The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-12-04
What the State Papers
 Are Saying and Doing

AfeCord Sounded Key Note. Mobile Register. 'e' s.,s.s keynote when he said what Alabama wanted was "safe and sane" govern ment
 Where The Joke Is. Gadsdeu Times-News
 If tEe liquor interests spent the vast sum in Alabama credited to them by certain papers. then the joke Is on the liquor interests.
 A Little Comfort.
 Talladega Mountain Home.
 After all the defeat and disappoint- ment. the ups and downs of the cam paign. The Home takes comfort that wreckage and disaster.
 Ought to Raise Them at Home. Roanoke Leader.
 priced hogs, cattle. horses ana mules are shipped to this territory for hard earned dollars. They have already begun to arrive in Roanoke.
 Immigration Needed. Conecuh Record.
 The Southern states have an acre. age of 6f2.00O,00O. of which only 145.- 000, 900 acres are In cultivation or less than 25 per cent of the total. We waste land which will add millions of dollars to the wealth of the South.
 Boil weevil Can't Hurt 'Em.
 Should the boil weevil attack Laud- erdale county, there is one part of our county at least that cannot be seri- ously hurt-the eastern section. The already diversifiers. and in some cases those who plant the least cotton are the most prosperous.
 Getting Normal.
 Birmingham News.
 The most gratifying phase of the approaching session of congress is the probability that 1t win not encourage the agitation of political matters that will have a retardinC effect on the business revival. for the reason that even the average congressman who is accustomed to play politics for the eff feet on his constituents realizes thai the people generally are sick and tfred for the time of the grandstand game
 They Were Not Open. Andalusla Star.
 A jokesmlth was looking aroune open open saloon" lie didn't find 1t Said this election was flicker or nc Ticker" and he wanted his'n: H' didn't get 1t. That cry of flicker ol no nCkeT was HltEelN plcd tO SotSi votes We've still got prohibition ane apt to keep 1t. with few modified | tions of dangerous laws like the Full Ter and Carmichael bills. Big Inereane For COVingtOn. Andalusia Star, ...-..-.---.. l Hon. W c. swanson. of Montgomery census supervisor for this district wal at Andalusia last Friday, getting ar | insight on the number of enumeratori | that will be required to take the 1911 census. He's going to appoin l enumerators on the probable showing | of 30,0oO population for CovfngtoI | county MT. Swanson stated that h' doubted if any agricultural distric l in the United States would make { | greater showing of increase during | the past ten years than CovingtoI county will show.
 | Forget Tho Jlnkindncss. l The Athens Courire.
 | Now that the political turmoil ha come to a finish. let unktnd thing that were said by both sides be for gotten and all get In harness to pull | for the best interest of Alabama Political strife has kept the wheels O l progress from turning for the pas | three years, ever since Conner got int the saddle. and we hope now that tn | time for peace and prosperity has ar | rived and that in future we may hayi smoother sailing, and that politica | ambitions will not be thrust to tn fore to the extent that Alabana's bes ] fortune may be obseured