The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-11-04
POLITICAL GOSSIP HEARD AT CAPITAL State Campaign is Now Practi-
 caIIy Ended FRIENDSHIP FOR HEARST His Race Has Aroused Much Sym. pathy in AIabama-Gossip About
 Future of the Cotton
 Industry.
FRIENDSHIP FOR HEARST
BY HERVEY w. LAIRD.

Montgomery, November 3.-(Special)- With the end of the week comes the practical end of the campaign for state offices, and no one doubts winds up fight in which the nominees of the democ- racy will be signally victorious State Chairman J. Craig Smith believes that it will show wonderful increases in the majority of the party candidates in all sections of the commonwealth, and that the opposers of the party will be set to rout at every turn. There has been good round of speaking and the spell binders have done everything they could to make the fight a winning one.
 There is, however, some doubt on the part of the general public, as regards the situation in Jefferson and Walker counties. where fights are on for other than regular nominees for the office of sheriff. These disaffections are not re- garded in other parts of the state in the nature of bolts, and truth forces any one who talks about it to say that Mir. Higgins in Walker, and Colonel Higdon in Jefferson, have some very strong men in their behalf.
 The good feeling, however-for the state is really very little interested in the two fights mentioned-comes from the hope
  of counties which have been hard to keep in line since the Kolb movement some years ago. Returns indicate that there will be much of political home coming ere the last of the daylight of next Tuesday.
 Hearst Sentiment.
 The friendship that exists for William Randolph Hearst in this section of the country is quite remarkable, in the face of the fact that no one has paid much attention to him in any particular way. There are many who predict that in the event he Is elected in New York he will have the Alabama delegation for Pres- dent next time if he wants it. This is hardly thought by the best posted to be so, but it is fact that MT. Bryan will have to step lively if the good will for the New York editor is not built up above the fences guarding his interests in Alabama.
 It is also a fact that the whirl for Bryan few weeks ago when Ee came home from abroad, has waned to some extent and he will not have so easy a time Keeping in" with the Alabama voter as he has in the past, if he does not have a care. A few weeks ago the writer attended a meeting of a club made up of some of the leading men Of the city. The paper was on Bryan, and gave h1m a me SGnQOH. I1dL SdIlle Stl Ol men met this week and several agreed that MT. Bryan and his public owner ship ideas were not to their liking. How ever, the Nebraskan is very popular in Alabama and MT. Hearst would have a hard time beating him out for the votes Hotel Annex Talk.
 The truth of the prediction that the erection of a modern hotel in Montgom- cry would bring greatly increased de- mands for hotel accommodations, seems to have been borne out by the facts. Since the erection of the New Exchange there has been such a run on the place that al- ready the directors are discussing the question of an annex, it being thought that in this way large crowds might be cared for and make it possible to invite conventions with many members to come to the city.
 The state convention and the state fair filled the house to it's very doors, and many had to be sent away on both occa- sions. Chief Clerk John Moffatt said this week that he had not gotten back to terra firma since the rush. The circus came with the close of the fair and kept the crowd up for two days of its own accord. Speaking of Clerk Moffatt it will not be amss to say that through 1t all he wore a smile that would not come off.
 An interesting thing about the hotel is that it has put none of the older houses