The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-03-26


 we know and It cannot be suscess- fully contradicted," declared O. F. War ner, that this Chief of Police allows Mir. A. to keep his bar room open on Sunday while denying the same right to Mir. B."
 These and other pointed statements were flashed at the Forbes meeting and the half a hundred voters who had gathered in the room applauded the speakers.
 Before the meeting was called to or- lder at s:30 o'clock announcement was made that 1907 voters had registered and that ''three-quarters of them are for Forbes" This announcement was applauded with enthusiasm. Ray Rushton. presiding over the meeting. made an earnest address to the voters. He said that the campaign had passed the stage when Captain Forbes and his friends realized they had an uphill light They now felt confident of success. There was in- tense interest in the campaign, he said. and he had found that a large number of voters had not yet decided which candidate they would support This. he said, was due to the fact that many of the voters were waiting to ascer- tain where Mir. Teague stood. He said Mir. Teague had not yet spoken as to his views on the questions before the people and the people had made up their minds they were going to know what the candidates stood for. MT. Rushton said there could be no doubt about the position of Captain Forbes. He had given his views and everyone, said Mir. Rushton, except perhaps Mir. Nathan Burks, comedies that Captain Forbes is young. courage ous. honest, energetic and capable" Allusion was made by Mir. Rushton Ito so-called sentiment for Police Chief Gerald. He said that one of the car dinal principles of good government, an unwritten law, was that no man should serve more than two terms In public office. He said the people of Montgomery could well afford to apply the same rules to their home affairs as were applied to the affairs of the State and the nation. Instead of con- ditions improving from year to year. Mir. Rushton said they were growing worse, because men reached the point where they felt they owned the ofiices.
 Our candidate." said Mir. Rushton,
 tells us that he proposes to make changes. Everybody who knows him realizes that they will be changes for the public good.'
 He expressed the opinion that if 1 something would happen to our Chief of Police. Montgomery would rock
 along all right"
 In closing. Mir. Rushton urged the
 friends of Captain Forbes to go to work
 and to work until the primary. O. O. Nelson, one of the Vice-Presi- dents, being called upon, said that the other day he met a citizen and the fol- lowing conversation took place: Citizen-Nelson, I believe Forbes Is going to beat Teague. The undercur- | rent is something awful.
 Nelson-Well, I hope to God he does. Citizen-why. are for for Forbes? Nelson-I am.
 Citizen-Well, I'm not.
 This was all the speech made by Mir.
 Nelson. but 1t made a happy hit with
 the friends of Captain Forbes. | o. F. Warner addressed the club
 briefly, paralleling the platforms of
 Messrs. Forbes and Teague and dwell | ing at some length upon the conduct of the police department He said that Captain Forbes's platform was backed
 by Captain Forbes's high character and that Mir. Teague did not even promise
 the citizens to do anything for the city
 or for good government.
 | Remarks were made by Cal l.. Brown, Duncan May and William Brand, after | which MT. Rushton called upon Captain
 Forbes, who spoke briefly. The candidate in beginning his re-
 marks, made an agreeable allusion to
 the presence in the meeting of R. D.
 Lee of West End, a candidate for AL
 derman from Ward 1. He said Mont gomery must look for its future great ness to the citizens who manifest a deep interest in it's affairs. The pres ence at the meeting of MT. Lee, he said, 1 indicated that Mir. Lee was friend of | good government.
 He reiterated his pledge to keep in- violate the principles he had pledged to the people if he was elected. Interest in the campaign Captain Forbes said was remarkable. The heavy registration. he said, meant that there would be the largest vote in many years. No candidate. he said. could conscientiously claim 50 per cent. of the vote, as he believed it would be an independent vote for good gove ernment.
 Captain Forbes criticised the so- called ring and said that the ring" was now proposing to perpetuate itself | for ten years and was following up this announcement with proposition to bet $10.
 He said that not so much betting was being done lately by the ring They started out," he said, "by say ing that would get about $50 votes. Later they allowed me $50 votes and I heard the other day that they were now figuring I would get 800 votes Next week l suspect they will give me more than that"
 At the close of his address Captain Forbes was liberally applauded.
 W. T. Sheehan reported on the &C., tion of the Central Council and the