The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-08-19

HUN. '. VOM dEcLlN - school house on the hill just beyond
 Louina that I learned my A B C's and was taught to reau anu wIltt. Il Mas
 in this county that first heard the story of the Son of Man and Savior Of the
 the Methodist Church. It vas in this
 county along the Tallapoosa River that
 the grandeur of happy every day life
 spelled itself out in my boyhood.
 Tt was at the old fashioned school
 house in the good old fashioned way that
 I was very 'switchingly' impressed with
 the importance of cultivating my mind and preparing for the duties and respon- siblitles of life, and oftimes l danced to the music of a well seasoned hickory switch. It was there in old Randolph
 that l learned to dance in the old fash
 toned breakdown, and there that l learned to play one or two tunes on my rough old fiddle It was through the
 fields and forests of Randolph in the happy glad days that are gone that l chased the swift footed red fox, and from these fields and forests l have carried home in boyish triumph the choicest goo-
 bier of the turkey tribe.
 Tt was in that county on my father farm, that he taught me honest toll and told me of the blessings that would faithfully. And it was there, during my contact with the furrowed fields, that l grew to be healthy and physlclaliy strong. It was there that grew to man hood and assumed the duties of citlzen- ship.
 county l took the oath prescribed by the constitution, and cast my hrst vote TOT your own distinguished fellow townsman. Judge Thomas G. Jones, then the Demo cratic nominee for Governor It was there in that county, that l gathered from life's volume, lessons that have been of h HoI,H Ina Q all the changing scenes of life. lhere
 in the days that are past and gone l strolled through the meadows or comfort and god fortune and there that l walked
 the fiinty paths of hardships, and strug- gled up the mountains of dlfhculty ana disappointment. It was in that county that 1 learned something of life in nearly
 all it's forms and phases. There that
 learned 10 rejoice and be glad when my
 felloWman was prosperous, happy ana contented, and to weep and sorrow TOT those whom misfortune had overtaken
 Reared in rural simplicity among the nlain patriotic people of Randolph County
 i have locked in my soul the loVeS' traui- tions and incidents of the common peopie and they are mine forever.
 II believe in the Democratic ldea ol government 1 believe that the Demo cratic party holds the solution ot all tiLt problems that pertains to the government of man. So believing have always es- housed the cause of Democracy.
 "I love Alabama the greatest state III the sisterhood. She was ceded to the general government in 1892, and lmmeoi- ately became the adopted daughter ol the Mississippi territory. She was d Pi"In country girl, modest and beautiful. In 1s1g she was declared q sovereign sotate' armed with the certificate of sovereignty, and wearing the simple costume 3i Democracy. she wei tortn 10 ASht Aile battle in the civic world.
 Yes she was married to Uncle Sam Tn 1S1J. and they lived happily together until 1S6o when he violated the marriage con tract by ignoring her rights as q state and conspiring to discharge the servants of her household without her consent She abandoned him. He objected how ever to the separation and she sued nm for divorce in the court of arms. hlie her cause was just and the law and evi- dence both on her side, the arbitrary ac- ton of the court made it impossible TOT her to obtain the relief prayed for Sle abandoned the suit at AppomattoX a re- conciliation was had and they wept at the gravesida of buried loves and bllghted hopes and mingled their tears in common sorrow over the wreck of the unhappy past. .., tro,o his eyes, and, smiling in statesmanlke way threw his long Dony arms around Alabama 5 queenly form and Salu soltlN' Who's sweet? and Alabama looked low
 ngly up into his lace ana sdiu Doi U"
 She devoted her time and attention to the duties of her household passed through the trials of reHonstructl 1n wear ing at all times about her brow wreath of the hardy SnOWdrDp that shrnks not at the breath of misfortune but dfhes the wintry winds of adversity. She hullt up the waste places of the c"mm'hWGdItH. II. No barrier could stand in her way. There was no limit and boundary lines to her splendid powers and pCssibil.tes- She passed through the night Of political or- pression and hatred wearing the sable af ttff ~4U U fingers of malice and fastened upon her by tine ruthless hand of force
 But the night thank God, is past. The sable mantle has been torn away and AIabama stands robed in the costume woven in the loom of Anglo Saxon genius I and is in the morning of 8 new day. Sh@ beholds the sun of Caucasian authority ascending the clear sky of civic spiehdor
 Behold her as she stands, crowned with all the beauty, grace and strength or sovereignty; And. fellow citizens, is 1t not pardonable pride and natural desire | in me to seek to become her Secretary for the next four years?
 Let us stand by him who has been SO faithful to her in the trying hours of | the past Let us rally to the support of l Governor Jelks and the new Constitu- tion and by so doing we will stand for | the highest and best interests of the state | Let us in tbis good year put patriotism | above political trickery, principle above | place and the good of tre State above | the reckless ambition of any man.
 This eloquent and beautiful picture re- l ceiyed warm response and gave much | pleasure and delight to the audience
 MT. HcAn said the State was going 1 along happily and contented and her sons were now asked to rally to save her in this great battle between white men H. the Democratic party.
 He told how Governor Jelks had fla vored the Constitutional Convention all alcng and how Johnston had favored it- and then opposed it; how Jeks had fa- vored Democratic primary and johnston a white primary and defined the differ enre. showing how under the latter plan the white Republicans could come into inc nrimaries, name the weakest man and