The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-05-18
NEWS OF CENTRAL CITY
pR. PHILLIPS WILL 1E OPPOSED
 BY sAM LACY.
Other Interesting Political Gossip From the Dallas Capital--Real ! Estate Transfers for the Week z
 Other Items.
Advertiser Bureau.

| selma, May H. The column of political gossip in the
 Selma department of this mornings Ad- vertiser was very generally read and commented on when the paper was dis | tributed to its hundreds Of readers in thit l city. A good deal of the local political gossip was fresh to a great many. There was only one error in the whole article
 It was stated that pr. W. c. Phillips the member of the Board of Revenue from the Fork. would not have any cppo' sition. After the. article was sent on Il developed that Sam Lacy. who lives in Woodlawn. the same beat in which Dr. Phillips lives, had decided to become g candidate. A friend of MT. Lacy's came that 1t was fact that young Lacy had decided to become a candidate against Dr. Phillips. a .Ee
 Mir. Lacy is quite young man. having
 barely reached his majority. He Is .
 bfSther of E.. P. and Theo. Lacy and is
 prosperous young planter. He is a young
 man of many sterling qualities of both
 head and heart. and is greatly liked by
 all who know him. He was a candidate
 against Dr. Phillips for Executive Com
 mtteeman from the beat at the last cleo
 tion and came within one vote of defeat ing Dr. Phillips. who was in bed at the
 time with a severe attack of illness. Dr.
 Phillips defeated young Lacy by one vote, and that vote was cast by Sam Lacys father, the late Theo. Lacy, who voted for Dr. Phillips against his own son.
 A good deal of political gossip has been created by Sam Lacy's candidacy against
 Dr. Phillips. The intimate relations of the two families has been commented up- nn in nd nf surprise has been occasioned by young Lacys announcement. Nothing can be brought up against young Lacy. He Is an honorable. conscientious, upright. iener. getic young man. He has hosts of friends and about the only thing that can be brought against him is his youth On the other hand pr. Phillips has been faith full servant of the public. and he has hosts of friends who do not believe that he ought to be set aside. He has been a power in politics for a long time in this county and many predict that he cannot be defeated. If Sam Lacy runs through, 1t promises to be a warm political contest and battle royal from start to finish,
 The rumor that l.. W. Hubbard would enter the contest against Capt g., M. as the member of the Board of Revenue from the city. also caused a good deal of talk. The correspondent of 1 ne AuNcrtiSeT SuEBSSteu tNdt tHe ifONc was probably started in the absence of that gentleman. and that he knew noth- ing about it. On Mir. Hubbard's return from attending the Grand Encampment of the Knights Templar, in Mobile, he was seen by your correspondent and ask ed what he had to say about his candi- dacy. T am not a candidate" was his reply. "I never heard of the matter ui1-
 til my return from Mobile and found
 everybody talking about 1t. I could mot
 spare the time from my business if had
 the inclination to run. and besides that
 would not run against Captain Kirkpat-
 rick" This puts a quietus to the candi-
 dacy of Mir, Hubbard against Captain
 Kirkpatrick, and those who want to retire
 that gentleman from the Board will have
 to look around for new material to run
 against him.x - .-rI aTsaria
 The talk about candidates for members of the Board Of Revenue has brought up
 the question of how they are to be se-
 lected In the dark days of reconstruc-
 ton, when Dallas County was under the
 heel of Republican domination. the Board
 of County Commissioners was abolished
 and a Board of Revenue created, the members of which were to be appointed
 by the Governor. This plan worked very well until the Commercial Bank failure.
 the county losing some $1s.0O0 of the funds when 1t closed it's doors This caused the question to be agitated of put ting the power of electing the Board back in the hands of the people, tho necessity of their being appointed by the Governor | having long since passed away. At the meeting of the last Legislature the law was changed. restoring to the people the right to select their own Board of Reve-
 nue, and dividing the county into four grand divisions and making it compul- sorry on the people to select a member | of the Board from each of these grand divisions. The question Is now being agi- tated as to whether the Democracy of each division shall have the power Of nominating its candidate and placing his name on the ticket to be voted for at the general election, or whether the whole county shall participate in nominating the candidate to be elected.
 The general opinion seems to be that as the Board is to act fer the whole county. the entire Democracy of the county ought to have a voice in saying who the men shall be from the respective grand di- visions whose duty 1t shall be to pass on the local legislation for Dallas and manage the finances of the county. But, of course this is a matter that will be | left to the County Executive Committee. There are some who want the matter set tied by districts. while others prefer that | the whole county should have a say. | There Is no feeling on the subject, how ever, and it matters not which way the question is decided by the committee. it will give satisfaction to the Democracy | of the county. But the majority, just at this time. seems to be in favor of the question being settled by the whole party in the Democratic primary when 1t is called.