The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-11-03

l little prospect of any relief in the near
 future. In fact they see an even worse
 condition confronting them this winter
 than they have ever known before.
 One of the best informed railroad men l in the district said yesterday that some l of the lines had ten demends for every
 car that they could furnish, either a Hat
 car, coal car or a box car. He does not
 anticipate any permanent relief this l satisfied with the emblem of the demo- cratic party of Alabama, not satisfied with the judicial action and the honest
 conduct of the constituted members and authorities of the democratic party, they I assemble in one of the parks of your 1 city, which simply gave birth to an ille- l sitimate offspring, an enemy of pure 1 democracy. (Applause) What is their
 platform?
 "They assert in a small way, and in
 feeble words, that they are in favoF of honest elections. Who is their leader? A man unknown as a worker Ill the demo-
 cratic party but whose greed for office I and personal promotion and individual aggrandizement has certainly developed ! in not only leader but a so-called mar I tyr. Colonel Higdons personal interest l and feeble assertion of his followers cray l ing for a fair election is what they place :, over all that the democratic party has done, all the political blessings that the i democratic party has brought to the 1 south, and against a man, a man whom l you know, a man of irreproachable char 1 acter and integrity, James P Stiles. (Ap Isplause.) Can any fair-minded man who
 possesses such a thing as political con ;, science. can he hesitate for one moment as to his choice between a party two
 weeks old and by the way a party that :, will find its grave on the 9th day of No-
 vember (applause) and a party whose
 life is almost as long as the life of this
 republic, that has met party after party
 in political conflict, and has survived them
 all except the one with which it is now | in encounter. I am speaking of the great | democratic party arrayed against the re- | publican party. I do not call the demo- l cratic and conservative party that has a
 man so eager for office that he is willing | to see a cleavage in the rank of the dem l ocratic party in Jefferson county, and has | as It's badge the tail feather of a dung
 hill chicken painted red. (Applause) The | federal party attacked the democracy and
 1t found it's certain fate the whig party, 1 the no-nothing party. the green-back I party, the great peoples Jeffersonian party, that by the way was led by some
 of the adherents of Colonel Higdon in | this county, all belonged to that class,
 un-wept, un-honored and un-sung" (Ap- 1 plause)
 B. M. Allen.
 Judge B. M. Allen was next introduced. l In his speech he told many anecdotes | which greatly pleased the audience. He made strong appeal to the democrats of
 jefferson county to support the party's nominee, Judge J. P. Stiles He said Uip | Inn claimed ho bo | illegal votes were cast for Stiles but, said the speaker, he never gave the commit tee single name of man who voted illegally. He said: stiles filed his con- l test and presented to Colonel Higdon the
 name of the men who had cast illegal
 votes. Higdon had fifteen days within
 which to file his answer and he did not | furnish the committee with the name of
 n man who had illegally cast his vote for l Judge Stiles.
 And it is unfair to accuse the com mittee of being dishonest corrupt and dis l qualified for deciding that Stiles is the I nominee of the party, when Higdon failed
 and refused to offer any evidence what l ever to contradict the charges made by 1 Stiles as to the number and names of l illegal voters who participated in the I primary.
 Before the committee which declared 1 Stiles the nominee can be accused of be-
 ing dishonest, reprobates, and unworthy of confidence, there must be some strong I CT evidence of the fact than the vitupera- l ton of boiling candidate"
 Underwood Speaks.
 l Congressman Oscar w. Underwood was | then introduced He said in part
 MT. Chairman and Fellow Democrats: 1 'I want to say to you tonight that l for more than ten days l have been
 making speeches every day from one end l of this country to the other (applause), l and l want to say to you that as I went | from precinct to precinct, although I have I found some of the good, loyal democrats I of the past who have missed the road | up to this time and gone down the l other way, l want to say to you that l have found in the opposition always I and everywhere the professional bolter, ! who has fought the democracy for the | twenty years that I have seen it's bat i ties fought. Applause) But I want to bring to you a story that is more cheer | ing that that.
 we know who we may find in the l opposition against the democracy in this county; we know the men that come into l our fold when there is peace. and al- ways leave us h times of war and we 1 expect nothing of them. But I want to 1 say to you, as I have gone from pre- | cinct to precinct in this county, l have 1 found the old guard of democracy on | guarl and doing its duty. lApplause). ] And I tell you, my fellow democrats. never in my experience in politics in this county, have 1 ever seen a battle | lost when the old guard was united and marching with the democratic banner. (Applause). No, my fellow democrats I have seen many a bolt in this county, have seen many rebellion against the banners of democracy in this state, but I tell you truly, I never saw a revolt or rebellion with less excuse for it, than in the present case. Npplause).
 My fellow democrats, when man goes into a democratic primary, or the primaries of any other party, he makes a contract with his fellow democrats that he will abide the results, and there can be but one excuse, 1t seems to me, for honorable men not to stand to that suit, as declared by the local authorities of the party, and that is, the absolute proof of fraud And l say that only the proof of fraud could justify any man bolting his party, and l say the opposition here has not only not given any proof of fraud but they never gave your county committee the opportunity | to commit fraud. They bolted before any action was taken. (Applause).
 "It is not merely question of Judge \ Stiles or Colonel Higdon. It is not l merely the question of who shall hold the | nffioa of ehoriff in Jefferson county If