The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-11-29
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/ t5 the most costly. the most siAnderous campaign that Alabama, in all her his- tory has ever had. closed last night. and tonight by o'clock 1t wiii be known whether the voters of the state have or have not rejected the proposed amendment to the Constitution-
 < The men who have led the spectacu- tar and effective campaign against the amendment are jubilant at the end. claiming certain victory of between 10000 and 10000 majority.
 The leaders of the amendment light who have encountered series Of dis appointments still claim the State by e safe majority while admitting that the amendment will lose in seventeen of the sixty-seven counties of the State.
 The polls today in all precincts. un- der the election law, open at o'clock In the country beats they will close at o'clock p. m. while in the cities they will remain open. until p. m The vote will bescounted quickly. There are only two lines on the ticket. Yes and '.No." and the inspectors and clerks can make the count with rapidity. By g o'clock the result of the election should be known with defniteness.
 AIontgomerfans sasisaed.
 In Montgomery, which Is strongly against the amendment. 1t is generally hold that the amendment is beaten throughout the State. Few Montgom- erians expect an amendment victory. Some think the amendment is to be beaten by 10000 majority, which un- der the circumstances will be a polit- The total vote, the best Informed poll fticians say, will run between 1e5.o00 and 1i5,000. Every man with q vote win go to the polls if he can get there. There never has been an election Tn Alabama invested with such intense interest and .the voting swiii be as hsaYy as the unaiIncd ltsts will allow. De- terfiiiiled efforts have been made to Keep the voting down to the qualified lists and charges have been made that the amenders, in doing this have exceeded fairness and 1t Is predicted that there may be some trouble at few of the polling placs in the State.
 The chief Interest in the election re- turns tonight will cluster about the news which will come from Jefferson, the largest county in the State. The defenders declare that Jefferson Is as near doubtful as any other Alabama county The charge has been publicly made that the amenders. to save Jeff ferson, have been flooding that county with money No practical politician doubts that the Jefferson County Anti Amendment Committee has made large expenditures. The county officials of Jefferson with few exceptions are supporting the amendment and they have charge of the election machinery. yefferson is the home county of Gov ernor Conner, Judge Weakley. Chairman Fred Nj. Jackson and the place of res- idence of Rev. Brooks Lawrence.
 Defemders. Claim Jeffersoh.
 The defenders are. nevertheless. , certain that they will carry the coun- ty by fine majority. They have zone carefully over the situation and they declare that the majority in Jefferson against the amendment will vie with that cast by Montgomery.
 Mobile county may give the heav- lest majority of any county against the measure or Montgomery county may win that honor. The leaders in Montgomery are after the final re- ports and after the magnificent po- iitical demonstration of Saturday night are confident that they will carry the county by . majority of E. 900. ana Mobile county may not ex- eel thfs.
 Mshelby, Bibb. Pllxe. Houston. Walk er. Calhoun. covingtan. crenshaw De son, Cherokee, Chiffon. Coosa, Gull man. Calhoun. Colbert. Lamar and Jackson are expected to give majori- ties against the amendment. ss
 Tn Middle Alabama the vote is go- ing to be close in Macon and Lee. Macon will give one of the smallest majoritfes. either way 1t goes of all the counties in the State. The ma tority against the amendment in Bull lock and Lowndes is regarded as cer- tain. but not large. Lee county Is ad- mitted by both sides to be doubtful. only the count tonight. can show which way the county Is on the ques- ton The defenders are expecting Chambers county to be close with the probability that 1t will go against the amendment. On the other hand the amenders are claiming positively that Chambers will give a big majority for the amendment. Sumter is admit tedly for the amendment and the fight is close in Marengo and Choc- taw.
 Bofh Battle for Eucambia. q.
 Both sides are claiming and bat tifnR for Escambia. Lawrence is an- other county with close vote. Ge- neya Is not going to roll up q ma jority of great proportions either one way or the. other. Etowah is stiIl doubtful, with both sides claiming 1t.
 The vote from these doubtful coun- ties will have the most interest as they come In over the wires tonight.
 Local politicians are reasoning that election day may take two turns. It Is possible for the anti-amendment vote to be held down and for the amendment to get most of the coun- lies. in which event, the majority will he less than 10000. On the other hand they say that the anti-anend- ment, like any other winning cam paign will sweep the doubtful votes into line and that the majority will meet the expectations of all who think 1t will go to 1s.000.
 The amenders, who arc stiil hope ful. are losing their hopes on the proposition that the majorittes in Mo- bile and Montgomery counties will be held down while they hope for big majority from Jefferson to offset the vote of the two other big counties. In such an event. the amendment would have a slight lead and they claim that this lead would be maintained and perhaps increased little by the ma 5ority from the total votes of the oth- or counties.
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