The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-06-18
Notified of Appointment
 by Governor.
COMMISSION TO DATE
 FROM DEATH OF MORGAN
Formal Action Cannot Be Held Ill
 Death is Certified.
Believed That Appointee Has The In- side Track For Election By The Legislature At The July
 Session.

Hon. John Hollis Bankhead was yes- terday named as United States Senator to succeed John Tyler Morgan. He was notified yesterday in Birmingham by Governor Conner that he had been named for the place.
 The formal appointment can not be made until Governor Corners return to the city, which will probably be this morning. Nor can the appointment be made until the Probate Judge ot Dal- las County certifies to the Governor that Senator Morgan Is dead. This Is one of the provisions of the law. Be- fore the successor to dead Senator of the United States can be named. the Judge of Probate in the county in which he lived must nave first made ito the Governor the certificate of his death. So the commission of Senator Bankhead will be issued when Judge Pitts, of Dallas County, m Alses the cer- tificate of the death of Senator Nor gan.
 The commission dates back, however. It dates back to the day on which Sen- ator Morgan died. Senator Bankhea1 will begin to draw the salary of a United States Senator from the date On which Senator Morgan breathed his last. He is entitled to all the powers States Senator. And If there is any thing of an aristocratic privileged class in the United States 1t Is that limited body of men who make up the Senac ce of the United States.
 Senator Bankheads appointment will carry him only to the convening of meets on July g. within three days after 1t reconvenes an election will be had to fill out Senator Morgan's term of six years began On the 4th of last March. So if Senator Bank head should be elected by the Legis- lature. he will haze term of six years. less three months.
 He goes before tho Legislature at the July session as easily the most formidable. candidate. Tn fact he has no opposition at present. The Cover ought not to be eiecteL The Cover nor has given the intm&n nt to Sem ator Bankhead because he was pledged to 1t and, even as he gave it to him he told the Legislature 1t ought to take 1t away from him. Senator Bankhead has declared that he takes the Gov ernor's statement as a declaration of war, and he said, grimly:
 'I never got anything In my life that did not fight for, and can fight for this"
 Governtr Has No Candidate.
 The Governor is at disadvantage of having no candidate. Editor Rufus N. Rhodes, of Bi4 mingham, '. ho it was believed would have been appointed to one vacancy if there had been no pledges given has taken issue with Governor Conner on one or two im- Portant questions and the Conner men say that he is not now in line" al- though The Birmingham News. of which MT. Rhodes Is the editor was the leading newspaper supporter of Governor Conner during the last cam paign.
 Captain Frank s. White, also of Bir- minRbam, was mentioned as a possible White has been devoting himself to his law practice and he has lately eschew-. ed politics. It Is held in political cir political projects in representing cer- tain unpopular interests during the winter session of the Legislature.
 By the process of elimination of the more prominent of the Conner men as possible candidates for United States Senator, Judge R. W. Walker of Huntsville Is finally brought to the front by the gossips. But so far as could be learned by a close investiga- tion the talk of Judge Walkers candi- dacy has no foundation whatever ex- cept upon political gossip. Judge Walker was formerly Associate Jus tice of the Supreme Court and he Is now one of the leading attorneys for the State in the pending railroad liti- gation.
 The we'll informed believe that Gov ernor Conner now has no candidate They believe that he fired the broad side in his statement to show that he was not afraid. They believe that hay ing done this, he may and probably will not go any further with the mat ter.
 Io. Toh~ xy u,o-.1.-sz A.. . ed by many as a certain candidate. And If there is a fight before the leg tslature Hon. John B. Knox will in all probably step in and, take hand. Judge William Richardson has announ- ced that was not in the fight at all.
 Bankhead Looks Like a Winner.
 It Is not to be denied that in Capitol and political circles Captain Bankhead . winner The moral effect of his prl- mary victory gives him an undoubted H. Carmichael and Chairman H. S., D. Mallory of the state Committee, men who have standing in political life for justice and fairness of the highest character. have come out declaring that the legislature was morally bound to carry out the expressed verdict of the people at the August primary,
 Both have held, with number of other prominent citizens of the State, that the legislature could only carry in- to effect the result of the primary, whatever might be the personal pref erences of the members of the legis- lature, These with other statements publicly made, together with private opinions expressed by members of the legislature. indicate that the integrity of the primary and the integrity of party law will play an important part In the naming of United States Sena- tor.
 Captain Bankhead has clearly indi- cated his purpose to make every ounce OF fight that Is in him. His state ment was notice, too, to prospective candidates for Governor. that if he was deprived of the Senatorship by the Leg islature. he would make the fight for Governor. There are half a dozen prominent citizens of Alabama who are receptive candidates for the Governor ship and who are anxiously awaiting developments. They undoubtedly sat up and took notice of the declaration of Captain Bankhead. It is hardly probable that any one of them will take any part in an effort to have him defeated
 A new development of the situation was discussed yesterday. That was