Birmingham state herald., 1896-07-18
IT WAS GRAND,
 IT WAS GLORlOS

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 will come when you would like to gel hold of my coat tail and escape, but promise you now when that day arrives you will find me wearing a rouno- about.
 John H. Miller.
 Mir. Garrett remarked in introducing MT Miller, the chairman or the JeleIsoh county democratic executive commltteei that he was a man who was flrst deH- ocrat and second a goldbug.
 Mir Miller said that one of the strong est things that has kept the democratic party together has been the rule of the maority. Like a lawyer in the trial oi his case, if the verdict in his opinion IS not in compliance with the law and the evidence he appeals to the higher court whose decision is final. He thought every democrat should support the nom- inees of his party When the party speaks it is the highest tribunal and from which there is no appeal, and every dem ocrat should submit to the verdict and give not only the candidates, but the platform, his loyal support. The speak CT said he had no sympathy in anything that has been said against MT Bryan He believed that he has burst forth like a new meteor and will take his place among the galaxy of statesmen Who have preceded him.
 John W. Tomlinson.
 The next speaker was Hon. John w. Tomlinson, who said:
 Mr. Chairman and Fellow Citizens: thank you for the honor you have con- ferred upon me. It is indeed a very great honor to be president of club of my fellow citizens bearing the name of w. J. Bryan, the next president of the United States.
 It Is also a great honor to have been 8 delegate to the great democratic national convention which nominated him and adopted a platform that is "a new decla- ration of independence by the United States of America.
 Never have I known men more in earn est, more determined and having more al heart the welfare of their homes ano their country than the silver delegates oi that convention, representing millions ol people at home equally as earnest and determined. What does 1t mean? Ii means that the people are aroused and intend to win as surely in November as they won at Chicago. Mckinley can nc more stop the great movement than he can sweep back the giant waves of the sea-
 Gold and silver democrats are here to- night joining in this ratification, anc vieng with each other in honoring thu great leader of democracy, chosen a Chicago. The gold democrats of Ala bama are true democrats They do no vote in the primaries and refuse to sup port the nominees. The futile effort ol the little newspaper on the gulf to gel them to bolt the national ticket and gc over to Mckinley, the advocate of the force bill and the champion of trusts will avail nothing.
 Alabama will go for Johnston in Au- gust and for Bryan in November by over 50,O00 majority, regardless of the influence of th- polting Register by 'the gulf or the bolting Advertiser, that draws it's inspiration from its Wall street ."r .les, instead of the sound waves of that grand old Alabama, a historic stream whose placid waters have quenched the thirst of the army of Jackson, and or whose banks democratic patriots have nestled and thrived.
 w. K. Terry.
 MT. Terry said the record of the repub lican party was neither long nor bril- liant. It has outlived its usefulness, bu refuses to disband. The democratic people. MT. Bryan believes in upholdinl the rights of the masses. This grea' leader has begun a triumphal marcf against the enemy, and the first Monday in November next will mark his victory He is the candidate of the laborer in tht mines the workman in the shop, the till CT of the ground, the tradesman at hi: counter and the professional man at his desk-a peoples candidate who knows nS trade or profession, no north, no south mo east and no west.
 w. IT. Stanley.
 MT. Stanley said he was glad to testify his loyalty to the democratic nominees both state and national No party coult ever win the support of the laboring vote that goes to the people with such plat form as was adopted by the republicans at St. Louis. The Chicago platform em- bodies every feature that the patriotic voter of America can ask for, and has placed upon 1t candidate in whom there ds no guile.
 America Is tired of being made the dumping ground of the pauper labor of Europe If we needed protection Wall street would be the last to give it. He advised his brother wage-workers to read and study the questions now involved in this campaign for themselves, and in Au- gust and November vote their own con- victions irrespective of what any boss may say, and thereby keep their skirts clean and their hands unstained from blood money.
 Dr. J. s. Gillespie.
 Dr. Gillespie said he heartily indorsed what the eloquent speakers had said The democratic party has given us the platform, and we are called upon al patriotic democrats to indorse it and ral ly around our leaders. Some had seen fl to criticise MT. Bryan on account of hi. age. Thomas Jefferson himself, thu father of democracy, was only 32 year. of age when he drafted the declaration of independence. We have been told by republicans and even by some of oul over zealous goldbug friends that the Chicago convention was a bowling mob If this be true God speed the mob that will bring into service again the saw and the hammer. There are certain medi. cines that taken by themselves are ex. tremely bitter to the taste, but mixed with little sugar and other ingredients