The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-01-08

Clancy and 1 found Montgomery
 crowded with politicians. near~politicians | and camp followers.
 As we could not consistently class our I selves as either of the first two men, | toned, and did not care to be known as ! the last mentioned, we tagged ourselves
 as Innocent Bystanders" and prepared
 ourselves for any emergency.
 We learned that the legislature of Ala bama was about to meet in quadrennial
 session with an entirely new lineup. The same old play is to be put on with en- tirely new stars, chorus girls and .vil- lain. ENs
 The comedian has not yet been se- lected.
 | We called at the state capitol to pay
 our respects to Governor Conner. He was hurriedly doing up a package in pink rib bon which he slyly informed Clancey. who refuses to give up his professional investigative pertinacity, that the pack age contained '"The policies of my ad- ministration.' vh
 You see. I am planning to make a trip to Alaska as soon as I am relieved of my present frigid situation" he said. "I feel that this is necessary to prevent a too sudden change in temperature. will carry my policies along, not only for safekeeping, but in case r should stumble on the north pole will leave them as an. evidence that l. have been
 there.' and the governor chuckied through the same grin of determined sat ifaction that has illustrated the brown harbor foliage of many a public speaking ground in Alabama during the past six years.
 Yes, Montgomery is full of politicians and politicians. They have been coming for week and there are SUI others to come They are tented on the
 hills and in the valleys. They parade
 Dexter avenue and clog the corridors of the leading hotels They crowd the fish stands and hot-ta-male wagons and pick their teeth in the New Exchange and the Gay-Teague while they spout leg islative lingo with the confident abandon of past masters. 4 F ,sl se ;, ss5 Men who never in their lives read as far as Baker in law book find it diff ficult to look over their expanded chests while they expatiate on needed laws, amendments and repeals
 They have come to Montgomery with their pockets and their suitcases cranmed with new laws and more are coming by
 mail, freight and express. 5l No avenue of possible legislation has been overlooked or neglected. The whole ,gamut is covered from commission form
 of government to a dog tax law from Lauderdale. .snsta, What would legislative session amount to anyway if 1t did not have at least a few laws to tax dogs and bachelors? Any sore of "a law or bill that can be done up in neat little political string goes and Clancey and I, after hurried convention on the steps of the capitol, voted unanimously that if the people could stand 1t the Personal Research society would register no, official objection.
 Anyway. we could move on 10 Dothan
 irritant. Anyway i've adopted resolutions
 of sympathy for the people who live in
 Montgomery and cannot get away. ,
 We met Hector D. Lane of Lawrence
 county in an alley behind the New Ex-
 change. Hector was moaning bitterly and
 Clancey stopped to console 'him.
 '.I was one fool" moaned Hector. They call me hero for having been the first
 legislator to reach the city. I came a
 week ago and have been here ever since.
 I admit that I am hero. but I should
 prefer to be an innocent bystander."
 Ed B. Almon came in a few days ago and is treading lightly. His quiet,
 iudicious smile says louder than words
 "I am sure that I will be it.
 J. Lee Long is also in town and doesn't
 seem to care a rap. He walks down both
 sides of the avenue at the same time and calls the incoming members by their first
 names. He is as confident that he Is to
 be ''it." He. was not endowed by nature
 with that Napoleonic frame of counte- nance and carriage as his friend Ed. but he Is just as -and-ready, sure of his position. & The most touching spectacle in Mont
 gcmery is the outlying blvouac of camp-