The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-09-22
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even necessary / want to show you the
growth in democratic ideas. We have q
very strange situation in this country
Ten years ago the republican party
came into power and for ten years it has
had absolute control Of all the branches
of the government; it has had the Presi-
dent, the Senate, the House and nearly
all the United States courts 1t could do
anything it pleased pass any law 1t liked
repeal any law that was Objectionable
Not only that, but we have had good
crops to help the republican party and
good crops always help the party in
power. If we had had bad crops the re-
publican party would have laid all dis
satisfaction on the bad crops, but the
Lord knows the republicans and He
seemed determined to take from them
every possible excuse. (Applause.)
Out In our country they have for q
generation claimed to be silent partners
with the Almighty and when anything
happens from the hand of nature that
was a blessing to the country, the re-
publicans claimed credit for 1t. If wheat
went up, they carried samples of wheat
to show how the republican party had
blessed the country with high priced
wheat, and II wheat went down and com
went up they carried ears of corn to
illustrate what the republican party had
done for the people, and If wheat and
corn both went down and potatoes went
up, they carried around baskets of po-
tatoes to Illustrate the Gods blessing
ef the republican party. (Applause).
About Republican Timber.
But now we have had good crops, and
not only good crops but we have had
more money with which to deal in what
we have. When the republican party re-
fused to give us more money, the good
Lord opened the mines and gave us money
In enftp Of nd
friends with more good fortune than
often falls to the lot of any party. this
republican party after ten years of fair
and complete control, has found its pop
ularity so waned that today its hopes
hang on one man. Today there is just one
man in the republican party, who, accord
ing to the opinion of their own great
newspapers, would have a hope of sue
cess If he was a candidate for the pres
idency Strange is 1t not, that in all this
great party there Is but one available
man; are there not other men inteli-
gent? Yes, their republican party has
many intelligent men. Are there none
we'll known? Yes, too well known to be
popular (ApplauseD
Now is it not strange that after ten
years the party should reach this posi-
ton; but the strangest thing is yet to
be told
- 'S''0 ''S'" SS"'oS' als'
why is TINS one man more popular than
ms coleasuesf why Is It he stands con-
spicuous among the members of his party
as the only one to whom the people
| seem attached? 1t is because he is the one
who apoVe an other repupilcahs' mas mad
liie courage 10 uesere ms own platform,
anu porIoW from tne democratic pat
iorih' tApplause)' When petore IN the
history OF thls hatlon nave we ever known
party TO go down topoggan slide in
power IKE the republican party and then
expect TO De saved by man who bor-
lows from tne opposition instead or FOL
lowing the platlrom or MS own party?
an an Unparalleled condition. and yet, my
denca ~. this horroa,irs VIZ, praeiSo,it
Roosevelt was nnt in nominotio,, 80.
wears ago Ex-Governor BLACK of Now
| York presented him in a speecb which
| contained a eulogy of war | have read
| many speeches made in this country and.
other countries, but this is the only
speech in which l ever heard eulogy
of war
1t was a challenge to the Christian
civilization of the world. 1t was a declara-
! ton that the hope for peace would never
i come Tor he said men might preach and
women pray put that at last all great
questlohs must pc settled upon the battle
neiu ana men atter ms eulogy or war
~ iSSi.ien' lNooseVel as the
nsa y, ~. ploOu ailu lion u NJ .he eulogy'
! sa1ra.as. ,,,diot,,lnat ~, W. yea's $50 the
sr,i,st pron,da1t 10 ,.,'sue W ueIiocIats
noesessed TOO r,,,,t, 90 ~, ,',,,s 10 ne
! that ba seanoed 20 onio,, ~ -, ~" -
war lilte doctrine WIN n,a crit;oiso5 !, w.,
because he went 70 a school where ,,o,,,,n
men were being trained for soldiers and
! told them that a good soldier must NOT
only be willing to fight, but anxious 10
fight. Preposterous doctrine that anv man
should be trained to want to kill his
fellowman, and anxious to do it. (Ap-
| plause).
Modern Mars.
repeat that he was presented as A.
modern Mars and vet within two wears
this man presented by the leader of his
party because he was a man of blood
and iron. finds his greatest fame among
the nations of the earth in having brought
two warning nations TO a conclusion az
peace. (applause). and when Theodore
| Roosevelt looks back over his career 7
will venture there is no act unon which
his memory will linger with more Meas
IRE than that act which made him hailed
as a peace maker the world round An
plause)
Those are what Won might call tho
! browning acts of his career measured Nv
the fame NOT in foIIowing Tho ,daas of
those who put him in nomination INT in
j following the ideas of those who condemn
! ed his war-Iilxe spirit during the cannaIor
What elseP When the coal strike was in
progress and after loss of ninety-nine
.iliil I', u eoilans ne drought .he partles