The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-03-02
.Ju,Ige Coleman

Judge Coleman
 l All-who know Judge Coleman will at once recognize the truth Of the ohsorva- tion; That his method of warfare Is to attempt to utterly crush and destroy all who oppose him, even upon an i'm material detail.
 He tried this method of attack on me in the constitutional convention in the de bate upoI the adoption of d resolution expressive of the will of the convention 1 that adequate provision should be made | by the state for the support of its chief executive. Judge Coleman tried to kill and defeat the object which lay behind this resolution by an amendment. l leit l the chair and in a few remarks called attention of the convention to what would be the effect of the adoption of his amendment. On account of this temerity Upon my part he attacked me vieously then. as he Is doing today. In reply to lis attack, I called The attention of the convention to the fact that the constitu- ional convention of 1875, in times of great financial distress, had seen fit to reduce salaries In this state. and If It was competent for one convention in time or distress to reduce salaries. it was compe- tent for another convention when times had improved. ard when these salaries were found to be inadequate Tor the support of It's officers to increase them.
 
 debate testified tkat the provision which lhe state YVES then malkngf for the support of it's chief executive was wholly mace Guate Again l called attention tor the fact that the honorable gentleman had held the lucrative office of solicitor when it was worth S1o,c00 a year and mad re- signed it when solicitors were put upon d salary of 5000 per year. And still again, that the salaries of the judges of the supreme court had been increased without ot lection on his part, and that he, as member of that court, had enjoyed the benefit of the increase.
 Although he had already spoken twice upon the question Judge Coleman at tempted in that convention to answer my argument and il was through my inter- position that he secured permission to speak third time upon the question. Tut he apparently, vas not satisfed witn his answer to my argument. A lew days later he had himself interviewed by a reporter of a newspaper, the Birmingham Age-TIarald believe. and made another at- tempt to answer this argument. and some 80 days later being still uneasy IL seems as to the correctness or his posltloh' ne asked and was granted permission to spread upon the records of the convention written statement, again attempting Pi explain his position and to answer ny argument In the voluminous paper now under consideration he makes lou LII a,- tempt to answer this argument, and has this time achieved no greater success than before The reason ,s plain The argu- r,ent cannot be answered. and it Is futile for him to attempt it. but the fact that this matter still rankles in his breast may explain somewhat 10 the people of Alabama the animus which he exhibits [ gaitst me in this race.
 l should say in this connection that the
 +l,A n-rlaf 4 very decided majority; that it was sub mitted to the people and approved by them, and in pursuance of the mandate there expressed the provision for the sup port of the chief executive of this state has been increased.