The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-03-15

will not engage in personalities in this campaign" replied Captain Forbes. You can go and find out for yourself whether what you ask Is a fact or not.
 like other people have already done" This spirit of Captain Forbes was vigorously appiauded.
 Yet while the orators of the evening were abstemious of character -slugEing with regards to Mir. Teague, Chief of latter an ardent member of the Teagus Campaign Club, were targets for some straight innuendoes which in pool-room parlance were anything but pot shots"
 E. E. Hill, an ex- policeman of veteran service. arose by request and opened a heavily loaded blunderbuss upon the chief of police. chief over him and chtef now. MT. Hill told of how he had been discharged from the police force with out provocation by Chief Gerald. He told of how a Confederate veteran, Sergeant of Police Thomas, was dis missed from the force because he att tended to his duty at his post upstairs at headquarters and did not continual ly sit downstairs with the chief to talk with him. 't st'a
 By the speaker the chief was term ed hard-heartef and the declaration was made that Sergeant Thomas was turned ofh because he was too honest for the chief we now have"
 After characterixing the Teague plat from as an empty document. and say ing that only at Forbes's. meeting could discussion of Issues be heard. MT. Shee- han introduced Captain Forbes amid applause as the man with a message and a candidate with an issue"
 Captain Forbes was. grateful for the attendance in what had been pictured to him as long ago solid for another candidate.
 He was proud of the fact that he had been in Montgomery over twenty years and during that time had been associated with much of the material upbuilding of the city. He said he had also sought public offices but in none of his races had he exhibited per- sonal aggrandizement. He was always moved by considerations for the public good.
 Captain Forbes recalled his marriage nineteen years ago in Ward 5 and he heartily believed that ''the majority of voters of this ward will come up at the primary and cast their votes for me on April 10."
 He said he had disregarded and would continue to disregard the clam orous betting propositions on the curbs |of Commerce Street. He expressed confidence in the independent vote of Montgomery.
 He was not engaged, he said. in col- lecting "whiskey" votes nor distribut- ing promises. He declared that If among his followers he had an office- seeker he did not know it, nor was 1t to be expected with a plank in his platform to discourage all heelers and henchmen of the appointing power. Captain Forbes said all the politi- clans were gathered around the other candidate and that bets were profuse- ly offered on the streets, but that the bets were diminishing in their odds. He predicted that before the primary date arrived the other side would not be offering even bets. Insinuations were made against the efforts of the Chief of Police to chase the gamblers from the city. The can didate charged that gamblers driven from Birmingham and Atlanta seemed to take to the legend of this State, Here We Rest" and camp on Mont- gomery soil.
 The speaker elicited some applause when he feelingly declared that if 1t cost him his last drop of blood he would see that the gambling laws were enforced.
 As President of the Commercial and Industrial Association, Captain Forbes said, that he had met with capitalists who would have chosen to locate man ufacturing plants in Montgomery but. passed it by when informed that ring of politicians run the city. The speaker declared for a progressive city which long ago should have been so far advanced that Atlanta would have been trying to grow as big.
 Other speeches were made by E. N. Rowel1, l.. L.. Lassiter, Duncan May, U. E, Worswick, O. F. Warner, Mar shall B. King and Mir. Brand.