The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-06-29
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
MT. MaIIory's Candidacy.

To the Editor of The Age-Herald.
 The announcement of the candidacy of Hon. H. s. D. Mallory for governor is a most gratifying event. While It may seem hardly possible to expect, yet it would be decidedly the proper thing and altogether appropriate If MT Maj lory should receive the unanimous nom nation of the party. It would not only he having A deserved tribute to one of the best men that this state has ever produced, but the state would be nor bring itself in deciding by common consent to give it's highest office by m absolutely unanimous vote to one so thoroughly worthy of it in every re" spect. The shining trait in MT. Nal lory's character which diferentiates him from the majority of public men and puts him almost in a class by h1n- self is, that while always holding strong convictions upon public ques- tions he has at all times and under the most trying circumstances retained ms entire freedom from the spirit or 1ac- tion. It is only the truth to say that if he had been a different man rom what he was, if he had put the spirit of the partisan above the spirit Of the patriot, if he had considered the ln- terests of a faction to which he De- longed above the interests of the state in which he lived, very many blessings in which we now rejoice would have been for a long time postponed.
 MT. Mallory, for longer period per- hans than any other man, has held Q nosition on the state executive com uittee, and is now it's honored chair man. During his long incumbency or that position he has regarded himself as a judge, whose duty it was to pa5s iudicially upon every question pre- sented which affected the party well fare. or the party organization. Never. for single moment, has he permitted the claims, or the interests, or the de- sires of any faction, whether he favorei or whether he opposed the faction, to swerve him one iota from the theory that his position was trust, and that his duty was, in it's nature, Judicial. Without ever seeking to exalt himself, his high sense of integrity, his great ability and his wisdom in counsel and his courage and decision in action, gradually forced him to the front and finally by common consent and by unanimous vote, placed him in the posi- tion as the leader of his party in the state.
 If MT. Mallory Is elected governor, h al h w ha he will take the office without any pledges and without any obligations to any inter- ests in this state, or to any factio1 l within it's borders. He will be in the highest sense a governor of all the people, looking alone to the welfare of all, and dictated to by no corpora tion or individual. He will be neither as such, but he will be for the right wherever it lies, and without regard D consequences.
 Such man is peculiarly needed t this time. Possessed always and every where with the full courage of his coa- victions, respectful and deferentiaf to the judgment of others, as capable as any man within the borders of the state without single stain upon his personal or public career, belong to no 1action and never having belonged to any, and putting the welfare and the interests of the whole people first in his heart, he is the ideal man for the governor of a great state.
 SYDNEY J. BOWIE.
 Birmingham, June 2S, 1908.