The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-02-20
NEW YORK STATE
 BRIBERY CHARGE Leading Counsel for Both Sides Are Southern Democrats HooKwoRM IS FoILED Does Not Seem 10 Have Affected Law yers of the south--Kirkpatriclx
 of Alabama Discusses the
 Benefits of Boycott.
HOOKWORM IS FoILED

| has caused consternation in the ranks of the republican party in New York, is that the leading counsel on both sides are southern men and democrats.
 Martin ". Littleton of Tennessee, Tex as and Brooklyn has charge of Senator Aids defense, while the prosecution is in charge of James w. Osborne and Judge August Van Wyck. Mr. Osborne is southern man and was several years ago democratic candidate for district attorney against William T. Jerome. Judge Van Wyck is a North Carolinisn and has been democratic candidate for governor of New York, was president of the North Carolina society and the South ern society of New York It certainly seems curious when the upstate republic ans became involved in family row that they should find it necessary to send to New York to get southern democrats to get them out of it. But so it is, and 1t may be said that if the bar of the state of New York should search three more competent men for the work in hand could not be found than these three same southerners.
 In this same line it is worthy of re- mark that Secretary of the Interior Rich- ard A. Ballinger, sent down to Tennessee and got Col. John J. vertrees, also a democrat, to take charge of his interests in the Investigation brought about by the charges against him made by Mir Pin chot and MT. Glavis. These instances iufa o;5 5o1i hookworm charges against the south. Evidently the southern lawyer must be immune against the ravages of the hook worm.
 Politics is always an interesting sub ject with Kentuckians," remarked John l.. Mason of Louisville, who was in the city this week. We take deep interest not only in our own state politics. which | has been extremely interesting within the past few years, but in national poli- tics as well. The democracy of Kentucky is watching Judge Gaynor with keen in- terest We regard him as promising presidential timber. If Mr. Gaynor is able to bring about reconciliation between the regular democracy and the Hearst party and can come to the next dem ocratic convention with the united sup | port of these two elements he will be an extremely hard man to beat
 | Governor Harmon of Ohio is strong man. Next to Gaynor, under the circum- stances that have outlined, he will per- haps be the strongest candidate the dem ocrats can put forward I am inclined to l believe tho race now is between these two gentlemen, although it is well to re- member that three years is a long time in American politics and many things may develop which would entirely change the aspect of things.
 | II do not think that there is any ques- tion that the democrats will cary Ken trucky in the nexe lction. Thre are fac tions in the party in my state, but they will get together.
 The senatorial race will be worth watching. l understand Senator Paynter will be candidate to succeed himself, and 1t is generally believed in Congress that Representative Ollie James will be his opponent. Both these men are very popular with the democrats of the state and will make g. close race. believe the chances are in favor of Paynter. The direct benefits to digestion and general health are the principal good to be gotten out of the present alleged boycott" of meats, is the idea of pr. 1 Samuel Kirkpatrick, a prominent physi- clan and specialist of Selma, Ala who has been in the east for several weeks visiting hospitals.
 Tt seems to me- he said. that the great lesson to be learned is not how costly, fin a monetary sense, meat is, but how expensive it is in vitality-how much bodily strength it costs. We are g. meat eating people. We all eat too much meat Except alcohol, meat probably causes us more troubles than anything else in the world that we take into our system We ought not to eat more than once day, and if the turmoil now-the tur- mutt and the shouting. to quote an ancient poet-brings us to nothing better or more definite, 1t will at least help us to leave out of our daily rations sur plus of the flesh of the kind that creates more ills than 1t is heir to-
 There is much interest felt in New York over the alleged candidacy of John W. Gates for the republican nominatiou for governor of Texas. It may be said that the news is received in Wall street and about the Waldorf Astoria with Jeers of derision.
 What" exclaimed a close friend of MT. Gates, John w. Gates running for governor of Texas on the republican ticket! Why. my boy, when Gates goes after anything 1t is with the idea of get ting it. He's generally willing to take a gamblers chance but that he would waste time and money trying to carry Texas republican is really humorous. Those Texas politicians evidently think Gates is good thing, but if they are able to work him for any such game as that I miss my guess
 "In view of the fact that the south has third of the forest area and a quarter of the standing timber in the country. to say nothing of the splendid water powers scattered all over the southern states. | it seems strange that she does not get excited over this conservation question, ? remarked w. H. Clayton of Tennessee to me the other day. And l am afraid un-