The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-04-09

Montgomery, April S.-(Special.)-M
than any other place L ever saw Mont
gomery takes it's politics to heart. AS
newspaper man would say they eat it
up" Running for office is science and
every man and woman to the manor
born has a fairly good knowledge of it.
Today is being made happy or unhappy
by the last frantic appeals of the gem
tlemen in the municipal race for nomin-
alton by the democratic party. The pri-
mary takes place next Monday and there
is still hunt for the last few voters
who have not come out in the open and
indicated preference.
The leading candidates for mayor are
holding rallies tonight at public places
and the voice of the spellbinders is re-
sounding over the heads of the ,populaoe
like the running cries of the hounds IN
fun pursuit. At the capital interest CEN
ters in the race for alderman at large
being made by the Hon. j. Kirk jack
son. private secretary to the governor,
and that for alderman of the Fifth ward
by Robert TAFT, clerk in the convict de-
partment. Both look to be easy winners
but it is dollars to doughnuts that will
not keep the Sabbath tomorrow if cleo
tioneering is breaking it..
This has been a strenuous week in the
Capitol City. The state railroad commits
sion came on the boards Monday and
nroved a headliner from the jump. The
bond issue Joined it the next day. and
has held the whole interested-n-bids
state suspended ever since. These two,
along with the election and little OF
the capitol improvement dope" have
kept the newspaper men with weather
ewes out all the time. Fortunately the
supreme court, which may usually be
counted upon to furnish some applause
starters, keep pretty still contenting it.
self with handing down few unimport-
ant decisions. The end of Saturday and
the week mas come, however without any
thing decisive in any of the leading ef-
forts put forth. The railroad commission
emuated the example of mountain
that one has been told of in the past
which contented itself, after hard work,
with a miniature rodent as offspring and
Governor Jelks put the bond bids in his
pocket and went off down to Eufaula,
presumably to think it over. He will be
back Monday and has half way promised
been In the air since they gathered in
his office last Tuesday down to terra
hrma again.
II may be that the Governor will not
think well of what has been offered and
turn the whole thing down. but theresis
pretty we'll defined idea that he has not
that intention today. 1t is interesting
TO know that the offer that the Governor
refers to in his message to the last ses-
sion of the legislature might have failed
of undertaking If he had taken 1t up.
The bid run to its last analysis brought
the issue down to about 3A, and now
makes it appear that it would have been
good business to have accepted It, 1t is
q fact, however. that the bid was made
by firm of bankers who have since taken
a trip UP the financial branch of Salt
river and would have no doubt been
unable to make good on the call to taw.
For this reason the bids of last week do
not look so bad in comparison. There can
be no doubt but what the state is entitled
to a little better showing on the sale
than the best bid offers, but 1T seems that
II is the best that can be secured. So
far as is known now there could not have
been anything more remunerative.
In a telegram received from the Rev.
n. w. Battle OF Greensboro, N. c., today
the death of Gen. Cullen A. Battle, long
time a resident of Macon county, this
state, was announced. He was brother
of the Rev. A. j. Battle of Admission, and
had other relatives in the state. Brewers
History of Alabama gives the deceased
q fine sketch. He was born at Powelton,
Ca in 1929, and came to Alabama in 1885,
settling in Barbour county. Educated at
the State university he read law under
Hon. John Gill Shorter in Eufaula, and
was admitted to practice In 1851. TIE
next year he went to Tuskegee and prac-
ticed for several years in partnership with
Judge Chiffon and w. c. McIver, Esq
In 1850 he was an elector for Breckin-
ridge, and towards the close of that year
was elected lieutenant colonel of the Sec
ond Alabama Volunteer regiment. c. 8.
A. He served with this command in jan
uary, 1861, at Pensacola, and was there