The age-herald., 1899-08-25
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE

lfs
 4 r'The nomination of Judge A. H. Longino
 by the democrats for governor was the re-
 suit of a combination between the nominee
 and McLaurin. who is candidate for the
 senate to succeed MT. Sullivan. McLaurin
 is in the saddle and Allen is leading
 hopeless fight to down the present govern or" said Mlssssippian at the Morris yes-
 terday "McLaurin is politician on the Johnston order, and every office bestowed
 by him is given with the idea of future
 reciprocity. He has built up a powerful
 machine in Mississippi. as Johnston has
 done in this state. When Senator Walthall
 was removedSfrom the political arena by death. McLaurin appointed the weakest ap- plicant for the position. Congressman Sui- livan.z It was a distinct understanding be- tween Sullivan and McLaurin that the for mer was not to be a candidate to succeed himself. but was to throw what little sup port he might have 10 the present govern- or. Sullivan has fulfilled his part of the agreement and at the end of his present term in the senate will probably retire to private life, although yet quite young man. It now seems almost folly for an aspirant for political honors in Mississippi to offond McLaurin. Private John Allen was considered the most popular man in the state, but when he opposed McLaurin it was not long before he realized the pow CT of the chief executive. feel sorry for Alabama If the people of this state allow Johnston to accumulate the strength at present held by McLaun across the bor- der"
 "Hon. Charles E. Waller is in Madison in the interest of his candidacy for gub- ernatorial honors, and he has found the people of that section quite favorable to him." said a man from Huntsville last night. MT. Waller endeared himself to the people by his opposition to the one-man power policy as pursued by Johnston, and he is going to put up warm fight in every section of the state. In the Tunstails he
 has some of the truest friends. the most honorable gentlemen, and the shrewdest politicians in the state to assist him and the combination will make itself heard. If you are a betting man don't hestitate to place a few dimes on that proposition" The reporter hastened to assure him that
 he was not betting man.
 "The so-called Twentieth street death- trap has suddenly become great bugaboo to the citizens of Birmingham. said Morris avenue merchant yes- terday. q think that if the gen. tlemen who of late quake with fear each time they think of passing from the North to the Southside via Twentieth street would consider while they would remem- Der that as many persons if not more have been killed at each of the crossings on Twenty fourth, Eighteenth and Fourteenth streets than at Twentieth. for one sSe no necessity for the city to expend vast amount of money to construct an elevated passageway. What is needed is watchful fiagmen and the exercise of more caution by pedestrians and those rich enough to ride"
 T "The attempt to injure Bryan in the south by circulating malicious story that the Nebraskan refused to vote for Crisp because the famous Georgian was a Con- federate soldier suddenly ceased after Ned Braces expose of the calumny in the col
 umns of The Age-Herald," said a silver man yesterday "The enemies of the dem oeratic leader have searched in vain for some truthful charge to bring against him, but their quest has been in vain and they
 have now resorted to lying in their efforts to defeat him.
 q am going out of the law business" said member of this profession yesterday.
 This avocation is overcrowded in Birming- ham. I saw in the hotel lobbes column of The Age-Herald two or three days .ago where some lawyer said every lawyer in Birmingham was making a good living. That fellow, whoever he was. didn't know
 what he was talking about. There are plenty of lawyers in this city who are find ing it a terrible struggle to keep soul and body together. No, sir, I'm not going to fool along with it any longer. I'm looking for work of some other kind right this min- ute, and I'm not going to stop until I find | something else to do.'
 .'The story from New York via. Annis- | ton that Hon. John B. Knox's lance had much to do with the puncturing of the Wilett-Van Wyck presidential hot-air bal loon has much plausibiity." said If. A. ] Lawson yesterday. "Knox's presence in | New York was followed almost immediate | ly by cessation of the cry that the south | is for Van Wyck to succeed Mckinley. Governor Johnston's connection with the l matter is obscured under the cloud which, | as usual. surrounds the executives moves | on the political chessboard. Johnston
 keeps closer eye on the cat than any other man in the south, and to him the d. rection of the felnes jumps is not yet ap- | parent He may learn too late"
 A Oahi r l Steiner yesterday that he had arrived at | Rennes. MT. Steiner will spend several | days attending the Dreyfus trial.