The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-06-24
NO CHANGE
 IN THE RACE Candidates Have Begun Earnest Canvass. MR. MILLER's STATEMENT Convention Suggestion Mst With
 Favor. npt It |. believed committee win Can Primary AS Soon As Cover
 ner Issues Can.

Tn. campaign for Congress in the sscond T,istrtct Is we'll under way de- spfte the fact that special election ~ which the successor of the late Colonel A. A. wiley will be chosen, has not been ordered by Governor Conner
 nonnced yesterday that he was constd- ering becoming a candidate and would later announce his decision.
 No additional candidates were an- nounced yesterday but a number Of prominent men of the District are piay- ing q waiting game--waiting Tor 1he District Committee to act, or 70 near from their friends in other sections of the District.
 The avowed candidates thus sar are Hon. R. Tyler Goodwin and Hon. Thomas J. Hall, of Montgomery; Hon. William H. Sanford, of Pike and Coi- onel Charles R. Brichen. of Crenshaw.
 These candidates are not losing any time. MT. Goodwin left Montgomery yesterday to begin his canvess or tne District. He expects to be absent a week or longer. Colonel Briclken made his announcement in Montgomery and departed for his home in Luyerne, It Is understood that he VIII visit the southern tier of counties that com prise the district. Mir. Hall may leave in; few day for a canvess of the Dis trict. News comes from Trox the home of MT. Sanford, that he has writ ten a great many letters and that he expects to make an active canvess.
 Captain O. c. Wiley. Of Troy broth. CT of the late Congressman, who has been. mentioned a number -of times for the ofice visited Montgomery yester- day. He came altogether on personal business and while here several of his friends spoke to him of becoming a kN %rxv- (nr,
 Captain Wiley said he was not ready to discuss politics. He intimated that he did not care especially for political prsferment although he said if he ahould decide to become a candidate for the vacancy caused by the death of his distinguished brother, he would give his friends ample sEotice.
 W. A. Henderson, Chairman of the District Comittee, may become can- didate. MT. Henderson, who is citi. zen of Montgomery county, prosper ous farmer and a member of the coun- ty Board of Revenue, said yesterday that he was waiting political develop- ments. Until the Governor ordered an election, he said. no definite decision could be made by him.
 The discussion of the convention Of Democrats instead of primary elec- tion has added interest to the situation. Letters written to The Advertiser by ax-Govarnor Oates of Montgomery. and Hon. Sol. b Bloch, of Wilcox, and pub. lished yesterday morning attracted more favorable notice than one fami- liar with Alabama politics would have expected. In political circles there was much favorable comment on the sugges- tion that a Democrat convention should nominate the candidate for Congress.
 Despite this favorable view of a con- ventfon it is believed that the Commit tee win order a primary. However. the favor shown by many persons to- ward the convention system is inter- esting as showing a revulsion in poll itical sentiment.
 No one of the several men in the va- rious counties of the District whose names have been mentioned in connec. tion with the race for Congress gave any intimation yesterday of their course. It is expected that today sor tomorrow may bring out additional announcements.
 There is a probability that Governor Conner will issue the order for the special election in the District the lat ter part of the week. When this is done all men who are ambitious, to sit in Congress will either annouuce or allow themselves to be eliminated from
 !. N. Miller of Camden. Wilcox coun- ty, sent in the following statement yesterday: A
 'No doubt, because I was a candidate for Congress some years ago when Col. Wiley was first nominated, the public mind turns in some, part to me. can