The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-03-13

passed. He admitted that he and his brother had gone to Montgomery and worked for that bill. I charged that the Bankheads framed that bill without con- hulting any of the people of the district, that they went to Montgomery and through the aid of certain sinister in- terests lobbied through the redistricting measure. I charged that they were there at the same time working in the interest of corporations to keep the convicts off the roads and in the coal mines owned by their employers. I challenged any one or all of the Bankheads to mee, me on the stump and agreed to give them each as much time as I consumed
 NOT AFRAID OF A "CUB''
 "I ridiculed the idea conveyed in Will Bankhead's speeches that I was afraid of him and had rushed madly to the district after announcing. I asked why 1t was that I, when a very young man, was not afraid to meet Senator Bank >head, and now in my maturity, should fear to face the cub
 T admitted that T had tried to sell my residence in Greensboro for the past two years and had not removed my family to Jasper. I told the people that as long as it was necessary for me to pc away from my home great part of the time, felt that I should leave my children and my wife with her aged parents, who needed her to be with them.
 T told them furthermore, that it made no difference what part of Jasper I might take up my residence in, the Bank heads might decide to change the county lines and leave me in some other county. They might even want to get rid of me so much that they would change my resi- dence over into Mississippi. I told the people that I was running for Congress from the Tenth district in response to their call, and calls from over Alabama, as well as from the leaders for prohibit ton throughout the nation who wanted me in Washington to take charge of the fight. I declared that they did not want to leave the fight in the hands of an eleventh hour convert to prohibition. The same. I said was true with national pre- paredness, a position I took years and years ago, and for which I was assailed, as I told the people of Jasper. by all the 'popgun orators in the district.
 ''The fight is on now and will continue. I have no doubt we shall meet on the same stump at an early date, and l shall not fail to take up the record of my opponent and the part his family has played in politics. I expect to ac- quaint the people with the full facts as know them."
 BANKHEAD IS CONFIDENT
 John H. Bankhead, Jr., was no less confident of the success of his brother, w. E. Bankhead. than was the captain of his own. we have the fight won now, and we would be perfectly willing for the primary to occur tomorrow. Will Rankhead Is gaining strength every day, and I beliepe the result in May will be landslide against Hobson. My brother has already spoken in number of the counties of the district, and is every here we'll received Countless former Hobson supporters, including many of his leaders in the past contests, are strongly supporting Will Bankhead.
 '.,rhe people of the Tenth district know that TIobson is not going to become a citizen of the district. They have seen over his own signature the statement that only after national prohibition is passed in Congress does he expect to become a citizen of Jasper and remove there. The people of the district largely resent his efforts to come in and rep resent them in Congress without even making a pretense of becoming a citizen of the district
 ''Hobson was not urged by the people of the Tenth to become a candidate for Congress from our district The idea came either from his own mind or from people outside the district Will Bank head, who has spoken all over the dis trict, has called on every audience to know if anyone requested Hobson to run, and he has yet to find the first person who asked Hobson to get into the race
 Much has been said about the repub- licans in the Tenth district. Hobson has
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