The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-10-04

| cans in New York were badly divided and that the division in New York was equaIled by the division in other States.
 He told of the war between Pompey and Caesar and how Caesars men won the victory while Pompey's men were Quarrelling over the spoils of the vie- tory that was to be won
 How can any self-respectIng white man be black and tan Republican in AlabamaT asked Mir. Hef1in. The Re- publicans started movement for n respectable party in this State, party to which & white man could belong without sacrificing his seIf-respect They had q convention at Birmingham and the negro was shut out. But the movement didn't last long. The Presi- dent and Booker Washington fixed that.
 T thank God that was a member of the Constitutional Convention. We disfranchised the negro and we are go-. ing to keep him disfranchised no mat ter how many threats are made to cut down our representation in Congress and the Electoral College. The negro Is inferior to the white man and we ain't going to let him hold office in this State. although q few of them now do and one holds an office under the Re- publicans in my District. That same negro came down here and helped the other black and tans nominate Ben Walker. In the North they shoot and kill negroes in communities. Down South if we lynch one we never lynch any but the guilty one. We don't go after a community.
 HcalR on Walker. The fight which was on, the speaker said, was against social equality and | local government. An effort was being made to drag the white man from the high and exalted place he had always held He spoke of the dinner | at the White House. and said that if | Czolgosz or somo other anarchist had
 thrown a bomb under the table no great harm would have been done to | the country.
 He spoke of his opponent as Ben" | whose name signifies that he Is a has | been" and whose last name Walker" signifies that he can't run.
 He sang a parody on "Jo Anderson. My Jo John," calling 1t Joe Thompson. my Jo Thomp." The final verse rep resented Washington. Scott and | Thompson descending the hill together | to rest.
 q refused to meet my opponent in | joint debate because to have done so
 would be to recognize him as my equal" said Congressman Hefiin. T don't recognize any black and tan as
 my equal. I am your nominee, tho Democratic nominee. and I will not lower myself to the level of a black and tan who mingies on terms of social equality with negro.
 That's right" came from voice in the crowd.
 WashlngtOn's Friend. He declared that 1t was an insult to
 the District for a man like B. W. Walker to be put up by the Republi- cans.
 He said that 1t was the desire of the Republicans to have SWslker sent from | the Fifth District 50 that 1t might be said: Here is friend of Booker | Washington and 1t shows how he iS looked upon down there and how the people uphold him. an applicant for an ofice. and the first thing he said was; T am particular
 friend of Booker Washington and I have got his endorsement"
 He declared that Captain Walker had presided over a black and tan conven-, ton. and had called the negroes Gen tlemen." again and again.
 'I want to say right here" said Mir. | HehIn. that don't know Walker, but | I do know that God Almighty makes mighty few mistakes and if the face | that Almighty put upon B. w. Walk CT speaks true 1t represents mean and vicious character.
 He declared that the charges made by Captain Walker in the Tuskegee speech were the effusions of cowardly | scalawag.
 "The charge that I sold out one Democratic candidate for Congress in order to vilify another, "continued MT. Heflin, lis absolutely false and any one that repeats 1t here or there Is a falsi- | fer. It is as black 8 falsehood as the heart of its author. In thSt particular race for Congress when I had carried my county. Thompson had carried hls county, Bulger had carried his county | and Brewer had carried his county, we | all realized that something had to be done. Colonel Thompson and reached an agreement whereby we were to make the fight together. If he could land successfully he was to have the ] first chance. If he could not win for any reason I was to step in. I have no hesltancy in saying that under the circumstances the expenses of the can vass were borne by Colonel Thompson.
 Mir. Hehin then explained his con- neetion with the pardon of Sanford Jacobl 4 majority of the Board of Pardons, he said. had agreed to recom-