The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-31
CAPTAIN ROBSON
 AT TUSCALOOSA Addresses Immense Crowd
 on Closing Day HE IS WELL RECEIVED Takes Up What He Has Accomplished in Congress and Outlines What
 He Expects to Do If
 He Is Returned

Tuscaloosa. March o-(special)-Capt.
 Richmond Pearson Hobson closed his
 campaign for renomination to Congress
 from the Sixth district in so far as Tus-
 caloosa is concerned here today, address I ing a tremendous crowd of citizens of the
 city and adjoining counties from a plat
 form in front of the courthouse. | Captain Hobson, who has just completed
 a nerve racking acmpaign over the dis- | trict, lacked that fire and magnetism for | which he is noted, his address being en- | tirely lacking of those trips into ethereal | realms which have characterized his for
 mer addresses. The captain was well re-
 ceived but at no time was there spon- 1 taneous outburst of applause as was ac-
 corded him here on a previous occasion. 1 Captain Hobson spoke for two hours
 and 45 minutes, having the respectful at tention of the huge crowd which was con- tinually shifting and breaking, due to the strain of standing up He took up what | he had accomplished since he was elected | to Congress and outlined what he expected | to do if returned.
 In the character and tone of his re-
 marks was to be gathered the fact that | the Congressman is still full of that love | of service which he claims unto himself,
 and he spoke at length on his public ef- l forts since resigning the navy. He pro l claimed that his opponent, Senator Prank l $. Moody wanted the county and city Of | Tuscaloosa wet, the state of Alabama
 wet, and the nation wet also, in order | so the captain stated, that he, Senator 1 Moody might vote for his dispensary measure
 | Hobson referred to the charges made | that he was not a resident of the Sixth district, and that his own children were l not born at his Greensboro home, by making the quip that if Billy Brandon's s | father had been United States consul gen eral at Khartoum up the Nile, and Billy | had first seen the light of day there, would that have made him an African. He appealed to the voters of Tuscaloosa county to stand with him in this, the greatest fight ever waged in the district. He said Hale county was going to stand by him to a man. and that out of 1100 votes boiled, he, Hobson, would get
 majority of from 900 to 1000.
 The Sixth district, he pointed out, was
 going to stand by their faithful servant, and that the other counties were look ing to imperial Tuscaloosa, the citadel of the enemy's forces to what action they would take, but that even imperial Tuscaloosa county would not cnanSe the result.
 l Taking up the question of the liquor in- | terest activity in the present campaign | he cited that a Texas congressman had | offered to lend him his Washington of /, fee from which to send out his speech. | "The Great Destroyer but that the liquor interests had gotten behind the | Texan in his home state and the prof
 fered services were rescinded The cap tain said he had made his campaign
 alone, that he had no flying squadron fighting his battles, and taht he felt sure | that the people would carefully weigh
 his words and find that the truth and
 right were with him, and would so cast | their ballots Monday.
 Captain Hobson will definitely close
 his speaking campaign with rally at Holt tonight at 7:30.
 This afternoon at ? o'clock Moody | rally will be held in the courthouse, | Senator Moody, Judge w. W. Brandon
 and Hon. John A. Rogers of Sumter ad-
 dressing the people.