The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-07
he has gone this year and the results Mir. Huddleston said:
 HITDDI ,ESTON'S STATEMENT

HUDDI IESTON'S STATEME ENI
 "The vote. while very light. gives me ar overwhelming majority. The result shows that campaign of hypocrisy and deeeitful and unjust criticism can not hope to succeed among the intel ugent voters of Jefferson county That am gratified by the result goes with out saying, and I renew my thanks and appreciation to the friends who have supported me so Loyalty and made such a splendid result possible.
 q have analysed the vote from the returns which have been receiv, !. l find that my opposition vote came from the same classes that opposed me in the pri- mary. The profiteer is yet untamed in the land. He is not my friend and I am
 not his, and am content with such op- position.
 "I want to be the Representative of
 all my constituents. I will continue to
 represent them in the future as in the
 past to the best of my ability, but I dc
 not intend to be dictated to by selfish
 classes nor by those who are seeking
 their own profit at the expense of the public welfare. I will be true repre- sentative to every constituent who is
 willing to be a true constituent, by which 1 mean patriotic, straightforward cit
 izen.
 "Along with every other good citizen
 am rejoiced that the war situation looks so favorable. All Of us are hoping and praying for an early peace, peace consistent with the honor and dignity of our country and with it's future well fare. The end of the war will bring to the American people problems more iseri- ous even. than those of war. Wars prob lem is simple. It consists merely in ex- erting the greatest possible force Ihe
 problems of peace will challenge the high rAr4 41.s I fon ri ic and social conditions which will pre- sent most perplexng aspects 1 shall do my best to meet them as 1 have the problems of war: that is. honestly rear lessly and with an eye single to the good of my country, and it's permanent weli- being.
 During the primary campaign and the campaign just closed l was the VIC tim of bitter and unjust attacks. l am willing to forget and forgive. l trust that those who have wronged me will entertain similar spirit"
 THOMPSON's STATEMENT
 MT Thompson took his defeat very philosophically. He was at his office yesterday straishtening up odds and ends 1 left over from the campaign, and getting ready to take up private business af- ], fairs again. He stated that he had ex- pected a larger vote, in fact until the I appeal of President Wilson for democrat l ia majorities in both houses of Congress was published he fully believed that he would be elected.
 l "The people that I expected to vote ! for me stayed away from the polls, he ! said. Many of them seemed to think ! it their duty not to vote for me after the Presidents appeal, and as conse- l quence my vote fell far short of what it would have been had the President not called upon the people to approve of his conduct of the war by returning dem- ocratic majority to both houses of Con- gress."
 l The county election commissioners ] Probate Judge J. P. Stiles, Sheriff Bat son and Circuit Court Clerk Waldrop- will meet at the courthouse at noor tomorrow and make the official count ot the ballots cast i'll the election. Unti
 then the exact vote will not be known 1 Judging from the few returns made pub
 lie, however, it is not likely that the
 republican ticket got anywhere near tht l % per cent of the total vote in Jeffer son county at least, which would entitlt l them to primary in the next electior year.