The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-05-24
CANDIDATES STEP
UP AND PAY FEES
Municipal Races Are Now on
in Earnest
LIVELY TIMES EXPECTED
Bodeker Announces SculIy As CAM
paign Manager and Jere King An
nounces First Public Meeting
of the Campaign
LIVELY TIMES EXPECTED
BY BURR BLACKBURN

BY BURR BLACKBURN
For about an hour yesterday after
noon the city hall council chamber was
crowded with the politicians of Birming-
ham-young and old, tall. short, lean and
fat. The jabber and hubbub of their
voices as they talked and traded almost
drowned the big voice of. Subchairman
o. s. Finch as he cried out for the can
didates for mayor to come to the desk
and pay their entrance fees.
Carl Seals. with broad smile, went
up on the run, and was the first to pay
mis- fee, with check already made out.
F. I. Monks, the candidate from good
old Ireland, came next with real green
backs. Jere King and Culpepper Exum
wrote their checks with the same pen,
and so the four men lined up and were
Off on a race of less than a month
three young, clean-shaven men and one
young Irishman with a mustache.
King has won his spurs as champion of
Greater Birmingham, having been the
leader in two fights before the legisla-
ture. Exum is one of the most popular
Of business men in the city, has recently
successfully managed the campaign of
Judge j. P. Stiles for probate Judge, and
is now making his bow to the public In
his own behalf. Mr. Monks is lawyer,
a writer of some ability, student of
government, and has been librarian at
the courthouse for several years. Carl
Seals came into prominence as a BUSH
ness candidate for police commissioner,
and led the ticket against FIVE oppo-
nents. He is prominent as a real estate
and insurance man and banker.
Jones Is Applauded
And so for two hours the names of the
candidates were called, and they paid
their entrance fees, the amount assign
ed to each office being equally divided
among the candidates When Harry
Jones, the unopposed candidate for re-
election to the presidency of the city
council. approached he was applauded.
Austin. Bodeker and Shirley stepped up
to the rail and paid their fees. Austin.
with a cigar puckered up his mouth, with
his head thrown back, seemed to feel
that he already had on the brand-new
chiefs suit Any one of the three
would shine in the big chiefs blue.
Bodeker, however, has stolen a march
on the whole field, and is the first to an
nounce his campaign manager-Joseph
B. Scully of Woodlawn the man who
led the fight for Emmett ONeal in JEFF
ferson county, and who has consented to
lead Chief Bodekers fight He declares
that the chiefs strongest vote will be
polled in the suburbs.
When the 1923 candidates had qualified
the committe had s3314 with which to
run the election. Five candidates. who
qualified last week failed to pay their
fees, and their names will be left of
the ticket. These are j. A. Vaughn and
c. NJ. BurkhaIter for street commissioner,
w. H. Acker for building inspector B.
o. Phillips for committeeman Eleventh
ward.
Candidates without Opposition
Those lucky candidates who have no
opposition are Harry Jones for president
of the council. Carl s. Peterson for audit
or John E. Morris for alderman in the
Seventh ward, Dan A. Hogan for al
and w. H. Mcdowell for aldermen In the
Sixteenth ward
There are nine candidates for street
commissioner, nine for license collector.
five for building inspector.
C. E. Eckerle, the present plumbing in
spector, has two opponents. Mr. Eek
erles name failed to appear in the list
which closed Saturday night, but he is
qualified, and is one of the Invest candi-
Courson, one of the nine for license col
lector, is another live wire. whose name
failed to appear in the list which the
committee hurriedly arranged
For the first time in his life, Judge
Noah B. Feagin the veteran recorder of
the Birmingham police court, has opposi-
ton. Heretofore no one has dared to face
him, fearing certain defeat, but this time
]. NJ Handy and F. D. Nabers are after
the job. The judge is In the race to the
last, all other reports to the contrary not.
withstanding.
In every race the fight is against the
present Incumbent, and the present in
cumbent has the argument in his favor
that his familiarity with conditions OF the
office At him for meeting the problems of
amalgamation of Greater Birmingham
during the next two years. Most of them
seem to have things their way. because
the opposition to the present administra-
ton has not centered on any one candi-
date, but its support is divided among the
multitude.
Outside the mayors race, the tive
warmest races promise to be those be-
tween George Eustis and w. B. Copeland
for treasurer, and between A. A. Gambill
and George Huddleston for alderman of
the Third ward. Both will be too close
for comfort.
Police Commission Mix-Up
An interesting point has been raised
relative to the police commission. Sam
Sturgeon, Eb. Hydinger, James B.
Brake and Kirk Moore are running for
the one vacancy, but they do not know
whose vacancy that is. Either the term
of Carl Seals, or that of, F. B. Yielding
expires, while the other holds over for the
long term. There is a legai- mix-up here
caused by the fact that Seals. when elect
ed, did not live in the city limits, and is
now an appointee of the governor. Some