The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-06-22
THOMAS HAS HOT INTERVIEW Announces for Captain
 Bankhead. HOT CHESTNUT IN FIRE Says Governor is Afraid to Pull It
 Out. Believes That Executive Fear. Political Paws VIII Be Burned And There-
 fore Puts It Up To Leg
 tslature.

Senator Thomas Perry of Barbour. and who is president pro tenn of the Senate gave out . ringing interview on the Senatorial situation In which he declared that the Governor was try ing to get the Legislature to pull 8 hot chestnut out of the fire which he himself would not do. when he ap- pointed Captain Bankhead Senator and at the same time told the Legislature not to elect him.
 terview in which the Barbour Senator declared that he would support Bank head for Senator because Bankhead was nominated at the same primary in which he received his nomination for State Senator. IIa could not do other wise, he says, than vote for Bankhead without violating a solemn, implied ob- ligation in the discharge of his duties. Senator Thomas says the hot chestnat torship which the people gave to Bank head. but which the Governor tells the Legislature should be taken out of the fire and away from Bankhead.
 He says, too, that the paws which pull that chestnut out of the fire will get badly burned politically. The Gover- nor does not propose to have his own
 
 ture to puts it's paws into the fire and pull out the ehestnuts.
 still Up In Air.
 Yesterday brought out no develop ments from the Conner side of the ques- ton. The Governor and his friends are still up in the air. so to speak, over a situation which the Governor says should not exist. The personality of the Conner candidate who was ex- kA a.rfxrA A,.f xxylA hais tat come is as big a mystery as ever The situation has given the Governor and his lieutenants no little worry and con- cern and still the solution has not come.
 Representative J. Lee Long of But Ter, the floor leader of the administra- tion forces in the House of Represen- tatives, was In Montgomery yesterday. MT. Long had no statement to make be- yond this:
 T have read the Alternate Senatorial plan adopted by the Executive Com mittee and the action of tho State coa- vention on that plan. did not see in eith- CT what the committee did or that the convention did anything that was bind ing on the Legislature to compel it to elect the winner of that primary, which ought not to have been called"
 MT. Long did not express himself on 
 dicate what the, plan of the <, Conner forces would be when the Legislature reassembles here in July.
 Senator Thomas was in Montgomery yesterday on legal business. When questioned for an expression on the Senatorial situation he gave out the following statement:
 q am unhesitatingly for Bankhcad. I could not be otherwise without repu- diating the very primary by which l hold my nomination as Senator; could not be otherwise without violating a solemn implied obligation to obey in the discharge of the functions of my offices the will and wishes of the peo- pie whom I represent, when that will and those wishes have been so clearly and so enthusiastically expressed as in this instance.
 Tn theory our government has al- ways been and should be in practise, a representative Democracy. where the people rule through their chosen rep resentatives; who are to express their