The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-09-20
BIRMINGHAM MEETING WAS
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 Editor The Advertiser:
 I fear The Advertiser has fallen short of its duty, in not presenting to tts readers the personnel of that re- naarkab1e political gathering which met in a church in Birmingham to start the campaign, for the amend ment 1t was said. and truthfully, too. | that in our recent Legislature of so much fame, . brick could not be JOSS candidate. I undertake to say that no | man could edge his way through the crowd In the Birmingham church without stepping on the toes of can % more or less close poiisicai observer with some knowledge of politics and the personnel. With your permis- sion will draw attention to the re- aspIrants aa at % sirminsssm. s and psi,sai @hiis will no doubt overlook some few of list of delegatss. I trust that the can deal only with the names as they appeared in the newspaper re- ports. and these names were only those of the men who had been active
 To my mind 1t Is . remarkable CO., incidence that the Governors vaca- tion in Canada and Judge weakley' s vacation in Atlantic City should end ,.,, so that sss ,, both DO, would sppsar in sir- ti-saloon League crowd met. The stay only two weeks. but he cut his nssssion sst a9wn to one week and ap. ap. conference was held with the air of Who said anything about taking me downT' Now Judge weakley and Governor Conner having in remark on the same day. were in the back ground at the meeting, but if any body wanted them the telephone was handy.
 I observe that the conference was presided over by Hon. J. F. Thompson, of Bibb,. candidate In the last pri- I would vote for him if I was in his circuit. notwithstanding that speech on "epochs." Selected as Chairman of the Campaign Committee, was Fred been industrlousfy Soomea for Lieu tenant Governor by, the Birmingham m and some other papers. Certainly It Is MT. Jackson's right to be . candidate was with could give him all the in formation he wants on running for office. There were some past masters in the art sitting in the pews,. when
 I observe that Hon. Walter D. Seed, also spoke. MT. Seed is exercising his perogative of running for Governor and as he has been over the track in where to find the iumpy spots. The fact that Mir. Mallory was not thar or thar abouts1 looks as though there had been some discrimination. Still B. Ellis. his manager. was at the meeting and the Mallory men need not feel the discrimination too keenly.
 I observed that Hon. A. H. Carmich-
 s Speaker S.e of ths fPsm H0Sss and xs. ss: chairman of the Committee on Reso. lutions and delivered the principal address of the gathering. MT Car. that he would not make the race for Lieutenant Governor. for which he has been urged by certain representatives of the "moral forces" but he is still Speaker of the House and the prime. ri S.. was Hon. Jerome T. Fuller. of Bibb, the author of the Fuller flicker bill" and whom Fame claims as her own. stand. a candidate for reelection to the "Fuilerlicker Biii.' And hard by is Hon. Sam Blackwell. who was re- months ago by an ungrateful consti. tuency. I observe. too. on this same committee. MT. George G. Miles of our city. who was not elected to the City Council, but whose civic activity has been none the less hampered there- by.
 The Nominating Committee was thick with experienced political lead CTS. There we find the Honorable N. M. Rowe:>of Madison. champion weep who said his wife often called him an old fooI.' Senator Henry r. Mer ritt's name was written there as the name of a man who never flickered on the question. Is there anything in the report that MT. Merritt will he a candidate for the House from Macor and then a candidate for Speaker in the next House? It was appropriate too. that the name of gentleman go active as Hon. W. F. Feagin shonld be upon this committee. MT. Feagin V name has been upon the pay roll of the State Treasury for A number of years. and if signs count for anything Mir Feagin's candidacy for Superin- tendent of Education will win and