The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-04-02
70 CANDIDATES
OFF WEDNESDAY
FOR LONG GRIND
Entry Lists Are Closed To
Political Candidates
Tuesday Night
THIRTEEN POSTS
WILL BE FILLED
Red Hot Smelling Of The
Woods By Mid-April Is
Predicted By Many

Nearly IS candidates will take off
Wednesday on the first lap of six
week political grind that will end with
the state and county primary on
May 13.
Tuesday was the last day on which
sspirants could qualify, and now that
the slate is definitely made up, Jeffer-
son county may expect to see plenty of
fireworks before the finish wire is
reached.
OF the pack of candidates, only a
score will be returned winners. Thir-
teen ma ior posts are to be filled, be-
sides the vacancies FOR district con-
stables and other minor places.
Two supreme court judges, one judge
of the court of appeals, a judge for
Circuit 70. 9, public service con-
missioner, commissioner of game and
fisheries, school commissioner, a
coauty treasurer, coroner and five
members of the board of revenue are
to be nominated in the primary.
Twenty Contestants
More than 20 contestants are in the
revenue board race and it gives prom
Use of being the most holly fought of
all the campaigns, with the proposed
new court house as the outstanding is
sue. Three members of the old board
ale asking reelection.
Veteran politicians who have watched
campaigns come and go for years, say
that more candidates than ever this
year will shell the woods"--that is,
take the stump.
Within another week all the races
will be fairly warm, and by the middle
of April the campaign will be red
hot, these observers predict,
Joint debates will be staged by some
of the candidates in the revenue board
contest, according to reports at the
court house.
Coroner j. ID. Russum, who is out
for another term with four candidates
opposing him, plans to carry his cam
paign into every corner of the county
Immediately.
Hard Contest
There is three-cornered contest for
county treasurer, and a seat on the
board of education is being sought by
two candidates. For each of the state
offices to be filled this year, at least
two candidates are running.
Registration In Jefferson county this
year is the heaviest in many years, and
officials look fora record vote.
-. Ne siaAet fors TIE principal E6sta
follows
supreme Court Judge tyote for
Two Virgil Boldin, Joel B. Brown,
4. d. Sayre.
Court of Appeals-H. B. Foster, j.
@. Smith.
.
Circuit Judge No. 81. B. Arid, John
G. Arnold, John benson. e
Public Service Commission Vote for
One)--J. NJ. Bowman, A. G. Patterson.
Commissioner Game aud Fisheries
j. Dickinson, e. II. Holt, A. L. Kim
brough, J. T. Quinn.
Board of Education--J. W. Leggett,
G. r. West.
County Treasured. C. Ball, Eley
A. Cardwell, NJ. V. Henry.
Coroner-B. L. Bcasher, ]. c. CIel-
land. j. b. Cole, J. D. Russum, G. L.
Spain.
Board of Revenue (vote for Five)-
G. +. Allgood, S. r. Bstson, w. B.
Copeland, Sallie o. Cooper, c. +. bod
son, Capt. Lacey Edmundson, w. L.
Hargrave, L. e. Huey, NJ. G. Hughes,
@. o. Jacobs, John A. Lewis, W. r.
Mabry, J. r. Matthews, Robert X.
Moore, John Mccormack, DIR. e. b.
Pruitt, II. J. Reed, r. e. Smith, A. r.
Vines, Willism J. Waldrop, G. Arm
strong West, Henry C.'West.