The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-04
AMENDMENTS \ ARE CARRIED Montgomery County h. dications That Way. UGLY WEATHER IN THE COUNTY Rryau's Plurality Will About
 Equal That of Parker. City Pon Was Surprisingly Heavy Tn View of weather Conditions,
 neasg Almost Normal In
 Spots.
UGLY WEATHER IN THE COUNTY

bRexistering a few more votes than ,,, the nrevious national election, Mont ronoery County Tuesday gave emphatic ma iorities to Bryan. the other Demo cratic State and County candidates, both candidates for Congress or this party and to the three ConsLi.u.ionaI naI amendments. The vote in favor of the an1endments In many of the city and country beats was surprisingly large.
 nj is true that in this county no par t,cular fight was waged against any one ar all of the amendments. But likewise, no concentrated enort was made to carry the amendments. Tho fight was more hotly waged in a dozen or more counties, perhaps, but 1t fn- dtcated that in these parts at least the voters naturally wanted every change offered in the amendments to the Con- stitution of Alabama.
 Fourteen of the twenty-two beate in the county gave q total vote for the electors of all parties and factions amounting to 2.324. This is but seven feen short of the total vote cast in the 1eo1 election and eight beats are yet to be heard from. These are all coun- tfy beats and will hardly swell the ag- Rregate poll of the county on account of the electoral college more than 300.
 Bryan electors received of this total a majority of 2,122. The Republicans boiled only ss and the Socialists the fatal numebr of IS.
 In the city the proportion was main tained about the same. The total city vote on the national ticket was 2,1fS. which is a good many short of the nor mai vote In a local election
 One of the most remarkable victories for an amendment was scored in Ward Two. Here there were 400 votes cast for the amendment tor biennial ses- sions of the Legislature while not a voice was raised in protest against bringing the solons together every two years instead of every four.
 The returns from the country pre- cincts on the Constitutional amend ssments were very meagre at 3 o'clock this morning. In the city the vote on the amendments from all beats was known except from the Highland Park precinct, whose returning officers have not yet made report to the sherin.
 From five city beats the returns show that 1,066 votes were cast in fa- vor of the new county amendment and 217 against. From six city beats the returns show that 1,506 were cast for the biennial session amendment and 203 against, while in the same number of beats for the good roads amendment were cast f,0o9 and 421 against.
 Little Scratching Done.
 There wes but little scratching of the Democratic candidates for Presi- dent of the Railroad Commission, two Associate Justices of the Supreme Court and State Game and Fish Com missioner as well as Hon. S. H. Dent, Jr. and O.. c. Wiley, nominees for re- 5pectively the long and short term to succeed the late Congressman A.. A. Wiley. There was also no scratching to speak of in voting the nominees of the Democrats for the county offices.
 The votes by beats for President and the three amendments were as fol- lows in Montgomery county:
 Beat l-Bryan. 2ss; Taft i2; for county amendment. 1S4, against, 62: bieninRl sessions, 190, against, AT; for good roads. 221, against, 30.
 Beat 2-Bryan. 400; Taft. (: Social lst, 1; for biennial sessions, zoo, against, none; for good roads, 225, against. ls.
 Beat 3-Bryan. 405; Taft. 12; Social ist, 2; for county amendment, s07, against 63; for biennial sessions, 299 sgalnst. 61; for good roads. 242, against. s7.
 Beat 4-Bryan, s16; Taft. 25; Social ist, 1; for county amendment. 262, against. 3S; for biennial sessions, 26S, against, 51; for good roads. 114, against, 131.
 Beat 5-Bryan, 222; Taft. 12; Social ist, none; for county amendment, 1s4. against. 59; for biennial sessions, 1s5, against. 70; for good roads, ST. against, '1l4.
 Beat s-Bryan. 1855; Taft, 6; Socialist, 3; for county amendment. 1z9, against. Is; for biennial sessions, 1e4, against, 4; for good roads. 14O, against, II.