The age-herald., 1900-11-14
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE

it will fail; those in employ may expect to ! lose it."
 Astrologer Raphaers prophecies for
 Thursday. November 15, 1900:
 Do not travel or ask favors.'' Changes and travelling mayest thou ex-
 oect and of unfavorable nature; keep
 myself very quiet and do not give offense:
 avoid young people,
 "A child born on this day will be very
 headstrong and restless, conceited and ill.,
 hammered; it's success in life will be very
 poor; it should keep in employ"
 
 Hon. William D. Jelks, the new President
 of the State Senate and according to the law and circumstances the prospective Gov ernor of Alabama, is about 42 years old. He is a tal muscular man, with light auburn
 hair and long reddish mustache, just turn ing gray. He is of striking personal ap-
 pearance, and has laughing eyes and face; ] though he is in fact very serious minded man.
 MT. Jelks was educated at Mercer Uni- versity, Macon, Ga, and began work as
 bookkeeper for large store in Union Springs, of which his step father the late Major Wright, was head, the firm being Wright & Frazer. He purchased an inter- est in the Union Springs Herald and quit
 bookkeeping; his associates on the paper being E. H. Cabanss, afterwards his brother-in-law and now of the Birmingham bar, and D. F. Mccall, now of the Mont gomery Journal In 1881 he sold his interest in the Union Springs Herald and purchased the Eufaula Weekly Times and News. In
 February, 1882 he associated with himself Lucien Julien Walker who held a nominal interest in the Eufaula paper, and in that year was begun the publication of the Eu- faula Daily Times. In November Mir. Jelts went to Washington, where he remained several months, and then took short law course at the University of Virginia. In November, 1883, MT Walker went to Wash irgton, and few months subsequently, his | association with MT. Jelks was severed by mutual and friendly consent. With the ex- ception noted MT. Jelks was sole owner
 and editor of the Eufaula Times from the beginning of 1881 until he sold the property
 in 1898; and as such he made an enviable
 reputation as public man and accumu-
 lated a handsome private fortune. In 1898
 he was overwhelmingly nominated in pri-
 mary election by the Democrats of Bar bour for the State Senate, and was elected without opposition. In the Senate he at
 once took a commanding position; a fact clearly demonstrated by his election yes-
 terday without opposition to the Presidency of the Senate, and that in face of the ap- parent fact of his probable succession to tne Governorship of Alabama.
 AIr. Jelks is a man of the highest moral and physical courage, and is unquestiona- bly possessed of strong intellectual force. His daily walk is as nearly blameless as that of any man could well be; and he has always led upright. and worthy life. Personally he is a man of many charming qualities, and enjoys remarkable populari- ty. Mir. Jelks was married in 1883 to Miss Alice Shorter, second daughter of the late Maj. Henry R. Shorter for many years president of the Alabama Railroad Com
 mission, and of that union one child has been born, Miss Catherine Jelks, who is
 u schoolgirl of sixteen. Mrs. E. H. Caba- miss of Birmingham is MT. Jelks' sister, and Mr. Robert c. Jelke of Birmingham is his brother An older brother, pr. Jelks, | resides in Hot Springs, Ark.
  ''It is astonishing that remark attrbu- ted to General Wheeler that he foresaw the defeat of Bryan and had privately said as
 much should lead one or two newspapers of the State to attack this faithful and famous Alabama Democrat" said a noted Democrat yesterday. Such upbraidng of General Wheeler is not only unjust but is silly. Of course General Wheeler foresaw Bryans defeat. Almost all well-informed Democrats in Alabama and out of it feared | the result from the outset of the campaign; | in other words, nearly all wel-informed men foresaw the defeat of the Democratic ticket But that didn't make them any less Democratic in their allegiance. Hun dreds of thousands in the party didn't be- lieve in the Kansas City platform, but they supported it because it was their party
 law. They surrendered their convictions for the sake of their party, and certainly they deserve far more credit than the Dem- ocrats who believed in Bryan and the plat form. These latter surrendered nothing for the party; their duty and their convic- tions were identical. It a pleasure for them to support Bryan, because they be- lieved in him. but great many Democrats voted for him solely because he was the Democratic nominee, and in spite of the fact that they distrusted him and the plat form"
 "In Alabama there were large numbers ot Democrats opposed to Bryan, and some of them, perhaps, are not sorry he is de- feated. Even school children openly
 espoused McKinley's cause-Democratic children of Democratic parents and grand parents. Their fathers couldn't or wouldn't
 speak publicly what they thought but null titudes of children were outspoken in their rejoicing at the result of the election. This
 fact was most noticeable in Birmingham, where many schoolchldren actually talked for Mckinley after they got away from their books at school.
 'As for General Wheeler, very strong
 pressure was brought to bear to induce
 Ssm to say word for Mckinley; but he
 steadfasty refused, declaring that if the. Democratic party was to be defeated he was determined to be defeated with it; if 1t triumphed he would share its victory. It may be stated with absolute accuracy