The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-05-06
ALL ALONE RACES
FOR STATE OFFICES
Several Candidates May Have
No Opposition
HOOD A JOHNSTON MAN
Friends of Judge A. D. Sayre May In
duce Him to Enter Race for Chief
Justiceship-News at
the Capitol.
HOOD A JOHNSTON MAN
BY HERvEY w, LAIRD.

BY HERvEY w. LAIRD.
Montgomery, May 5-(Special.)-lt be-
gins to look like there will be all alone
races for three state offices anyway, pos
sibly four, no opposition developing so far
for the positions of treasurer, attorney
general and superintendent of education.
and only one announced for secretary OF
state. However, it is fairly well estao-
llshed that A. c. Sexton will yet decide
to run for the last named honor, though
at this time Frank Julian is the only
outspoken asplrant. Sexton has not fully
made up his mind on the subject and will
hardly announce a definite decision with
in a couple of weeks. L. NJ. Steven
son of Roanoke, who had a superintend-
ent of education bee buzzing in his head
gear, states publicly that he will not run
and this leaves the field with only IL.
C. Gunnells, present chief clerk, In the
contest A. NJ. CARRIER has no opposition
for attorney general and it is not thought
he will have, and Walter d. Seed Is run
ming single handed for treasurer. 1t Will
four good offices are taken by men with
out contest.
Race for Auditor.
Several men who have been taking spe-
cial note of the race for auditor see In
the situation as now developed danger for
both Brooks Smith ana William w.
Brandon, and a chance for Horace Hood
to land In the end, In one of the offices
of the capitol this week sat two men,
one from the north of the state and
the other from the middle section. The
up state man said: II am going to do
my best to carry my county for Brooks
Smith. However, If he were not in the
| fight | would try to turn 1t to the Bran
don column" The other man came back
this way; II shall do what l can to
secure the election of Brandon, though
| would vote and work for Smith IL he
| were not seeking the honor" Both SEEM
| ed to think that these TWO candidates
are appealing to practically the same ele-
| ments in the voting population while Hood
| will have a following all his own that
may be large enough, with what he can
secure from the strength of the others,
| to land him in the office. Hood is a Joe
| Johnston man and believes that much of
/ the following of the Birmingham banker
will stand by him. All this may be just
Supreme Court Bench.
A feature of the judicial succession
| situation this week is the great demand
| made upon Judge A. d. Sayre of the
city court of Montgomery to enter the
contest for the place to be made vacant
by the election or defeat of Judge Ty-
son for chief justice. Several lawyers
from other portions of the state have
been here and urged the talented Mont
gomery jurist to enter. He is 10th to
do so. OF disposition to retire from
strife rather than seek 1t, he does not
anticipate with pleasure a campaign. He
ran before and made fine showing but
was defeated. That has made him think
that the demand for his services is not
in sufficient volume to elect him. 1t Is
urged upon him that the primary was
new and had to be tried and that the
bar did not take the interest in 1t that
will this year be given. After talking
with the judge on Wednesday a well
posted lawyer said. "He seemed more in
clned to take the matter seriously than
at any time before, and | hope we will
yet get him to run. He is an ideal man
for the position and l am quite sure
| will be elected If he asks 1t this time.
, His youth Is already being urged against
Thomas Mcclellan of Athens, just an
| nounced. Many say he is too young for
| the work; that it takes man of expert
ence in the law and better still on the
bench.
Chief Justice Contest.
Some church people are going to make
an effort to elect Chief Justice WealSley
to the head of the bench. Many have
put forward the plea for him that he
Is not only fine lawyer and great jurist
but active man in church work. What
ever it is worth it is being urged in his
behalf Hundreds of letters are being
sent out by the Weakley campaign COM
| mittee, as well as numerous ones from
individual friends to individual friends
His adherents are keeping very busy
and seem to be putting much of the gin
ger of the contest into north Alabama
counties. A trip to the south reveals
the fact that whenever men express opin-
ion at all they say Tyson has the best
of the race. Mobile seems overwhelm-
ingly that way. Middle Alabama indica-
lions are like those of the south this
being In Tyson's old home and his old
judicial circuit. Tyson men are claim
ing also that he will carry many counties
to the north. A Lauderdale man here this
week Thought he would get Colbert and
Limestone and Jackson, with half or
more of Morgan. He did not say how he
/ was going to vote. A Montgomery man
who will not vote for Tyson said yester-
duced for Judge Weakley as much as pos
sible. He is lawyer and leader in
church circles. Judge Tyson expresses
the greatest confidence In his election
and is proud of the way his friends are
standing by him at home and in the
Second circuit. which he served for some
time as judge.
Bankhead's Future.
There is great deal of talk here in
the interest of John II. Bankhead. just
defeated for Congress in the Sixth dis
trict,, for one of the senatorial success
sion places He has fine following in
this section as well as further south and
would command heavy vote If he should
run. Several letters have been written
him lately to consider the matter. He
account OF the death of Mr.. Towers
mother few days ago.
Prof II. c. Gunnels of Montgomery will
deliver the annual address at the COM
mencement of the Disaue High school on
May 81. Several gold medals will be
awarded and the exercises promise to
be more interesting than usual.