The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-04
.C. B. TEASLEY MAY
 ENTER THE RACE Cannot Support Dent for Con
 greSSman OTHERS ARE MENTIONED
Governor Conner Leaves for Samson With a Carefully Prepared PoIiti- cal Speech In His Pocket.
 Will Unload 1t Today.

Montgomery, July 3.-(Special )-The in- troduction of Charles B. Teasley as a pos sibillty in the race for Congress in the Second district has added zest to the con- test and may cause a general shake up in the alignments. Tasley was for Good wyn but now that Goodwin is out he is not at all certain that he will not enter himself, rather than support s. H. Dent, who announced on the retirement of Mr. Goodwin.
 MT. Goodwin is an anti-administration democrat who led a number of contests in the state senate of which he is a member, that were not to the liking of the governor and his friends. He won few of them, but came out known as the lead ing anti-Comer man in the upper branch. lie was recently nominated for tax collec- tor, one of the best offices in the county, without opposition, and was a part of the force which recently carried George w. Jones to the head of the county dem- ocratic committee.
 At present there are four men an- nounced for the place left by the late A. A. Wiley, as follows W. H. Sanford of Troy, c. R. Bricken of Crenshaw, S. H. Dent and Thomas J. Hall of Montgomery. MT. Sanford is a son of the late lamented governor of the same name: Colonel Bricken is colonel of the Second regiment. solicitor of his circuit, former grand chan cellor of the. Knights of Pythias, we'll known socially and formerly a member of the state democratic committee; Mr. Dent is solicitor of his county, we'll known and popular socially and the youngest in the race; MT. Hall is a mer- chant and made the race recently against Colonel Wiley
 Primary or Convention.
 There is much demand for either a double primary or a convention It looks as if there will be at least 10 in the race and there is belief that with all it will be impossible to get the choice of a ma iority in the primary. Gen. J. w. A. San ford of Montgomery, veteran lawyer and citizen, is out in an interview urging a convention as the only means to tell what each man stands for. Several others are talking out for a double primary as a means of getting at the will of the major ity and it looks now as if this would be the course determined upon.
 The men who are expected to announce are Charles B. Teasley, J. N. Miller of Camden, W. L. Parks of Andalusia, Rob- ert Tait of Montgomery, Henry Opp of Opp, W. A. Henderson of Montgomery and half dozen others as possibilities o. c. Wiley, brother of the dead man. is out for the short term.
 Suing the Central.
 The charge of the railroad commission that the Central of Georgia railway is dis eliminating against the compress at Union Springs will be heard on the law side of the city court next Monday, unlxss at the last moment it IS decided to postpone In this the state Is seeking to recover about $100,000 in fines and penalties for alleged failure of the said road to assem- ble cotton at Union Springs the same as at other cities.
 Military Meeting.
 Several commanding officers of the Ala bama National Guard were in Montgom- cry Friday to take up with Adjutant Gen. eral Graves the question of transporta- ton and travel to the encampments at Montgomery of the cavalry and Chlcka- mauga of the infantry and artillery. Ad- jutant Maddox of the first and Adjutant Patterson of the second infantry, Mai Ben Noble of the cavalry and Maj. J. Q. Smith of the artillery made up the party with some members of the state military board.
 Governor Away.
 Gov. B. B. Conner left the capital at noon today to get train to Samson, where he is billed as the leading speaker for tomorrow. He carried a well worked out political speech which he spent sey- eral days mapping out. Getting up d speech before hand is a hard task for Governor Conner, who talks largely off hand, and when he finds it necessary to get out the copies with release lines he has lot of hard work on his hands,
 Speakers for Fourth.
 The capitol has furnished several Fourth of July speakers. Governor Conner went to Sanford General Brandon took a day off with his Tuscaloosa county neighbors at Buhl, where great many carcases had been killed for barbecue and picnic, while Walter D. Seed hied away to Ab- beville, the capital of Henry, and starred for an all day picnic and a great crowd Commissioner of Agriculture Wilkinson slipped in day ahead and had a good time on Friday at Uniontown, where they have the art of barbecue down to a fine point.
 
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