The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-03-29
REPUBLICANS ARE
 CASTING AN EYE
 AT PIE COUNTER
Several Names Are Sug- gested as Candidates for Senator In November
 Election

Several aspiring republicans have
 States senatorial seats to be filled at
 the election next November. They are
 not looking with any expectation of
 receiving the commissions from the
 voters of Alabama. but they look upon
 this as a good republican year, and
 with an eye to business, they want to
 be the sacrficial goat in Alabama poii-
 ties in the hope that they may thereby occupy an advantageous position when the ''pieman" gets on the job year or so hence Always providing, that a republican President is elected
 Prominently mentioned as possible G. O. P nominees for the two sena- torial jobs are Pope NJ Long of Jasper state chairman of the republican party in Alabama; o. D. Street of Gunters- vile, one or more times an unsuccess full candidate of his party for repre- sentative in congress from the Seventh district; W. F Aldrich of Birmingham, who eby the grace Of republican ma Jority in the lower house of repre- sentatives occupied a seat in that body one or two terms back in the closing days of the last century, as repre- sentative from the Fourth district; Fontaine Little of Sheffield. newspaper correspondent and commercial secre- tary; W. T. Hutchens of Huntsville, for many years active in the councils of that party, and Judge A. P. Longshore of Shelby county, representative in the | state legislature from his county. for
 mer probate judge and for years active either as an office holder or spell
 binder" for his party nominees.
 NOT A CITY SHY
 There may be others. for be 1t known, Alabama republicans are not a bit shy when 1t comes to asking for offices and other things the party may have for distribution.
 Frank H. Lathrop of Birmingham, ! -inlaw of Senator Braxton Bragg Conner, is said to be not unwilling to accept the honor of a nomination, but he is tied up with the Leonard Wood organization formed by Joseph O Thompson. and although a member oi
 the county republican executive com | mittee. Is not in the best favor with the party leaders just at present The fight that apparently has ter
 minated in the elimination of J. O. l Thompson from the Wood campaign in
 Alabama has widened the breach that since 1912 has existed between the Roosevelt following and the old line l republicans that stood back of Presi- dent Taft in the memorable contest Tn ! which the jovial Ohioan was inglor- iously defeated and retired to lecture ship in a New England college.
 The kaleidoscopic changes in the Wood organization, national and state ! have been bewildering to the uninitiat- | ed First John H. King took up the
 management for the soldier candidate
 to be followed in few months by w Cooper Proctor, millionaire soap manu- i facturer of Cincinnati, who in turn
 gave way to Frank H. Hitchcock, who
 iA other days was some manager him self
 MT. Thompson, selected by Mir King
 to run things" in Alabama. held on under Mir. Proctor only to be ''set down i by MT Hitchcock, his old-time enemy i Maj Dallas Smith. unheard of in /, politics until wounded in France dur l ing the war and nominated for gov
 ernor of Alabama. being the descendant 1 of a republican governor of Alabama
 was picked up and handed the reins torn from the hands of MT. Thompson | FIGHTING GROUND
 The republican party has no hope oi electing a United States senator ir Alabama. nor a representative. unless | 1t be from the Seventh district. which they have always claimed as fighting ground. and in which they claim fc have registered 10000 good" republl-
 can voters this year. They have 2
 nominal strength of about 25.o00 votes | in the state. and this year. by reason of the larger registration in the min eral district and in the mountain sec. tions of the Seventh district. they pro fess to believe their state and congres- sional tickets will poll an aggregats of approximately 10000. This is stil
 under 70 per cent of the. ordinary demo 1 cratic vote in the state.
 l Mir. Thompson's threat to sue Frank H. Hitchcock for libel was the princi- pal topic discussed among state re. l publicans yesterday. His friends fee that he has been given q raw deal and :, they will back him up in the iega battle against the former nationa 1 chairman and the present boss of the Wood national forces while the or
 Eaniztaion crowd will devote their at
 tention to securing delegation to tho national convention that is uninstruct- | ed and can be placed where needed al | the psychological moment
 ! It Is hinted. though there is no con 1 firmation from an authoritative source that some of the politicians who hay,