The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-09-11

TOW inc rock StandS out clearer and stronger than ever"
 T want to see this Convention" said l. the speaker, "adopt a noble, manly ex- position of Democratic principles. su5h | as Hoke Smith has handed out to his | party in Georgia"
 I Governor Conner. he said. was going to regulate railroads and the State &C., cordfng to the laws of right and jus- | tice. He closed with a eulogy on Ala
 bama, its advantages. its resources and it's prospects.
 Before congressman Heflin had con- lcluded the committee sent out to find the nominee for Lieutenant Governor,
 Henry B. Gray, had succeeded in their quest
 OVATION FOR GRAY. l Mir Gray met with warm ovation as he rose to speak. His speech was short. as follows:
 T have travelled 1000 miles. MT. Chairman, and gentlemen of the con- vention, to be with you on this occa-
 sion. It gives me deep pleasure 10 be here. I feel we'll repaid for the 1 long journey when I look into the faces of the stalwart Democrats of Alabama In some things. perhaps. Alabama is excelled by other States but in stalwart manhood. in the purity | of the ballot. no State of the union equals Alabama.
 You have just achieved great vic- tory for the people. But it is only one victory. The fight has just began. 1t will have to be kept up to reserve to l the people what they have won" Mir Gray spoke but briefly. but he was heartily cheered in his remarks. | He had just returned to Alabama from | a trip to New York.
 The chairman named committee of three, including MT. Ormond of Tusca- lc osa. MT. Mallory of Dallas. and Mir. AImon of Morgan. to escort Captain John H Bankhead, successful candi- form. A similar committee was aD- pointed to bring ex-Governor J. F. Johnston to the platform, consisting of
 MT. Neal of Jefferson county. MT. Rich of Mobile, and Mir. Davis of Eto-
 wah. Stil1 another committee. con- slsting of Mir. Webb of Mobile. Mir. Thach of Jefferson. and Mir Mitchell Of Lauderdale, was apointed to bring | Senator B. W. Pettus to the stand i Johnston, the IndomitabIe. Ex-Governor Johnston, mounting the | platform, was introduced as the most | indomitable Democrat in the United i States He said he had attended al- I most every Democratic Convention since the war--every convention but l one, "and wasn't invited to that" He | had been at conventions, when war | and oppression and misrule had weigh | ed the party down. but he had always stood with the Democratic party. l Tt matters not to me-" he said, | whether the government runs the railroads, or the railroads run the government. I am willing to stand | by the party I am willing to let | the Democratic party write my plat | form. They could not write plat
 form not agreeable to me. And when | 1t is written, you know where l stand" The report of the committee on ere
 dentials was presented by A. H. As | ton, of Barbour county. The report
 showed he said in advance, that there
 were eighteen delegates from Etowah | county, each of whom would be enti-
 tied to one-half vote, according to the apportionment for that county. The
 twenty-four delegates of Barbour were | to be. given one-half vote each, on
 the same rating. He also stated that
 Governor Holland had been affirmed
 unanimously, as official delegate in the
 convention, instead of H. Y. Brooke, l according to the decision of the State 1 Executive Committee last Friday. Upon motions the report of the com
 mittee was accepted without reading. A resolution presented by MT. Wal lace of Madison was read, urging the
 adoption of a plank in the platform to save the forests, game and fish ot | the State. It was referred.
 Hon. John H Bankhead was given
 an enthusiastic reception as he took
 his place on the platform. He was presented as "the veteran Democrat who knew how to run some" The
 Chairman's introduction was greeted
 with cheers and laughter.
 Canraiu Rankhead Gafd.
 T thank yeu very much, MT. Chair
 man, for your kind allusion. I thank | you, gentlemen of the Convention. for | the reception you accorded me. Of course I could not for a moment think
 of inflicting a speech on you on this | occasion. But I can tell you Of the great pleasure 1t gives me to meet Democrats in convention assembled from the Tennessee to the Gulf and from the Tombigbee to the Chatta- | hoochee. You are here to do your | duty. your duty as you see 1t for your constituency has not so nominated it
 in the bond, that you shall do this or
 do that. It is an suspicious time. You
 are here to make a platform for your party for four years 10 come. I feel confident, too, that every act of yours
 will meet with the hearty approval of
 that trusting constituency of yours Dack at nome when you nave maoe your report to them.
 We live in the richest State of the
 Union. There Is no other State, there
 are no other 52.OOO square miles of ter
 ritory as rich as the State of Alabama. | There is none other It's superior m | splendid citizenship. Now, for the first time in the history of the Demo- cratic party, the people of Alabama
 have selected the Democratic ticket
 from its head clear down to It's foot
 There is not one but that believes that the man who has been chosen by the Democrats of the State to steer the ship of State, will oo It wisely and well.
 There Is but one great question to i solve, the question of transportation. When you have solved the question of | getting our raw materials and our | products cheaply to the outer world you have solved the greatest question
 that confronts us."
 A resolution was read from MT. Lane of Etowah, calling upon Con gress to enact legislation toward the improvement of the public laws. 1t
 was referred.
 Three resolutions were proposed by
 Mir. Davis of Walker. One called for
 orphans of Confederate soldiers, an
 other for the omission of the word | ''conservative," in the party name,
 and the third, That no acts
 this convention may take is to | be construed as committing the Dem ocratic party to the policy of gov
 ernment ownership of railroads" l Mir. Clay of Dallas, presented a res-
 olution. calling upon the next legis- I n