The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-09-12

next with I,4ss The other counties Of the district voted as follows; Bald win, s4l; Butler. i.i74; Conecuh. SEQ; wilvox, 9s7.
 The candidates. i've in number. come from the northern and eastern eno or the district.
 Who the Candidates Are.
 Hon. S. H. Dent is Solicitor of the City Court of Montgomery. place he has held for the past six years. He was recently a delegate to the Ma tional Democratic Convention.
 Col. Charles R. Bricken is Solicitor of his judicial circuit and lives at Liverne.
 Hon. w. H. Sanford lives at Troy. He was a member of the Constitutional Convention of 1901.
 Hon Tn omas J. Hall resides in Mont gomery. He has peen a stationary engineer, but Is now the head of a cotton bagging business. hs once represented Montgomery County in the Legislature.
 Hon. A. c. Sanders Is a farmer liv- ing at Goshen, in Pike County. He Is expected to get a good vote from former Populists.
 Fest was added to the campaign when Hon. S. H. Dent attacked Rev. Brooks Lawrence. Superintendent of the Anti-Saloon League, for a circular sent out ythe League opposing Mir. Dent and favoring MT. Sanford. As a result of this issue, MT. Dent and MT. Sanford have been most promi- nent in the public eye as candidates during the closing days wh en the fight ragged warmly. In the meanwhile, the other candidates were not standing still. While Dent and Sanford were fighting each other. the remaining candidates tried to keep on making hay.
 As a result of this issue 1t Is be- lieved that most of the strong pro- hibitionists will support MT. Sanford. MT. Dents friends claim, however. that the fight has won over number or the most representative prohibitionists in the district. Mir. Dents friends are claiming that he will carry Montgom- cry by an overwhelming majority. They claim that he will get 1000 votes if 5000 votes are cast in the county. The other candidates are willing per- haps to concede that Montgomery county will vote for Dent, but they do not concede him anything like that plurality. Mir. Halls friends say that while he may run second In Mont gomery county 1t will be close sec ond. They say further that he will hold practically the same vote he got against Colonel Wiley.
 Butler. conecuh. Crenshaw and Es- cambia counties are all in the judicial circuit of Colonel Bricken. His friends claim he will carry all of them by a handsome majority and that he will get big vote in the other counties of the district.
 The friends of MT Sanford say that he will take Pike by g good majority, carry several of the smaller counties, including Wilcox and get fine vote in Montgomery and other counties. ka fnnlt.A . ing Wilcox are bound to go for Sam ford. MT. Sanders declares that he will be the nominee and that 1t will come from a vote that he will get in the rural portions of. the district. The Dent people are most insistent in their claims. The Dent headquar- ters last night said that the Montgom- cry Solicitor would. after taking his home county by a handsome vote, carry Wilcox, Covington and Baldwin cer- tain. They claim further that they have a prospect of carrying Pike and Butler which had been conceded to Col. Bricken, In a statement issued last night the Dent headquarters claimed that the Montgomery man would re- ceive at least 4.50o votes and perhaps 5000 in the district.
 This is about the figures of the claims made by the Sanford men. They say that they have had accurate and reliable figures from every por- tion of the district and that MT. sam ford has reasons to expect a vote of 55,00o. As matter of fact it is be- lieved9 that the man who gets 4,0O0 votes will take the nomination. Big Vote Expected. A big vote is looked for in Montgom. cry County. Until a week ago 1t was thought that the vote would be light but in view of the interest and enthu. siasm that has been aroused 1t is ex, pected that the vote will be almost as large as though a State primary vas on.
 The Dent managers lat night made arrangements for about twenty-five buggies. They realized that Saturday was bad day in a city for a primary and the buggies will be used to get voters to the polls and back to their work in the quickest time possible This work will be systematized and voters rushed to the polls as auicklD as possible.
 The polls will open in the city beats at o'clock in the morning and re. main open until 6 ?. m. In the county beats they will open at a. m. and remain open until o'clock D. m.
 In the Montgomery the poIlins places will be those used for the past fxu0 n fhPaa Uaape -