The age-herald., 1901-06-17
SOMETHING OF MEN WHO
 COMPOSE CONVENTION
BY FRANK HARVEY MILLER.

reading of resolution Whlcn mas already been read once or twice, ana President Knox, who is always urpane and good tempered. will ask the clerk Tn a fine, sarcastic tone to read it again for the benefit of the gentleman from Lime stone. The fact of the matter is there is so much talking and so many tiresome resolutions introduced to which no one pays any attention. that when the con- vention is called to act upon a resolution or ordinance, 1t has to be read several times for all the members to hear and understand it. MT Pettus makes him self known in the convention, and is the author of one of it's most original and plain-spoken resolutions, viz: To prohibit any negro from holding office or voting simply because he is negro. This is what the convention is really trying to do, but the other members are not quite so outspoken in their schemes.
 People who exject the convention to do anything radical and extreme on the suf- frage question are going to be disap- pointed If the convention has any pronounced characteristic 1t is that of ultra conservatism. It Is really not going as far in some ways as it ought to go. The committee on taxation for instance of which Cecil Browne of Talla- dega Is chairman has in its report, fa- vored the reduction of the general tax rate to 65 cents, from 75 cents( the pres ent rate The committee on executive has also made very conservative re- port. This report is now being consid- cred by the convention. The only inno- vation which it attempted to make was to fix the Governors salary at $S0o0, and this provision the convention refused to adopt The creation of the office Of Lieutenant Governor really amounts to little change. He will have the same duties with the same pay as the Presi- dent of the Senate. The only change is that he will be elected by the people. The present Governor of Alabama, for instance was elected by the people of one county. Fortunately he happens to be a good one.
 The committee on suffrage, who are now working on an ordinance has for Its chairman, Judge Thomas w. Coleman of Greene, an ex-justice of the Supreme Court and very conservative man. The other members of this committee are some of the most conservative men In the convention and they are not apt to report any suffrage ordinance which will not be approved and ratified by the peo- pie of the State.
 The convention, like any other large legislative body, contains many types of legislators There is the big broad
 minded man whose actions are influenced by a patriotic desire to push Alabama ahead in the march of progress There are the men from the cities, usually
 bright, alert and up-to-date specimens
 who take a sensible and buslness-like view of questions and who do not live in fear of their constituents like some of the country members. The country, af- ter all, Is the place which produces the | biggest and the smallest men. Most of the great men of a State come from the | backwoods. Then there Is the typical | backswoods statesman. You can always I tell him on sight. He wears slouch | hat and frock coat. He knows lit | tie law. lie KNOWS tndt the Lesisia'uio . l can do whatever the Constitution says it 1 must not do. He never sits down, but
 ties his legs up in some wonderful man ner on a bench or a chair, and in the
 interludes between splitting tobacco. he
 can tell you just what the people want. | and can solve to his entire satisfaction
 the great problems of the day.
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 | Columbus, Ga.. Aug 24, 1872. | Dr. c. J. Moffett-Dear Doctor: We | gave your TEETHINA (Teething Pow | ders) to our little grandchild with the | hoo,;aot rac,,lta The effects wera al