The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-08-03

 A SHORT AND
 LIVELY RACE Second District Cam paign Has Six Weeks. WHAT CANDIDATES ARE DOING Personal Contact With the
 Voters, Practically All of Candidates VIII spend Time In Going from Place
 to Place in the Nine
 Counties.
WHAT CANDIDATES ARE DOING

"A short life and merry one" Such will be the campaign for Congress in the Second District, of which there win be six weeks for the candidates to get about in.
 Solicitor S. H. Dent. IT. of Mont gomery, beginning today, will so from place to place in the nine counties see- ing the voters and presenting his can didacy. William H. Sanford of Troy has already made a more or less tour of the district. He has been about. perhaps, more than any other candidate. He says he will keep up the travelling and speaking until the campaign has ended. Thomas J. Hall of Montgom- cry, another announced candidate, has made several trips. 1t is understood that he will put in a considerable part of the time in visiting various places in the Second. Colonel Charles R. Bricken Is at Chickamauga, in com mand of the Second Alabama Infantry Ffo is expected to begin active travel ing as soon as the manervers are over |.
 0. A. Sanders, a former Populist has announced as a candidate for the va cancy, but his campaign plans are ua- known.
 The line dividing state and Federal authority. 'that twilight land" as President Roosevelt has called 1t, ap- pears to be the principal issue in the Second District light. This is indi- cated by the literature which is going to the voters. MT. Sanford has had published and has sent out deelara- tion of his principles. He dealt par ticularly with the passage of the anti shipping law favored by the prohibi- tionists and which would forbid the shipment of liquor into territory dry by an act of the State. Mir. Dent, in the nsm Aif. fers with him on this question, saying that 1t would establish a system of espionage at the State line by Federal authorities. and he holds also that such an act would be unconstitutional, Mir. Dent prefers, he says, to support a bill forbidding the Government to grant liquor licenses In territory dry by an act of the State Legislature. Both of them have it in for Federal inJunctions.
 The other candidates have not yet discussed so fully any of the possible issues of the campaign.
 The candidates need be in no hurry to qualify. They will have until the latter part of August to pay the $500 assessment of the Second District Con- grexsiona1 Committee. The heavy as- seAsment has brought on one of the most interesting discussions of the cainpaign.- The cry has been raised mat tuGn GoHC5cAAOtAAS VAtAo SAAO RSYA man from running for office. The com mittee, through Chairman Henderson has answered that the primary costs money and can not be run without money. The chairman showed that S2.400 would be needed to conduct the primary in the Second District and that this the candidates would have to pay.
 For the short term. the assessment was fixed ats200. Capt. O. c. Wiley of Troy is an announced candidate for the short term. Thomas H. Clark of Montgomery has been frequently men tioned in this connection, but as yet he has made no announcement of his intention. For the present. Captain wiley has no opposition for the short term.