The age-herald., 1900-12-11
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE

I PuSp eioh ldNOlSf anu puSh tnY p0SAAiOs9
 before noon"
 Thou hast fortunate birthday. and thy
 money and business will increase; those in
 employ will be promoted"
 "The young will court"
 "A child born on this day will be for
 tunate in all it undertakes whether in en-
 ploy or not: if female she will marry
 well and be happy"
 l Astrologer Raphaers prophecies for l Wednesday, December 12, 1900: Be very cautious"
 l Beware of law quarreling, and disputes, and keep myself quiet and run no risks of l any kind; thy business will require much attention to keep it together" "A child born on this day will be very | unruly and headstrong, rash and impetu- 1 ous, and will seldom be out of mischief; 1t
 will succeed best in employ" | Chairman Lowe's call to the State Dem- ocratic Executive Committee to assemble in Birmingham on the 18th of December marks the opening of the canvass for the State constitutional convention" said an
 observer of politics. "The passage by the Legislature of the act providing for the convention is the cause of Chairman IOW6 S call lO the cOH1nlIIee, ana pTaCll- caly there will be no business other than the ordering of primaries and the State convention of the Democratic party and fixing the respective dates. Inasmueh as the delegates to the constitutional conven- tion are to be elected the Fist of April, it is likely that the primaries will be called not later than the first week of February,
 or about six or seven weeks from the pres ent date.
 'If the people of Alabama be as wise, generally speaking, in their selection of delegates to the forthcoming constitutional convention as they were in their nominees for the convention which Governor John- ston unwisely caused to be legislated out of existence in 1S99 then it will be exceed ing well for the State! The will of the peo- pie, which the Governor made abortive
 nearly two years ago, was perhaps never more wisely expressed than in the nomi-
 nees whom the people were not permitted
 to elect and the general public, every in-
 dividual of which is personally concerned,
 will doubtless strive to again name the
 best of good men, and without fear that
 the public purpose will be again thwarted
 "The question of delegates has as yet
 provoked very little discussion on the part
 of Jefferson County voters, and this is probably true of voters in all the sixty-six counties; but the time is now come when
 the voters must thoughtfully consider can didates and decide upon their best men, for Democrats will have to vote within the next few weeks, and the nomination of
 even one improper man would be deplor-
 a hla in fbn icy1 which shall frame the organic law should be the best man whom his constituents can get.
 MT. Lowe should be chosen delegate, primarily for the reason that he is the of- ficial head of the Democratic party in his county of Jefferson and in the State. No- body questions his ability, or his peculiar and striking fitness for the work of fram- ing the fundamental law In every par ticular MT. Lowe is entitled to a seat in the constitutional convention. In 1899 the Jefferson nominees were all good men. pr. R. M. Cunningham was nominated for del egate from the senatorial district of Jeffer- son and John P. Tillman, Lee Bradley, Hugh Morrow, R. F. Kolb, Frank s. White and R. G. Hewitt were nominated from the county. Whether all these men, or any of them, will ask for re-nomination is not publicly known. There were twenty-one candidates for the six places two years ago.
 ''The act approved by Governor Jelks pro- vides that all office-holders are eligible for membership of the convention, and 1t is be- lieved that many of them will be can 6idates. The names of various prominent leaders suggest themselves as especially de- sirabe as members. Hon. Tennent Lomax of Montgomery, olicitor for the Montgom- cry City Court, was nominated before, and was a candidate for the presidency of the convention. He may be so again Senator Joel Goldsby and Representative Richard H. Clarke of Mobile are men in the public eye in this relation. as are Speaker Pettus Senator Harrison of Lee, Judge Carmichael Of Dale, W. T. Warrington of Antauga, Representative A. M Tunstall, and former Speaker Waller of Hale, Representatives Hogue of Perry Bankhead of Madison, Brandon of Tuscaloosa, Gunnels of Cal houn, Screws of Montgomery, and so on; in fact, there is in almost every county one or more men of State reputation and such men should be elected delegates to the convention
 '"The ignorance and intemperance of the ordinary 'temperance agitation was never more strikingly manifested than in the vote of the lower house of Congress to abolish the canteen system in the army said veteran student and historian.
 ''The House has yielded to the bigory of a few intolerant and uninformed old women of Cboth sexes, and has voted in effect to increase drunkenness and other vices in the United States army, and all this in the name of the much abused word temper ance', which self-righteousness has made offensive to all the more enlightened pub lie.
 ''The House of Representatives; as a great authority declares, has rarely done more disreputable thing than to change the prohibition in the army bill, as intro- duced, of any soldier serving as a bartend- er to an absolute prohibition of the can