The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-11-22
AFTER OFFICE OF LT.GOVERNOR Three are Mentioned as
 Probable Candidates. HEFLN MAY WANT IT The Office is Again Created
 After 26 Years. New Constitution Provides for Sue cessor to Governor to Be Elected | by the People and Next State Convention Will Nominate.

After a lapse of twenty-six years AJa- bama is again to have Leutenant-Gov- ernor. The sentiment Of the people mas been such during the last year; y;oor or s'pGs his illness and death, that the omce was created by the recent Constitutional Con- vention, in order that the successor 10 the Governors office should pc cnose,n by the people. The next Democraiic State Convention will nominate candi- date for the place. . Il
 1t has been known for some time that Hon. D. J. Meador of Marengo County, from that District, would submit ms name to the next State Convention and that he has already received many nasr tering assurances of support MT, Mead bama. having been in the House several terms and served on the Appropriations and Ways and Means Committees or that body. He Is at present chairman or the He was elected President pro tenn or the Senate on the assumption of the duties of the Governors office by Pres- ident of the Senate Jelks:
 It has been announced by Hon: Jones G. Moore, the Senator from Btbb and Perry counties, that his name would be
 presented to the approaching State Con
 vention for the nomination for Lieuten, ant Governor, and that his fitness and
 party prestige would be urged upon 'he Senator Moore is 8 native of Macon County. He Is a self-made man. having
 started a successful business career in
 Bibb County. He came to the Senate in 1898 from that Senatorial District, and was the acknowledged leader on the floor of the Senate last session, peine very close to President Jelks and peime at the head of the Rules Committee. lie was the temporary chairman of the Dem ocratic State Convention which nomi' mated Sanford for Governor.
 The name of Hon. J. Tom Henip4 oi Chambers County, has also been men, en, | Lieutenant-G MT: Henin nas several times represented his county m | the lower House of the General Assem- | bly and was the youngest memoer oL the Rules Committee of the recent Constitu- | tionai Convention. He is an intmitabit campaign speaker and being a member | of the State Democratic Committee ms services are frequently rendered In tnt interest of Alabama Democracy. Under the new Constitution the Lieu- tenant Governor Is to preside over the
 Senate during the sessions or thai pody, is to have no voice in It's deliberatlons oi vote upon any question before 1t. He IS Gmply to enjoy the distinction of sue Rceeding to the Governors ofhce in case of a vacancy. The Lieutenant Governor | will not even be allowed to appoint tn' either selected by the President pro tem or by the respective political parties anc approved by the Senate, as the Commit tees of the United States Senate are now selected. - Alabama has had Lieutenant Cover nor in the past from 1868, created by the Constitution of that year and continued
 until l875, when abolished by the Con stitution of that year.
 The office was first filled by A. J. Alp
 plegate, in 1868. He was succeeded b!
 E. H. Moren of sBibb in 1870. who wat elected on the ticket with Lindsay anS
 who made a most enviable reputation 1T
 the position not only as true and pat
 riotic Aiabamian. but as fine and brav'
 presiding officer. E
 In is7S when Lewis was elected Gey
 ernor. William McKinstry of Mobile
 was elected Lieutenant Governor an6 filled the position for two years.
 In 1874 Robert Fulwood- blgon ot Macon
 was elected on the ticket with Governor Houston and was the last to hold tho office of Lieutenant Governor in Ala
 bama. the office being abolished during
 his incumbencY.
 There was no especial complaint o fault found with the office. but 1t wen along with the spirit of reform whicl
 characterized the return of the Wnit people to power.
 If it had not been for the illness an'
 death of Governor Sanford so close upoi the assembling of the Convention to max a new Constitution, 1t is hardly proba ble that this office would have bee again created, but 1t was created am will remain undisturbed possibly 10 many years.