The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-08-18
TO DISCUSS BEST
 MAN" AT Y. M. C. A

ing given under the auspiesS Vl 1h' Young Mems Christian association, will be held this afternoon when ;. r. Marsh. a well known business man Of Birmingham, will talk on The Best Man. Mir. Marsh is popular in Birming- ham as a speaker and the announce ment will no doubt draw a large crowd.
 The services last an hour, beginning at 3;3o every Sunday afternoon, and all men are invited. The orchestra music is always a feature of the programme technical. The correspondent, however, did not point out the date on which the governor intends to catechize the innumerable applicants in reference to their ''progressiven temperaments and tendencies.
 From all the claims that have been submitted, it is probable that those of Mobile and Birmingham are most ten- able Neither of these cities, the two largest in the state claim a member of either of the higher courts, and from the two and their immediate environs originate nearly half of the appealed cases which reach the supreme court
 The appointment is expected to be an- nounced this week-or at some time prior to the departure of Governor O'Neal for Maine, in which state he will declare himself entlrelN III IdNbT ol tnt tdHulr dacy of Woodrow Wilson,
 
 While politicians are indulsing in gos- sip concerning the race for the governor ship and the senate. developments are occurring which forecast an interesting race for the office of lieutenant-gov- ernor.
 Last week. it was tentatively announced ,hsA E. H. Cooper of Birmingham will be
 r,f Anniston is to be reckoned with, it is said. and A. H. Carmichael. former member of the legislature from Colbert and former sneaker of the lower house, is thought to he grooming himself for the dire con- llict.
 should Mir. Cooper carry out his inten- tions o1 making the race, he will conduct ( campaign throughout the state. His friei1~s feel that he has an excellent chance of landing the job-without salary but ladened with ripe honors
 Locally. during last week the most n- teresting discussion was in reference to a rumored plan on the part of the city com nilsson to conduct campaign by infer ence against commission form of govern ment
 Following the publication of that rumor certain individuals, having mistaken the
 
 exprcssed themselves as confident that should the fight occur, the present inno- yatiou would be sustained oEerwhem- ingly.
 And Commissioner Weatherly uttered a diatr.he against the nefarious scheme and concluded by expressing wholesome vel come for fight against those whom he termed "reactionaries' and nenchmen of the recently enfeebled corporations which have felt the weight of the punishing hands of the trio which governs.
 While the city committee, in d mis- ohievous mood. might submit the ques- ton: Are you or are you not in favor of commission goyernment?' The con- sensus af opinion seems to be that the present mode of municipal supervision will be safe for a long number of years 10 come.
 The reason advanced for this probability is that the laldermanic system is not greatly to be desired. and the "progres- sives" have not as yet agreed upon some- thing new to which the people might fly.