The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-04-30
O,NenI inc Statesman

oNeht me statesman
 Nothing so disgusts decent people with politics as vilification, the barefaced perversion of truth, and reckless charges of corruption" said an old voter.
 "I do not find any democrat of intel | lieence who believes that Colonel Mallory ever had the ghost of d show of winning in the May primary. O'Neal was as good as elected governor early in the campaign. l have never heard any one question Colonel Mallorys legal attain ments or his integrity. But some of Colonel Mallorys friends have in the most heartless manner viliied MT. O'Neal Now the best Of 1t is that MT. O'Neal is not only a man of high char acter, but he is one of the best equipped men for statesmanship that Alabama has had since the war. Men who have read MT. O'Nears writings or have heard him speak appreciate fully his intellectual force. But if they were not familiar with his intellectual side, the late Senator Morgan's appreciation would place O'Neal in the front rank. Here is a letter which the eminent statesman senator wrote to O'Neal:
 Bailey Springs, September 19 1906
 Dear Major: When you started in the campaign for lieutenant governor I did not think the game was worth the can dle' for a man of your parts. I would have preferred to have you enter the race for governor If you had done so you would have been elected, but 1t would have cost you heavily in time and money. l You have made a splendid impression on the people of the state, to which your able addresses have justly entitled you, and have now a political status that will lmake you the proud successor of your father, or a prominent man in the na- tional councils Richardson woroked for you without ceasing.
 "'Take up the rate bill and study it impartialy as a lawyer. That will be under examination by every industry and by all politicians of the country. It will be in the courts everywhere It is gov ernmental ownership law and rests on no other foundation in my judgment. Your analysis of its privileges and provisions will be very useful to you and the coun- try I wish to see it when your study is complete.
 "I think you are playing in great luck and will not deplore the disagreeable fact that you failed in the first game of the rubber" You are all right. Sincerely your friend, "JOHN T. MORGAN
 "To hear small fry speak disparaging- ly of a man like MT. O'Neal Is enough to make a horse laugh in view of Senator Morean,s appraisement."
 Protest Against Census Methods
 W. N. Malone of the Malone Real Estate and Insurance company, and a resident of Birmingham for the last g years, said yesterday: "There has not been a census taker either at my house or in the neigh borhood as far as I can find out. I live tat 935 South Twentieth street, and the situation is getting alarming to me. can not see why, but it looks as though some body were trying to beat us out of oul rightful position as one of the larger cities of the country.
 ''I have talked to men downtown anc almost everywhere I meet people, ant they say nearly the same thing, that they have seen no census taker yet. Something has got to be done and done quickly. Sat urday is the last day, and think that Il would be best for the Chamber of Com merce to hold an extra meeting and frame up a petition to send to the census bu reau in Washington asking for an exten , sion of the time so that we can come tt i the rescue and give Birmingham an enum erated population which will correspond [ closely with what it really is.'
 B. B. Hall. 927 South Eighteenth street said "There has not been a census enum 3 orator at my house for my wife has beer staying at home to watch for him. thinl it is a shame that the censustakers hav' : attacked the people of Birmingham fol
 objecting to the enumerators. when i
 looks as if they had not half canvasse, ( the town. I know of whole blocks tha , have been missed in territory which il supposed to have been covered. van