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Show IS YOUNG AT EIGHTY-FIVE. 8enator Pettus Has No Thought of Giving Up Toga. Washington. Something unusunl Is hnpponlng In Alabama. Tho peoplo want Edmond Winston Pettus to con-tlnuo con-tlnuo to servo them In tho United States scnato as long as ho lives. Yet thoy aro preparing to hold an election to dccldo upon his successor. Tho mason Is thnt when Sonntor Pettus' present term expires. In 1909, ho will bo 88, nnd tho election Is to bo held becauso Alabamans think ho will not ltvo longer than that, nut Grandpa Pettus Is Indignant. Ho snys ho Is as spry as ho was at CO and thnt 1iq ox- I poets to llvo out tho wholo six years of another term. Ho Is a enndidato , for re-election on tho plntform, "A man Is as young as ho feels." |