The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-02-23
SIDEWALK PENCILiNGS

T firmly believe that The. Adyer- tiser prints the best reports Of Its state Legislature of any paper in the coun- try" said W. A. Davis, prominent in surance and real esyate man Of Annls- ton, who is in the city on o3,Io business con
 It has so happened that have reose9 Kept ings of most of the sates tpo To do do n,1ni thds city papers of other States. I am, therefore, familiar enough with the re, an opinion as to how they are covered. No State has ever had its legislative proceedings more fully or better report ed than the doings of the Alabama Leg islature in The Advertiser.
 "of course. it may. be true that the news of the Legislature, which meets should be handled more fully than the news of Legislature which meets every year. But l. have never seen any ness men so fully informed as to what was going on in the Legislature as The
 Not only is The Advertiser doing fine work in its news reports of the Legislature, but the full and complete calendar which 1t publishes daily is business and who wants to know what the Legislature is doing.
 Few Seek Aldermanic HOnors.
 q understand a great many of the friends of Emanuel Lohman are urging him to run for alderman in ward 4, but as yet I believe they have been unable to get an expression from him." said an observer of politics yesterday. Whatever he decided t9 do would, in in the race in that ward. Thus far the only formally announced candidate from ward 4 is ". W. seidle. but it is con; be Q candidate for reelection, and it is said that Alderman Roemer will re- tire If MT. Lohman should be induced fn ha a three-cornered bout with the results in much doubt.
 pal campaign I have ever known in Montgomery. only wards and 3 are at all lively. yet, if you are going to take formal announcements as indica- tors. In ward B. J. M. Kennedy's an- nouncement will probably play quite part, as up to, that time, only Bert well understood that J. R. Graves Iyey will be in. the running.
 One alderman, who I confidently be- lieve will ask for recollection, intimated to me the other day that he was slow In announcing because he knew that if he did announce it would mean that he at once and begin his campaign, and he wasn't willing to abandon his regu- lar business So soon ? in the game"
 Love of Public Speaking.
 "Opie Read was certainly right when he said that the Court House was the Southern mans theatre" said person affected with capitolitis. Tt is unnec- essary, of course, to explain that he used the court house as the f1gurative as well as the actual symbol of every place of public speaking-the forum, so to speak.
 "Oratory has often been called the talent of the South, and 1t is not to be doubted that the art thrives in Dixie. and that the people of Dixie love it. Probably we cling to it longer than the States of the East because our means of communication have been acquired more slowly and we remained for longer time dependent upon. our public speakers for our knowledge of politics or present history, as politics have been called. It is not to be doubted that the growth of the public press is in litical oratory
 But aside from the sophistries we may indulge in. it is certainly true and tritely true, that we all love to hear public speaking. Here at the Capitol I see every day, men who have no special interest in any public af- fair, sit by the hour and hear the de- bates upon the floor of the House, or maybe on the other side of the Leg islature. Sometimes many hours pass without producing any debate of not able interest. but my men sit on with the same patience"
 South Needs Immigration.
 Emigration is the need of the South lOudN. SalQ M. V 14dHu ana Immigration Commissioner of the Southern Railway Company, who, with | Col. w. L. Henderson, the Southern | Agent of the same department of the railway, spent yesterday in Montgom- cry.
 "The immensity of the progress that l the South is making IS not to be doubt | ed Tn industry and commerce the en- | tire South Is doing It's utmost with the | capital and the labor It can command | but the lack of labor is constantly felt and though we are doing well, we ought to do peter. and we should do | better if we only had the labor. | We have millions of acres of un- improved lands which would be pro ductivp farms if they were properly peopiad It we could develop these | lands the benefcient results would &C., crue alike to the farmer and merchant ito the country as well as to the town people. Alabama ought to take prom | lnent place In the work of colonizing | and immigration It means success, and the Southern Railway having re- | cognlzed it. is striving to do its part in the work of bringing immigrants to this section'
 Professor J. Hal Johnson, president of and Blind. of Talladega. was a visitor to montgomery % x i%
 Mir, William B. Miller of Birming- ham. was in town last Disht' 1 MT H, F. strmsfellow of Birming ham, is In the city,
 Mir, John C. williams AAit"r of the