The age-herald., 1900-08-05
STATE CAMPAIGN
 CLOSED YESTERDAY The Democrats Will Win by an
 Increased Majority CAMPAIGN OF EDUCATION Best Results to Come from Counties Where Most Opposition Existed.
 Legislature Will Favor Con-
 stitutional Convention
CAMPAIGN OF EDUCATION

| in a number of years. In fact, In many counties the opposition to the Democratic | ticket have made no pretense of a fight and were all their legislative candidates | to be elected their number would not be | sufficient to organize the two branches of l the next General Assembly. Here in Jefferson, the most populous county in the State, and with representa- | lives and one State senator, neither the Republicans nor the Populists have put out | tickets, and so 1t Is in a number of other counties in the State. From all indications the legislature, which conyenes in Montgomery next win ter, will be overwhelmingly in favor of constitutional convention, and probably one | of the first acts that body will perform will | be the passage of bill providing for the holding of constitutional convention. The present estimate, made at the close of the
 campaign and after a thorough canvass of
 the entire State Is that the combined op- position to a constitutional convention in the next legislature will not be able to muster more than thirty votes out of a to- tai of 13J. Chairman John V. Smith, of the Demo- | cratic State Campaign Committee, claims
 an overwhelming victory for the State tick
 ct and success In practically all of the counties for the county tickets. In speak
 ing of the outlook from Democratic point of view yesterday Chairman Smith said: Chairman smith's statement 'The retruns from every county in the State where there is opposition to our ticket are very encouraging, especially in yUhera the fight has been made straight for the platform and reso-
 Iutions adopted by the last State Conven- ton. "Where the fight has been made straight the Democrats are bouyant, aggressive
 and hopeful and I confidently expect the
 local tickets to win in every county in the State.
 'There will not be exceeding ten Popu- list members of the next Legislature and not exceeding thirty members, including Democrats and Populists, who will vote against a bill to submit to a vote of the people the question of holding a constitu- tional convention. '"fhere seems to have been some misap- prehension in some of the counties as to the real issues involved in this campaign, but the campaign has been one of educa- ton and long stride has been taken in the matter of suffrage reform 'rhe State will go Democratic by
 largely increased majority, but to do this those counties having no opposition must bestir themselves and turn out to the polls and vote next Monday" Polls Open at 0'cIeck The polls will open at o'clock tomorrow
 morning and close at o'clock in the af ternoon. Under the laws of Alabama all saloons must close their doors on the day of the election. They were closed at midnight last night and will not be reopened until Tuesday morning at o'clock. United States Senator E. w. Pettus spoke at Gadsden at noon yesterday, and Tennant Lomax of Montgomery at o'clock last night. Captain Frank s. White spoke in Law renee County yesterday. Judge Thomas R. Roulhac of Sheffield and Hon. Sam Blackwell of Morgan Coupty spoke at Cullman yesterday. Speeches n other counties yesterday vera
 as follows:
 Dr. R. M Cunningham, at Easonville, St. Clair County. Congressman Jesse Stallings and Oscar W. Underwood, in Blount County. Colonel W. w. Quarles, at Columbiana, Shelby County. General Charles M Shelley, at Colum- biana, Shelby County. w. I. Bullock, at Jasper, Walker County. The Democratic campaign committee has information that. Lawrence County, which uaS dlWdyS been hepuDfIcan, VIII S1Ve the Democratic ticket ma jority In the election tomorrow. Similar information comes from
 other counties that in late years have
 been going against the Democratic nomf-
 nees. The Complete Ticket
 The following is the complete ticket
 which will be voted in the election in Jef-
 ferson County tomorrow, Democratic nomi-
 nees being indicated by
 FOR GOVERNOR.
 Grafton B. Grove.
 H. L. Hargett.
 x William J. Sanford. John A. Steele.
 FOR SECRETARY OF STATE.
 x Robert P. McDavid John H. Porter. T. W. Powell.
 L. F. Written.
 FOR STATE TREASURER.
 D. c. Bachelor. Alex G. Dale. Pope M. Long. O. l.. McI<instry x J. Craig Smith. FOR STATE AUDITOR R. o. Simpson. Tmohas l.. Sowell. J. c. Swann. M. w. Whateley. FOR ATTORNEY GENERAL Charles D. Alexander. :. X Charles c. Brown. 4I H. L. Martin. LeRoy Watson FOR SUPERINTENDENT OF EDUs CATION. x John W. Abercrombie. J. I. Abercrombie. John H. Porter. William M. Wood. FOR COMMISSIONER OF AGRI- CULTURE. z, x Robert R. Poole. M John B. Shields. ,, FOR STATE SENATOR. x Hugh Morrow. FOR REPRESENTATIVES Augustus Benners. x Henry R. Dill. q