Birmingham age-herald., 1894-07-18
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electing him the second time because ne was defrauded does not cure him. rAp- plause and laughter
 WILL YOU TRUST HIM?
 Now, if you feel as plain, practicaI, com mon sense men that you are willing to trust the destinies of this great state, this sur rounding country, this whole state of Ala baua, your lands, your homes, your wives, your children and your distant pos- terity, 1t may be, in the hands of Reuben Kolb; if you think he is the man to meet the emergencies which this advance in civ ilization, sudden and great as 1t is, has brought, and you have grown so desperate about him, take him and elect him. But, fellow citizens, in doing that you, in my opinion, will take a very heavy risk of in- surance, and if you are lost, you are lost for good. Your state will be shattered, it's credit gone, it's industries nipped in the bud, hope of revival and restoration denied to them, and we will take that place which disasters threaten, instead of putting our shoulders to the wheel and trying to lift the state out of the rut and restore it to its former prosperity. Here is your crisis. Meet 1t like men. But do you not ever for one moment imagine that posterity will not hold you responsible if, in moment Of exaspera- tion or jealousy, or for some other imag- mary cause, you blast the prosperity of this splendid state by trying to reinstate Reuben Kolb in his supposed 45 ,000 ma jority which he claims to have lost, but
  Times are too serious for that.
 A SCANDAL ON OUR WOMEN.
 Besides begging for money and the accu- sation against the people and the scandal that is cast upon the name of every man and woman in this country, cast upon the husbands and fathers of these women and children as corrupt and bad, we cannot t keep the sin off the bosoms of these dear ones, who have been so much to us in the past, and who hold every treasure of hope for us in the future. It is a scandal upon every lady in this land that her husband has been branded with the crime of ballot box frauds, or else, knowing it, he has submitted to it without speaking out like man in his resen tment, and worked for it's cure. am very careful about that. Aside from what owe to my mother and others, l recall in my memory as the brightest page that God has ever permitted my eyes to look upon that collection of heroic women we found in A Alabama when the war had ended, and we came home with our parols in our pockets, all in poverty, many having denied themselves even the comforts of life to cut up the clothing and their quilts under which they slept to make gar ments for their soldier husbands and fathers and sons in the war, living here amid alarm, continually agitated by the reports that came from distant battle fields, and expecting that sun that rose in peace in the mornirgcould scarcely set except in disaster, when the husband came, almost H the fence and took the blow handles out of the hands of his faithful wife, who was then winning bread for him, battling with the heat of the sun and against poverty. Shall l forget these, or shall stand mutely by when some man casts slur upon them '- or their daughters? God forbid! iPro- longed cheers and applaase.]
 NEW BORN AUTHORITY.
 They take upon themselves a great au- thority in going amongst the people of this state-new born authority or chain of title they have picked lying round l1snn
 is gentleman who is~ chaii
 committee-the executive cor
 -Kolb perty--a bright young 5ghdeed, scintillating, effulgent young man; man who would remind you of one of those lanterns mounted on top of a light house that revolves at night to give warn ing to the mariner of his approach to dangerous coast; first he shows a white ligsL. then yellow one, then a green one, then rcd Che. There are different kinds of lights shown contin uousy, but it doesn't show either one steady all the night through, but revolves to show there is dan ger-which shows there is danger about and laughter. When he undertakes to deal with the people of this state he copies MT. Bill Malone on the one hand and Ca- bot Lodge and George Hoar on the other, and his first essay is this: He notifies Lodge and Hoar that he has issued coni- mond to S0,000 of the black slaves of this country and commanded them to throw away their right of suffrage by re- tusing to register, and he brags about it, that they were sufficiently in bondage to him to throw away the right of suffrage for his accommodation. What do they make by it if they do? What are they to get for il? Why, when men are given liberties which l never thought they were fully qualified to enjoy, why should they, when, just ripening with experience, tryirS~to gather their lines of duty So as to pull themselves into better positions, why shonld they, at the cJmmand of this new votes and disiranchise themselves? I said the other day at Ashville, in St. Clair county, and repeat it now, when those S0 ,0UO men have thrown away their right to vote in this election, in order to vote again they should be put under civil service rules and required to state why they did at the command ,and upon what ground 1t was they had so enslaved themselves as that they would give up and surrender their consci- entious privileges to God and their country and their families and themselves and thus go back into ignorance and barbarism?
 THE POWER OF sKAGes.
 Now, what can we do in country where the voting population, or any part of it, are in such a condition that if man issues an order to them they throw their ballots in the fire or refuse 10 register2 What can you make out of a man like that in the progress of great govern ment like this when the maintenance and prosperity of these grand institutions or the preservation of human life are at stake against disaster and fellows like Kolb? What power have these men got to represent themselves after they have been taught to obey Mir. Skaggs and disfranchise themselves? He talks about free ballot and fair countl If had 100 men in my employment, and am giving them $50 month or $100, and call them up and say: ''Here, here is the pay roll; you do not go on the first Monday