The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-04


 Hon. Thos. E. Kilby of Anniston was mingling with Covington county folk last Wednesday, He was visitor at the Star office. MT. Kilby came here from Golf fee county.
 Tom Kilby, as he is commonly called, is a candidate for lieutenant governor of Alabama. He has made good" in every position to which he has aspired. As business man there is none better. As mayor of Anniston, Tom Kilby brought that city up to high standard of busi ness efficiency Wherever one travels or the name of Anniston is mentioned some one has a complimentary word to say of the attractive little city. Tom Kilby did his part toward making such thing possible.
 Tom Kilby is one of Anniston's biggest business men. If he isn't elected Lieu tenant Governor we will always think Alabama folk missed d golden oppor- tunity to put d royal entertainer in the right place.
 Socially Tom Kilby is a Shriner. He has gone the gats in Masonry and, too, he has gone other gaits, talt no one ever accused him of exceeding the speed limit. Tom \ilby has numerous friends in Gov ington county. There is every prospect that he will have a majority of the votes in this county. If he should have a ma jority over all when the total vote is counted in Alabama. the editor of the Star will be delighted. Tom I<ilby is all right for any office within the gift of the people.
 Mobile Register. May 24. 1912.
 MT Thomas F. Kilby, of Calhoun coun- ty, who win be lieutenant governor of Alabama, if the people will. is generally well known. He is president of the An nston-City National bank and also presi- dent of the Kilby Frog and Switch com pany, which. is one. of the most successful manufacturing concerns in the country
 MT Filby served for several years as alderman of Anniston and for two terms as mayor. In 1910 he was elected state senator from Calhoun county As a token of his popularity and the esteem in which he was held by the democrats of that county he was elected by a handsome majority on the anti-O Neal ticket. despite the fact that Governor O'Neal carried the county by over 400 majority
 Age-Herald.
 Candidates for minor office while un- able to star before the calcium as con- tinuously as the ambitious for the fruits of fatter jobs, are quietly grinding their axes. Thomas F. Kilby, state senator and one of the best known business men of Alabama. is unopposed for lieutenant
  widely appreciated for his business ability that it is considered probable that should another candidate develop, he would re- ceive little ecouragement. And wha. is more, MT. Kilby has obtained a flying start and has lined up for him some of the strongest men of all factions in the state.
 Colbert County Reporter, August 7th,
 1913.
 The Reporter endorses the candi- dacy of Thomas F. Kilby for lieuten- ant governor and it hopes he will be unopposed for the place. He should receive the unanimous vote of the Ala bama electorate.
 In order to give the readers of this paper an insight into the way MT. Kill by's candidacy is being received, we quote from the Anniston Star:
 Hon. Thomas E. Kilby of Anniston. is in the race in earnest for lieutenant governor of Alabama" declares the Florence Herald "He is highly spoken of as a successful business man and well qualified for the office He will serve the best interests of the state" continues the Herald
 Sometime ago in referring to Sem ator Kilby's candidacy the Gadsden Journal intimated that his election should be unanimous. The same inti- nation came recently from the Troy Messenger. and the Montgomery Times says that Senator Kilby 'seems to have an easy-going thing for the place of lieutenant governor. We'll, let's make it unanimous''
 This seems to be the attitude of the entire state press. Hugh w. Roberts writing in The Age -Hearald says he has cinch,' and the most favorable comments have likewise been pub lished in the Birmingham News, the Birmingham Ledger and the Montgom- cry Journal, not to mention a dozen or more of the county weeklies the real political powers of the state. The Mobile Register indorsed MT. Ki1by ed- itorially shortly after he announced" Talladega Reporter.
 Kilby goes after things, and Alabama likes the man that does. He is likely to do something after he gets there. From Tuscaloosa Times-Gazette. If we are any judge of politics. Tom and gone with it.
 O. IT. Parker in the Birmingham News. "It was with no little pleasure that read your excellent editorial in recent issue of the News the gubernatorial situation in Alabama in which you set forth your opinion of the needs of the state at the present time and the type of man needed to cope with the affairs of state as they stand, concluding with the assertion that we need man of Woodrow