The age-herald., 1901-11-10

pose of which is to limit the right of suffrage to a favored class of property owners in this statel
 Won't Touch Whites.
 "But let us go further with these re- marks. He says: You say that would knock out the white man? Not a man. if you will just follow me along You have an educational and property uual- tication. and after that say. provided Provided what? Provided that no uuaI- ification of the right of suffrage contain ed in this instrument shall apply to the man who fought in the Mexican war, in the war between the states. on either side, and you may put in the Spanish war if you want to: but 1t shall not ap- ply to those me or their descendants There you have your educational and property qualification, and every white man can vote. Here the clas- sification rests upon public services and patriotism. It Is for the patriots and public servants, past and present, the right for themselves and their posterity, always and on all occasions
 Again, in this address, in speaking es- pecially with reference to the constitu- tionality of his plan, he says; It es- capes the difficulty contained in the Four teenth clause of the amendment to the Federal constitution. No clause of the Federal constitution can reach it.
 Here we see him affirming. under his responsibility as a lawyer and as a lead constitutionality not only of the soldier clause but also of the descendants clauAe.
 Roasted Johnston Here.
 But let us follow him little further little over a month later Colonel Den son made another speech in the opera house in the city of Montgomery, where in conjunction with other citizens, he was endeavortng to defeat the attempt on the part of Governor Johnston to in- duce the Legislature to repeal the act submitting to the people of Alabama the question of calling a constitutional con-
 vention. quote from the newspaper re-
 port of this speech, where, in speaking of Governor Johnston's attitude on this great question, he says in part
 He engages as a political peddler to carry out his ambition. Our Joseph has a. coat of many political colors and is
 trying to swindle people of Alabama of
 their freedom
 MT. Knox said that 1t was singular
 that a man should have so little respect for the chief executive of the state, and
 more singular that little while later
 he should be supporting the same man
 to succeed Senator Morgan.
 Story to Illustrate Point. Fellow citizens, I know of nothing
 comparable to the qualities thus exhibit ed by Colonel Denson," continued Mir.
 Knox. unless it be a greyhound that is said to have belonged to a noted hunter in Virginia. On one occasion, 1t Is said, in the heat of the chase when travelling
 swift as the wind In pursuit of his prey
 the dog came in contact with a perpen- dicular strand of wire fence. and so great was his speed that 1t split him in two narfa from ha of Ia tO Inc of his tail When the hunter came up
 and saw the sad plight of his favorite dog, he bethought himself of that prin- ciple recognized in surgery that If you replace the severed parts immediately they will co-here and heal. So the hun ter slapped the two parts of his dog to- gether, and threw him over his shoulder
 and proceeded towards home. When he got home he found to his consternation, that he had applied the tail end of one
 side to the head end of the other but
 notwithstanding this strange deformity. 1t Is said that the dog grew and pros-
 pered When asked some time after
 wards how his dog was getting on, the
 hunter said: Finely. the fact is he is the best dog have got. Why, how Is that? his friend inquired. Why the hunter
 replied. he can run both ways and bark at each end
 Railroad Attorneyship. Again he objects to the fact that there were attorneys in the convention who In their practice, appear in the courts in l defence of railroad companies. He seems | to object especially to the presence in the convention of MT. Weatherly, MT. Smith | General Harrison, Governor Jones and l myself.
 Fellow citizens it Is true that I ap- pear frequently in the courts in the ter | ritory where l practice to defend railroad | companies against damage suits and oth- l CT causes of action asserted against them | But I want to say. here and now that 1 an examination of the dockets of the | courts in which I practice will show that l also represent as many of the people oi | Alabama as does Colonel Denson. l rep resent railroad companies if they employ 1 and pay me, but I do not belong to any | of them, and I am sure the same is | true with reference to the other gentle
 men to whom he has referred
 But Colonel Denson is not only an ex. 1 Congressman, and an ex-defeated candi- | date for Congress, but he is an ex-rail- 1 road attorney. And by what process of 1 reasoning does he expect the people tc l believe that an attorney who appears 1 for a railroad cannot be pure-minded or l patriotic, but as soon as he becomes 8 | damage suit lawyer, such as Colonel 1 Denson now is, he becomes translated | into an atmosphere of purity and incor- | ruptibility The servility which he seems 1 to imply as condition of attorneys who | represent railroads may have existed ir | his own case, but, In behalf of myself Mir. Weatherly, MT. Smith, General Har- | rison and Governor Jones, I wish to re- l pei the insinuation with all the empha- | sis of which I am capablei
 l "One word more in this connection. He ! asserts that I am a candidate for the 1 United States Senate and seems to ar- l que that the people should reject the 1 new constitution on that account. Eel | low citizens. have never been a can | didate for office. I am supporting anoth- l CT candidate for the only vacancy that is, 1 in all human probability, liable to occur l and 1t would be difficult to convince any 1 one who knows me that I could be capa-
 ble of double dealing or of insincerity in