The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-09
Communicated R. L. WiNDHAM ENDORSES
 CAPT. R p HORSON

II Is well known throughout the state that Capt. J. II. Bankhead Is machine politician. and for a number of years has been dictating the politics of the Sixth congressional district. but the indications point to his defeat. Mir Bankhead's rec ord as warden of the penitentiary at We tumpka, Ala., has been before the people of this district time and again, as well as his straddling, and standing in with the popullst party which gave him its in- dorsement at East Lake. Ala, just prior to the race of Hon. T. l.. Long for con gress against Bankhead. which came so near defeating him at Guin. Ala. It was claimed and proven that Bankhead did manipulate politics In such a manner as to get the nomination of the populists at East Lake. Mir. Bankhead not only stood in with the populist party at that time, but came out in a letter to a farmer in Winston county denouncing the legal fra ternity in a way that put many of the lawyers In this district against him. MT. Bankhead has lost votes in Walker coun- ty on account of his bill appropriating some of the public lands of Walker county to the negro school at Tuskegee, and put ting said lands beyond the reach of those who wanted to homestead them. Bank head branded Hobson as carpet-bagger, republican. pauper. and intimating his dis honesty, when he. himself failed in the mercantile business at Fayette, and now has judgment after judgment standing against him in the courts of that county, some of them having been compromised at about 20 per cent on the dollar The h. dications point to Hobson carrying Walk CT three to one. and if reports be true, Fayette, Pickens, Sumpter and Hale will give the hero of the Merrlmac majority that will be worthy of one of Alabama s noblest sons.
 r,.,. o,.1 Marion. but with small majorities Lamar and Green will from all indications break about even. as each of these counties did in the Long race. Bankhead has no walk over in this dictrict, as Is well known by all who will take the trouble to infofn; themselves. The anti-Bankhead forces are behind Hobson and the race will be fought to a finish. Pickens county VIII as usual roll up her majority against Bankhead. with Hon. Ed Wilett leading the procession There has always been a strong anti -Bankhead vote in Fayette, and the writer knows that influence Is for Hobson. J. B. Long, one of the leading republicans of Walker. Is supporting Bankhead. Does any man believe that the voters who are meeting the speakers in this joint democratic debate, and de- monstrating their choice in such an em- phatic manner. are all republicans or even half of them? J. B. Long, who IS supporting Bankhead, says his party did not pack the house at Jasper. and that there were only small part of the crowd republicans. Jasper is a democratic beat and most of the people that were lr s'le courthouse were from 1t. It is an injustice and an outrage for the Bankhead forces to attempt to create that impression throughout the state. If MT. Bankhead IS defeated 1t will be by the democrats. He ,s now getting ready to put up the howl that he was defeated by the republicans, when in fact the anti Bankhead demo- crats. coupled with Hobson's popularity will ultimately encompass Bankheads de- feat in the Sixth congressional district
 s.s R. l.. WINDHAM.