Show PETTUS IS YOUNG AT 5 Alabama Soldier and States Statesman Statesman Statesman man Has No Wo Thought of Dy Dying Dying Dying ing or oi Giving Up Toga Special to The Herald Washington ashington May C G Something Unusual is happening in Alabama The people unanimously want Edmund Winston Vinston Pettus to continue to serve sere them in the United States senate as long as he lives Yet they the are arc preparing to hold an antion elec election election tion to decide upon his successor The reason is that when Senator Pettus i present term expires in 1900 he will be beSS 88 SS and the election is to be held because think he will not live Ue longer than that But Grandpa Pettus is indig indignant indignant indignant nant He says sas he is as spry as he was wasat wasat wasat at 60 and that he lie expects to live out the th whole six years of another Worm term He Hc Heis Heis j is a candidate for reelection on the plat platform platform platform form A man is as young oung as he feels Pettus a Southern Hero Senator St Pettus had reached readied the time for to the Osler Osier doctrine back in GS about the time he was performing deeds of daring in de defense defense tense of Vicksburg He was fighting with the Confederate Conf derat army arm It seems that the situation had become desperate volunteers were called for a foi orn hope A brigade of reckless Texans offered for forthe forthe forthe the service serice and Pettus offered to lead And he lie did lid lead led where var ar was hot hottest hottest test and ans an at the head of column his six feet four looming large in front tha Uta that protruding lower jaw set on taking those works at any cost Where that tall fig fib figure figure ure rose and that black mane waved wae l those Texans followed They loved l ed him for his daring and when all was done and they learned that he was from Ala Alabama Alabama bama bania and not from Texas they insisted on adopting him for their state and by byone b bone byone one acclaim he hc was christened Old Oi Tex Texas Texas Texas as Pioneer in California I Pettus was a He rode rolle from Alabama to California on horse horseback horseback horseback back with a company compan of some forty of his neighbors He was a mere lad then of 28 but he had already had adventures adventures adventures tures in the Mexican war In which he lie fought At si 8 his record is said to be besom something som like this Enjoys Enjo s poker reads his Bible loves flowers runs no bills carries a red bandana calls his wife wire sweetheart has a fund of subtle hu bu humor mor and being a n senator who works work time to think whether the Grim Reaper is twenty or only ton ten years yeam ears oft off That is a good enough platform in It Itself Itself i self |