The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-08-19
WEAKLEY THE MAN 1. II IS DETERMINED PrOhibitiOnists, t Is Said, Have
 Gained Concessions MALLORY 9N THE SHELF carS g aeI, It Is Said, Has Showed 2 ide the Jeweled Crown, o . Reports After Meeting in
 Governors Office.
MALLORY ON THE SHELF
BY HERvEY w. LAIRD.

Montgomery, August 1S.-(Special. J. Former Chief Justice Samuel D. Weak ley. author and drafter of the code of prohibition laws now passing through the special session of the legislature, will be the candidate of the prohibitionsts for governor at the next general election, or the dope Is far afield tonight.
 Speaker A. H. Carmichael, it is be- lieyed, will not be in the race for any place, though his friends say without hesitancy that he would be accorded the leadership of the party at the next race if he so desired. It is understood tonight that the speaker was urged to make the fight for the highest office, among others by Judge Weakley himself.
 There is a possibility that Carmichael may enter for lieutenant governor or en- deavor to come back to his position as speaker.
 He has not desired to run for anything, so far as can be discovered preferring to remain at home and continue to fight for prohibition in the ranks. When asked by the newspaper men lately for express sion as to what he intended to do he has laughed and said that he was not seeking office, but the working out of the laws he believes the state needs along prohibition lines. Of course. 1t is not cer- tain that he will not become a candidate for governor or lieutenant governor but the probability is that he will not.
 Plans at Conference.
 o~s4,,.. c and financier of Birmingham, have been for some time behind the movement In the interest of Judge wealSley. Early in the week prominent prohibition man of Birmingham, one of the many here to work for the anti-liquor bills drawn by Weakley, said: You will be safe in the dope that Weakley will run for gov- ernor. We are going to force him to run" He left the impression that the matter had been figured out Other in fiuences indicated that Wealtley desired Carmichael to run, preferring to help along the cause of prohibition as a prf- vate citizen. But 1t was found that the speaker did not take to this idea
 After what seemed to be an impromptu conference in the office of the governor this afternoon rumors began to fly thick and fast. Carmichael was going to run for governor, or Weakley, as the man felt. But wise ones said that 1t would be Weakley. They also said that the offices discussed were those of governor and lieutenant governor. The report that the United States Senate was also taken in does not seem to be borne out. The two state officers are thought to be the most important. Persistent effort failed to get any admission from the leaders, but all wore a look of carrying a big burden of secrets.
 To Desert Mallory.
 The facts that are not disputed when men are pinned down are that the prohi- bition forces are not going to follow Nal lory, that they are going to put out a man for governor, and that man will be either Weakley or Carmichael. Further questioning brings out the indication that it will not be Carmichael, but the other man, even though 1t is rumored that Weakley would have been glad to have supported the Colbert citizen. It is also reported that there is little likelihood of Carmichael running for the second place, 1t is said, that he can do greatest good for the cause of prohibition as a citi- zen.
 The measure of patriotism to the anti saloon movement Is to lie in service for the constitutional amendment bill, signed by the governor today. Mallory has already got on the band wagon, but he is not acceptable to the leaders. They see fight to beat the bill. and they ap- pear to look to one of the men more closely allied to the forces that have ot v1r I,ar IA Ioe, fo,, Thus it fig that Mallory may be taken as an outsider of the white ribbon family, forced to make his way with the general run without special help.
 It would appear that the situation is about like this: Weakley candidate of the prohibition leaders and their friends; Mallory a candidate of many prohibition ists of the individual class and the con- servative classes. and a local option man, either Spragins or O'Neal. for the oppo- sition.