The age-herald., 1901-10-03
MUCH ENCOURAGED
 IS MR. UNDERWOOD
Regarding the Prospects tor
 Constitutional Ratification
GREAT DEMAND FOR COPIES
Everything Looks Bright for constltu- tIon-Gen. Shelley Is Confident That the Constitution Will Be
 Rejected By the People.

Congressman Oscar w. Underwood, chairman of the state Democratic cam paign committee, returned to the city yesterday at noon after an absence Of three or four days. He went to Richmond, where he entered his boys at school. From there he went to Washington and spent most of his time there at the post office department looking after the inter ests of Jefferson County.
 Reaching campaign headquarters in the Metropolitan Hotel Annex at one o'clock, the chairman plunged into a mighty heap of correspondence, but before night he had caught up with the routine busi- ness of the canvass. He expressed himself as satisfied with the outlook for the rati- fication of the new constitution, and es- pecially well satisfied with the way head quarters work had been handled by his committee associates B. A. Thompson and Jones G. Moore, who were in charge dur ing his absence. and by the secretary of the committee, John c. Pugh.
 J. C. Eyster of Morgan County was at headquarters yesterday, and reported his section safe for ratification.
 Secretary Pugh remarked that one of the best signs in favor of the constitu- tion cause was the constant request for COpleS or the new instrument Tie SdlQ that in spite of the fact that over 10 900 copies had been distributed in bulk every day hundreds of people were asking for copies
 Hon. J. N. Miller Is announced to speak for ratification at Monroeville October 18. at D. m.
 General SheIIey's Headquarters.
 At the headquarters of the anti-rati- fiers In the Hotel Norris, General Charles M. Sheney, chairman of the state cam paign committee fighting tne new consti- tuition, was bouyant over Wat he de- clared was a decidedly encouraging pros- pect for victory for the cause he had es- poused
 .1lvide the state into northeast and northwest and southeast and southwest" said General Shelley, and from each of these sections we have gratifying reports. In one county the anti-ratifiers are 20 to l."
 Asked which county would give so large a majority against the new constitution General Shelley replied .Iat he was not giving out that sort of information in de- tail for publication.
 w. C. Ragburn, of Guntersville, has been added to General Shelley's campaign committee.
 The headquarters clerks were engaged yesterday in mailing standardization lit- erature, in the form oI a six column sheet printed on one side. The campaign arti- cles are headed respectively:
 General Shelley says white vote Is solid for him. 'The Suffrage Plan-Ar- bitrary, Abortive Complex, Unwise and Unconstitutional"
 Superintendent Phillips will support Constitution-Crillcises Educational Feat ures of it in a Teachers Journal,'' and Ex-Governor Johnston will vote Against the New Consti -ution-Gives Reasons for Opposing the measure in .-igned State- ment."
 The one headed '"The Suffrage Plan" Is from the Montgomery Journal of Septem- Der A. and Is contributed by "A Demo- crat" The others appeared in the Age Herald and are duly ere, tied.
 The sign which was put out yesterday on the front of the Morris, under the windows room 31, reads:
 Democratic Headquarters,
 Standardization.
 For honest elections and white su- premacy."