The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-07-13
ALABAMA PRESS

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 Mobile Herald Copper is booming and the red metal is making ti-millionaires faster than the yellow metal does.
 Lafayette Sun. Bryan Morgan and Rockefeller are all in Europe and mat ters are comparatively quiet at home.
 Gadsden Times-News: Ella Wheeler Wilcox threatens to inffict the country with another series of poems of passion based on the Thaw case. They'll be hot stun all right.
 Union Springs Herald The nomination of United States senators by the people in party primaries is in successful opera ton in all the southern states except Missouri There are no Platts, Depews or Drydens in the Senate from this sec- ton.
 Ozark Southern Star: Candidates for the different state offices are very nu- merous in this section now Since 1t is an all white man vote that does the work, southeast Alabama Is drawing the attention of all the handshaking, baby kissing crowds
 columbiana Sentinel: It has been. con ceded heretofore that Bibb county was Conner stronghold, but the chances now are that in August that county will give a majority for Cunningham. It Is said the miners at Blocton are for cunningham to man.
 Huntsville Tribune: A dispensary would make a town look like an abandoned family graveyard in an old field The only evidence that life ever once existed there is the monuments at the head of the graves. Fence sparrows. a lizard basking In the sunshine, creeping vines, would soon be all of the things living left on the spot Why thus attempt to convert our city?
 Guntersville Democrat: The detail of officers who were to go over the line of Sherman's infamous march for the avow ed purpose of studying the points of strategy, would appreciate the points more. if Joseph k. Johnston were in front and Joe Wheeler in their rear. watching every movement and taking ad- vantage of every blunder Strategy is worthless without opposition.
 Livingston Southern Home Most repib- lican congressman consider their greatest achievements of this session to be the pure pork bilr' which makes some re- publican constituencies believe they are doing things" The democrats point with pride that they forced the republican ma jority to vote for rate bill a pure food bill and other remedial legislation that have for years beep the principal blanks in democratic platforms.
 Huntsville Mercury: The following are the profits for the dlspensary for 1905 at few places where it is in force: Athens, Ala. population, 1O1o profits, slS'ooS Lafayette, population, 1929, profits, s75OO; Dothan, population, s275, profits s2o GOO; Troy, population, 4o97, profits, ssO.Ooo; Tuscaloosa, population, 5Os4. profits, $3s.- 900. It is fair to assume on a low esti mate, Huntsville, population, 10000, profits 5000
 Montgomery Journal: The session of Congress just closed has demonstrated the power of an honest, able and vigilant minority. The democrats were signally successful In forcing the passage of all the important matters of legislation which became laws, although unable to prevent mutilation in some particulars by amendments of the majority. It was the oposition, in some instances. of the democratic minority which forced measures and In others by joining the minority or liberal republicans. which en- | abled Congress to adjourn with the re- spectable record which the republicans | claim for 1t.