The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-11-12
SOME WEEK END POLITICAL
 GOSSIP OF THE CAPITOL
BY HERVEY w. LAIRD.

Montgomery. November 1.-(Special)- , With the closing of the first real week of the state campaign. out of which is expected to come the nominee lists of the l democratic party. there are few new l things of definite nature to record. Cun- /, ningham gave his opponent, MT. B. B. 1 Conner, in the race for governor, a few touches of high life on the hustings, and l MT. Conner showed that he is somewhat
 of a speaker himself. Chairman Mallory i of the democratic state committee, who i some time ago spoke for a late primary, l probably not before next August. las n- l dieated that he will insist that there be
 no more fooling with the privileges of the
 party primaries, and that only bona fida converts will be taken into tho family. Henry B. Gray has announced for the
 nomination for lieutenant gosernor on the
 same platform that both the gubernatorial 1 aspirants are espousing, ali as he is 1 from the same county as the two men l toned, there Is becoming wonderful
 sameness in the race at this time
 i There does not seem much iH2son to l expect any other candidate for the goVer- l norship nomination. If it were not for t1c i rate issue, Dr. Cunningham would be | given the place almost by default, and It 1 is not for d moment anticipated that d I
 asprant without following could come
 in and make any show at all. or course. 1 there could be come little cheap adVert's- 1 ing for a conservative man, and If he
 were d young fellow il might be worth his l time and effort, but this Is hardly pI Jb- able One could not conceive of sucd l democrat as Col H. s. D. Mallory or Selma plungng into the contest as 1t n " 1 lines up, and only d man Of hi5 hiSh 1 standing and influence could make aey
 impression with the fignt so well iald 1 out as 1t is Some thought that Gel. E.
 M Robinson of Mobile might yet be the third spoke in the wheel. but he has fought so shy of anything definite about his intentions that it Is hardly safe to
 more than say that he will all the time
 and everywhere vote the democratic tick ct. He Is as backward about settling him self in the democratic meet as Col. Will i, liam Hodge Sanford, who has been slated | for lieutenant governor and attorney gen eral, one one day and the other the next
 until 1t is toss-up if he does not drop them both and have shy at the Second
 district seat in Congress.
 1 It Is rather peculiar state of affairs i that of the three men who would be 1 either governor or lieutenant governor, | all are residents of Jefferson county and all are riding the hobby of railroad rates. | It is somewhat like a situation that pre- 1 vails in the United States Senate Both Senators Morgan and Pettus live at Sel- ma, both are laweyrs of note and infor- i nation beyond the usual, and both were brigadier generals in the Confederate army. It Is also something of interest that the three Jefferson men who would re- | afx n n usual run as politicians. Dr. Cunningham is q physician and a good one his col leagues say; MT. Conner is a farmer and one of the first men to achieve success 1 in the state as a manufacturer, and MI. Gray Is a banker. though with much ex- perience in city and county politics. There is hardly another mentioned with high political ambitions who is not l lawyer.
 However. those who are now seeking he minor offices are largely outside ;ne legal profession. It is worth while to recall
 here, too, that the present governor Is a newspaper man.
 Speaking of the question of issues