The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-03-01
CURIOUS COLLECTION OF
 ERRORS.

The Opelika News, in it's issue which reached this office yesterday morning, contained the following:
 The Legislature has, sr rather when the Senate acts on the Dill, will have provfd- ed for the election of county solicitors. The next thing we find is bill to exempt Calhoun County from the operation or the act.
 It will be remembered that in Calhoun County one of the TUnstalls is solicitor. It is Wiley Tunstail, Jr. Can it be possi- ble that The Advertiser has gotten ready to do the Tunstalls in great shapeY We all know how the old lady fairly fiayed that the move to have Calhoun County exempted from the operations of the law providing for the election of solicitors was inspired by The Advertiser Such action would result in the defeat of Wiley, Jr.. because the Governor would not care to appoint the old man and Wiley, too, while if left to a vote in the county or Calhoun, of course no one but Wiley would be in it. He would be overwhelm- ingly, if not unanimously, elected if the people could have say and to defeat runstall The Advertiser has inspired the move to have the solicitor of Calhoun County appointed by the Governor. Well, let the good work go on.
 As said in these columns not long ago, 1t will be interesting to see the scrap De- tween the Tunstalls and The Advertiser fought to finish.
 While 1t is hardly fair to take from county the right to choose it's officers, it is also hardly fair to take a man who has SO strong hold on the masses as Wiley, Jr,, has from office. or from an oppor- tlsylity to appeal to the people, but many things have been oone to appease. the wrath Of The Advertiser that hardly look ed fair, and the Tunstalls have at times aided in such moves. and now that they are. to become the sufferers, it will not be so hard for the public generally to stand it.
 The people of Calhoun should surrender without protest their right to choose their solicitor if The Advertiser says so, and so also should Wiley, Jr, turn loose without too much kick if it Is really the desire of the real boss of Alabama poli- tics.
 It would be difficult for any newspaper, no matter how hard it tried, to put to- space. To make it's own position un- derstood, The Advertiser would say that it believes the appointment of prosecuting officers is better than general election, and it would make no opposition to a measure fer appointment, If within con- stitutional limits.
 There is a history of the Anniston City Court bill which the Opelika paper has evidently heard of, but 1t is so contrary to that given by the paper that it would seem to be its intention to misrepresent The Advertiser. It is necessary, there- fore, that we state the case: To begin with, bill was introduced in both houses which authorized the Governor to appoint the Solicitor for the City Court of Annis- ton. It is well known that Speaker Tun- stall and his brother, referred to by The News, favored the bill, the latter being the present incumbent. The measure, was not inspired by The Adver- tiser. At the night session, February goth. The Advertisers vigllant and capable House reporter, Capt. W. T. Sheehan, made accurate and complete report of everything that was done. His list of bills that passed numbered twenty-two and this corresponded with that of others who were present. One of the clerks looked over the reporters list and told him that another bill, 53S, the Anniston City Solic- itor bill, had passed and was not in his report. To tnlS captain 5heehah oeInurreu and his report in The Advertiser of the 21st did not show the passage of that bill. The attention of members was called to this matter. Some of them examined the journal and saw that it was spread on the record as passed by vote of 50 to O. There was emphatic declaration by many members who were present of no knowl- edge on their part of the passage of such bill. and some of them would undoubt- edly have brought the matter to the att tention of the House, If it had not been recalled from the Senate. On it's return to the House it was again gotten up and passed in due and regular form. That is the extent to which The Advertiser is in terested in the measure.