The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-11-03
SUPPORTERS OF JUDGE STILES
 FILLED THE JEFFERSON THEATRE
CONTINUED FROM PAGE D.,

tSO4N ~--~----~~-----~>--.>~- have gone behind them then. and they say you went behind the returns and ought not to go now. My friends 1 diff fer with them exactly. In the old days when somebody wanted to go behind the returns and could not, the reason they could not was because the law of Ala bama was made so you could not go; if you had been told to go behind the re- turns in the old days when the negro had the right to vote how could you have counted the negro out in the black coun- ties? How could you have-had white su- premacy? But when the new eonstitu- tion came and the negro was eliminated from politics in Alabama the democratic legislature of this state kept it's pledge to the people and wrote the lNws on that statute book that allowed every man to go behind the returns, and guarantees a fair election to the people of Alabama (Applause.)
 Why, my fellow democrats, turn down and repudate the authority Of Stiles to go behind the returns and have a fair election and you repudiate the rule of the people in Alabama" (Applause)
 After an impasioned appeal to dem ocrats to stand by their party against any and all efforts to disrupt and weaken it Congressman Underwood closed with a quotation from Kipling's well known Re cession-"Lest We forget Lest we forgetn'
 Governor Cunningham introduced.
 He said in parts
 What do you think of a soldier who has fought gallantly for four years be- cause he believed he was right, and after he had been overpowered by numbers went to the Yankees for the loaves and fishes?
 J. candidate for office who goes before his party for office. and being defeated re- sorts to the ranks of the enemy for the loaves and fishes?
 T come before you as a defeated can didate for the highest office in the state the governorshp--I had aspirations for that high office and you settled that on August 27, in the negative-my aspira- tions on that day ceased, but my duty does not end until every man who was nominated in the democratic primary. from B. E. Conner for governor, to Joe Hill for road commissioner, is elected.
 Therefore, I come before you with just as much zeal and loyalty to hold up the cause of democracy in Alabama as if l were the standard bearer of the party and I want to say, fellow citizens, If were the standard bearer of the party l would be here to say something for it.
 q want 60 thank those of you who voted for me q may not have another opportunity, and l want to thank those that did not. Those of you who voted for me were trying to make good gov ernor and spoil good doctor Those of you who voted against me defeated q good candidate for governor. and made a permanent good doctor. (Cheers).
 "There is never any trouble for q dem ocrat to find out where he is 'at'-you can tell him by the company he keeps You can find yourself by the column you are in, or by the kind of feathers you wear
 Dr. Cunningham concluded his speech by making a strong appeal to the old guard-of whom he said some have gone and some are here to make a ssand for fair and honest elections,
 This duty" he said, Eve owe to our nation, state and county. II is paramount to every person. from the top of the list to the bottom
 The meeting adjourned at 10:30 o'clock and the followers of Judge Stiles left the theatre shouting.