The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-04-02
VOTE CAST FOR
 CITY FATHERS
tContlnued from Pase one.)

 he was easily persusded by hts friend to go out and Gast GnosaIs ss Saaoea Salot ton day hacks. The candidates by common consent semed to be running an economical campaign as It drew to a close. There is no money in the nothing for the service of an alder men. It costs some money to make candidates became economical and ex- penses were cut.
 Some of the candidates kept bugeiss to the nolls A few hired Hns, buggies dsr for hack was conspicuous by its absence; kept up until the last. Each polling place was well crowded throughout the day. but the rivalry between the never mS' n intense Opfh enough to cause any feeling. Campaign jokes continued to be manufactured and the, old lokes All the campaign workers wanted was a fair chance to push their card upon the approaching voter and all got that. Anyth ng else would have been aFainst the unwritten rules of the game.
 Candidates Were Busy.
 The candidates for aldermen at large had an organization of some effective places in the city each of the four candidates had some friend to repre- sent him in tsndi"g out cards and in voter. Sot The Candidates themselves eth. CT travelled from polling place to polling place or they remained at the voting place at which they believed
 The ward candidates spent the whole day at their polling place where they could personally buttonhole the voters some o frena n0t or heper e sandng with a handful of cards waiting to preesnt last appeal to the voter as he went Hosr n t9 maFk hf had to run gauntlet before he could present him self to the election. mana ,ers and be given blank ticket. He, had to push crowd and incidently he managed to collect a hatful ot cards before he had psses ths Sg on fdrset ps ths name" "Remember him when you go n oS ss all right Hsa1 Erbt make old msn ySp you know what to do.'
 The voter soon realized that when he cast his ballot he had become a per son of no small consequence to the as- sembled crowd.
 labor vote was "scratchine" the name of Mayor W. M. Teague. This was made manifest at different polling places the city It tb~ was vote would fall short of the total vote because of the efforts of the union la bor people to have his name leu off their ballots.
 The labor peoples single objection to the Mayor was that, they claimed he had not favored the striking street car men in the pending labor troubles in the city. The negative opposition cut but a small figure in the Mayors total vote for reelection.
 It is believed, too, that some of the whiskey men of the city failed to. mark a cross opposite the name of the Mayor. This was taken as result of his firm stand on enforcing the Sun day law. But the opposition had but small effect on the Mayors unopposed nomination for his second term.
 During the day the interest seemed to center chiefly about the contests in or wrongly there was an idea preva- lent that in these wards with five can didates each, there would be the hot test races. At the polling places in these wards perhaps the largest crowds were gathered.
 But no ward lacked a contest. In every ward of the city there was com petition for the job of alderman and no man had walk over. This wealth of contests, one in every ward of the city. lent zest and interest to the day s voting.
 The Vote In Detail. The full vote was as follows: