The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-04-19
MANY CANDIDATES
 FOR SENATORSH|P
Percy and Vardaman Will Not
 Be Alone in Race
WARM CONTEST AHEAD
Some of the Legislators Will Not Re- turn for Another Session But Their Successors Will Take Up to Fight

Jackson, Miss, April 1S.-(Special.) )-ln
 his speech before the legislature last Friday Senator Leroy Percy challenged ex-Governor Vardaman to joirt debate
 in canvass of the state, and the chal- lenge was accepted.
 Senator Percy also requested the state. I democratic executive committee to order | primary lection to be held during the | month of November at which only white | democrats are to vote to settle the sen- atorship for the next term. that begin
 ming in 1913, and declared that if he was
 defeated in the primary he would imme- | diately resign the commission he now holds, so that the governor of the state
 may appoint the successful candidate to | the position
 l In view of this def Governor Vardaman
 and MT. Percy have both addressed let I ters to Chairman Lomax of the state | committee, requesting that the primary I be ordered held in November next, and
 both have agreed that they will abide by
 the result-that is, support the success | ful candidate. whoever he may be- While the friends of Messrs. Percy and Vardaman would prefer that they | be given an open field and permitted to settle this senatorship mudde between | themselves and on their merits, there is very strong probability. that there will be other Richmonds in the field. There | is not the slightest doubt that there are great many citizens of the state who would be delighted at an opportunity to 1 vote for some other candidate. There are many Mississippians who distrust | both factions in this controversy as to | bribery, preferred by State Senator Blbo. | They believe that Bilbo was telling a | good deal that was true, and while they have perfect contempt for him and his methods, and think he should have been | expelled from the senate. as per the res olution that failed to pass by one vote, they believe Dulaney was guilty The investigation assumed a political form and factionalsm controlled some of the senators in their vote for or
 against tho resolution to expel Bilbo- the Vardaman men being the only mem bers of the senate to vote against ex- pulsion The two-thirds vote for expu- sion failed to carry by one, but the res-
 olution demanding that Bilbo resign and declaring him unfit to associate with hon.
 orable men was adopted by a great ma jority. In fact, there was but one vote against it. most of Bibo's friends hav- 1 ing lost their temper and left the senate | chamber.
 | The lines are going to be drawn just
 as taut in the canvass of the state be- tween Vardaman and Percy as they were | in the senate between Bilbo and his &C.,
 cusers. so that Mississippi is in for tho hottest political fight she has eyer expe- rienced
 Reports that are in circulation at the capital and an. admission made by the gentleman himself to your correspond ent, indicate that it is highly probable that Hon. C. H. Alexander, one of the leading attorneys of Jackson, will enter the primary to be held next November IS Q candidate for the United States sena- torship
 MT. Alexanders admission was that he was being besieged by friends to an- nounce as a candidate and that this in- terest forced his consideration of the mat ter, though as yet he had not definitely decided one way or the other. "The mat ter is being pressed on Thy considera- tion,' he stated last afternoon when asked whether or not he would go into the primary. but as yet l have not de- cided to enter the race.'
 Circulation of the report that MT. Alex ander would place his name on the pri- mary ticket became general shortly after adjournment of the legislature Saturday. A number of the members of that body conferred with him and many other citl- zens urged him to become T candidate, evidencing determination by his friends to persuade him to enter the contest. The statement, though brief, that was made by MT. Alexander and the confi- dent manner in which his friends speak of the matter gives rise to the belief that he will respond to the many requests and announce his candidacy.
 When the legislative caucus was opened at the beginning of the session that closed Saturday, MT. Alexander, along with sew eral other prominent Mississippans in- cluding former Governor Vardaman and
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