The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-08

The Alabama colony in Washington an active organization of more than 1 1000 souls. will take advantage of the act of the Alabama legislature which per mits residents of the state to particf- pate in elections on which their busi- nesses prevent their attendance in per- son.
 The Alabamians in Washington are very anxious to cast ballots in the sem atorial contest between Senator Under wood and L. B. Musgrove. the million sire, of Jasper. The residents of the state who live under the dome of the capitol are partial to Senator Under wood. whose course they have studied and with whose influence in national affairs they are familiar.
 Interest in the impending struggle is rampant. There was satisfaction when the announcement was made that Lloyd NJ. Hooper Of Selma would man age the Underwood campaign and more or less surprise when Judge Henry B. Foster agreed to pilot the bark of Mus grove.
 There has been considerable discus sion among Alabamians in Washington respecting the difference in conditions now confronting the Tuscaloosa jurist and when he managed the gubernatorial campaign of Judge William W. Brandon. In that campaign he arrayed himself against the Rev. Brooks Lawrence. Gov. Thomas k. Kilby, Lieut.. Gov. Nathan L. Miller and even the redoubtable Walker county cosmopolite whose cause he now espouses. Just prior to the initiation Of the gubernatorial campaign there was a threatened break between Dr. Lawrence and MT Musgrove, for Dr. Lawrence had embraced Mir. Kilby, and Mir. Musgrove, desirous of being governor, was conse- quently snubbed. It is understood, how ever, that Dr. Lawrence promised to give Mr. Musgrove the toga of a senator, and that as result, the split in the pro- hibition ranks did not develop.
 In that campaign. Judge Foster stood srcnsor for a candidate who was openly against the then pending constitutional prohibition amendment, and he made his peal to men of the state who held identical views. It was therefore with II ore than ordinary interest that Wash ington heard the present day call of Judge Foster demanding that John Bar leycorn arise from the tomb and serve just one more purpose. in just one more emergency. It is regarded as probable, however. that Judge Foster will not be able to make liquor the issue as other matters have surged forward to engross the public mind.
 In the gubernatoriai campaign in which Judge Foster appealed for the election of man who was persona non grata to Dr. Lawrence and the entire dry regime. he appealed without success to a majority element of the state. For the anti-Kilby vote was greatly in excess of the pro-Kilby vote, and the anti-Kilby vote, by bit of diplomacy, might have been boiled for one instead of several candidates. In view of that fact, there is more or less sympathy in Washing ion for the distinguished Tuscaloosa pol- itician. who must appeal for the prefer ment of a very rich and amiable gentle man against whom a very appreciable majority has firmly entrenched itself. There are other changes in conditions to which Judge Foster will have to ad- just himself. In the gubernatoria' campaign, Judge Brandon was handi- capped by a woeful lack of money Many will recall that the judge, in elo- quent language, publicly thanked "Ole John Jones. that good man who pushed a crumpled- ten dollar note into my jeans pocket" Every ten-dollar con tribution was important to Brandon ir