The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-02-13
MALLORY PREFERS
 ID STAY IN SELMA
Will Not Allow Use of Name
 for JuSticeShip D
BIG BUILDING IS SOLD
BiIlineslea Property Brings S26,25o at Commissioners Sale In Selma. Other News of Selma and
 Vicinity.
BY R. E. MEL.

l BY R. E. L. MEL.
 Selma February 12.-(Special)-H. s. D. Mallory, chairman of the state democratic
 executive committee, will not permit the
 presentation of his name by his friends | for appointment to the vacancy in the of
 flee of chief justice of the supreme court
 of Alabama, made vacant by the death of | Judge Thomas N. Mcclellan. Saturday
 when the sad news of the death of Justice
 Mcclellan reached Selma the thoughts
 of the friends of MT. Mallory naturally
 turned to him as proper successor to
 the lamented jurist.
 The matter was preached to MT. Mallory from more than one source, and his re- ply then was that he would not be an ap- plicant. He was urged not to make the | decision at once, but to wait and give consideration to the matter. that no steps would be taken by his friends until the proprieties in the matter would permit
 it. and there was no particular reason why he should not wait until at least
 he had given due consdera tion Mir. Nal lorys home friends believed that his chances of the appointment would be ex- cellent. They recognized. as the whole state recognizes, his eminent fitness for the position. His integrity, his spotless character, his excellent poise of mind, his great legal attainments. and the con viction was strong that Governor Jelks could be induced without great pressure to name MT. Mallory as Justice McClel- lan's successor.
 Today MT. Mallory authorizes the state ment that he prefers for his name not to be presented to the Governor. 'I have given due consideration to the kind in- sistance of my friends" said MT. Mallory, and I am greatly appreciative of their goodness and kindness. consider the po- sition of chief justice of the supreme court of Alabama the highest honor that could be bestowed upon one of my pro fession in Alabama I would consider it the acme of official life were my inclina- tions turned in that direction, but grant ing for arguments sake alone that my friends belief could become reality, I cannot bring myself to the point at this time of life of severing the every day re- lations with my friends in the place that has been my home since boyhood. nor can believe that the high honor would justify the sacrifice of the happiness I find in my home life and family ties which have developed in Selma
 MT. Mallory's decision will be a great disappointment to his friends His ap- pointment would have placed upon the supreme court bench one of the ablest lawyers of the state. and his determina- ton not to allow his name to be presented will be learned with regret. His feelings in the matter however, are respected by his friends and endear him all the closer to this people among whom he has lived a nA a1 in t1aar oil FAts cn long.
 Property Brought Big Price. At a commissioners sale today at noon In front of the court house, the Peoples Savings bank purchased the Bllingse property on the southeast corner of Broad and Water streets, paying s26, ,250. The building is a three-story affair, and one of the oldest in the city There were sev- eral bidders but the principal bidder against the Savings bank was a stranger who Is thought by some to have been bidding for Kress the and 10 cent store man of other cities. Others think he was bidding for Selma concarn that did not want its identity known.
 The Savings bank will occupy the build ing as soon as the lease of the Tissier Hardware company the present occupant, expires. The price Is the highest paid for a single building in Selma since the pur- chase Of the Hotel Albert in it's unfinished state by the present owners. It Is an ideal location for a bank, having been the for mer home of the Commercial bank a few years before it became defunct, at which time it was then domiciled in the Gilman building.
 President of Labor League in Selma.
 w. H. Stanley, president of the Alabama Federation of Labor, and also of the La bor league of Alabama Is in Selma today, the purpose of his visit being the urging of the sending of delegates by the various labor organizations of Selma to the meet ing of the federation and the league in Birmingham in April.
 MT. Stanley explains the purposes of the Labor league to be that it is the political branch of the labor organizations, the constitutions of the latter prohibiting po- litical topics from being discussed in the meetings. MT. Stanley declares that the league will send seven members of the legislature to Montgomery at the next election and that some of the reforms to which their efforts will be turned are the following:
 Taking the convicts out of the mines Making the payment of poll taxes com pulsory. It is claimed that the common schools lose sS00,oOO each year by the vol untary poll tax provision.
 Taking the children out of the cotton mills and sending them to school. The equalization of taxes
 MT. Stanley attended the meeting of the Carpenters union tonight, and will prob ably confer with other organiza tions. He will go from Selma to Montgomery and | then to Mobile.