The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-04-25
M'LAUR|N SAYS
 BRYAN IS WINNER Senator Figures That Taft Is Man Who Will Be Defeated TAFT HAS MANY ENEMIES Railroad Commission Has Come To Agreement With Railroads About
 the Issuance of Low Rate For
 Family Mileage Books.
 
TAFT HAS MANY ENEMIES

Jackson Miss, April 24.-(Special) )-
 Senator A. J. McI.aurin was in the city today shaking hands with his old friends and visiting his daughter, Mrs. Dr. Berry, and other relatives. The senator also paid his respects to the state officials, and looked up some legal matters in the supreme court Senator | McLaurin has been down in Smith county, to Raleigh, the little inland | town where he first hung out his pro- fessional shingle, and where he still gets share of the business before the courts.
 Asked as to what he considered the presidential outlook, the senator said he did not doubt MT Bryan would be nominated and was firmly convinced he would be elected.
 You see" said he, MT Taft has made a great many political enemies While presiding over the courts at Cincinnati a few years ago he made some decisions that put the laboring men of the country against him, and since he became Secretary of War he has incurred the enmity of the negroes by his action in the Brownsville af- fair. That was the best thing he ever did, or that MT. Roosevelt ever did it's all the same-but MT Taft is get ting the benefit of the doubt, because the negroes believe he had as much to do with it as anybody.
 "The negroes of the north are all against him-they are everywhere, but it makes no difference here in the south. In the northern states where they hold the balance of power they. will have good deal to say and their influence will be felt. The railroads of the country and many of the great corporations also have knife up their sleeve for MT. Taft and the adminis- tration and all these things are very much in MT. Bryan's favor. l believe he is going to be nominated and elected.'
 The members of the railroad commits sion and the railroad passenger agents generally were delighted at the turn of affairs yesterday which gave the state family mileage ticket on terms that are agreeable to all parties con- cerned The order adopted by the con- mission was on the following agree ment submitted in writing by all the railroads:
 .In view of the fact that the inter- state interch angeable 1000mile ticket at Pc per mile and good over a large number of railroads in the state of Mississippi, has made the intrastate 20O0-mile ticket now on sale of little, if any, value to the travelling public, we ask that the railroad commission withdraw the order issued February l9, 1907. and in lieu of that ticket, and considering the desire of the people of Mississippi as expressed by the legis- lature, the following named railroads will sell 1000-mile intrastate tickets, good on issuing line, and for the heads of families and dependent minor child ren at the rate of $25"
 In addition thereto the Illinois Gen. tral. Yazoo and Mississippi Valley, Alabama and Vicksburg, New Orleans and Northea stern and the Mobile and Ohio made the following proposition in writing:
 And the following roads will sell 2OOO-mile intrastate mileage tickets, of families and dependent minor child ren at $40 each"
 These propositions were agreed to and indorsed by the commission, and June l fixed as the date on which the sale of such tickets shall be inaugur- ated