The age-herald., 1900-11-12

Hampton came the present conditions. which insures not only Democratic party control, but control along lines of the great est wisdom and conservatism to endure in the contentment of the people, both white and black, for unnumbered years"
 ''It is amusing even in the gravity of the subect to find Morgan and Watterson. the classic Reagan and the youthful millionaire Hearst, this daily newspaper and that weekly philosophers all, from everywhere, in Europe and America, giving each his ex- planation of the defeat of Bryan! General Wheeler explains and counsels. Let us work a little inter media res, which, if not good Latin, means let us work into the center of the>Bryan situation. The 'Iseclar- ation of Independence and tie 'Constitu- ton forever quoth he. A mere glance backward explains where Morgan and Wat terson, Wheeler and Reagan and Hearst fail. The people who made Bryan's classic platform-I speak not of the Kansas City document-those people whose thought Bryan so lumnously portrays, were Eng fish, Scotch, Irish and Hugeonot They were no other people save those enumer- ated They and their ancestors had been already in America for some one hundred or two hundred years. Immigration to these shores was almost ceased before the time of Washington. We had only a population of whites, born and reared among Ameri- can wilds, grand and peculiar, and inn ported black slaves. MT Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence largely from the pages of de Montesquieu, the forerunner of the French Revolution; Mad ison and Pinckney, Mason and Gerry wrote the Constitution largely from English com- mon law America adopted both documents as America then was. Now, our Senators and our various other office-holders news paper men and the like forget, conveniently enough for their respective purposes, that the voters upon whom MT. Bryan must necessarily have relied to save the Declara- ,Ion and the Constitution had no part in the making thereof, they or their ances- tors; knew nothing, cared naught in the premises. The voters depended on by MT. Bryan were Italians, Hungarians Scandi- navians, Russians, Jews from sundry parts unnamable. The voters MT. Mckinley de- pended on were Americans who had out grown the Bryan platform aforesaid.
 "The Republican party Is now big enough to be split in twain by the weight of it's two ends blowing through the sea of events. Possibly the labor element and the solid South may unite and attach this united factor to one or the other fragment of the g. o. D; something after the order of the Greeley movement thirty years ago, which was false because premature. But to read as Morgan, Watterson and the others who talh now see the future, nothing could be more preposterous."
 President Ketting of the Commercial Club will name twenty-five delegates to repre- sent Birmingham in the Southern Industrial Convention, to be in session at New Or leans December 4-9, and President Ketug will make wise selections. He is a wise man of business and general affairs
 Col N. F. Thompson, the able and seeplessly energetic secretary of the con- vention, is in New Orleans, very busy with preparations for the forthcoming great meeting. He has sent out the official pro- gramme, and it is exceedingly interesting Amongst the Alabamians who will make speeches are T. G. Bush, J. A. VanHoose and E. J. Ryan of Birmingham; w. w Screws of Montgomery, and E. L. Russell and Erwin Craighead of Mobile.
 Mayor A. E. Singleton and C. E. Gohlson of Union Springs were in Birmingham yes terday.