The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-04-02
SOME WARM SPEECHES
MIR. RUsHTON AND CAPTAIN
 FORBES ON TEAGUE MEN.
Statements at Court House Meeting Challenged and Declaration Made
 That MT. Teague Changed His Platform as to Gerald.

aerrS Strees that candidate repiyhns | had been caught In a trap" declared
 that the gauntlet had been thrown at ! the meeting of the Teagus followers
 that 1t was freely accepted. | This Is believed by all men in po1it- | ical circles to mean the most interest
 lng climax ha. that va' the l Forbes supporters seemed to be de- | lighted by the statement made at the Teague meeting Thursday night to the
 the race, endeayored to get In their I ranks W. M. Teagde as a candidate.
 and that upon failure to do this Cap
 the trap" They claiIn that inyestiga- tions will show that 1t is MT. Teague's
 supporters who are caught in the Just what is to come from the an- | nouncement of Captain Forbes last l night that the gauntlet will be accept | ed remains to be seen during the week.
 lii. foiowers must :aa explain a tsir | next meeting what they mean by "cir- l cle and rat traps or some sensa- | tional disclosures will come out that
 will put new complexion on the race. | A feature of the club meeting last | night was an address of Ray Rushton, | in which he dissected seriatirn the | speeches that were made last Thurs
 day night at the first public assemb- l lage held by the supporters of MT. l Teague. MT. Rushton, in the opening. | called attention to the Teague meet | ing in the court house, saying that our friends, the enefhy'' had at last | decided to copy the methods Of the | Forbes club and at this late hour have | public meeting.
 MT. Rushton had noticed that the | meeting at the court house had been advertised by dodgers over the city as
 a "Tesgue Meeting;s The gathering with Hamlet left out. This allusion | was to the silence of MT. Teague wno,
 though possibly present, he said, did | not deign to rise and speak on the oc-
 casion. The speaker asked why 1t was
 that the candidate of the other side l did not see fit to say anything to the | public.
 the speeches of the Teague meeting, | the first being from Solicitor Dent, | President of the Teague Campaign
 Club. who was quoted as felicitating | the club that there were 50 few ma | chine politicians present" The man. | ager of Captain Forbes in reply to this | insnuated that the felicitation in this
 case proved an admission that on the | other side there are some machine 1 politicians who are working and that | nowhere did Mir. Dent telicitate him-
 self that machine politicians were not l supporting Mr. Teague."
 Are they ashamed ur their machine politicians? They must be, or else
 why is 1t a cause for felicitation that | so few were presentY said MT. Hush- l ton.
 Mir. Rushton also replied to an ar raignment by Mir. Dent of Captain | Forbess policy of saying what he | would do if elected: Mr. Dent had l drawn the. parallel that court judges | are subjecs to impeachment when they 1 make up their minds before the case is
 heard. MT Rushton agreed with the | elegant gentleman and good lawyer | that judges who do so are fit subjects | for irnueaChment, But in the case of this campaign"
 continued MT. Rushton the evidence
 is already in, the records are made and Captain Forbes has not passed on the
 He declared that if there Is any im | peachment needed JusS at this juno,
 rather than the candidate making the | attack"
 Tyler Goodwyn, another speaker at | the Teague meeting. also came In for
 Goodwin ee aasmef was s0a Attended end to by the | speaker as his good friend. But he l could not understand what the idea of
 his splendid friend" was in choosing "Teague. the man, rather than Teague. l the candidate" In the mind of Mir. Rushton. the two topics are ,insepar- able. when. 1t comes to consider the l like to have Mir. Goodwin explain, he | eaid, at the next meeting to be held l in behalf of Mir. Teagne just what was | meant in the differentiation.
 | 'Is Mir. Teague, the man. a better l subject for discussion than Teague.
 the candidate? If so, why?' asked l the speaker.
 MT. Rushton next put in a rejoinder | to an innuendo from Mir. Goodwin ! Thursday night that the former pug
 zled him (Mr. Goodwyn) why. he (Mr. Rushton) two years ago voted for the
 so-called administration candidate and
 was now energetically supporting an | anti administration candidate. T desire to say right here." declared
 Mir, Rushtcn, that l I'll in the last G election Ion
 am proud of it. I did not vote for
 MT. Anderson and do not regret it.
 Anyhow, 1t is not what I did two years
 city. but the issues or the present
 MT. Rushton then quoted from MT. ] Dents speech in reference to the trap" MT, Rushton asserted that he had reliable information about the
 circle" offering to support Mir. Teague
 on an anti -administrst platform. who, after promising to do so. later turned to the> "other side"
 MT. Dent dare not tell all the facts of MT Teagues connection with the
 snn-administratlon sfnI ad sn eircie ,,, We dare
 meeting he will be compelled to say
 that MT. Teague first agreed to run
 on an anti nti-admlnistration platform.
 and then asked the so-called circle te release him.
 These are the facts, and If disputed
 l can substantiate them by the state
 ments of number of our most sub
 stantiaI citizens. Let them go into it | If they wish and we win make 1t in- l teresting for them"
 Captain Forbes then addressed the
 members of the club. He seemed l flushed with good news reported by his
 lieutenahts in the race. and was espe-
 cially gratlfed Ut the work accom-
 plished by the flying squadron" He declared that better Rppellatlon could
 not have been applied to him and the
 men who are capNpcting the numerous | Forbes meetings than that of the 'fiy-
 ing squadron" He was particularly | proud of it.
 The candidate charged Mir Teasue
 with a silence in the campaign that is
 unfair to the voters. He said that he dld not believe a man should occupy the Mayors chair in Montgomery unless he
 had the nerve io speak out to the peo-
 pie" what he Proposed to do.
 In firm tones Captain Forbes declared his acceptance of the gauntlet which
 Thursday night meeting, saying that un-
 less they made their charges In refer lence to rat-traps more definite he would
 let the people know all about Mir | Teagues connection with the rat trap,
 substantiated by some of the most re-
 liable citizens in Montgomery.
 Bradford Hardie who said he had just
 returned from Birmingham. told of the
 sentiment outside of Montgomery.
 Friends in Birmingham had recently approached him and were glad to see that, the citizens Of. Montgomery were
 finally awakened. The implication was