The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-08-26
Politics, Politics.! PolItIcs,,,

Selma IlmeS.
 When the editor of The Selma Times writing from Montgomery predicted that the bitterest campaign in the history of Alabama was about to be waged and that where men cried Rest Rest when there was no Rest" there were many who but the vain i'm aginings of a newspaper man. seeking for sensation. When the break between the Governor of the state and his erstwhiio ally and co-agltator was given out in the same article in The Selma Times and the an- nouncement made with certainty that S. b Weakley would be candidate against Dal- las favorite son. there were more who be- ieved 1t but the idle deductions of a polti. cal observer casting straws to windward.
 "other state papers have chronicled no such conditions" said he douoting Thom- confirmation and the undoubted reliability of the information given to the people of Central Alabama through The Selma Times was established
 The weeks events lays bare in all its re- volting nakedness. the true inwardness of the session of the legislature which, thank God, is drawing to a close. The convoca- tion of the states lawmakers was conceived in politics. born of personal aggrandzement and nurtured ambition. There will be a plenteous fill of the first a woeful disap- pointment of the second and dismal fail ure of the third.
 Where are the Dallas County supporters and defenders of B 'axton Bragg Conner to longer find food upon which to feed their fast fading hopes that their idors feet were not of clay? Where is his consistency and where is his claim to their allegiance and further faith? Nominated upon a platform dictated, framed ana passed by his head strong will; swearing allegiance to 1t almost as strongly to the Bible when it came to radical railroad legislation and other blanks. but refusing to be bound by the section de- claring for local option when a few coun- ties through its operation had voted out of existence the sale of the damnablo fluid that steals away mems brains. he has gone on day by day the chief executive of a fac ton of the dominant party of Alabama. ig- noring the counsel or wisdom of all save the coterie, most Of then paid from the depleted coffers of the state; handicapping the commonwealth for decades to come and threatening the very foundation of democ- racy itself.
 Claiming to be the biggest white ribbon CT of pure white ribboners. listening to the siren voice of the paid agent of orgapi- zation whose fanatical zeal is knocking at the bedrock of religious freedom and the separation of Church and state. he became d puppet in the Ohlo evangers hand who. his ends accomplished sweeps him aside as a useless thing and leaves him gnashing his teeth in tmpotent rage and finds him venting his ire upon the head of the CheVa- Her Bayard of Alabama Democracy whose nomination and election would be 6 dis pleasure In that he would not become sub feet to his unreasoninE will nor would 1t be an endorsement of the reckless waste of the peoples money left in the treasury and the deficit piled up through his sanction. II matters not to him-governor of Ala the cause of prohihition-if that cause be harmed a candidate with the tag of the administration must be forthcoming and the attempt is to be made to stem the tide that is sure to sweep H. 8. D. Mallory Into the governors office.
 what is 1t all, when the whole subject matter s parsed over and analysed?
 Politics! Politiosl! Politios!ll
 There you are and unless the soil of Dal- las has changed fin its fertility there is acumen and loyalty ana zeal enough and with courage and political ohicAnery with bravery