The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-02-19
FORBES MEN CONFIDENT
ENTHUSIASTIC MEETING OF THE
 CAMPAIGN CLUB,
OppOsition Club is Accused of Forming Combination to Secure Control of City and County
 Offices.

The reported cOmDlnaIlOns SdlQ to have been made by prominent support CTS of the opposition candidates to control city and county offices came in for much facetious comment at the meeting of the Forbes Club last night. held at the campaign headquarters of Captain A c. Forbes.
 More than one of the speakers allud- ed to the reports current on the streets that combination had been formed at the Teague headquarters to control of fees in the city and county of Mont gomery for the next ten years.
 Captain L. L. Lasseter was called to preside over the meeting in the absence of President J. s, Wilcox In assum- ing the chair. Captain Lasseter said:
 This Is the first time I ever had the pleasure of presiding over Forbes meeting, and 1t will be the last if my present plans mature. You see, I un- dersrsnd that our friends down the street have not only fixed all the offices of the city of Montgomery for the next ten years, but they have now parcelled out the county offices and are prepar- ing to widen their operations to State offices. I don't mind telling you that I have opened negotiations with the Teague people for the nomination for Governor, and if the thing can be fixed &S SdSl1y dS lHS Olu6F JOpS nave DcCn fixed. won't be with you any more"
 eff they haven't promised the job of Lieutenant-Governor. I wish you would see If you couldn't arrange it for me-" called a voice from the rear of the room.
 The meeting was the most enthusias- tic that the Forbes Club has yet held. The sentiment of the meeting, the feature of the past week in the cam paign as the Forbes men have seen it, | was expressed by Ray Rushton, man. ager for Captain Forbes, who declared that the Forbes campaign was on the | ascendant. and that the many changes from other candidates to Captain Forbes had been especially gratifying. A great many. Mir. Rushton said, had come over in the past week, too, who had never previously expressed them selves.
 Captain Forbes's campaign" said | MT. Rushton, has marked d new era
 in the politics of Montgomery. Never
 before has so frank and so bold a cam
 paign been made in this city. The peo- pie have from the outset been taken
 into his confidence. He has said plain
 ly to the people of the city, I don't pro-
 pose to be Mayor and have my hands | tied. I don't propose to be trammelIed
 in the office The only difficulty and
 the difficulty this club should seek to | remove, is to get people to think of
 the issues at stake. If we get the peo-
 pie of Montgomery to thinking of just what the ca paign means, our candi-
 date will be chosen by the heaviest sort
 of majority"
 Captain Forbes. in response to a call,
 made a short talk in which he earn
 estly thanked the members of the club Par shown by the great number of expres- sions he had received and the great many changes that had been brought to his notice. He appreciated the fact that the politicians were against him. l The fight they were making against him because they were in this campaign for personal interest or for personal gain.
 He took occasion to reaff1rm the em- phatic platform he had previously an ] nounced, and to say that his friends | could assure all people that the plat | form would be carried out to the letter The present campaign was a campaign l of education. The work to be done was to fix in the minds of the people thu l issues which were at stake. Nothing had been hidden from the people. They | knew every move, everything that had l been done in the Forbes campaign And he assured his hearers that the people would be kept in the confidence of those who were at the head of his cam 'paign.
 Short talks were made by L. L. Las setter. Joseph Powell. T. R. Hicks. S. P. Hunter. NJ B. King. Bradford Hardie and Messrs. Tolleson, Wheeler and | Cameron.
 The tone of all speeches delivered
 was confident and hopeful All the speakers called attention to changes of | political sentiment that came under his
 personal notice. They expressed the
 belief that the open fight Captain Forbes was making was resulting In
 great changes throughout the city. It was announced that a big Forbes
 rally would be held Thursday night at | Highland Park.