The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-11-25
HOBSON'S ALABAMA CHOICE
by BILL VINES

as not. 1t is quite possible that the SEN
ator may, therefore, offer some protest
himself. It appears, on the surface at
least. that he has not been consulted
concerning the proposed vacation which
apparently Cautain Hobson Is convinced
he needs. and while Senator Johnston is
at times the most accommodating person,
at other times when he takes a notion to
be disagreeable, he is like the little girl
with the eurl-he can be very, very dis
agreeable indeed. II the senator has any
intentions of settling comfortably back
in his seat and waiting till someone comes
along and gently but nevertheless effec-
lively removes him from the view, he
has religiously refrained from mentioning
it. Perhaps Captain Hobson has arrived
at the conclusion that Senator Johnston
would be a little obstinate, hence his
reason for hiding the toga behind his
back and dangling the governorship I'm
front of Governor Corners eyes, with the
fond hope that the governor might be
lured away from his ambition to ring the
dear Old wekin" under the nose of Vice
President Marshall.
1nasmueh as it now seems impossible for
these gentlemen to agree about who will
be senator, and who governor, and who
| congressman, and who private citizen with
a large collection of mixed regrets, there
is but one thing to do, and that is for the
"peepul" to settle 1t themselves. or
course 1t would have been very nice in
deed if 1t could have all been arranged
without bothering the peepul, for they
have enough to worry about anyway.
Most Of the peepul are worrying them
selves about being postmasters and col
| lectors and surveyors and marshals and
things, and they hate to. be bothered
about picking out men for tihing little
jobs like senators and governors and con-
gressmen, but 1t seems that they Will
have to be called in and. consulted. 1t is
very annoying. Any of these gentlemen
would be an ornament in the Senate, or
in Montgomery, or in the House, and the
peepul are dead stuck on ornaments, 50
much SO that they--most Of them-want
to be ornaments themselves. as all of the
above gentlemen are destined to be re-
minded now very briefly.
Any way you take it. Alabama is COM
ing m for some lively politics. The peepul
are going to have a regular treat with a
real home company. Governor Conner
has never said what he was going to
run for-if for anything-but whatever
it is he is going to pull off some plain
and fancy running-that much Is certain
Captain Hobson may be depended upon
to make things lively in the senatorial
race. He has a way of ultimately getting
what he wants, and is hard man to
deny. and there seems to be. no limit to
what he wants, He is very hungry per-
son. Senator Johnston will certainly give
a correct imitation of person doing his
level best TO hold onto what he's got, and
it's going to be about as hard to shake
Senator Johnston out of his seat in the
Senate as 1t has been to shake Tbaw out
of Mattewan-and that hasn't been done
yet-so there you are. Senator Johnston
has been in the Senate a long time, he
has been faithful to his people. he will
probably be chairman of the important
committee of military affairs, he stands
high with the peepui of Alabama and as
powerful and popular as his opponents
may be, they will have to go some if they
get his tag.
So all other means having failed, let us
have war-and it's up to the peepul.