; but they Who so love are them
selves passing rapidly. The negro must
make his own friends. my old Black
| Nanny is gone to God these unnumbered
| years, and maybe from the far fair land
| she looked at her race. If she did, that
| good soul must have been touched by the
| sight at the park where wealth and
| progress represented. The negro is
| playing his own part in the great scheme
| of material advancement.
The oldest newspaper man in Alabama,
not excepting the Hon. William Wallace
| Screws, the veteran editor of the Montgom-
cry Advertiser, Mr. Monroe, of the Eutaw
| Wing and Observer, General James Berney
Stanley, of the Greenville Advocate, or any
other man whatever, is John A. Warren, of
| Tuscaloosa, who is now in town attending
| the State Fair. Mr.. Warren began jour-
nalistic work more than fifty years ago,
| and most of his long, useful and honored
| life has been devoted to the "art preserva-
tive of all arts" He is rosy-faced today
under the burden of the years, and is buoy
ant under the gentle pressure of the cycles
| as they race their way. That spirit which
| seizes upon all men who labor with the
graphite pencil still dominates the sweet
hearted old veteran of the Tuscaloosa press
| who sought more than fifty years ago to
point out to statesmen the paths of recti-
tude and righteousness.
Upon the register at the Morris there is
| an ilustrous name. 1t is Daniel Pratt of
| Prattville. Old Daniel Pratt was the foun-
der of the first gin factory and cotton mill
in Alabama, and about his early efforts
have grown the Prattville of today, and the
| great plant of the Northington-Pratt Mum