The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-03-30
POLITICAL EVENTS . OF THE PAST WEEK VERY SENSATIONAL Much Speculation as to
 What Might Happen
 This Week
RACE FOR GOVERNOR
 KEENEST STRUGGLE
With Result No Longer in Doubt, the Senatorial Contest Grows Apathetic. The Part Anti-Saloon League
 Has Played in Campaign
BY HUGH W. ROBERTS

So sensational were incidents of last week in a sense political, that students of the sport are apparently justified in speculating on what might happen this week, the last week of the campaign. On account of the unusual apathy in the senatorial struggle, apathy due to the fact that the outcome is no longer a matter of doubt, activity has been trans forred 1t Is acknowledged, to the strug- gle of the would-be governors.
 The dragging of the state convict de- partment into the political arena featured last week. As is known. Theodore Lacy, convicted of having embedded state funds, issued an alleged interview tend ing to duplicate the governor The gov ernor, charging that this alleged inter view was not only false, but was the outcome of a political conspiracy to aid the cause of ex-Governor Conner, de- livered an address in which he took the former governor severely to task This was followed by the appearance before the grand jury of MT. Conner, the can
 
 derstood, because of statements alleged to have been made by him to the end that during his own administration state funds had not been stolen and divided behind the capitol.
 Drawn Knife" Incident
 But these were not the most unusual incidents of the week. A near-ight in n Ia fu hotU Mr and Walter D. Seed, rival candidates for governor was interesting. In the controversy between the two, the word liar was used. MT. Seed. it has beeK published, threatened to strike MT. Co., mer between the eyes" MT. Conner it has been published, drew his knife brandished it, and threatened to sever the jugular vein--or cut the throat of his opponent.
 Deeply interesting in this regard is the fact that these candidates, both of them, have received the indorsement of the Alabama Anti-Saloon league. a political organization. which declares in well mod uiated tones, that 1t wages forever in this state struggles based on moral issues of unusually inspirational significance. Up to the present time neither Charles Henderson nor Reuben F. Kolb, other candidates for governor, other candidates
  of the Anti-Saloon league. has charged that his rival was liar, and neither hal threatened to cut the throat of any man
 Anti-Saloon League Endorsement
 The facts contained in the above paragraphs have recalled the precious moment in which the Anti-Saloon league laid its hands on the head of MT. Conner and MT. Seed, saying, in effect, "Go to 1t. boys, with our ap- proval."
 As ise known, Mir Conner is running on an issue of railroad rate regulation He has said that prohibition is not the tissue in the current campaign. MT. Seed is running on an issue of state-w wide prohibition. He has said that state wide prohibition is the issue.
 The Anti-Saloon league stands for statewide prohibition. It says that prohibition is the issue, Is the only excuse for the selling of its fingers by dipping the minto the loathsome mire of Alabama politics. And yet the Anti-Saloon league, instead of indors- ing Seed and Seed alone indorsed Seed and indorsed Conner.
 There was an exhibition of moral courage. It is commonly believed that the Anti-Saloon league withheld a brave indorsement of the man who stands for the principle for which the league stands because of it's knowl- edge that MT. Seed cannot be elected The Anti-Saloon league Is practical, if anything.
 The Parallel Drawn
 MT. Conner says that railroad rate regulation is the issue-not prohibi- tion. Mir Seed says that prohibition is the issue.
 The Anti-Saloon league indorses Mir