The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-07-05
COZ. HERBERr's ADDREss.

1. The following letter from Hon. H. A. Herbert appeared in The Birmingham Age-Herald of yesterday:
 Washington. Suly 1. 1901. To the Editor of The Age-Herald, Birm-
 Dear sir-Mr Springer's criticism of m- Montgomery speech, in your issue of Sunday morning. and the numerous mis- Tom Reed. when MT. Springer said one day in the House that he would rather be right than be President ''The gen. tleman need not trouble himself' replied MT. Reed. "he will never be either:
 Mir Springer says I supported McKin- ley. I did not He classes me with the protectionists. My speech shows he is mistaken. He classes me with Senator And lastly. his statement that l am awaiting an opportunity to turn Repubii- can. Is simply an absurd reply to an ar gument of which MT. Springer had only a chance to read an incomplete synopsis.
 Yours respectfully,
 H. A. HERBERT.
 This reminds us that MT. Springer was dubbed the 'brouding Springer" soon after his appearance in Congress because of his habit of hopping up on all occasions and talking of matters about which he was uninformed. ,
 In response to an invitation of the Alabama Bar Association, Colonel Her bert delivered an address to that hon. orable body. in which he sought to set out some of the responsibilities that confront the lawyers of the twentieth century. He had only short time for preparation and came here at con- siderable personal inconvenience. in order once more to meet friends and associates.
 No candid man who will carefully read what he said can fail to come to the conclusion that 1t was a calm, deliber- ate and altogether patriotic deliver ance. There was nothing of the dem agogue or piace-hunter in it, and those who seek to make out of it an effort for new party alignment are as wide os the mark as MT. Springer was in his iil-considered remarks.
 There can be found nowhere a se- verer arraignment of the Republican Party for its treatment of the South by it's reconstruction and negro suf- frage policy. The New York Evening Post. in commenting on it, said: Ex-Secretary Herbert in his address be- fore the Alabama Bar Association. made a frank and crushing reply to the Repub. licans who cry about negro disfranchise- ment in the South.
 The Ohio Republican platform adopted the other day. for example, worked up 6 high degree of moral indignation over tht crime of depriyins the negro of his righ of & &s1irage: s Why do & you complaint ask | ed that the Declaration of Independenct l does not apply to inferior races, and tho Republican policy of today completely ac l cepts that view.
 Why all this heat about the Constitu | tional Conventions of the South going tC | work to eliminate. the negro vote? They | are but doing, said the ex-Secretary it's new island possessions-asserting the right of the superior race to govern say | age tribes and mixed races."
 1 Really, we do not see that there is an! answer to this except to call MT. Her | bert an "ex-rebel."
 | Because he urged greater independ ence of thought and action, some critics have gone to the extent of seek | ing to make it appear that he was look ing to alignment with the Republican Party. So far from this being true he urged as a means of defeat of tha Party the revival of the old tariff polio! of the Democrats. His remarks abou independence applied with as mucl force to the Republicans as Democrats and the country would be better off all Parties knew and felt that the! were on their good behavior and had t enunciate sound doctrines and put for ward good candidates or be overwhelm ed under an avalanche of independen