The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-06-12
CORY AFTER OFFICE
FOR STATE SUPERINTENDENT
 OF EDUCATION.
Tn Connection With His Announce ment Mfr. Cory Declares Him. self in Favor of Primary
 Election.

Chappeli Cory, newspaper correspcn-
 dent of Montgomery. yesterday announc-
 ed his candidacy for State Superintendent | of Education. subject to the action of
 the Democratic party. Simultaneous with the announcement of his candidacy came declaration by Mir. Cory that he favors primary election for the selection of
 nominees for State offices this year.
 The announcement of Mir. Cory did not occasion much surprise in political circles. Indeed his name has been mem toned as a possible candidate since the election of Hon. John w. Abercrombie to the presidency of the State University gave assurance that he would not be in the running this fall
 Mr. Cory is native Aiabamian, having
 been born at Benton, Lowndes County in 1857. He was reared in Autauka Coun- ty and was educated at Ivey Creek Academy and at the State University at Tuscaloosa, where he was graduated with the degree of A. M. in 1878. He was graduated in the law class of '79 of the State University and, returning to Autauga County. taught year in tha
 Ivey Creek Academy, where he had secured his early educational training. | Early in 1880 MT. Cory went to Selma to practice law and later in the year, | in conjunction with the late Hon. Cas- ton A. Robbins. purchased The Southeru Argus from Colonel Robert Mckee Here began the newspaper career of Mr. Cory which he has pursued more or less since that time having been connected with the Selma Times. The Montgomery Adver-
 tiser. The Birmingham Age-Heraid and
 special newspaper and magazine work
 Upon the organization of tho Com-
 mercial Club of Birmingham in 1s93 MT. Cory resigned his position as managing editor of The Birmingham Age-Herald to accept the secretaryship of that organi- zation in which position he remained a year. Soon after his reelection to the secretaryship of the Commercial Club for q second term, MT. Cory resigned the place and returned to his desk on the staff of The Birmingham Age-Herald.
 He remained with The Age Herald few months only when he quit the news paper field and went to London, England on a business trip He remained in England two years returning to the United States a few days after the close of the State campaign of 1896 when Gov ernor Joseph F. Johnston was sirst elect ed. He was chosen by Governor John- ston as his private secretary and remained in this capacity until Governor Johnston went out of office in December, 1900.
 At the close of the Johnston adminis- tration Mir. Cory assumed editorial management of a Montgomery afternoon newspaper and later took up the work of corresponding for newspapers in which he is now engaged. &
 In an interview yesterday MT. Cory said he had been In favor of a primary election this fall since the agitation of the subject began. He says his busi- ness will not permit him to make can vass of the State.
 MT. Cory has just returned from Mobile where he went to attend a conference of the friends of Governor Johnston
 Mir. Cory makes the third announced candidate for State Superintendent of Educa ton. Colonel Thomas l.. Bulger of DadeviIe and Major John C.. Harris os Montgomery having already announced