The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-09-18

| farty.
 Tt. has been my observation in this
 life that when a man will sell himself
 in one place, he will sell himself in
 another. If he will accept money from
 one man and go over this district
 against another man. If he goes to Con-
 giess. he will be for sale.
 | T want to call attention to the fact
 that Mir Heflin canvassed this State.
 and travelled over the entire State, in
 the interest of William R. Hearst, the
 millionaire candidate who was trying
 to buy his way to the Presidency. You
 always find him on the side of the big
 pocketbook. You will find him always
 charging the Republican Party with
 being the party of trusts and corpora
 tions and declaring that he stands for
 the individual rights of man.. There
 has been but one campaign in Alabama
 within quarter of a century that was
 for the individual rights of man as
 against corporations. and that was the
 candidacy of MT Conner against the | railroads.
 And Mir He1in travelled over this
 State on free passed in the interest of | the railroads-the first time he has had | the opportunity, he is found on the
 side of the railroads.
 | We have all, in this country heard of the complaint of the judges and the | juries in the court houses being too | slow in giving judgment upon men charged with high crimes. This has been the excuse given by this country l for the lynch law. Yet in the very 1 face of this statement we find MT, Hefiin. one of the highest State off, cials and connected with the Pardoning Board of the State, as his own Party | declares. interesting himself to bring | about the pardon of man who was I t-kA we find criminals have been shot down in this country between the yer dict of the jury and the gallows. and | greater crime than that for which we | find public prisons being burned, with a military force acting as participants and officers of the law lending their l aid in the taking of human life. There | can be no end to mob law in this coun- try when high public officials are grainting pardons on one side of the court house. and the mob crying for l blood on the other side.
 The Jacobi Pardon.
 Most all of you are familiar with
 the pardon granted to a young man.
 Jacobi. of Montgomery.
 l At this point Captain Walker repeat
 ed the history of the Jacobi case with which the public is familiar.
 Continuing Captain Walker said: |
 was convicted by twelve sworn jurors
 and sentenced to twenty years in the penitentiary. this man Hehin, as Sec
 retary of State, and a member of the
 Pardoning Board, used extraordinary | means to bring about his pardon. He
 was charged in the Democratic pri-
 mary campaign by his opponent, with
 being active in bringing about the
 pardon of Jacobi When confronted | rho he
 not taken part in the recommendation
 and was not in Montgomery at the
 time. so a gentleman told me, who | heard him in Wetumpka. Ills Demo- | cratic opponent went to Montgomery
 for the purpose of seeing the recom-
 mendation of the Pardoning Board to | ascertain whether or not he had signed | 1t, and these papers were missing. Two months ago, I went to the Cap itol and was shown the portfolio upon which was written the Jacobi case and on the inside there was not a single page.
 Who got those papers?" asked Cap tain Walker with thrilling emphasis. They belong to the State-to the rec ords of the State. Why were they carried out of there." Captain Waik- CT went on. So that he could conceal himself and his statements
 "A month ago I went to the Secre- tary of State and Asked for those pa pers and they were not there. Three or four days after that I went to the Capitol and they were not there. Then went to the Governor and demanded those papers and the Clerk got the papers at place in his private omce where these documents are not kept, and brought out these papers and MT. Hefin's name was the second signed on that paper"
 This, statement delivered deliberate ly caused a furry in. the court room and there was mild applause.
 ''Trifiing with the public affairs of your State; trifling with your affairs; trifiing with your right to hear these question discussed here today" ex- claimed Captain Walker.
 MT. He1ln. I imagine" he added "had some other motive in keeping away from here. He is certainly more trained in the art of public debate than l. The best way to reach these mat ters is to tell the truth"
 This arraignment of MT. Hef1in con sumed less than ten minutes, and then Captain Walker went into his Repub- lican argument. He first took up the | trusts, declaring that the Republican | Party was the only Party that had ever sought to regulate the trusts or had | prosecuted them.
 Discussion of Negro Question.
 Speaking of the negro question Cap tain Walker said that the Democrats | had drawn three indictments against President Roosevelt on his negro policy | the Booker Washington luncheon in l cident the appointment of the negro | Dr. Crum as Collector of the Port of | Charleston, and the Indlanaola post office case. He treated these incl | dents at some length. All Presidents | previous to MT Roosevelt. he said had | sought advice on the conditions in the | South from politicians of both races.
 MT. Roosevelt" he said, had been | told that 1t was the politicians in both | parties that disturbed the two elements | by which the stringency had been made so marked between the two sections. l He was exceedingly anxious to get the | truth from all sides so as to know best how to deal with this race question in the South. Booker Washington had been recognized by the college presi- dents, both male and female. In the Northern States as representing the highst type of the negro in this coun- try. He was being recognized in all sections of this country as advocating the future policy of his race along in dustrIal lines, which seemed to promise more for the settlement of the race problem in the South than any other way MT. Roosevelt summoned Wash