The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-10-06
A LENGTHY AFFAIR
WILL BE ELECTION BALLOT ON
 NOVEMBER ..
Mine Columns VIII Re Provided To Suit Persuasions of All Voters, six Parties Being In the
 Field.


 Events took a turn Monday at the capital that will cause the official election ballot for November 3 to be larger than 1t has measured in any pre- vlous Presidential year. If In breadth it falls under twelve inches 1t must be scored as signal economy for the print CTS in the various counties.
 First, Attornty General Alex M. Gar her gave it as his opinion that the good roads, and the biennial ses- sion" amendments to the Constitution should go on the regular ballot Sec retary of .itate Frank N. Julian, an- nounced Monday that he would follow the opinion, and in the election in structions which he is to send out today to the probate judges h. Is advising that the substance of the amendments occupy places on the paper ribbon which they will prepare.
 In accordance with resolution which unanimously was passed by the State Democratic Executive Committee. the Secretary of State requesting the probate judges to print the new county amendment on a separate bal. lot. The law Is silent with reference to this proposed change in the Consti- tuition whereas the acts submitting the other two amendments seem to call for their going on the regular ballot.
 Again there was the announcement from Mobile that two members of tn" nominees of the so-called Davidson faction of the Republicans pr. W. T. Henderson and F. W. BromberK. are determined not to withdraw their names. According to the ruling of the Secretary of State this means that without doubt he will certify out the Davidson ticket and that the Republi- cans will be divided on the face if not in reality. This means. too, an extra column to perplex the brain of the voter when he is confronted with the ballot.
 Also. when Chief Clerk cy Brown was digging among the ofhcial docu- ments that come under his scrutiny, he suddenly was reminded that there was a special election in the Second Con. gressional District and that this meant an entirely different ballot for the use of the voters in the counties thereof This Is no less an election than that of a successor to fill the unexpired term Of the late Congressman A. A. Wiley. The election was proclaimed by the Gov. ernor for the same day a. the general election as was also that of the regu- lar term man. The nominees of the Democrats. the only party contesting for the honor are O. c. Wiley. of Troy. for the unexpired term and s. H. Dent IT,. for the regular term.
 These eotncidences, therefore. mean that the official ballot will contain no less than nine columns To summarize: Democrats, Repul icans (two), Inde- pendence. Socialists. Prohibitionists Populists, amendments, (two.)
 Tn all counties the county amend ment will be handed the voter by the election officers on a separate ballot, and in the Second District counties the probate judges are instructed to pre- pare the special ballot for the Demo- cratic nominee. Mir. Wiley.
 Election supplies in full with neces- sary instructions will be shipped out today from the office of the Secretary of State. And if they don't get the county officers to thinking and the election officers to working and the returning officers to blowing. a guess has gone astray.