Birmingham age-herald., 1894-11-18


 Hoose Is good man, but don't think he Is good democrat. If the papers don't lie MT. VanHoose was down here last night with Moseley, Parsons and Vaughan and of good democrat doing that7 If any of you here tonight are following VanHoose come back, unless you desire to see the county turned over to the repu blicans. There are good men supporting MT. Van- Hoose and like them. l have warm per sonal friends following him, and have no harsh words for them, but l will speak for democracy, though it makes some of my friends mad. They say if Bob schools will be crippled. They are trying to prejudice the people against Bob War mock because they say the public schools were kept closed for one month. The schools were not closed month. The cholastic year begins iu the middle of Sep tember. The schools were kept closed only ten days, and that was not done by the mayor and aldermen, but by the school board. am friend of the schools. Pm as good a friend to the pub lie schools as Mr. VanHoose. 1 in- troduced the bill which gave Birmingham free schools. l worked for the bill. When did MT. VanHoose ask for the passage of bill for the benefit of the schools? Some of them oppose being taxed to keep up the schools. They want to have sidewalks put down all around here. Well, when they begin this and you have to pay for them you will get tired. If they have to pay for some of these sidewalks you will hear mighty howl from some of these "best peope.''
 Last year when the banks were issuing clearing house certificates and nobody had any money the present administration did not sell any property for taxes, but waited for return Of better times.
 Ex-MAYoR A. o. LANE.
 1 came here not to speak, but to hear sound, democratic doctrine expounded, and partly from habit of attending where my party calls. l have no harsh words to utter against those men who have boited and l part with them with regret. am opposed to mugwumpery, whether 1t em- anates from the white house or from the nabob settlement of the South Highlands. [Long and loud applause l have good friends in the "reform' movement, but when they oppose democracy l am their enemy, politically. No man, unless he is sound democrat, can command the vote of A. o. Lane. If have gloried in democracy in success love her the more in deteat. We cannot always get just what we want, but we should bow to constituted authority and every true democrat will join in the fight and push her ticket and her cause on to victory.
 JAMES E. HAWKINS
 was called for and said all present had heard him speak before and knew about what he would say, so they could consider il said. He was democratic to the core.
 if R. J. LowFg
 MT. Lowe was called fo4 and responded with short speech, eliciting much ap- plause by his splendid talk in behalf of de- mocracy.
 He said in every election in Birmingham before the democratic party began making nominations for mayor the negro vote was the great bone of oonle ltion, and was pur- chased by the opposing candidates. Sir e party action that evil has been eliminated. We find MT. Van Hoose, preacher. stat ing himself that he visited saloons, to '' get vote for VanAoose. We find him the -secen@nigh ght.of his can dldacy speaking to a meeting p,~Sfed over by a negro. He was doing the very thing for which the party was organiz to eliminate. Where does Mir. Van Hoose ex- pect to get his support? From Moseley and Moseley's negroes. Without them he can't hope to sit in the mayoralty chair. When the nominee of democracy for mayor of Birmingham falls the democracy of Jeff ferson county falls.
 LEE BRADLEY.
 MT. Bradley was called and said that it had been published in the papers that Young Democracy had split. He went on to review the action of the club at its meet ings last Monday night and last Friday night. He said conferences between op- posing factions in Young Democ- racy had been held and the president agreed to hold Friday nights meeting at one place and then called it together at an other. He said MT. John ston, the president, denied having made this agreement, but he said MT. John H. Miller, MT. Val Glib, MT. w. K. Terry, | MT. Felix Blackburn and othere were pres. | ent and understood it as he did, He said | the majority of Young Democracy would | be found in the thickest of the battle in | this municipal campaign as it had always been in the past. There may be boilers. | but the great body of Young Democracy is for the democratic nominee.