The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-02-14
ROBSON AND THE PASS
CAPTAINS INFLUENCE FROM
 BANKHEAD'S ACTIONS.
The Sixth District Congressman Tells of How He Got Transporta- tion for the Merrimac
 Hero.
Advertiser Bureau,
 Colorado Building,

Colorado Building, Washington, Feb. 13. According to reports which come to Washington of the speeches he is mak- ing in the Sixth Alabama Congressional District, Captain Richmond Pearson Hob- son, who is a candidate for the Demo- cratic nomination to succeed Represent ative John H. Bankhead, the Dean of the Alabama delegation in the House, is mak- ing some of the most remarkable hust- ings deliverances ever heard from an Alabama Democrat. A stenographic copy of the Captains recent speech at North
 port, in Tuscaloosa County, a copy Of which was sent to Congressman Bank head, discloses much originality of view as to modern politics. While it contains general assault upon the present Rep resentative's capacity and achievements. it appears to have but one point which Mir Bankhead deems worthy of atten- ton.
 Captain Hobson, besides having much to say on the subject of his hobby, d world-beating navy for the United States, does by no means confine himself to the glowing generalities that may be made opposite in the discussion of international questions and the solution of the prob lems of world-destinies. He takes anon a shy at State and local affairs.
 That part of the Captains Northpo1t speech which seemed to Congressmman Bankhead as deserving some attention was as follows:
 MT. Bankhead is the tool of the rail- roads. I am not saying this from hear say. Here is what occurred to me. This cannot be denied. Last winter I spoke in Mobile for the ladies down there. I made a complimentary lecture. It was for the benefit. think. of the Confederate VetcI- ans. They undertook to defray my eX- penses. I think I was in Washington; so they sent me passes in order to save the cost of the tickets. From whom did those passes come? They came from J. H. Bankhead-from J. H. Bankhedd! Why, didn't a pass stand for ticket? And ticket stands for money The railroads do not pay out money for a man without value received. cannot help but infer that MT. Bankhead, dis pcnsing this patronage-this money-is in their employ"
 Saying nothing about Captain Hobson s inference in the matter, Representative
 Bankhead today remarked to your cor respondent:
 "Captain Hobson refers to the fact that | last winter. about the time of which he speaks, I obtained passes for him to so | to Mobile to deliver an address for the l benefit of the Confederate Veterans. My part in obtaining the pass was this. received a letter here in Washington from former Congressman Richard II. | Clarke of Mobile. who, knowing I Was here, close to the headquarters of the Southern Railroad, asked me to see if could not get transportation to Mobile for Captain Hobson, who had been in- vited to deliver a lecture for the benefit
 of the Confederate Veterans: that he had agreed to deliver the lecture and wound expect only that his travellng expenses
 would be provided for.
 AS soon as I received MT. Clarke's
 letter I showed it to Colonel Andrews
 Vice-President of the Southern, who hap | pened to be in Washington. I did 1t with | confidence that being himself an ex-Con-