The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-03-04

them to HIS QOSOthe 4AC fANA iAoNSA uOdA0 a person ask the price of cotton in China. Hobson the Dictator. Hobson. had declared. he said, that if he found opposition to his bill in Congress he would go into the districts of the men who opposed 1t and defeat them. After defeating the 376 Congressmen, Colonel Bankhead said Hobson would stalk into the Senate and say, Gentlemen, you re opposed to my bill, and I'm after you. Morgan, come down. Pettus, you old war I horse, come down. The Sixth District has at last sent its brains to Congress. I am here to direct the affairs of the nation.' !.
 'If you send Captain Hobson to Con gress." Colonel Bankhead continued, "the district will not be represented. They are laying for him up there" They will assign him to the Committee on Ventilation and Acoustics. That committee has not met in twenty years" Roads Against Navy. Then Colonel Bankhead sprung his counter proposition to the navy scheme and it was received with cheers. He would. he said, put against the navy scheme Of Captain Hobson's generous appropriation for public roads He made an eloquent speech for good roads which was we'll received. A good roads bill was pending in Congress, he said. and 1t would pass long before Hobson's navy bill. He made the deliberate prosposltion that if Captain Hobson could find one Democratic vote in Congress for his navy bill, he (Bankhead) would quite the racs and give Hobson the nomination.
 With sarcasm. he said Hobson was fooling the Christian people of this coun- try by posing as a preacher one day and leading germans the next day. He made humorous allusions to this matter several times in his speech.
 Captain Hobson, he said, was not a Democrat He never voted Democratic ticket in his life. He never paid "a cent of taxes in Alabama in his life If you are going to beat me, exclaimed the veteran, with wrath. that's all right But. Democrats, if you beat me. Beat me with . Democrat who pays taxes to educate your children; who lives among you and has an interest here. If you heat me, for Gods sake don't beat me with q man not of our party..' Denies the Record" He denied statements made by Hobs6A from his compiled record" saying soma of the bills enumerated had never been passed by Congress.
 Who charges these thingsy' asked Colonel Bankhead. The man in Wash ington who wrote Captain Hobson'a speech and of course he wrote to pleasq Captain Hobson.
 "Talk about me being identified wffh railroads" sneered Colonel Bankhead "because I got him pass! If any oJ you gentlemen want to beat 8 railroad to help church society. call on me, l(Applause.)
 Raising his voice, he declared tlsai Lewis Nixon, head of the shipbuiIdins trust. was behind Hobson.s greater navy schene and had invited Captain HObsoF to come 10 New York and rua for Con. gross. Colonel Bankhead said he loved his people and would dedicate his life tt them. He had fought on one hundred battlehelds for his country and on al many fields for Democracy. How many have you fought?'' he asked Hobson, but there was no reply. Loud applause.l Where was Hobson?S he asked, "wher we were fighting for white supremacy Ask old Crumpacker, the meanest South. hater in this country"
 He said about the time of the adoption of the Constitution. Hobson was address. ing a negro meeting in Washington witf ICrumpacker.
 Bankhead closed at 1S:45 o'clock and was greeted with handclaps. When Hob. son stood up to close In fifteen minutes there were yells and the ladies stood and shrieked
 His voice quivering with emotion, Cap tain Hobson said he had invited the ladlet and children to attend his meetings. be cause he had not expected that they would be subjected to such an exhibition | as Bankhead had given them.
 'Verily." said Hobson. his deep voice | trembling, ''the Scriptures have been re peated of the swine and his wallow. thu dog that returns to his vomit."
 A Terrific Excoriation. With dramatic intensity, tears stream ing down his face, he worked his audienc, up to the highest pitch. as he said he haC preached Gods word and would continu' | to do so.
 You cannot overcome Gods eterna | truth" exclaimed Hobson. Amen" Amen" shouted the men, ant women wept.
 He denied that he had ever referred publicly to the sinking of the Merrimac notwithstanding he was offered $50090 t | lecture on it.
 Let me tell you" he fairly screamed | pointing his finger at Bankhead. "a cy clone Is after you and that oak tre (Bankhead) will be blown to fragment in April. Pieces of it will be found a far away as China" (Yells of approvaD
 He denied that he had said he woul' I from the district. He said he went ou with Crumpacker in Washington to mee his argument on the negro question. H replied to Crumpacker and then wen through Indiana, and Crumpacker sub sided. This, he said, was his true re lation with Crumpacker.
 He concluded by begging the voters t send a man to Congress who woul not, like mole, work down underneath who would not be "a possible tool"
 man who was not thinking of the eter nal ego.
 The speaking closed at 1 o'clock and tn candidates held informal receptions.
 At o'clock they left on a west-boun train for Carbon Hill. IS miles away.
 The Carbon Hill Debate.
 At Carbon Hill school house tonight | was apparent that both candidates ha
 enthusiastic friends in the audience 0
 fully 400 persons, including a number c
 ladies.
 Every available place in the hall wa filled. The stage was draped with larg
 American flags and life-sized portrait
 of Eugene Field, Longfellow and Georg
 Washington adorned the walls. Bot
 Bankhoad and Hobson were cheered whe
 they reached the hall, shortly after T.;
 o'clock.
 Vehicles of every description were
 the grove adjacent to the school hous
 Mayor Romin of Carbon Hill, who wa
 to preside. failed to attend the meetini
 and 1t was called to order by Rev. W. l
 Blevins of the Methodist Church. H
 announced that there would be the san
 division of time as at Jasper, except
 would be reversed.
 He introduced Colonel Bankhead
 speak an hour and fifteen minutes.