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

myself with the republican party to that extent that will give part of my vote to the republican nominee in any district or in any beat In Alabama. And fellow citizens, when we don't stand by the democratic nominees in county, in state, In precinct and in the city, we give the opening wedge to the independent or re- publican party in Alabama that we will yet live to regret. Applause.)
 And I could stand here until midnight and tell you why l was a democrat. l am a democrat because 1t was a demo- crat who wrote the Declaration of In. dependence; l was democrat because 1t was a democratic administration that wrote the Constitution of the United States of America, except the fourteenth and fifteenth amendments; I am a demo- crat fin Alabama because 1t was the de- mocracy of Alabama that dlsfranchised the negro from voting in Alabama. (Ap- plause) And my good republican friends say the negro is not in 1t in this cam paign; I say that he is, and it is demon- strated.
 q thank God, Mir. Chairman, that live in state whose name Is Alabama, and whose loyal citizenship may live in log cabins, thatched with mud and the weary winds or winter may howl around the cracks of that humble home, and the leaking rains may beat upon it, but, . written above the sacred threshold of every home, White Supremacy and no 1inky-head negro can cross that threshold and throw his slimy legs under the table with his family, be he gov ernor or be he justice of the peace. (Ap- plause) I am here. fellow citizens, to appeal for the election of party who is opposed to a party who issue cam paign literature and campaign docu- ments looking to the enfranchisement of the negro in the southern cities. I could go on and tell you why I am a demo- crat and what democracy has done They talk about your schools and about your education. The nine years that the re- publican party was in power in Alabama, from 1865 to 1874 there was not a school house built in Alabama or a single dollar appropriated for the education of the peo- pie of the state, but, thank God, the party that I represent tonight laid it's hand upon that great man, the bald headed eagle from north Alabama, old Governor Houston, and wrenched from the hand of the carpetbagger and the republican party the administration and not one single year has passed since that school houses that money has not been appropriated for the education of the people of this state
 When He Was a Boy.
 Now, when I was a boy, Benners. my mother was the greatest woman you ever saw when I laid out of school and pre- tended to be sick. to administer castor oil to me. and if there Is anything on earth do hate, it is castor oil, but that good woman knew what was best for me, and she would run me around the house until she caught me, and my dady would come up with one end of the towel wet, and my mother would stick the bot tie in my mouth and down the oil would go. Now Dock didn't get what he want ed in the primary but he has got to take his oil next Tuesday: some of us didn't get what we wanted, but let us take our oil and wake up on Wednesday, as good, strong, healthy democrats" (Ap- plause.)
 General Brandon related the beautiful story told him by his father of how Roy Walker. the brave Confederate soldier who volunteered from De Kalb county, rescued the flag of his company in the midst of shot and shell, exclaiming Come on, boys, I have got our flag" and lead his comrades to victory
 In concluding his speech, General Bran- don said: Fellow democrats, in the Steel City. upon this October night I unfurl to the breezes democracy's white banner, and I say to you come on boys, I have got our flag and let us in one solid army, pure from top to bottom. charge upon the ramparts of the enemy and keep Alabama, from Mobile to Hunts vile, in the democratic column" Loud applause)