The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-04-16
| CIRCUIT JUDGES AND COUNTY TREASURER
 HOTLY CONTESTED
Many Candidates for Board of Revenue Considered in the Running and Active Fight Is On
By LEON c. BRADLEY

John B. Bethea, chairman of the Jeff
 ferson county democratic executive
 committee, certified yesterday after
 noon the list of candidates for office in
 the democratic primary of May from
 Jefferson county and the Ninth con-
 gressional district. The list is that
 which will appear on the official bal
 lot, and in addition to the county and
 district candidates, the names of the
 beat candidates for constable and jus
 tice of the peace are also shown.
 The list as compiled by Nisbet Ham,
 baugh, secretary of the subcommittee,
 and certified by Chairman Bethea.
 shows that there have been three with
 drawa1s from the race recently R. L.
 Mitchell retired from the race for cor
 oner, John H. Taylor withdrew from
 the contest for board of revenue and
 D. U. Williams from the race for dele-
 gate from the Ninth district to the
 democratic national convention.
 The campaign i'll Jefferson county,
 which up to the present time has been
 marked by unusual apathy on the part
 of the great majority of the voters, is
 expected to create greater interest dur
 ing the three weeks remaining before
 the primary. The voters as a whole
 have been carefully studying the claims and the records of the various candi- dates and it seems that more care is being taken by the qualified electors in reaching their decisions than has been usual in the past. The lack of ex- citement and the failure of most of the candidates to inject any preponderant issues are largely responsible for this state of affairs.
 CONGRESSIONAL RACE While the race for Congress. in which George Huddleston, incumbent, Senator Thomas J. Judge and Charles E. Rice are the candidates, has failed to ex- cite the voters up to date, the lines are becoming closely drawn and the fight seems to be very close at this time. The best political opinion is that any one | of the three candidates has a chance to win. the result resting largely on developments during the remainding three weeks of the contest.
 Col. T. o. Smith, as a candidate for elector from this district and Crawford Johnson and Ben Davis as candidates for delegates to the democratic national convention. have no opposition. George B. Tarrant is also unopposed as a cal- didate for alternate delegate to the convention.
 Probate Judge J. P. Stiles is opposed by J. T.. McAllister, MT. McAllister created quite surprise wien he quail flied for the race the day the lists closed. The friends of Judge Stiles have assured him that he would be reelected without difficulty and he has not con- ducted very active fight for re-elec- tion. The duties of his office, due to the necessity of preparing the lists of voters for publication, and checking up the names of voters left off the lists, have been such that it was almost i'm possible for him to make personal canvass of the county.
 Warm fights are in progress for the five places on the board of revenue and for coroner, but the races for circuit JudgeSh1pS are attracting probably the greatest attention. Of these fights, the contest for judge of the fourth division is decidedly the most interesting. In this race Capt. Romaine Boyd, Judge E. C.. Crow Horace c. Wilkinson and Palmer P. Daugette are the opposing candidates. BOYD'S BOOKLET
 Probably the most interesting event Tn this race has been the publication and wide distribution of the booklet entitled Public Service which was issued by Captain Boyd It sets forth the record of himself and his three opponents as law yers, and also the record of Judge Crow, the incumbent in the matter of reversals | by the supreme court, sHowIng that in ! more than half the cases. Judge Crow has been reversed by the higher tribunal. The fight for this place has been ex- ceedingly warm, and has attracted the closest attention from the people of the county. About one-fourth of the vote in Jefferson county is cast outside Greater
 Birmingham and Bessemer. The vote in these rural beats and small boxes is divided very equally among the four can didates, according to reports from all over the county, and it is not expected that there will be any material differ ence between the vote given the highest and the lowest of the four candidates in the rural boxes.
 At least three-fourths of the vote of the county is cast in Greater Birmingham and Bessemer and it is in these places that Captain Boyd seems certain to secure a lead which cannot be topped by any of his competitors. In his race for (Continued on Page Ten)