The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-02-14
CANDIDATES WILL
 HAVE ID JET BU.Y Each Man Is Strongly Fitted
 Against the Other THREE MONTHS REMAIN Max Hamburger Wants Arrangement Whereby Either He or Craft Will
 Be Eliminated From Race.
 Campaign Ig Spicy
THREE MONTHS REMAIN

The candidates before the people in the coming state election will be forced to get out and grub for votes after all.
 The amendment issue is still here, but the candidate who thinks he can float into office on it is very much mistaken. The man who thinks he can carry a county because one or the other of the candidates for governor will carry it will wake up on the morning after the election to find how horribly he was mistaken. Three months remain in which the people of the state will have ample time to get acquainted and they are going to vote for their friends.
 There will be a general scramble for the diggings during the next few weeks and before long every little country town will have it's seedylooking candidate with his cob pipe hanging around the grocery store and cronying with the voters Everyone knows how the land lies now, and planting time is here.
 This will be d campaign of little speech making, but lots of hard work for the candidates. Especially is this true where there are so many candidates as for the two positions on the railroad commis-
 
 sion.
 D. H. Riddle of Goodwater. who is one of the strongest candidates for the attorney generalship, is in Birmingham, and declares that he is ready to get busy. This will be a warm fight between MT Riddle. R. c. Brickell of Huntsville and T. l.. Bulger of Dadeville.
 Lee Long arrived last night and will get into the O'Neal campaign bright and early this morning. The local members of the campaign committee will be busy for the next few days preparing Tor Thursday nights O'Neal rally at the Jefferson theatre.
 Spicy interest is attached to the Mo- bile end of the contest for state railroad commissioner by the issuance of a court cous letter from Senator Max Hamour- ger Jr, an avowed and active csndi- date for one of the two places. to John Graft, who is also in the race.
 While two commissioners arc to be nominated in the democratic primary May 2. the successful candidates, under the law must come from different congress sional districts.
 MT. Hamburger suggests the inadvis-
 
 ability of two candidates running from Mobile, and proposes a plan whereby either he or MT. Craft may retire from the contest by leaving the matter to the voters of Mobile in the city primary on February es.
 His letter to MT. Craft follows;
 Mobile, Ala. V';,sruary 1s, 1910. Hon. John Craft, Mobile, Ala.
 My Dear Sir: A ceay of the Mont eomerv Times, just to hand, contains brief copnent on tf race Tor .alfoau commissioner, a para eraph quoting you as follows:
 q announced before Senator Ha,nbur- ger. If there Is any coming down or Mobile candidates, S.aator Hamburger will do the coming down.,
 I am sure that you must have been misquoted as to saying you hssd an nounced first, for it is matter of com mon knowledge that some days after my cards had been sert broadcast and my candidacy generally published, you stated to the Mobile Register that you had not definitely decided to make the race and would not decide for ten days or two weeks. However, the question of priority will cut no figure with the .T5,000 voters Of Alahama. The hum blest citizen If Mobile, in ruth each ma every clllHen hu. the SfHie VH- questionable -;ght t, run for the office as either of us But 1t has occurred to me that since 1t has ever been most diff ficult, indeed, well nigh impossible, for Mobile candidate 'e win state of flee, that common :nse and Ordinary political judg nent s ould imp-l us to agree on a plan whereby one of us should be eliminated. I, therefore, re- spectfully suggest that you join me in request to the city executive committee to place our names ou separate ballot for the city primary, Febrrary 2s, thereby permitting cur fellow citizens to ch oose between us, the loser 70 re- tire from the race. ! assure yoH that if you receive ths larger vote l will grace fully retire from the contest and esk my friends in the s'xty-sever counties of Alabama to assist you m VOLT latest political aspiration. Very respectfully
 MAX Ii AMBURGEI,. JR.