The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-04-24
MUSGROVE FAVORS
SENATOR BANKREAD
People Should Appreciate Ser
vice to State
BUSY DAY IN WALKER
Many People Gather In Jasper-0'NeaI
HIS Big Advantage-BOwmnn
Speaks mt Carbon Hill and
Also Mt Dora
BY FRANK V. EVANS

Jasper. April 23.-(special) -Saturday,
as usual, is brisk political day in JAS
per-most of the county candidates and
hosts of their friends and supporters are
thronging the public square. There is
much juggling and strong efforts are be-
ing made to pull down and consolidate.
This will hardly be accomplished, as
they say the thing has gone too far.
The buttons of gubernatorial candi-
dates are in evidence, O'Neal buttons
largely predominating
The following names (all for O'NeaD
go on the ticket for delegates to the state
| democratic convention. Walker is en-
titled to Just eight seats on the floor.
No Mallory man appears as it is con-
ceded that O'Neal will sweep the county,:
DIR. B. F. Borden, William Cook, F. "
Evans, ]. w. Hocutt. DR.. ]. NJ Miller
J. Gus Pearce, A. S. Preston, W. C.
Stanley.
L. B. Musgrove, who heretofore sue
cessfully managed the campaigns of r.
P. Hobson for Congress, comes out in
an interview in the Walker County
News strongly advocating the reelection
OF John II. Bankhead for the United
States Senate
Speaking of political affairs generally
Mr.. Musgrove says:
II feel sure that the people of Ala
Bona will return Senator Banl1head to
the Senate by a majority over both his
competitors, and they ought to do SO to
emphasize their appreciation of the splen-
did practical service he is rendering the
state and the nation.
while I have a kindly personal feel
ing toward both of Colonel Banlxhead's
opponents, 1 think the time inoppor-
tune for either of them to oppose the
senator. Inopportune. because of the
thorough equipment and exalted position
occupied by our senior senator for USE
furess to his people. His long years of
experience as a national legislator, his
strdious attention to those branches of
government that pertain to the practical
his strong position on important commit
tees of the Senate, and his enjoyment OF
recognition by the appointing power all
tend TO arm him with official strength
that means much for our state.
Il am an advocate of long tenure OF
office by federal representatives, because
when a man is earnest. honest and in
tel!egent. enjoying the confidence and es-
TEEN of his co-worlSers, each year of his
service must add to the value of that
service. Such an one is Senator Bank
head.
Then, too, it would be a departure
from the custom Of the party to deny
to the senator a second term, and his
defeat would be heralded everywhere
as either a lack of gratitude on part of
Alabamians, or a rebuke to his official
record
Il regard Senator Bankhead as one
of the most truly representative men in
the American Senate-not man so much
OF words as of deeds-a working senator,
who, while loyal to his party, is not
goiven to sentimentality. but chooses the
better part of laboring along practical
lines. l know that he is highly regarded
ia Washington by his colleagues, and by
members of both parties, as one of the
most Jealous and effective members of
the Senate; and l know, too, that his de-
feat would be regarded as calamity.
However, / do not think the people
of Alabama will neglect the opportunity
of returning Bankhead to the Senate
Peyton @. Bowman spoke to two large
audiences in Walker today at Carbon
Hill at noon, and at Dora at night. He
was greeted at both places with a per-
feet ovation in his advocacy of the cleo
tor of Emmett O'Neal