The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-11-21
J. Lee Long Telk ofProbable
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A way to his home In GreenviiIe to spend Sunday. told Saturday night of The repeated reports send into head quarters by correspondents in differ ent sections of the State. that the nmenders, in their desperate situation. intended to have Judge s. D. Weak ley retire during the week as a can didate for dovernor and that 1t was possible that Dr. R. M. Cunningham would be put up as . candidate.
 Mr. Long said that the reports of course could not be verified. but that the amenders, realizing defeat. might be expected to do somethiug desperate during the week
 Mr. Long said that the amenders had good chance to carry Sumter. but outside of that he did not know they were ilable to carry. Tn eight or ton counties of the State he said there was hot fight on, and it was possible in a one weeks campaign to carry these counties either wey. Ex- cept for Sumter. however. the prob abilities were that each of the doubt fui counties would TO against the
 speaking of the situation MT. Long said:
 aseveral letters. and equally as many personal inquiries. have been received at headquarters as 10 whether or not the report is true that Judge Weakiey is going to withdraw from the race for Governor before go the amsndists will urge the claims of sx-IAeutenant Governor Cunning ham for governor.
 -Other inquiries are as to whether or not the genial doctor would make the race for Congress against the Hon. oscar ". Underwood. the pres ont incumbent from this Congressional District. While am unable to answer either of the above inquiries, it is barely possible there Is some thing in the reports. as these inquiries have been so frequent in the past few days One inquiry was very amusing. one person wishing to know what we thought of campaign manager who managed a campaign up to the day. of the election and then dcdged behind a won1an's skirt for production.
 .Hes also asked what we thought of ennstfkuties Bui1ded by the ladies end st1g9estad that such state of af- fairs would perhaps be Pandora's box and that if cousfitutionai con- venfion should be called and the good ladies were sent to make t there is q Of the convention would be, lengthy and that chaos and confnsicn wouid perhaps reign supfeme. mention these things to depict the trend of thought in the latter stAges of per haps the most memorable campaign aver waged in Alabama.
 InSormnti6n Rosy.
 .All the inrormation from every source is rosy indeed and it Is ths prediction of those in position te knaw that every county in the State win 20 against .tke amendment on November 2s. with the possible ex. ception of Sumter. and late reportl from that county Indicate that we arr makinE large gains
 Mr. Long drew attention to the fne' that Judge weakitY had fepeatedly declared to country audiences that tht second section of the amendment wal so worded to meet tawiess condition! that existed in Montgomery and Mo bile counties A definite attempt wal being made to stir up prejudice agains the two counties and he thought tha the people of the two counties shcais take into consideration the bitter At tacks that had been fpadh upon them D, amendment speakers and the effort. that were made to stir up prejudtcel against the two cities.
 In the coming week the anti-amend ment forces will have no less than l7l speakers on the stump and by the lat ter paft of the week this number wcult be greatly increased.
 In Montgomery county yesterda, 4 con siderable excitement among politi clans was created by the announce. ment that a prominent amendment q man had thousand dollars. to be- that the amendment would carry. s Several local men rushed to the phone q to call him up before lie changed hil \ mind. The money would have beer z covered several times if 1t had beer forthcoming, but the thousand dollarl was never forthconjng The amend ment man would not bet. Heavy odd are offered on the street that tho $ amendment Is beaten and 1t Is said ans amount of amendment money wouIt be covered as quickly as it could bs offered. But in Montgomery k is noi to be found.
 aPeople of Chambers county have been so mixed up by the eontradiceorJ statements of Judge Weakley, Judge Denson and Hon. II. s. D. Mallory that they have decided that the best thing for them to do ts to vote agains, the amendment. claiming that if ths & amendment leaders themselves cann0i agree as to just what the proposed amendment means. then it cannot be ex, pected that the voters will understand N it."
 This was the statement of Judge ] n. Acuff who came to Montgomery Sat. urday night after finishing up a speak, ing tour through Marshall and Cham. # bers counties Judge Acnn also sait that he had met with great receptionl everywhere he had spoken. and that he was fully satisfied that both counties will go against the amend ment.
 Judge Daason and Congressman Tom Hefiin in their speech making for the $ amendment, and in turn there was camped on his trail Amos Goodhue of Gadsden, who came unheralded. and attempted to speak to the audience that had gathered at different places 10 hear Judge Acuff This later movement fell flat. however, and In only one instance is it recorded that & he had any people to talk to. On this occasion MT. Goodhue made such a bitter speech that at least twenty five per cent. of his audience left him
 Judge stFattOn Speaks.
 Another caller at the Headquarters of the anti-amendment forces Satur- day night was Judge A. E Seratton. who has been making tour of Clay and Randolph conntiea. He reports that at Roanoke ha had a unique ex- perience State treasurer Walter D. HE 4aa.