The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-11-20
From the New York Sun.


 @ o a fanfare of trumpets about \N four hundred members of the
 New York Southern society gathered in the grand ball room of the Hotel Astor last night to "E-e-e-yip! E-e-e-yow!" over anything and every thing said and done to impress apon New York that each southern state is posi- lively the best in the union From [ o'clock till midnight the banquet hall made a noise like a democratic conven- tion.
 On the little balconies overlooking the diners were draped the red, white and blue in profuslon. and behind tic flags were the wives and daughters of the southerners in those and Sll the other colors of the rainbow. Looking down on the scene one saw little transparencies on each states table on which was lettered the nickname of the commonwealth
 The Alabamians sat around the Yellow Hammers legend and in various parts of the bail room glowed other transpar- encies that showed the location of the Fl Dorados of Florida, the Pelieans of Louisiana x the Mossbacks of Mississippi, the Palmettos of South Carolina, the Moonshiners of Tennessee and the F. F. V's, the Crackers, the Blue Grass, the Orioles, the Tar Heels, the Lone Stars and the Arkansans, who spurn nick name.
 President Marion J. Verdery, who has taken George Adcs advice and has de- serted Georgia for New York, i.resided. At the head of the menu was little quotation from Collier that runs;
 Plainly the crying need of the twen- tieth century is means of choking off long speeches after dinner,
 The toastmaster referred to this quota tion in his opening remarks. and as each speaker came out on the carpet he also mentioned 1t feelingly and regretted that each one hadn't at least five hours to tell of the glories of his particular state. (Yip-e-e-e-yowD
 Alabama lead off as usual and the five minute talk on the state was delivered by Dr. John A. Wyeth. whose witty re- marks early got the rebel yell into~it true stride.
 Alabama has been first In everything ever since 1t came into the union, began pr. Wyeth, with the native modesty that characterized all the talks of the night. '.Tell me of one encyclopaedia published that doesn't give Alabama the first place on the first page. Why. in my office have copy of an immense work called the Medical Directory that contains the names of 10000 practicing physicians and surgeons. and the Alabama scientists are listed. of course, on the very first page The natural inference from this is, of course. that these men are also the best men in their profession in the country. cYip, Tip! E-e-e-yow. from the Yellow Hammers.)
 Every firstclass newspaper published the election returns of Alabama on the first column of the first pase-and always it shows, too. the necessary democratic majority. OI-e-e-eyowD Now Virginia, you will find way down at the bottom or the column with states like-lke-well utaa, If you come down to the southern stat-s proper-and they're all proper-and travel over the railroad of the late Sam ue Spencer. whom we have with us to- night q say the late Samuel Spencer merely because he rides on his own rail- road) you will find a great arch of south ern states of which Alabama Is the key stone. Now, if that keystone were to Tall into the gulf the whole union would fall after 1t.
 "We had the first capital of the Con- federacy tYip, Yip.. etc.,) in Alabama, and it would have stayed there if Mir. Davis. didn't find it necessary to move further north in order to see the F. F.