The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-10-04

llvhat a world of debilment their melo- dy foretells."
 v rhe nc court room which had seen half . century of use and which had echoed 1 10 the eloduence of the most famous fs vvvers of the State was filled from the beginning of the speaking. The roors ia not a large on but 1t is esti- ,,,afea that 1t contained 300 people. Several ladies were present.
 Tn the rear of the room consider | abie crowd of negroes gathered. They | anpearcd in the main to be from 1.-the co,,ntrv districts. The Tuskegee In- stttute student was conspicuously ab- eent. The negroes sat in silence | through the speakers attacks on their race as a whole and on particular indi- viduais of 1t who had attained some ldistinction. No section Of the audi | ance. however, enjoyed his anecdotes more and the laughter from the rear l of the room at the conclusion of his I camp meeting story was louder and | more boisterous than that which came | from any other section of the room. Congressman Hefin was introduced | to the crowd by Henry P. Merritt. a | well known lawyer of Tuskegee. He l was presented as Our distinguished Inominee. known to every man in Ma. | aon County.
 | After an introductory sentence or ! two Mir. Hefiin plunged into discus sion of national Issues. Over half Of I his address was devoted to the discus- I siou of national officers and emphasix- | inr the differences between the Demo- cratic and Republican parties. The | speaker was fortified by the Democrat | ic Campaign book. which was recently | issued by the National Committee. The | principle of Democracy, however, he | said. needed no enuncfation in Macon l County, County If it was distinguish | cd for one thing more than for another | was it's allegiance to the principles of | the Democratic party.
 T am proud that I am Democrat" l said Mir. Hefin. T am prouder today | than ever was before in my life. The | Democratic party Is the party of the | white man. Since the dawn of time down to the splendid present the white man has shown himself to be the best | fitted of all men to rule. not only him. | self but to rule inferior races"
 There are additional reasons why |. and why you should feel proud that we are Democrats. At no time could | 1t ever be charged against the Demo. | cratic party that 1t was the instrument of predatory wealth. At no time could it ever be charged that the Dem ocratic party had used power to build up the interest of the classes at the expense of the masses.
 The Republican party. he said, was | the same party. the same tory party | that was in power when George ], was i on the throne of England, insoiently refusing the colonies the right of rep- resentation but reserving the right to charge them whatever taxes he chose. Tha same old Republican Tory party. | he argued, was in power when the Duke of Buckingham in England sold I the rights to make shoes to one man | in England and to another the sole
 right to make tin ware.
 The spirit of the Democratic and the | Tory Republican party, he said, had 1 battled together through the ages | The Republican party, he said, now | stood for the wiping out of State lines | and fOr Federal interference in local affairs.
 .Tn recent years" he said, leases have been carried from our own cir- | cult courts to Federal courts and local l aelf-Rovernment has been crucified un- der our own eyes,
 He attacked President Roosevelt for inc order which declared that the country should be called America in- stead of the United States. Roosevelt
 he termed -a swlld military, buckins broncho President"
 He dealt at length with the tariff uuestion. In doing so he said he woul0 show how the coIH tuners had oeep taxed to build up sO-called infant in- | dustries, some of which were over loo years old, The Democratic party, he ssid had always stood for tarif for | revenue only and the Republican party | had always fostered class Legislation
 Taking up the Democratic Campaign roolx he quoted a number of ngures | showing greater prices were charged ID the home markets than were charged l for the same commodities in foreign
 TT Tine Democratic party was different he said from the Republican party III that 1t stood for fairness ana hor | justice. for honesty and integrity in nuhIIc oficials, but the Republican nsrtv was party of looseness and ex- | travagence.
 "The President in a book he wrote once :" said Congressman Heflin, "des- cribed the tariff laws as vicious iegis- | latton. but he has changed his mind aimee he ate dinner with Booker Wash
 ington." Corruption, he declared. had been holding hign carniNaA III the t.~N'S capitol. He pointed out that the Re- | nubIican platform was absolutely silent on the question of the reduction of the expenses of government. He declared that he had rather be found | lighting unnecessarily the battles or | inc Democratic party than to triumph under the banners of the Republican ! narty. He asserted that aggrandized | wealth was a direct product of RepuD- l licanism and he pictured Rockefeller as | the foremost type of the man of wealth. | a man without hair on his head and without an eye brow and man who could eat nothing but toasted cracker and warm milk. He contracted this picture with one of your boys, rising | in the morning and going to the spring for a bucket of water, walking back to the humble home. your wife and | children about you. hale and hearty. eating three full meals a day and sleep | inR soundly at night"
 II euIogized Judge Parker as a patriot, a statesman, conservative
 man, a sturdy product of the old line | of patriots. He stands today" said the speaker, "as the embodiment of all
 that is good in people and he ,is a ft subject for President.
 Mir. Hehin declared that his fore fathers had fought in the war of the
 Revolution and that he had an interest | in the White House and he didn't want | .n,, n.~roaa eating in the dining room.