The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-02
GOSSIP OF
 ELECTION
  Large Vote Expected in
 State. REPUBS MAKING BOASTS Declare They Will Elect Congress- man in Seventh District. Repubs are Expected to Cast Heavy Vote But 1t Is Not Believed Dem- ocratic Majorities wn Be
 Reduced.

Considerable gossip was indulged in today In Birmingham as to the cleo tion Tuesday in regard to the three amendments to the state constitution and as to the general results.
 The claims of the republicans that they will reduce the democratic maj critics considerably in Alabama and that they hope to elect a congressman in the seventh district. where Con- kressman John L. Burnett Is opposed by N H. Freeman. a republican, is not taken seriously. The conservative opinion is expressed here. however, that the republicans will cast a heavier vote than ever before in this state but 1t is not believed that the democratic majorities will be reduced.
 A prominent democrat Is quoted as saying:
 T do not think Alabama will fail 8o do it's duty. The usual majority respected and beloved in this state to even believe that a republican ticket can make any gains on him"
 It Is the concensus of opinion that the three amendments to the consti- tuition of the state, good roads. bi- ennial sessions of the legislature and new countries, will be the cause for larger vote than would otherwise have been brought out. Jefferson county wfal be cutoff considerably when the nnw county amendment goes into ef- feet. if 1t Is adopted and which, from Nsports received here appears to be certainty. Those who are opposing the new county amendment made whirl- Mtnd fight, taking up the challenge less than a month ago and covering this state with a big bunch of litera- fttre, maps etc. However, great work had been done by those who favored the amendment long ago and this work promises to have telling effect Tuesday It is understood that the one day intervening to the election wall be employed diligently in getting to the voters in the hopes SnSt there might be some changes.
 Republican Boasts.
 Afr. Julius Sternfeld, managing secs xstary of the Republican campaign committee. gave out an interview ln which he makes great predictions Tor 43a coming election. Said he:
 .The campaign in Alabama, from a republican standpoint, has been the most active in the history of this state we have distributed million pieces of literature and our speakers nave delivered something like four hundred ~NN fiftv speeches throughout the stAtc. .o.,o.. ,&on fthe highest possible plane, which h-e attracted to 1t the business inter ~4s of the State. There is a strong Taft sentimeLt permeating every walk oe life in Alabama. The ooJect or thls .ssnnaign in this Gtate has been to Ss,-ilsnre the support of this Senti-
 s,et AS an evidence of the success er our campaign in this respect we < g1ass only to point to the business .ekrss mass meeting. opposed to Bryan ,w#igh was held in Birmingham last Nnikht. at which several thousand peo- nla were pres ent, consisting ol the <,aat clement in the State. In Monlle' z rsrnilar meeting was held by the bus - men of that city, with Ike re" -.{+@ Tn Decatur 1t was the same. In a -[.saton it was the same. In Clan ssrH and Thorsby It 'Ias the same ana seos If was and has been all over the State- .o,s,, ve y,ave waged has challenged the atten- s@ss,,s,f ,he people of the State. We are ccsef,dent of carrying the Seventh DIS s~9-t where we expect to elect a Con ,s~yanarnan. We have had branch head fs,Tfarters opened in that district ana have left no stone unturned to present our cause thoroughly. We Will carry
 ,,nahar of othe- counties in the State.
 ss11~ has been my observation that stsara ,a A tremendous revulsion Of feel s,ser in Alabal a, against the Democrat order of things locally and nation tasav sneaktng. We will certainly car sTv Mobile and Jefferson Counties for
 EThere are six tickets in the field. rrha 2C bile ticket will poll moi lfess than 10000 votes in Alabama l~vhile we expect the other tickets op. messed to Democracy, to poll 2O'OOt xofes On account of the great anti .nsfthy to Bryanism and extreme legis' faxion in this St1te by Democrats, the { iT1smocrats will hardly poll more than frF50o0 votes. Thus, it will be seen. that l<F,a vote in Al.ban-s will be anti-Dem- locratic. It would not surprise me tc zee some of the Taft electors elected lin this State.