The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-04-24
WILL SHOW THEIR
INTEREST ON MAY z
Citizens Saying Little But Will
Do Voting
DpTET Of SENTIMENT
DRIFT OF SENTIMENT
People Are Believed TO Be Better In
formed on the Issues In Present
Campaign Than They Have
Ever Before Been
BY BURR BLACKBURN

BY BURR BLACKBURN
Politicians are entering the last week
of the campaign with pulses even, the
people interested and every indication
that once again, after many years, the
voters will choose their officers in calm
deliberation.
The people of the state are per-
haps better informed of the issues i'll
this campaign than they have ever
been. The lesson which they learned
last year, upon waking up from
lethargy and finding themselves dis
| franchised, and the great power which
every voter felt lay in the strength
of his ballot after the close of the
last fight are responsible for the
awakened interest which the average
man is taking in politics.
Those who are finding apathy are
simply those whose candidates are
port of the voters, and whose friends
even are lying inactive.
Where the issues of the campaign are
plainly put and the fight is waged i'll
the open remarkable crowds have gath
cred and wonderful enthusiasm been
displayed, even though the farmers are
busy with their crops and the business
men are busy with their spring trade.
In fact, several record breaking
meetings have been held, especially
those at Montgomery and at Dothan
last week. and the two in Cullman yes
terday.
The candidates for the minor offices
have been unusually quiet in this cam
paign. Most of them have been con-
tent to let things slide, hoping to get
in with the victorious governor. But
even these are sometimes fortunate
enough to draw an audience.
| The other day d. III. Riddle, candi-
date for attorney general, took a very
amusing method to prove that the
amendment lines are still drawn. He
was talking to a crowd and declared
| that he believed in old-time Methodist
meth DDS. III you believe that the
| amendment is dead, then there is no
| reason why the amenders in this crowd
hould not vote for me. If the amend
ment lines are not drawn. let every
amender here who will vote for mt
stand up" After much insistence, two
men hesitatingly stood UP. He then
asked the anti-amenders who supported
him to stand and some 80 o. more did
so.
Chairman o. p Gaut last night re-
where John Morgan Burns spoke.
Burns addressed 800 voters. People
deeply interested. Mallory sentiment
strong. Will carry the county for Mr..
Mallory. w. ii. KEY"
Sheriff j. A. Walden of Randolph coun-
ty was in Birmingham yesterday for a
prisoner to be returned to his county.
Sheriff Walden is an active supporter of
Emmett O'Neal for governor and he de-
ra1 hat Cn1a
Randolph county by a safe majority in
excess of that given against the amend
ment In the election of last November
Il am thoroughly in touch with the
situation in Randolph county," he said,
land can say beyond doubt that ONeal
will get almost all of the newly qualified
vote there.
1.-The amendists from the beginning of
the gubernatorial campaign have been
lined up almost to man for Mr.. Nal
lory. 1t has made 1t necessary for anti
amendsts to line up behind Colonel
ONeal.
1--WE shot the amendment full of holes
in the election of last November but
the corpse seems to be showing unde-
sirable signs of life that it's friends would
have us believe it has not We aim to
bury the corpse on May. If necessary
we will even go so far as to lay the
ghost of it in Randolph county,
The subcommittee of the state dem
ocratic executive committee will meet in
Birmingham one day this week to go
over the situation with Chairman w. ID.
Nesbitt, and one Of the number will be
appointed to relieve Mr.. Nesbtt of the
direction of the primary. Mr.. Nesbitt will
be unable to spare the time from his
business, following the recent reverses.
He has talked of resigning, but II he does
so will hardly make 1t public until after
the primary.
Frank Julian. candidate for railroad
commissioner, created quite a stir yes
terday when he appointed Judge H. p.
Abernethy his campaign manager for the
Birmingham district. Judge Abernethy
will open up headquarters and will wage
an active campaign in the interest of the
present secretary OF state in Ensiey.,
Wylam Birmingham and all the suburbs.
Judge Abernethy declared last night that
his candidate would poll more votes than
any other of his opponents.
The search Of the Mallory forces for
an emblem to head their list of delegates
has developed the fact that almost every
form Of emblem is prohibited by statute.
Chairman Scully of the O'Neal county
headquarters states in an interview that
his attention has been called to a request
from Vice Chairman Smith of the Mallory
committee asking that the great seal of
the state be placed as an emblem over
the Mallory delegation to the state con-
vention, that Mr. Smith has evidently
overlooked section 376 of the code of 1907,
which reads as follows:
Section S7e-Fmblem which shall not
be adopted.-The coat of arms or seal of
any state or United States. or the ma
tional flag, or the likeness of any person
living or dead, or religious emblem or
symbol of any Industrial organization or
society, or a representation of a coin or
the currency of the United States shall
not be used as an emblem
Receiver for Morse's Property
New York, April 23.-Justice Blanch-