The age-herald., 1900-11-03

I fun in 1t all. There Is something about it | to make the most embittered man smile. | Meantime, the united Democrats will give Thompson the big majority he deserves" l" "The political excitement in Chicago Is very great and there seems to be eonsid- erable bad feeling betweene the Democrats and the Socialists, the local Democrats in- | sisting that the Socialist party should vote
 with them," said Joseph H. Parsons, the prominent lawyer, who has been spending some weeks in law business in the West,
 and enjoying Chicago politics as an amused observer. "Cne night I had occasion to pass through the South Side of Chicago, and proceeding along Jackson street I en- countered various open-air meetings, sev- eral Democratic street orators making speeches from barrel heads, boxes and wagons. Close to the Democratic meetings was numerousy attended meeting of the
 Socialists, and these worthies were mak- ing a great howl about human oppression
 and ali that sort of thing. The presence of Socialists in a meeting of their own, alongside the Democratic meetings, seemed to irritate the Democrats and they tried to persuade the Socialists to desst and to join
 them in working for MT. Bryan; that a vote for Debs or any other one of the minor candidates for the presidency was
 half a vote for Mckinley. The Socialists | refused to come across; and it looked for time as if there would be a fight; but nothing serious of that nature occurred. MT. Bryan is making innumerable speeches in Chicago, and It was promised that he
 would wind up the campaign there Satur- day night. It is, perhaps, regretable that most of his appointments are fixed for the lowest and most anarehistic districts of noodlum Chicago. the forcing houses of
 anarchy in America.
 Republicans insist that Mckinley will carry Chicago. That may be so; but there can't be any reasonable doubt that he will carry Illinois and Indiana During my en- tire stay in Chicago I talked to but one man who didn't intend to vote for MeKin- ley. I came through Indiana at night and our train passed through three enor- nous Mckinley meetings. The general
 impression in the West is that Mckinley will be overwhelmingly elected"
 Probate Judge A. P. Longshore of Shelby ard Probate Judge Samuel M. Adams of
 Chiffon were in Birmingham yesterday. Judge Longshore and Judge Adams were
 formerly in the Legislature together. and
 now they are judges of adjoining counties. Both used to take a warm interest in the State Fair. and they feel much interested in the success of the fair now open in
 this city.
 Col. William H. Selden of Marenso, one
 of the best-nown planters of the Black
 belt, is in Birmingham attending the State
 Fair
 Wiley Garner caught Tom Hewetts
 fancy road horse, Joe Wheeler" at
 springville, St. Clair County, and, seeing
 the notice of the loss of the horse in The Age-Herald Wednesday, returned him to MT. Hewlett yesterday. In the terse lan- guage of the business office, now is the time
 to advertise!
 It is understood that merchants of Bir- mingham were yesterday asked, in the name of the Baltimore Sun newspap per, if they would be willing to trade with Balti-
 more merchants who would vote for Me Kinley, and thereby vote to decrease Southern representation in Congress, or questions to that effect. In other words
 the Suns ardor for MT. Bryan leads it to make the apparent attempt to bring the trade relations between Baltimore and the South into politics. It is said that Bir- mingham merchants generally gave short answers to the effect that they were not disposed to mix up their business affairs with politics in Baltimore or elsewhere.