The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-01
VOTERS ARE CALLED
 FOR DUTY TUESDAY

II tional amendments is to go on the bal lots. Briefly. all voters of the State must make up their minds as to: l. Whether they favor the net pro ceeds Of the State convict department going to building of better roads and repairing of same in all counties of the State. by appropriations of Legislatures to meet in future Also this proposed amendment includes the proposition to repeal the present constitutional pro- vision that the State shall not engage in internal Improvements.
 2. Whether they favor forming new counties by, Constitutional amendment to the effect that. if the people of the proposed new county vote in favor of ft the county shall be formed provided the new territory shall comprise 500 square miles. shall be of a minimum population which will entitle them to a representation in the Legislature on the present apportionment and shell not cut down the population of the counties from which 1t is formed to less than would entitle, them to repre- sentatton in the Legislature.
 3. Whether the Legislature shall meet every two years instead of every four years as heretofore.
 The amendments will appear on the ballots in hardly more words than lfiSSc+ Anc NOf bthAy NhOhA in full has been given the voters. It Is expected that every voter will be especially interested in at least one of the three amendments. Therefore 1t Is not improbable that Tuesday will wit ness the heaviest poll at Presiden- tial election that has been recorded in the history of Alabama.
 Montgomery county may poll 4000 votes. 1t is not believed that this number will be exceeded. Of course. they will be cast almost entirely for the Democratic ticket all the way through. But if the Republican ticket does not gather in a vote higher than their poll Of four years ago 1t will not be because the campaign has been less energetic than before. For cer- tainly the campaign through the mails has been more lively in Alabama gem orally than in recent Presidential elections.
 Four State 0mces.
 But there other persons to be chosen by the voters except the electors and Congressmen. There are four State of fices to be filled Tuesday. They are the president of the Alabama Railroad Commission, for which the Democratic nominee Is Hon. Charles Henderson. the present incumbent; two Associate Justices of the Alabama Supreme Court for which the Democratic nominees are Justice R. T. Simpson, present in- cumbeYt. and Judge J. J. Mayfeld, of Tuscaloosa; president of the Alabama Railroad Commission. for which the Democratic nominee Is Hon. Charles Henderson. the present incumbent. and state Came and Fish Commissioner, for which the Democratic nominee is Hon. John H. Wallace. Jr.. the present in- cumbentS
 The voters of Montgomery county will cast votes for Chancellor of the Southeastern Chancery Division. There will also be on the official ballots in several of the counties nominees for judges of the Tenth, Fourteenth. Eff teenth and Sixteenth Judicial Circuits. and solicitor of the last district. The names of these gentlemen will appear below in. a list of the candidates.
 In each county of the State. besides, these general elections, there will be elections of county officers in accord anee with the State law. These of fees are as follows: Coroner. county commissioners or board of revenue of whatever number composed, tax asses sor. tax collector, treasurer, ssuperin- tendent of education, two justices of the peace and one constable for each election precinct.
 There are six distinct political par ties which have tickets" of one char acter or another in the field Tuesday. All have electoral nominees, several have candidates for consress in some