Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 September 1901 — FIGHT OPENED IN ALABAMA. [ARTICLE]

FIGHT OPENED IN ALABAMA.

Lively Campaign Is Started Involving Every State Office. The fight against the ratification of the new constitution was opened at Montgomery, Alabama, by Jesse F. Stallings, ex-congressman from the Montgomery district and a candidate for the governorship last fall. In an Interview Mr. Stallings declared he was ready to take the stump against ratification. He was here today en route to Birmingham, where pthe Democrats who oppose the new onstitutton will have a meeting tomorrow as a preliminary to a formal organization. It is understood that General Charles M. Shelby will manage the campaign. He was for maay years a member of Congress, and was one of the auditors of the treasury during Mr. Cleveland's administration. The fight on the constitution portends a great political battle .involving all the offices in Alabama.