The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-09-05

should be allowed to belong to the United States army. MT. Eobson replied that the federal law requiring the maintenance of four regiments of negroes was created before he was born and was absolutely beyond his control.
 Counter Charges.
 At the beginning of his speech MT. Davis read and handed to Captain Hob son the following written counter charges:
 Having answered the charges that you have preferred against me, oouched in insulting and abusive terms, I hereby submit the following regarding your rec ord and in the hope that your mud singing and insulting methods will cease. I refrain from using the character of words adopted by you.
 T submit these matters for the intelli- gent consideration of the voters entitled to participate in nominating democratic the judgment and conscience of 8 major- ity of these should determine who should represent them In Congress.
 1. You have stated that there were more R. F. D. routes in the Sixth dis tract of Alabama than in any other dis trict in this state, or in this country, and claimed the credit for the same, while the facts are that five other districts in Alabama have more R. F. D. routes than the Sixth district, and only II of the routes in the Sixth district have been es- tablished since you became a member of Congress to March 4 last while 60 of such routes were established during the two years next preceding the time you became a member.
 '2. I hereby charge that in stating in. your Tuscaloosa speech that I said, I would beat Hobson if 1t was not for that d. farmer crowd, statement which you then and there retracted, in repeating the same statement in Eutaw, and then and there stating that 1t was a joke when I denounced 1t as false, that you have admitted that you had misrepresent- ed me, and used or manufactured false statement for campaign purposes.
 ''3. In causing or knowingly permitting your private secretary to send to the Montgomery Advertiser a partisan report of our joint debate at Hamilton the peo- pie of the district were denied the real facts, and with myself unfairly treated
 "A. In stating in substance in your speeches that the Brownsville bill, for which you voted, was a most terrible re- buke to Foralser, you have ignored, over looked or mis-stated the facts. The Con- gressional Record shows that Foraker asked the Senate to adopt the bill that was passed for which you voted, as a substitute for his original bill. It further appears from the Congressional Record that the title of the bill was never changed, and that the main purpose of the original bill and substitute was the same"
 Hobson Answers.
 Captain Hobson took up these charges separately and discussed them. He said that when he was elected congressman there were only two rural routes in the Sixth district, and that now there are almost 12o. He said that he had made the statement that more routes had been established in the Sixth district than in any other in the state in three years.
 He said that the charge of his having referred to an expression of Davis about the d. farmer movement had been dis torted from a mere joke.
 He read from the Congressional Record and copies of bills passed to show that the Foraker Brownsville bill was not the one for which he voted. that only the caption had been retained and the entire body and import of the bill changed be- fore passage.
 MT. Davis proved himself good cam paign speaker of we'll sustained wit He evoked much laughter with timely jokes and personal thrusts at his opponent.
 Friends of MT. Davis in Jasper claim that he will carry his home beat.