The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-25
SPELLB|NDERS ARE HEARD IN TIE NINTH AvondaIe Rally Tonight Closes
 City Campaign BEHREN'S PARK LAST NIGHT We'll Known Candidates State Their Cases and Give Reasons Why They
 Should Be Elected To
 City Offices.
sEHRENS PARK LAST NIGHT

The campaign will close tonight. With a mass meeting in Avondale the last 1 strains of "rm the Best Man will fade away. Last night for two hours the Bloody Ninth entertained the public i speakers. They stood in sand pit in ! Behrens park while a goodly crowd of i voters surrounded them, listened and 1 cheered.
 ! B. H. Cooper made the first address. | He was introduced by Alderman Stock mar, the chairman of the meeting. MT. ] Cooper devoted most of his talk to the whisky ordinance circular, which he said had been circulated anonymously. He de- 1 nied the contents Of the circular so far as any intention of enting a man from keeping liquor ia his private house was concerned.
 MT. Cooper dwelt upon the street tax controversy, and defined his position and l his fight on that subject He also de- clared his position and record on via ducts and municipal ownership. i There were loud cries for Harry Jones,
 
 man Stockmar announced that he would speak for him. and urged In his charac- teristic manner the plain. blunt Harry" He called attention to Mir. Jones' ability 1 as a presiding officer and his knowledge i of parliamentary law, and insisted that
 he was the best man for the place. He
 also took up the mater of municipal own
 ership urging that no quick judgment
 action should be taken on such a tre-
 mendous proposition, but that every de-
 tail should be worked out and then pre-
 scented to the people.
 In closing he said that MT. Ward gave
 Cooper the street tax ordinance. MT. ! Cooper took the sand pit" and asked the mayor who was present. if he had done so, which Mir Ward denied There were loud cries of Ward and speech" but | the mayor refused to put in a word.
 Chief Wier talked a short time in the interest of his candidacy. As the "peo- ! ple's choice. cheated out of his office by the old commission he asked for re- ! election.
 Chief Bodeker opened with the asser- tion that he is not running on sym pathy," but on his record as a police of | ficer Now is a time when, if ever the city needed an able chief, 1t should elect him. I want to put up my record against
 Wier's. and I am told by many that I have accomplished more toward enforce ment of the law, toward the reorganiza- ton of the force and toward the pro- tection of the residences than did MT. Wier in his whole term. l announced at the last primary that I would oppose Mir. Wier, and am keeping my promise'' 1 There was considerable applause when 1 the chief closed the talk. In fact, he seems to have gained strength in tho Ninth ward.
 Carl Seals made straightforward talk, unhesitatingly promising a full enforcement of the law and promising a business-lilse regulation of the police 1 force. He said he had no political record. and was asking the people for office for the first time with merely the ambition to serve the community. Hal Copeland was the only other candidate for commissioner present. He made short talk urging his ability. | Coffee Jackson, candidate for alder man from the Ninth ward, with only a few words vouched his honor for an upright. unbiased action on all ques- 1 tions which come before the counc,i ] if he is elected. Joe Weiferich, the man from the lower part of the ward. said he thought he was the man for the place and would ber lected. The other two candidates, Ja Adams and Henry Dean. were not in tendance.
 Everything Is now II y for the election Monday. Perhaps ae last pre- primary order was issued by the coua- mittee yesterday:
 Birmingham, Ala, July "A, 190S.' To the Clerks and Managers of the Democratic Primary Election. Gentlemen-Several candidates have requested that the ballots as cast be counted immediately upon the closing of the polls, and in accordance with these requests you will begin your counting when the polls are closed. continuing until every ballot Is countei. Please replace every ballot in the box. and after sealing deliver to your re- turning officer, who will immediately | take the ballot box to the secretarys office in the city hall.
 It is illegal to inform any voter how any other voter has cast his ballot, ard you will please govern yourselves ac- cordingly. Yours truly,
 W. H. JOHNSTON, Chairman. EDWARD PATTILLO, Secretary. The secretary requests that sa., clerks and managers who cannot serve during the election notify him so he may make the changes before the day of election. He will be found on the third floor in the city hall or over tlNe