Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1896-09-02

" In this district again thank you for
the high honor you have conferred upon
me, and with that loyal support / am
sure to receive from you feel safe in
predicting that the democracy in this
district will once more achieve a victory
of which we. all shall be proud.
Mr.. Blackburn Makes q Speech.
Mr.. Felix Blackburn was called for and
said that he loved the democratic party,
ana that democracy was to be congrat-
ulated upon being able to muster together
enough men to hold a convention in the
race OF the recent Montgomery affair."
He said democracy had nothing to fear,
and the sooner she learned her children
the better. He said the so-called Sound
money democrats had taken occasion to
call the followers of their party fools and
anarchists. He sided with a newspaper
editorial which stated that moderation
was good thing, even in politics.
He told of the recent action of Thomas
e. Jones, and said that he was the only
man whom the people had made governor
that had proved traitor in the time of
trial. He made some excellent points
concerning Jones' desertion, and said that
Caesar had his Brutus and Alabama her
Jones.
Mr.. Blackburn then read some news
paper clippings of two Sound money!
meetings at which Jones and Weatherly
made speeches and took occasion to rasp
Mr. Weatherly pretty severely.
The Executive Committee.
The executive committee made the fol-
lowing report, which was adopted:
Chairman, E. X. Campbell.
Bibb-J. T. Ellison and W. r. S. HAYS.
Blount-W. F. Harrell and o. A. Steele.
Jenerson-A. j. Krebs and John W.
Tomlinson.
Hale-Thomas E. knight and s. w.
Walton.
Perry-W. H. King and r. B. Wallace.
After some discussion OF the fifth
clause, the following resolutions were
adopted:
Text of Resolutions.
Resolved Q, That we indorse the
course OF Hop. Q. w. Underwood in the
Resolved Cl, That we condemn the
unseating of our lawfully elected
representative and the seating of
his opponent in the Fifty-fourth
congress by the republican ma
Jority as an outrage upon the right of
an intelligent constituency to elect their
representative. To accomplish the pur-
pose of that majority, to foist upon the
people of this district as their repre-
sentative man whom they rejected at
the polls, partisan committee had to
count votes that were never cast and had
to refuse to count votes of reputable
white men who swore they voted for the
democratic candidate, and SO bare-faced
was the fraud which a majority of the
committee In congress sought to sustain,
ana so weak was their report, that at
least fifty republicans voted in favor
of the democratic member holding his
seat, and nearly as many more repub-
licans refused to participate by their
votes In the steal of seat in that body,
AS rebuke to republican partisanship
and the only means of redressing the
wrong perpetrated on our people we call
upon all patriotic citizens to join us in
returning to congress by an overwhelm-
ing majority our distinguished repre-
sentative who was deprived of his seat
Resolved (3), That we- approve in all
things the action of the Alabama dele
cation in the Chicago convention.
Resolved "a. That we now heartily
and fully accept, indorse and ratify the
patriotic work, the platform adopted and
the candidates nominated by that con-
vention, coming from the supreme au-
thority of the party. from which there
lies no appeal.
Resolved %. That the congressional