The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-07-29
CONGRESSIONAL CANDIDATES
 TELL WHAT THEY WILL DO
If Elected to Succeed Late Colonel
 Wiley.
Dent, Hall and sanford Outline 1heir Policies in the Campaisn ard Make Promises to People of
 the secoad pi.trict--Bis
 Barbecue Spread.
nY .. r. WOODRUFF

BY L. F.. WOODHUFF.
 Inverness July 2s.--tspeciall-- of Pike County. few from Montgom- cry and a score from Bullock, VIII Hodge Sanford of Troy, Hugh Dent of the Capital City. and Thomas J. Hall of the same community, opened their carnpaigns for Representative or the. Second Congressional District m tae National Congress today at the picnic and barbecue at China Grove on the border of Pike and Bullock counties.
 If the attitude of the people who heard the speech making at China Grove today is criterion of the atti- tnde of the great part of the voters or the Second District, there will be poiled the smallest vote in the history of the country which was represented by the late and lamented A. A. Wiley. Apa- tnetic is not strong enough word to describe the spirit of the crowd that heard the three candidates today. There were few cheers for MT. sam ford when he arose to speak but these cheers were from few and were short lived The other candidates were greeted politely but quietly and there was no hurrahing.
 A couple of flags were waved every now and then,s but there was never a spontaneous outburst except when MT. Sanford in referring to whiskey. de- clared: T am against the cursed thing anywhere I run across it." And the reason for the apathy is not that Mr. Sanford Is not popular in Pike county, his home. not that Mir. Dent and Mir. Hall have their friends. but from the fact that the campaign Is entirely without an issue ins the speeches to-day.
 Mfr. Dent in his forcible manner reviewed his record in politics, plead ed not guilty, being young, took a' ~aa~ &f. errs arsAr4 Arsf by injunction and accused Mir. Sanford of standing on the anti shipping meas ures. Mir. Hall told the people that he was a poor man and had been a nachinist but wanted to be a Ccn-s gressman He favored the impeach- naent of Federal judges who violated. the statue of 1zS9 which provided for the trying of all cases in the state courts before being removed to the United States Court, said mean things about Wall Street and Rockefeller. and again averred that he was poor man.
 sFr. samafords, Part.
 Mir. Sanford spent a great deal of his time in referring to his admira- gtion for the old Confederate soldiers, for the women of the South. for the purity of the ballot box. to the work of the men who rescued Alabama from carpetbag domination, to the work of Ine l9Gl (OuBl1bullOuAt COUfGHtlOIt. A1C grew eloquent on all of these things but did not get down to 1908 until he was within a few minutes of his clos ing time.
 The speeches were all successful from an oratorical point of view The Confederate soldiers and the women of the South. as usual. received their eulogies and all three showed prep aration but except when the whisikey question was discussed, the candidates goe to nothing live and in this regard every candidate when he spoke of the matter, assured the hearers that the whiskey question was like the "fIow. CTS that bloom in the spElSg tra la.'' have nothing to do with this case. It is true that Mir. Sanford presented a proposition to prevent future money panics by establishing a Federal bank at Washington, declared that he would favor bill giving cotton growers the benefit of statistics showing just how much goods the spinners had on hand declared that he favored a law that would prevent the illegal shipment of whiskey into prohibition districts put did not say how he was going to do 1t and announced in favor of govern ment aid for good roads in addition, like all the rest of the candidates.
 Mir. Sanford spoke in favor of edu- cation. of trust busting. tariff reforms and other Democratic issues and they all three prophesied sweeping vic- tory for Bryan. although Mir. Dent and Mir. Sanford both admitted that their love for the Nebraskan was a new one but there was nothing more real than that. The nearest approach to anything live was when Mir. Sanford advised the people to stamp out the prejudice against Federal government and realize that they are living in a
 NE~ EAkss averred that Mir. Samford's declaration, that he. was in favor of enacting & law preventing the illegal shipment of whiskey into prohibition districts meant nothing at ali.
 No more favorable surroundings could have been lad for a political meeting. All the scenery for an old time stump speaking was on the stage. China Grove is situated fifteen miles from a railroad. China berry trees afforded welcome shade for the scores who assembled. They came In every possible conveyance from the old fash toned farm wagon to the big auto mobile in which Ed Mahoney, Captain Phil Stern and Marshall King drove over. big platform was raised and from this platform with the people gathered on the greepsward. the speeches were made while in the in- terim. the Spring Hill Concert Band discoursed patriotic music.
 An elegant barbecue and baslS ct din- ner was served by the hospitable peo- pie and there was a thoroughly enc Joyabie time. although none of the speeches developed fireworks.
 Mr. Dents Views.
 MT. Dent. in his speech. declared that he was perfectly willing to state frankly his position upon any question involved in the issues of this cam paign. He stated that he was willing to answer Dr. crumpton's question as to the anti-shipping bill so far as prohibition is concerned. He declared this to be an established status in Ala bama. law and that he was in favor of it's enforcement in the State but not in Federal sribunala.