The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-03-24
STALLlNGS IN SELMA
CONTINUES HIS W. R. HEARST
 CAMPAIGN.
Hefiin Not Present to Aid His Fellow Iromio in Amusing the Crowd of the Central City
 Citizens
Advertiser Bureau,
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Advertiser Bureau, Selma March 8 Ihree hundred men and women heard non J. F. Stallings speak at the court mousse tonight when he delivered an ad- uress on the selection of delegates to the National Democratic convention with a preroration eulogktic of William R. Hearst.
 In droll fashion he talked of the par " s history. of party regularity, of bolt ers' or possible presidential timber. and or Hearst as the best the Democratic lumDer yard has to offer. Ills utterances to-hlgnt were not radically different from what ne has said before, except that per- maps ne was more outspoken in his recom- mendation that William Randolph Hearst De the nominee of the party at it's con- Ventlon In St. Louis next summer. If he IS clown, he is a mighty good one, and ms magic whip had the Democratic don- Key doing antics that brought laughter.
 Hon. J. Thomas Hef1in was unable to be present tonight because he attended the funeral of Congressman Thompson in Tuskegee. His absence disappointed many and as result of misunderstand nd- Ing, deterred a large number from hear ing Mir Stallings
 MT. Stallings was introduced to his au- ditors by Major D. M. Scott, president of the Hearst Club. who spoke in en- thusiastic praise of Mir Stallings's career and personality
 His present purpose, MT. Stallings stat ed in the initiation of his speech. He was here. he said, to discuss an impor- tant question, the selection of delegates to be sent to the National Convention. For more than thirty years the South had had no voice in the nomination of a Pres ident or in the writing of platform, but the time has now come. when we should not stand idly by, but should aid in the selection and put our stamp upon the platform.
 After tracing briefly the history of the Democratic Party, MT. Stallings reached Party regularity" and he stayed there for some time. ITO be a Democrat" he declared. You have got to vote the ticket and believe In it. You can't vote 1t off and on. oftener off You can't sup port Republican tI.ls year and want to write the platform next year. You can't abuse Democrats for eight years, and then say take my man or I'll bolt" and then with characteristic nochalance, he added: Let them bolt. It Is but a single step and they land in the Republican Party and then peace to their ashes.
 As for himself, Mir Stallings said he did not want office, but the danger flag was hoisted, and he was out to warn Democrats He scoffed at "Re-organiz- ed Democracy" railed at the bolters of 96, who defeated Bryan, the greatest of commoneB.'
 He spoke of The Advertiser without naming names, and of the newspapers which he, said, were bushwhackers. He spoke at some length of The Advertiser 8 editorial policy, and made his usual in- situations about postoffices. The bolters, he declared, were responsible for Roose- velt's occupation of the presidential chair, and for Booker Washington's din- ner. MT. Stallings said his personal pref erence was for George Mcclellan of New York, and he frankly gave impetus to the Hearst boom. 'I can boom anybody who has stuck by the party" he shout ed His praise of Hearst, like some other portions of his address, was a trife so- phomoric, but it was well received, and ne was generously applauded. MT. Stall- ings left tonight for Mobile.