The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-06-23

evidences Montgomery's prosperity In seventeen years
 Mule Cars in Street.
 Nor Is that all. One may see in the lower edge of Court Square and on Commerce Street the old-time horse cars-to bemore exact, the mule cars which were a feature ofSlife in Mont gonery in those days. The little cars. with their mule power dynamos in front, can be easily seen in the seven teen n-year-old photograph.
 Montgomery in previous years had had electric cars Montgomery was the first city in the United States to have an electric street railway. This has been clearly demonstrated. It was subject of some controversy, but state- ments of the man who discovered the aplication of the power and of Joseph Gabourey. the engineerinventor and capitalist who built the first electric line in the world in Montgomery, have set the controversy at rest
 But a misfortune to the Street Rail- way Company had returned the city to mule power cars. The power plant built at a considerable cost. had been destroyed by fire and the company had permitted its insurance to lapse. The company was without the funds. there- fore to re-establish the electric power system. The re-establishment had to ] wait several years
 The convention which had just closed the first of the strenuous, perilous campaigns in which class hatred had been famed by leaders of a secret tr- der. no matter how well intentioned their leaders may have been, had just closed. In other States the same strenuous and exciting political con- tests had been fought. The almost successful effort to array the farmers | against all other classes had been termed The Agrarian Movement" Tn two States 1t succeeded ultimately North Carolina and Kansas. The gov ernmental experiment. however,> will not again be tried in those States.~ In no State was the falling fiercer or the peril greater than in Alabama After seventeen years the wounds of that first campaign may be seen in. the scars that remain. The class hatred aroused among fellow men of Alabama. of the same nature, the same blood and the same interest has not to this day entirely subsided. In crim- inal trial today in some sections of the, State admit lawyers take cogni- zanSe o fthis old fight in passing Judgment upon talesmen who present themselves for jury duty It was all one of the most unfortunate campaigns ever launched in the State and what ever might have been mems political ambitions. those who famed the flames of class hatred did injury to their people.
 A Stormy Convention.
 The convention which on behalf of the Democratic party repudiated any attempt at control by a secret order of one class met late in May in 1890. The organization of the convention was perhaps the stormiest the Democratic ia hod Ilnt was at last organized, and the first ballot was taken. The candidates were Captain Reuben F. Kolb, at the head of the Farmers Alliance movement who went in with the most votes. Capt. Joseph F. Johnston, who was some years later to become governor, Cap tain James Crook who served as rail- road commissioner and Judge William Richardson, who succeeded Gen. Joseph Wheeler in Congress Captain w. H Denson presided over the stormy con Vention. The vote on the first bal lot was as follows, with 512 delegates in the convention. Kolb, 235.4S; Jones 45.25, Richardson, SS.65; Crook, 52.SOi Johnston, 104.10. The convention re- solved itself into a Kolb and anti-Kolt fight The first ballot convinced the l opponents of Captain Kolb that he could not secure the majority required under DemocraticJ custom and they went into conference to pick the man who could defeat Captain Kolt in the convention.
 The conference determined that Col oneI Jones was the man demanded bS the exigencies of the situation. Colone Jones had made his campaign boldly He had fought the innovation tha proposed to have the Democratic party | controlled by "a secret oath bound or organization a wheel within wheel 1 On him the opposition centered ant | the fight was won.
 The convention met Saturday morn ing, when it was known that the ent was at hand. Captain Kolb's name wal withdrawn and Colonel Jones was ue clared elected.
 He was brought before the wild an6 hysterical convention and delivered { speech of gratitude, marked. too, b1 a conciliatory tone and a plea fol union in the party. Captain Kolb him self ar peared before the convention and mpde a similar speech asking fol union and harmony. A love feast Wal held and the convention little latei adjourned amid the widest enthusiasm A brass band hurried to Colone Jones house to give him serenade but he sent it down to the EXchang hotel 10 serenade the defeated candi dates An impromptu celebration Wal gotten up at 1 o'clock in the afternoon attended largely by delegates AS tn sneakers were addressing the crowt from the street the photographer snap ned his camera and after seventeen years his picture Is printed TOT th' first time.