The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-07-17

Oh, 1t was fine. I wisht I'd been there. Such enthusyasml Tn chaplain delivered r-ringin' prayer an tn convintion cheered itsilf hoarse. At tn mintion iv the name iv tn grand ol' dimmycrat who has shtud be tn party in time iv need always, or almost always, or three times out iv a possible five, or sixty per cint- I refer to tn sage iv Princeton-th con vintion arose as one man an cheered IT two hours an thirty-wan minyits. If in that lonely rethreat to which he had re- tired to escape tn heat iv battle an tn discoords iv politics that vin'rabe states man did not hear this gloryous thribute iv his fellow dmmycrats it was, Hin missy, ony because tn lnemen had not quite finished tn long distance tillyphone connectn' tn lonely rethreat with tn con-vintion hall.
 "Akelly enthusyastic was tn raycip- tion iv tn other sages At tn mintion iv Sage Olneys name, tn convintion cheered f'r two hours an eight minyits. At tn mintion iv tn name iv Cock'rill. tn air was rent with cheers lastin' f r two hours an two minyits, mingled with cries iv Who? At tn m1ntion iv tn name iv William R. Hearst, tn convin- tion cheered as one rayporther fir tn Journal, fir firm wan half iv sicond to nine hours an forty minyits, depindin' on what pa-aper ye r-read. (Some pa-apers says jeered but niver mind that) An fin'ly whn tn name iv tn peerless jurist, tn gr-rcat statesman, tn renowned dim mycrat-a-Ah! Yes. Alton B. Parker. tn sage iv Esoapus was sprung, tn con-vin- tion rose again an again eheered as wan man. An that man, Hinnissy, was me frind David B. Hill.
 'eHinnissy, we've heerd it said that ye can't keep a good man down. Well, ye can't keep amy kind iv a man down if he's able at his job. Tn last see iv David B. Hill was four years ago whin he was lapin' out iv tn front dure at Kansas City something less than safe an painless distance firm Willum Jin- nings Bryan's congress gaiter. Tn nex' I see iv David B. Hill, he's gone ar-round tn back yard, climbed over tn fince, let himsilf in tn cellar dure with a skeleton key, climbed up tn dumb-waiter shaft an is nailin a pitcher in tn front win dow v peerless dimmycrat leader who will lead us on to victhry, that I niver heerd iv befure. An where was me frind, Willum J. Bryan all this time? Well. no sooner had he made sure that Hill was chased off tn premises thin he left wur- rud with tn hired men that he wuddent be back befure mornin, locked in tn dure, cooked his hat on tn side iv his head an wint down tn sthreet lookin' fir throuble. Where he didn't find any he made some. Havin' sint tn night crooly maulin' ivry ladin' dimmycrat who poked his head out iv tn dure an aven gcin' so far as to break into houses an pull sleepy Palmer an Buckner dim mycrats out be tn ears, he comes home in tn mornin' a little tn worse fir wear an finds. as I tell ye, oI Hill nailin' up tn pitcher iv tn sage iv What-d'ye-call- it. An there ye ar're. Ye can't keep Hill out onless ye set up nights ye'ersilf. That there wicked man has been politi- cally dead thirty times that I raymim- Der an whin tn mourners rayturned cheerin' an gay firm tn fun'ral, they found him settin' on tn durestep waitin' fir thim with a gun. Sure, why not? He don't do annything else. Tn on'y time whin he seemed properly dead was whin me frind tn sage iv Princeton set on his grave. But there can't no light weight keep down man as squirmy as .hat man.
 An so there ye ar-re. We've had a