The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-02-03

G0#& only nine of whom have ye. any votes to their credit. The race has just be- gun. It will last at least six weeks lonRer, but every day of that tne should be made to counS by those n, expect to win the valuable prizes at stake.
 who have not yet scored any points. should get busy at once and le tneir friends know tha; they are in the run ming. Any one should be able by few hours diltgent effort to secure more votes than the nine contestants whose names appear in the score ns. at present. procured during the hrst week of the con est.
 There yet Is plenty of opportunity fot persons who did not Ienter the contes,' tha first week. to enter now. or at any time before the close. and eat out some of those who made an early start. As only four yearly subscrtotions to The Daily Advertiser are required to produce more votes than the leader in the race. Miss Marie Paschal. of Geor- ekana, has at present, 1t will be easy for any one to Eet ahead of Miss Pas chal within the next twenty-four hours unless she immediately gets in good many more votes hersAif
 No Coupons to' Clip.
 Some of the young people who were interested in the pony and cart contest conducted by The Advertiser. are won daring why there are no coupon votes t0 he clipped from the paper in this contest. There are several reasons why no free votes are allowed in, this contaat First. many readers do pot like to have their papers nutiated by having AfE1e coupons cut or torn out. While some will take pains to cut out and save every coupon for some contest ant In whom they are in,ersatad. the majority of subscribers will not take the trouble to do so, and many feel an- moved if contestants ask then for thA coupon before they have road ths <pa- per. Furthermore. there is a emptatie,l . for newsboys and carriers to cui the coupons from the papers before they are sold or delivered to subscribers. with view to selling them to some contestant. In order to secure enough of the coupons to be of any cpnsa queEce in winning a prize. the contest ants must spend a great deal of time and energy, and sometimes money. in collecting them and writing or stamp ing their names upon them. The work ' or counting the coupons when many are voted, and keeping an accurate record of all voted in favor of each contes. ant, entails a great deal of extra la- bor upon the contest department. and the chances of discriminating in favor of or against some candidate by ,nanip- plattou of the coupon votes are always such as to give grounds for suspicion that the contest is not fairly conduct ed. no matter how fair the manage Inent may be (and The Advertiser would net. have 1t otherwise than fair.1 Therefore. in order to safe guard the subseftbeRs against undue annoyance to make the work of contestants and of the contest department, less act ing and give the contestants more time to devote to securing subscriptions to The Advertiser. as well as in the inter ests of fair play, the free coupon haF been omitted from the plan of conduct ing ths. present contest. .y Z .1 The Advertiser is holding the contest and giving away several thousand dpl- lars worth of prizes for the purpose of increasing It's preps Id circulation ito get more new subscribers and re- newals of old subscriptions. It is a simple business proposition. The con- testants who can secure the most cash subscriptions for The Advertiser will get the most valuable prizes as their rewards.
 Only One Way to Vote.
 There is only one thing that counts in the contest, and that is a subscrip. tion to The Advertiser prepaid for a. period of at least three months.
 A prepaid subscription to the daily Advertiser is good for 800 votes in fa- vor of any contestant the subscriber desires to favor
 A six montha' subscription counts for 1000 votes. one year for 5000 votes ana two years for 1000 votes. A subscription to The Sunday Ad- vertlsaf, ouly. cannts -for@30Os votes for one year and 1000 votes for two years. The subscription rate of The Daily Advertiser, including the Sunday edi- tion; ts se5 cents a month. or sT.sO a year. The Sunday, edition only. is S2 a year ~
 No subscriptions will be taken dur ing the present contest for a period If more than two years. 1000 votes. fhere- fore, being the highest number that can be cast by a single subscriber in favor of any contestant.
 Following are the fgures showing the number Of votes recorded in favor of the contestants who have made 6 start in the race, at the beginning of the second week of the contest:
 standlng of Contestants To-day. i. Miss Marie Paschal. Georgi-
 ana. Butter County. Ala. .. II, 300 2. Miss Annie Langharn. ts High
 Street, Montgomery. .. :. $500 8. Miss Virginia Bragg Smith.
 e2s S. Lawrence Street city. 6.so0 {. Frank Y. HalL Jr.. nos South
 Perry Street. city. :. -. $500 5. Miss Sallie Watkins Wood. 30I
 Church Street. city. ,s.. =. $500 c. Miss Lona SpepnenS, IVV CieVes
 land Avenue, city. q. ..... 1900 2. Miss Loula williamA Shorter,
 Macon County. Ala. =. .. 300 g. Mrs. & c. Hall, 32s North Hull
 Street city,. =. e. Q. e. soc Q. Henry Herndon Jones. Birm-
 tngham. Ala. .. 800 On the W~ittng List.
 The list of contestants who have not yet any votes to their credit includes the following:
 BARNES. Samuel. Opp. Covingtou County. Ala.
 BARNES Miss Susie, Andalusia, Cow ington County, Ala.
 BRONSON. Marion, 4ei Monroe Street. City.
 BRYANT. Miss Mary A. corner First Avenue and Church Street, Selma. Ala.
 CHEATHAB1. Miss Louise Helen. 40T Heron Street. City.
 CHRISTIAN. Charles. Columbiana, Shelby County. Ala.
 coRNELIUs Mrs. MoIiie O.. 24 Pleas ant Avenue. City.
 DYKES Miss Genie. Union Springs. Bullock County Ala.
 HARE. Charles w., Jr, Orrville, Dal- las County, Ala.
 HOPKINS, Miss Mamie. 4l5 Monroe Street, City.
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