The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-09-07
foontinued from PaEe Two.l

the most prominent citizens of the county came to me afterwards and said: Mir. Dent. that man has elected you to the Congress of the United States. if you did not have any chance before. We will resent any such in- terference as that. We are going 70 rebuke him for 1t, and we are going to vote for you down here in the county of Covington. have just come from the county of Wilcox. and I told the good old Democrats of that coun- ty about what Brooks Lawrence was doing. and many of them had seen that letter, and some of them had received it, and they came to me by the dog ems and said: Mir. Dent the county of Wilcox is yours from now on. I toll you, my fellow citizens. that is the way 1t is all over this district. and that is the way 1t ought to be. be- cause 1t is not so much now nght upon me. but 1t is a iRht upon this people, because 1t is an attack upon their inteIligence, it is a statement to them that a man who was born and raised in ohio. who has lived in Ala bana only a few years. who does not live in the Second Congressional Dis- trict of Alabama at all. and never has lived here, 1t is statement by him that you people do not know whom to select for Congress. and therefore he tells you whom to solect.
 What will be the next step that Brooks Lawrence will take7 You get one of those follows who quit the min istry to go into politics, resigns the doctrine of peace to so into the doc- Urine of turmoil and strife, give him a little authority and he will grasp for more until he will have 1t all. and the next thing he will come and tell you who should be your state officials from Governor down, and into the county from your Probate Judge down. and into the towns and cities ana name the mayor and councilmen. and will not be satisfied until he tells you who win be your night watchman when sleeping quietly in your own homes. If he is going to continue to do that I suggest that we repeal all of our election laws. l suggest we save the State the expense of holding any further elections. l suggest we stop holding Democratic primaries suggest we relieve the candidates from the necessity of putting up i've hun dred dollars in order to have their names printed on the Democratic tick ct in a Democratic primary. I suggest that all these things be abolished and that we hold one grand final election and at that election we nominate and of Ohio as the Supreme Director and the Grand Exalted Ruler of the State of Alabama.
 There is one other thing about this, and then am going to change to sn- other subject. This circular letter of his Is dated September 1, 1908. The copy my friends in Montgomery gave to me was an advanced copy, one giv- en out he thought to the faithful in advance of the real date of the letter. It was a little previous. just as MT. Lawrence's attitude is in this cam, paign, but that letter Is dated Sep tenlber l. The primary election comes of on the 18th of September, and elev- en days before. he issues his circular letter advising the people to vote for MT. Sanford and against Mir. Dent
 He mentions in that letter that my platform had been promulgated on the first of August. 1903, thirty days ahead of the circular letter attacking me Why did he wait until the closing hours of the campaign? Why did he wait un- til the campaign was nearly over? Why was 1t that the circular letter did not come out sooner, as soon as my platform was sent forth through out the district, and. it was sent forth more than thirty days ago7 Why did