FREDERICK I. THOMPSON
ERWIN CRAIGHEAD
THE MOBILE REGISTER
MOBILE, ALA. ESTABLISHED 1813
August 12,19.:2.
Dear Harral,-
I am sending you today's paper with election count incomplete,the returmmgg board having unaccountably adjourned to Monday noon. There is strong suspicion that Dr. Ward was "counted in" again as county commissioner,the only one of the old gang to got back. The new board will be Byrne,Towle (a civil
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engineer),Brine and Cleveland. Hagan hardly got a look-in.
The official count will be in a later paper,which I will send you. Things are getting under way for the port amendment,and I believe that it will easily carry.
I am being given credit for defeating the commission gang. Stall-
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worth was just^to congratulate 'me (in having helped to put the old ones out while his organization was putting the new ones in.
Sincerely,
W M. FINCHER