The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-03-15
.SAVIORS OF
 DEMOCRACY |Stallings and gllin In New ps.es. SPEAK q TUSCALOOSA |Intimated They Are For Hearst for President. Given Out That rhsy Were Invited to Dslivss Addrsssss, But who
 Invited Thsu is Not
 Known.
nY YRUcr KENNEpY.

Tuscaloosa, March M Especial. )--Tus- caleosa was tonight treated tc the un- usual political spectacle of the Honorable Jess stallings and Tom Hefin. Secretary 0f State as sesf-appo,nted saviors of De-
 mocracy, appealing e voters not to send
 mer to the St. Louis convention who
 were friendly to Cleveland.
 IL was an unusuai scene In another
 sense. etalings and Hefiin came here from Birmingham ostensibly to hear ehe Hobson and Banl<head debate. After the
 joint debate i, was noised about that ssallines and Hefiin would speak at the Academy of Music tonight
 stallings. who is confessedly William
 Randolph Hearsts leader in Alabama,
 said that Henin had been invited 70 ad. dress the votera Of TuscAlcozn on "Na-
 slonal Issues'' ana he. stAVings. would introduce him. No one knows who ex- tended the invitation. The man who if
 in charge of the Academy Of Music said
 Hefiin made arrangements himself for
 use of the house
 About 100 persons gathered at the Acad. efry at o'clock. They heard the first Ispeechee in the campaign for delegates to the National Convention Mayor Coch-
 rane of Tuscaloosa introduced Staliings
 as the first speaker. He spoke twenty
 minutes inveighins against Cleveland and his frieuds.
 Out to Beat Cleveland. He extolled German. Mcclellan and Hearst but declared he was out to beat Cleveland and the men who were trying to steal the Democratic party h his. Iln- tefest .' He was willing, he said. to take these men back into the party but not to make them leaders. He offered no can. didates but repeatedly assailed the so- called bolters who want to go to St. Louis without calling names.
 Mir. Hefiin. who was introduced as the principal speaker Of the evening showed some acririony. He declared thar the greatest mistake the party in Alabama evar made was in permitting the minor fly with the machine te deprsva Rsstben Y K2lb pf the nonainatsSn ln isse Hc. Clellan and urged the audience t6 defeAt tho purpose of certain men to slip up on The party and turn II over 10 ClevelaIih Hearst had barrel like Hanna. he said. and Hanna and hls barrel were important factors before his death. Hefiin did not declare for Hearst. hut he got as close t6 1t as he seemed to dare.
 He charged Cleveland Democrats with disloyalty. and insisted that they were after ofiiccs-'' 'postofiices at Montgomery and the ike" At this juneture a man in the audience cried; "Fdurrnh for ecrewsl" and Heiiin said he had not called any names but his remArks had been directed at Major Screws of Montgomery.
 Again some man cried out the name of The Advertiser and Hefiin declared that The Advertiser had criticised adversely every great Democrat whose name had been used in connection with the presi. dency except Cleveland He begged Dem ocrats to be on guard lest the Palmer and Bucknerites capture the party. Hefiin spoke nearly two hours heldins hls au- dience by telling stories In his inimitable style.
 Both Hefiin and staliings disciaim any organized effort to nominate Hearst. They declare they win not make any moro speeches unless they are Invited"