The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-10-09
HENDERSON COMING ID TALK OVER PLANS
Next Governor Expected
 Here Next Week
SPEAKERS ARE ACTIVE
Requests Are Already Coming From Various Sections of State Asking Engagements of Promi-
 nent Speakers

Charles Henderson president of the railroad commission. and democratic non-
 inee for governor of Alabama will be in Birmingham next week. according to q statement of the democratic state cam paign committee yesterday.
 MT. Hendedson will confer with the
 euss those sections of the state in which
 it is said that the opposition has an op- portunity to score. It Is expected that
 Mir Henderson will announce himself ready to take the stump. and that he will
 become the head of a flying squadron of prominent democratic orators which wilt
 hurriedly canvass the state.
 The committee on yesterday announced that Troy and Mobile had sent in urgent requests that Oscar W. Underwood be sent to those places to make speeches Walker county was anxious to hear Tom Iiehn. and that certain others were in demand. The committee on yesterday wrote letters to the governor of Alabama
 and B. B. Conner former governor, urg-
 ing them to devote sometime to the cam
 paign. It Is anticipated that they Will aocede.
 "Progressives" Disintegratiug | In the opinion of leading democrats in
 Alabama, the republicans will be able rhis
 fall to recover the ground they lost to the "progressves' two years ago. Then the 'progressives' received almost three times
 as many votes as did the republicans. In the general election. democrats contend.
 republicans will cast larger vote than l the ''progressives," although the impress
 sion is general that the vote of both fac
 tions will show great decrease from the vote which they boiled two years ago The progressive campaign committee, in
 charge of Captain Charles H. Scott, has
 opened offices in the Jefferson County
 Bank building, and is conducting an ac- tive campaign Political students how
 ever, declare that the progressives are SD divided among themselves that they can
 not do otherwise than show a shortage in votes this fall.
 In the first place, they are divided on
 the negro question. The machine has
 made the party lilly white J. o. Thomp-
 son and others who in the past were leaders of the bull moose faction in Ala
 hama have denounced that action of the
 machine Mr. Thompson. in letter to
 George Perkins, boss of the national
 progressive propaganda. scored that ac- tion of the party in heartless manner. And again the .'progressives'' in their platform declare for prohibition and for
 woman suffrage. On both the camp Is di-
 vided. As good prohIbitionist as Judge o. R. Hundey opposed the insertion of the prohibition clause.
 Opposition Nominees The republicans in their platform are very much more conservative They art
 fully lodged all the issues on which
 marked division is possible They ue- ] clined to discuss prohibition or local op- ton, and by ignoring the female suffrage
 proposition, in effect straddled the fence. Both parties rail against President Will son and vie with each other in condemn ing the administration Of the governor of
 Alabama. The progressives are appar- ently more active than the republicans although each faction in following it's own ideas believes that it will be victorious over the other. In Alabama 1t Is decidedly a race for life on the part of tho two under dogs"
 Dr. E. Fl. Cross cf Gadsden and Judge A. P. Longshore. of Columbiana are the nominees of the ''progressives" for gover- nor and senator, respectively. Republican nominees for those offices are Judge John B. Shields of Jasper and Alex c. Birch of Birmingham.