Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1896-06-28
TELLING BLOWS DELIVERED
Hon. Oscar Underwood's Speech
at Brookside.
DREW THE DEADLY PARALLEL
Between the Candidate of the White People
of Alabama and the Head of the Hy-
bird Ticket.

Brookwood. June 27.-(Special.) Con
gresham Underwood addressed a large
crowd of voters at Brookwood, Tuslxa-
loosa county, tonight, where he was
called to fill an appointment made for
Congressman Stallings, but which the
latter was unable to meet.
Mr.. Underwood drew a vivid contrast
between democratic and republican state
administrations in Alabama and other
southern states where the latter was once
in power, and pictured what would be the
result to Alabama of a return to republic
can rule, which would be the case in the
event of Goodwyn's election, as he will
receive almost his entire support rom
republican and negro voters of the nate,
and would be, by force of circumstances,
II not from inclination,- compelled to run
the state government on republican lines
and to suit the pleasure of Parsons,
Moseley and other republican leaders, to
whom he would be under obligations for
his election.
He also placed the respective guber-
material candidates in parallel columns
and showed them off to the immense de-
triment of the fusion amalgamation''
candidate, pointing out how the gallant
standard bearer of democracy had al
ways, in war and peace, been true to
ais PCOpiC anu Ills tOuulTy, never low
er1ng for an instant the banner of de-
mocracy and white supremacy, and how,
on the other hand, the fusion candi-
date had tried to force the white voters
OF the peoples party to an unholy alli-
ance with the republican party, led by
Moseley, Parsons & Co., and composed
of nineteen-twentieths of colored voters,
the successful result of which would be
the complete oblitera ton of the white
populites as political organization by
their absorption into the colored republic
can party.
He dwelt logically and eloquently upon
the factor it is fact-that the demo-
cratic party, state and national, by its
record, history and traditions has always
been the friend of the toiling millions, the
only bulwark of their safety and liberty,
and that only through the application
and enforcement of its principles and
policies can the people prosper and the
republic continue to live. That even now
the great battle for financial and political
freedom-the mighty contest for suprem-
acy in the goyernment-is about to open
between the combines, trusts and monop-
olies, backed by the tariff barons, the
gold gamblers and bond gobblers of this
country and England, plutocratic con-
spiracy represented by the republican
party and the honest masses of the COM
mon people, the toiling millions of mine,
field, forest and factory, the wealth pro-
ducers, inspired by and relying upon the
undying and never yielding patriotism of
the great American people, represented
by the democratic party; that In this
contest are raised above a militant ag-
gressive and confident democracy the
battle flags of human liberty and national
freedom around which are already rally
ing millions of American patriots upon
whose stern faces is written In unmis-
taxable characters the determination of
American manhood and American cour-
age to triumph over all the powers of
darkness and redeem and disenthrall
themselves and their country from bond
age and serfdom to the unrelenting task
masters of the money power--the shy
locks and gold gamblers of Wall and
Lombard streets-and upon the silken
folds of those banners are emblaZoned
even now, in letters of flaming light, de-
mocracy-Victory."
the certainty of a mathematical demon
stration that the only hope for the future
prosperity of our people and development
of this country Is to be found in faith
full return to and an honest application
of the principles and policies of true de-
mocracy as formulated and carried out
by Jefferson and Jackson and their great
democratic compa tIiots and followers IN
the better and happier days of the re-
public and emphasized as one of these,
the gold and silver coinage of fhs-consti-
tuition upon equal terms and without dis
elimination against either metal at the
national mints. In glowing terms he re-
called the prosperity and happiness of
the people and the unparalleled develop
ment of the country before republican
legislation, with traitorous hand. struck
down silver-the peoples money-and
doubly enhanced the value of gold, the
money of the plutocrats, the bondholders
and the millionaires.
In conclusion Mr., Underwood appealed
to his hearers every one of them regard
less of past party affiliations, 10 hasten
to ally themselves with the vast and rap
Idly growing army of democratic voters
that is now in the field, determined to
achieve glorious victory in Alabama in
August. and throughout The American
union In November by the re-establish-
ment of genuine and pure democratic
government "of the people, for the people
and by the people," under the beneficent
results of which every man, woman and
child in the republic will feel higher in
SEPARATION and pulse a stronger and more
independent life.
The speech was well received through
out being frequently applauded at its
many salient points, and cannot fail to do
the cause of democracy much good In this
vicinity