The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-01-04
NOT READY TO JUMP JUST YET Alabama Repubs Await ing Developments. PRESIDENTIAL P0STMASTERS Organization Will Meet in Bir- mingham Instead of Here. Postmasters Tn Eight states Suddenly Realise Necessity For An Organi-
 xation--AIabama Is Among
 These--Hitehcock The
 Bis Man.

Montgomery will not be the place or meeting for the Presidential Postmas- ters when they form their permanent State organization. Although this clty was first selected and the date set Tor January If, advices have. been recelVeo which state that the meeting will pc held in Birmingham on January 10.
 This will be for the purpose Of periect- ing a state organization of Presiden- tial Postmasters. or in other words
 postmasters who receive more than
 si. 900 per year or who are appointed
 by the President.
 The organization of the Alabama
 postmasters into a society, the purpose
 of which it is aid, was to create feel
 ing of good fellowship, bring the post
 masters closer together and give many
 of them a chance to shake hands with
 the heads of the department at Wash
 ington. This action in Alabama close
 ly follows practically the same step
 taken in several other states. parttcu- iarly those of the South. recently. Men high in postal affairs have been in at tendance at each of the meetings and Southern postmasters from states other than the one in which the conventions have been held, have been especially invited to attend. Prominent among the officers that have been attending is Mir. Hitchcock.
 At a meeting of the Georgia fourth class postmasters held few months ago for the purpose of getting some kind of a temporary organization q woman was appointed president of the 1 convention. Even before the per manent organization was perfected at a | later meeting the affairs of the as- sociation were being managed by a man known to be on the right side of | Mir. Hitchcock.
 Looks Like Organization Move. During the past few months seven | of the Southern States have simnltane- ously conceived the idea that Q State organization of Presidential Postmas- ters was the only thing to have and | they have been formed. The one in ] Alabama will be the eighth that will
 have been formed within the past four
 or five months. It Is stated on reliable authority that only Mir. Hitchcocks friends have been elected presidents and the minor officers are held by those who stand well with the big I fellows in the Hitchcock crowd.
 | It Is men of this standing who, 1t was l stated, waited on Roosevelt, and almost | demanded that he run again and now | that that balloon bursted the Southern | office holders do not know where they
 stand. It Is apparent that none of the | postmasters in Alabama realize what | H. | as he Is active in the organization of
 Alabamas postmasters, just as he has been in other states, 1t Is thought that l he will spring something new.
 office-holders all over the South are becoming rather nervous as they want l to know where to jump. And 1t is ap- parent that they are waiting for Mir. Hitchcock to tell them what to do.
 The fact that Alabama has. in man.
 ner, declared for Taft. Is not looked
 upon with favor by office holders be-
 cause the office-hSlders of Alabama
 did not make the move. That there is
 still something yet to be told Is sur
 missed from the fact that Missouri is the only other Southern State that has
 declared for the Secretary.
 Those who have the situation well
 in hand say that the convention at
 Birmingham will be most significant
 and some even go so far as to say that
 Hon. Joseph O. Thompson will again be
 the administration referee and that the
 South will stand foe someone besides
 Taft in the Republican convention.