The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-09-17
Effect Will Be Salt
 tarY. LEADERS REJOICE THAT
 FIRM STAND IS TAKEN Other Meetings Planned for Coun-
 ties of State. tt
 Manager Long Pleased With Beginnins and Predicts Fight Tbat VIII Lead to . Certain
 Victory.

The Executive Committed. which will have in charge the campaign against the constitutional amendment, will meet in Montgomery next Tuesday to plan the campaign. The call for the meeting was sent out yesterday.
 Elated and confident as a result of the big conference the opponents of the amendment propose to lose no time, not only in keeping what they have, but In gaining fresh ground. The leaders believe that if the vote was taken to- morrow, the amendment would be de- feated by a majority of more than So,OOo. But they are going to fight as hard as they know how to make the victory even more overwhelming. The largest, closest and most compact organization that ever managed a po- ntical campaign. they claim, will be formed during the next month, and some of the abIest speakers in Ala bama will be sent into every county.
 Manager J. Lee Long and his asso- ciate at headquarters yesterday were delighted with the situation. Some Of the delegates who remained over de- ciared that the conference would go down in history as the greatest ever held in the State. and that it would be @1th0W Ih py tHC LlUHt .On6-Bl0Gu cam paign ever conducted in Alabama Not one man seems to consider the possi- bilfty of the amendments carrying.
 It Is probable that a monster mass meeting will be held in Jefferson Coun- ty within the next month. Several of the leaders from Jefferson suggested the meeting and said that probably b0,o00 people could be assembled for the meeting. The proposed gathering ta fA ho foAA meeting ever heldsin Alabama, even as the conference of Wednesday was the most notable political gathering.
 Enorts will be made, if the sugges- tion Is adopted, to secure low railroad rates. to bring thousands of people ip from the surrounding counties. It was further suggested that fifteen or twen- fy of the leading speakers of the cause be detailed to address different portions of the expected audience.
 Chairman Long said yesterday:
 T want to thank the good people of Montgomery for the generous and hos pitable treatment accorded the dele- gates to the conference. desire, too, to thank Capt. Paul Sanguinetti and the young men composing the committee on reception and entertainment, for their efforts in making the meeting such an unqualified success"
 Long had only one regret about the meeting-the crowd was so large that there were number of men he wished to see personally and to whom he wished to show some special cour- tesy. who came and went without his having an opportunity of meeting them. There were a number of men he had especially wished to talk with, but who, because of the crowd. he was not able to get to.
 Out of all the talk and gossip of the meeting one feature stood out clear and distincA-that was the attendance and activity of veteran publicists of Alabama, who came out of the quietuds and retirement of their homes to throw their efforts to a movement to ward off a threatened danger. They were such men as former Governors Oates and B L. Wyman, John c. Webb. $ H. Dent. R. B. Kyle. Judge G. P. Bowling and Hon. J. N. Williams.
 The promoters of the conference were gratified by the attendance Of this last veteran of peace and war, Major WiEiams. No man in Alabama did more than Major Williams to re- deem the South from negro domina- ton. Some years after the war Q ne- gro represented the Third District iD Congress With the large negro vote at his back he was able to defeat any white man who offered. The Demo- cratic nomination finally went begging. As a forlorn hope. Major Williams took it and by courage and aggressiveness won the election.
 Major Williams. like his colleague, Capt S. H Dent, from Barbour, serv- ed in the Constitutional Convention of 1901. He sees in the proposed amend ment a serious danger.
 With these veterans there were hum dreds of young men united in the fight. men like Claude Hamilton of Butler, Oscar Lewis of Macon. Ed Smith of Birmingham, Jim Oakley of Bfbb. Sher- iffs Graves of Blount and Miller Of Clay; will Lee of Houston. Ed Joseph, J. T. Letcher of Montgomery and E. W. Pettus, IT,, of Dallas.
 The name recalls an interesting ht- tie incident of the conference. When the names of the committeeman were ping read off. the well known name of D. W. Pettus, was heartily cheered because of its association, although the bearer of 1t is a young man just entering public life.