The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-12-21
StatiStiCian Seymour Gives
 Some Figures
NEGROES ARE FOR FORAk ER
Meeting Will Be Held In Montgomery To Forward the Candidacy of the Ohio man--8ryan May
 Visit Montgomery.

Montgomery, December 20.-(Special) - The report of the cotton ginned in the country to December 13, sent out today, had the effect of putting the market up some here, though later it dropped littie' 1t had the effect of stimulating business /. though the sales of the present week l have been very heavy. Statistician Sey- mour of the department of agriculture of ] the state, takes the view that the last report on the condition of the crop was 1 very much overdrawn. Discussing the re- 1 port made today, he says:
 ] The amount of cotton gnned to De- cember IS, 19o7,, 9,2S1 900 bales, as shown by l the ginners' reports to the United States i census bureau is 1.sl1000 bales less than was ginned to the same date last year. when the crop was 129S3,o00 bales; and 17,00O bales less than the same date in 1905, when the crop was 10,495,000 bales. 'ln 1905, S5.6 per cent of the crop had been ginned to December 15, and if the per cent of the 1907 cron ginned to the cor responding date in 1907 was not less, this crop will not be more than 10,Si2,O00 bales: and if not less than sS.6, the per cent ginned to December 13, 1905 the crop will not be more than 10 475,OOO bales
 "If the estimate of 11,67s0O0 bales of the department of agriculture is correct only 13 per cent of this crop has been ginned to December 13, 1907, against s5.G per cent SS sS.6 and S6S per cent to the same date in 1906, 1905, 1904 and 19oS re- spectively. And if it's estimate of the Alabama crop is correct, 20 per cent of the crop was unginned on December 13, against O. s, 9 and per cent on De- cember 13, 1906 1905, 1904 and 1903 respec- tively.'
 Negroes for Foraker.
 Negroes are out today in call for a meeting on emancipation day at the same time sending out call for Foraker for President. The meeting is to be held at the negro normal college in this city.
 c. F. Johnson of Mobile. grand master of odd Fellows, will deliver the address and the programme will consist of the usual proclamation reading, recitations and music. Dr. s. IT, Washington of this city is chairman of the committee on programme and J. H. Phillops is chairman of the committee on arrange ments.
 The circular bearing the announcement of the proclamation has large portraJ of Senator J. E. Foraker of Ohio with tour choice for 1908 inscribed under 1t.
 The circular offers the following plea also for a large attendance:
 Pastors and congregations in and near Montgomery, business and professional men and the entire colored population and their friends are urged to attend in large numbers, and thus help to perpetuate the memory of our emancipation from chattel bondage"
 To Invite Bryan.
 William Jennings Bryan will be in- vted to Montgomery to make a speech in the Montgomery theatre on January
 MT. Bryan will be in Birmingham on the 23d and has arranged to leave that city for Washington next morning, but 1t is believed that he can be persuaded to come on down to Montgomery on the morning train, make a speech here at the theatre at 2 o'clock in the afternoon, and leave for Washington over the Western of Alabama that evening, reac- ing that city nearly as early as he would by leaving Birmingham on the morning train over the Southern by way of Att lanta.
 The officers and members of the Bryan club of this city now have the mat ter under consideration, and it is under stood that the invitation will be extended to the Nebraskan and it is hoped that he will be in a position to accept it.