The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-19

can afford to risk his chance before the legislature even if Governor Conner has spoken on the subject.
 Columbus Ledger: Governor Conner says he isn't candidate to succeed Sen ator Morgan. That ought, possibly, to eliminate him from the discussion of sen- atorial candidates. But will 1t?
 Washington Post: MT. Bankhead will probably wait until he feels that Senate seat under him before he tenders Rich mond Pearson Hobson vote of thanks for defeating him for Congress.
 Huntsville Mercury: The impression pre- vails in Montgomery that Governor Conner will appoint Colonel Bankhead to fill the unexpired term of Senator Morgan and that the legislature will elect him at the July term.
 Sheffield Standard: The political schooner who would attempt to rob Captain Bank head of his full term of six years in the Senate would hear a howl of indignation so tumultuous and terrible as to convulse the whole state.
 Columbus (Ga.) Ledger: In the selection of a successor to Senator Morgan, Ala bama will make a test of the "unwritten law" It is different kind of "unwritten law to that of which we have been hear ing d great deal during the past few months. In this instance we believe the unwrltten law should prevail without d protest.
 Columbus Ledger: Governor Conner says he will appoint Colonel Bankhead to succeed Senator Morgan, but he declares that the legislature is not obligated to elect him to the place. It appears to tho Ledger that the legislature, as the repre- sentatives of the people, are as much obli- gated to elect him as the governor is to appoint him.
 Knoxville Journal and Tribune: Col John W. Tomlinson, who has worshipped at the Bryan shrine all these years, is mentioned as a possible candidate for senator in Alabama when the legislature chooses the successor of Senator Morgan But the governor will appoint MT Bank head, the man designated by the dem ocratic primary. The legislature may if it will, disregard the action of the pri- mary.
 Opelika News: Thos, who know MT. Conner, and practically all Alabamians have acquired some acquaintance with that gentleman, knew to a certainty that whom the proper time came for official action-and not before-Governor B. B. Conner would perform his full duty and that in accordance with the platform on which he was elected-even to the ad- dendas and semi-official interpollat tions added to it by those wearing a cloak of party authority, short and ill-fitting as that cloak was. Governor Conner names Mr. Bankhead, as in duty bound. MT. Bankhead will be senator until the legis- lature meets and as it must do under the constitution and laws, elect a sen- ator.
 Dothan Siftings: When the votes were boiled for alternate senator last August, 99 men out of every 100 expected the suc- cessful candidates would be the men to fill the vacancy when it occurred. They expected the governor to fill the vacancy by appointing the successful nominee, and they also expected, as we under stand it, that the legislature would elect the appointee and thereby ratify the ac- ton Of he governor and the voice of the people at the polls. The member of the legislature who disregards his instruc- tions, or who endeavors to twist these election returns to mean something which was never intended, should be spotted and allowed to remain at home hereafter to attend to his own business and not be trusted again with the business of his people.
 Gadsaen Journal. Governor Conner, as we anticipated, has set himself up as the interpreter of the popular expression at our last state primary and because he does not favor Colonel Bankhead for the Senate assumes that the people by desig hating him for the place meant something entirely diffirent than appears on the face of the returns. MT. Conner, however, agreed to appoint in accordance with the choice as shown by the primary, and will comply with the letter of the com pact hy making the appointment, at the same time reserving the right to make war on him immediately afterward by preventing, If possible, his selection by the legislature for the full unexpired term of the late Senator Morgan And not only this, but the governor proceeds to define the views on important questions that should be entertained by our next representative in tle national Senate and which are strange to say, those held by Mir Conner himself. Of course he says he is in no sense a candidate, still that commits him to nothing and the legislature is known to be largely under his influence. When man has friends ready to do the trick it looks better to have honors thrust upon him than to enter into an unseemly, not to say un- necessary, struggle. MT. Conner intends at least to dictate where the Morgan mantle shall rest if he cannot wear 1t himself This is an assumption of au thority on the part of the executive that will meet with little favor among the people and which will be properly re- buked at the first opportunity.
 Meridian Dispatch: It cannot be pos sible that any one is seriously consider ing the defeat of the democratic will as expressed in the Alabama primaries last fall in the matter of the United States senatorial succession. It was being talked in Alabama the first few days after Sen ator Morgan's death that Governor Conner