The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-09-23
Advertiser Bureau,
 Mahtla OAnt os

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 shoot again and you'll hit candi- date" remarked man who knows | much of the town. As the time grows | shorter for the municipal primary the | seekers for public once are getting on | their war paint. Aside from the 1 candidates who are to go before the | voters there are many seekers after plums which are to be plucked from the municipal tree. These ofhce all of | which carry nice salaries, some very fat, are aIluring and already the jug gling act is going on. The season for slate making is close at hand and, while many will later be broken. wiseacres declare there will ultimately be three to ro to the post, one for each of the mayoralty candidates.
 One of the peculiar phases of the present campaign is the number or snirants for counciImanic honors. This is peculiar because of the fact that the candidates, before going to the post at the tap of the bell. must pay an en- trance fee, to say nothing or the cost of grooming in order to be conditioneo for the race, and no salary goes with inc office. In the smallest ward in the city. the second, there are two can didates, one the present incumbent, Foster K. Hale, the other Dr. J. Gray Thomas. son of a former councilman. Tn only two wards is the field, up to the present hour. made up or single candidate. In other words there are three or four aspirants.
 But while the city campaigners are more than ordinarily active. the asp,rapts for the shrievalty are not tagging Four warhorses are in the bunch, with possibly others to come and the ''big four" are here and there. much fin evidence. Walk a block and vou will either meet or see one. or an active lieutenant and 1t Is case of dodge and run if you are in a hurry to reach your destination. The voters at this writing. are having strenuous time.
 A meeting of the Commercial Club was held tonight. and present were prominent business and professionai men. The purpose of the meeting as President Max Hamburger, Jr.. stated was to take the initiative steps in the matter of a proper reception to Presi- dent Roosevelt on his visit to Mobile.
 The question of his coming nere was brought up and Mayor Pat J. Lyons read A letter from Secretary Loeb. stating the President would come here' as per promise, on October 24. and ask ing what arrangements, If any, hao heen made He stated he had replied that the arrangements would be made and notice would be forwarded imme- diately thereafter. President Brown of the Chamber of Commerce said he had read that the President would not come because he could not go to Ar kansas from New Orleans, because Of quarantine restrictions in Arkansas, where he had also promised to go.
 Major F. M. Robinson stated that he had read a telegram from the Presi. dent in which he stated that he would make the visits and If he could not go to New Orleans and from there to Ar kansas he would make a later special trip to New Orleans and Arkansas. Upon his assurance a motion that committee of three be named and that the Chamber of Commerce and the mu- nicipal government name similar com" mittees to confer as to arrangements was adopted. the chair naming Judge Jules E. Afford, Colonel A. s. Lyons and Erwin Craighead.
 Calling Judge Afford to the chair MT. Hamburger offered the following teIe- gram, to be sent to pr. ]. H. White, at New Orleans:
 "Dr. J. H. White. United States Ma
 rine Hospital Service. New Orleans,
 '"The Commercial Club, on behalf of your many old friends and townsmen
 
 fication at your great and noble work in our stricken sister city. and we cherish the hope and belief that New Orleans has passed through the worst of her misfortune and will soon be her self again. We do congratulate her citizens on their heroic light.
 Max Hamburger, Jr.,
 President"
 This was unanimously adopted and the secretary instructed to forward 1t at once.
 Mir. Hamburger then offered the fol- lowing resolutions:
 whereas The Mobile medical pro- fession in general and Doctors W. H. Sanders. State Health Oh1cer; Rhett Goode, City Health Onicer; P. J. M. Ack- CT, County Health Oficer; Charles A. Goldthwaite, Executive Onlcer, and W. H Scales, oficer In charge at the quar- antine plant of the Quarantine Board of Mobile Bay, in particular, have been untiring in their efforts and indefatig- able in their zeal for the protection of Mobile from an invasion of the fever, therefore be 1t
 Resolved. by the Mobile Commercial Club, that this body extend to the gen. tlemen named, typical representatives of a noble profession, its profound thanks for their efforts. and It's con- gratulations for the success they have achieved"
 The resolution was adopted and the secretary instructed to send a copy to each of the persons named and furnish copy to each of the papers.
 Mir. Hamburger called the attention of the Club to the fact that at the an- nual meeting 1t was mentioned in his report that the Alabama Confederate Veterans were successfully received here and expressed desire to again come to the city. Huntsville, he said, had abandoned the reunion for this year and he suggested that commit tee of three be named to consider the advisability of extending an invitation | to the Alabama Division to hold their annual reunion in this city i2 1908. The motion prevailed and the chair an- nounced that the committee would be named later.
 Col. A. s. Lyons moved that the courtesies of the Club be extended to the Right Rev. Bishop Anthony Kos | lowski and Hon. John L. Bolen of Chi cago two distinguished gentlemen who were here for the purpose of securing lands for a Polish colony. The motion | prevailed and the secretary was tn- | structed to notify the gentlemen. The meeting then adjourned.
 < An unconhrmed rumor has reached | here of criminal assault made upon |