The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1909-07-18
WEAKIEY
NOT TO RUN.
Gossip Of Gubernatorial
Race.
PR0HIBITI0NISTS ARE ACTIVE
Chief Justice Dowdell Candidate to
Succeed Self.
Rumor Refuses to Believe That sena-
ter spragsins VIII Not Be In
Race for Governor.
PRoHIBITIoNIsTS ARE ACTIVE

Though in some corners the extra
session Of the Legislature will post
pone the political states for next years
State primary. In other corners the
alignments are said TO be Fastening
with the approach Of the session it
self. Inasmuch as 1t seems that pro-
hibition will be showed purposely into
the conflict, temperance candidates and
their opposites are furnishing most of
the gossip.
The latest turn Of the wheel would
seem to eliminate Judge s. d. Weak
ley. from the gubernatorial race. and
to put to the front tor that honor the
author of the state wide prohibition bill,
Hon. A. H. Carmichael, of Tuscimbia.
Some say that strong pressure from
temperance circles Is being brought
to bear on Mr.. Carmichael to enter
the race. Some OF his friends say.
however. that the Colbert county rep
resentattve has been asked not to
make the race for Governor, but to al
low his name to be used as candidate
for Lieutenant Governor. or course,
to run for this Office would imply q
staunch prohibitionist at the head of
what the Anti-Saioon League IL try
Ing to arrange.
There are stfll those who believe
that Judge Weakley Is q likely can
didate for Governor, that his present
activity In behalf of prohibition
brands him as such. 1t should be re-
called. however, tina, Judge Weakley,
from the beginning. has been the paid
lawyer of the Anti-Saloon League,
either in a general or some special
way, and his activities therefore do
not necessarily mean he will run for
the successor of Governor Conner. Nor
does even this conclusion mean to
eliminate him as a factor in the race.
Some say he will be found warmly sup
porting statewide prohibition whenever
the occasion arrives Moreover. II
seems now certain that Judge Weak
ley will be needed in the protracted
rate litigation between the State and
railroads which will probably be at
Its height about the time of the DEM
ocratic primary. Some say that ne
would not desert this technical fight
even for the opportunity to make the
race for So high an office as Governor.
For the latter reason and for an
other, 1t Is also said that Judge Weak
lev will not oppose Chief Justice j
II. Dowdell II the latter Is a candi-
date to succeed himself next year. On
the contrary, rumor has It that Judge
weakley former CHIEF justice by APP
pointment. will himself support Justice
Dowdell. 1t now seems that Chief
Justice Dowdell and Justices Anderson
and Sayre will all be candidates to
succeed themselves. No other run1or
in this line Is heard except that his
friends throughout the State are MAX
dng q strenuous effort to get Judge
Somerville. of the University faculty,
in the race for one Of the Justices.
Judge sorneryille r. silent on this
point.
wise ones refuse to bury the rumor
that State Senator r. NJ. Spraggins,
of Huntsville. will be a candidate for
Governor. The tip 6comes rather d.
rect that II there Is any bally-ho rush
for the prohibition band wagon Sem
ator SpragRins. the only member of
the upper House to vote against state
wide, will be candidate and a de-
termined one for the Governorship. He
is local option of as deep q dye as
ever, according to his friends~and his
recent published statement favoring
the re-esta blishment OF dispensary In
Madison county which built so many
Institutions out OF the handsome prof
it's
Also there il the rlimored candidate,
Hon. Emmett O'Neal,, who has come
out unequivocally for local option. He
neither affirms nor denies his report.
Jed candidacy, but leaves no one to