The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1904-10-19
JOSEPH MONTGOMERY OF CLARENDON A
REPUBLICAN LEADER.

News a speech delivered by Mr..
J. H. Montgomery formerly OF
Clarendon, now prominent Re
publican leader in Alabama, in
which he makes an appeal to re.
pudiate the i'll tempered and
damaging remarks Of congress
man Helm, whose utterances
have been taken all over the
country as capital to the injury
Of the Democratic cause.
Lineville, Ala.-To a crowded house
of both ladies and gentlemen on Friday
night, Judge J. II. Montgomery, OF
Birmingham, in a forceful and elo-
quenJ manner, turned the 1ull force OF
invective against anarchy IN Alabama.
Among other things he said:
My friends, read with astonlshment
and amazement the speech OF your con-
gresham, Mr.. Hefin, delivered at
Tuskesee on the 5th of this month, IN
which he indulgedin an assault on your
president in language unworthy the
dignity of the high office which ne
holds.
It is attributed to this congressman
that in the course OF his philippe
against your president for lunchlng
with Booker Washington, and his tear
that Booker Washington would IN some
way interfere to prevent him from be,
ing seated in congress, that he used
this language: There they sat, Roose-
velt and Booker, and if some Czolgosz
or one of his kind had thrown bono
under the table no great harm would
have been done the country. Ana II
Booker inteferes in this thing there IS
a way Of stopping him. We have way
of influencing negroes down mere II IL
becomes necessary.
How unfortunate the language.
The full force of this language falls
upon the shoulders of every man,
woman and chilG in this district, and
not to shake it off and repudiate it at
the polls, is to adopt it as your own. 10
say that this language IS in temperate
is to excuse it. To say that 1t Is lncen-
diary and brutal is to confess the whole
truth
When the American people executed
Guiteau for the assassination OF Car
field they thought that anarchy was
destroyed in this country. When they
executed Czolgosz for the assassination
of Mckinley they feared acarchlsm
was yet in this country, but when Mr..
Hefin spoke they knew that this tribe
of enemies to popular government was
still here.
Personally your president is above
and beyond this language: he cares not
for the vaporings OF an unbalanced
statesman.
This language rests upon the con-
science and the manhood of the people
of the fifth district Will you indorse
it or will you repudiate it? 1t con-
gresham can indorse assassination.
does it not suggest performances: II
CONGRESSMAN counsels mob violence,
should he be instrusted with law max
ing power? You are solemnly advised
that if for any reason Mr.. Helm should
lose his seat on a contest violence to
Booker Washington will follow. You
are told that loss of his seat because
of opposition that mob violence may be
expected in Tuskegee or the torch OF
arson infame the city.
Gentlemen, look at the contrast be-
tween the past and the present. The
lamented dead and the dreaded living.
Your former congressman, thompson,
bad invited to your district eminent
statesmen of all parties: invoked more
sunlight on the dark and veSed prob
lens that confront the south than any
other man living. He made your dis
trict known throughout America: He
made this district in which Tuskegee
is located known as one where, under
the aegis of the law, virtue and learn
ing had found a peaceful home.
The germs planted by this lamented
and gifted statesman had taken root
and were bearing abundant frultage.
The stream which had begun to run
pure under his wisdom IS polluted by
his successor.
Will YOU vote for Mr.. Hefin and
take the chances of this horrible crime
being perpetrated in your district?
It will discredit you abroad, humill-
ate YOU at home and stain forever the
fair name OF Alabama.
The virtue and manhood of the fifth
district is on trial. You are watched
from every quarter Of the nation. by
your vote your character will be meas
ured. Rise like Alabamians! Eminate
the achievements of your ancestors.
Hurl back this foul imputation on your
fair name, and say to an expectant na-
ton that 'iNot that we love party less,
but we love honor more
Roberts of Utah, taught polygamy,
and because of it congress denied him
-%,.:1 a
representative in congress. Helm
taught mob violence and anarchy and
because OF it congress may deny him
seat, and this district may be without a
representative in congress.