Birmingham age-herald., 1894-10-28


 But when these politicians got hold of this state they multiplied that debt of G4 ,500, ,000 until 1t ran up to s32, 900 ,OOO, for which your bonds were out, and those bonds, as upon the property and tax-paying power of these people infinitely and until the debt was extinguished. The republican party in Alabama did that, aud you are to- day bearing large part of that debt, pay ing $500 day for that part of this increase of public debt, which was, through fraud, placed upon us by the republican party in this state. That is one of the results of re. publican rule in Alabama.
 REPUBLICAN SATRAPY.
 Then there was the presidency of Bus teed on the federal bench, with his army of marshals and deputy marshals and wreckers and purloiners, who went around the state with writs collecting out of every man every dollar that could possibly be brought out of his purse, and threatening the direst consequences of imprisonment upon those wbo either refused or were un- able to pay. That man was surrounded by such people, who they are need not say; you remember them all they have visited your houses; perhaps you have been in their custody aud been forced to suffer sub. missively their indignities. I need not call their names. Idon't want to think of them. The satrapy was organized and mil- itary forces were used everywhere. The states of Alabama and Georgia were consolidated into one military district, and these military commanders assumed the absolute right of deciding any and all ques- tions that came up, judicial, legislative or what not, having under an act of congress absolute power over and upon any act that we might perform. Iremember an instance that l referred to when was here before, but it is only one of many. Judge BurweH T. Pope was presiding in Calhoun county, and a certain lieutenant of the United States army was stationed there. One of the men of this lieutenant went out on the streets of Jacksonville and assaulted an old citizen there, whom had known since I was little boy-Mr. William Hughes. This man had some words with Mir. Hughes, knocked him down and beat him unmercifully. That was done right under the eye, you may say, of the court then ln session, and the sheriff of the county com ing out arrested this soldier and took him before Judge Pope and said '" Your honor, with my own eyes, as an officer of the peace, l saw this soldier strike down an unoffending citizen just here by the court house steps, while the court is in ses- sion.' The judge ordered the clerk to as sess a fine against the soldier. He was not kept in custody, but went out and imme- diately reported it to this lieutenant, and the lieutenant marched up to the court house with number of soldiers and asked Judge Pope what he had done. The judge told him that he had fined the man for breach of the peace in the presence of the court. "WeiI, sir" replied the lieuten- anG, Il WILL sec UDHt buAb uu6 IS HUI COl- lected." The judge then, noble man that he was, turned to the clerk and instructed him to enter fine against this lieutenant and take him into custody. 'You take me into custody?' said the lieutenant to Judge Pope. "Yes,'' said the judge. The man then told his soldiers to present arms and they took the judge off the bench, carried him to the cou nty jail and locked him up, and that, of course, adjourned the court. That was republican satrapy.
 lau xva ut thia atata and plundered the county treasuries; they took all the school funds and the children got none of it. Your taxes were not decreased, but they were increased, and the increment of the increase went into the pockets of the satraps. Applause. a w
 Then they strangled the counties with their railroad projects, and today they would have had four or five counties in east Alabama in the political poor house if the balance of the counties had not come to their assistance and paid the demands which were saddled on them by this same party.
 Time fails me to go over the entire list of these outrages, or more than barely refer to some of them. The history of Alabama during that period of republican domina- ton is full of such shocking portrayals of persecution and tyranntes, such as not only were never seen in a free government in this world, but the serfs of Russia would not have put up with it.. That was repub- lican ism in Alabama. These men who are today Haunting the banners of republican, ism throughout the state of Alabama were eye witnessesto it, and many of them were the adjutants who helped it out. To say the very least of them they stood by in mute silence, probably in admiration, to see how the political despot could terrify and destroy the property and liberties, even the lives of men who were honest and | true men and brave mon, as they had proven upon many bloody battlefelds- these fellows stood by waiting for an op- portunity to manipulate the negro vote 1n this state and to handle 1t whenever they got a chance against you. without demur against any of these things, and now, when they think there is smother op. portunity in Alabama, they. have come out again stimulated bythe. demands of the republicans in Washington city, and pre- sent their claims to you and ask you II you have got forgetfulness enough and charity enough and for orbearance enough and folly enough to put yourselves into their hands again. That is what they want to do. WAS BROUGHT UP TO FIGHT THEM, politically, and I have been fighting this same old enemy every day since have hada standing among the people oi-thls state, and am at it yet. [Applause.] Itis be- cause for the first time in eighteen or twenty years the regular republican mis. am here tonight, with my harness on, to fight them as hard as know how. tAp- plause.1 t.3 fT v af ss 1e
 THE TWO CANDIDATES.
 You have two candidates for congress in this district. One of them have known but a little while. saw bim the other day when he spoke in Centerville to his fellow citizens-a splendid pattern of southern man-[appiausel-a man clear of head, clear of eye, clear of c2nscience and youth fui, erect, upright, courageous, un- dau n ted in his deiiverance before the peo- pie, just,. wise and proper, earnestly and