The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-11-20
TEN YEARS OF ALABAMA
 IS65-1S74
Mo- 77-Senator Spencer's Reelection
1865-1874

scout He feared that mounted man
 might be detected. The walking cessen-
 ger carried an oral word to a white ex- pert politician at the village The sen
 ator desired the immediate presence Of the political manipulator in Montgomery. The Hayneville manipulator appeared on time. Soon after his arrival the negro sen-
 ator Jones, from Lowndes, walked Into Cashins barroom holding over his head
 three bills of s100 each, exclaiming in tri-
 umph: This is Spencer!. Meantime
 trGsty guard was placed over the two ne
 gro representa- lives from Lowndes Hunt
 ar, the earpetbagger, was made safe by i reiterated pledges of the consulship to
 Egypt-which he never got.
 While In dread of treason 10 his cause at
 the court room. the senator with mas
 terly directness proceeded to operate on | the capitol legislature. The Marengo and | Barbour contingents were yet in their
 seats and 8 quorum sat there daily. The senator had full purse. The fed
 eral internal revenue officers and. the postmaster at Mobile continued true to
 him, with public funds available on all
 contingencies. E. J. Mancill sat in the capiol legislature, the one representative 1 from Covington. Assistant Internal Rev
 enue Assessor James :. Perrin, meeting Mancill on the street at the entrance to the senator's quarters in the Madison nOuHt3 Dd1IEIcQ niiH gently pil ltic QlAiti- ence between the enjoyment of life in
 Montgomery by members of one legisia-
 ture and the other. There was a steady l flow of money upstairs, he said Mancill | recurred to his experience with legisla- lures. He had made not cent from
 Stanton of railroad fame. Perrin thought
 "even a good democrat might take l ttle l snuff and sneeze as other people" Be- fore nightfan Mancill heard of the sud- den illness of one of his children and Without leave abandoned his seat in the capitol legislature Testimony of Titcomh). Speaker Stone dispatched the sergeant-at-
 arms to bring back Mancill. The wife of the missing member assured the office that her husband had passed out the
 door, bound for Montgomery, at the in
 stant he dhe officer) entered.
 l Thomas B. Teddy held seat from Lee county in the capitol house of represen- l tatives. Congressman Charles Pelham. in the interest of the senator, offeIed Teddy
 receipt for his board if he would go home Joint committee report, D. SS) Sunday morning before the election Of senator, ". c. Stribling of the lower house of the capitol legislature. from Washington county, while about to join several friends for stroll in the suburbs, was accosted by W. B. J-nes, notorious scalawag. now lobbyist, from Marengo.
 At the door of the Madison house Jones ptTSlSleQ III HANliib lew tOhiA0thNaNAt words with Stribling. The young man was well educated. with a disposition at times to indulge freely in the flowing cup that is red and a game of raw poker Jones had authority, he said, to
 assure the democratic representative from Washington county If you the) will quit
 the capital legislature and come down to
 us, you can get from ssO00 to S10ooo- (Stribling's testimony) The bribe was
 indignantly rejected. Monday night, the night before the day of election, W aiting 1 and other allies of Spencer conspired to draw Stribling into Ferry Henshaw s
 gambling parlors, The Rialto," across
 the street from the Madison house. Spen-
 cer supplied the money for the occasion
 through Hinds Cards and whisky held
 the hours until 8 o'clock a. m. ser want was sent below for might caps" None but Stribling drank All but Strib- ling went home. He fell asleep, a deep,
 iniperturbable. unnatural sleep
 Next morning Tuesday, the day of cleo ton of a senator by both legislatures Titcomb hunted around for the missing
 member from Washington countyf Find
 ing him unconscious on lounge In 'The RIalto physician was summoned.
 Three years later the drugged man testi-
 fled under oath to these facts, declaring
 also that his normal health had not then l been restored. N
 Spencer had no opponent in the court 1 room and was elected then to succeed l himself for the full term.
 | The capitol bodies assembled in the
 house on the same day. The original can
 didates named were R. w. Walker of
 Madison. George S. Houston of me
 stone, Jaul Bradford of Talladega and John Cochran of Barbour. All were with
 drawn and the capitol legislature chose
 Francis w Sykes of Lawrence county successor to Spencer.
 The nominee had not been consistent
 democrat He followed Governor Patton
 In adopting A policy of acquiescence in the
 reconstruction acts of Congress, but was restored now to party fellowship.
 JOHN WITHERSPOON DUBOSE.