The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-08-06
HENDERSON WILL NOT RUN Announces He is Not in
 the Race. HAWTHORNE MAY ENTER Thinks of Running for the Short
 Term. Henderson Says He Will Not Tackle An "Uncertainty' Under Existing oonditions.--what the candi
 dates Are Deins ip the
 

Chairman W. A. Henderson of the Second District Executive Conittee yesterday annouced that he would not be candidate in the present race Tor Congress in the Second. Until yester- day Mir. Henderson refused to be counted out of the race. but his state ment leaves only two Montgomery County candidates in the race. Messrs s. H Dent and Thomas J. Hall.
 In his statement Mir. Henderson said:
 T must confess that I have been strongly persuaded that I could succeed in the race. but recognise the Tact that there are many obstacles in the way and the main one of them is that I have neither the time nor the means to make the race on an uncertainty. I cannot see 1t that way and consequent ly will not be a candidate"
 In the meanwhile the other candi- dates are making hay. MessFs. Dent and Sanford are making a particular ly active canvass and their litErature IS district. Mir. Hall has made several trips
 to various points in the district. Ho 10 out In a statement scouting the at
 tempt to make prohibition an issue in the race. He describes the fight over
 the prohibition issue as sham bat
 Col Charles R. Bricken is with the
 Alabama troops at Chickamauga where he is in command Of the 2nd Infantry.
 It Is said that Col Bricken will be "a
 stand pat candidate" that is, he will
 not be as active In travelling and
 speaking throughout the district as the other candidates, but that he VIII make his canvass largely through the
 malls.
 R. W. Hawthorne, one of the best known travelling men of the state may decide to make the race for the short term vacancy in the Second. Mr. Hawthorne was in the city last night oonferlng with Montgomery friends
 over the imporssn,t, ,,yss sssp; p,nsapple in wilcox County. but he travels for one of the largest dry goods concerns of the country He has been something like 20 years on the road and is well known over the distfis. MT Hawthorne was bern nnd reared in Wilcox County. He moved to Mont gomery and lived acre several years but later skaln made his Fesidencs in
 q have not determin sd yet whether
 I will or will not run, sail MT | Hawthorne last night. 'I was tD hope 1 that Hon. J. N Miller of Camden woufe make the race for .t.e .ong terni as he | ls from Wilcox and in that evshi | would not have considered being can
 aldate for the short term our seeuor l of inc district has never received an, | recognition. Every candidate Tor ths l long or the short term comes from place that is east of the Louisville and 1 Nashville Railroad. I think that tht l district could well afford 70 give tna'
 portion of the Second some recognition
 I will deteffhine my course In re" I days.
 Captain O. c. Wiley. of Troy, q | brother of the late Congressman A. A | Wiley is the only announced candidate I for the short term. which will be from l the date of the general election In No l vember antil March 4th. of next year l captaln Wiley has sent out erea' many letters over the district. Thl i Executive Committee fixed the assess | fnent for candidates for the short tern | at S200