The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-12-01
ANTIS' MAJORITY WILLBE25,OOO Late Returns 0yerwheIm the
 Amendment.
 DEFENDERS ARE JUBGAET
Managers Are Closing Up Their
 Headquarters.
,Piekens and TaIladega Counties VIII Probably Return Ma5oritie.
 Against Conner and
 weakIey On the official Figures.

The total majority of approximate ly 25.000 against the amendment cast in Mondays eiection--a majority, which under the circumstances has no parallel in the political history of Alabama, was practically unchanged by the later returns received yester- day by The Advertiser.
 By returns received from country beats the amenders lost one and per- haps two of the six counties. which they appeared to have carried from the returns Monday night.
 According to the returns received Monday night at State headquarters from all beats in Pickens County. that county went against the amendment by the narrow majority of ten votes. Men familiar with conditions in Talladega County claimed that the three country beats that were to be heard from yesterday would cut down the slender majority in that county and move the county from the pro to the anti column.
 Lee. Macon. Chambers and Sumter are indisputably for the amendment. and these four counties appear to form the only comfort for the amend ment In Mondays Waterloo. Still. Talladega may stand firm after all, and the amendment has chance in Choctaw. which was not heard from yesterday.
 Asajorfties Increased.
 The madorities in some Of the sixty counties, carried against the amend ment, were increased by later re- turns and they were decreased in some counties by the returns of yesterday The estimates made late Monday night needed no special revision yesterday, The majority in Jefferson County in- creased yesterday with the official count. sJefferson's exact majority was 1.s4s
 Chairman T. Lee Long and his. asso- eiates in Birmingham, kept headquar- tcfs open yesterday for winding up the business of the campaign commit tee and to give Manager Long an op- 5urtunity of writing personal letters of thanks and appreciation to the county and beat chairmen who had volunteered for the arduous campaign and had rendered such excellent serv- Ice in the fight.
 State headquarters in Montgomery were opened yesterday, but that was all. No kind of business was trans- acted, and the headquarters workers refused to talk politics, beyond re- calling some of the humorous and pleasing incidents of the campaign and participating in something like love feast oyer the big landslide.
 Advertiser Was Right.
 It is a notable fact that the predie- ton of The Advertiser. made Sunday morning was very nearly verified. It was stated then a majority of more than 10000 might be registered against the amendment. and that the indica- tons were that the victory would be a landslide. It is also notable that practically every prediction made by The Advertiser came true. although the majorities in many of the counties
 4I,a al in The Advertiser news columns.
 Some comment was caused by the fact that the first balloon sent up by The Advertiser left Montgomery in southeasterly direction. as though is was going to, land in the State of Florida. The State of Florida will next year have the same kind of a campaign on the adoption or rejection Of an amendment to put prohibition in the constitution.
 A characteristic telegram was re- ceived yesterday from J. Culpepper one of the contributors to The Advertiser 1t read: Please temper the wind to ehe shorn lamb"
 AUTAUGA.
 Prattyilie. Nov. 3o.-(Special.) )--Au- sauga gave majority of 35s against she amendment.
 BALDWIN.
 Bay Minette. Nov. 30--(Special.)- nhe election returns are slow coming in from this county but from a ma dority of the beats heard from Bald win County will give the anti-amend- ers a majority of from 125 to 175. BUTLER.
 csreenville, Nov. S0-(Special.)- Election day passed or quietly here. "A heavier vote was boiled than ever before and the county went almost two to one against the amendment. Tbe results were as follows: For the amendment, 53s: against the amend ment, 97e: majority against, 43S. {, CLARKE.
 Thomasville. Nov. 3o.-(Special.)- fJnofilcial returns from every beat in Clarke County gives es2 against and b27 for the amendment.
 COFFEE.
 EIba, Nov. 30.-(Special. )--Coffee County goes against the amendment, $50 to 600 majority.
 COLBERT.
 Tuscumbia, Nov. 30.-(SpeciaD- romplete returns from Colbert county give amendment 44O against sss; ma iority, 42e.
 CONECUH.
 Evergreen, Nov. s0.--(Special)-Ma- Sority' in Conecuh against the amend ment is 257.
 COOsA.
 Goodwater. Nov. 30.-(SpeciaL )-Of- ficiaI returns sent out by the sherint of Coosa County are as follows: Total vote against the amendment. S44. To- taI vote for the amendment, 453. Ma 1ority against the amendment, Ss1. 
 CULLMAN.
 cullman, Nov 30.-(Special. )-Cull- man County gave majority of $40 against the adoption of the constitu- fional amendment. A heavy vote was boiled in all precincts. Aa-
 DALE.
 ozark, Nov. S0-(Special.) )-Com- plete lists of returning officers makes Daie's majority against 2S0.
 ELMORE.
 Wetumpka, Nov. 6-(SpeciaD- accurate returns from eighteen of the