The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-11-11
EAGER To RECEIVE
ELECTION RETURNS
Officers Cannot Qualify Until
Vote is Counted
GOVERNOR JOINS APPEAL
Few Thousand Dollars Would Be of
Wonderful Benefit to Fishermen
at coden and Bayou
La Batre.
GOVERNOR JOINS APPEAL

La Batre.
Montgomery, November 1O-(Special)-
Though the law says that the governor,
secretary of state and attorney general,
an election board, must meet
within fifteen days after every state cleo
ton and count the returns and declare the
result, they do not have to wait the full
length of time if the returns are in. 1t
is, therefore, of vast aid to everybody
concerned if the county boards. which
counted the votes Friday, will rush the
returns to the capitol. No commissions
will be issued until the governor makes
proclamation and the counts are sent back
to the probate judges and the new officers
qualify.
The board noted above does not count
the vote for governor, lieutenant COVER
nor, attorney general, auditor, secretary
of state, treasurer, s perintendent of ed
ucation or commissioner of agriculture
and industries. These are cent sealed, and
by the governor delivered to the speaker
of the house. The board does count the
returns for supreme court judges, railroad
congressman, representa-
tives in the legislature, sheriffs and other
officers.
The longer the returns from the coun-
ties are delayed the longer those who
have been elected to office will be kept
out of their places, hence it lis we'll to let
them come along rapidly as possible.
So far the following counties have sent
them Bibb. Bullock, Calhoun, Chambers,
Cleburne, Dale, Escambia, Greene, Lime
stone, Lowndes, Morgan and Russell.
The voting officers must file the cleo
ton certificates with the probate judges,
says the law, who must Immediately for
ward such certificates to the secretary of
state. There are very few county officers
this year save representatives, sheriffs,
one or two county judges and number
of commissioners. These have to be re-
ported to the secretary of state because
he has to commission them.
For Storm Sufferers.
Governor William ID. Jellls has added
the force of his endorsement to the ap-
peal sent out by the Alabama Press as
ISOLATION for the flood sufferers on the
bay Shore in the neighborhood of Bayou
La Batre and Coden This request for
help is now being mailed to the different
editors and men of influence in the state,
and 1t is hoped will give money enough TO
help the poor people down there get
start in the world again. The governor
says:
my attention has been called to an APP
peal sent out by the Alabama Press as
ISOLATION for the storm sufferers at Bayou
La Batre and Coden. | have seen in per-
son the result of the stoSins fury. The
damage was very great, for miles along
the coast taking eveiytNia& Probably the
larger losses were felt bS the fishermen
in the destruction of their boats, their i'm
means of gaining livelihood The
condition of such men is pitiable. A large
number of them cannot work because they
have no tools with which to work. and
many of these same men are now without
homes. Their present living is "A precarious
one. Assistance of the charitably inclined
should be sent A. c. Harte, financial sec
rotary. or Rabbi A. G. Moses. treasurer
both of Mobile. A few thousand dollars
would just now be of great assistance"
No Pardon for Him.
An application for the pardon of 4. j.
Pennington of Houston county, has been
denied by the governor on the advice of
the state board of pardons. Pennington
killed Lee Paulk some months ago and
escaped jail after conviction, going -
Cuba. He was brought back here from
there at considerable expense by the gov
ernor and friends of the dead man and
has since been serving his term of life
He came to the penitentiary officials OF
the state early this year
The governor, on the advice of a large
number of the best citizens of Sumter
county, has restored the civil rights of
Will Scott, who was pardoned few
months ago Scott and his brother were
convicted and given short sentence as the
result of the killing of R. H. Seymour
father of President Seymour of the Ala
bama division of the Southern Cotton as
ISOLATION. This killing created much eX-
element at the time and for a while was
the talk of that part of the state. The
dead man was. ike the man convicted,
member of one of the oldest families
In the state.
w. r. Feagin Named.
William +. Feagin. secretary of the
board of examiners OF the educational de-
partment of the state was today APP
pointed assistant division commlssary or
the staff OF the commander of the Ala
bama division, United Sons of Confeder-
ate Veterans, and will be with Commando
George w. Duncan and other members OF
the staff at the reunion In Mobile weel;
after next.
Commander Duncan is busy getting his
followers In shape for the reunion and
will be able to take a large crowd %
the Gulf City festivities. lie has been a,
work much lately with DR.. Thomas NJ
owen. commander in chief of the Sons,
whose office is in the state state capito,.
and will have number of things 20
suggest when the division is assembled.
Mr. Duncan is at the head of some of the
most important work of the general fe |.
Grafton. and has been very active in help
ing the commander in chief to take care
of details.
1t is a matter of interest that Mobile
is making great effort to look after the
old soldiers and the sons, who will b..
there the latter part of me month and
promises to give them the best time OF
their lives
Local Tax Carries.
State Superintendent of Education |. W.
Hill is informed by County Superintend-
ent ]. S. Lambert of Baldwin county
that his county voted by a large ma
iority to levy the 10 cents on the 500 tax
for school purposes. 1t seems that the
local tax fights in Cherokee and Col
bert were lost.
Mr.. Hill is going to be with the Fed
Grafton of Woman's clubs at Selma for
a few days next week, and talk the school
improyement ideas with the ladies of that
organization, who have done so much to
push this work along. Mr.. Hill has had
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