The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-07-09

must live and learn; man who ripened with advancing years in the rich attain ments of the law until he went. by choice of those who knew him best. To hold the heavy scale of justice at the highest point of our great Judicial system where With the masters who moulded state ana hi- ton, and the men who drive commerce O CT the wheel of time. he surveyed to the very ground every inch this great repub- lie and saw with expanding vision tile material growth and glory of his state.
 Call at Critical Hour.
 "The country called upon New York for a man to fit this, the critical hour ana place fin our national life, and New York answers with a man who puts against the strenuous sword play of swaggering administration, a simple faith in all the perfect power of the constitution; a man who puts against an executive republic the virtue of constitutional republic; q man who puts against executive usurpa- tional knowledge of and d deep love Tor the boise and balance of It's three great powers; a man who puts against the stealthy hunt with the big stick q faith full observance of constitutional restraints The country called upon New York Tor man of stainless character in private and public life. and New York answers with a man whose path leads rom the sweet and simple firesides of his country home, where he enjoys the gentle society of his family to his place of labor and honor at the head of one of the greatest courts in christendom.
 "And nowhere through his active and useful life has aught but honest priase found utterance the lips of those who know him best. If you ask me why he has been silent, I tell you, it is be- cause he does not claim to be the master of the democratic party, but Is content to be its servant If you ask me why he has not outlined a policy for this con vention 1 tell you that he does not be- lieve that policies should be dictated but that the sovereignty of the party Is in the untrammeled judgment and wisdom of it's members; if you ask me what ms policy will be, if elected 1 tell you that 1t will be that policy which finds express sion in the platform of his party.
 Appeal for the South.
 with these, as some of the claims up- on your conscience and judgment. New York comes to you flushed with hope and pride. We appeal to the south. whose un- clouded vision and iron courage saw and fought the way for half a century; whose Jefferson awoke the dumb defiance of de- yelopment into a voice that cried out to
 
 the world a curse upon the rule Of kings and a blessing upon new born repuD- lie; whose Madison translated the logic of events and the law of progress into the constitution of the country; whose Jackson reclaimed the lost places of the far south and democre 'ized the policies os the nation; and whose soldiers show ed the wondering world the finest fruits of the brain and nerve S1d heart that rfpen in her temperate sun, and who, through all the sons she lost, and all the sons she saved, and all the tears she shed amid the sorrowful ruin of war-and through all the patient loyalty and labor of after years wrought for human happiness that all the world eXclaims her greatness in peace is greater than her valor in war
 We appeal to you of the old south and the new to join with us in this contest of the supremacy of our party. Wetap- peal to the west whose frontier struggles carried our civilization to the Pacific slopes; whose courage conquered the plain and forest and whose faithful labor has built beautiful cities clear through to the Rocky mountains; we appeal to you as he did follow your leadership through eight