The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-09-03
WILSON ID RECEIVE
 LARGE VOTE IN EAST
 STATES JUDGE FORT
Jurist Declares Republicans Are Forced to Ancient Prosperity Homily by
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Judge William E. Fort, the senior mem- court of Jefferson county, returned to Bir- mingham yesterday after a prolonged summer vacation on the coast of New Jersey. Judge Fort was well tanned from his exposure to the outdoor life and appeared in the best of health He stated that he had returned because of the open ing of the criminal court tomorrow
 If the courts had not been scheduled to open on Monday I would have remained on the coast of New Jersey for a few more weeks" said Judge Fort, "as I was having a mighty enjoyable time up in that country. However, am back in the best of health, and ready for some hard work"
 Judge Fort stated that he and his fam fly had passed the summer at Ventnor, N. J., suburb of Atlantic City, and that this part of the country had suffered a great scare from infantile paralysis.
 Although we had only a few cases of infantile paralysis at ventnor,' said Judge Fort, the population was scared and all kinds of fantastic precautions were taken. Everything was closely watched, and persons coming from New York city had very little chance of getting by the health guardians unless they could abso- lutely prove a germless reputation. We also had a shark scare, although I never
 
 seashore town what would life be with out its rumors of sea-serpents, subma- rines, tital waves, sharks and whatnots? It is part of the life, the same as the mosquitoes"
 On politics Judge Fort stated that the people in the east were very favorably impressed with President Woodrow Will son, but that undoubtedly Charles Evans Hughes would poll a large vote.
 HIGHEST TYPE OF MAN
 Everyone that I met in the east" said Judge Fort, talked well of Woodrow Wilson. They appeared to be satisfied that President Wilson represented the highest type of man the democratic party had brought forward in a generation. I pinned several down to an answer as to why they would not vote for Mir. Wilson and invariably their reply was that some how or other, business appeared to run just little bit smoother under the re- publican regime than with the democrats in power. And that about sizes up the opposition to President Wilson The re- publicans have to put it in slang, 'noth- ing on him. and they are forced to put forth the ancient homily that business and prosperity can only thrive under the pro- tecting wing of the g. 0. p.
 There is also much evidence that the republicans will spend lot of money to elect MT. Hughes. In fact more money will be spent to elect Hughes than was probably ever expended in a national political campaign. This Is made neces- sary by the excellent record in office of MT. Wilson. His constructive legisla- tive work has never been surpassed by any of our Presidents His work in pre- venting the great railroad strike practi- cally assures his reelection, although at no time must the democrats become over confident. as the republicans are making the fight of their lives, and they will as- suredly poll very large vote"
 Judge Fort stated that he had already paid visit to the courthouse and had arranged for his work there tomorrow morning by disposing of several of the Jail cases.