The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-03-02

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 regard Is true. it uill certainly be a great surprise Co the people uf Calhoun county and to my friends in other counties in i this state. l have been. l believe. a member of every zzfate convention Of the democratic and conservative party. be- I ginning win and including that which l nominated Governor sezE= except the Co.,
 mer eonKentlre for cleefion 10 which | vas not a "a fszfs-and The wonder Is.
 1T Judge q ,aaas influence vas so po- l fe ifiaHal aH .e : sszHx to my election 1 with 1he rs BIS - nH home county in l fhs aauEeH1zaa = a rHuInsfiou for chief l justice hos if z ! managed 10 become 1 a delegate to ali these other conventions i when he dId not interest himself Tn my
 behalf. and In many of which I opposed
 views he vas advocating. Again, how i does he express his appreciation Of my 1 appointment Of him as chairman Of tha committee on suffrage and electionsi He
 says in reply to this. if l understand him. 1 in effect that l am not entitled to any credit on this account: because. forsooth.
 there was no other member or the con-
 vention who could have performed this service as well. and that l was compelled
 ex necessitate ref to appoint him, Here Is
 gratitude for you which would melt 1 heart of stone,
 But Judge Coleman says that he is | compelled to support MT. Bankhead in |
 ed him for chief justice and carried his county for him. Aye. more, that he car ried his whole district for him. But iis- ten, Mir Bankhead did not hold the Sixth district in the hollow of his hand, as Mir Hobson subsequently demonstrated. l Judge Coleman gives me no credit TOT the vote he received from my county. He gives MT. Bankhead all credit for the vote which he received from his county and from his district. In this l may modestly suggest that Judge Coleman at taches too much importance to MT. Bank- heads influence, and too little to the activity and support of his own friends in that district. He and MT. Bankhead are not to be mentioned in the same breath. He stands out before the people of Alabama as a strong rugged, able man, and although engaged In thls con troyersy with him, l would not take one leaf from his laurels He intlmates m this article that I opposed the resoiu7 lions commendatory of him In the con- vention. It is not true. l was heartily in sympathy with them, and l would vote for them today. No attack wh1ch he can make upon me can weaken my appreciation of his great services to the people of Alabama in that convention!
 But still again, Judge Coleman shouio remember in this connection that ne was in MT. Bankhead's congressional district, and had long supported him for Congress and that MT. Bankhead owed him the support which he gave him for chief Justice. l owed hlm nothing; and when he comes to com pare my services to him with that rendered by Mir Bankhead, this consid- eratlon should not be lost sight of. But listen. while ! might have thought in view of my services to him that Judge Coleman should have supported me in this race. while l might have thought iu view of these services he should at least have remained neutral between MT Bankhead and myself, still even though he declined to do either and had come before the people of Alabama as he did, with fulsome praise of MT. Bankhead, which praise rests for it's support upon nothing but his former services to Judge Coleman, l should not have opened my mouth; l would have endured the situation in sorrow perhaps, but without uttering even protest. 1tkseems to me, how ever. that he might have supported one friend withouei attempting to stick knife in another, or by saying of the other that he has accomplished nothing in life and is mere maker of rhetorical chromos. A knife in the hand of an old man, especially when he attacks you when you are not expect ing it. is about as dangerous as a knife in the hand of young man.
 Suffrage Debate
 But let us examine and see if this charge as preferred by Judge Coleman, is not prompted more by passion than by judgment, When the great suf- frage debate came on in the conven tion, the report of the majority com mittee was vigorously assailed by some of the ablest men in the con- vention and it was Judge Coleman's duty as chairman of that committee to defend his report in that debate. He came to me and said that he was physically exhausted and was not well, and he wanted me to reply to MT. White, and three other of the ablest opponents of the report, whose names omit to mention, since I do not wish to introduce them into this controversy. In addition to this he furnished me certain data which he had collected for his own use in case he undertook the argument himself. Judge Coleman may not have any respect any regard for the ability of any man living, but we all know he Is not wanting in a just approximation of his own, and we al lknow that he would not choose any one to represent him in that debate, who, way down in the bottom of his heart. he regarded as one wanting in
 
 rhetorical chromos
 At the conclusion of my argument in that convention he congratulated me most heartily and stated that I had met the situation as fully as he could have desired.
 TaIIeyrand and Briareus
 In aii the furious assaults which have been made upon my announce ment, my opponents have ventured to quote in support of their attack only one sentence; but I am grateful for even this small condescension. l only wish they had made other and larger quotations from my artice which mo- where furnishes any support for the criticisms made upon 1t. Judge Cole man. for the purpose of condemning 1t. tuotes In part the pen picture which I have attempted to draw of Mr. Bankhead, which, as it appeared in the article in question, is as fololws:
 And, strange to say, as I am in formed. he (Mr Mallory Is supported by the Hon. John Fl. Bankhead, our present senior senator, the great Tal- leyrand of Alabama politics, who with his panther-like tread, and with the arms of Briareus, moves before the people of Alabama, noiseless and voice. less, leaving no tracksw
 But the honorable gentleman, in refer ring to Talleyrands great ability and also to the fidelity of Brlareus, all of which admit. seems to forget that a prototype such as have described MT. Bankhead to