The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-09
BIRMINGHAM MAN
 TALKING POLITICS T. H. Friel Interviewed in
 New York THE EAST WILL DECIDE Thinks Democratic Nominee Is Likely to Be the Man New York Wants. Some Gossip About South
 ern Activity
THE EAST WILL DECIDE
By ROBERT LEE CARTER

| the hot season. The big city offers so many attractions that it has all the other so-called summer resorts flashed to the mast" to use the vernacular when the number of summer visitors are taken into l consideration.
 | Included in the number are men of in huence in their communities, and if one | cares to do it he can by meeting up with and talking to these men get better idea as to the feeling Of the country on any given question than he can anywhere else in the United States.
 Although it is now nearly year off, the presidential election is very general topic of conversation. It is hard to find man who will express any doubt as to the republican nomination. In fact, l have yet to find one who is not perfectly sure that it will go to President Taft
 As to who is to be the democratic stand ard bearer, the feeling is different. Here, for instance. is T. H. Friel of Alabama He says:
 Whom the democrats of the southern states may favor for the presidential nomination next year will depend large ly, if not wholly, upon the choice of New York.
 50 far as I have been able to learn, the democrats of the south have not made up their minds as to whom they will vote for fin the next democratic national convention.
 "I have no ida whom Alabama will vote for in the democratic national con vention. There is talk of Woodrow Will hut Ia rlr iS cr0 n esteem of the southern people, and if the south is ever to have candidate for the presidency, 1t would seem that now is the opportune time to grasp the situation. There is not the slightest doubt, how ever, that New York controls. The south ern democrats all along have recognized the supremacy of the Empire State in di- recting politics. If New York decrees that the democrats shall nominate Wood row Wilson, it Is probable that the south ern states will fall in line for the New Jersey governor; if the Empire State is uncertain, or divided, there may be di- vision Of the vote in the south,.
 President Taft is popular all through the south. There is little doubt that he will get the solid southern vote in the national convention. It is really gratifying to the practical bus mess men of the south that politics no longer cuts a great figure in the de- velopment of the country l believe there is no section in tse country where the voters are so indifferent to politics as those of the south. It makes little difference who Is nominated for President, there is abiding faith that the public will live, and that the man elected to rule over the nation will be the President of all the people, north and south. Sectional lines have been obliterated."
 If MT Friel is right the attltud e of New York is of prime interest. Tam many is not particularly strong for MT Wilson. The cruel manner in which he lambasted the Jim Smith machine
 in New Jersey did not endear him to the New York machinists. But Tam many is above all things practical in it's politics and does not make energy unnecessarily in revenging the wrongs done to other machines. If Tammany makes up its mind that the indorse- ment of Wilson or any other man will strengthen its hold the indorsement will be given.
 I understand that the present plan of the Tarhmany leaders is p5 pledge the New York delegation to Mayor Gaynor, Governor Dix or some other New York man and swing to the man in the national convention which will best serve Tammany's ends.
 John D. Rockefeller will build home for his son on part of the plot which he accumulated as possible site for the Fifth Avenue Baptist church. New York.
 Trustees of the church decided re- gently not to build a new ediflce. MT, Rock efeller has paid s475,000 for the property, next to the Rockefeller home in Fifty-fourth street. The new home of John D. Jr., will be at 10 West Fifty-fourth street, covering plot 30X1O0.5. Plans are being drawn by Architect William Welles Bosworth for structure to cost s25Q.000. The en- tire Rockefeller plot will be enclosed with tall iron fence and a smal! park will be laid out around the dwell lings.
 John D. ockefeller Jr., according to deed filed in the county clerks office in White Plains received from his father for $100 and other lawful con- siderations,' the property at 10 West fty-fourth street The only restric- tion named in the deed are that the son is not to build within six feet of the easterly line as long as his father lives and owns the adjoining prem ises, and so long as his sister, Mrs. E. Parmalee Prentice, lives there no building shall be erected on that part lying south of the center line of the property.
 The southern colony is very much in- terested in the Georgia senatorial fight now om The general impression here is that Gov Hoke Smith will be the yic- tor.
 Governor Smith was elected last year. and after a term in retirement, during his first administration a code of cor poration-control laws was passed, and when he retired these laws were practical ly repealed under the administration of Gov. Little Joe" Brown. This perform ance made Smith so mad that he became defeated Brown and is back again in power.
 Some embarra ssments. .are involved be- cause Georgia has no lieutenant govern or The state senate elects a president; and in the event of the governors retire. ment he becomes governor ad interim, with an election required at the end of 60 days to name a governor. The state does not care much for a general election
 it is said right away but despite this Georgians say that Smith will win.
 Senator Terrell is candidate for cleo ton and is now in the state. His health is broken, however. w. A. 'Covington. one of the authors of the state prohibi- ton law. also is candidate, so'ls rom Watson the Pop perennial. Judge "DicI' Russell and Thomas G. Hudson. Hudson isTa smith man and real progressive; but the Smith folks are for smith and unable to see any seconds. It is understood, moreover. that the dem | ocratic progressives In Washington have 1 indicated their wish that Smith shouid be sent to the Senate. ss5R. Aesy,e