The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-10-31

and 2 in Jefferson county. Report to Chairman Robert N. Bell.
 "J. CRAIG SMITH,
 Chairman of the Campaign Committee
 And the following letter:
 'Kindly place yourself at the service of Chairman Robert N. Bell of the Jefferson county campaign committee, for your un- filled dates during the present week."
 obeys Head of Committee.
 'In obeyance to the head of the demo- cratic campaign committee in Alabama, l am here, my countrymen, tonight to unfurl democracys unpainted flag and appeal to every man with straight hair and white face to come under her silken folds and help us march to a glorious victory on Tuesday next. (Applause). And. fellow-citiens, l can say to you that while you may lose, or might lose, one man here or one man there the hosts of democracy are ever marching onward, because it Is great principle. l am here to say that I expect that a great many people will say of the democratic party after Tuesday next as an old man up in South Carolina once said when his boy came home from college and said: Dad, you have sent me off to school; have graduated as a civil engineer, and I want to tell you, dad, we are going to build a railroad from Atlanta right up tulS Ndlleys TlSnL Dy 1unlphlnNIlle, TlSHl to your home, dad, and it is going to be a railroad on which, when they hitch the engine to it, dad, they can pull 190 tons.' The old man said Bill, bY-gun, my boy. I have lived here for nigh on to forty years; I have been driving old Buck and old Ball up and down these hollers hauling my stuff to market, and it Is my judgment my boy, by-gum, that they will never build her The boy off and hic contract tn huil6 the railroad, and pretty soon that train loaded rushed into the station, pulling be- hind It's cargo of freight. The boy went up and got his old father and brought him out, and said: There she Is, dad; we have built her: she is pulling 120 tons; they are unloading cargo of guano now The old man took his old blue umbrella. like our fathers used to have, and thumped her one one side and then on the other, and knocked her on the top and on the bottom, and said: Look here, Bill, ] don't see no horns; l don't see no hoofs; I don't see no harness; 1t is my judgment they will never budge her Pretty soon the engineer came out. of the office and stepped in the cab, and put his hand to the throttle and that mighty locomotive sped up that track about thir- ty miles an hour, great volumes of black smoke floated into the old mans face. and he run out in the middle of the track and showed his hands down in his pockets and looked at the fast disappear ing train up the road, and the boy said: What do you think now, dad' and he said: Bill, it is my judgment. by-God, they will never stop her Applause)
 Why We Are Democrats.
 'These gentlemen have gone through the local issues in your county campaign, and you will pardon me for going, for just a moment into the facts of why we arc democrats and why we ought to support the democrats, and l am that kind of democrat who believes that when l was nominated by the sovereign democracy of this state as its candidate for one of the subordinate offices in this state that it intended that l should be that kind of democrat that supported the democracy from Braxton Bragg Conner down to Joe Hill, in Jefferson county, the bottom of the ticket. (Applause)
 T am not here to discuss how any man got on the ticket: l don't know and don't care, If he got there by virture, by action of the accorded head of my party, he is on it. 1t is my party's ticket and 1 have got my party's flag and it is the duty of every good soldier to either desert his flag or stand by his coors. (Applause.) Duty I say, and it is solemn word Why are we democrats? There is a re- publican ticket in the state and some of you all don't know that l actually don't know who is running against me, but there is a ticket. I am a democrat because l live in the sunny, sun-kissed Southland and believe In the supremacy of the Cau- casian race. (Applause) l am dem ocrat because I believe In the principles of the democratic party, and those of us who are democrats-Dr. Cunningham, stand by the democratic nominee of the party.
 Not Here to Sling Mud.
 Now, fellow citizens, l am not here to sling mud and l am not here to call any body vile names, for l have got con tempt for any politician any states man. if you want to put 1t that way. who seeks to make his race and success by filnging mud and degrading the othe- man, and that politician who besmirches the name of another man is unworthy the confidence and respect of his fellow citizens (Applause) l said l was a dem ocrat and 1 must touch slightly upon the national issues, because l heard man say today in your county that he was not going to vote for MT. Underwood. and l am here for the whole ticket He said he was not going to vote for MT. Underwood because he made some re- marks about other people, or made some speech, didn't know just exactly what it is Mir. Underwood is your national rep resentatve in Congress and l don't align