The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-10
HENRY D. CLAYTON
OUTLINES PLATFORM
Among Other Things Favors
well PrOportioned Navy"
FEDERAL AID ROADS
Public Education, Waterway, Water
Power and Agricultural Develop
ment Are Included in
His Planks

Eufaula, Septeml er Special. In a
letter to local voters announcing that he
will be a candidate for the democratic
nomination fos United States senator Tor
the term beginning March 4, 1915 Repre-
sentative Henry u. Clayton also out
lines his platform. He favors well
proportion navy, public education,
waterway. watcr power and agricultural
development, national aid for good roads.
and is opposed to woman suffrage under
constitutional amendment, and to the
direct election of President and vice pres-
ident The former" he says, would
transfer control OF suffrage from the state
to the federal government, while the lat
ter would place Alabama at a great dis
advantage because her representation in
the electoral college Is now predicated
upon population and not upon votes cast
G. A. McRae. a we'll known farmer liv-
ing near Clayton. is the second candidate
to enter the race for sheriff of Barbour
county, to succeed r. B.. Teal of Clayton.
The. latter's brother viii Teal. who is
now deputy sheriff, was the first to be-
come a candidate.
Political leaders here have received a
letter from BYRD G.. Farmer of Dothan,
candidate for Congress from the Third
district to succeed Congressman Henry
d. Clayton. stating that he feels "rea-
sonably certain that Representative
Clayton will be seated by the United
states Senate upon appointment by Gov
eri'or O'Neal, and that he .reasonablS'
expects to be elected The only other
candidate in the race is II. B. Steagal,
solicitor of this judicial circuit.
Clayton, county seat of Barbour is
now receiving Sunday telephone service
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that rot until Russia emancipates itself
from the control of France
and to less extent from that of Ger
many and Great Britain, can the United
states hope to supplant these three eoan-
tries r. the Russian marl<eT Russia owes
tteee countries more than ,2.00l 00c, 900.
What Russia buys of us now she takes
because the commodities are of a kind
especially needed in Russia, and also are
of kind which the United States manu-
iactures more satisfactorily for Russia
than do the manufacturers of Great Brit
ain or of Germany. American machine
cars, both those of commercial charac-
ter and the touring cars, are now re-
garded with higher favor in Russia than
ain, France or Germany. American au-
tomokie manufacturers expect within the
next four or five years prao JlSaliy to
command tie entire Russian Market for
commercial and touring cars.
Men of wide experience as fnanciers and
in the promotion of cordial commercial re-
iatcns between the United States and the
other countries, OF whom Wharton Barker
OF Philadelphia is a type, have had knowl-
cd time that RISSia IA
very important concessions to grant to
large capital. There is a report in this
city that Russia looks with great favor
upon the proposition involving the grant
ing of important concessions to Charles
NJ Schwab AS soon as normal times are
restored and the fear of outbreak of war
on the continent of Europe is ended, it
is probable that Russian and American
capital will unite in the exploitation of
some of the internal resources of Russia
and the building of railroads and certain
public works.
Russia. like Canada, has learned how
great the advantages are of wise and
wide publicity. 1t was publicity of this
kind maintained for five or six years
which served chiefly in the opening up
of the vast and at one time mysterious
area vaguely known as British North
America. Russia is to undertake similar
methods of publicity, and in addition to
that, to establish a publication, the first
number of which, in fact may appear
within a few weeks the sole purpose of
which will be that of publicity. There will
be detailed reports of the opportunities
that are awaiting capital in interior Rus
sia and information published monthly
which will give some idea of the natural
resources of the vast Russian empire. And
it is inferred that this publicity has
American capital and American energy in
mind since competent American authori-
ties will have part in the preparation of
the publicity articles.