The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-06-18
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Camden, June l0.--lSpeclal cor respondence, 1.-Two railroad lines pierce Wilcox County On the east is the one line on the west the other.
 The eastern end of the county is overwhelmingly for Cunningham. The western end is for Conner. In other words where the one line runs the sen timent is for Cunningham and where the other runs the sentiment is for Co- mar. The difference in sentiment is the difference in the service furnished by the two roads, so say prominent citizens of Wilcox County.
 No attempt Is here made to draw in dfvsdual comparisons between the two roads. for man who spends couple of days driving from one end Qf the county to the other may find out some things and get a line on the prevail ing political sentiment, but he can hardly say with authority, from his own personal observations, that this road or that road Is giving the people 6 poor service. but he can reflect the sentiment as it is shown to him.
 And without an exception men who talk about the sentiment f"r Sonter Tn west Wilcox and for Cunningham In East Wilcox, say that 1t is primarily due to the difference in service.
 If this Is indicative of Wilcox coun- tvs political feeling then East Wilcox and West Wilcox are going to give opposing majorities. In this both Co., mer and Cunningham men are agreed Cunningham majority and Coper majority will meet at the river. But the Cunningham men are quite confl- dent that the doctors majority will easily outsize the vote of the mill man.
 Big CunninRham Ciub.
 The Cunningham men point with pride to the size of the membership roll of the Cunningham Club in Camden. In Camden Beat, so the best informed men say, there are 12e voters. Of these no less than eighty are members or the Cunningham Club.
 ssThe membership of the Cunningham Club fairly reflects the sentiment of Camden Beat" said Miller Bonner, prominent Camden attorney.
 q should say that the vote will be at least two to enc In Cunninghams favor. The per centage of Cunningham voters may be even larger. Local con, ditions will probably effect the final vote. You see we have on just now tNs warmest county campaign we have ever had. Wilcox county has five can- aidates for probate judge, eight for sheriff and five for the county's two places in the lower house of the iegis- lature. Naturally some tranicklng IS going on between the county candidates and the friends of the two gubernato- rial candidates. It Is perhaps possible thai this trading has to little extent affected the vote of Governor Cunning ham. But there Is no reason to doupt that he will carry the county, not py a large majority. But he VIII carry 1t and this, you know was one or tne Alabama counties that gave SoincF one of his big majorities.'
 Dr Cunningham had not ridden many miles over the hills of Wilcox before he found that the county was seethihS noIitieally and that most of the SUIT was about county officers. It VIII pc recalled that Probate Judge James q. Rerk died on the 9th of May and tnat following his death there was iive- lv fight in Wilcox for the vacancy fight which finally terminated in the anrointment of Captain ]. Fleet Eos fer Judge Beck had served about eighteen months of his six years term, but the question has been raised as te whether the appointment given I,.ege Foster, by Governor Jelks IS g.sd for the remainder of the term or good only until after the next general ele stion.
 The Probate Judgeship.
 \ pretty legal point is involved on
 sich Attorney General Massey Will
 has passed an opinion which sus-
 ms the contention of Judge Posters s
 ends that he is entitled to the of
 .e even after the next election. The Wilcox Executive Committee. howev- CT, decided that there should be vote by the people on the probate judge ship in the August primary and so Judge Foster with four other promi- nent gentlemen of the county are aspi- rants for the honor. It Is generally conceded, however that should Judge Foster be defeated he will make a fight in the courts for the right to finish out the unexpifed term of Judge Beck's term.
 There is enough in this one feature to give special interest to the Wilcox county campaign. The four candidates who are contesting in the present cam paign with Judge Foster are Richard Jones. c. Lee Albritton, N. D. Godbold and J. N. Stanford.
 But the race for Probate Judge is not monopoiizing by any means the political forum of Wilcox. Prospective sheriffs and prospective members of the Legislature are constantly out and in among the people. For sheriff the eight aspirants are w. F. McWil- Hams, N. H. Holt. s. D. Moore, Sr., T. F. Laird, J. T. Pow ell, J. D. Jenkins, J. I. Davis and M E. Curtis. And they are covering ground, too, are these shrievalty can didates. The i've contestants for Will coxs two places In the lower House are Sol D. Bloch. Daniel c. Cook, Francis NJ. Purifoy, Frank Watts and Lee McMillan.
 So one is not far wrong when he says that Wilcox county just now has more politicians to the square inch than any other county in thA State On his long drive of nearly twenty