The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-31
DR. CUNNINGHAM
 MAY BE IN RACE To Make Another Try At the
 GovernorShip MALLORY'S FRIENDS BUSY Senator Lowe Sees No Need for Extra session-River Rate
 Cases To Be Reopened
 on April 12.
FRIENDS BUSY
BY HERVEY ". LAIRD.

Montgomery, March 3O.-(Special.)-A good and we'll posted citizen of Jefferson county, who was in the city Tuesday said to the correspondent of this paper Tt is by no means certain that pr. Rus sell M. Cunningham of Ensley will not enter the race for governor at the next term. He has 1t in his head to run and if he does 1t will be a race to win He will not take 1t so easy as he did be- fore. It will be backed by as swift a plan of campaign as you have ever known in the state.'
 This is about all he said, but he came all the way upstairs to say 1t. He seemed not only to have a pretty good idea of what he is driving at, but even more, leaving the impression that the Ensley follower of the healing science is getting ready to shy his case to the statewide field. It had been thought in this sec ton that pr. Cunningham would not of fer in opposition to Henry B. Gray, an- other Jefferson man. For that reason not so much attention as might have been the case was given the talk of his getting busy.
 Few men in Alabama are better liked than Dr. Cunningham. For Il months he was governor, taking the post of Gov ernor Jelks while the latter was i'll in the west. His record in the office is one to inspire pride and he would find that he made many a friend who will be ready to help him. His race against Gov. B. B. Conner was fight against all most a certainty. The latter was on the
 
 his own making largely. No man in the state could have beaten him. Now it may be different. At least, it looks as if the friends of the doctor think so.
 All of which recalls that there Is yet no certainty about the intentions of for mer Chief Justice S. D. Weakley. Friends who know him we'll say that he is going to run for chief justice and no other office Some have tried to secure an expression from him as regards the of flee of governor, but he has kept silent Many think he mad this race in mind when he declined appointment as chief justice. Others that he declined because he did not care to try for the office again except before the people At any rate, he Is live wire in political gos- sip.
 Il. G. D. Mallory are organizing beat by beat in the counties. His followers are build ing one of the best and most compact organizations ever known in the state and if they are let alone long enough they look sure to win.
 Senator Lowe Talks.
 State Senator W. T. Lowe of Morgan county, who is here to look up some law in the supreme court library. says that so far as he can see there is no need for an extra session of the legislature. This is the impression he gets of the opinion of most of the people of his section. How ever, he would not say he thought ono ought not to be called, as he did not know enough of what the governor has In mind for it.
 The senator said that while there were many complaints that the prohibition laws in Morgan county are not well kept he had observed a decrease in the amount of drunkenness and he thought it per fectly safe to say that there was in the main better order. It was his belief that the law is after all good thing and ought to be enforced. The senator said that the outlook for building CIV rail- road from Decatur to Russellvlle is not as bright as he would like 1t, but there is hope that 1t may be carried through He thinks the new line to Jasper a likely possibility.
 River Rates Adjustment.
 The whole question of freight rates on the river is to be reopened Boat owners on the Alabama and the Tombigbee have been cited to appear before the railroad commission April 12, and show cause why this shall not be done Rates for short hauls are now too high, as compared to long hauls. 1t Is said. Among other things the commission wants to know, as indi- cated in the call is why intermediate points between Mobile, Montgomery, Sel- ma and Demopois should not be given as low rates as prevail between Mobile, Montgomery, Selma and Demopolis,' and to show cause why reductions should not be made in cases where the rates are higher than they ought to be.
 Minor News Notes.
 The pardon board considered twelve cases on Tuesday, none of them being sensational.
 The incorporation of the Lewis Creek railroad company haszbeen reported to the secretary of state, with capital of $3O,OOO It is to run from Toinette to Skidder, in Washington county.
 The organization of the Bank of Port land has been reported It has capital of $15,OO0, with location at Courtland.
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