The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-11-21

and It - 70 Be expected tha< the pro-
hibitioh politicians. ACCORDING to GUS
tom. ere dsmandins his political scalp
Het Ffght In Maanssn.
The Ink was hardly dry upon the
0overnor's signature 70 the amend
mont bill. before the hot nght to car
~ the snendment In Madison county
hour 60 this the nght has been prose-
suited with seal with energy and with
Intelligence. And yet Madison county.
except by the amendment leaders. Is
admitted to be against the Amendment.
Not by q big majority. however.-Mad-
ison 10 probably not IS much against
the amendment. as 10 thought In some
other counties Of the State. But the
defenders are gaining consistently and
rapidly and II no untoward circuna-
stances intervenes. the majority viii
be augmented In the final ten days.
Senator Spragins views the situation
cooily and with no optimistic enthu-
siasm- t
1--WE have the county and we have It
so that they can not take II away from
us" he says. II am AFRAID. however.
that our majority Will not be as large
as some of our enthusiastic friends
here expect. An active campaigns
very active campaign has been made
by the amendment forces in this coun-
~. They were first In the field. but
we have overtaken them and are now
well In the lead 1t Is as certain as
anything can be In politics that we
win carry the county against the
amendment and by majority which Is
now growing every day. 4
Garth In Enthusiastie.
Col. winston r. Garth. who is
working twice as hard as he ever
worked before In any Madison county
campaign ia more enthusiastic. He ex-
poets a big majority and he will hear
TO nothing else but big majority. A
big majority means from 500 to 500
majority out OF q total Of 5000 votes
which Madison county expects to cast
In this eiectienl
Il do not see. now 1t Is possible Tor
them to cut down our big majority
the majority we have now said COZ
onei Garth. I'VE have every reason
10 expect that In Huntsville and the
three min towns surrounding the city
We will beat the amendment forces py
from 400 to 500 votes and we expect
the country beats, In the total. to roll
mn another majority against the amend
rnent. for the Madison county farmer.
like tha farmer In other counties OF
Alabama, is opposed to the amendment
and we gain ground with eacn aas.
That's certain"
In no county in the State was the
contest 30 heated and excited IN It's
sarileat stares. Rev. s. r. WATSON,
pastor OF the First Methodist Church
here and the veteran champion OF hair
q dozen prohibition battle fields head
"a a whiriing, zea1ous fight. he had
the hearty cooperation of the State
Amendment headquarters, which sent
him the best speak ers the amendment
side had. In the early stages OF the
state campaign It might have peen'
difficult for other counties to get the
big gun speakers. but the heavy ar
tfilery was sent into Madison County,
whenever the call was sounded. Gov
ernor Conner has spoken in the county
several times. Speaker A. II. Carmi-
chaeI has been here. Judge g. ID.
weakley has delivered some speeches
Hon II. s. d. Mallory was called upon
for service and responded with adj
dresses to Madison County audiences.
Amenders Have LaEged.
Practically every amendment speaker
OF State wide reputation has seen SER
vice In Madison. The campaign start
ed nv the amendment forces was TOO
lively to be maintained; in time 1t
had to lag The defenders say THAT
the time for tagging Is now at hand.
It cannot be truthfuliy- said, however,
that the local volunteers are tagging.
Mr.. WATSON 10 as earnest and as ac-
tive as he has ever been. Representa-
tives Kirby ana Rowe are making as
many speeches as they have ever
made. But the defenders profess to
see a lessening Of the fire and the
enthusiasm which accompanied the
heavy artfiaery Hthen ityNaF brought
into play In the SearlierF hours of the
lighting in MkdtsoM
On the other hand the defenders.
starting late have gone forward with
a steady increase OF activity and of
enthusiasm. They are doing more
right now than they ever did before
and tley promise TO do more next
week than they are doing this week.
Believing that there was a certain
personal element IN the fight. friends
and neighbors of Senator Spragins.
men Of influence. OF ability and stand
ing jumped and zealously into the fight
than they had ever before done in
any Madison County contest. No coun-
ty committee in Alabama is at this
time rendering more persistent and
valuable service than the Madison
County committee Of defenders.
Seine of the Leaders.
A glance at the names of few of
the leaders who are touching elbows
with Senator spragins IN this fight
will convince any man familiar with
political conditions in Madison County
that the defenders have every rea-
son to believe that they will carry
the county by a fine majority. Active
in the fight are such men as Judge
Richard w. Walker. Mayor Thomas
w. Smith. Colonel Winston r. garth,
Former Mayor Earle Smith, Robert
g. Bickell. David A. Grayson. s. s.
Fletcher, J.. W. Battle. William j
Mastin, Archie Mcdonnell. Robert L.
O'Neal. NJ. NJ. Cantrill, Leo Marshuetz,
A. N. p. Dunn. Jackson Rand. C. Mack
Davis and other of equal standing.
The worth of a committee depends
entirely upon Its ability and Its acti-