The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-10-13
Conservative Leaders Sure the
 Amendment Is Beaten
SATURDAY TO BE BIG BAY
Speakers Will be Sent Out All over State and a Number of Promi- nent Birmingham Men Will
 Be on the Stump.
BY HUGH w. ROBERTS.

In making empty boasts of herculean strength, the amendists would forget the chill that fingers around their hearts.
 They are beaten.
 Their most conservative leaders admit that fact although they claim that they are just getting into the fight.
 They warn the anti-amendment hosts that they are entering the last ditches, and that they will come out victorious or dead.
 With victory in their hands, and with the knowledge of coming triumph prompt ing to a landslide from one end of the state to the other and with the probabil- ity that under continual pressure the amenders' reverse will become an uncon- trollable scramble for safety, it does not stand to reason that the defenders Of the constitution will go asleep and allow a spider to spin its web across the muzzle of the muslSet.
 The reports which reached county head quarters yesterday were exceedingly bright.
 There is no longer a doubt but that Jefferson will put the proposed amend ment, containing a political issue, 1t is said. whereby Governor Conner would go to the Senate and Judge WealSley to the governors chair, under foot, and trample out the last vestige of it's gasp of it's ex- istence. The victory, of course, will not be as marked as will be the victory in Montgomery and Mobile, but Jefferson. it is estimated, will not be far behind.
 At state headquarters everything is sc- tive according to the reports. Organiza- ton is going merrily ahead in every conn ty, and the reports are excellent. Anti amendment leaders grow more and more hopeful each day, and the more sansuine are predicting a landslide.
 But they are not stopping in their work
 Hugh Dent, one Of the most brilliant young Alabama orators, and congressman of the Second district has come out against the proposed amendment.
 He will be the first Alabama congress- man to make a speech in this political campaign. He will address a Montgom- cry mass meeting Friday evening, at which Judge J. J. Willett will also speak
 Today, Emmet O'Neal and Judge Weak ACy OoDdtO dt AAQdlQSld7 ana IOnOTTOW at Dothan. Leon McCord speaks at Boaz Friday.
 Saturday will be big rally day. Gads- den is making big preparations. A. G. Smith and P. G. Bowman of Birming- ham and Judge J. J. Willett of Anniston | will speak there. Jasper is on the qui 1 yive, too. There will be a big barbecue near Sipsey creek. and several speakers will be on hand. L. F. Greer of Annis- 1 ton and Tom Long of Jasper will be among the number. James Weatherly will go on the stump He speaks in Rus sellville Saturday. Judge Joseph C. Man ming will also address the RusseEville audience and will spend week in Frank lin county.
 Pell City is making preparations for big time Saturday. Henry Fitts of Bir- mingham vii speak there. Other men will be on hand, too.
 Saturday week there will be big rallies at Albertville and Opelilza. At the first place Leon McCord, Tom Long and Gen. George P. Harrison will speak. At the second place Jesse Stallings and J. J. Willett will speak.
 P. G. Bowman, Saturday week, will go again to Chiffon county, where last week, alone, he attracted the voters to his en- tertainment from the entertainment of a governor and former judge of the su- preme court