The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-12
Western Voters Stand By the
 Commoner
REWARD FOR JoKERs
Endangered Lives of the Public. Double Wedding to Occur
 at Alexander

- ms expressed determination to withdraw "'s support from the democratic party if conservative candidate is nominated for the presidency in 1912, William J. Bryan | has strong following among symna- | 'hetic voters of the west. according to James B. Lloyd, former sergeant-at-arms In the United States Senate, but more re- gently editor of daily paper at Linct, Nep, and an active factor in the recent congressional campaign in that state.
 NIT. Lloyd has just returned from Iili- nols to assume the editorship of the An n1ston Star, which he recently purchased. and when seen by an Anniston newspaper correspondent he talked Interestingly of pohtlcal conditions in that section of the country. Independence is the chief char acter1stic of western politics at present ne says and the effective appeal to the voters on party lines, ever popular and certain of results in North Carolina, his nome state, Is now practically a lost chord in the birthplace of insurgency. lhis being true MT. Lloyd says. west erners will demand aggression of the man whom they support in the next presiden- tlal election. and anti -Cannonism. em- bracing as 1t does a revision of inc tariff uownward, freedom from corporate domi- natlon and purff1cation of politics gener- any with the end of conserving the inter ests of the average man, will be the most eneetive slogan in that section.
 Whiie he has been rather intimately as- sociated with the Commoner Mir Lloyd does not undertake to say whether or not bryan Will again seek the nomination for l the presidency, though he says there are
 many in the west who would support him tlll in preference to any other man, be- neVing that he has deserved honor in the
 hour of victory and that he typifies mili- | tant democracy. He believes the fayorite or the Commoner is Joe Folk and thinks
 Folk would run a better race in the west | tran either Wilson or Harmon
 Referring to the Washington special. | stating that the insurgents propose to
 place either Cummins or LaFollette in the field against the democratic nominee ne said that LaFollette is particularly l strong in the west and that he is the one
 man above all others whom the national
 democratic party has to fear.
 Reward Out for Marauders
 The Annston Electric and Gas com pany has offered substantial reward for any information as to the identity of the night marauders who lowered two of their
 arc lights on Tyler Hill Friday night and perpetrated considerable other mischief
 in various sections of the city
 Besides laying the company liable to | law suit and probable heavy damages. 1t
 is said that the lowering of the lights
 was an act which jeopardzed human
 lives and the lives of animals which might
 have been driven along the streets af- fected. The lamps in quetsion are charged
 with 4o00 volts, it Is said, and this would
 have meant instant death to any person
 or animal coming in contact with them
 had they been extinguished.
 It is believed that the persons lowering the lamps did so a practical joke. and
 1t is believed further that they are the | same ones who stole the chairs from the
 front veranda of the home of Probate
 Judge Emmett F. Crook, 1t having been | learned later that they also took chairs l from the porches of C. J. Houser and l George F. Wilson. besides tearing up a
 bridge in another section of the city.
 Will Have Double Wedding
 Invitations are being received in Annis- ton to double wedding which will be sol-
 emnized at the Baptist church at Alex l andria, December 21, the contracting per- | sons being J. A. Roberson and Miss Mary | Frances Martin and l.. l.. Phillips and | Miss Mamie Lou Whisenant. Both of | the grooms-elect reside at Anniston, while | the brides-to-b be reside at Alexandria MT. | Roberson is q well-known Anniston news | paper man and past chancellor of the Cal | houn lodge of Knights of Pythias. being | author and publisher of several Sunday | school songs. MT. Phillips Is a former | deputy sheriff. now special tax collector | of Anniston. Both of the brides-elect are | experienced business women and accom- | plished musicians. Miss Martin was for
 several years partner with her father, the late Capt. Charles Martin. in the mer- cantile business at Alexandria, and Miss | Whisenant has been agent there for some time for the Louisville and Nashville rail- | way