The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-03-02
POLITICS IN SIXTH
THE BANKHEAD-HoBsoN RACE IS
 AGAIN ON.
Friends of the Congressman Assert That He win Have no Dini- csyty This Time In Defeat
 ing the Captain.

Sullig6nt, March 1.-(Special. )--- There are just now more poiitics s1 the square inch in the Sixth DistIi a,s ios s than anywhere else in Alabama. tne surplus Is due more than any other one fhfl,g 10 the second Congressional hghs which has just opened between con gresNnan J. Fl. Bankhead and capt. Richmond Pearson Hobson.
 StiI the Congressional night IS nor near So lively as the sensational strug- gle of two years ago, and from a!i m dfcatfous it is safe to predict that tnere will not be any such Kilkenny ngnt as the first cotnest was. The people are refusirr to get wrought up as they were two years ago when Captain Hop- sons picturesque personality was new thing in Alabama politics ana the people discovered TOT the nrst tinle . .nas sas the naval hero was an orator ana TOT the time being successful spellbinder.
 Beyond doubt at the present stage of the campaign, Congressman Bankhead's friends are much hrmer n tnelr con. any time ia the first fighs between the two. There isn't Bankhead man in the district but who will assert with positive assurance that the veteran Congressman is going to beat hls younger opponent much worse than he beat him two years ago.
 captatn HObson for several weeks has been canvassing the district AL ready in this present campaign he has spoken twice here at Sulligent In q number of other places he has spoken twice and he is even new engaged in making house to house canvass.
 Rankh@nd in Washington.
 Congressman Bankhead has so far taken the fight easily. He has been answering roll calls and attending to business at the Capitol in Washington. But the word has passed around among his friends that he will be home in a few days and that he is going through the district with a fine tooth comb. He may not daliver any speeches at all. It Is improbable that there will be a repetition of those sensational debates of two years ago. But the veteran proposes to. go over the district from end to end and have a heart to heart talk with practically every voter in its limits.
 ii is plain to see that the Bankhead men are sitting easy in the boat and looking for a whole lot bigger victory than they won n 1904. They are ass serting with pleased assurances that the naval hero is not new. and not SC attractive as he was when his speeches and his personality were flashing and magnetic. They would have a stranger believe that his charm was waning and that try as hard as he may he does voters as they were stirred in the frs fight They wo lid have one believe that the naval hero has shot his boil and there's nothing effective left in hi; And they would have one furthei believe that the Banukhead organiza ton is stronger now than 1t ever wa before. The Bankhead folks are go with bad faith. They are saying. blu the charge is denied by Captain Hobsoi and his friends. they are saying Ina Captain Hobson wIlfuIly refused t qualify himself as an elector. after b was defeated by Congressnlan Bank head. The Bankhead men are recall ing the pTsliminaTy Gf 1sas shs first I5n fign' tarily agreed to allow Captain Hob sons name to be printed on the ticket although he was not H qualified vot CT.
 Charge Against Hobson.
 They are charging that Captain Hob son asserts that he was sent for b. ised that he would qnaltfy himself q head men are asserting that in spite 0 this Captain Hobson did not qualif. himself and did vote for the nomt nee of the Congressional primary.
 In reply to this charee Captain Hob son asserts that he was went for b. the National Democratic Exeeutiv Committee and put to work n1akinl speeches for Parker in the north an' on account of which he had no %lauc to qualify himself. The Bankhea men are declaring that they can refut this assertion by showing that par books were open Captain Hobson wa in Alabama and in easy access t Greensboro. It is understood tha they have collected some dates an figures on this matter which will pla. some part in the present campaign.
 The campaign itselr had d sensation al opening some weeks ago at Fayett immediately after q speech by Ca
 date B. B. Conner. Congressman Bank head and Captain Hobson both hap pened to be present. When MT. Come had concluded Captain Hobson too the platform and announced that h heartily endorsed the views of the anti railroad candidate ana that he woul support him throughout the cam
 He then demanded that Congress man Bankhead say who he would SUI
 TO this Congressman Bankhead sal slowly and distinctly while he locke his Younger opponent In the eye:
 T deny the right Of any man VT his life to ask mo bow I propose cast my ballot"
 The incident was not on the Como program at all and the anLl1rMaliros M es connection with the affair. It has bee asserted in the district and out or U district that there IS coanLlon alliance between Conner and. Hobso MT. Conner however. denies that thei IS 'i any sort of alliance or coalition D. tween him and the naval hero. H says positively that he IS not trying take hand in the Sixth Distri. fight and that he is not going to 2 for Bankhead. He has spoke from tt same platform with Hopson but he say ne would just as readily speak fro the same platform with , Ba@nkneaa' @ liance grew out of the fact that near