The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-11
IN MEMORY OF THEIR FATHER

ments. and has been assigned to the Banking and Currency Committee in addition to his place on the War Claims Committee. This Is rather unusual for a second term member. but only dem onstrates his wonderful ability.
 Display Tact.
 During his first term. when Crum- packer of Indiana was agitating his resolution to investigate the election laws of the South. with the view of cutting down Southern representation in Congress. and when a very bitter feeling existed between the members of the North and the South. Colonel Thompson, displaying the same tact in politics that he had always shown in business. conceived the unique idea of inviting MT. Crumpacker and a large number of the leading Northern repre- sentatives in Congress to come with him to Alabama as his guests, and at his expenses, in special car to investi- gate and study for themselves the race question and the propriety and wis., dom of the elimination from the fran chise of Alabama the ignorant negro vote. This plan was at once endorsed by the leading newspapers throughout the United States. including not only the Democratic papers of the South. but the bitter partisan Republican pa-
 
 all to have originated in the brain of a statesman. who by his wonderful grasp of affairs could take hold of a great national question and handle 1t successfully in plain practical business manner. The Northern Rep resentatives were cordially and gladly received by every citizen of Alabama, save one or two, and were elegantly and gloriously entertained by the
  cry and Birmingham, in Alabama, by the citizens of Chattanooga, Tenn, and Asheville, N. c. Special reporters were sent by the leading papers of the North to telegraph everything that transpired on the trip, and 1t was published in nearly every paper in the United States. The result was far-reaching. and everyone acknowledged that Char lie Thompson builded better than he knew. The Northern Representatives who came with him. and who visited the negro on his native heath. and who were permitted to see for themselves the liberal treatment by the white peo- | pie of Alabama of the negro In their | school privileges, their church and all other privileges, returned to their re- | spective States in the North with changed ideas of the Southern people: and the praises of Alabama and her splendid citizenship composed of her chivalrous men and her noble women | have been sung throughout the North and East by those representatives since | their return. Hon. Charles F. Little | field. from far away Maine, a State | which has produced. perhaps. more bit | ter Republicans against the South than any other State in the Union, has been proclaimng in his public addresses throughout the North and East the kind treatment and friendly feeling of the white people in Alabama towards the negro, and vindicating the course adopted by the late Constitutional Con- of Alabama the corrupt and corrupting g | and ignorant voters.
 | Having begun his early life under the most adverse circumstances and having struggled amid the hardships with | which many of the good people of the l South were surrounded after the civil | war. Colonel Thompson naturally feels | an abiding interest and a tender sym pathy for those people in his State who are now struggling like he struggled in ] his boyhood days. His varied business | experiences. having been throughout his entire life In close touch with the | farmer. the merchant, the bankers, and | in recent years with the leading and | representative citizens and law makers of the United States, he Is peculiarly fitted to represent the people of Ala bama, the State of his birth, in the national halls of Congress.
 Progressive and Charitable.
 Colonel Thompson was liberal gem