The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-06-24

 BANKHEAD
 KEEPS BUSY Senator is Marshalling His Forces. NO OPPOSITION IS APPARENT Many Pledges Received by the Vet
 eran Lawmaker. Governor Conner Remains Absolutely silent While sixth District Man is Making His Position Strong
 CT Every Day.
NO OPPOSITION IS APPARENT

yesterday morning for Selma. Senator Bankhead Is conferring with friends In various sections of the State.
 These conferences have only tended to reassure the confidence he has stead fly felt that the Legislature would con- firm the verdict of the primary and le- sally elect him to the vacancy in the United States Senate left by the death of Senator Morgan.
 Captain Bankhead does not believe that any other name than his will be placed before the Legislature. He Is not only convinced that he will be tri- umphantly elected. but he is convinced that no other name but his will go be- fore the Legislature when the time comes. This belief has grown out of the assurances that have come to him From members of the Legislature and from the sentiment as he has come to know 1t. among the voters of Alabama
 Captain Bankhead expected this sen- fiment to exist. He felt that the voters of the State would demand that the in- fegrfty of the primary be maintained when the Legislature came to name the Successor to Senator Morgan.
 So when the Governor gave out his now famous pronunciamento, in which he said he was bound to appoint him, but that the Legislature was not bound and ought not to elect him, Captain
 
 tion, accepted the statementl as dec- laration of war and declared he was ready for the fight.
 He now says, in effect that he does < not propose that his appointment shall be political lemon" good only for a month. and which does not even give him an opportunity of sitting once in the United States Senate. He could not even qualify. The only benefit the appointment conferred upon him was the payment of months salary as United States Senator and the doubtful compliment of being alluded to. in Alabama history, as the man who had the complimentary title of Senator for one short month.
 But Captain Bankhead did not pro- pose to sit quiet and let the Governors surprising pronunciamento overcome him like a summer cloud. He thought the Governor was looking for a scrap and he proceeded to give 1t to him. So the Governor Is now Involved in the hottest fight of his political career, and in a fight, unless all signs fail which will go against him.
 No man doubts that Captain Bank heads confidence Is we'll founded. There is in political circles rumor generally believed that more than a majority of the two Houses has al- ready pledged itself to him for the Sen- atorship. When the State Convention adopted a resolution, after the primary had nominated Captain Bankhead for the first vacancy declaring that the Legislature would do what 1t pleased about the Senatorial succession and that it was not bound by the primary Captain Bankhead, surprised that a Democratic Convention should go so far in opposition to a Democratica pri- mary wrote a letter to all Senators and eI members of the Legislature asking an expression from each as to the binding force of the primary. As a re- Bult of that letter, it Is rumored in po- litical circles and confidently believed that he has more than a majority of Ghe members of the Legislature pledged To carry out the verdict of the primary. As soon as the Senators and Repre- Hentatives began to declare themselves the Bankhead side of the House loomed up much stronger than had even been expected. Only part of the member ship of the House and Senate has made public declaration of their position. Etil1 considerable part has done so. Of those who have so expressed them selves no member of the Legislature has said that he would not vote for Captain Bankhead for United States Senator. Several have said that they did not consider the action of the pri- mary binding upon the members of the Legislature and let 1t go at that. Not one of them has said that 1t was his purpose to cast his vote against Cap tain Bankhead.
 On the other hand fifteen of the thir- ky-six members of the State Senate have come out in print announcing their intention of supporting Captain Bankhead. This is not a majority vote. Nor does it include all those who have given assurance that they would vote to carry into effect the verdict of the primary, although those as surances have not been publicly print ed. i.
 The Governor is to be Governor for nearly four more years. The Governor has controlled the Legislature and its members have heretofore been working in conjunction with him. A legislator thinks twice before he announces a break with the Governor. He may feel absolutely certain of what he is going to do but he hesitates in breaking with his former leader and his associates in the Legislature. Most of them are away from the political centers and they do not know just yet, the lay of the land. With them IS time enough to cross the bridge when they get to it although they have made up their mind as to what they are going to do when they get to 1t.
 A political statistician has figured that forty-seven members of the House have publicly declared their intention of voting for Bankhead when the time comes.
 The State Senators who have been quoted In the papers as favoring the carrying into effect of the result of the primary are Messrs. Thomas of Bar bour, Moody of Tuscaloosa, King of Marengo, Leith of Walker. Hammer of Etowah, Jones of Wilcox, Glenn of Rus sell, Teasley of Montgomery, McWhor- ter of Colbert. Hayes of Limestone and Wilson of Blount.
 There are several other Senators. who, it is confidently believed by Cap tain Bankhead's friends will vote to carry out the primary at the first op- portunity.
 Chairman IT S. D. Mallory of the present State Executive Committee and of the preceding State Committee. Speaker A. Fl. Carmichael of the House and President Pro Tenn E. P. Thomas of the Senate, have all made public 1. declaration of their belief that the pri mary put the obligation on the Legis lature to elect Captain Bankhead as the choice of the Democratic voters of Alabama for United States Senator.
 Messrs Tomlnson and Stallings are announced candidates, but thelr strength has not yet developed. Until now, no member of the Legislature has said that he intended to vote for some other man than Captain Bankhead.
 
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