The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-06-30
ABERCROMB|E GOES
 ID THE CAPITAL StaIlingS, Gray and Lowe Mak-
 ing New Friends STALLlNGS OUT FOR BRYAN With John Mitchell as Runninu Mate He Thinks Peerless Can Win
 Hands Down-Other
 Capital Gossip.
STALLINGS OUT FOR BRYAN

Montgomery, June 29-tSpecial. .)-Among the visitors to the city today is Dr. John w. Abercrombie. president of the State University and one of the best known edu- cators of the south. He is in the city to arrange some business matters for the university and to lay out d number of plans for the work next year. The move ment for development of the university spirit In the state is taking such firm hold that the members of the faculty as whole have been kept busy keeping up with the many good things that have taken place since the jubilee occasion in May
 The agitation for the use of Alabama marble in the capitol improvement came principally from Dr. Eugene A. Smith of the university, state geologist, who is always awake for the best interests of the commonwealth. Dr. Smith wrote a letter to Secretary Thomas M Owen of the capitol commission urging that the marble of the state be used. From this mand for the home product became gen. eral. Dr. Smith has also done much to interest outside capital in the immense cement deposits of the state, and through his persistent advertising of the wealth of the hills and valleys he has brought great sums of money to the people.
 pr. Abercrombie speaks enthusiastically of the outlook for the university. Every department of it's service seems to be on the up hill. The summer school now in session is the best yet held and it has proven its practicabilty. This gives a means of culture and broadness of in formation of vast help to the teachers of the state.
 StaIIings on Bryan.
 Former Congressman Jesse Stallings is in the city, having come down to have a look at the situation. politically speak ing. in Montgomery. He said that while he represented the Second district in Con- gress he was never able to tell just where to find the city of Montgomery. Having become candidate for alternate senator he aspires anew to locate the citizenry of the capital.
 In the opinion of Mir. Stallings, William J. Bryan is the great leader of the peo- pie. He goes so far as to say that the Creator himself made him a leader With Mitchell the labor leader, as a running mate. the aforetime congressman from the Second thinks MT. Bryan can be elected to the presidency next time. He even be- lieves that the Nebraskan might win with John Sharp Williams of Mississippi as d running mate He bases this idea on the ground that Williams has not made him self obnoxious to the aborng men.
 It is the well matured opinion of Mr. Staliings that there is not much of d race for governor Conner, as he secs it., has taken the whole thing. "I expect him to beat the other man by 10000 .n the primary said he.
 Mir. Stallngs is genial and happy as of old He is taking on flesh and seems entirely at peace with himself and the rest of the world. He finished a light breakfast of oat meal and cakes. washed down with a cup of coffee and a glass of milk, borrowed tobacco enough to make g cigarette lighted the roll and strolled out on the street. where the writer left him with number of old friends. about