Birmingham age-herald., 1894-11-20

for the votes of all men regardless of their color or previous condition. He said MT. VanHoose promised fair elections. sWe want that" said the speaker. "If want to run for alderman In the First ward, why l want to be able to run, aud if 1 don't get elected won't cry.p He said if the white people didn't want the negroes to aspire to office then let them quit aspiring. He said they were told there was nothing in politics, but why are the white people scrambling for 1t. We want mayor who will give us our rights; not convict negro and turn a white man loose on the same charge. He said if MT. vanHoose is not elected he didn't want his white friends to say to the negroes that they didn't do their duty. He said be was tired voting for a coward; he wanted to vote for man, and he wanted that mau 10 enforce his rights. He didn't want the man to say he is counted out aud then quit. But be wanted to let them know tue negroes wouldn't t do their fight ing. The white men must fight it out among themselves.
 He thought every candidate ought te have platform; Mr. auHoose has one broad enough for all to stand on. He said he didn't see how the negros could vote for organized democracy, and urged them to vote for Mr. VanHoose.
 DR. R. A. MosELEY
 was called for, and began by saying be was proud to be able to say word in defense of the republican party, to which he owed hls allegiance and his undivided support. He said he loved Alabama aud all the people of Alabama, and be wanted to see organized twenty. years his vote had not been December Bob W WarnooE and nd his his gang will know Bob Moseley and his negroes are after them. VanHoose has been democrat with them and knows all about them. about their ballot box stufing, of a bankrupted city, a bankrupted state treasury and old Grover Cleveland bank rupting the nation. Long and continued applause by the negroes. The republican party has been battling twenty years for honest elections in Alabama. Kolb came out and helped them, now VanHoose has como out against the democrats and de- mands honest elections. Warnock and the ALD, applied the whip, but the people wouidn't bs whipped in. The AdE- HER ALD split Young Democracy, but Van- Hoose came along and sat down on it.
 The doctors old republican speech was repeated amid negro yells.
 He said the republican party, assisted by the populites and the VanHoose people, will yes save Alabama.
 He said the editors and reporters of newspapers would shave to repent 1000 years before the people of Alabama would forgive them for the hellish schemes they had matched up to count out Reuben F. Kolb. He said he believed it the duty of the negroes to vote for VanHoose. He Saio bhO SOu4ou OSdb abdoo5o, the Jeffersonians, the populists, the Ire. formers' (formeriy democrats), and the republicans are all for him. He said the republican party was not dead in Birming- ham, in Jefferson county, nor in the Ninth distrct, and by the aid of their allies under the leadsrshipo of VanHoose the republicans would yet be able to redeem this Magic City. @ -a =.
 DIR. A. Ct. WARNER was the next speaker. He said that he l drr1iNh pp4t NT,ii ;r l.; ment that MT. VanHoose was republi- can. "Let me tell you how it is,'' said the speaker. :It's like breaking young colt. You first put the bridle on and then lead him around; then you rub him be- hind the ears and down the fetlocks; then you throw an old sack on his back and lead him around some more; then you put the saddle on, tighten up the girth, put your foot in the stirrup, get up in the sad die, and he's ready to ride. That's the way MT. VanHoose will be in 1S96.''
 He has made platform 80 broad that all can stand on it, he came half way and we met him. He says the democratic platform was so rotten he was afraid 1t would break make a move to elect the republican party unanimously, and he'll be so near that he'll just step in.
 The speaker called on all who had regis- tered and had thelr certificates to stand up, and about two-thirds of those present stood up. He said the white men had always been voting the negroes and he now wanted to vote them, and requested all who in- tended to vote for MT. VanHoose, both white and black, to stand up. About the white men stood up.
 RICHARD KEMP,
 He gave his reasons for wanting the ne- groes to vote for MT. VanHoose. They were:
 1. Mir. VanHoose had gone north and ax.As A.l..n 4a ft,o IL. mingham, and had built 6 colored church.
 ?. MT. VanHoose proposes to do away with the recorder.
 3. For the good he has done the negroes, polite lily.
 4. d1r Mir. Warnock is elected mayor the washerwomen will have to pay for the water they use; they don't pay for it now. They will buy the water works and they haven't a cent in the treasury. He thought as MT. VsnRoose had done so much before being elected he would do great deal more after being elected mayor.
 REV. s. H. DOYLE.
 Rev. Doyle is negro of a decidedly yell Jewish cast. He was introduced and at once began a bitter speech denunciatory of democracy and democrats. He said eff Bob Wsrnock wants our votes let him come out and say so. He demands the votes of all democrats. Hatred of the negro is all the democratic party feeds on, and it has fed on that for thirty years. I have faced democratic guns, democratic bowie knives, and once had a hundred guns in tue hands of democrats pointed at me, but still Pm alive. No negro can be democrat. He may vote the democratic ticket, but it's impossible for him to be a democrat. How can he when the record of the democratic party for 250 years has been strewn with the blood oy 4egro men and the honor of their wives. A democratic negro deserves the hatred of his race. I know what the democrats are. From Maine to Texas they are ballot box suffers and thieves. Some of you say you don't know