The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-06-23
Overwhelming Sentiment
 of Alabana Press
In Fapor of Abiding by the Result of the Primary

In fQU0T or A0I0IuG Oy
 Like every other governor of strong personality who has legislature Tn sympathy with hs views, Conner IS said to control this body. as mater Of fact he does not On many questions of reform he is considered the leauer and has of course much influence put the Senators race is something ar terent from the Govenors admlnlstrd- ton. The people nave expressed tnem- selves and the legislature will be bound to do as they bld.-ttuntsvliie Banner
 The duty of the legislature Is so plain that there is no reason in the world why they should err in the se- lectIon or a successor to senator MOT gan. The peop.e have said whom they want anu there Is nothing Tor thetr representatives to do but to elect tnelr choIce tor the place. If they fall 10 oo so. they will have said to the peopie that they did not nave sense enough to say who would be the proper man ioi the United states senate. Will the leg isIature be so bold as to say that? we do not believe they wiiL-hussell Reg lster. '
 A very large majority of the Demo cratic people nave said by their votes that they want Bankhead to occupy tne seat made vacant by the deatn or tio lamented Morgan, ana ,bs the noehiog nerno e,se e than this is done. -Marion Couh'5 News.
 The truth of the matter is that GOV ernor Conner sees that great prize, tne senatorshIp, gong to man who does not belong to hls clique anu tne temptation to seize upon IL Tor sonie a oiaI of his own to strengthen ms polticai % lie thinks, perhaps. that he will be iustif. ed because 1t was said at the tune the plan was adopted that the in tentton was to take from the goVei noa the choice of a senator, and that the committee dispIayed lack or confluence in him and even hostility 10 nm III adopting such plan. Eveh Me grant that this is more tnan ' cion. the governor will fail Of hls Jus tiIication. because he himself accepteu the plan and profited ~by 1t. lie nao the right to refuse, ana to run oN plan oI his own; put ne oIu nos H,n'v Lv on the contrary, he announced puDlicly that he would be bound by tne action of the committee.-Mopile Register.
 No man who took part in the pri- mary can afford to deny its vaiaity. ss mo man who was nominated at the sarie time can hold office and say that two of the nominations were not plnuinS Thev were all binding. or no party nomination is binding any more: 1trie tie men who took office under tne pr qua, ama be members of the legislature, know that every nominatloh Mas Th. cen ly made and equally binding he Sair seats. but 1t cannot be done under any nIea of right, or misunderstanoihS'- birmingham Ledger.
 No more decisive vote had ever been oiven any candidate for any ofhcc at inc recent state primary than the poee given John Bankhead for United states Senator. He is the peoples choiIe, he They have spoken aavarife ahf of Governor Gamer. he is yet and nevertheless en tiled to an election at the hands or the present legislature. Is tniS 5r hama or is it one man anairI is :. ths Democratic party still or has IL too surrendered to Conner? what ooss a state primary mean anyway '-D'-O win Times.
 Governor Comer may be able to get .he 1eeislature to disregard the WISH of people in this senate elec'ion' anH if is extremely unlikely. II py o,iS @S chance 1t should happen @ @uLea anoTn- er aIection rolled around.--Tuscaloosa Times Gazette.
 We fail to see why Governor ~ Eon anl taeis that 1t is binding on him 10 ap noint Bankhead to the senator sh'p Cause of the action of the state sea aa- torial primary and at the same tune eeH- u clares that the 4egtSiasenn seems f to us us that tba Ieeislature represents the peopie ane as mneh so as the Governor. and tnas what is binding on one is also Coah Dihuihe on the other'-Daaevi.ie 'DO
 Why anyone should question bahh @ bead1s right to succeed Morgan IS a pe vond the ken of the friends or ,vnII vnH appointee. What the ns iegistoh ta he seen. Terminated as it is by Governor oV to mar who Is known to be oppose1 eo Rankhead holding the position: tne over- islature may elect one rawtnno oi t News. nor's pets.-Pine Belt NDi0"V
 covernor Conner has appointed lad banhd head senator because ne was PaGjsIa to do so, but doesn't thlhh nh sne ieSisia- tUre oupht to elect him. Ihe leei0i , tnra may not consider itselr pouhu oy tba result of the primaries ana may may not elect Baukhead to flll the Eersan ed term of the late +he Seople meant Du5 ,iantaT snH when they voted for him. Thomaston Post.
 While the people of . Alabama comer nn a right to expect hat Governor Cuii C.Sitsi. vii recede from his position. we thimS anas that even in the event a tnat ne ne nave not they are not lh ths .hot thev will their will set aside, ana tna' S ye@is- sneak out so obLOh54J iature will not even for one noinems tnan consider electing any man otnea of MT. Bankhead as the succgSsHH nsHv Senator Morgan-lrl-Ci'ie
 Hon. J. H. Bankhead has oeeh cop- 0p nointed United states Sehatof ny Inc ernor conner, in accordance "inction, pledge made prior to ms ms that inc There seems to be some IeaI montn iagislature, which meets next noIecf, nav, take some other aotlon M anu uppenk anct ser man, but in all 1alrneSs P2Ian head is entitled to the posl'lo"'
 ton Banner.
 whether MT. Bankhead is or IS not not .h nost able and worthy succetSs0, os otie the iamented Morgan that hS IS te Vh e baen chosen 1t IS now too II" ne II" discuss from a party stanopodiaarIr arraa- t0a idea of being pledged to uisae So- oaIa 5utv was so repulsiVe to MI. to antr aar es fts performance seems now tltet h inc sincere man we nave it eNt- ii Seii t1ad him. he snould have supHit h ts ted the issue to people along wten Ionrna1 other numerous grleVahces'-NA' vile Journal
 while we did not support MT; aIa baaH Ho a ,ad in his ghoulish race Tor Allel l,.at mat S natar vet l.e entered the race MMitn M tIorS in A race that the Colilill.tS0 ot1nrad and received the highest nun @ orueaf votes cast and we thlnk IL cyl. + per from the expression of the Ppae Peop4e Sthat alecton that ne was the choASo .S V "f inc majority and should FeSec FEeretSrvtiis