The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-11-25
CHEROKEE FOR ANTE
CoMER GETS A COLD RECEPTION IN
 COUNTY.
Men and Women Frantic ia Efforts to Hear Anti Speaker While Co.,
 mer Faces Small Crowd nt
 Centre.

| Centrey NOV. z4.-NSpecfal. D--t was a significant day in the political his- sion of the magnificent address of former Congressman M. W. Howard to the voters of this section.
 Today's demonstration of the anti amendment forces leaves no doubt as to the results of the election in Cher okee County. Fully 1000 citizens thronged the court house at this point packing the. court room and over flowing into the square. By actual count there were but six lone farmers rallying to Governor Conner and the amendment at Union, seven miles down the road. It is doubtful If such a political condition has a parallel in this or any other county of the State. It Is to foreteli the lopsided victory that is in store for the defenders of the constitution of Alabama.
 These two rival meetings were held in the morning at Il o'clock. All the morning. since early daybreak, Gov ernor Conner. working with despera- ton. had driven with his team over many miles of Cherokee territory talk ing at each stop with the farmers one by one and trying to persuade them to vote for the amendment because, as he told them, 1t was the only moral way to vote, and besides it was the Governor who was asking the favor.
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 Dick Smith. one of the farmers who came in to hear the speech of Mir. Howard, said he hal been approached by the Governor who drove up to his house and stopped for a long talk, in- troducing himself as your Governor whom they are ridiculing so much these days"
 Then the Governor drove into Centre this afternoon to fill an engagement at the court house here. All but a half dozen of the thousand men from all beats of Cherokee, who came in to hear Mir. Howard against the amend ment, drove back home. The resilt was that an audience of I10 men and I5or women and children faced the tomary defense of his administration and the amendment.
 The oldest citizens of the county agree that their former Congressman was never fin better oratorical form than today. With striking clearness the speaker laid bare the many dan gers wrapped up in the amendment and the uselesSness of the first sec- ton.
 At his more eloquent periods gray haired farmers who sat. stood and
 
 in repeated cheers. There were prob- ably TOO voters in the crowd and there were hardly dozen who were not decorated with the American flag emblematic of constitutional liberty. Great indignation was expressed by members of the audience at the wholesale disfranchfsemen of voters by the leaders on the side of the amendment.
 1AIq f... Ioz- Blackmon of AhnIston. who made an especially logical appeal to the voters present. Names And Estimates.
 The most conservative estimate of Cherokee's majority against the amendment Is $50.
 Dan Thornton. of Beat g, says the polls of his beat gives 15 for the amendment and 35 against. with the defenders gaining
 Louis Acker, of Beat 5. says his beat will give 10 for and 80 against
 w z. Duke of Centre beat makes the poll there 65 for and 110 against.
 Ed. Daniels says the Leesburg beat will give Is for and 30 against L. B. Stevens says that Beat 8 l-2 will give three for the amendment and 37 against. while beat 8 proper will go two to one against. T. I. OdnielS IlBures beaI IF as 4V for and 60 against
 President Pridgen of the Cedar Bluff Bank says that his precinct will give no less than four to one against the amendment and he hasn't been ! under the influence of drink since forty years ago.
 Chairman Hugh Reed of the defend CTS In this county will not permit an estimate under 300 majority against the amendment. And many changes were effected by the speech of MT. Howard, who is personally popular in this county. which gave him 700 l majority for Congress over two op- l ponents In his last race. J. WhitIock had intended In August to go to the State of Washington to locate. but decided to, stay in Alabama to complete his political record by voting against the amendment Fourtenn women wearing the De. fender's badges were in MT. Howard's 8 audience today.