The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-02-19
FORECAST OF THE POLITICAL FUTURE
  Those Who Will be Next Sena- tors from Alabama KNOX'S NAME PROMINENT Stands High Among Those Mentioned to Succeed to the Tosas of Pet tus and Morgan-cunnlna-
 ham for Governor.
KNOx'S NAME PROMINENT I
BY. E. R. NORMAN.

The legislature to be chosen next year will have as one of It's duties the cleo tion of two United States senators to succeed Senators Morgan and Pettps. The voluntary retirement of our present senators is the only certainty that would preclude their reelection, Alabama has many men that could wear a senatorial toga with dignity and with credit to the state. Many. are called, but few could be found who would be willing to have crimps put Into their senatorial aspira- tions by opposing our two veteran sena-
 tors who stand first in the affections of all Alabamians.
 Senator Morgans term will expire in 1907. If reflected, he will at the expira-
 tion of the term, have served in the
 senate s6 years and will be Ss years
 of age Senator Pettus. if reelected next
 year, will be at the expiration of the
 terms, s2 years of age and will have
 served in the Senate Is years.
 If for reasons of weight a vacancy
 should occur in the federal senate from
 Alabama this state will be the battling ground of one of the warmest contests
 ever waged for senatorial perferment. The senatorial standard In Alabama Is high. The people have always frowned
 upon the advanced idea, as practiced in some states, of giving a senatorship to | the highest bidder. They hold the office
 sacred and before presenting it to any one they must have the assurance that i he will not betray the trust imposed in him. It Is this rigid guarding of sena- {oI | ano nong the abest and best represented states in the upper branch of Congress and has lead all Washington to exclaim | that Alabama senators did not have to | be sent to Washington before the com | ing into senator's estate but were sena- | tors before they were elected to their exalted positions That the people are proud of the rank taken by their two senators is proven by the rumbling pro- test that can be heard from one end of the state to the other when mention Is
 made of the proposed retirement of our senators.
 Regarding Successors. Yet we are not untrue to the high ideals
 that obtain among us If we are lead to discuss the probabilities and possibilities
 regarding the successors to our repre- sentatives in the Senate. The time will
 
 ties of these two great Alabamians. When mention is made of men worthy of this honor, the name of John B. Knox naturally suggests itself to our minds and rightly so. Few men in Alabama have won a higher place In the esteem of the people than has Mir. Knox. He has never stopped to smallness in poli- tics, but has in every trust conducted himself in a way that has merited politl- cal confidence.
 MT Knox, by reason of his broad knowledge of law and parliamentary usages, would make an ideal senator Ills valuable service rendered the party of the state, as chairman of the executive com mittee and president of the constitutions al convention has brought him in touch with people from all parts of the state and no man stands more willing to defend
 and protect the name of the state with his tongue and pen than does Mir. Knox. Congressman John IIf Banhead, the dean of the Alabama delegation in the House, is in line for the Senate. With | IS years of valuable service in Congress. | he has made a record that must commend | itself to the people of Alabama when | casting around for suitable material for | the Senate. His election would be none other than a worthy promotion.
 Colonel Banlxhead is in line for Senate | He has served in the House for years | and as chairman of several important | committees he has rendered his district | and the state valuable service. He has l the record of getting what he goes after | and no congressman from the south Is l more successful in this respect than per | haps Congressman Livingston of the Att l lanta district.