The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-23

tr1ct offices, and the voters have become surfeited with politics and politicians.
 It is safe to estimate that the cam paign has cost every state and district candidate who has opposition an average of 5000 each, while the county candidate who has escaped with the expenditure of less than $1O0 is an exception to the rule. It is therefore evident that hun dreds of thousands of dollars have been spent by the candidates for office in Mis- sissippi since the canvass opened for rail- road fare, printing, stamps, hotel bills, livery hire, etc., etc.
 Chief interest centers today, as it has all along, in the senatorial contest between Congressman John Sharp Williams and Governor James K. Vardaman. While there has been but ore joint debate" the campaign has been interesting one, and few if any counties have been sighted by either of the distinguished candidates. Both sides are claiming victory, and one seems to have just as sure thing as the other. but the fact of the business Is that no man can size up the situation with any degree of certainty or satisfaction. Will jams has the facts and the conservative elements on his side, while Vardaman has the delivery the fireworks and the radical element on his. Most of the town vote Is with Williams while the country voters are bowling for Vardaman-that is, the most of them-but Williams will not get all of the city vote, while his opponent will not get all of the ''red neck" vote, as the Vardaman supporters are too often dubbed.
 Those politicians and office-seekers who have been deluding the voters of the hill counties into the belief that they are not getting a square deal in the distribution of the school fund by the state, got solar plexus blow a few days since rom a correspondent of the Clarion-Ledger, who signed himself "Mississippian," and who ha. opened a good many ey that have been consistently closed to the facts of the case in the distribution or the school fund It may be true that some or the river counties receive from the state more money than they need to run thef schools the constitutional four months, but if so. it is also true that these same counties pay into the state treasury a great deal more money than they get back The opposite Is true of the coun- ties that are "beefing" about it-they pay ing into the state a great deal less thah they take out on account of the public school fund distribution.
 ''M1SS1SS1pplan' SHOWS that lhc siA iiNSi counties of Warren, Washington, Jeffer- son. Claiborne, Bolivar and Adams pay into the state treasury on account of taxes of one kind and another S67,373 more than they get from the school. dist iputlon, while the twelve counties of benton Cal houn Choctaw, Covington. lttawamba, Lawrence, Neshoba, Perry, smith, Ilsho- mingo, Webster and Winston, all poor hll counties. pay in only s3,7 ,702 more than l,ac nine of them receive s42. .459 more than they pay into the state treasurv) on account of taxes of all kinds. And vet the counties that are getting more money than they pay in are the very ones that are kicking about the inequall- ties of the distribution. This agitation may kill the goose that is laying the golden egg for them, by bringing about constitutional changes forcing every county to stand on its own bottom and educate its own children.
 The Tri-County Medical society, com nosed of physicians of the counties or Pike Lincoln and Copiah, Will meet at Crystal Springs tomorrow, and 1t IS an- nounced that the chief subject TOT dlscus- sion will be the Great White Plague matter that seems to nave sprung li.o great prominence of late, and which is deserving of the most careful cvosldera- tion at the hands of the medical experts and scientists of the world
 A new state bank, with a capital of slO.OoO paid up, has been organized at Mantee, Webster county, and Will begin business on the 1st of September, with A. M Hartley, president, and H. w. George cashier
 The town of Magnolia gives official mo- tice that it will issue the bonds of the town in the sum of s25,O00, for the pur- pose of erecting a suitable school building for white children.