The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-31
MOODY RALLY HAD
 AT TUSCALOOSA
Large Crowd Hears Final
 Arguments at Courthouse
ROBSON IS ATTACKED
Rogers Declares He FavOres Moody as Being Man for Place-BrandOn Refers to Captain Hobson's
 Numerous War Scares

Tuscaloosa, March 3O-(Special. 1.-The Sixth district congressional cam
 paign came 10 a close tonight with the two candidates for the office of congress-
 man from this district holding rallies
 at two different points in this county. In the city of Tuscaloosa rousing
 Moody rally was held at the courthouse.
 At Holt, six miles east of the city, R. P.
 Hobson closed his campaign with an ad-
 dress to the voters of that place. aug
 mented by crowd from Tuscaloosa car
 ried out on a chartered train.
 The rally for Moody took place at the
 courthouse, beginning at o'clock. Sem
 ator Moody went thoroughly into the is-
 sues of the campaign, arraigning Captain
 Hobson for his alleged negligence of
 duty and pleading that the people of
 the Sixth district choose a man to rep
 resent them who would attend to the | duties for which he was elected.
 MT. Moody was followed by John A. | Rogers of Sumter. He advised the young | man to take an active part in politics. | for politics, he said was the manner of l government. He gave his reason for | opposing Hobson and dramatically char l | him up as a man of monsterous preten- | sions.
 | Entirely different was the setting | chosen by Captain Hobson to close his campaign. The hillside city of Holt was 1 selected and 1t was on the side of these 1 hills that a crowd of people gathered to 1 hear the hero of the Merrimac. A spe-
 cial train from Tuscaloosa carried about
 15O to Holt The captain dwelt with the 1 campaign heretofore. He plead that l he be returned to Congress. He said that | he had served the people of his district
 well; that he was the greatest power for l temperance in the United states and that
 the liquor interest had decreed that he
 must be gotten rid of Captain Hobson
 was favorably received by his audience
 and was frequently applauded He | leaves here Monday for Greensboro to
 vote and will return to Tuscaloosa the
 same day to await the final returns from | the polls.
 | The campaign just closed has been one | of the warmest political fights ever in | flicted in the Sixth district.
 tremendous crowd gathered in the courtroom here this afternoon to hear the final arguments in the Hobson- Moody campaign for congressional hon ors the meeting being in every sense of the word a Moody rally. The speakers of the afternoon were John A. Rogers of
 
 | Tuscaloosa. The meeting was presided over by Fleetwood Rice, assistant coun- | ty solicitor.
 MT. Rogers made the opening address, paying his respects to Tuscaloosa as | it was compared to the days when he
 was here at school moving from this topic in discussion of the issues of the present campaign He said he favored the election of Senator Moody because
 he was the man for the place. He said Sumter county favored Senator Moody
 and was going to return a majority for
 him. He made scathing attack on the Ipresent incumbent He opposed Hob son because of his monstrous preten
 sions and Sumter county did the same
 thing.
 The people of the Sixth district, the speaker, said, were looking for a man
 who would not misrepresent them in l Congress. Such a man, he said, was
 found in the Tuscaloosa senator. He
 said the Tuscaloosa man was not
 donkey hody, or wind mill; that he
 was against extravagant expenditure of public money. and this was another point on which he and Hobson differed. l Hobson, he stated, was Goliah of Gath; Moody the young David, who was
 not afraid to invade the camp of the
 Philistines. He ridiculed Hobson as to
 his monstrous pretensions and his over | flowing ego. He said he claimed credit for everything that had resulted for good in the Sixth district for the past
 ten years and said Hobson in his own conceit was the greatest parsonage in 1 the world. He referred to the Hay Fitzgerald matter, which Hobson has lattempted to brush aside, and then he | took up Hobson's indorsement of John
 L. Bankhead for the Senate.
 | Hobson's negligence of his duty was also brought out with force by the speaker, who was greeted freqeuntly by tremendous outbursts of applause. He
 said he would not go out of his record | to prove him just what he was and
 that he and Sumter county possessed
 him for his sham methods.
 | Brownsville was touched on by the | speaker as was his vote on merchant | marine. Hobson, he said had been on | the meter IA years. so long in fact that | he had water on the brain. He said he | was tired of the monstrous pretensions | of this young man. sincerity and integ- l rty he said were coming down to the | ages and would continue to come as long l as man lived He closed with an elo- | a sman lived. He closed with an elo- | auent appeal to stand by Moody as | Sumter county was going to do.
 Judge Brandon made an eloquent ap- | peal for the reinstatement of the true l democracy in the seat of the Sixth dis l trict congressman. He believed in Moody, he said and thought 1t fitting that the
 campaign should be closed.
 | campaign should be closed in Moody's | home town that 1t was meet that the | hero of the Merrimac be sent to his | Waterloo from this county.
 | He made sarcastic reference to the scur- ] rilous thrust made at MT. Moody by an
 anonymous letter from "A Fayette Coun- | ty Farmer" and was glad to be able l to come back to his own home city and present Frank s. Moody to his home peo- | ple as the man for Congress.
 | Brandon made reference to Hobsons
 numerous war scares. He said the cap | tain asked that specific charges be made l and he thereby asked him questions as 1 to where he was when certain measures came up. Turning to the record Judge | Brandon said: ''We find him paired not | attending to his duty, off featuring, etc.
 Hobson, he said, cliamed to be friend I, of the farmer. Whose crop has he laid 1 by?" asked the speaker.
 Brandon said in conclusion that dur ing the closing hours of the campaign
 he again wished to go on record as fla | voring a democrat of the south for Con- | gress such as Mr. Moody, and made a plea that Tuscaloosa county stand be- hind him to a man. The final speeches | will be made in Tuscaloosa tonight by
 John A. Rogers and in Holt by Captain Hobson.