The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-10-18
PRO. FORCES ARE PUSHED HARD
Resorins is Organization of Ysung
 Mems Clubs.
Eeod News Csnes to Headsuarters, Showing Antis Are Gaining Strength Daify h Every Sec
 tisn of the state--Experi-
 ssce of Mr. Geeawyn.

with SIX weeks yet 10 runs the cam paign for and against the Constitu- tiona1 Amendment is entering it's hot test stage. What has gone before has been only the side show--the Big Show'' is yet to be pulled of.
 The defenders of the Constitution en- ter this stage of the campaign abso- Iutely confident. They claim that not a single section of Alabama, not a Con- gressional District or@ a Judicial Cir cult, will be carried by the amend ment. Chairman Lee Long does not concede q single county to the amend ment.
 The amenders, in thefr published statements. express confidence of vic- tories. but their claims are not so spe- icific or so insistent as those of the opposition.
 When the fight started. they believed That the campaign would be triumph ant march to victory with the amend ment losing in only three or four coun- ties of the State.
 That they have been disappointed in this no we'll informed mAn denies and that they realize, that If they win it fights ever pulled off in Alabama, is equally certain. And they are prepar- ing to make light that will be Him. 1ted only by their resources and their ability. The big fight on their part. they have announced. will begin on Oc- tober 20. when they expect to have more than thousand speakers on the stump, most of swhom will be preach ers.,
 They are organizing young mems clubs throughout the State. This Is a result of the condition in which they found that majority of the older men of Alabama were opposed to the amendment. Young mems clubs have been formed in Jasper, Birmingham, and they are to be formed in Mont gomery and other cities of the State. This is taken by politicians to mean that the young men will De organized to offset the influence of the older men who are opposed to the amendment.
 Local politicians say that antagoniz- ing in any way the old men of the State Is dangerous business for any cause. In recent years, efforts have been made to work up young mems sentiment in Alabama for political pur- poses but all such efforts have hereto- fore fallen fiat. because it was believed that they meant political suicide for any set of young men whe engaged in them. The effect of the new alignment will be watched with special inter- est.
 The headquarters of the defenders, for the present. are located in Birming- ham, to all intents and purposes for the North Alabama fight. Reports come to Montgomery that the defend CTS now have the more vigorous and aggressive political organization ever formed In Alabama. Certainly every man in headquarters has absolute con- fidence that the amendment will be badly beaten.
 fsoodyyynss News,
 Hon. Tyler Goodwin, who has just returned from tesp through three North Alabama counties, where he has looked upon some land titles. brought the comforting information that the northeastern section of the State, where he had been. was against the amendment and perhaps more positive ly against 1t than the rural counties of Middle Alabama. Mir. Goodwin is noted in Montgomery for being a polit- ical pessimist-y-one who discounts all favorable reports and looks continuous Iy for bad news. As the manager of the one-sided municipal campaign of Mayor-elect Gaston Gunter .ile origin ated an expression that became by word in that campaign when so many favorable reports came in: That's wrong. Check 'em up again, boys"
 From Mir. Goodwyn's observations he is confident the anti-amendment will carry Jackson. Dekaib. end Cherokee Counties.
 "My legal business carried me through the rural districts and brought me into contact with the country peo- pie as well as with the people of the towns" said MT. Goodwyn yesterday. "Of course up there. liks down here. the amendment was talked about all the time. From my observations and conversation, I believe Jackson Coun- ty will go heavily against the amend- ment. That side of the tquestion, l think, has a right to expect large majority in Jackson. In DeKalb. sen- tiinent seems divided in the towns. but the country people are, generally speaking, against the amendment. think, however, that 1t IS admitted that DeKalb right now would vote lagainst the amendment by good ma 5ority.
 Not Much Work.
 'T had to travel through Cherokee in a buggy. found that neither side had done any work to amount to any thing in that county. The natural sem timent of the people in the country dis