The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-03-01
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DRENNEN CAN'T ANSWER
 THESE OUESTIONS--DON'T TRY

MT. Drennen professes to be great friend of the union labor. Why is 1t that during the great strike of 1894 that ne operated Mary Lee mines with non-union labor. and in order to protect these non union men, had guards stationed around the mines armed with Winchester rihes
 MT. Drennen has been vaeillating and undecided on every public question. me only time he is ever thoroughly consistent is when "Old Marse Jemison and Henry Gray call him to come across
 Drennen has attacked every corpora tion in Birmingham except the Birming- ham Railway, Light and Power company On this subject he has been very silent.
 How can the working men vote Tor man who is getting rich off of them through his commissaries in various parts of the county?
 Mir Drennen and his friends are highly pleased with the work of the gas and electric meters. They work while others | sleep.
 In MT. Drennens platform in What Have Done" he failed to say that the sale of the street car tickets was withdrawn by the trolley company with his approval and consent.
 Mr Drennen has dropped the issue of municipal ownership of electric light works since the electric company agreed to support him.
 Did not the city of Birmingham pay the expenses of the mayor on some of his many semi-offical visits to New York?
 Is 1t not a fact that the machine has promised to support Drennen for county treasurer next time?
 l Since Mr. Drennen has been mayor will he tell the public the number of months i he has spent away from town?
 Did not MT. Drennen and a number of thehis friends who went to New York to sell the city hall bonds few years ago and returned to Birmingham with the re- port that nothing could be done in Now York on account of the fight In China" then place the matter in the hands of Steiner Bros. for negotiation? This is one instance of Mr Drennen's business abl- ity.
 In one of the city contracts, was 1t not specified that a certain kind of wagon must be used? And was 1t not afterwards found that Drennen & Go. were sole agents for that particular kind of wagon? Will MT. Drennen ever answer Mir. Notions charges and questions as to MT. Drennen's water works record? In trying to drag the Birmingham Real ty company into the controversy Mr. Drennen forgot to mention the fact that one of it's directors Is on his campaign committee.
 Mir Ward has always publicly advocat- City Attorney Smith, who is drawing $125 per month from the city but is at work for Drennen and doing his news paper boosting, is creating a false i'm
 H~%~<~%A~~~Ass tors and representatives who are on the appropriations committees, and other committees handling appropriation bills, are the busy men, but more especially the leading men of these committees, who are 1 conferees on these bills. For Senators Allison, Hale and Cockrell, who are us- i ually the men handling the bills that l pass last, there seems little or no rest l These men are generally engaged upon the sundry civil bill the deficiency bill and the naval bill On the house side, Representatives Cannon, Barney, I.iv- infHton, MeCleary. Burkett and Benton of the appropriations committee, and Representatives Foss, Dayton and Meyer of the naval committee are the men whose time is all taken up. Then there are Senators Mason, Penrose and Clay and Representatives Loud, Smith and Swanson of the postoffce committees; Senators Perkins and Tillman, with Hale, on the naval bill, and others on the bills which may be held up for one cause or another all working in their committee rooms trying to adjust differences or fighting matters of dispute on the floor of their respective houses. Senators Stew art Platt of Connecticut Jones of Ar kansas, with Representatives sherman, Curtis and Little of the Indian commit tees, also have differences to adjust. Many of these men are on other confer ences requiring time as bills of import ance from other committees require their attention.
 The Philippines committee in the clos ing days passed important legislation and Senators Lodge, Allison and Rawlins dealt with Representatives Cooper, Crum- packer and Jones of Virginia In bringing about an agreement. These men on con ference committees not only work all day, but long Into the night, and some of them will work all night before they fin- ally wind up their labors. It happens at the end of every short session when all these important measures must be agreed upon and passed. so as to reach the President before the gavel falls at noon March 4. They have to pass and be en- crossed and enrolled, and this entails long and steady work upon the clerks who perform this work. The clerks of the committees who handle these bills are also among the very busy men, and no two men do as much as Mir. Cleaves of