The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-07-08

| ries and wagons The horses and mules had been taken out and put to eating
 of the wagon. In this bury there
 were, perhapg. girl in white with a
 red ribbon around her waist and her eyes downcast and an awkward suitor in store bought clothes. leading in an embarrassed and Intermittent convsr~ sation.
 Here on buggy seat, or on the seat of spring wagon, was mother nurs- ing her baby with two or three flaxen haired children of tender years gaz- ing in open mouthed wonder at the un- familiar scene. The underbrush had been cleared away and the shade of the big patch of shade there might bo a kLot of young people. the girls shy in an assumed indifference to the presence red neck ties and the devouring eyes
 :. And here and there Tn the shade of the oaks the fathers of the farm and were pocs Mas the theme %h afS raSS which to fall back.
 where the ground sioped gently down beneath the shade of the trees was a low platform of blanks built upon a trees trees was was the starry ye banner of the reunion of veteran soldiers. The sol.
 srs oa and on day Suy were sda lined aap ap on the roughly made benches in front of the platform. Assembled behind what one of the orators of the day NM Logan Cornef Band.
 Consnicuous in the crowd of visitors and speakers upon. the platform. was pity of Logan; And % every i.,ng man v,ys wss coiored uniform with braid down the seams The band when called upon to aS It's duty went fsarlsssly dys at af a member of the band could be seen sod9 p in hs tse sao% aocds hs tred young wife by his. side, holding in his
 arms a young baby and leading Dy
 tas hand another had ehiid' almost young | Tn the back ground the conspicuous
 object was long gvdna ta9le was ef an wolde olde l fashioned raii fence. Hard by thin column of smoke arose in the summer : | sunshine while the pungent odor or
 SScn Secne pit to nostriis made keen by
 A half dozen men were alert and ac :, , hither and thither with boxes filled with white bread, or with improvised
 walters of boards piled high with bar
 De9.Ys .You s are seeing something that youi
 South Alabama people never saw be- fore" said George H. Parker to kno'
 m ment @ that you never before saw .
 barbecue without a negro on tns
 ground. You never saw a barbecue
 with nn whiSs Ss tSers nS 1efrS fsnt had single
 negro on the grounds. either, as cook walter or helper. Whatever had to bt
 done was done by white men In fac, fact
 man county. a negro who was Feder. soldier in the war Over in that partsoi Cullman county which was Iormee
 are S a few negroes working in the mines, but in the remainder of Cuilmar
 county. there are practically no negroes
 But the day had another purpose than the dinner, the reunion and the study of human nature. The American
 voter and the applicants for his sunraEe
 face to face. Capvassing. in the op. l eration of the new constitution, has been Interested with a new importance
 The primary sa has given who t a wsrss srssasea I state office must meet and talk to the | man who has the vote.
 Il .. Voter Likes Attention. And the vote lives to be sued Tor hlf
 favor. He loves to have the candi, | date as suitor even as girl. for all
 she may seem, likes to have some one | suing for her smiles. and her favors l Critically the voter watches the mar l who comes to win his vote, but 1t is nc difficult task after all. He Is won tn ] ease with argument and with a show l Tie candidates who came over the | hills to speak. found in the thousands | of people who had assembled. most | three hours they sat or stood in the
 woods and listened with the deepest | attention to the arguments of the I tened with admiration to their flights | of eloquence. And through the long | hours they listened to every word that
 fsm fsnste oe oocasion @ for a1 John B. I Knox RUs- 1 sell M. Cunningham and William W. Brandon. They may travel far and
 wide. in this campaign. but they will | audience or one more absorbed in att The presiding genius of the occasion big. blonde and genial. Most of the was proud of 1t.
 "Its a Cunningham day. a Cunning through and through" he said Just put 1t down that the whole thing is for Cunningham including all the
 children Were Plentiful. But the few comments that have grown out of this picturesque occasion | said of the great number of women and children who were assembled un- der the oaks. For twenty miles. one | would think. every farm house must be closed and every kitchen door must be shut. Nor was any child large or small left at home for there are no hired nurses in the hill side farm houses.
 And one as he studied the crowd I came 10 appreciate that feature of country life which characterizes 1t and distinguishes 1t from life in the city that social condition wherein the young people many early and early in l life take up the responsibility of homo making. For again and again Lne young father and the young mother were seen in the assemblage when as often as not neither the father nor the mother had reached the majority And one came to appreciate too, with some sadness that women grow old and fade faster in the life on the farm and that their sense of the fit and the beautiful is. not so well de- veloped as In their sisters in the city. But the children of such mothers, the children of mothers on the farm, are | leading. guiding and teaching the na- | tion. Some American mothers may shirk their responsibility and dance in the wake of pleasure but the mother on the farm knows toll and privation but she knows. too. affection and tho pride of having sons, who stand above | their fellows.