The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-02
CAPITOL TO
 BE DESERTED Exodus to Swell Bryan's s
 Plurality. OFFICERS GO HOME TO VOTE Majority of State Servants Vote at
 Distance. ! Railroad Commission Meeting Which Was to Have Been Held Today.
 Was Postponed One

Desolate indeed will the Capitol halls and offices appear during today and Tuesday. There will be no long CT the sound of clicking typewriters, the hum of voices, the hurry of call- CTS. all denoting the smooth running of the wheels of government of s,the State of Alabama for at least two days the government will be almost left to run itself, and correspondence and callers will multiply until the re- turn of the various officials from their homes where they have gone to cast their ballots in the election on Tues day.
 majority of State officials and de- pertinent clerks left their citizenship at home when they came to Montgom- cry to work, most careless on their part, indeed. and so these have gone or will leave today to exercise that citizenship in distant presincts.
 Hon. W. w. Brandon. State Audi tor, whose eloquence has during all october. stirred the Western States to Bryan enthusiasm. will return today to Alabama and cast his vote at Tus. caloosa. There are other Capitol peo. pie who will vote in Tuscaloosa also. Among them are Mr. Hausman, war rant clerk of the Auditor, and State Treasurer. Walter D. Seed.
 Hon Harry c. Gunnels, State .Super- intendent of Education, will vote in Calhoun County; W. F. Feagin. Chief Clerk of the Department of Education, will vote In Gadsden; W. c. Swan son and James GunneIs, clerks in this department, will go today or tomorrow respectively to Eufaula and Oxford to mark their ballots. 1T. J. Wfilingham secretary of the State Board of Teach- CTS Examiners, cannot be kept away from wetumpka even on Sundays, much less on elector days, and So will go across the country and cast his
 Attorney General Alex M. Garber, who has never lost ahfs love for Talla- dega. will rejoin his Associates in one of the Talladega precincts. and vote for the Bryan electors. His assistant Hon. Thos W. Martin, will vote in Montgomery.
 Commission Meeting Postponed.
 None of the Alabama Railroad Com. missioners live in Montgomery and the regular meeting of this body. which was to have been held today vas was postponed a week in order to allow them to vote in their respective home precincts, President Charles Henderson at Troy, Associate Commissioner w.. D. Nesbit in Birmingham, and Assos ciate Commissioner ; John- A. Lusk in Guntersville, AdarshhlLs Connty. Sec retary s. P. Kennedy of the ComnliSs mission will go to Anniston to vote.
 In the State Auditors" ofloe, Chief Clerk Brooks Smith will leave today for perennial old Hale County where he has never missed an important elec- tion since he got the voting habit. Senator John Mccain, being a native of Clay County, will also go home to vote, while John Grimm, young though he is, Is thinking very seriously of hiking to Cullman to help swell the Bryan plurality in Alabama.
 From the IeaEurer's offfce there will not be such heavy migration, the only two out of town voters being. Ii is understood, Thomas Bradford and Ralph Garner. MT. Gamers voting place is Ozark. Chief Clerk Charles Boyd and !. B. Chatfeld. one of the warrant clerks, will vote in Montgem- cry. 1~ :.~'.-
 Secretary of State Frank N. Julian if his present Illness does not inter- fere, will return to his old home in Tuscumbia,' where he has not missed an election in many day. Chief Clerk Cy Brown will vote in his home priecst, which he now calls Montgom- cry. Deputy Insurance Commissioner A c. Sexton, will vote in Montgom- cry.
 If Hon. W. E. Fort, private secre- tary to the Governor. kills as many ducks and quail as he anticipated in Barbour County in time for a hurry journey to Birmingham. he may be able to exercise his citizenship in his home town. James H. Nunnellee, Re- cording Secretary to the Governor Is to vote in Selma. while the head of