Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1896-08-23
the government in its constitutional Wig

the government in its constitutional Wig
or; to exercise jealous care of the right
of election by the people; to teach an
absolute acQuieScence in the decision of
the majority; to inculcate the supremacy
of the civil over the military authority;
to practice economy in the public ex-
penses; to honestly pay the public debt
and to Sacredly preserve the public faith;
to encourage agriculture and commerce
as it's handmade, and to preserve the free
dom of religion, the freedom of the press
and the freedom of the person. These
are the cardinal doctrines of democratic
faith, and each and all of them are faith
fully conserved in the Chicago platform.
They are the fundamental truths of dem
tic government and are eternal and
immortal. In very truth they were first
enunciated by the Man of Calvary in His
declaration of the equality of man in the
scheme of divine redemption, taught to
the ultimate destruction of the ancient
civiliza tons by the apostles of the New
Dispense ton; Numbered by Luther and
Calvin and Wesley in protest against the
arrogance and profigacy of the estab-
lished order in the days of the new birth
of free thought on the continent and in
England; pledged under the signet of
kingly recognition at Runnymede; bap-
tized in the blood of royalty at London
in the days of Cromwell and at Paris in
the days of the French revolution; pro-
claimed amid the booming of cannon and
the peal of the Liberty bell in America in
1776; sealed beyond revocation in the
blood of Packenham before the cotton
bale breastworks at New Orleans, and
written beyond the power of man to Grad
icate in the constitution of the great
American republic, and thus eternally
and immutably esta blished as the chart
and guide of free government on earth.
He then graphically described the
scene of enthusiasm which followed the
speech of Bryan at Chicago, and de-
clared that when Alabama's vote went
ITO Bryan on the fourth ballot 1t went I'M
der the operation of the unit rule by
the votes of the gold standard men in
the delegation. Why would not the gold
standard men stand by the action of
their immediate representatives in the
convention? If they would not and
were determined to defeat Bryan-that
is their declared purpose and that they
will accomplish it IL possible, even by
voting a third ticket. Why have not
these brigadiers without brigade, these
generals without an army, these sover-
eigns without a subject the manhood to
come out in the open and vote for Nc
Kinley, whose election they seek? No;
these brigadiers purpose meeting at IN
dianapolis next month and putting out
a third ticket upon which to concentrate
their fire. CA voice cried "Hurrah for
Hoke Smith'o. The speaker said, aye.
Hoke Smith, with the manhood of true
Georgian, refused to drop from his hands
the banner OF the Gu uSiuOCIdJiC party
although he lives in the shadow OF that
silent spirit at Buzzards' Bay.
The speaker then said he had confer
red after the nomination with delegates
from all over the south, the west and the
middle west, and the concensus OF opin-
ion and feeling was that the Chicago
ticket would sweep the country in Mo-
vember. He paid an eloquent tribute
to Mr. Bryan, and declared that with his
election and the enactment into law or
the essential doctrines declared in the
platform, the distress and trouble Oh the
would be a great revival in all lines OF
business and industry.
The close of the great speech Of Mr..
Lomax, which elected the tremendous
applause that followed his conclusion
was as follows
"And thus this great state of ours will
soon contain millions of immortal beings
engrossed in a proportion lar Deyono
that of any in the world in the Tolls OF
manufacture and commerce. The cake
ovens upon her mountain SIDES Will De
numberless as the stars of heaven, and
their blended light will be as pillar OF
fire illuminating the path OF the indus
trial world; the smoke from her myriad
of furnaces and factories will obscure the
sun at noontide. and, like pillar of cloud
by day, lead the path Of the children of
toll from the Egypt of darkness and dis
tress to this promised land of happiness
and content; the music of her unnum-
bered Industries will become the quickstep
of the worlds progress, and the white
winged messengers of her commerce will
bear her varied products TO the four cor
ners of the earth, and then with that
feeling which filed the hearts of the
Israelites of old, as. standing upon the
farther shores Of the Red sea. through
which they had passed dry shod, they be-
held the returning waves of that surging
flood engulf hosts of their ancient enc
mics in one common burial we OF Ala
bama, of the reviving south. may exult-
antly exclaim:
"'The horse and his rider are cast in the
All praise to Jehovah, His people are free :"
Thus, amid tumultuous and long con-
tinued applause, closed the great speech.
Mr. Lomax has been speaking constant
ly in the court house for ten days, and
his voice was somewhat husky and he had
to take sips of water from time to time on
this account, but he had no trouble in
projecting his powerful voice all over the
vast assembly and retained the close at
tention of his audience throughout his
most eloquent GRAFTON.