The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-02-09
Both O'Neal and Mallory Claim Withdrawal Will
 Name Them Votes
HENDERSON'S ACTION
 LEAVES STAIGHTAWAY
Situation Now Is Mallory and Seed on Amendment Side and O'NeaI on the Other-Did the Gov
 crnor Figure.
By HERyEY W. LAIRD

montgomery, 5eDruhfN S.-NSpeCldi.l- Charles Henderson, who on Tuesday morning withdrew from the race for the democratic nomination for governor. will
 vote for and throw his influence to Col
 II. g. D. Mallory for the position. He made known his intention to this effect
 tonight before leaving for his home at Troy This decision came after an all- day effort on the part of the Mallory lead CTS, who were in session here today, to get expression from him.
 The retirement of Captain Henderson from the race for governor was all the talk. or most of it. at least, in the hotel lobbies today. There was as much diff ference of opinion as to how it would react as there are men on one side or the other, but in the main the impression is that it is q good thing for Col. Emmet O'Ncal Colonel ONeal thinks so himself, having had d number of letters from the middle section of she state indicating that he has much strength in that part of the vineyard that will come to him as a re- suit of the retirement of Henderson.
 On the other hand the Mallory people eAAehN that would have gone to Henderson are of d conservative sort that will not go to the Florence man. They contend that this class sought to find in Henderson a com promise man who would give them vote neither very much pro nor very much anti on the amendment lines.
 A South Alabama man says that O'Neal has an enormous following in the wire grass and the country generally, all of whom are ready to get busy now that it is a straightaway race with only one man on the anti-amendment side. With Mallory and Seed on the other side they take 1t that an anti has a fine show to hold the strength that followed the Mont gomery conference.
 Did Conner Have Hands
 A great many people believe that Gov. B. B. Conner had hand in in- ducing Captain Henderson to come out of the race. He is said to have held to the belief that there was no chance for him. It is also believed that ". D. Nesbitt, chairman of the state com- mittee and associate on the railroad with the captain, held to the belief that he had no show. At any rate, 1t is known that the men who were close to him had much to do with getting him out of the running, and 1t Is also known that up to l o'clock Mon day night he had not agreed to their view of It. It was after that time when most of his friends had gone to bed, that he took q sudden notion to quit, called up a reporter and gave out the statement
 A close friend of the captain saiG Tuesday that he was as much sur prised as any man in the state al the action taken. He says "I left him after midnight and my impress sion was that he would say nothing for d day or so at least-maybe sev- eral days. When I saw that he had changed his mind and given out his statement to only one paper I was as much astonished as a man can be at something he is not in any sense looking for. Up to Monday there was no more reason to suspect that he would resign from the fight than ne would get off the railroad commits sion. His decision was made suddenly and without much talk about 1t before hand. He felt that he was up against a game that he could not overcome"