The age-herald., 1900-04-08
JEFFERSON COUNTY
 FOR MIR. TOMLINSON
Chairman Morris Submits Figures From an Accu-
 rate Poll Showing Decided Majority

the new officials and increases in all the
 old offices.
 He referred to the commissioners court Of Jefferson county a dog hotel, and
 said there were members of that court who believed that every year had 366 days He said the court had paid bills for merchan-
 disc bought with no items stated. Some one in the audience at this point asked the governor to give figures, but he either did
 not hear the request or did not care to do
 so. He spoke of the fight he made before the legislature for the abolishment of the commissioners court, and saiG that he was advised he would hurt the party in Jeffer- son county. He said if he had been a poli- tician and not "hll billy he would have made terms with the dishonest crowd but that he preferred to stand by the honest people who had elected him. He said that since the abolition of the court the taxes l of the county had been reduced $35,0 900 a
 year and that s3i, 900 of bonds had been can celled.
 Constitutional Convention
 He took up the constitutional convention
 question, stating that its advocates claim
 ed that they wanted it for the purpose of
 disfranchising the negroes, but that they
 were not sincere in this and he opposed
 the convention.
 He said the state appropriation for pub
 lie schools when he went into office was
 $650,000 and that incompetent teachers
 were teaching two months in the year,
 and that now the appropriation is $1,O5000O
 and that educated and competent teachers
 are teaching six months in the year.
 "I don't suppose any man in Alabama
 was ever vilifed I have been," said the
 governor, and MT. Warrington chimed in,
 That's right"
 He referred to the Montevallo school
 land sales and to the sale of lands of the
 university, claiming that he had sold them
 for a good price and that the boards of
 nf txuo institutions had
 dered the sales.
 Question from man in the audience:
 ''The land didn't have any coal on it, did it?''
 Governor Johnston-"It would have had
 to have a great deal of coal to be worth
 S200 per acre" He called on Colonel IS. M. { Long, prominent republican of Walker
 county to know if he had not sold some coal lands just as good as the university lands at less than $12.5O per acre, and Col l. onel Long replied that he had sold at a fraction over $10 per acre. "Senator Morgan voted for Fred Doug las" continued the governor, and to oh- set that they charge that appomteo
 negro chaplain at the penitentiary. might have said that my negro was democrat with a respectable coored wife; but the | fact is the governor does not appoint the | chaplain The Morgan people got out
 circular saying Morgan didn't; Johnston 1 did, and there they lied They ought to read 1T | some law and some law about the peniten- tiary, for I fear a great many Of them are
 destined to go there."
 Question of Union Printers
 He referred to the question of printing, and said that he had never had any done
 except in union shops. He said all the
 scab shops in the state were for Senator
 Morgan.
 He opposed expansion and imperialism, xxhi ba caid Morgan favored. He said the war with Spain was without cause, and claimed that when the Philip pine islands are made a part of the United | States swarms of Fiipinos will come to the | states to compete with American labor | "President Mckinley and Senator Morgan | are in favor of expansion and imperialism,
 and I recommend that Senator Morgan go | over to the Philippine islands and run for l the seante. As for me, when I go to | Washington, I'm going to represent Ala | bama. I'm not going to bother myself 1 about the Philippines, the Hawaiians or
 the Hulu Hulus.'
 As to the report that c. P Huntington | is trying to defeat Senator Morgan, Gov
 ernor Johnston said: He's no fool Why | should he want to defeat Morgan when | Morgan has been in the senate twenty l three years and not spade full of dirt 1 has yet been removed from the Nicaragua | canal. I'm in favor of the government
 building the canal and owning it, and am | opposed to this country making any treaty
 with Great Britain or any other European | country.
 FayOrs Bryan l 'I differ with Morgon on the nomination | for president of the United States I'm in | favor of Bryan. All democrats do not l agree with me and I am sorry of it. But l if they are honest that is all right. But l what I do object to is for a man to pre-
 tend to be for silver and then stab Bryan
 in the back Morgan said he was in favor
 of nominating gold man who would not | veto silver bill He didn't say gold man,
 but a silver man would not have to pledge l himself"
 He said that Senator Morgan advocated secession and that he did not, that he be- l lieved that the state ought to remain in l the union and fight for its rights, but that | whn it did secede he shouldered his gun | and went to the front.
 Governor Johnston's remarks were liber- | ally applauded by a good per centage of the audience, but there were great many present who evidently were not in sympa- thy with him.