The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-12-03
JUDGE HUINDLEY MAY
 LOSE PLACE ON BENCH
Friends and Opponents Are Busy Again Over His Confirmation Some of the Charges
 Against Him.

firmation If the case was pressed. Why even one Democrat on the committee who would never vote t0 confirm Hundley agreed to let the nomination go in. Evidently he knew enough of the sentiment among both Republi- cans and Democfats to convince him that there was not the slightest chance of action either one way or the other last session.
 Some of the Charges. The charges that were filed against Acting Judge Hundley would fill couple of pages in The Advertiser ls they were all taken up and explained in detail. As so many of the people of Alabama are opposed to his con- firnation-Democrats and Republicans alike-a glance at some of the more serious and specific charges may prove interesting at this time. in view of the fact that the fight Is so soon to pc renewed here.
 one of the worst charges and on account of which the opposition con- tend that he Is unfit to be judge, IS intensified by Hundley's admission on the stand that he was convicted or gambling some years ago in Madison county.
 After admitting that he was guilty and asked if he was tried by q jury he said that he was tried only by q judge. The opposition got certified copy of the record which showed that ha was regularly indicted by the grand jury of Madison county.
 Further along in his testimony Hundley tried to make It appear tnat he was being persecuted in that trial by the solicitor, Nicholas Davis, and that although there were other men in 4he game was the only one prose- cuted. Being pushed further Hundiey reversed himself Then the record In the case was sprung and It showed that he was prosecuted by solicitor nau1ed Henry c. Jones instead of Mich" olas Davis.
 There ta said to be lots more before the committee about the acting Judge 3 poker. playing prociiyfties around Huntsville and other centres of popu- latiou in the halcyon days of yore. It isn't really so much that he was in lthe game as some of the ugly fea- fnres that have been revealed, that 1 have injured his chance of connrma- ton.
 CoereIom of Laysyers. In another charge much stress is l laid on the fact that Judge Hundiey knew of the passing of a paper around
 among lawyers at Birmingham while Hundley's court was in session and he on the bench, and that they were ask | ed to sign. petition in favor. of his | confirnation Some of these attor- neys had cases before the court which
 Hundley would have to pass upon. This the opposition has severely con- 1 demned, and it is known here that such conduct greatly shocked most of the
 big lawyers of the Senate.
 The evidence before the Senate com
 mittee is also understood to show
 that on May IT, 1906, Joseph O. l Thompson. one of the Republican ref
 erees for Alabama and collector of in- ternaI revenue, executed to Hundley | a mortgage for $4,500. the transaction having been duly recorded in Lowndes l county, Alabama. The talk here is that Hundley was put on the rack l about this deal with one of the men who got him his appointment as | judge. He tried to explain out of II by saying that he loaned the money in the ordinary course of business.
 Senators who do not think much of this way of doing business are in-
 clinsd to the opinion that if Joe Thompson had been a private citizen