The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-12-03

number Of marked tickets, all CT salu tickets marked for said Hundley. but upon some of them the names of other candidates upon the ticket with said Hundley would be Iest unmarked. That said Hundley would always re- quest of the inspectors that they run him little ahead of the ticket. using the marked ballots he had pre- pared for that purpose. That said Hundiey would accompany his request, run me a little ahead of the ticket, boys with the request that they call on one Henry Mcconnell who was the chairman of the county comfittee. who would give them money which was generally the sum of $50 each. Said Hundley and said Mcdonnell were the men to whom the inspectors would report and from whom they would re- ceive instructions as to the conduct of the election.
 "w. P. Hooper. sworn to and subscribed before me
 this 21st day of February, 1908.
 "H. B. Roper.
 Clerk Circuit Court"
 Not Friendly to Negroes.
 Other serious charges against Act ing Judge Hundley relate to his res olution while a member of the Ala bama Senate requiring that taxes paid by the negro population should alone be used for the education of the ne- gro children of the State.
 Hundley wrote Chairman Clark of the Senate Judiciary Committee a pamphlet on this subject. He tried to skin out of that predicament, but it is very we'll known here that when he was put on the stand and question: ed minuteIy that he got so tangled up that he was Virtually compelled to acknowledge the corn"
 The negroes of Alabama don't like Acting Judge Hundley even a little bit. if some of the letters received here protesting against his conirma- tion are an indication of their feel ings.
 Before Hundley was placed on the bench he was nominated to be United States Attorney for the Northern dis trict. At that time Senator Knox was Attorney General. He was violently opposed to his selection on the ground that he was unfit and had bad rec ord in many essentials. s
 Now, Mir. Knox is member of tho Senate Judiciary Committee before which the nomination of Hundley was considered. It has been. if all reports are true, sickening experience for the Senator
 If Senators Morgan and Pettus were alive today thls nomination would not be before the Senate. for Hundley would doubtless have been rejected long ago and a more acceptable Ala baTna Republican would be perform Ing the duties of judge.
 Hundley's friends have tried to cre- ate the impression that he Is opposed have one of their own party men ap- pointed. There is no truth In this as- sertion. Any worthy Republican who might have been named would not have had the slightest opposition on the part of tine Alabama Democrats in Congress. lfs
 RepoTt of Senator Pettus. Below will be found extracts from tho written report prepared by the late Senator Pettus In behalf of him- self and another member of the sub committee of three near the close of the '69th Congress, on the nomination of HundIey for United States Attor- ney for the Northern district of Ala hama:
 having presented MT. Hundley's rec ord. as contained in Alabama Senate journals to submit to the Senate facts or charges of saes personal character, filed for several weeks in this case, giving MT. Hundley full opportunity to deny the same,
 "An editorial on December sth print. cd in The Daily Tribune. at Hunts vile. Ala, where Mir. Hundley resides, a Republican paper and for many years the official organ of the Repub- Iican Party of Alabama. headed, "A Plain Sell Out charging Mir. Hundley with conduct wholly unbecoming a gentleman, or a good citizen. Your committee while not disposed to aS- tach any considerable importance to . newspaper article. feels constrained when the matter referred to in the newspaper editorial is reiterated de- nounces corruption by leading Repub- iicans claiming to be, cognizant of the. fact a
 we attach as exhibit D the edi- torial referred to in The Daily Trib. une, and a letter of Hon. Charles P Lane, the editor of The, Daily Trih- une; and the letter of Hon. Asa B. Stratton, addressed to Hon. Edmund W. Pettus, of date January Sth, 1907. These charges are reiterated in other letters alta he'd to said exhibit.
 "It appears to your committee that such charges coming from newspa- per in a mans own town, as well as from others knowing MT. Hundley, and being of such a grave character, in- volving the integrity, character, and truth of man. are entitled to some notice, or answer. or explanation. And especially if he Is asking to be ap- pointed to high and responsible Fed eral ofiice."
 "The evidence presented to your committee fails to present to us Mir. Hundley as a man of high character and credit with those who know him., It Is hard for us to sec how any other conclusion than this can be reached after a full, fair, and dispassionat@ examination of all the evidence before us
 ''we believe that the government ought to be represented. at least in Its important judicial positions, ny men of character, integrity, honor and ca- pacity--a man entitled to and who en- joys the confidence and respect Of those who know him Lest. Your com nnittee is of the opinion that Mir. Hund- lev falls far. short of that standard. and we do not believe under the cir cumstances that he is worthy of hold ing a high and important Federal of- flee. Republicans Of this kinC can DC found in Alabama.
 eve respectfully report to the Sem ate against his confirmation as United States District Attorney for the North ern District of Alabama"
 Opponents Are Active.
 The opponents, of Oscar R. Hundiey are going to fight him just as vignr- ously during the coming winter as tbev aid during the last session of Congress. They seem to be certain that they can prevent his eonfrma- ion, At the same time 1t is we'll known fact that Hundleys packers are going to bestir themselves also, for it ts now or never for the acting judge If he fails Of connrInation pc. tween now and March 4th 1t will
 IT ia renorted here that his Republi- can onnoneu4s in Alabama have some