The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-08-19
Marengo County Safe
 for Ensley Man.
In Choctaw and Clarke Also He Will Win over His Opponent By Good Majorities--Hfs sup-
 Sorters Actively
 at Work.
By WiII T. sI.echan.

l. spondence. )--cioverncr Cunningham l came into Marengo County because he was told hy his friends that although a speech from hint ~ls not necessary lto carry the county, it would nevertbe- 1 less increase the majority by whicn trty cxpented the county to go to tbe lLieutenant- Governor. 50 his friends gct him up barbecue and 1000 peo- pie assembled at Nanafalia to hear him In the wonderful personal campaign Dr. Cunuingha,n is making for Cover nor, Marengo Is the fifty-eighth county into which he has carried his fight. In some counties he has gone twice 1 Tn some of them he has delivered rem three to six speeches. His fight un- backed by any organization, undirect- ed by any advisory body. his fight ai- most singlehanded and alone is ono of the most remarkable campaigns ever waged in Alabama. And 1t will be con- tinued at the present pace up to the night of the 25th.
 Except to please his Marengo County friends who had been laborinR SD siren uously and so energetically in his tn- terest pr. Cunningham was loath to make the trip to Nanitdlja because the trip took two days and a day Is pre- cious thing at thls stage of the Ala bama campaign But after all the time was we'll spent Not only did Dr. Cunningham have the opportunity Of speakine to vast crowd of people meet personally large number of voters from Marengo, Choctaw and Clarke counties In this detail Of meeting voters. in winding them ir wit and arGuiAent in personal conversa- tioa Dr. Cunningham is excclled by no political campaigner of the present day.
 The Three Counties Certain.
 Prominent men from Marengo, Choc- Jaw and Clarke counties advised him to waste no concern ovsr those conn ties They were safely for him he was told and he could give his time and attention to counties which were still in doubt. He was assured that all three counties were his way and. the onlv oeustion to be settled by the eannapign is the question of majority. So all in all Dr. Cunningham had an agreeable stay in Marehgo. Good news like this comes fast and frequent to the Lieutenant-G Governor these Au- gust days. News of this sort pursues him and meets him everywhere he goes.
 sort of campaign Dr. Cunningham is making Is not fun and frolic. It de- mAnds unboundAd energy. great recu- perative powers and splendid strength. to hurry from place to place and speak to the people Of Alabama from one to three times a day. To meet his Ma renEo County friends and to speak to- his Nanafalia audience Dr. Cunning ham had to come from his home in Epsley to Selma and there take train over the Myrtlewood branch of the Louisville and Nashville to Myrtlewood On his way down the Ideutenant-Gov- ernoe was joined on the train by Hon. John J. King at Consul. MT King was a members of the Constitutional Convention and In q recent county pri-1 mary he was nominated for the Sem ate from Marenso County. His op- panent was an outspoken Conner man while Mr. King was for pr. Cunning ham. The Cunninghapl man naturally won in Marengo. MT. King is one of several of the strong men Tn Marengo who are making an aggressive cam paign in the county to increase pr. Cunningham's majority.
 At MyrtIewood, at which place is located the handsome country home of Hon. D. J. Meador. candidate for lJieu- tenant Governor. Dr. Cunningham was met by Dr. s. E. Christopher who drove him through the country thirteen miles to Nanafalia. Thursday night spent at Nanafalia Dr. Cunningham was the guest of Dr. Christopher The bar. becue crowd began to gather early the next morning and early in the morning Dr. Cunningham began to meet them as they came in. There are seven stores at Nanafalia each having place in a fine oaE grove on top of hill. The name. Nanafalia, is obviously of Indian origin and means "a long hill" And like all Indian names 1t is singu- larly appropriate.
 A crowd gathered at each of these stores before the speaking and escorted by party of his interested friends pr. Cunningham moved from one to the other meeting the visitors as they came to town.
 Cunningham Men Active.
 A significant development of this campaign is the activity and aggress- iveness of the Cunningham men at this time There was little of activity and little of actiivty and little of aggress- iveness among the dctor's friends in the early days of the campaign and Mir Corners friends were allowed to talk away to their hearts content But it's different now, since the time has arrived for work The activity and the aggressiveness is now among the Cunningham men, so the Iieutenant- Governor has found in all his late cam paigning.
 The Conner mon. 1t might be Nsaid, have shot their bolt. His literature has been scattered broadcast through out Alabama and anybody that might be interested in 1t has lorg since had many opportunities to read it. There is nothing new that the Conner Cam paign Committee is getting out and the first stuff is an old story. The people who used to be stirred up at the terrible things Fecounted in the Conner literature now yawn when they come across the printed stun. Then Mir. Comer's campaign gives his adher- ents so little to talk about. There is just one thing about it--railroad mat ters and charges of railroad domina- ton. It is an old story now, an old one and monotonous. It has been told so often that 1t has become boring even to men who have made up their minds to vote for Mir. Conner. And Mir. Co., mer's friends have such narrow con- versational field when they begin to talk to voters about the proper way to east their ballots and of the issues of the campaign. At this particular time the Cunningham men have altogether the advantage of the Conner men in trying to convert the undecided voter and they are taking full advantage of 1t. too.
 One of the early corners to the bar becue grounds was Chairman J. H. Hodges of the Democratic Executive Committee of Choctaw County. The line between Marengo and choctaw County is along the Tombigbee River. The irombigbee is only three miles from Nanafalia, and a large number of Choctaw people crossed the river to hear Dr. Cunningham speak.
 Mr. Hodges is staunch friend and admirer of the Lieutenant Governor.
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