Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1896-08-30

immutably established as the chart and
guide of free government on earth.
He then said that no man who wit
messed the scene of enthusiasm that fol-
lowed the speech of Bryan could ever
forget 1T. That when the closing words,
You shall not cruelty mankind upon a
cross of gold,' rang with all the clear
ness and warning of fire bell at night
to the utmost corners of the vast Coli
scum, and men and women rose to their
feet and cheered and cheered, and threw
their hats and umbrellas and coats and
fans into ee air. and state after state
seized it's = don and marched in process
sion arc :. that vast hall, while over
and abe : III the din and noise rose the
soul-inf y ng strains of Dixie" from
severe 2 nds in unison. 1t seemed that
crusf . had been lost in It's efforts to
find $ ader and that in very truth the
vol 3 inspiration had designated Bry-
an q the chosen forerunner and champ
iq g the movement. Under the opera
Of the unit rule the votes of the gold
- dard men from Alabama carried the
7 I'd delegation to the great Nebraskan,
jSSd as it's chairman, he threw its vote to
m, and thus he was nominated. Why,
he asked, will not the gold standard
men of Alabama stand by the action of
their immediate representatives in the
convention? If they will not, and are
determined to defeat Bryan-that Is
their declared purpose-why have not
these soveregns, as they call them
selves, the manhood to come out in the
open and vote and work for Mckinley,
the election of whom they know they
will accomplish, if they have votes
enough They seek it by indirection, and
purpose putting out a third ticket at In-
dianapolis next month, upon which they
can concentrate their fire and then say
hereafter they are true to the state de-
mocracy They had just as well go to
the polls and cast their votes for Nc
Kinley negro electors. Nathan Alexan-
der and Bose Armstrong, as to rely for
their hope of electing gold standard con-
gressmen upon Judge Buckley and his
Ethiopian cohorts, who once trod rough
shod over the
Necks of the White Men
in Alabama. AS for him, he preferred to
vote for a platform In the preparation
of which Bankhead had a share, than to
contribute to the triumph OF one to the
making of which Herchel Cashin, a
negro contributed. He preferred to cast
| his vote for John w. A. Sanford and
| Sam VIII John for electors rather than
aid in the selection of Nathan Alexander
and Bose Armstrong to cast the electoral
vote of Alabama. He desired to stand
with the white men of Alabama In cast
ing his vote for congressman, rather than
rely upon Buckley and Parsons and
Moseley and their Ethiopian followers to
send to congress the man to voice his
SrIltllIltiltS III tliS itS lpiolAOh VI thS SObh-
try.
He then said he did not hope to reach
the older men who were bolters, and
whose political ambition had been graft
fled but not satisfied, but he appealed to
the young men, who were contemplating
this step, to the men who had grown up
with him in the faith of the old democra-
cy, to the boys in the trenches who
had held Alabama. for the descendants of
those whose fathers blood had bought
Dd hn11oVp1 n If forever not tO tllrp their
backs upon the faith of their fathers and
the traditions of their race. The speaker
then said he had conferred, after the
nomination with delegates from all over
the south, the great west and the middle
western states, and he found the con-
sensus of opinion and feeling to be that
the Chicago ticket would sweep the
country in November
He then paid a tribute to Mr.. Bryan,
whose stainless character and pure, un-
sull.ed life gave evidence that his cleo
ton woud insure a return to the Jeller-
sonian simplicity and honesty aud econ
omy that marked the early days of the
republic. His election and the enactment
into law of the essential doctrines de-
clared In the Chicago platform would
disslpate the distress and trouble of the
pest ten years and would bring about
revival in all lines Of business and IN
dustry and commerce. And when that
should come to pass this great state OF
ours, with her boundless resources,would
soon contain a population of millions or
immortal beings engrossed in q propor-
ton far beyond that of any other In the
world in the tolls of manufacture and
commerce. The coke ovens upon her
mountain sides will be numberless as
the stars Of heaven, and their blended
light will be as n pillar of fire illumi-
mating the path Of the Industrial world;
the smoke from her myriad furnaces and
factories will obscure the sun at noon
tide, and like a pillar of cloud by day
lead the way of the children of toll from
the Egypt of darkness to our promised
land of happiness and content; the mu..
sic of her unnumbered industries VIII
become the quick-step of the worlds
progress, and the white winged mes
sengers of her commerce will bear her
varied products to the four corners. or
the earth; and then with that feeling
| which filled the hearts of the Israeltes
| of old, as standing upon the farther
| shores of the Red sea. through Whlch
| they had passed dry shod, they beheld
| the returning waves of that surglng
flood engulf the hosts of their ancient
enemies N one common burial, we OF
Alabama, Of the reviving south, may ex-
ultantly exelaim:
''The horse and his rider are cast in the
sea,
All praise to Jehovah, His people are