Birmingham state herald., 1896-11-03
AN OLD-FASHIONEO FEAST Magnolia Hall the Scene of a
 Grand Rally. CHEERS FOR BRYAN GIVEN With Fervor Which Proved They Came From the Soul. A BRAWNY WAGE : FARMER TALKS FREELY And Tells What He Knows ot Faulkner and His Bosses-Victory Smiles
 On the Men Who Know
 No Glasses.

The central Bryan ana SeWall cluD, or Jefferson county, held grand rally last night in Magnolia hall, on Third avenue, between Twentieth and Twenty-first streets.
 The audience was large and enthusiastic and composed in the main of wage-earn- CTS.
 It was evident from the beginning that the meeting was to jollify and was to listen to long speeches and the good na- tured patriotic sheering. mingled with an applause akin to free will expression of confidence, permeated the entire proceed ings.
 The work has been done and "three cheers and tiger" with the sensible coupling on of Bryan's name was suffi- cient argument to make the walls quake.
 All else has been said, and from every side.
 < Birmingham has not only listened to Bryan himself on the subject upon which this campaign has been waged, but also men of national reputation representing every political position such as Josiah Patterson, gold standard; William s. Herbert, secretary of the navy, Palmer and Buckner candidates for President, and vice-president on the national tick et," Hon. Thomas Watson, candidate for Nlc6-pItSluenI, the TenOWneQ Bailey, or Texas, the free silver orator of the west; Eugene V. .Debs, the great leader; Gen. Weaver, the former populist candidate for President, and now a supporter of MT. Bryan; Cyclone" Davis, of Texas, and last but not least, Mrs. Lease, to say nothing of lesser lights without number.
 With such an array of speakers dis cussing every phase of the campaign the demonstration of last night could not have been better fitted or more appro- priate than an opportunity to give vent to pent up feelings.
 Those who attended the meeting last night could but agree that so far as Jeff ferson county is concerned it's for Bryan and Underwood from Blount on the north to Shelby on the south, and from Talla- dega on the east to Walker on the west the indications of the greatest democratic victory ever achieved in the history of the county.
 The meeting was presided over by MT. B. F. Roden, chairman of the Jefferson County Central Bryan and Sewau club.
 The first speaker was Col. Daniel A. Greene epresentative-elect of Jefferson county, and chairman of the Jefferson county democratic campaign committee.
 MIR. GREENE's SPEECH.
 MT. Greene's speech was short, and the reporter was only able to collect the fol- lowing between the rapturous applause with which he was received:
 We will carry Jefferson county (cheer- ing), but It is only question of ma jority. We must carry 1t by such a majority that no partisan congress would dare disre- in the nation. Loud applause.) Let every man do his duty tomorrow.
 HON. o. w. UNDERWOOD.
 MT. Underwood said our forces are all well in hand and ready for the battle on a shield we will march forth to victory. (Cheers) The rank and file are those who win victories. The common soldiers who faced the enemy were those who placed a wreath of honor on the brow of Stonewall Jackson. Loud applause.) In this campaign, while we have great leader an honest man, courageous fight CT, yet the rank and file of democracy must be depended on to win the great fight. (Cheers.) I urge every man to do his duty tomorrow. thank my friends for the great honors they have bestowed on me in the past and for the work they have done in this campaign for the great cause of which I am the standard bearer in this district. Wherever I have been there have found earnest, working dem- ocrats. He regretted there were those who were too good to longer follow the democratic standard. daughter)
 MT. Underwood closed by paying a glowing tribute to MT. Bryan and con- fidently predicted his election. He was loudly applauded.
 JOHN w. TOMLINSON, ESQ, was loudly called for at the conclusion of MT. Underwood's speech and spoke in substance as follows: MT. Chairman and Fellow Citizens-The greatest politi- cal campaign, probably in the history of our nation, closes tonight. How anxious ly is awaited the momentous result of tomorrow, the effects of which will be felt by mankind for ages to come. The whole world is expectant.
 "Will centralized wealth be able to force victory on the side of those influ- ences which put out the light of ancient and threatens to extinguish the brilliant glory of modern civilization? Or. will the masses of the people be powerful enough to bring victory to their side-the side of freedom, of humanity, of pros- perity, of progress?
 Tn spite of the shortness of the cam paign of wholesale misrepresentation, of dishonest clouding of the issues, the cause of the people will be victorious. Loud applause) Our platform was the election tomorrow will be the final rout- ing and overthrow of Lord Cornwallis and his followers and the consummation of that independence. (Applause)
 "I believe the people of this country will decide that this shall be republic
  people, and not a privileged few, shall rule; and that a financial system, ad- mittedly for the best interests of our own people, shall be adopted; whether agreed ble to foreign nations or not (Ap- plause)
 But more than all. believe that the laboring classes of this country will rise up in their manhood, and declare that it shall be true of them that the ballot
 Executes a freeman's will
 As lightning does the will of heaven" Loud applause)
 P. G. BOWMAN.
 MT. P. G. Bowman was seated in the center of the audience and being espied was loudly called for and when he arose the applause that greeted him showed plainly the esteem in which he is held by his friends at home. Mir Bowman. among other things. said:
 q came here tonight 70 listen to the speakers advertised to speak and not to E.,A zxl,f, roa1 tt 6.ft.