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THE AGE-HERALD, SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1898 3 CAMPAIGN IN THE FOURTH Robbins Will Be Elected Over His Republican Opponent. DEMOCRATS OF CLEBURNE Are Working With Might and Main for Their Candidate. THE USUAL MAJORITY IN DALLAS Aldrich Has Been Spending Money ishly, But His Defeat is Assured -Apathy Exists in Small Degree in Calhoun. Columbiana, Nov. at the democratic headquarters of this district reveals the fact that the committee is confident of success at the polls on next Tuesday.

The committee is making no estimate on the probable majority of Mr. Robbins, but are claiming that he will have a majority outside of Dallas county. The size of it will depend on the amount of interest taken, and work done on election day by democrats throughout the district. From Cleburne county comes most encouraging news. The democrats there are thoroughly aroused and are working with might and main to increase the majority they gave the democratic ticket in August.

This they will most likely do. In Calhoun there is not as much enthustasm as. will be necessary to repeat Governor Johnston's majority, but there is every indication that the county will be safely democratic. About the same thing seems to be true of Talladega, though both counties may show up better by election day. There have been no apparent changes in the situation here, but many things have transpired to confirm the opinion expressed in The Age-Herald last Sunday.

It is known here that the Aldrich managers are quite uneasy, and have been during this week making strenuous efforts to concentrate their forces. There is no evidence of any very material results in these efforts, although they st'll express confidence in carrying the county by usual majority. Outward not bear out their claims, and two or three hundred majority for Aldrich will be very near the final figures. News from Chilton Very encouraging news comes from Chilton county. After a week's canvass of that county by Mr.

Aldrich and Judge Longshore it is reported from reliable sources that the democrats are gaining ground every day, and they expect to carry the county. The campaign has been conducted on the democratic side exclusively on the principles of the party and the record of its candidate. As indicated in reports of last Sunday no money has been spent by the democrat'c committee except for actual and legitimate expenses. This has been the announced policy of the committee from the beginning of the campaign, and they have followed it closely. Rumor has it that plenty of opportunities have been presented to the committete to spend money, both with the negroes and with the populists, but that in every instance the opportunities have been allowed to pass and committete have declined to take advantage of them.

This, of course, is mere rumor and does not come from any official source, but it is altogether true that expenditures have been confined by the democrats to legitimate expenses. On the other hand it is clearly evident that Mr. Aldrich has been distributing money freely, but perhaps more judiciously heretofore. 120 has in no instance denied his thorough affiliation with the republican party, and for this reason many populists are declining to support him, though it is not certain that they will vote for Robbins. The democrats have attacked Mr.

Aldrich's record in congress, his intimidation of his employes who refuse to support him, and the source of his nomination. Senator Morgan in his speech here Thursday morning very significantly said that the people could not afford "to go to Hindustan for their rellgion nor to Africa for their politics." These two points in Mr. Aldrich's position have been very vulnerable and the democrats have used them with telling effect. Dallas county is expected to give the usual democratic majority. Fusion Unpopular As stated above, no figures are given out by the committee, but the indications clearly point to democratic victory by a substant.al majority.

Fusion between populists and republicans is becoming quite unpopular in this section, especially with the former party. Many populists admit that they see the natural drift of such combination and that they have no intention of aiding such results as they have seen in other places. There is nothing to indicate it believed that the returns any disaffection, among the democrats, and will show that not as much apathy exists among them as is apparent on the surface. People announce that they are quietly pursuing their avocations and making no noise about the matter, but that they will be on hand to cast their votes. There is nothing to indicate that the result in this district will be other than a democratic victory, clean, clear-cut and unquestionable.

The cry of' election frauds is having very little weight except to disgust those people to whom it is plain that the cry has been raised to detract attention from the vulnerable position of the republican candldate. That he is a republican candidate has not been denied even by the few populists who are openly supporting him, and the masses have about decided that Mr. Aldrich is no longer their ideal of a congressman. This is as near the situation as can be given before the votes are counted. Dallas County Selma, November 5.

has occurred nothing during the week that has passed that would change in any degree the forecast of the result of the election in Dallas county, from that given on Sunday last in The Age-Herald. This county is rightly named the, queen county of the Black Belt, and goes Dallas SO goes the Black Belt. It was from a meeting held In Selma, attended by representatives from other counties in this section, that in 1892 when the fate of democracy in Alabama hung In the balance, when Chris Magee's boodle and the then existing discord among the white people Imperlled the very foundations of the party, that the famous message went out to those conducting the campaign: "You take care of the raw the old guard will do its duty." The same message can be sent out now. The campaign is well in hand. Nothing that could be done has been left undone to bring to a realization of the white people the necessity of going to the polls and voting.

Monday a grand rally and democratic love feast will be held In Selma. Senator Morgan, Senator Pettus and gressman Robbins will address the people, and a gala occasion it will be. Through The Age-Herald let it be said that Dallas, Fock-ribbed Dallas, where a white man whealtor traitor to his party 19 considered to his race, will prove faithful to the fullest measure, and on Tuesday will give to Hon. Gaston A. Robbins, democracy's standard bearer, maJority large enogh and stable enough el that even a partisan congress will not dare to reverse, WILL CARRY HALE.

Underwood's Majority Will be From 300 to 500-Hobson Expected Home. Greensboro, November Cox, the wife of the Methodist minister of this place, died yesterday morning after a long and painful illness. The steam ginnery of William R. Smaw on the McAlpine place, was consumed by fire yesterday. Fifteen bales of seed cotton, seed from forty-four bales were destroyed.

Captain E. W. Booker, inspector of convicts, is here for the purpose of investigating the merits of John Cocke's improved cultivator, with a view of using it on the state convict farm. Underwood will carry Hale by from 300 to 500 majority. The white people are thoroughly united, and the negroes are taking no interest in the election.

Notwithstanding the low price of cotton, the laborers are renting lands for next year, and will continue to raise cotton SO long as merchants will advance them stock and provisions to make a crop on. But they are in much better condition than they were this time last year, because they have made plenty of corn. There is a disposition on the part of farmers in North Hale to plant wheat. Those who tried it this year have succeeded well and are selling seed wheat to their neighbors for a remunerative price. BURNETT'S MAJORITY.

Will Probably Carry DeKalb by 300 Majority -Both Sides Working Hard. Fort Payne, November political aspect of DeKalb, from all advices, is practically unchanged except the enthusiasm injected into the contest. Mr. Burnett was in this county looking after his interests during the past week. He spoke to a good-sized audience at Moore's school house Thursday and received a cordial reception.

J. J. Curtis addressed the citizens of Fort Payne Wednesday night, and went to Sand Mountain Thursday in behalf of Mr. Lathrop. Both democrats and republicans are getting down to hard work, and Tuesday's election promises to be the most warmly contested of any congressional campaign of recent years.

From the present outlook there will be a good polled. The democrats have a good majority in the county, and the indlcations are that they will turn out about as well as the republicans. If they do Burnett will get 300 majority easily. But both sides are using every effort and there is little as to the size of Burnett's magertainty: SENATOR ABERCROMBIE Will Remain in Senate to Secure Passage of Educational Measure. Anniston, November John W.

Abercrombie, state senator and state superindendent of education, yesterday gave out the following statement as to when he would resign his position as state senator and qualify as superintendent of education: "I have no idea of vacating for even a brief period the office of superintendent of education, to which the people of Alabama nave so overwhelmingly elected me. If under the law a failure on my part to qualify on the 1st of December would not of itself create a vacancy in that office, I may, on account of the wishes of the people of my district, and that I may be better able to secure passage of the school bills asked by the Alabama Educational association, remain in the senate a few days longer. In fact, it is my intention to remain in the senate so long as I can do so without creating a vacancy in the office of superintendent of education. If a failure to qualify as superintendent on the 1st day 01 December would ipse dixit, create 3 vacancy, such as it would the duty of the governor to fill by appointment, I shall be ready to assume my duties on that date. "I am exceedingly anxious for the coming legislature to pass the bill prepared by the Alabama Educational association, and, to that end, am willing to make any sort of honorable personal sacrifice.

Without sufficient common or township schools, an educational system commensurate with the needs of the state is absolutely impossible. 'The proposed school legislation seeks to improve these schools without any impairment of our higher institutions of learning. "With more money, better teachers, better supervision, and a longer school term, Alabama would not long remain in her present illiterate condition." A LIVING WITNESS. Mrs. Hoffman Describes How She Wrote to Mrs.

Pinkham for Advice, and Is Now Well. DEAR MRS. using your Vegetable Compound I was a great sufferer. I have been sick for months, was troubled with severe pain in both sides of abdomen, sore feeling in lower part of bowels, also suffered with dizziness, headache, and could not sleep. I wrote you 8 letter describing my case and asking your advice.

You replied telling me just what to do. I followed your direc tions, and cannot praise your medicine enough for what it has done for me. Many thanks to you for your advice. Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound has cured me, and I will recommend it to my -Mrs.

FLORENCE R. HOFFMAN, 512 Roland Canton, 0. The condition described by Mrs. Hoffman will appeal to many women, yet lots of sick women struggle on with their daily tasks disregarding the urgent warnings until overtaken by actual collapse. The present Mrs.

Pinkham's experience in treating female ills is unparalleled, for years she worked side by side with Mrs. Lydia E. Pinkham, and for sometimes past has had sole charge of the correspondence department of her great business, treating by letter 84 many as a hundred thousand ailing women during a single year. Yo. vUU vuiol, vidiu MUll walk the streets in Clothing that makes them look like the advance agent of a circus---loud Clothing that is entirely out of harmony with the character and disposition of the man.

He has simply dropped into one of the smaller clothing shops where the variety is limited--and he couldn't get anything else that would fit him. He didn't think about looking 'round. And this is one of the many advantages we have over any other Clothing dealer in the State---we have a dozen different fabrics, patterns and styles from which to make selections where they have one. Three Great Floors filled with Men's, Boys', and Children's Clothing, Overcoats, Hats, Shoes and Furnishing Goods---and our Prices are always the Lowest! SOME SAMPLES. SOME SAMPLES.

A blue and black broken plaid all-wool Worsted; fancy Fancy Worsteds, in almost any color, strictly all-wool and Cassimeres, in twenty different patterns, in tailored so that the Suits can't be distinguished from plaid and small plaids and checks, round tailor-made; coats that are artistic and graceful, and large cut sacks, at pants cut just right; fit well, wear $7.50 well, at. $15.00 Brown and white all-wool Scotch mixtures, very serviceable; all-wool Cassimeres, in neat gray mixtures, The very best imported Scotch Cheviots, patterns and sewed throughout with pure dye silk; black Beaver styles that are strictly this season's; made up only as Cloth, satin piped seams, very dressy. in Louis Saks has all his Clothing maderound cut and double-breasted sacks, at in the best style, at $10.00 $18.00 Olive tint plaid Covert Cloth, handsomely finished, best Heavy English Serges, made either in single or doublewear and very dressy; rough Cheviots, from the best breasted sacks, satin-faced if you like, material and mills, fall weight, in round cut or double- workmanship equal to your friend's breasted sacks, $40.00 tailor-made suit, at $12.00 $20.00 N. E. Corner Mail Orders 19th Street LOUIS Carefully And 1 First Ave.

Filled. SAKS THE STRICTLY ONE-PRICE CLOTHIER. AAA NEGRO HANGING FROM A LIMB Summary Punishment Meted Out to Joe White. WAS HID UNDER THE BED In the Residence of R. L.

Studer, and Said That He Intended to Commit Murder and Robbery-Was Taken in Hand by Mob. Selma, November reached this city today of the lynching of just across the Dallas county line a negro in Autauga, which happened Thursday night. The scene of the occurrence was near Jones Switch, which is about seventeen miles from Selma. Wednesday night Mr. and Mrs.

R. L. Strider, the former a well-known merenant of Jones Switch, started to retire at their usual hour. Mr. Strider was sitting in a chair in front of the fire, while his wife started to turn down the covering of the bed.

In doing so her foot struck something under the bed, and she turned to her husband and told him that a cat or dog was under the bed, and to run it out. Mr. Strider arose and started for the bed, when, to the amazement of both, a big burly negro hastily crawled from beneath the bed and made a break for the door. Mr. Strider grabbed his pistol and started in pursuit and shot once or twice at the fleeting man, but failed to strike him.

The neighborhood was aroused and a search was made for the would-be robber and perhaps murderer. He was soon discovered at the house of a negro woman by the name of Mamie Peeples, and was arrested. Thursday he was tried by the local justice of the peace. The negro went by the name of Joe White, and at the trial, on being asked what he was doing under Mr. Strider's bed, replied that he intended waiting until they were asleep and was then coming out to kill and rob them.

This confession, as to be supposed, incensed the white men present at the trial, and it was evident that with little encouragement a severe example would be made of White. At the conclusion of the trial the constable started with his prisoner to the jail at Prattville, the county seat of Autauga county. The next morning found Joe White hanging from the limb of a tree about a mile from Jones Switch. A mob had met the officer, and, taking the prisoner from him, executed summary punishment. The foregoing are the particulars of the affair as brought to Selma by several parties from that vicinity.

It is stated that very little of the affair 1s known, as there is a reticence displayed by the neighborhood in giving anything out. PEABODY FUND Being Distributed by Superintendent of Education Turner. Montgomery, November John O. Turner, state superintendent 61 education, in An interview today says his department is busy distributing the Peabody fund to the Alabama normal schools. The Florence Normal college and the Troy Normal college received $950 each, and the colored schools, the Montgomery Normal college and the Tuskegee Normal college getting each $800.

The Montgomery college received also $116 from the John F. Slater fund. This makes a total of $4,668 distributed to the normal schools this week. The Peabody fund has heretofore been about $7,500 per quarter, but an increase is looked for, as the present payment is more than ever received in the first quarter. The Lafayette memorial fund from the children of the state has been forwarded to the comptroller of the treasury Washington, D.

C. All the educational institutions of the state have opened with a brighter showing that ever before, and the public schools present an encouraging outlook. A man by the name of Jackson was painfully if not fatally hurt on Bell street yesterday by being thrown from a delivery wagon. The horse he was driving became frightened at an approaching dummy, and became unmanageable and made off at a rapid rate, throwing Jackson under the wheels and dragging him for some distance before he was stopped. When found he was under the wheels, one of them resting on his neck.

He was extricated and found to be unconscious. An eye witness to the runaway says the motorman on thea dummy was not without blame as he to be called several times before he would stop his car. TALLADEGA ITEMS. Cotton Being Marketed Very SlowlyTown to be Lighted by Electricity. Talladega, November is being marketed very slowly owing to the inability to get hands to pick it out.

Talladega will soon be lighted by electricity, unless all signs fail. Two of our most prominent young business men will put in a plant here if satisfactory arrangements can be made with the city authorities. Talladega is inclined to be on a building boom, several handsome residences being in course of construction. General Joseph Wheeler and staff passed throughd the Nashville city en yesterday route to on Camp Louis- Shipp at Anniston. Mrs.

Julia Ann Sills died at the residence of Mr. J. C. Street yesterday at 12 m. Mrs.

Sills was the mother of Mrs. S. J. Dunklin. She was an estimable Christian lady, and was one of the oldest residents of Lee county, being 87 years of age.

The remains were carried to Auburn today for interment. ROBBINS IN CLEBURNE. That He Will Carry the County is Now Conceded as a Certainty. Edwardsville, November political situation in Cleburne has not changed very materially during the past week, though whatever change may have 'occurred is in favor of Hon. Gaston A.

Robbins, democratic nominee, who closed his campaign in this county last Wednesday evening, after having visited precincts. Mr. Robbins' speeches were able, clear and absent of abuse and were well received by the voters of this county. Senator John T. Morgan also spoke here on last Tuesday to a large and appreciative audience, composed of democrats, republicans and populists, the democrats, however, were largely in the majority.

There were also a number of ladies present. His speech was pronounced by all who heard a him as the finest ever delivered here; even many republicans openly declared that his argument was correct and that a southern white man could not consistently do otherwise than vote the democratic ticket. The republicans are pushing the fight to a finish, but they have been so bitter in their abuse of the democrats and so unreasonable in their statements that their labors will not result in any benefit to their candidate, W. F. Aldrich, but on the other hand have been instrumental in arousing the interest of many democrats who otherwise would probably have remained at home on election day should suitable day for farm work, as everybody seems to be behind in gathering their crops.

There is still considerable feeling existing among the political factions here, but it is hoped serious trouble will result. The republicans have distributed posters over the county of their appointment to speak here today in which they say music will be furnished by the Fourth Wisconsin regimental band. Mr. Aldrich, not being satisfied with the results of his own work, nor the work of those who have been stumping the county in his behalf during the last fifteen or twenty days, has now, in his desperate and final effort to carry this county, called the United States army to rescue him from the deluge of, democratic votes which will be cast in old Cleburne on next Tuesday. That Gaston A.

Robbins will carry this county is now a fixed certainty, the only question in doubt the size of his majority. AUBURN WINS From the Georgia "Techs" by Score of 29 to 4-One-Sided Game. Auburn, November afternoon defeated the Technological Institute at Atlanta in a onesided game of football by of 29 to 4. The teams lined up as follows: Auburn. Position.

"Techs." Mitcham, Capt Holman Bush The made their only score on a fumble on Auburn's part. Erskin did the star playing for their team. Auburn made six touch downs and kicked four goals. Mitcham, Harralson, Feagin and Wheeler did Auburn's best playing. HON.

J. L. BURNETT Speaks at Collinsville and Arouses Great Enthusiasm. Collinsville, November John L. Burnett candidate for congress made a campaign speech here Wednesday night to large and attentive audience.

His arguments were convincing, the tone of his talk conciliatory, and his effort will win him many votes. If all democrats will go to the polls and vote, his election is assured. At New Camden church on Wednesday evening Charles McNaron and Miss Leah Russell were united in the bonds matrimony in the presence of a large audience. The happy pair started Thursday morning on their bridal tour to Birmingham and other points. Rev.

S. R. Lester, assisted Dr. P. K.

Brindley at Fort Payne this week in a protracted meeting. The Epwoht. League rendered a very interesting programme last evening in their league hall. CLOSE OF CAMPAIGN. Democrats Will Hold a Grand Rally at Gadsden Monday Night.

Gadsden, November campaign will close here for the Seventh district Monday with a joint discussion between Burnett and Street and a grand democratic rally Monday night. Everything points to Burnett's election by a safe majority, and he will carry every county in the district. A well defined rumor. reaches Gadsden that Lathrop will come down Monday in the interests of Street, for which he is to receive $1,000. Democrats of the Seventh should be on the watch.

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