The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-07-31
HANDS WARM ONE
TO MR. STALLINGS
w. B. Crumpton Tells Why H
Cannot Support Him
CAPITAL MEAT LAW is GOOD
Inquiries Being Received BY Mayor
league From Many Sources for
Copy of Law, Which Is
Considered Ideal.

Montgomery, July 9o.-(special.) 1.-The
Rev. ". 3. Crumpton. secretary of the
State Board of Missions of the Baptist
church and known as the Bishop of
the Baptists of Alabama, hands j. F.
stallings, candidate for senatorial sue
eession, few hot shots in letter writ
ten in answer TO an appeal for help in
his race. q do not believe you would re-
fleet credit upon our great state If you
were elected" says Nh Crumpton, who
later on shows the basis of his belief in
the following sentences My objection is
based on moral grounds"
Mr.. stallings had written the same let
ter sent. to many others in which he re-
viewed his career, placed himself in line
with B. b. Conner on freight rates ana
railroad regulation. and expressed the
hope taht the recipient would reply. The
reply follows:
Montgomery. Ala, July Is. 1906
MIR. J. f. Stallings, Birmingham, Ala
Dear sir: Your letter asking for my
support in your candidacy for the high
office of United States Senator from
Alabama, with a request that l write you
received.
You will excuse me, l hope for the
frank answer | give you. / can not sup
port you. My objection is not based upon
the platform you announce, but on the
honest conviction that you are not a suit
able man to fill the high office you seek.
| do not believe you would reflect credit
on our great state II you were elected.
Possibly you are intellectually capable. |
am not sufficiently acquainted with you
to be positive on that score. but l have
doubts amounting to almost conviction.
Ny objection is based on moral grounds.
You have been before the public fire.
quently for office. My impressions come
almost solely from reading the papers
during those canVasses, and hearing from
persons who knew you and heard you.
l do not recall just now the things you
| have said and done which are responsible
for these impressions, but think
| could without the loss of much time,
easily find them
Honestly. Mr.. stallings, what claims
have you on the Christian and moral vot-
| ers of Alabama? Have you, in your ut
terances ever impressed them with the
thought that you are governed by Chris
tian principles? On the other hand. have
you not publicly scoffed at religion? You
| may not believe 1t, but 1t is nevertheless
true, the Christian and moral voters in
Alabama are going to make their influence
felt in politics more In the future than
In IIe past. 1uDnC utH Will HdNt ~
be more careful of their utterances and
their habits or they will be made to feel
| the power of the aroused moral sense of
| the Christian public Possibly this senti-
ment is not sufficiently strong In this
campaign to make itself felt, bubt 1t is
rapidly growing and before the next cleo
ton | confidently believe unworthy can
didates will not dare to offer for office.
You ask for a letter from me. This Is
the best I could write. Since your let
ter is a circular sent to all the voters,
I suppose I do nothing wrong in making
1T and my reply public. Respectfully
yours, wv. B. CRuMPFoN.'
Meat Law Good.
The following letter has just been re-
ceived at the Mayors office:
"Chocorna, N H., July "a.
'''rhe Mayor Montgomery, Ala.
Dear Sir--I write to ask If you will
send me a copy of the municipal meat in
spection ordinance, now in force in your
city 1t has been recompended to me by
a friend well informed as in many respects
the best in force in any city In our coun-
try
Thanking you In advance for your
courtesy l remain very truly yours,
JAMES BRONSON REYNOLDS"
The copy will, of course. be forwarded
as soon as prepared. II may be interest
ing to note that, owing to the number of
calls received by the Mayor for this par
tieular ordinance. in the next printed code
will appear the full law so that as little
time as possible may be lost in complying
with the requests of others desiring 1t for
their own city. A short while ago Bridges
Smith, Mayor of Macon, Ga, wrote to
Mayor league for the purpose of having
a copy forwarded him, and little before
this one of the cities in Texas also made
a request for 1t.
Twenty Babies Baptized.
At the Clayton Street Methodist church
Yesterday morning the Rev. e. c. Moore
baptized at the church's altar twenty
babies and consecrated their lives TO the
services of God. The occasion was an
exceedingly impressive and inspiring one.
Scarcely, If ever are such a number of
little children seen to receive the bap-
tistnal blessings at one time and to go
through the entire ceremony with the
earnesness of their elders. Only few
of the little ones gave the slightest re-
sistance to the administering of the ordi-
nance, and very few of them were known
to whimper or lose heart at the great
number of faces that peered from the
pews.
A quite unusual feature of the occasion
was that the great grandfather of Mr..
and Mrs C. j. Leach's 10-months-old baby
girl held the child forth to receive the
minister's blessings, having by her side
the child's grandmother. the mother sit
ting near.
To Mr.. and Mrs. ]. r. Payne belong the
proud distinction of seeing their four little
ones, at one time and with one purpose,
march up to the chancel alone, and, with
the eldest as spokesman. give themselves
over to the church's protection.
After the baptismal ordinance had been
administered, the pastor spoke to the
parents on their duties to the little ones,
choosing as his text the selection from
Deuteronomy vi. Thou shall teach them
diligently unto thy children"
Capitol Notes.
e. r. McDavid. secretary of state, who
has been Ill for some days with a very
active boil on his right leg. is again in
his office He had a pretty hard fight
and is now more than ever impressed
with the patience of Job. the aforetime
sufferer along this line.
w. X. McDuffe has been appointed
pension examiner at Myrtlewood. Maren4
go county.
The Farmers Warehouse and Storage
company has been Incorporated at Scots
boro. with capital Of 5000 The incorpora-
tors are about fifty citizens OF the town
The Palmetto Beach Land company OF
Palmetto Beach, Baldwin county, is a
new enterprise for the state 1t is an
Iowa corporation with capital of $4,000