The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-04-10
1HE political era is upon us. In
W til late Monday night all of us


w til late Monday night all of us
will discuss political contests and
but little else. The ministers must ex-
ert themselves and speak with eloquence
and zeal in their puipits today or else
the men in the pews will figure in their
minds over the votes of tomorrow. In
deed all the world, as we view it here,
is in the throes of political excitement
today.
Starting at home there are county Of
fees galore to be filed and many candi-
dates for almost every office To the credit
OF the county be 1t said that a splendid
set of men are running in each and
every instance and SO far no venom has
been displayed. The friends of each can
didate have contented themselves with
displaying the virtues of their aspirant
rather than criticizing their opponent
For county offices including the judge
ships the fighting has been clean cut
and sportsmanlike. Good men will win
In every instance.
Outside of purely local affairs the in
tensely interesting contests are three.
might say the red hot ones are three
first, the Bankhead-H obson fight for con-
gresham in the Sixth district second.
the Conner Smith-Kolb contest for presi-
dent of the railroad commission and
third, the Bnrnett-Lusk contest for con-
gress in the Seventh. There are others,
but these are the super-heated ones as
we say in the parlanee of the Birming-
ham district
The Bankhead-Hobson fight is confined
to few counties, but it is the sharpest
drawn of them ALL It looks like
every voter in every county in
the district is enthusiastically for
one or the other. The friends Of
both men are claiming to have
the fight won To an outsider it looks
like the closest contest Alabama has
ever had in a democratic primary There
should be over twenty thousand votes
polled in the district. / would not be
surprised to see the vote almost evenly
divided The best opinion is that neither
candidate can get a thousand majority.
Bankhead has done great work for the
river side of the district and If the dis
trict was differently shaped he would be
an easy winner. But there is much Of
the district In which his river opening
work counts for nothing, and the young
------------- Observation-Disclosures
in Birmingham, has returned from Palm
Beach,
A. c. Wills and d. A. Read of Sumter
were in Birmingham last night guests
of the st. Nicholas hotel
Col. e. H. Graves of Eufaula is In
Birmingham a guest at the Hotel Morris
I. w Hill of Montgomery is in the
city. He is at the Morris.
H. C. Harkins of Mobile is at the Nor
ris.
F. H Valentine of New York is a guest
of the Morris.
L. Y. Dean of Eufaula is at the Hill
man.
j. M. March of Nashville is at the Hotel
Hillman.
L. r. Cunningham of Baltimore is at
the Hillman.
M. A. Johnston of Easton, Pa, Is
registered at the Hillman.
L. P. Brine of Trussyille is at the Co.
lonial hotel.
F. H. Dooley of New York was in
Birmingham last night a guest of the
Colonial hotel.
]. w. Wade of Roanoke, Va, is regis
tered at the Colonial hotel
A. F. Whitfield of Nauvoo is a guest of
the Colonial hotel.
P. c. Plaster and F. M. Hood of India
napolis are guests of the Colonial.