The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-11-01
INCREASE SHOWN
 IN FAILED COTTON
UP TO OCTOBER 1s, 5,77e,5e5 RUNNING BALES HAD BEEN eINNED IN ees COUNTIES OF THE SOUTH. 1@

Washington, December 3L-The census office today issued a bulletin showing that up to October IS, 1904. 5776.565 running bales of cottton have been ginned in 66S counties located in the various cotton producing states. as against 3 455,0S2 running bales reported to the same date in 1903. Counting round bales as half bales, the number of run ming bales for 1904 is reduced to 5,7O4,770 and for 1903 to S345,7O2.
 The number of counties in states from which ginning is reported and the num- Der of running bales from each state is as follows:
 Alabama, 55 counties, col, 4S2 bales; Ar kansas, 61 counties 21e, 457 bales; Florida, 119 counties, 4O,4Ss bales; Georgia, 124 counties. 1.O52S1S bales; Louisiana, 42 counties 905, ,153 bales; Mississippi, 6S coun- ties, 54S 96S bales; Missouri, counties, l0,- 531 bales; North Carolina, CT counties, SlO,- 454 bales; South Carolina (complete), 645,- 577 bales; Tennessee, B counties, 72,6lS bales; Texas 1S9 counties, 1,96SS74 bales; Virginia, 3 counties, 5145 bales
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 In these the audience joined. After 16 minutes, came a moments lull and Chalr- man Straus tried to quiet the demonstra- ton but failed utterly, and the band played tauntingly, q Was Only Teasing You." Another minutes passed and Judge Parker stepped to the front of the stage, but this tended only to excite the au- dience which refused to subside until A minutes of unbroken enthusiasm had passed and Judge Parker stepped to the front of the stage, but this tended only to excite the audience which refused to SUD- side until z1 minutes of unbroken en- thusism had passed. MT. Smith permit fed his speech to stand unfinished.
 Judge Parker followed his manuscript to inc letter, but delivered his speech in a forceful manner, despite the fact that if was read to his audience. His speech follows
 Judoe Parker's Speech.
 .T have come in response to your invi- tation to address you briefly in what you justly term the stronghold of democratic faith
 My views are sufficiently known to you and all others whose suftrage the democratic party has asked on my peHail' My words will be little more than greet ing from a candidate to his supporters, who are in accord in believing that to the democratic party, freed from dissensions, pledged anew to it's old articles or talth and to it's lofty traditions and united Tor victory, can better be trusted the future of this country than to the republican party, whose record for the past few years has been the embodiment or the idea that might makes right. and that the end iustifies the means, whatever they may be-a record which has represented a complete departure from cherished tra- ditions and precedents, and which has in- dicated complete intolerance of legal and constitutional restraint.
 Has Been Made Clear.
 More and more as this canvass has proceeded and the unjust stewardship of the republican party has been made clear, am 1 convinced that in this election we are confronted with issues which must be determined rightly, if we are to aVoid grave consequence to our country. am not speaking, I believe in this even un- consciously selfish point of view-l am speaking with the conviction of a man who has taken Into review the questions before the country-largely in judicial way-and the conviction has grown stronger as the days have gone by, and I have examined the record of the repub- lican party and even the defenses 1t fn- terposes for it's justification, that to per- init the conduct of this party to go un- rebuked is to invite the establishment Of new and dangerous principles and stand ards for guidance as a people Our re- turn to old-fashioned ways cannot, in my opinion, be too precipitate, unless we are prepared to shut our eyes to the conse- quences that will follow if we proceed further along path that Is full of danger to our future. We need what patriotism, devotion to principles and high moral ideals have until lately always given us "a government of, law and constitutional restraint, and not of caprice and reckless adventure.
 Follow Our Fathers.
 "We need no new light; we need no this subject; we need the coinage or the invention of the brain of no man. how ever intelligent, however we'll disposed he may be. to advise for us what he con- ceived to be for the best interests of this land. Our fathers determined this for us a long time ago and have adopted 1t as a part of our political heritage. We need only @ preserve the heritage and to keep our sacred possessions safe from attack, either from without or within, in order to insure our material prosperity and moral well being as a nation. and any conception of government such as has been set up for our adoption in this country by the republican party during