The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-09-14
CAREER REPLIES
 TO WILSON'S GARD
SAYS HE IS RESPONSIBLE FOR ACTS OF HIS FRIENDS, AS THEY WOULD ONLY DO WHAT IS RIGHT.

To the Editor of The Age-Herald.
 MT. Wilson has published a statement in The Age-Herald, Montgomery Adver- User and Birmingham News of yesterday, in which he takes occasion to criticise me on account of card issued by my friends at Talladega. in which a portion of the opinion of the supreme court of Alabama is quoted, in the case of Scotch Lumber company vs. Sage, and in his statement he says that he is sorry the second primary is not being conducted on the high plane upon which the first campaign was made. He also calls at tention to the fact that he received more votes than I did in the first primary
 In reply desire to say that I accept the responsibility for the acts of my friends in this campaign, knowing as I do, that they will do nothing which is not consistent with honor. honesty and paign are incapable of any other action, and I would not ask them to do any. thing else. The card only quotes a DOT tion of a decision of our supreme court. If the card be incorrect then the su-
 
 has done MT. Wilson a grievous wrong, and even denied an application for a re- hearing In the case on June 2S thus em- phasizing their error and injustice. Here tofore, however, we have generally &C., quiesced in the decisions of our highest court, and have conceded that the judges of that court have always attempted to give out even-handed justice to all liti- gants and parties before tie court.
 Have we any reason to suppose that they have departed from this rule in the case of Scotch Lumber company vs. Sage? At least, prima facie, their deci- sion is correct, and presumably the deci- sion is based upon the fact.
 Does MT. Wilson object to the mat ter being made public? He has no reason- able ground to make any such objection It is matter of record in the courts in this state. It is public property.
 A man who runs for a public office has no right to complain If his public record is discussed. Of course, there might be serious objection to private attacks on him. but certainly not to attacks upon his public acts or his public record. In this my friends have not in any way low cred the plane upon which the first cam paign was conducted, but Mir. Wilson Is in the unfortunate position of being sub- ject to the criticism by reason of the comments of the court In the case re- ferred to.
 As to the fact that Mir. Wilson was In the lead in the first primary I have only to remind the public that the rule of the state democratic executive committee re- quires the nominee to receive a majority of the votes cast. MT Wilson did not get a majority by about 12,000 votes. Consid- ering the vote cast the race between him and myself was very close, and in this second primary I am confident I will get 8 majority of the votes.
 If the executive committee had intended that a plurality vote should nominate, then they would have said so. and no second primary would have been pro- vided for.
 The nomination to the office of attor- ney general in this state does not belong either to MT. Wilson or to me and we have no right to trade 1t off one to the other by agreement between ourselves.
 The office can only be bestowed by the people of Alabama, and the nomination to the office by the democratic party can only be given under the rules laid down for the government of the party by its supreme authority. I am making the race in this primary as directed by that authority. In this race, as there are only two of us running, every democratic voter in the state can have a voice in the nomination if he so desires.
 In conclusion I desire to say that, so far as am concerned, whatever may be the result of this race, there will be no i'll feeling between MT. Wilson and my self.
 I desire also to thank my friends for the generous support given me in the first primary and to request them to as- sist me on Monday in the second pri- mary. ALEXANDER M. CAREER.
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