The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-03-29
Carr Audience Was Addressed by Colonel Garland and
 0therS--UtmOSt Con-
 fidence Expressed.

The Carr campaign Club met. last night to confer as to the work or the club for Thomas H. Carr, a candidate for Mayor, during the coming week, the last of the campaign and which was de- clared by the speakers who addressed the club to be the most important.
 It was decided to keep the club rooms on Commerce Street open during the en- tire week as a clearing house of political information where members of the club should give and receive campaign news.
 In spite of the rainy night the attend ance at the meeting was good. number of short speeches were delivered ana the election of MT. Carr was confidently pre- dicted by the speakers. Satisfacton was expressed with the progress or the cam paign and with the outlook for its close.
 MT. Carr, who addressed the Club, was warmly and enthusiastically received.
 The meeting of the club was called to order by its President Col. A. B. Gar land. In calling :he club to order, he announced to thoSe present the total or the registered vote and its division by wards. From the registration figures in the possession of the club, he said, he and the other officers were convinced that Mir. Carr would receive more votes for Mayor than any other candidate He felt sure, he said, that the citizens of Montgomery would endorse the standard bearer of the club. Mir. Carr, he said, was presented as a man above reproach, bne against whom no man tn Montgom- ery could say aught. He was man,
  with large business and monetary mat ters, and who would give his time and experience to the city in the important questions which confronted 1t now. He spoke Of MT. Carr's service of years in the City Council and declared that they were eminently satisfactory. MT. Carr, he said, would endeavor to lift the bur den of taxation from the property own CTS of the city as much as possible, and he believed that the voters of Montgom- cry stood ready to support him.
 Prominent among the speakers was ex- Mayor John c. Crommelin, who said hhat after many years experience in pol ltics he had never seen any candidate s chances for election as Mayor brighter than MT. Carr's. He was, he said, thor pughly convinced that MT. Carr would be nominated He expressed his gratih- cation at the large number of names that were on the roll of the Carr Club. He said, too. that there were number of voters who would support Mfr. Carr. but who had not become connected with the club.
 membership of the Carr Club now mum bered 452. He agreed with Mir. Crommelin In saving that many of MT. Carr's sup porters had not yet joined the club Other speakers who followed endorsed this statement
 Ray Rushton. W. c. Smith, A. c. Cas- Iady, Major 8. T. Westcott, J. J. Pierce, ". P. German, c. c. pevtnne$, Mar ghall King, P T. Mulcahy, John Ray, Tom Taylor. Albert Brame, D. W. Ford and JeH Bayne.
 Neil McClean amused the crowd with Hn enthusiastic Carr campaign song
 The members were 10th % adjourn until after they had heerd from Mr. Carr. In response to e hearty call he addressed the club briefly He spoEe of the en- DarrasHnent he felt in sitting by and hearing so many complimentary things said of him. He declared that if elected Mayor he would try to discharge tho du- eieS Of the o1ace congcientdouny and for the ecod of th. city. Hs a4nonlshed the st in the coming week. the last of the campaign. and expr9NBed his qualification ct the progress oG the campaign.
 The club decsdsd to hold no meeting but to keep the cluh's headQuagtsrg ,0pan @neanGSEha entieAAwe4asA