The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-09-02
MAYOR \. W. SCOTT MAY BE CANDIDATE He is Being Urged to Make
 Race tor Sheriff HAS MANY WARM FRIENDS Mr. Scott, With the Exception of One Term, Has Been Mayor of EnsIey
 Since It's Incorporation
 as a Town.
HAS MANY WARM FRIENDS

Ensley, September 1.-(Speeial. .)-Consid- erable pressure is being brought on Mayor N. w. Scott of Ensley to make the race for sheriff of Jefferson county next year. He has received urgent requests and flat tering promises of support from every section of the county and from many of the most prominent people in the county.
 Mir. Scott is well and popularly known in every nook and corner of the county, and 1t is claimed by his friends that if he is induced to make the race that he will lead a most brilliant campaign.
 He has made a most popular and eff ficient mayor of the city of Ensley and the citizens 1t is believed. would gladly elevate him to the position of sheriff If he permits the use of his name in the campaign.
 With the exception of one term. Mr. Scott has been mayor of Ensley ever since it's incorporation as a municipality, and his friends declare that he shall hold the place as long as he desires or until he Is promoted to a higher office There is not a more faithful public official in the state than Mayor Scott nor one more conscientious in his duties toward his constituents.
 Day and night his every energy Is bent on the betterment of his town and the prosperity of it's citizens.
 When questioned this morning about the rumor that he had been solicited to make the race for sheriff, Mayor Scott said: 'Yes, 1t is a fact that numbers of my friends over the county have solicited me to enter the race. I appreciate the kind feeling very much and feel flat tered that so many of the people of the county seem disposed to honor me with the promotion.
 "I have made no, decision in the matter as yet, but if I should decide to make the race I shall enter it with the full deter imitation to win.
 "I must say that I am really surprised at the great number of requests that are coming in almost daily from all sec- tions of the county and from all classes of citizens. I appreciate these tokens of confidence and good will, and, of course shall give them all due consideration. But at present I am satisfied to labor on in the interest of Ensley. We hase the great est town in the county or in the district outside of Birmingham, and I appre- ciate the honor of being continued at the head of its executive machinery.
 We are doing a vast amount of im- provement work in the city just now and I am kept pretty busy. We have three or four squads of men at work in diff ferent sections of the city, and I try to look over all the operations every day when am not called out of the city on urgent business.
 'The Carnegie library proposition is in good shape now, and that will require a great deal of my time. have just re- turned from Tuscaloosa where inspected the library and the building at that place. I am very desirous that Ensley should build as fine library building as there is in the state, and after 1t Is built I want 1t to be conducted on the very best plan possible.
 "The committee will meet again next Tuesday night to look further into the plans adopted at the meeting last Tues day night and discuss other matters per taining to the building.
 Really. I have too much to do here to engage in a scramble for another office, but the people are the law of the land, and if they speak I am at their service. the present time."