The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-10-28
Presidents Visit Brings on More
 Political Talk
SUPPOSE JONES IS PROMOTED
1t Would Leave Federal Judeeship to Be Filled and Alabama Even Expects Another Federal
 Judge Soon.
BY HERVEY w. LAIRD.

Montgomery, october 7.-(Speeial)-It is worth the price to watch the uneasy feeling that now exists In certain parts of the republican circle concerning the visit of the President to the south, anu to hear the talk of the reasons of it and the probable results. It is thought by many of even the leaders that it is the forerunner of changes in the official line up of the south so far as the republican party Is concerned.
 It has been whispered that a number of democrats of more or less long stand- ing have indicated to the friends of ths President that if he ever wants to build up a party in the south now is the time. A leading republican shut one eye quizi- cally at the rumor and ventuered: Wait a few weeks. That kind of enthusia'an will not long survive. l have see 1t before and 1t has gone to the four winds after the tinsel wears off. He nay get leading democrats to agree with what he believes and to help him in work he Is doing. but never to become in any senso republicans"
 Following so closely on the appointment of Gen. R. D. Johnston to a fine gov ernment job the trip of the President was supposed by some to be in line of a fixed policy to get closer to the south. It has been the cause of some conjecture as to where the lightning will strike, if at all, and none of the fellows are cer- tain where they will land However there is a sentiment that there will be no great shake up in any of the departments, especially among the men who have kept abreast of the times and have no long time ago records to hold them Dack. There is a look ahead to the enttsef -ths' terms of United States Marshal l.. J., Bryan and Postmaster Buckley. soon to be here. and 1t Is thought that there VIII be big fights made to keep both Tn or flee. However, strong influences will go out after them and many believe that the President had an idea of seeing some of the people down here before he made tho new appointments. Judge Buckley Is known to have the strongest pull tho Grand Army can put up, and 1t Is current ly reported that Judge Thomas G. Jones will use what influence Is right for him to use to have Marshal Bryan renamed.
 There is developing In the state great deal of interest in the judgeships O.
 
 lecture that President Roosevelt is very anxious to show every honor possible to Thomas G. Jones. judge of the United States court for the Middle district or Alabama. Therefore, there Is no violencs to good taste in presumng that when Judge Mccormick retlres from the bench of the United States court of appeals he will be succeeded by Judge Jones.
 That will leave an opening for another man and one hears that Congressman A. A. Wiley of the Second district would not get out of the way of the appointment. In fact 1t Is talked to some extent at least that the popular Congressman from the capital had something like this in view when he made the trip to the Phil ippines with the Taft party. He has tho friendship of the President as result of a meeting in Cuba during the war. and made himself very, very solid With the corpulent war secretary while "do- ing" the Orient. There is, however, some talk of the name of Judge w. H. Thomas of the city court of Montgomery being presented in case of a vacancy, but that may not be more than rumor as he ia pretty well anchored where he Is. though few men would turn down a federal judge ship.
 If 1t should be so that Wiley is firt- ing with the judgship there might spring
 
 trict which he is now serving. His old opponent, Bibb Graves. would, no doubt. prick up his ears to the sound of battle, and quite likely William Hodge Sam ford. of Troy, would also become interest ed With the genital Wiley in the ranks. one would hardly be justified now in say Ing either Is whetting his knife for him. but with him out-wel that Is another question And if Sanford gets in the race for Congress-he has been urged to do so-he will be, naturally, out of the counting for attorney general, and that would give Alexander M. Garber new hold on the situation. as he is the only man so far announced.
 All of which goes to prove that politics Is possessed of feelers in sufficient num- Der to get out into many different chan nels. It is fact that there is now moro interest in the attorney generals race than most any other than that of audi tor. It Is also that the combination might fail to work out altogether, for outside the possibility of the democratic landing at all Is the prospect that man be the lucky fellow. John P. Tillman 06 Birmingham, for instance
 This kind of talk brings up anew the effort of the Alabama bar to secure an- other federal judge in Alabama, the work dt tnls tune being idT tOO neHVy TOT any man to get through with 1t. There has sprung up a hitch in some way and 1t may be that nothing will be done after all It has been suggested that If the bar will get together and ask for a judge, and the state delegation in Con- gross push those views the next session will provide him. Otherwise one hears that there will be no legislation on 1t. In fact. 1t is said. for whatever 1t may be worth. that the only way to get that new judge is for every interest. bench, bar and Congress, to become agreed upon a plan. and that to leave out entirely any suggestion as to what the politics of the man to take the place will be-
 In a word 1t Is heard that the new judge will not be allowed on the promise that he will be a Democrat any more than if he will be a Republican. Of course, this is talk. One hears it if he chooses to listen, but there is much evidence that 1t Is pretty well up to the truth. One has only to step into the office of the judge here to learn that there is more work