The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-11-26
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.
Bryanists Take Up Gage.

To the Editor of The Age-Herald:
 In the morning papers appears an inter view of MT. Walker Percy of the Bir- mingham district, in which he gives out the interesting news that there has been effected at that point political organiza- tion for the avowed sole purpose of de- feating MT. Bryans nomination for Pres ident by the democrats next year. Signed to this pronuncamento are the names of perhaps 29o leading men of Jefferson county.
 Mir. Percy and his felowworkers ap- parently have no candidate in view, have formulated no platform, have no specific objects of a positive nature for accom- plishment, and seem to be dominated only by a deep-seated, superstitious fear of Mir Bryans nomination. Strange. With them the usually important ques- tion of a national party victory cuts no figure. They have no hope of winning with some other man" and consequently hold out none to the democratic party. Their political task will be finished and they will rest from their labors and ap- prehensions when they have defeated MT. Bryan TOT the nominations
 The question of whom the republicans will nominate has no terrors for these gentlemen. Oh no, Roosevelt may re- ceive the nomination for third term; LaFollette, the reformer, may win IL; Taft. the great postponer, may overtake it. Foraker, the fire-eating south hater, may achieve it; but not one of these coll tingencies ruffles the serenity of this ex- cellent body of gentlemen or causes them the faintest foreboding. Queer! For even against Bryan any of these candidates would stand q chance to win.
 These gentlemen realize that if MT. Bryan receives the nomination he will stand a splendid chance to be elected. If they did not realize this they would take no interest whatever in the democratic nomination. MT. Percy avows his disap pointment at the failure of the lily white" movement of a few years since an effort to organize respectable repub- lican party in Alabama. There is no question that such a party would have d formidable backing in Jefferson county. But Mr. Roosevelt squeched the lily whtes,' and many of those who desired to join the ranks of that party are now unwillingly numbered of the democratic household simply because they have no political home of their own choice.
 MT. Percy expresses personal predilee- ton for southern man for the demo- cratic nominee, some good clean man like Culberson or Williams, A good clenn western man will not do. Will MT. Percy and his friends zealously support as Inc democratic nominee some southerner pledged to tariff reform?
 They say MT. Bryan's nomination will check progress. What sort of progress? Are we progressing out of the panic or progressing farther in? Is this MT. Bry ans panic? Has he been president for the past three years and longer? Put it stronger-was he chargeable withsthe pan ic of 1893 because he was simply nominated three years after that date? If Mr. Bryan has not been responsible for these pancs. whose administration should they be charged up to? If you say not to MT. Roosevelts. nor to Mir. McKnley's. nor to MT. Cleveland's, then you must admit that such crises are not 10 be charged to politics at all. Ergo, let your hearts be unafraid gentlemen, for while it Is in the stars that Mir Bryan will be nominated and triumphantly elected, up to the pres cnt writing he has not brought any panic on the country.
 During MT. Bryans administration we will have a new order of things: Ras- calls will be turned out of high places: favoritism will receive final quetus; unjust laws will be repealed; discFimina- tions and rebates will be stamped out. trusts will be broken up whereby both the producer of the raw material and the consumer of the finished product will be benefited: fidelity in office will be ex- acted; better relations between capital and labor will be brought about, and, above all. the national policies will once more be brought into alignment with the constitution of the United States, with the traditions of the American people and with the Declaration of Independence
 Many Of the gentlemen whose names