The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-07-03

Ill fares the land to hastening ills a prey Where wealth accumulates and men | decay.
 For an honest yeomanry. a country's | pride,
 When once destroyed can never be supplied. Mir. President, we should keep our word with the people. am one of those servants of the people who be- lieve we should be true and that plat | forms were not made to get in on, but to stand on after we have gotten in; and we should be sincere and not de- | ceive the people. If we deceive the | people you can rest assured that this
 will be the last opportunity we have of doing so.
 Oh. worker, whatever your fortunes Wherever your lot be cast. Look first that your efforts be honest And men will accept you at last. The world may be heartless and stupid And its judgment is often severe. But sooner or later its favor Go out to him who's sincere. MT. President. the best citizenship of | the State of Alabama, or some of the
 best. is represented by that class known as FOOT people, the poverty stricken people, the common people. the yeomanry of the country, the best peo- ple on Gods green earth. Some writer has said they are the best people of
 earth and that the Lord demonstrated that fact by having made more com- | mon people than of any other class, and believe 1t.
 Mir. President. in this country of ours
 the poor boy, the son of the pauper. has an equal showing with the son of the millionaire. Here in this Southern cline. in the land of Dixie, in this home of patriotism. virtue walks hand in hand with justice, bravery, truth and religion and here in America to- day where the tree of liberty dies not and heroic sentiment lives forever, the magnificent temple of justice. the God dess of Liberty stands out in all its august and radiant beauty and throws its rays on every nation of the earth. inspiring each and every one of them to loftfer patriotism.
 Now. MT President. in considering
 this question l ask every man O put
 his hand on his heart and to do what
 is right and see if his people, when he
 goes home, if he has acted conscien-
 tiously will not praise Linn. But if he
 has been untrue, ifNhe has betrayed that trust they will curse him and the
 next time he offers for office he will
 not be in the fight at all. The history
 of the world has been that when
 nation or monarchy has drifted along this channel
 The President-The time of the gen.
 tleman has expired.
 MT. Foster-I move that the gentle
 mans time be extended. MT. Harrison-I move that the gen. tleman have leave to print. MT. Heflin Randolph)-Shall pro- ceed? @aughter.)
 suspended and that the gentleman's time be extended five minutes. A vote being taken the motion was carried.
 MT. Heflin (Randolph)-I am very.
 much obliged to the Convention for ex- tending this courtesy to me. This Is the first time have attempted to
 make speech and I promise the Con- vention not to trouble it much hereaf- ter.
 As was going on to say, we should be governed by the history of the past. Take the centuries that have gone and see what was the result in nation or
 monarchy that has divided its people
 into classes. Rome tried class legisla- tion and divided her people into 'patri- clans and plebeans and she fell down l among her beautiful hills and died. England tried it and bleeding Ireland tells the tale. France tried 1t and
 there was the French revolution with
 the history of which you are all famil-
 far. And I believe even in this liberty
 loving land of ours. if we persist in
 this course ere long trouble and strife | and turmoil will come and ruin will
 stare us in the face.
 Another thing in regard to the plat form. I appear here today as the rep resentative of the people, the common people and I say we should keep our | pledges to that class of people. If we | do not, we shall never have the op- | pOrtunity to keep a pledge hereafter. l say to you now unless we do, our | days are numbered and soop the places that now know us will know us no
 more forever. If you are not true to | the people, not only will you never be | a delegate to a Constitutional ConVen- | tion again, but you will never have the | enjoyment of occupying any otner cf- | flee while you live, because no people will ever put faith in a man who has once been untrue to a trust reposed | in him. And in connection with that am reminded of a piece read in the
 newspaper several years ago on the state of man. It reads after this man
 ner:
 Man that is bdrn of woman .s a | small potatoes and few in hill. In
 infancy he IS full of collie and catnip tea. In old age he is full of cuss words and rheumatism. In his youth his
 mother draweth him across her knee and sweeteneth his life with slipper. When he Is a man grown up the Sheriff He getteth into office. His friends cling
 to him like spring flies to sugar bar
 rel. He swelleth with vanity and cut
 teth ice for a time but is hewn down
 at the next Convention. cast in the
 salt box and his name Is Dennis. Out of
 office he soon goeth busted and lieth
 down in the COW pastures beside the still waters of brook. He dieth out of the world and goeth where 1t is warm
 enough without clothes. The last end of that man Is worse than the begin ming.
 Take care that that is not the future
 of some of us.
 MT. President, I ask you and each
 of you to consider this qGestion. Take
 it up link by link, thread by thread,
 explore 1t in all its bearings. do your
 duty and when you leave these sacred
 halls whether you shall be successful
 hereafter politically or not. you can
 feel the sweet consciousness Of having
 discharged your duty, of having kept
 the Democratic platform. of having
 been true to the pledge made to the
 white people during the campaign ard