The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-11-10
Kennedy is Not a Candidate.

Kennedy is Not a Candidate.
 As Captain Kennedy is not a candi- date for Colonel of the 3rd infantry" viii kindly publish the enclosed clipping from The Birmingham Age-Herald of November 6th.''
 The clipping referred to is as follows:
 Captain Hughes B. Kennedy, adjutant made a reply to the statement in The Montgomery Advertiser that he was a candidate for the place of colonel of the regiment in the election which will be or dered soon. The Advertiser says that Captain Kennedy will run in opposition to Lieutenant Colonel Frank Mcconnell of Talladega, at present acting colonel of the regiment and a candidate for the place when the election is held.
 Captain Kennedy denied most positive ly that he was a candidate for the place of colonel, but stated that he would run for the place of lieutenant colonel to sue ceed Lieutenant Colonel Mcconnell in case Mcconnell was made commanding officer of the regiment, Captain Kennedy stated that he always has been and still is a supporter of Colonel Mcconnell, and would use his influence to make him the colonel of the regiment.
 "The friends of Captain Kennedy claim affairs of Alabama, and with the 3rd reg ment, his devotion to the regiment and capacity as a military officer qualify him in every way for the position. Captain henneQy ndS never bSGI el SelhNAOehtC AOA ans field officer in the regiment, and his friends believe that his election would b almost unanimous, if not entirely so. . Ut is we'll known in military circles that another shot is to be taken at Colonel E. L. Higdon by the other faction with in the next few days, when an order will be issued for an election for colonel from which place Colonel Hlgdon was removed by Governor Jelks about two years ago as A result of the famous Higdon-Kyle controversy"
 If the friends of Captain Kennedy had read The Advertiser closely they would have found that ITO positive statement of Captain Kennedy's candidacy was made. It was stated that Captain Ken nedys name was among those suggested as probable candidates
 Boil Weevil and New Law
 "A law was passed by the Legislature of Alabama, at it's recent session, ent1- tied an Act to prevent and prohibit the infectation of seed from cotton anected with the Texas boil WeeVil said farm CT, "The law provides that no person shall import or bring into the State of Ala bama any seed from any cotton aftected with what is known as the Texas boil weevil nor the seed from any cotton from any place where the cotton has been affected with said boil weevil. The penalty at tached thereto Is that any person who violates the provision of section one of the Act snail be guilty of a misdemeanor and on conviction shall be fined not less than ten nor more than five hundred dol lars" .,.- ued this farmer "cannot be understood from its bare reading and the occasion therefor, to be appreciated. must be made plainer The boil weevil did great dam age to the cotton crop in Texas the past year and there are not many who are ready to believe that they damaged be- tween eight and twenty-five million dol lars of cotton and incurred loss on the farmers of between 235, ,000 and 5OO,0O0 bales of cotton.
 "A recent farmers bulletin bears the information that the Division of Ento- mology and the Department of Agricul- ture has worked with the boil weevil since the first appearance of the pest in Texas in 1894 Up to the present time practically continued observations have been made upon its natural history, hab- it's, and the means by which it reaches new regions; and the results of these ob- servations, with suggestions regarding the manner of combating the pest, drawn from them and from the experience of many planters have been published from time to time. The latest observations and tests have shown that though still con fined to Texas. the territory occupied by the cotton boil weevil at present in- cludes about 2S per cent of the cotton acreage in the United States. This acre age in l9OO produced 34 per cent of the total crop of this country, or fourth of the crop of the world for that year. This is bounded on the north by Red river, on the east by the pine forests on the divide between the Trinity and Sa- bine rivers. It includes all the p coun- ties. which in 1899, according to the 12th census produced 10000 bales or more each. In the newly invaded region. how ever, between the latitude of Dallas and frequent. has not multiplied to such an extent as to cause much damage"