The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-11-30
0TYS PROTEST
 OVERWHELMING
(Continnesl from rage One.)

NA8 UT tWU npic4chHt hS& t1A VI came when objections were entered to the presence of workers inside the ropes about the polling places. and though at one time. at the Ward 1 box. clash seemed imminent. nothing untoward occurred.
 Throughout the day interest of Mont Eomerians in the result of the voting was intense. There was not a business interest, not a walk of life. not a so- cfai environment but had its interested and expectant members.
 While the ordinary business affairs of the day were not neglected. it cannot be said that there were any record breaking attempts to do business. The election and the momentous amend ment Issue overshadowed every other consideration.
 Polls Open Early.
 The polls opened at s o'clock and there was not a moment of the dayiit hours from the instant the polls were thrown open until the last ballot was deposited as the polls closed at o'clock that the interest Jagged or that another consideration took the as- tendency.
 The Interest was distributed through out the city, but radiated from the poll. ing places of the different wards. Nat uraliy the major concern and interest was displayed at the polling places in the immediate vicinity of the business section of the city. Almost without in- terruption the officers and workers about the polls were asked the ques- tion: well. how is the electfons go- ing here7 Is a heavy vote being poll edg Will the amendment be beaten In this beat? How many have voted thus . far? Is the present majority for or against the amendmentw
 And these are but samples of what was asked during the day.
 Carriages in Demand.
 Carriages. hacks. automobiles and al- most every kind of conveyance was pressed Into service to bring voters to the polls. At some of the voting places in the more populous wards the stream of approaching and departing vehicles was almost continuous. Seldom was there a pause and the pauses noted were conspicuous by their infrequency-
 It was estimated early in the day that the largest vote ever boiled in the city would be registered before night fall and the prediction was practically fulhlIed.
 But the interest never Jagged. An automobile would dash up to a polling place and an eager man with pencil and notebook poised in restless fingers would 3otSdown figures that told, or did not tell. tale he was anxious to hear.
 GO ahead, George" and the big car whiried away in a blue haze of burned gasoline to carry the latest news of the local situation to waiting men who paced uneasily the floors of towering office buildings or stood impatiently before some business house.
 Food was a thing that could and would be secured any time. The crav- ing of the Montgomery man Monday from daylight to dark was for infor- nation regarding the progress of the voting. throughout the city. county and State.
 Telephones Busy.
 Telephones Tn newspaper offices jin- gied and tangled tmpatientiy every oth- CT moment of the day.
 What's the outlook in Jefferson?"
 Has Dallas sent in any news about che election?"
 'srIavs they called out the troops in BirminghamT
 DO you thing that beat emp -umpty- umpty win turn in a majority against the anendment7" And there you are.
 Of courses the aerlier hours of the day were not productive of anything like definite news from the points about the state. But this meant nothing to the men of Montgomery hungry for news of the outcome of the voting. But during the latter nfternoon hours when 1t was judged that enough votes had been cast gen. erallx Throughout the state to warrant some estimate that would relieve the tense situation and the anxiety in fhousands of minds, the teiephoned amportunities recommended and vigor was added with each hour.
 Numbers of Montgomery men es- pecially interested in the outcome of the voting at some particular part of the state or in some specific city ar ranged to have special wires sent them as soon as definite conclusions work of the telegraph companies with offices in Montgomery and the messenger boys were kept on the run from early evening until the big can- vas opposite the office of The Adver- tiseT began to carry flashes of the good news so many residents of Montgomery longed for and confident Iy anticipated.
 Montgomery Quiet.
 Policed by special details of men from the police department Montgom- cry was quieter and more orderly Monday than on any day in many months. At o'clock the police blot ter at headquarters was blank, not a single entry having been made since ( o'clock In the morning. Between o'clock and 6 o'clock in the afternoon several cases appeared on the docket. but according to the arresting police men, the disorders evidenced by those cases could in no way be attributed to the election.
 The total vote cast before 12 o'clock in Montgomery reached 1,479 and in- dications showed at least 100 of the votes to be against the amendment.
 A canvass of the seven polling places in Montgomery, made at IF o'clock showed that voting was pro- gressing rapidly. more than half the estimated total vote of the city being polled at that time.
 At that time officers of the polling place at Durr's stables in ward one said that 245 votes, more than half the total vote of the beat, had been cast and 1t was estimated that they stood in the ratio of ten or twelve to ont against the amendment.
 In Ward Two. 246 votes were cast a IF o'clock, more than half of the tota vote, and the ratio was five to six tt one against the amendment.
 In Ward 3. the polling place at th' county jail, 252 votes had been cas at 12 o'clock and the ratio against th' amendment there was about to 1.
 At the polling place for Ward 1 was said that the anti-amendmen votes were outnumbering the amend ' ment votes 5 to to 1 and the vote half the total vote of the beat.
 In Ward 6. the anti-amendment votes outnumbered the amenderi more than 10 or 12 to 1. The vote a