The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-12-08

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 reporting that they were engaged in
 the trial of cases in court which pre-
 vented them being present.
 MUSGROVE AND ALUMNI l Personally MT. Musgrove is popular
 with the university alumni, as he is, over the state. And it may be said 1 that the election of man not an
 alumnus to membership on the board of trustees is by no means without precedent Notable instances of trus-
 tees not alumni were Judge Thomas W.
 Coleman of Eutaw and Col. E. L. Rus sell of Mobile.
 l While so far as the public is con-
 cerned, the real cam paign for the Sem l ate will not begin until January. l friends of Senator Underwood have
 been busy since his visit making all the preliminary arrangements for 1 launching the fight State headquar- l ters will be located in Montgomery. Forney Johnston, state chairman for l Underwood in 1914, will not again di- 1 rect the campaign. But Mir Johnston l will be active in the fight, probably
 more active than opponents of Senator 1 Underwood desire.
 l The state chairman has not yet been I definitely selected. However, it is rath-
 CT well established that he will not be | a Birmingham man. He will probably come from Montgomery and will have not less-~.th four vice chairmen. 1 among whom will be numbered some of /, the strongest men in the state. Senator l Underwood is now considering this
 matter. having already received sug | gestions from some of his closest | friends during the past few days. 1 Forney Johnston, during the past 1 week, visited Selma and Montgomery, and possibly other cities, and conferred 1 with leading Underwood men. Their 1 suggestions regarding the conduct of l the campaign were embodied in the re- | ports made to Senator Underwood. An- nouncement may be made within the | next two weeks or may be withheld un- 1 til after the holidays. Decision on that lpoint depends on future developm ents. ! @= One of the chief reasons for locating the Underwood headquarters in Mont gomery is to have the Jefferson county headquarters separate from the state organization. In the past the state orr ganization has overshadowed the coun- ty and the" work done in Jefferson county with its overwhelming list of voters, has been negligible.
 It is realized by friends of Senator
 
 be done to secure the desired major I ity desired in this county. and plans ] are under way to thoroughly acquaint the voters with the situation. Reports | have been current for some time that l union labor organizations were prepar- ! ing to support Musgrove as a unit, and | that they had registered no less than 5000 voters. It has also been reported that Huddleston. who had decided not | to offer for the Senate himself at this | time, will lend his support to MT. Mus | grove, despite the fact that Musgrove,
 in some respects does not meet the re- 1 uuirements of the Birmingham repre- 1 sentative.
 An effort has been made to secure
 a straight labor candidate for the Sen | ate and that proposition has been put
 up to MT. Huddleston. However, being ! a very shrewd politician, the Birming- l ham representative is said to have 1 realized that the things that make him l a power in Jefferson county probably would not help him with the voters in
 the other sections of the state, and it 1 is understood that he will not offer 1 for the place at this time. A bank ac | count has been established in Birming-
 ham for the labor party. but indications
 now are that they will not put out | candidate of their own in the coming | primary in May
 EXPECT NO RELIGIOUS ISSUE l Strenuous effort has been made by certain interests to find some act in l the record of Senator Underwood upon which to line up the True American | Organization against him, but thus far
 that plan has failed. Indications now i are that the Catholic issue will not play any important part in the race. as neither of the three candidates can | with justice be accused of being tools
 of the papacy.
 l Judge Weakley. with. the exception , of his advertisements setting forth his ladvocacy of prohibition, has not been
 active For the past week he has been assisting John Altman in the suit which
 Huddleston was conducting against the | ge-Herald, but indications are that | the support of MT. Huddleston will not
 be thrown to Judge Weakley. It was announced recently by Judge Weakley that until he had arranged certain le- gal business he had pending. he would not launch his state campaign
 | Who will be selected as his campaign manager has not been indicated. It is
 known, however. that he plans to make l an aggressive speaking campaign over i the state. What support he will re- l ceive from the prohibition organization
 is problematical. but Brooks Lawrence
 is said to view the candidacy of Judge
 weakley with anything but enthusi-
 asm. Tn fact. Mir. Musgrove has thus far received the support of the Anti Saloon league superintendent.
 Friends of Senator Underwood are preparing carefully and systematically
 for his return to the Senate by an
 overwhelming majority They point out
 that his race is in much better shape
 now han it was six years ago, and that
 in the primary then he defeated Flob-
 son by a majority of over 30.000, The
 details of their plans will he unfolded
 to the public as the campaign pro-