The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-09
BRYAN MEN ISSUE
 ADDRESS ID STATE Executive Session of Bryan Club Members Yesterday WILL MAKE STRONG FIGHT Address To Voters Expresses Entire Confidence That Voters Will Show
 Their Approval of the Ne
 braskan In Primary.
 
WILL MAKE STRONG FIGHT

committee yesterday afternoon.
 After adopting an address to the voters of the state the body adjourned. and several attended the Johnson meeting al the Jefferson Yesterday at noon an eX- ecutive meeting was held, and the fol lowing committee appointments an nounced:
 Committee on the address of the Bryan state democratic club Rufus N. Rhodes chairman; R. H, Walker, secretary; John w. Tomlinson, president Bryan State Democratic club; M. A. Clay, Jackson Horace Hood, Montgomery; John s. Moor ing, Calhoun M. T. Ormond, Tuscaloosa R. E. Neil, Dallas; Mark L. Black, Cren- shaw: Chambliss Keith Dallas; s. J. Griffith, sCullman; Emmett O'Neal Lau- derdale; Bernard Harwood, Hale; Amos Horton, Greene; J. C. Thompson, Mo- bile R. H. Long, Sumter; A. F. White Walker Samuel Blackwell, Morgan; J B. McNeil Talladega; Dr. R. F. Mc' Connell, Etowah; o. c. Manor, Mont gomery; w. T. McElroy, Carbon Hill James Pearce, Marion; P. O. stevens Tallapoosa J. M. Donaldson, Ensley; K L. Daniel, Ensley; John w. Davis, Col bert; J. F. Jackson, Jefferson; J. A Rountree, Jefferson; W. M. Faulk, Tus- caloosa; J. l.. McGehee, Tuscaloosa; J. H. Edmonson, Calhoun; M. D. Wiggins Morgan; w. T. Brown, St. Clair w. G Brown, Cullman; H. c. Cleveland Bipp H. l.. Martin, Dale.
 Committee on Resolutions Samuel Blackwell, M. A. Clay, Mark l.. Black Chambliss Keith, S. J. Griffin, J. D. Me Neil, Dr. R. F. Mccormick. A committee consisting of R. E. l. Neil, w. M. Falk, Sam Blackwell, J. F' B. Jackson and J. S. Moring was ap- pointed to secure expressions as to how candidates for delegates and alter mates stand on presidential choice.
 The committee to draft the address consisted of R. N. Rhodes, Emmett O'Neal. John w. Tomlinson, Amos Hor- ton, R. E. L. Neil, M. T. Ormond, Cham bliss Keith and Sam Blackwell.
 Telegrams at Headquarters. Bryan headquarters received these telegrams yesterday:
 Montgomery, Ala May 8, 1908. Col. John w. Tomlinson, Birmingha am
 Ala.
 Sorry my health prevents being with you today, but don't worry. Every thing is bright. Will see you soon an1 talk it over; in meantime am doing what I can as you will note. God Will bless your labors HORACE HOOD.
 Washington, D. C., May s, 1908. Hon. John w. Tomlinson, Birmingham
 Ala.
 Regret inability to attend Bryan meeting today. In our opinion It IS becoming more and more manifest every day that he will not only be nominated but will be elected
 H. D. CLAYTON,
 J. THOMAS HEFLIN. Address To Voters.
 Here is the address issued last night by the special committee of the Bryan club:
 To the Democrats of Alabama
 The opportunity of electing demo- cratic President is at hand. The nomi- nation of William Jennings Bryan is an assured fact We believe that ne will be elected. We know that he will poll more votes than any other living American. 4 change of about 23,0g0 votes in 1896 distributed in the pivotal states would have made him President. In 1900, when the country was at the high tide of prosperity and had just come out Of a successful war, he boiled practically the same vote. He boiled more votes than either Parker or Cleveland It is untrue that democracy has weakened under his leadership.
 When state after state has instructed for him; when Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, North Dakota, Kansas, South Dakota, Oklahoma and every western state which has acted has in- structed for him; when one-half of the Connecticut delegation is for him; when Delaware is for Gray, but not anti Bryan, how can it be said that the solid east and a portion of the west are against him, as is given out by the Johnson committee as an excuse for this Johnson campaign in Alabama during the last two weeks before the primary?
 AS to Alabama it is fact, as stated by the Montgomery Advertiser and Mobile Resister. papers heretofore opposed to Mr. Bryan, that the democrats of this state are overwhelmingly for Bryan. Conditions have not changed. Recently nearly every state and county official became members of Bryan clubs and signed the petition to have Bryans name but on the ticket. Every candidate for delegate and alternate to the democratic national convention and every candidate for elector is outspoSen for Bryan, with the exception of one candidate for dis trict delegate and three candidates for delegates from the state at large. The state press is practically solid for him. There is no doubt of the result in Ala bama. The eleventh hour campaign against Bryan, the flooding of the state by the Johnson Chicago committee. backed by unlimited money, with anti Bryan reading literature will have no effect upon the intelligent democracy of Alabama.
 The futility of getting Alabama dem ocrats to believe that Johnson can be elected clearly appears from the recent words of Henry Watterson, editor of the Louisville Courier Journal:
 ..What chance would Johnson have over the dead body of Bryan? What chance would Johnson have carrying a Wall street tag? What chance would Johnson have using the undemocratic two-thirds rule to defeat the will of the majority, and at the behest of the east defying the west and working the south? The thought is preposterous."
 All that is necessary is for Bryan dem ocrats to vote, assist in seeing that fair primary is held, and there will be no walk ing over the dead body of Bryan in Ala bama.
 Indorse Tomlinson.
 Resolutions were also adopted at yes- terday's meeting commenting Col. J. w.. Tomlinson for his work in behalf of MT Bryan and strongly indorsing him for