Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-09-15
CONGRESSIONAL ELECTIONS.
Those to Take Place in Alabama Full
of Interest.

Special Correspondence Of The Evening Star
MONTGOMERY. Ala. September IA
The coming congressional elections in Ala
bama are full Of interest. Up TO this time
there are two candidates in nearly every
district in the state, while the probabilities
are that there will be two more in each
district before the date of the election in
November. The regular or free silver
democrats have made nominations in all
the districts Of the state except two; the
republicans have put out candidates in
six Of the nine districts Of the state; the
populists have named candidates in three
DISTRICTS and conventions have been called
in the others to name candidates. The ma
tional democrats have candidates before
the people in two districts and nomina tons
will be made in the other districts on Sep
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The following is list Of the would-be
Alabama Congressman up to the present
time:
First district-The regular democratic or
ganization nominated Geo. W. Taylor of
Demopolis. Mr.. Taylor has been an :-ctive
party man for years, and was for six years
solicitor of mis- circuit. He had against
him in the race for the nomination Leslie
&. Sheldon and H. Austil of Mobile; G. l..
Scott, formerly minister to Venezuela, of
Monroe and o. l.. Gray of Choctaw. In
the last state campaign Mr.. Taylor was a
sound money man. but he accepted the
arbitrament Of the Chicago convention and
when he was nominated on a free silver
platform, indorsng the Chicago platform
and Bryan and Sewall. he pledged himself
to the support of the platform and the
nominees Endorsed.
In this district the republicans have
placed in nomination Frank il. Threet, a
negro, who lives at Demopolis Threet has
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get into Congress. The populists have not
yet named a candidate for Congress in this
district and the national democratic can
ddate will be named on the 18th.
The only nominee in the second district
so far is Congressman j. F. StallinGs Of
Greenville, who has been renominated by
the democrats.
The pcpulist convention is called for to-
morrow, and the national democrats meet
en- the 18th.
In the third district Henry D. Clayton
of Eufaula, United States district attorney
for the middle district of Alabama, nephew
of Senator Pugh. Alabama member of the
national executive committee. and one Of
the brightest young men in the state, has
been nominated by the regular democracy
Col. G. l.. Conner, one of the leading at
torneys of east Alabama. has been nom
mated by the national democracy.
E. c. Jackson OF Opelika, of the
prosperous and well-to-do farmers of Lee
county, Is the nominee of the populists
In the fourth district the regular demo-
Gratis have not yet made a nomination.
The republicans of this district had split
convention in March. The Mckinley fac
ton nominated H. A. Wilson of Lomax
while the anti Mckinley faction renom-
mated w. F. Aldrich of Aldrich. 1t is I'M
derstood that the populists will not nom
mate in this district, but will support AID
rich. though the republicans claim that
Aldrich is not in the race; that he accepted
the result at st. Louis and has withdrawn
In the fifth only one nomination has been
made so far, that Of Willis Brewer of
Hayneville, by the regular democrats.
In the sixth Congressman Bankhead of
Fayette has been renominated by the reg
ular democrats. The republican nominee
in this district is Prof. T. G. GUN of GUM
In the seventh the regular democrats
have nominated w. 1. Bullock of RUSSELL
vile. The republican nominee is James J.
Curtis of Double Springs, and the populist
nominee is Congressman Howard of Gads-
den. the author of IF Christ Came to Con-
gress."
In the eighth district the nomination of
the regular democracy is to be determined
by the primary election to be held in Col
bert county on the Goth. The populists
have nominated D. w. Day of Morgan
county. and the republicans have put for
ward Oscar r. Hundley Of Huntsville
The national democratic candidate in this
county Is w. w. Callahan Of Decatur
< In the ninth district the democrats have
nominated Oscar W. Underwood while
the republicans have put forward Con-
gresham T. H. Aldrch both Of whom are
from Birmingham.