The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-10-24


 the consultation room with the poll.
 ticians and had caught their phrases
 4 home grown band. but good one furnished the music at the court house. It was made up mainly of boys under ths leadership of L' o'Neal
 Bran.en Opens Meeting. While those on the Inside stood firm. fo hold their places within hearing of E the speaker, those on the outside push ed and tugged to get inside. Hon. B. R. Brannen, mounted the judges stand and called the big and cheering crowd to order. Mir. Brannen was glad that the attendance was large; he was glad that the enthusiasm was high and he was glad 'of thfs evidence of your de- termination to protect your homes. Sour firesides and your liberties"
 ~Hurrah for our side.s called out the Old Guard private. Everbody cheered. MT. Brannen completed brief, but neat argument against the evidence 1n his introductory remarks.
 But when he pictured the famous Alabama triumvirate of Judge & D. Weakiey. Rev. Brooks Lawrence and Governor Conner as a "Triangulus." the expIainBd was composed of "a stall fed lawyer. blue bellied yankee and . bench legged Governor" H, "T4urrah for our sides' called out the E0ld Guard representative waving his hat Young guard and old guard join. lDd the cheering.
 i when Peyton c. Bowman was pre- ;oented to the audience he was met with |3a rousing welcome. He had. he said. i i1poken in Troy in a memorable cam {paign, seventeen years ago, when feel idnE ran high, He had reasons to be- I1loye at that tine that there were. a humber of people in Troy who did not IWaxt him to speak. But old rancor And old bitterness, he said. had been l8unk in the common danger. The sDeople of Alabama now stood face to. lfhce with grave danger--one which 'yfGaI1y affected the fabric of their liberties in the face of this danger all men were friends and united in fight ing 1t off.
 If there is one class of voters that know something about 1t is the wool hat boys" said the speakers. "In street car in Birmingham the other day MT. wickinson. preacher with m able mind, who is engaged in this campaign said to me. Oh, you anti amendment people will probably beat us in the towns. but when we get out in the country. the country vote VIII 6At up LnelT tOWu VoLes S6lQ Doctor the town vote will be against you but the people who are really going to give you your waterloos are the wool flatten them out like a bat ter cake"
 awool Hat Buys. Cheer
 And the audience from the country beats of Pike County heartily ap- plauded this declaration.
 You know they fired this thing to fool you. '.he continued. They said the wool hat fellows have not paid their poll tax, and we will call this election in the fall when tNey those that can vote are busy gathering their crops and won't have time to read up on this thing"
 At this juncture a Pike County Farmer rose saying:
 We've had a short crop this year and we have got plenty of time to read And we are going to fix them. hoo.s
 "A short cropt year and plenty of Kime to read up on the question. That's the best comment. have heard on this thing since the campaign started. But when they sprung this ahing they really thought you were a lot of box ankled. copperas brooches