The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-10-17
CONSTITUTIONAL aUEsrioN RAISED
Republicans and POpulists Think Com-
 missioners are Safe.

Gadsden, Oct. 6.--(Special. )-The Republican campaign committee of Et- owah county held an important meet ing in this city yesterday and nomi- mated D. w. Sturkie for commissioned CT from the Second district and J. B.. Washburn from the Fourth district. Immediately afterwards the Populist executive committee met and placed the same men in nomination for the same office.
 These names were at once filed in the probate office and they will be printed upon the official ballot This action was taken by the Republicans Populists on account of confusion on the question as to whether under the new constitution the present commits sioners can hold over for another | term. Under the old constitution the commissioners are elected for four years and they hold over one election. Messrs. Sturkie and washburn were elected two years ago and have two | more years of official life under the old constitution but some claim that they have to be elected next month. hence their nomination. So far the Demo- crats have taken no action, and 1t is not known whether they will put out two candidates are not. The election in this county is the quietest ever known. There is absolutely no mud singing and the candidates on both sides are making a quiet campaign for the voters.
 In the Seventh district prominent speakers are in the field making speeches for Congressman Burnett There is no cause for fear of Demo- cratic defeat. but Congressman Burnett Is taking nothing for granted and is making hard systematic campaign. D. H. Shields. of Albertville. has a live acre crop of cotton which is a wonder and revelation to this part of the country. The staple Is one and three-quarter inches long and is very silky. Mir. Shields has five acres that will make ten bales of $50 pounds to the bale. This cotton sells readily at from sixteen to eighteen cents per pound. MT. Shields has the cotton In four foot rows and three feet apart in the drill. Several farmers of AL bertville have combined and will put in fifty acres next spring of this cot ton and they expect to make a small fortune. The staple cannot be ginned on an ordinary machine and these farmers will purchase a small gin on which to gin the cotton. The name of this cotton is the Dixon Cluster and one stalk has been displayed that had 120 bolls fully matured MT Shields also has some of the finest corn ever raised on Sand Mountain. The corn is grown on sandy soil and without any fertilizer at all and will make from fifty to sixty bushels per acre. The corn has two ears to each stalk and they measure from fourteen to eighteen inches long and will average fifteen inches throughout the crop. The ground on which this corn and cotton is grown is the ordinary land and does not look like 1t would make anything
 Johnson Sartor, aged fifty-six. one of the oldset and most prominent cit izens of DeKalb county, died at his home near Collinsville Friday night after a short illness from pneumonia He was a member of the Baptist church and was a most useful citizen
 An old Confederate soldier by the name of Reeves was sent to the Con- federate soldiers home at Atlanta. Ga. yesterday by the Emma Sansom Camp of Confederate Veterans. MT. Reeves was a member of the Third Georgia regiment during the war and several years ago while in Georgia drew a pen sion but after moving to Alabama he has not drawn any pension. He had become feeble and in destitute circum- stances and asked the local Confeder- ate camp to send him to the home where he could spend the remainder of his days in comfort, and this they cheerfully did.
 Hon. Thomas Watson, the Populist nominee for president, will not speak in this city and Atalla on the 25th as previously announced. as he will be unable to get here at that time. It is expected that he will speak in Gads- den before the campaign closes.