The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-03-22

always right, but Mir. Bankhead always votes for their measures and in their in terests. He attacks my Democracy, and yet he has repeatedly voted against his party, where railroad interests are con cerned. am such a Democrat that even as well as I know my opponent, if he is the nominee, will vote for his election" |"
 He charged that Bankhead had coquet- ted with the Populist party, given their campaign fund money, presided at a meeting of theirs in Sumter County and yet claimed that he was always a Si- mon pure Democrat. T cannot see how he can straddle two parties and yet claim to have always been in the middle of the road"
 At the conclusion of Hobson's speech the applause was thunderous. Hobson introduced Bankhead, who on rising. was greeted with much enthusiasm. Bank head spoke with ease and force. He said 1t was painful to have to answer frivo- lous charges and correct inaccurate state ments made by his opponent. As for free rural delivery, the roads here did not admit of that and would have to be im- proved first. He said he had brought Hobson down from his intention of dyna- hitting the locks right away to post ponlng that until after a while.
 
 the chairman of the River and Harbor Committee to write me a letter that he was amazed at such an attack" said Bankhead.
 Captain Hobson asked Bankhead to read the letter and the crowd called to hear 1t. but 1t was not read.
 The locks can allow the passage of 5000 tons of coal per hour or 5000 tons in ten hours. more than there is mined in the State. He attacked Hobson's na- val bill, his proposal to carry the Mon roe doctrine to China; said if China is modernized 1t would be able to take pos session of the worlds markets with cheap labor. The amount that Alabama would have to pay in Hobsons bill would be $66 OOo,OO0. The sum would buy nearly all the Southern States. It would be cheaper to buy what we want than to pay this money to build a fighting navy.
 He said Hobson's retirement was re- fused by two naval boards He had a letter stating this. Hobson asked him to read the letter. The letter was read, and stated two boards. but not medical boards.
 "The Warrior river will not accommo- date bigger locks than it now has, the biggest steamboats can go through these" he said. T offered Hobson that if he could find any Congressmen or Senators in favor of his bill, I'd yield the nomi- nation to him. The navy Is growing as fast as the naval board wants 1t. I have letter from Crumpacker, stating that Hob- son spoke on the platform with him to negroes, and that they did not discuss politics" The letter was read after some urging, and stated that Schley was pres ent at one occasion.
 He lauded the heroism of the Confed- nd fhat heroes as well as any latter day man. He denied that some of the railroad law yers met him in Birmingham as charg- ed.
 He closed with an injunction to the vot- CTS to choose man they thought could best represent them. He was we'll ap- plauded. Captain Hobson. in his re- joinder. aroused greater enthusiasm. He said no man could surpass him in love and honor for Confederate soldiers, but that there were many besides the mem bers from the Sixth. His opponent had only touched three of the seventeen charges of voting for railroads against his party. He defended the accuracy of the records. He said his opponent had come up on him at Hamilton and cried lay on McDun and said that he wanted neither to give nor take quarter. He should follow Macbeth further. After Duncan had been murdered, he cried "out, damned spot. to the bloody rec ord of his deeds. The record of Bank head in Congress wo uld not out It was there for the world to see. and 1t proved that he belonged body and soul, to cor porations. and was therefore unfit to act in measures where corporate interests and labor is involved. Bankhead can see nothing for the United States in China, but a menace, whereas China is our greatest cotton market, and must be kept open and opened further, which can only be done by the United States through an adequate navy.
 As for development of the resources of the State, he would do more than his opponent had ever done. His conclusion was the signal for another ovation and at 2 o'clock the greatest political event witnessed in dale county had passed into history.