Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1896-04-09
THE LATEST ALABAMA NEWS
DrummerS and Railroad Men
Will Be Challenged
IF THEY ARE NON-RESIDENTS
Johnston Men Are Watching Every Move of the
Desperate Clarke Forces to Prevent
Fraud.

Montgomery, April ESPECIAL 1.-The
county of Montgomery is the sore spot
just now with the supporters of Mr..
Clarke, and everything possible is being
done to insure this county going for the
gentleman from Mobile. The Clarke men
have talked and clustered as long as
talk and buster would go, but they at
last realize that wind will not carry
! Montgomery, and now they are preparing
| to resort to other means. They think
| that the Johnston men are taking al nap,
but in this they are mistaken. The
Johnston men are wide awake, and they
have both eyes on the gun.
The latest move of the Clarke men is
believed to be- to vote all the railroad men
I'm this city that 1T is possible and to this
end they will try to vote men from Mo-
bile, Birmingham and other points here,
but the Johnston club is dead on to them,
and when any man from these cities pro-
poses to vote in the Montgomery prima-
ries he will find himself confronted with
man from his own city, who will have
| the registration list to show that he is not
| a voter here, but is voter in some other
place, and, of course, his vote will at once
| be challenged and refused. A repre-
| sentative from Mobile, Birmingham, Sell
| ma, Opelika and Eufaula will be at each
| polling place in this city, and each will
| have a copy of the registration list of the
city he represents, and when a voter
| from either of these cities comes up to
vote he may be sure that he will be called
| down.
The fact that Mr.. Clarke is today a
candidate for the nomination is due
| largely to the influence of the Montgom-
| cry Advertiser, and, of course, 1t would
| mean death blow to that organ If the
| county should go against the man it
| dragged into this fight and the men in
| this city who are backing 1t up in it's fight
on Johnston will stop at nothing to vim
| dictate its course. But this Is one time that
the people of this city do not propose to
| be hoodwinked. If Mr.. Clarke carries
Montgomery, all right. he will get it, but
| he will have to carry it, and that on the
| dead square. His friends must not carry
| 1t by planting railroad men who are cit
| liens of Mobile and other Alabama cities
| here to vote against people who have all
| the time resided in this city. This will
| be one primary election in Montgomery
| when the gay and festive drummer who
halls from Louisville. Oshkosh, Kalama-
! zoo, New York, or even Boston. Will not
| be allowed to vote.
! That List of Business Men.
The Advertiser this morning publishes
| what purportS to be a list of business
men of this city who favor the nominal
| ton of Hon. R. II. Clarke for governor.
| The list is by no means a representative
1
| Is calculated to create an erroneous I'M
| preston on the people outside of this
| city. OF course the publication will not
! fool the people of Montgomery. That is
J not its object The list was gotten up
| to create an impression on the people of
| the state outside of Montgomery. 1t
| was sprung on the heel of the campaign
! for the purpose of indicating that there
| was a regular ground swell in the Mont
| gomery business world for Mr. Clarke
| The showing made by the Advertiser
| makes Mr.. Clarke the minority cand-
| date, so far as the business men of this
| city are concerned. as not one-twentieth
| of the business men of the city are rep
resented on the list.
| The list is padded to the fullest limit,
| as any resident of this city who looks
| over it will see at a glance. 1t is sup
| posed to be an uprising, but the upris-
| ing is in spots, as the list in several in
| stances has the names of from three to
| five individuals i'm one house and then
| skips for some distance to fill up at some
| other business house with three or four
| or five names.
| The list starts out by asserting that
| the various and sundry signers are just
| plain, ordinary democrats and business
men of Montgomery" but as the bars
| are down nobody will kick at the pres
| ence of the names of few republicans
| in the list. Then 1t goes on to say: md