The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-10-06
ROUGH PATH
 FOR HUNDLEY Alabama Judge May Not Be Confirmed. INDICATIONS AGAINST HIM Case Continues to Cause Dis
 cusSion. AIabs- Lawyers, It is Aid. Have withdrawn Endor; ements Shell by Pleasants Is Among Those
 Nho Are Mentioned. 
RY ALFREn ,. sToFER.


 Washington. Oct. 4-(Special. l-Indi- cations are that the path of Oscar R. Hundley. acting United States Judge for the Northern District of Alabama will be ev rougher during the next few months than in the Last.
 The chances are that when certain agencies get to work just after the No- vember election that President Roose- welt will be induced to withdraw the name of Hundley and send a new nom- ination to the Senate. There was talk along that line during the last session of Congress.
 The friends and packers of Hundley kept insisting that in spite of the in- tense opposition manifested here and in Alabama he would be connrmed before the close of the session. The President through the frtendliness of Attorney General Bonaparte for Hundlev seemed to be of the opinion that probably Hundlev would get through. But real lv MT. Roosevelt was then absorbed in other business to such an extent that he had little time to give serious thought to the acting judge.
 Whenever they had an opportunity to get the ear O. ...e President the sup porte-s of Hundley managed to whis- per to the Execu i've that it would be all right in the end. and to pay no att tention to the protests of the six Democratic 1resentatives from Ala bama and the press of the State. that Hundlev had sufficient support in the Senate. anC that ' lille 1t might be du- ring the last days of the session he would certainly be confirmed. and then he could laugh tt the efforts of the opposition to defeat him
 But Congress adjourned. with the Hundley nomination hanging up in the of the fact. too. that the Rep ublicans have an overwhelming majority in the Senate. and with the Alabama Senatora also supposed to be in favor of the confirmation of a man known to be objectionable to many citizens of the State, Republicans as well as Demo- crats.
 Work For Another Man.
 The understanding ere and in Ala bama is that just after the election steps will be taken to induce the Pres ident to select another man for judge
 It stands to reason that Hundley is most objectionable otherwise he would have been confirmed long ago. This proposition oi. ss face Is so plain that it admits of no argument. If the President does not know he will be in- formed that there are no less than haIf-dozen Itep, 5licans in that section of Alabama who are conceded to be straight and no possible objection could be raised against them.
 Take Shelby Pleasants, of Huntsville, for instance. His name happens to oc- cur to the writer because the report was out in the spring of this year that if the Sen. te failed to confirm Hund ley before the recent adjournment, the President Jas likely to send in, his name at the beginning of the winter session of ngress.
 The statement can be safely made right now that if MT. Pleasants or any other Alabama Republican with as good a. record were to be sub- stittlted for the acting judge, there would not be the slightest ob5ec- tion on the part of the Alabama Representatives who united i:i a strong protest to the Senate Judiciary ComN mittee, and have done all in their pow CT to prevent Hundley's confirmation, believing that in the position as- sumed they reflect the sentiment of 1 the people of Alabama. They have 1 not been fighting Hundley because he !