The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-07-27
Your words, they rob the HybIa bees,
And leave them honeyless.
JULIUS Caesar.
Let's Be Fair.

The Age-Herald believes first, last
and all the time in the npbuildng of
Birmingham and Jefferson county, and
IN the cordial cooperation of all the
people and of all the interests in the
county to that end. 1t views with APP
prehension the clamorous and persist
ent effort to arouse discord passions
and animosities not justified by the
situation, which, If aroused, may en-
dure to the injury of Birmingham long
after the primaries are forgotten.
There was never a time when Bir-
mingham was buster, its people more
prosperous or more united in their de-
termination to realize this city's glori-
Gus future. The merchants are busy,
labor is sought after, and the resources
of the district are drawing in increas-
Ing volume the capital necessary for
their development. The people Of JEFF
ferson county are taking the interest
which good citizens should take in
politics. but they have not and should
not allow their interest in politics to
develop personal bitterness or class
antagonisms.
In its editorial of July % the News
oi4
L. Miller is the candidate of the rail-
road and furnace corporations, and
should be defeated for that reason. In
the course of that editorial the News
replies to the statement made by The
Age-Herald that Miller is not and has
never been a corporation lawyer, with
a charge that Sharpe G. Miller filed a
brief in the supreme court of Alabama
on behalf of the Birmingham Water
Works, the supreme court deciding
that the brief correctly stated the law
The News further says that Miller
may be a corporation lawyer in the
near future and that the men inter-
ested in corporations are supporting
Miller and will spend money to elect
him.
In sports, in business and in politics
the people of Jefferson county stand
for fair play and resent anything like
SANDER and injustice. The Age-Herald
believes that the thoughtful people of
Jefferson county join with 1t in earn.
estly deploring the bitter and unjust
warfare made on Mr. Miller. Day
after day the News reiterates charges
that 1t has not, and apparently, can
not prove, and insinuations palpably
unwarranted and unfair. The people
of Jefferson county will and should
calmly and dispassionatoly consider
Mr.. Miller's candidacy. his personality,
and the charges and insinuations made
against him.
Mr.. Miller has denounced as false
the statement that he is the candidate
of the corporations or that he is I'M
der any obligations or pledge to them
of any character or description He
states that he Is now and always has
been in favor of such regulation of
railroad rates as to procure adequate
service at fair compensation, The
charges made by the News are dis
tinctly and unequiyocally denied, and
the News has failed to make good the
proof of its assertions. Nat Miller has
grown up with Birmingham, and its
citizens who know him will vouch for
his candor and truthfulness. Judge
H. A. Sharpe has time and again been
honored by the people of Alabama.
His purity of character and freedom
from all undue influence have distin-
guished him as lawyer and a Judge.
Shall the fact that Judge Sharpe and
Nat Miller filed in the supreme court
a brief asserting the legal rights of
their client cause fair-minded men to
class them as corporation lawyers and
unfit to hold office?
AS palpably unfair and unfounded
is the intimation that the corporations
or their stockholders are going to
spend huge sums of money to secure
Miller's election. The News does not
assert that any such fund, or dollar
of it, has been gathered or spent, but
makes statement absolutely unsup-
ported that such a fund is to be ac-
cumulated at some time in the future.
"A charge so bitter and grave, SO en-
tirely unsupported. will help rather