The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-03-08
MANY ATTEND TYSON RALLY Last Nights Gathering Largest Held. MUD-SLINGING IS DEcRIED tissues Too Sacred for the
 Mire." c. c. Miles Compares sins of onissien Ana of commission, Adversely
 to Latter--Paai sanguinetti
 Pledges Aid.


 In the visor of ,heir advocacy. .,,,, in numbers and in enthusiasm the ,n a i, bers of ,;ss the TysSnI esIv cine meetins % escelea their previous assemblies. .na head-
 The meeting was held in the heao. qua rters of the club in the Excnanss Annex, beginning at S.So eio, ost,ma.e of those present placed the numDer There was no taint of mud, sling,ng the whole evening The .hs init,ai orators of the occasion to pitcn ths campaign on a high plane. ..,.r.
 The speeches of the evening WeIs confined to positive review nicS Issues of the campaign rom MhIch the choice of the next Mayor or Mont nofnery must depend. More tnan cssa Since the organization Of the Club the addresses were with ahecdote and humor.
 New Faces Present:
 All the names were new tnaL WI an last nights program BY tnis meant that they had not appenrso in neariy all instafices they said they had been attracted to the assempiass In behalf of Mir. Tyson because s aass week they had an opportunity s9 , 9na his platform as & puoictsns% ictsonnversely. @ they also made it Known that they conla no. find aiust exactly where Mir. Gunter. the opposing candidate s'00o - Ar Among the speakers of the evening. nerhans 'the most conservative, yet ths most applauded, was G. G. Miiess WY was introduced by Chairman J. A 1aOs ~, loway. as a citizen or nony nn svsry proposition of Importance to the ln- terests or the city and who hao never to my Knowledge, faltered in aovocaS- ina the cause for which he stood.
 Mir. Niles explained why ne was .nrseent' He said he had quietly held aloof from the campaign because ne wishAd to study the issues lnvoiVeo. He had searched the records of the tMo caHS rHiShaa carefniiy everything that had beeil done by the two men as Al9ers men and had noted carefully what @ @mao been said during the campaign; ns s net result of his review of action ao Sno words Of the two men was to decide upon Mir. Tyson as the pette1 man eV iill the office of Mayor. r.
 The speaker reminded ms nearsIs n.t that their candidate had been crni- cizad for sins of omission, in that It had been charged that Mir. Tyson as XidArman had failed to vote on sevs eral occasions in Council. lie .. M0ui9 thIe nropositiofi. leaving each instance 10 speak for itself. but he did believe mat .it was easier to correct sins oI omission than 1t is to correct sins ot Should Take Interest.
 Mud-slinsing was condemned ny MT: Miles who believes the issues m Ine campaign to be too sacred and import ant to be dragged to such a level. He spoke for every man having enough civic pride In the city to take an in terAst in the election, enough to make him align himself 0n one side ana not. not fear s ..s. to let it be known on wnicn
 Al the conclusion of his address, MT. Miles was given prolonged applause.
 Another Interesting figure who. de- clared he had nothing but the vital in- terests of the city at heart by appear ing at the Tyson club meeting, was l.. L.. Lasseter. He affirmed his friend ship for both MT. Tyson and Mir. Gun that he and other voters were not to consider men in this campaign but principles. He declared he had been converted to MT. Tyson because he had come out on. a positive platform which
 With an anecdote which elicited much laughter, MT. Lassiter came to the conclusion that there Is not much this and other reasons, he said, he had decided that Mir. Tyson was the man for progressive and good government within the bounds of economy,
 The hufror came when Captain Paul sanguinettI arose and became excited with memories of the reconstruction days which he recalled. Pacing back man, MT. Sanguinetti said he was go- ing to light for MT. Tyson to win.
 SAnd have fought the battles of tion.s said MT. sanguinetti T fougkt 'em with two revolvers In my mp pocket. with Nigeer Congressmen roundabout; l fought 'em with nlgger policemen and q nigger Lesislature whipped the Devil out of em in the end"
 accused of running for office. lie he said. and that was police commIs- sioner of Montgomery. He was going to try to win this office just to put little military In the bluecoats.'' he willing to step down and out. But they went and made 1t cost S1O0 to run and this was too expensive just to satisfy his whim of making the
 Mir. Conner speaks.
 Wit and warning might be said to have marked the well-applauded talk of J. c. Conner. q railroad engineer. schooling. but he was an engineer and good one" He argued for clean campaign ard work In the trenches. He always found the winner to ps the man who took off his coat and worked for his candidate and did not blow so much hot-air."
 Other speakers of the evening were S. B. Sightler, who spoke for the -busi- ness end of MT. Tyson's platform. Alderman T. B. Thompson, who sought to explain why Tyson voted no in a solitary but right minority and some times not at all"; M. M. Sweatt, J. ii. Cheatham. Robert Benjamin. J. k Langley, Patrick Murphy, Jim Screws and s. K. Williamson.