The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-11-30

eepting themselves, how big risk spell binders run while stumping a state for I their political party" said Colonel Null berry commenting on the result of the re- cent election. "Theyve got to be able to spout flow of oratory of the Demos | themes kind on a minutes notice; they've got to be encyclopedias and dictionaries | combined: they've got to have cast iron gals and bombproof feelings so's they won't fly off the handle if some fellow in the crowd calls them liars and thieves; besides having all these qualities, they've got to be diplomatic and perfect gentle men. Even then they are often the cause of losing votes for their party, and when they do the party forgets the thousands of good things they may have done and | remembers the one mistake.
 Just to give you an instance of this in- gratitude, they're waillng yet about Job Haney's doings down in Holmes county some years back. It wasn't because he drove any votes from the party, but be- cause he made little bull that he couldn't help and now the political rant CTS are afraid to go down there and face
 
 they'd run them out or even do something worse I don't know whatever became of Job, for have not seen him since that campaign when he and conducted them meetings in Holmes.
 "I never saw a political batteringram do more good for the people of a county, that is in the way of converting them to better way of living, than did Job, but of course he got no credit from the state chairman and his committees for that. l Holmes county has always been consid- | cred one of the toughest in the state. l Nature certainly did her best in piling up | the rocks and a-ripping up the face of the earth with gullies and the like down 1 there, SOS it keeps even the sheep busy | to get around. l have heard 1t said that some of them were shoed to make them | better able to walk the rocks but ! vouch to the truth of that statement. ] Only one railroad had the spunk to build | into that county and that one cut across the corner, half the way on stilts and the other half through tunnels. That strip of road cost more for repairs than all the rest of the division, for them hills 1 are regular roasting places for ripping 1 hailstorms, and there's no telling at what minute a cloud is going to pour out and sweep away all the trestles.
 ''The inhabitants of this county, away back to the time of Esau Barnes, who was the first man to drag his kit of farm | ing tools into that section, had voted the same ticket and hard times nor any other l influence could not change them. There | hasn't been state chairman as far back l as l can remember but what hasn't de- vised some scheme whereby he expected l to change their way of voting, but every one of the schemes went up in the air Those spellbinders and the campaign lit- erature they sent down there this year 1 were all for no account, because those Holmes county people have their heads dead set against our party and the other thing that will ever change them will be the death of the other party
 Now Job Haney at this time was the best stump orator in the state and they kept him to batter down the strong points | of the enemy. The day | received my orders to accompany Job down to Holmes county I was in distant part of the state and l got word from Job that he'd ! meet me at certain point at a certain
 time. Doing as we had planned we set out for Holmes county. We got off at the first and only railroad station there was in the county. l never saw Job look ing so shaky before and on asking him | what was the matter he told me he had had a dream the night before that he was going to have considerable trouble on this trip. He had on his Prince Albert. the one he wore on the platform, and i also had just one suit along, because we thought it a good idea to have on our backs all the duds we took along so that 1 if we stirred up any trouble we could get out of the town on a moments notice.
 Well, the depot was a small smoke house affair, roasting on the embankment about 200 feet above real earth. Each one packing up a bundle of burning docu- ments we began looking for the elevator to let us down off the hill, when out from that dinky depot there swooped about half dozen deacons of the church as we soon found out. They began shaking hands mighty vigorously with Job and 1 saw him trying to say something but they didn't give him chance. they were all so glad to make the acquaintance of the Reverend Beezer. as they styled Job. They took the political documents away from him and started down the hill with him. 1 followed on behind wondering what they were up to. When Job hung back they half carried him along, all the while talking with all their might. The whole procession including myself. start ed up the street in the direction of the postoffce and grocery. The delegation of the Sunday school which had come with the deacons was marching on behind singing a rousing chorus
 Well, I couldn't get near Job any more because of the crowd that had collected about him. When we got pretty well along toward the grocery l heard some of them say right ahead was the parson- age. The situation began to tickle me good deal by this time. for I began to see that there was a mistake somewhere. | There was Job. one of the handiest men 1 in the state with his gab. completely | cowed by half dozen deacons who had mistaken him in his Prince Albert as their | expected new minister Looking at the | house that had been pointed out as the l parsonage l saw several scores of wo- men, both young and old, taking a bird s. l eye view of Job and wagging their heads | in earnest conversation.
 ''The air was heavy with the odor of | roast chicken and dried corn. The par sonage yard was full to overfiowing with l the younger portion of the popula tior | performing stunts of various kinds. The male portion. deacons not included, was 1 lined up along the picket fence and eacf | gave Job a hearty shake as he passed by 1 l heard one fellow express himself as | thinking that Job had the proper built l for a preacher.
 'All this while I was wondering to my self that Job did not make break anC explain himself. He told me afterward! l that the reason was that he had a bat attack of stage fright and that h, couldn't get his wits together to decide how he was going to do it. l stayed outside and watched him s he passed l into the parsonage with the deacons ant run the gauntlet of women and girls lined