The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-04-10
Campaign Managers Are
 Confident. General Primary Election May Be Attended by Some Surprises. Rules and Regulation
 Governing It.

The candidate and the campaign mana ger will tomorrow step aside to give place to the voter. The labor, the striv- ing, and ardor of the most sweeping pri- mary campaign, in the history of Ala bama ended last night.
 The end of the anxiety has not come and it will come only with the final can vass of the vote Monday night in every voting precinct in Alabama. The final day is to. be filled with anxiety. The button holer and the card pusher are to play their .brief part upon the political stage.
 But the directing forces have finished their work. The last circular has been sent out, the last newspaper articles have been prepared and the -iieutersnts have received their instructions. Three months of careful planning and three months of unremitting labor has been finished. If errors have been made they may not be helped now. If one candi- date and his manager have builded wise- ly his opponent may not tear down his work at this late day.
 Time for Results.
 The time has come for results. The three months of striving have only been three months of preparation. Thousands of circulars have been sent out hundreds of speeches have been made, thousands of newspaper articles have been published and thousands of miles have been travel ed for what may happen tomorrow be- i tween s o'clock fin the morning and 6 o'clocktin the evening. All that has been : done is but the preliminary to the silent dropping of ballot after ballot into wooden Nbox surrounded by little knot of men.
 The carupaigni ended last night with the friends of every candidate confident. The managers of the campaign of every can didate who discussed politics last night expressed the firm conviction that their favorite would get his nomination. There has nevet' in the history of the State been exactly a parallel to this primary and certain ly the end of no primary cam paign has ,been enshruuded in more un- certainty.
 The threeA active candidates for Presi- dent of tifet Railroad Commission, John V. Smith, B. E. Conner and Captain R. F. Kolb, as ale campaign drew to a close expressed th,vir firm codvictions that they would bc non Hnated H. c. Compton of St. Clair County, the fourth candidate in a recent ne wspaper publication stated that he would carry over half the coun- ties of Alabama and would be nominated by g. handsome majority.
 Smith is GratiAed.
 Hon John V. smith. President of the Railroad Commission and candidate for reelected came in yesterday from his last trip of the ca snpaign. Mir. Smith was much gratifie5 at the situation. He declared that Mir. Conner had sent out misleading and falses circulars in the early days of the ca mpaign, hut these circulars had reacted upon his campaign as soon as the people learned that he was eudeavoring to mis lead them. Con- servative, and thinking men, MT. Smith said. agreed with him in his position that certain changes should hse made in rail- road rates, but the changes should be made by gradual process with justice and fairness to all.
 "It is .a source of the gre; Etest gratifica- ton to me" said Mir Smith, that during this entire bitter contest. so far as I knowaor have heard. they have not been able to bring single charget against my personal. political or official ecord. which certainly would have Been do ae had there been a thread upon which to- hang such a charge
 'sThe result of my canvass satisfies mo that win be nominated Monday by a large plurality. Captain Koib has de- anywhere and his reteration of Corners charge that I am the railroads candidate is simply ridiculous and absurd"
 Mir. Smiths headquarters at the Ex- change Hotel have pDeen in charge of Hon B. F. Elmore of Marengo County. Mfr. Fillmore said yesterday that from the had received from all sections. of Ala