The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-06-15
Campaign for New Courthouse to Be Carried to Every
 Part of the County
BESSEMER WILL BE LINED
 UP FOR THE COURTHOUSES
Board of Revenue Will Not Take Act i've Part in campaien-W. 3. Leedy Heartily lndorses
 the Issue.

Campaign Manager B. Asbury Thomp- son yesterday announced his campaign committee for the passage of the bond issue which Is now agitating the public mind. This committee is unanimously In favor of adopting the bond issue and erecting a substantial courthouse and jail in Birmingham and courthouse in Bessemer.
 Manager Thompson spent yesterday in Bessemer and on his return had this to say: T am glad to see that both ends of the county are going to act in har- mony in this matter. The voters at Bes- semer are in perfect harmony and are going to vote unanimously for both bond issues.
 '"The people out there are going to take this opportunity to show that they hold no spite toward Birmingham, and had no trouble assuring them that this end of the county will give them square deal They will have voters at the polls and will do all they can from this date until Saturday,
 MT. Thompson now has the matter in hand. He will advise with his campaign committee by telephone and letter, and will have them all laboring earnestly for the bond issue. He calls on every public spirited citizen to make the passage of the bond issue his personal business.
 Here is the committee: Frank S. White, T. c. Bush, Mayor l. A. Lewis of Bes- semer, Mayor D. F. sugg of Ensley, Mayor w. D. Perryman of Woodlawn. <1 T4t.a w. Tomlnson, J. D. Collins, c. w. Uf- ford, F. Y. Anderson, Frank Nelson, Jr., R. N. Rhodes. E. w. Barrett, Mayor Frank P. OBrien F. w. Smith, J. H. F. Moseley, J. B. Drake, 8. Norwood, H. l.. Martin, Mayor Albritton of Warrior, J. B. Elliott, D. Lesser, A. Stockmar, L. Pizitz. James Bowron, George Cruikshank, J. o. Thompson, J. E. Lacey, mayor of Pratt City; R. W. Massey, w. D. Jellks, c. A. Stillman, J. w. McQueen, w. l.. c. Vann of Chalkville, D. N. Talley of Trussville, Mayor T. H. Friel of North Birmingham, c. M Green and W. J, Lowe of North Birmingham, w. R. Stew art, N. w. Scott, J. A. Dupuy, M. H Mcdonald of Ensley, H. w. Crook, W. P Gum, T. T. Huey, c. H. Stevenson o1 Bessemer, Otto Marx, Gus Rotholz, Victor Torina, H. P. Burruss. Hugh MoGeever Dr. Cunningham Wilson, Paul Giacco- pazzi, R. l.. Summer of Avondale G. w. Young, J. P. Phillips, Andy Marx, Nose Hill of Oxmoor, Charles Pantaze R. Dupont Thompson, pr. A. P. Montague, B. Higgins of Gate City, John T. Wade, w. J. Martin, A D. Smith and W. P. Hickman of East Lake, W. H. Stanley, R. F. Smith of Bessemer, J. A. Steele of East Lake, G. W. Jones of Bessemer, Milton H. Fies of Mulga and Dr. N. A. Barrett of East Lake.
 Board Will Not Be Active.
 Members of the Board of Revenue who decline to be quoted state that they have not taken and will not take any active part in the fight for the passage of the bond issue for the erection of courthouses in Bessemer and Birmingham and Jail in Birmingham. They state that it was to be judged from the expression in the newspapers that the people desired to vote on the matter of erecting new courthouse and jail here and a court house in Bessemer and that their duty ended with the calling of the elec- tion. However, friends of the issue are working hard and the indorsement given the proposition by the Birmingham Bar association yesterday morning will prove quite an impetus in the campaign. The question is apparently rapidly becoming a whrlwind fight.
 W. P. Leedy, a prominent local real estate dealer, said last night. q am heartily In favor of the bond issue and will support it. I do not believe the debt which will be thrown upon the county will be more than it can or should bear. l believe that public debt is 8 public blessing unless the money is squandered. Certainly money put to use of erecting a good courthouse and jail here and a courthouse at Bessemer, where improve ments are so badly needed, will not be squandered. With the rapid progress of Jefferson county the younger generation will have no trouble paying the bonds and the people should go ahead and build now"
 Dr. w. T. Masterson said: "I cannot say that I favor the bond issue, because believe the present courthouse and Jail would be big enough if certain matters were righted. The trouble is not a small iail, but 1t lies in the fact that the fees in this county are too large for the jail. Knock out the graft of the fee system and we will neither need a new court house nor a new jail. That is where the trouble lies