The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-09-02
JACK MOORE COMES BACK AT MUSGROVE Bankhead's Champion Calls
 Him Rainbow Chaser REVIEWS FREAKS" RECORD That Is, He Record as Political Prophet-Bankhead Will Win
 Easily, Says Moore-"Hob-
 son Losing Ground"
REVIEWS FREAKS" RECORD

Jdck MOOTe, tne SnefilL Oh 0oAhSA county and one of Colonel Bankheads chief lieutenants in the Sixth congression- a. district, was walking the streets of Birmingham all day yesterday, tonna- hawk in hand, ready to take the political scalp of L. B. Musgrove, Captain Hob- sons political manager.
 Late in the afternoon he fell in with some newspaper men and fired hot-shot Into the Hobson-Musgrove political camp. T have just returned from the west with an extradited prisoner" said Sheriff Moore. "and have just seen, for the first time, an interview in which my always valuable if not always accurate l friend. MT. L. B. Musgrove confides to an expectant world what he thinks about the coming congressional contest in the Sixth district.
 "I note that Mr. Musgrove, who seethes in prophecies and exhudes politi- cal predictions, said that under normal conditions Captain Hobson could easily defeat Colonel Bankhead
 well. let us see. In the last congress- ional campaign over in the Sixth dis- trict. which was fought under conditions normal enough to satisfy even the most abnormal political partisan, Mr. Mus grove, who was Captain Hobson's man. arcr. gave out great many large and ], interviews. Tn each and every one hose interviews MT. Musgrove said
 captain Hobson would run Colonel Eankhead off his feet. smother him In the home stretch and come romping nome the easiest kind of winner.
 "Now. when MT. Musgrove gave out those rainbow-chasing interviews he staked his reputation as political pro- phet upon their accuracy. All men no" know what happened. The people listened to what MT. Musgrove had to say ana then went to the ballot box and rolled I'D a handsome majority for their faith- full and efficient representative in Con- eress, Col John H. Bankhead. When the returns came in Mir Musgrove took to the tall timber and came mighty near having fit of political apopexy. The subsequent proceedings interested him no more.
 lover in the Sixth district we thought that the result of that election would hold Mir. Musgrove for a while. And 1t did hold him for a while. But we knew that l he would break out again at the first op- 1 portunity and contribute once more to the gaity of nations. We have not been disappointed.
 l when MT Musgrove was about to leave Birmingham for New York to at tend Captain Hobson's wedding he an- nounced that Captain Hobson would sure ly be a candidate for Congress to suc- ceed Colonel Bankhead. When he got back home, MT. Musgrove turned polit- l teal somersault He can do that aero 1 batic trick about as easily as any other man In the state. He said that he had | received so many letters and so many telegrams requesting him to permit Cap tain Hobson to run for governor that he really didn't know which job of the two he would let Richmond take. And he got off this political stunt while he was right here in Birmingham and before he re- turned to his home and headquarters at Jasper, where he receives his mail and telegramsl
 NOW look here." continued Sheriff Moore emphatically, 'I don't pretend to be political prophet and by the Great Horn Shoon I don't want to be put in the Musgrove prophet class. But there's one thing you can just put down as a moral centainty and that Is that Colonel Bank heads majority in the coming race will run up into the thousands.
 Captain Hobson Is daily losing ground. He will find 1t out when he makes his preliminary canvass. Captain Hobson has | In some ways made an admirable record; but the popular favor for him has died out. His telegrams to Alabamas veteran senators and his remarks about Repre- sentative Hefin show that he lacks a sense of the fitness of things. His critic- ism of Mir. Bryan at St. Louis and his attitude toward organized labor together with his failure again to register, have convinced many of his former supporters that he is not to be preferred to Colonel | Bankhead.
 Tt is generally conceded in Walker county that Captain Hobson's talk about railroad rate regulation is play for political position. He talks about Colonel | Bankhead being a new convert on the subject, but the truth Is that Colonel Bankhead voted in Congress for the bill to regulate rates before Captain Hob- son ever thought of rate regulation. Cap tain Hobson said nothing about railroad regulation in his former canvass, and he never made a public utterance on the subject until this year, after 1t be- came apparent that 1t was to be the popular issue.
 q can name many prominent men in Walker county who supported Captain Hobson before, who are now openly for Colonel Bankhead, I have yet to hear of the first man who supported Colonel Bankhead before who Is for Captain Hobson next time.
 "If we have a democratic primary, 1t will be a landslide for Colonel Bank head Our people want the Warrior open- ed and know that Colonel Bankhead is the man to get the work done.'' |
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