The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-03-24
MANY WILL ATTEND
EDUCATION BOARD
Meets at PinehurSt, N. Co. April
9, 10 and Il
GOSSIP OF POLITICIANS
Senator John A. Lusk of Gunters-
vile viii Very Likely Oppose
Congressman Burnett in
Next Election.
GOSSIP OF POLITICIANS
BY HERVEY w. LAIRD.

| by nEhVEr W. LAlhO.
Montgomery. March 2S.-(special. Ala
bama IS taking special interest this year
in the conference for education in the
south. to be held TUESDAY, Wednesday
! and Thursday, April 9, 10 and II. at
| Pinehurst n. c.. and attended by the
leading educational men of the various
southern states. There will be many
topics of interest that will have men of
note to discuss them. 1t is given out
that the features of the session will be
the following:
A statement of the history and meaning
of the conference and the southern edu-
cation board.
A discussion upon Agriculture and the
Southern Farmer by DR.. s. A. Knapp
of Lake Charles, La; Il. o. Sandy OF
Farmvile Va. and DR.. l.. II. Bailey of
| Cornell university.
discussion of "Woman's Work for
Public Schools" with report from women
| who have been foremost in the several
states in organizing effort for school i'm
provement.
State superintendents will discuss high
schools and secondary education, and
President Harry Pratt johnson Of the
Chicago university and many others will
speak.
Railroad Rates.
The railroads have made a rate of one
fare for the round trip in this section,
plus % cents. These conferences have
been held at Capon Springs, W. Va, VIM
-Sarem N. c., Athens, Ga, Rich
mond, Va, Birmingham, Ala, Columbia,
S. C. and Lexington, Ky. DR.. b. j.
Baldwin of Montgomery is the secretary
and Sidney j. Bowie of Birmingham, a
member of the executive committee
There will be much to tell about the
good work being done in Alabama and
} those who attend from this section VIII
} have. if they are given all that is coming
to them, q great deal of the time for
good news stories at the telling time
A state that can set apart more than
two million dollars at one short ses-
sion of the legislature for schools is not
TO be lightly considered in discussions
by men who take these things at their
highest value and would encourage such
generosity on the part of all the others.
The men who attend these conferences
, are ever ready to emphasize the princi-
pie of self help. Any movement that any
state has made that looks to the better
ment of the educational methods, Is held
In high esteem by these workers for the
general uplft of the people of the nation
as a whole. .
, Gossip OF the Politicians.
| There is now more or less talk about
i. political bees and not a few ambitions
are incubating that may run into races
in the near future. The Second Congress
sional district will be a royal battle
. ground If all the outlook is true. Wiley
will ask return to be sure, as no one
has intimated that he has learned any
lessons from Sid Bowie of the Fourth.
He has been very active and has made
a maximum of friends and a minimum of
enemies of late, il seems.
; Next comes along Thomas j. Hall OF
Montgomery who has been running for
two years. He opposed Wiley before and
was kept off the ticket by failure to
qualify in time. He announced at that
time that he would be in the fight from
then on and he has been. J. Lee Long,
, member of tho legislature from Butler
county, and chairman OF the house COM
mittee on commerce and common car
riers has a bee and will be hard to keep
silent II he does get in the game. Long
is one of the best mixers in the state,
an ardent rate reformer and an original
dyed In the wool Conner man.
w. H. Sanford.
And there are others. William Hodge
Sanford of Troy, son of the lamented
governor, is not to be counted out even
c If he is quiet. He is one Of the old time
kind of campaigners and can come as
near making voters see him favorably for
voting any man in the state. Mr.. OPP,
whose initials are not just recalled, and
: who lives at Opp, is also said to have
} ambitions, and C. r. Bricken of Luverne,
solicitor and military colonel, has been
accused OF having desire to get In the
way OF the tightening.
The Second is a jolly old district 1t
was aforetime represented by the real
N.1lt thnt, Of
vlle and now of Birmingham. who be-
came well known as "Our Jess In
race for the governorship when Governor
Sanford was chosen. Then was time
when fun ran along with politics like set
: ter dogs on a bird hunt. and n fellow
with a desire for excitement was always
} certain to be made happy. Some of the
} "reminiscences of the Second when Stall
: ings did stunts with 1t are worth space
in the highest priced books of the day
: Not long ago Colonel Stallings was
telling how they put the filings on him
when he ran for governor. He said that
, he discovered at that time that he was
, gambler boxer and rounder, though he
, did not drink and had never learned the
seductive pleasures of a full house against
two pairs. However, he is happy and
does not regret 1t all. especially as he Is
} getting rich practicing law In Birming-
, ham. But there may be another In tho
second race, the tempter having trted MS
| smiles on Judge Dempsey Powell Of
Greenville. it's said.
The Bloody Seventh.
That some fur is going to fly In the
| Seventh is very much predicted just now.
Senator John A. Lusk, Conner leader In
the Senate, and well known aspirant for
; the place now filled by John Burnett
of Gadsden, is going to find out why he
/ cannot get the place next time 1t Is passed
J about. He has an idea that the railroads
beat him the last time the selection was
, made and has not been overly In love
with them since that time. He has now
the strength of the anti-railroad senti-
ment with him, and the power that the
Conner following will give and 1t Is an
| ticipated by the friends of the present
holder Of the job that they will have no
: picnic when the next fight opens up.
Mr.. Lusk has toned down much In the
, last few years. Aforetime he was a
knock down and drag out sort of a
: speaker; one who laid bare the faults of
his opponent like the glistenng bone un-
der the knife OF the surgeon. He did
some of that in his race with Mr.. Bur
nett before. to the great entertainment
of the citizens who went out to the
| speakings That is. he laid bare what
he thought were faults. However. the