The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-11-24

Blackman following the suggestion of
S. A. HobsOn contained in his letter
to the editor.
mention of his name for the Senate. 1t
was then advised that Captain Hobson
suggest to Mr.. Conner to run for COVER
nor. All present but one person were
and had always been Corners friends.
But of course 1t would have been mex
pressibly awful If of his own initiative
In order to prevent inroads into his own
ranks, Captain Hobson should legitimate
ly try to get a competitor to run for
another office. How unnatural No can
didate ever did such thing before. Why.
they were in the present case actually
forming a Dreibund of Hobson, Conner
and Seed, a dur-readful Dur-reibund,
mind youi / make the anti-Hobson
writer's present of that conjure word.
Exuberant Humor
But, Mr. Editor, what I wish to do is
to allay certain possible erroneous infer
ences that your nifty feature artist, Hugh
Roberts (whose really excellent work has
no greater admirer than myself In the
overflow of his exuberant humor, might
have left as to Messrs. Conner and Or
mond. OF course. / am not consuming
Mr.. Roberts, button the contrary, ap-
plauding him. because. ] know that,
while mere poet has only latitude, a
great humorist has longitude as we'll.
And Hugh Roberts is certainly some scin-
tilating humorist. Being a hillbilly my
self, I lowed as how that grand old roll
liclin', rompin', rampageous hillbilly. Bill
Vines, was the limit, but he can't cast q
shadow by the side of Hugh. Why, Mr..
editor, Roberts is the very guy that put
the HUI (abbreviation for Hugh in
hu-mor.
But Humor is not Hugh's only master
accomplishment He has three others
which combine to make him a more YER
satie genius than Leonardo; first, a SUI
perhuman perspicacity which enables
him to look into occult things in the past,
present and future-things that never
happened, amt happening, and, as Bill
Vines would say, amt never a-goin' ter
happen 1 remember how was fairly
bewildered during the prohibition cam
paign in Lauderdale county and the
Moody-Hobson campaign in the Sixth dis
trict by the boldness of Hugh's political
representations and by the stark LITERAL
ness with which his almost Delphic vati-
cinations were verified when the returns
came in. His second supereminence is
the amazing atmosphere of impartiality
with which he invests all of his Journal
istic efforts. But. of course, it is only
human that should admire above all else
his third transcendent trait, namely: his
love for Captain Hobson. the blazing in
tensity of which, like some superb CEN
trail sun, shines clear through even the
cold, intervening vast stellar spaces of his
almost ultra-judicial impartiality.
Race Relishes Levity
But the weak human race relishes levi
ty and, hence, 1t is as a humorst that
Hugh will be best known to history q
million decades hence. OF Hughs' immor-
tai humor, 1t can be said, as Bill Vines
would say: Hit TUX from the start and
won't wind up till never. Ha, what u
bunch of laugh Hugh let loose for us
with his dreibund adjustment" SCOOP
In the first place, Mr.. Littleman of Glib
sonvile q believe them wuz his entitle-
ments') heard leaf shake and gave a
jump that landed him plump into The
Age-Herald office. here he vouchsafed the
thrilling tidings that all the squirrels IA
the woods were chattering 1t.
Then, too. how Hugh must have laughed
when as Tray barked Blanche bayed the
moon and Sweetheart yelped in chorus
with promptitude which, to mean, sus-
pieious minds was almost suggestive of
preconcert.
O, how the laugh goes roundi l laugh
fit ter kill at Hughs astuteness as
watch him in. the near background
whence | see him cycling Blackmon, on
the side, who is grinning and disporting
himself as he looks forward at the anti
prohibition editors pulling one string and
the railroad editors another string (old
gray heads at that, all of them Comer's
immemorial enemies. frantically scream
ing with mirth as their "twiniSling feet
raise Just enough dust TO hide their own
eyes. while the angels weep at their ex-
posed posteriors--each bath, l say, pull
ing a string attached to timber Jack on
the stage center which they have labeled
Conner" (Oh. behold them shrek with
hilarity as, with face a-smirk, arms akim-
no, and legs a-jerk the ridiculous auto
nation responds to their convulsive
yanks; while the real Conner and his real
friends watch them from a side screen
and give vent to peal after peal of side
sinking cachinnations that can be heard
even above the din the whole outside
world raises as. in the big background, it
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