The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-11-02
NoR the first time in twenty-five Lf((I .,nnrs +hn r,nnr,la of Alabama will

TOI years the people of Alabama will \ go to the polls on next Tuesday and vote for state and congressional nominees on the same day. The politi- cal campaign is practically at an end though several speakers will make ad- dresses at different points in the state tomorrow.
 The political fight this year has been between two white parties, the repub- licans having, at the outset eliminated the negro from its counsels. A general feeling of pleasantness prevails among the leaders in both the democratic and republican ranks, and the campaign has been devoid of bitterness and il feeling between the members of the two parties
 Both democrats and republicans have made their claims, and not until the count of the ballots will it be known in figures what is the result of the election.
 The headquarters of the two campaign committees have been in Birmingham. Each committee has been active and ag- gressive, and many of the speakers who took the stump discarded business for a few weeks and devoted themselves to pol itics.
 The claims as set forth by the two chairmen of the campaign committees differ widely Chairman E. K. Campbell of the democratic committee estimates the democratic majority at 27,OOO and does not concede county in Alabama to the republicans. On the other hand J. Carter Cook, chairman of the republican
 tniv hat fhp renlibliCan ticket will win in the state by majori- ty of 5OOO and that twenty-seven coun- ties will go republican; also that two re- publican congressman will be elected. Street in the Seventh district and Ed wards in the fourth.
 campbeIps Estimate.
 For the democrats Chairman Campbell says
 we estimate that the democratic state ticket will be elected by 27,O00 majority The indications are that there will be a small vote owing to the fact that in many counties there Is no local opposi- ton and in these counties the democrats have not thought the republican opposi- tion in the state to be serious.
 'The legislature will, of course, be democratic, and we do not concede sim gle county to the republicans, though in some four or five counties the contest is quite close.
 Mine congressman are to be elected and the democrats confidently expect that the entire congressional delegation from this state will be democratic. De- spite the heavy fight against Burnett in the Seventh district and the large amount of money which the republicans have poured into that district to com pass his defeat, we believe the Seventh district is safely democratic. In the Fourth district where a vigorous cam paign is being waged against our nomi- nee, all indications point to s. J. Bowies reelection by handsome majority.
 ''The legislature to be elected next Tuesday will return the grand old man, Senator E. w. Pettus, to the United States senate as his own successor
 Cooks Estimate.
 For the republicans Chairman Cook says:
 q estimate the republican majority at oV0U. lHiiih iiS,VVV VolcS VIII De polleu, that we will get 6O,C00 and the democrats 55 900. We expect to carry the Fourth dis- trict by HOO majority and the seventh by a majority of from 5000 to 37OO We will carry the counties of Lauderdale, Jack son, Marshall, DeKalb, Cherokee, St. Clair, Cullman, Winston, Franklin, Wal ker, Marion, Blount Calhoun, Cleburne. Jefferscn, Shelby, Bibb, Chiffon, Coosa, Tallapoosa, Randolph. Clay. Talladega, Piclens. Butler, Escambia and Henry.