The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-11-02
Alabama Campaign Comes to Close With Big Rally at
 FOrt Payne
JOINT DEBATE RESULTS
 IN DEMOCRATIC JUBILEE
Henry D. Clayton and J. Thomas lief lin Propounded the Merits of Good Old Democracy-one Voter
 Shouts Glory, HaIIaluJah.
BY E. E. kERsH.

BY E. E. kERSH.
 Fort Payne. November 1.-(Special)- With enthusiastic shouts of .'Glory, glory. hallalujah." coming from the determined democracy of DeKalb county. the cam paign in this county was practically clos ed here today, and while the meeting was arranged as joint discussion between the democrats and republicans. it was easily ] democracy's day.
 The feeling among the democrats was well illustrated by an expression from Uncle Jay Roberts. 75 years democrat who when asked what he thought oi the days meeting replied: Tt was grand and NJ have grown a foot since came The democrats all seemeoa. .sed over their great victory ydebate and possibly all of them felt that they had grown foot.
 This has been probably the most not. able day politically in the history of De. Kalb county. The joint discussion between the democrats and republicans was well advertised and the electors came to this town in great droves from all over the mountains. It was estimated that con- siderably more than one thousand per sons were in the court room from time to time during the four hours of ths speech-making. The court was crowded to it's utmost capacity by 10 o'clock and there were some five hundred people or the outside clamoring for admission when the meeting was convened an hour later.
 There were more ladies in the audience than is customary at political meeting the fame of the democratic orators hay ] ing proven a decided drawing card. Ths people in the up state are good listeners usually attentive but quiet, but they evidently came full of fire and enthus iasm today. It was the most demonstra tive crowd that remember to have seen in the northern counties. There was na- turally more cheering among the demo- crats, for with all due respect to the good talks by the republicans, they were not matches for the democratic orators either in argument or entertainment
 The speakers were W. H. Ambretch of Mobile, candidate for attorney-general on the republican ticket, who opened the discussion in a speech of one hour; Con- gressman Henry D. Clayton or the Third Alabama district, who followed In speech of one hour and a quarter; Unil- ed States Attorney M. D. Wickersham of Mobile, who spoke one hour and quarter and J. Thomas Hef1in of Cham bers, who closed in a speech of one hour.
 Col. w. w. Harason acted as chair man of the joint meeting, introducing the speakers. After jollying the farmers of DeKalb for a few moments, MT. Am bretch launched into a discussion of the tariff, arguing briefly for protective tariff and arraigning the tariff views ad argued for the republican party as the best party to handle the trusts, and claimed that his party originated and carried on the only fight ever madc against the trusts. He referred to the recent interviews from Senator Morgan relative to the best interests of the dem- ocratic party and said that everybody knows the fixed principles of the republi- can party. He talked briefly about Con- gressman Burnett's record in congress and assailed his seed record.
 Mir Ambretch said that he would then discuss state affairs, and he consumed about half of his time in talking along that line, touching upon the address of State Chairman Campbell. the new con- stitution, representation, fair elections and distribution of the public school fund.
 He then returned to a discussion of national issues and talked for a few minutes on the tariff and finance
 Clayton Wins Great Applause.
 When Congressman Clayton was intro- duced he gave MT. Ambereton a few pionters on jollying." and his reference to the great white audience and fair skinned ladies' elicited the first real ap- pause from the audience. It never again Jagged during his talk.
 He began his speech by saying that ht
 
 on truth and democracy. and he was go- ing to talk to the republicans present who were on the mourners bench The democrats and populists had become united and there were only d few old time republicans left to get on the mourners bench, and he was glad of an opportunity to get few of them cornered and preach them sermon of truth and converting them. leaving them come out shouting hallalujah and on election day vote the democratic ticket
 MT. Clayton kept well his word, and he preached a sermon of democracy and truth that is seldom equalled from the stump. He took up first the record of the republican administration in the state in reconstruction days, and laid it bare be- fore his audience. When MT. Clayton said that. under the great George S. Houston white supremacy was secured to the people of Alabama forever and forever, and old white-headed. grizzled- bearded Confederate soldier who stood away back in the audience bursted out in a glorious old shout of glory, glory. glory" which served as a reminder of the good old camp meeting times The applause from the audience was deafen- ing Mir. Clayton was finally compelled to beg his audience not to take up his time for he wanted to skin 'em alive.s'
 The ''skinning' that he gave the other fellows seemed to be perfectly satisfac- tory to his hearers. He passed over the speech of MT. Ambretch by saying that it recalled to him the story of the comet. the tail of which, according to the as- tronomer, was ten million miles long and four million miles wide. but the whole substance of which, according to the
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