The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-16

Unless I am greatly mistaken, the democrats will make a clean sweep In New York in November" said Repre-
 sentative J. Edwin Ellerbe of South Caro-
 lima. who has just made a tour of the
 Empire State. At democratic headquar-
 ters," said he, "I found the boys hard at
 work They were in the best of spirits
 and most optimistic. Reports from all
 over the country speak of harmony In the
 ranks Indeed. 1t reminds me of the
 campaign of 1890, the year of the demo- cratic landslide. am so confident of success that have filed my application
 for "shrieker" for Champ Clarks mules which he is to drive down Pennsylvania
 avenue. as he has promised in the event of the democrats carrying the next
 House It will be novel sight to see Champ Clark, who will no doubt be
 Speaker cannon's successor. behind a
 pair of Missouri mules on his way to the
 Capitol to be sworn in as speaker.
 "Of the many senators have known none of them was more suave of diplo-
 matic than Ransom of North Carolina"
 remarked veteran employe of the Sen ate indulging in "reminiscences. "1 went
 down to North Carolina with a congress sional funeral party some years ago, and
 Ransom was along. When the train
 stopped at a station Ransom got out. shook Shands with every man on the platform, and told each one that he had left important business in Washington to
 attend that funeral with the hope of sec ing him even for a moment. But what
 surprised me most" continued the veter- an employe was that every mothers son of them believed 1t. Ransom had
 very winning way about him. When we
 arrived at the town where the funeral
 was to be held, we had to drive six miles in open carriages against the chilly wind without having had dinner, and then sat in a cold church to listen to sermon for two hours Ransom was hun gry as a wolf and chilled through. as we all were, and after the preacher had been going it about three quarters of an hour he commenced to snap his watch; but 1t didn't do any good. The preacher kept right on with his discourse. When it was concluded we were all so faint with hunger and cold we could hardly stand, but Ransom revived for the occasion. and as soon as the benediction was pro- nounced he rushed to the pulpit, grabbed both of the preachers hands, and told him he was never so much interested and edified by sermon in his life and his only regret was that he didn't preach longer. When he saw that the preacher swallowed that he actually asked him to
 repeat the sermon the first time he (Ran- sOnn) came to town. 1Ou Cdh euho IL | from me that in this line of campaigning
 Ransom had no superior in the state"
 If the. postal savings bank system
 proves the success expected by the Pres ident 1t will be followed, 1t Is said. by postoffice department officials with strong recommendation to Congress for
 legislation to enlarge the powers of the postoffice department by installing par cells post delivery. This subject was be- fore the House committee on postonices
 and postroads last session. the commit tee devoting several days to hearings.
 but nothing definite was done beyond re- ferring the matter to subcommittee with instructions to report to the full
 committee at the short session of Con- gross.
 Advocates of the parcels post assert that under existing law the postonice de- partment is warranted in accepting for the mail small parcels that are now
 shipped by express. As the insurgents are backing this reform 1t is thought that the House will have an opportunity | to go on record before the close of the
 Congress The principal opposition to the parcels post, as manifested at the hear ings last session, came from the country
 merchants, who said that in their judG-
 ment parcels post would enable the big department stores in the cities to close