The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1900-09-02

It is none of my fight. but 1t is the BUSH
ness of the State Democratic Executive
Committee to interfere in the Fifth Dis
trict Congressional contest and decide
whether Thompson or Brewer be the regu-
lar nominee of the party, or that neither be
SUCH In the latter event, a new primary
should be called in the district and the
contestant with the largest number of
Democratic votes should be declared the
regular nominee. Otherwise, a Republican
will probably represent this district in the
next Congress-. Alabama can't afford to
have Republican from that district in
Congress. The State is asking much at
the hands of Congress. 1t is entitled to all
it asks. 1t must have good representatives
to force its claims. And Democratic rep
resentatives. All indications are that the
next House of Representatives will be
Democratic, and we all know that DEM
ocratc House favors a Democratic State,
as a Republican House favors a Republic
can State.
This Fifth District matter is of i'm
portance. The State Committee should pass
upon it's acts. Either Thompson or Brewer
is the regular nominee, or else the contest
should be made over again within party
lines. Let there be no united Republican
party against a divided Democratic party
in any section of the State of Alabama.
Political fights are interesting. but they
don't seem to arouse the same amount of
interest among the enthusiastically inclined
in Birmingham as prize fight. Few in
quiries came over the phone to The Age
Herald office on the night of the Good
water convention as to what the conven-
ton had done. The Corbett-McCoy prize
fight, however, led to not less than several
hundred calls over the telephone in The
Age-Herald editorial rooms to know its re-
suit. There were inquiries before the fight
really started. There wasn't a moment
from o'clock in the evening until hour
after the fight had ended that some one
was not ringing up to know the result of
the fight
1t is an interesting question to be consid-
cred as to what this would indicate. Are
the people of Birmingham brutal in their
tastes? Prize fights are considered brutal
Or is it that they are more interested in
sports than in political results; that, is,
provided one could call prize fight a
sport.
l have observed for year or more past
that more inquiries come over the tee-
phone to the results of prize fights and
baseball games than as to the results in
any political or diplomatic contest 1t is
hard to tell from what class of citizens
these inquiries come because few people
give their names when making such in
quiries Yet it takes ali sorts of people to
make up a world. Henry Grady used to
say that he would not have a reporter on
the Atlanta Constitution who was not en-
thusiastic on baseball, football, horse races
or some other out-of-door sport The man
who was not interested in athletic sports
was not possessed of the requisite amount
of human nature for a reporter whose duty
it was to write that which interested the
public
Grady was an enthusiastic Y. NJ. c. A.
man. He was the instrument through which
the great Y. NJ. c. A. building in Atlanta
was constructed or the membership of that
body he had no confidence in any except
those who were interested in the gymna-
SUM or some other form OF manly sport
He held that the young man not interested