The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-02-07
BIRMINGHAM WILL | SIT BACK AND WATCH
Letting Remainder of State
 Furnish the Candidates
LIVE WEEK IN POLITICS
Seed Denies That He Will Withdraw From Race-MaIIory Forces VIII Assemble in Montgomery To-
 morrow for Conference

in Montgomery during the latter part of this year there can be none of that old criticism which was so persistent during the last legislature that Birmingham monopolizes everything.
 Birmingham is asking the state for but one office-that of associate justice of the supreme court
 Birmingham" said a far-sighted poli- tician yesterday, ''is using rare judg- ment in keeping out of the fight for state offices this time. We should use all our energy In sending to Montgomery dele gation of shrewd, conservative team workers, and we will get more results beneficial to our interests than if we had the governor and all tho state officers.
 Alabama recognizes that the business interests of the state center here, and the thinking men of the state are for every thing that goes to make Birmingham greater. This was illustrated to a marked degree by the passage of the Greater Bir- mingham bill, even though the Jefferson delegation was split into smithereens and riding horseback on half dozen tam gents.
 Birmingham controlled the present state government, and is willing to admit that she made failure. She is willing to let the state have a chance. but, by all the powers, we should send the right sort of delegation to the legislature
 But Birmingham is asking for a member of the supreme court This is strangely out of sort when not single member of the court halls from Jefferson county, the starting point of half the suits which are appealed.
 Birmingham damage suits, arising from accidents in mines and around manufac- turing plants, are peculiar in themselves, and it is pointed out this county should have a man on the ground who is by long service familiar with this class of litigation in all it's details.
 Jefferson, however, is the center of the great campaign which is now reaching white heat. and will have big voice in the selection of the popular candidates It is a fact that Jefferson is offering one man for the United States Senate, but as he Is the champion of the amendists, and is making the race on a platform which does not even touch the real live issues now alive in the state, he will have to hustle to carry his home county which voted so overwhelmingly against the amendment
 Those who read Captain Whites an- nouncement yesterday looked vainly for some statement upon the one great issue of this campaign. and when they found a review of Colonel Bankhead's long ca reer of service to the state, they were, to say the least surprised.
 Captain White, in his preamble, says: 'I think 1t appropriate to let the public know something as to who I am and for what I stand" but he did not see fit to let the public in on the all-important question of the day.
 It will be remmbered that Colonel Bank head of his owt1 free will gave the public this information in an open card three weeks before the election. Efforts to keep the issue down will fail in this race, as well as every other
 The personnel of the O'Neal campaign committee was widely commented upon yesterday, many expressing great sur prise at it's strength. Headed by former Governor Oates, and made up of leaders in every section of the state. it proved stipger to the crowd looAing on. Walter Seed Is out with denial of the rumor that he will withdraw from the race. reclaring that he wants to be gov ernor to promote the agricultural inter- ests, and that he will be in the race to the last. Mallory forces, who had hoped to center the amendment vote on. MT. Mallory. will be disappointed in this news. Mir. Seed will issue his platform this week
 The subcommittee to arrange the de- tails of the primary will meet in Mont gomery tomorrow with Chairman W. D. Nesbitt. Mallory forces hold their con- ference in Montgomery tomorrow. The week will be full of live political news. and for Birmingham may be enlivened by a meeting of the city democratic commit tee.
 The campaign Of Judge c. C. Nesmith for the place of chief justice of the su- preme court will be on in earnest this morning, when headquarters will be opened in rooms 72I-7as First National Bank building A large force of clerks and stenographers will be put to work, and from now until the primary In May this office will be among the busiest places in Alabama.
 There will be no special campaign man ager but instead there will be a commit tee of lawyers who will be in charge of the campaign. A list of this committee will be made public during the next few days. Within the next week or two the full state organization for the campaign will be in good working shape.