The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-05-11
HOW THE FIGHT GOES
FRIENDS OF MIR. BRYAN ARE QUITE
 ACTIVE.
The Johnson Headquarters In Blrming- ham With c Double Force of Clerks Can Hardly Keep
 Up With the Rush.


 Moved by the energy displayed in the recently sprung Johnson campaign, the friends of William Jennings Bryan are taking active steps to combat the move- nient which met with unexpected pop ,,lar favor. A conference of the sup porters of Mir. Bryan from all sections of the State was held Friday in Birm- ingham and plans laid to try to head off the Johnson boomers.
 bama Bryan Club sent out signed request to all the Bryan papers asking them to publish the address issued by the Bryan Club In answer to the John son movement The committee also asked the editors to request the firm which prepared their plate metal to furnish them with matter which would help Mir. Bryan. The Bryan Club also sent an urgent invitation to Col. Henry Watterson, of Louisville. to come to Alabama and deliver speeches in favor of Mir, Bryan. No answer to this fn- vitation has been made public. In ad- dition to this the Bryan Club printed on handbills in black type quotations from an editorial of Colonel Watterson asking what profit 1t would be to the Democratic Party to nominate Cover nor Johnson over Bryan's dead body. These handbills are being widely scat tered.
 Tn answer to all this the Johnson psople say that the Bryan people, like everybody else have been astontshed at inc strength developed by Governor Johnson In his eleventh hour campaign. They claim that the apprehension or the supporters of Mir. Bryan Is the strongest evidence of the strength of Governor Johnson in Alabama. In the , meanwhile the Johnson headquarters at Birmingham is probably the busiest nlace In Alabama. Tn the first place the headauarters are trying to meet fine heavy demand for Johnson litera- ture which comes from all portions Of the State. These requests are purely voluntary. They come from people who have learned through the papers that Governor Johnson's friends in Alabama have decided to make a fight for the State. So many telegrams and letters are being received at headquarters that although the clerical force has been doubled, trouble Is experienced in keep ing up with the correspondence.
 'The impression that the Johnson strength is confined to the cities of Alabama is erroneous" said Warren Dent. one of the best known men trav- cling out of Montgomery. T was in Flomaton last Wednesday. At that time the Alabama movement for Gov ernor Johnson was only two or three days old found an acquaintance of mine going around voluntarily with list for a Johnson Club. never count ed the names but he told me that in short while he had gotten thirty-hve signatures to the list ana teit comment of getting more"
 The Johnson headquarters in Birm- ingham have announced a number of appointments for Johnson speakers for the coming week:
 P o. Stromme, the Minnesota speak er who has received such widespread welcome. will appeal to two classes of voters in their own languages, some- thing seldom heard in campaign of this sort. Today Mir. Stromne spoke in Scandinavian with some of his friends at Thorsby and tonight he will speak in German at Cullman.
 Monday night. CulIman; Tuesday night. tuscaloosa: Wednesday morn- ing, Florence. Shefield; Wednesday night. Tuscumbia; Thursday night
 Carson c. Whitson of Talladega. Tuesday night at Guntersville; We'd nesday night at Huntsville; Thursday night at Scottsboro. Friday night at Decatur. Saturday night at Clanton.
 Col. Jesse stallngs. Monday night at Carbon Hill, Tuesday morning at Dadeville, Tuesday night at Alexander City, WedneSddy noOn at T hOSAN Sts'' Wednesday night at opelika. and the rest of the week in Southeast Ala bama.
 B. NJ. Allen will speak at Blocten Wednesday and at Anniston Thursday. Other dates will be arranged later.
 Ex-Congressman Sidney J. Bowie. Monday night at Jasper. Tuesday night at Selma, Wednesday night at Demop- oils, Thursday night at Annlston. Fri dal night at Gadsden, Saturday night at Athens.