The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-09-08
Personal and General.

MT. Edward Barnett and Miss Irene Davis were married last night at o'clock at the home of the brides parents in South Bessemer. the Rev Dr. Gavin per forming the ceremony.
 MT. James B. Morton and w. E. Ser Till went to Halls Lake today to en- Joy fishing and outing.
 Dr. George D. Waller has removed his offices from tho Office building to the First National Bank building.
 MT. Isaac w. Woods who has been with the Endmundson Drug company for the past year was today awarded a scholar ship in the state medical college at Mo- bile
 MT. James Trotter left yesterday for Auburn to place his son Krittel in college at that place.
 ~L~-~~@~~ conditions by electing man who In his eagerness to do things would not. competent authorities says. hesitate to plunge us into war? The republicans for a long time have boasted that theirs Is the conservative party, but this year the democrats have the conservative candi- date, and we independents are with him with heart and soul.
 Roosevelt represents personal govern ment. Parker represents one based on law and order; the former stands for
 
 government"
 A letter from Joseph Pulitzer, written from Bar Harbor to Chairman Daniels in which the writer stated that physical infirmities prevented his being present, was read.
 Clark HoweIPs Speech.
 Clark Howell, editor of the Atlanta Constitution, spoke to the toast Demo cratic Success, the Guarantee of Ma tional Unity
 Mr. Howelps referencetto mob violence was vigorously cheered. He said In part: We democrats stand for reasonable | tariff reduction because we believe that it Is as good-if not better-for New Eng land as it is for the south or west. We demand more economical administration of the government at Washington because we believe that it Is wrong to pilage the taxpayers of any state or section. We denounce unfettered and unblushing im- perialism because 1t contradicts and un- l dermines the very basis on which our l government rests and offers an ever at- tractive invitation to International com 1 plications. But there Is not a declaration l of our platform that Is not born of an | honest desire to help the whole people. to serve the whole country, and to ad- minister the affairs of government that neither harm, hardship nor injustice will be worked to the people of any state or section.
 Can tho republicans say so much? And If not, can they not properly be classed as despoilers of national harmony and wreckers of sectional fraternity?
 Disguise as they may, they cannot deny the sectional animus of their party purpose nor evade the record of their administration in it's unjust and ungen- erous dealings with the south in the matter of federal appointments, and in the brutal and indefensible manner In which their president has raised the lid of the racial Pandora's box-that our people, black and white, may be tor mented with the devils that have emerged from it.
 Sentiment of the South.
 T speak the sentiment of the south of today-the new south. if you will-when l tell you that the mistaken attitude of the republican President has done mora to check the real progress of the negro than all else that has been done since the war. His stubborn disregard of tbe advice of even his own party referees in the states affected, in his mad determina- ton that white constituencies should be served by negro officeholders exclusively in the south-for 1t would be repudiated in the north-has rekindled the slumber- ing embers of racial hostility to degree that has not been known since the days of reconstruction.
 Was 1t necessary? Let them ask the memory of their martyred Mckinley, who, twice honored with the presidency, died with south and north kneeling to- gether at his bedside uniting their pray CTS that God might spare his life. Typi- cal republican that he was. just and fair to white and black alike. there was something in his gentle demeanor that said to the whole country that though placed in his exalted office by partisan instrumentality he was indeed the Presi- dent of all the states. and all the sections. Alas the pity of the unfulfilled prom ise that his successor would continue the policy which had so markedly contributed to the spirit of national unity, and as the result of which even the republican party made enough converts in the south to break it's solidity and to make doubtful several states. which, by the change of policy, are today more certainly demo- cratic than ever. Even as democrats we had hoped that the time had come. by Gods grace, when white men could diff fer on economic issues without fear of sacrificing their civilization or of immo- lating intelligence and good citizenship upon the altar of illiteracy, corruption and racial disturbance!
 Ask the Negro Himself.
 Lest the republicans should want fur