The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-09-01
GOVERNOR WANTS THE MAN ID MARRY Makes the Stipulation in Grant
 ing Parole MURPHY CAUSES PROTEST Much Indignation Is Felt at PosslbIl. Ity of Negro's Being Made a
 Deputy Marshal In Bry.
 ans Office.
MURPHY CAUSES PROTEST
BY HERvEY w. LAIRD.

Acting Governor Cunningham became to- | day. in a sense, promoter of matrl- | mony. in that he pardoned a biagmist on condition that he marry his second wife. provided she lis living, single and willing" The defendant is a young man who thought he had a divorce from his first wife before he married the sec ond time.
 The man pardoned was Warren Long, convicted of bigamy and given two years in the penitentiary by the Circuit court Of Lee county, the sentence being im- posed in the fall of last year. Acting Governor Cunningham makes the follow ing endorsement on the papers:
 This applicant for executive cemeney was convicted in October, 1903, for big amy and sentenced to the pententiary for two years. It appears that when he married the first time that he was about r or IS years of age; that he lived with his wife for only short period and that they separated. He afterwards filed a bill for divorce, and pending consdera- tion of said bill married a second tme It appears that he was a boy of good
 
 borhood where he was born and reared A petition for executive clemency has been signed by a large number of citi- zo IS of the county and especially of the community in which he lived, among them being the young lady he married, and her father After the separation, the board of pardon says, he had filed for him a bill of divorce, and thought the marital ties between him and his first wife had been severed. He then married, about three years after he separated from his first wife, another woman, with whom he had lived about two or three days when arrested. While the prisoner was technically guilty, he was innocent in intent and we recommend that he be pardoned. The solicitor states that this course will be agreeable to him. There fore. let parole issue, conditioned upon good conduct. and that when he can le- gally do so, he marry the woman whom he last married, provided she Is living, single and willing"
 Reward for Dynamiters. The governor has offered a reward Of $100 for the arrest and conviction of the party or parties who dynamited, sariy on the morning of August 25, d house belonging to B. E. Purser, near Wood ward, Jefferson county, and occupied by u nOIl-ufllOn InlneTt HIS Wlle anu DIClutl- | in-law. One end of the house was blown out and the furniture scattered, but no one was hurt. John Murphy VAS the 6e- cupant of the house, and the officials of the Woodward Iron company, In whose l mines Murphy was working, believe and so stated to Sheriff Burgin in Slrming ham, that the deed was the work of striking miners, the company having put non-union men to work in its mines. The same official of the Woodward com- pany who expressed the opinion that the deed was dono by union or ..trli1ing miners. also said that his company was anxious to bring the guilty parties to justice and urged the sheriff to ask the governor to offer a reward. At the sane time the house occupied by Murphy WAS wrecked another some distance away. owned by D. w. Brown and occupied by Dan Ellison and wife and children, was blown up. but without fatalities.
 The solicitor of the criminal court Of Jefferson county, the Hon. H. P. He1tn. and Sheriff W. A. Burgin recommended the offer of the reward The sherlH thinks that the early offer of reward will have a tendency to discourage any repe- tition of the offense. Solicitor Heflln l says that 1t Is very necessary that acts | of lawlessness of this kind should be stamped out, especially at the present time, when matters ars so unsettled in the mining district"
 Socialist Emblem.
 The emblem of the socialists in Ala I bama has been filed with the secretary of state, in compliance with the law that | all political parties shall have In that office sixty days prior to elections, an emblem representing each party, and which will be printed on the ticket on l election day. The emblem Is a picture of the world. showing the western hem | isphere, with hands clasped across 1t. It was put in by F. x. Waldhurst of Bir- mingham, secretary of the party in Ala bama. and B. Andrus of the same place. national committeeman. It was adopt ed at the meeting of the party in Mont | gomery April B. last.
 Storm of Protest.
 | The report in the public press that the negro Murphy, at Eufaua, has said that he can have the endorsement of the re- publican referees in Alabama for the po- sition of deputy marshal in the office of Marshal Bryan in this city has cauaed a storm of protest from white men Of I the territory, who really wonder if the | referees would go so far in their opposi- tion to the sentiment that negro officers shall not be placed in position to serve papers on white men. In an editorial on 1 Wednesday morning the Montgomery Ad- | vertiser says:
 This is a very serious matter, and one about which all the people of the state | have the right to feel deeply. They have never yet had the experience of negro marshal serving papers and arresting | white people. Are white men, born and reared in Alabama, like Messrs. Thomp- | son and Scott. the referees prepared to go to the extreme of being responsible | for such an outrage and indignity upon the white people of Alabama? They may carry favor with a republican adminis- | tration by thus turning their backs upon | the white people of their state but they will never recover from the feeling of indignation with which they will be over whelmed."
 Looks Ugly.
 1 Every surface indication is that this is | one of the bol6est pieces of politics yet attempted by the men in power in the re- publican party in Alabama. Murphy is ! negro teacher at Eufaua. He applied | for the position made vacant In the office | of Marshal Bryan by the resignation of Byron Trammell. who went to Dothan | as postmaster At that time the place paid $500, but since 1t has been reduced to | 1900 It was underEtood that the negro | had the endorsement of Messrs Charles l Scott of Montgomery and J. O. Thompson l of Birmingham, referees of the President | in Alabama.
 1 Those who are informed see in 1t noth- | ing more nor less. than an attempt to l make living hard for Marshal Bryan, who | has been put on the black book of said referees, 1t is said, because he is not just as pliable as they think he should be- | If Bryan appoints the negro he will be ,oas sfed by those who are opposed fo his