Birmingham state herald., 1896-07-12


 How can any true southern man hes
 itate one moment to vote for Frank P.
 O'Brien, who bears upon his body the
 scars of two desperate wounds received
 upon the field of battle with his face to
 his country's foe? Has he not been
 true son of Alabama and Jefferson coun-
 ty? Has he not faithfully served even
 in times of peril and of peace? Has he
 not contributed as literally of his means,
 time and talent as any man to the ma
 terial welfare and upbuilding of the em-
 Dire county of the state? Is he not an
 honest, upright man, and fully quallhed
 to discharge the duties of the office he
 seeks? Withal, has he not done as much
 for the democratic party as any man on
 the ticket, and is he not as true and loyal a democrat as can be found in this coun- ty? If these questions cannot be emphat- ically answered in the negative then, as a democrat, no one in Jefferson county can consistently refuse to vote for him. In the press report of the speech of Mir Bryan in favor of the majority report of the committee on platform in the con vention the other day the speaker was made to say "as the Jew financial mag mates who, in back room, corner the money of the world" when, as mat ter of fact, the speakers language was "as the few financial magnates who, in | a back room, corner the money of the world" In another column in this issue of the State Herald will be. found the | full text of MT. Bryan's speech, which was taken down in shorthand as deliv- cred. It will be seen by reference to the from Chicago did no. quote the speaker cor rectly.
 There was a manifest error in the early press reports of MT. Bryan's speech which did him an injustice. The report
 made him say "The miner is as much of a business man as the Jew financial
 magnates," whereas it should have read
 the flew financial magnates." This cor rection has been sent out by the press agents with the statement that "the er- TOT was doubtless made by the tele- | graph The State Herald believed at | the time that natural mistake had oc- | cured in the transmission of the report, | because it knows MT. Bryan is incapable | of casting or intending to cast slurs upon any class of worthy and honest people. | There is one man who attended the na- | tional convention at Chicago in the ca l pacity of delegate at large from the | state of New York who evidently got l much satisfaction out of some things which took place in thS convention. l Who is it that thinks Senator David B. | Hill saintly enough not to enjoy genu- | inely the repudiation of MT. Cleveland, | the man who rather than vote for Hill | for governor of New York state after his party had named him as its nominee | for that office disclaimed citizenship in
 the Empire State.
 | It is a noteworthy and pleasing coinci- | dence that during the week just ended, l in which the democratic party, in con- | vention assembled, declared unequivo- l cally for the free, independent and un- | limited coinage of silver at 16 to 1 and l nominated a free silver democrat for president. the total number of business | failures throughout the United States were fewer than in the corresponding week in each of the preceding years. It | seems that William J. Bryan is the FAD
 VANCE AGENT of PROSPERITY"
 THE INCOME TAX IS A JUST LAW.
 I AM IN FAVOR OF IT. AND WHEN | I FIND A MAN WHO IS NOT WILL l ING TO PAY HIS SHARE OF THE | BURDENS OF THE GOVERNMENT l WHICH PROTECTS HIM FIND A | MAN WHO IS UNWORTHY TO EN- | JOY THE BLESSINGS OF A GOVERN | MENT LIKE OURS.-W. J. BRYAN.
 Garulous Wash Hessing, Clevelands
 postmaster at Chicago and proprietor of | the Chicago Staats Zeitung, cuckoo or- | gan, will not support the national deim-