The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-06-07
MISSISSIPPI SEES GOOD ROADS, VALUE Lee County Issues $200, ,0OO of Bonds for Highway
 Improvement

Tupelo Miss, June 6.-(Special.)-On Monday, June l, Lee county issued s2oo,ooo of bonds for good roads, which were sold to the Peoples Bank and Trust company of this city at a premium of sl265. bearing per cent interest
 These bonds are for the purpose of building good roads from Baldwin to Shannon and Sherman to Nettleton. and when these roads are completed Lee county will have 104 miles of macadam roads and about 15O miles of graded roads, which places Lee county in the front in Mississippi with good roads,
 This county also occupies unique po- sition in the good roads movement in Mississippi. Her distinguished citizen, Judge w. D. Anderson. introduced the first good roads bill in the legislature, under which law the first election was held and carried, the first contract was let, and the first good roads were built in Mississippi in Lee county. During the last session of the legislature P. E. Carothers of this county introduced an- other bill which was passed, and this makes complete the good roads laws of the state.
  that were the call for an extra ses- sion not state wide, If it did emanate only from one city and county, there would be reason to consider that call especially when the states trough around which fat officials feed is sup piled to a considerable extent by the bounty of this city and county. The republicans and progressives of Alabama are good fellows. They make good appearances. They no longer cater to the negro. Like other south erners they revere the south. They no longer bear the stigma which attached immediately following the period of reconstruction"
 But as organizations. they are jokes" Every now and then they get together and seriously argue and dis cuss To judge from what Is said and done, one unfamiliar with conditions W ould be deceived into believing that they entertain real hope of political success. Of course, they do not. There is no republican or progressive in Ala banla who believes that there is the slightest chance of anti-democrats de- feating Oscar Underwood, Charles Henderson. Tom Kilby. J. A. Wade, democrats have nominated for state office.
 The progressives and republicans held meetings in Birmingham last week. They laid their schemes. But no man other than their own fellows took them seriously and all of their own fellows were not altogether in- clined to be serious.
 Anti-democrats contend that 1t would be efficacious if there were in Alabama two strong parties operated by white men. Therefore, according to their contention, the good of the state i'm pels them forever to maintain their organization and annually--monthly- l to work to the end that their forces may be increased in number. l Democrats. however white admitting that there would be good-probabl bly, | to come out of the clashes of two l strong parties, contend that republic ans and progressives maintain their organizations for spells which come to them when anti-democrats are in power in Washing ton. To prove this contention, they point to the men who attended the progressive and repub- | lcan meetings in Birmingham ma jority of them, 1t is probable, have re- ceived or do now receive wages from the federal government The republican party in Alabama and the progressive party are. in the interpretation Of dem- ocrats. pie parties"
 | But the seriousness in convention as sumed by delegates and committeeman proves rather enjoyable and the hope lessness of the accomplishment of theii purpose is so certain that democrats, as a rule. do nothing save wish them well