The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-24

our newspapers, that the facts about oro,,ar Cleveland could never get before
 the people.
 Brownsville Question.
 "Mr Bryan, a crafty, selfish calculat- l ing politician, understands the helpless 1 ness of the south and exploits it to the very utmost From the southern states he must draw 156 of the PAP electoral
 votes that are necessary to his success, l and vet he has treated the southern | states as a purely negligible quantity. In l return for her 156 electoral votes she gets nothing-absolutely nothing The plat l form recognizes no interest Of hers 1 Bryan did not have the courage and l sympathy to even go to the extent that , a republican President has gone in talk
 ing the side of the south against those 1 black brutes who shot up Brownsville, l Tex With an amazing political coward ] ice and selfishness, he tells the country 1 that he does not intend to express any 1 opinion on the Brownsville matter. Why l not? It is a big public question. It con 1 cerns the whole nation. MT. Bryan has 1 been posing as a big public man, dealing 1 with all big public questions. Why should 1 he, the most voluble of men, putting into l all sorts of relevant and irrelevant mat ters, be so studious in avoiding the 1 Brownsville questioI? If he is such po- ] 1itical craven that he does not dare to ] express sympathy with the south in that l matter, what right has he to expect the i south to give him nearly two-thirds or l the votes necessary to his election? N ny l should the south give her magnificent 1 strength in the electoral college to this l crafty trimmer, who is not brave enough l to say that President Roosevelt did right? fo tai when negro leaders have interjected the issue into the campaign, proves, of course that he wants to get the negro vote of 1ndi- 1 ana Ohio, Illinois, New York, and other states where it is supposed to be the l balance of power.
 Friendship Demanded.
 But Is the south going to tolerate 1 that line of conduct? Will she not de- 1 mand of MT. Bryan that he be as l friendly to her as Roosevelt and Taft have been? Why should the south De 1 a friend of a man who is afraid 10 l speak out on her side? If he goes 1 back on us in thing like that how could we ever count on him in any 1 crisis in the future?
 "The southern papers did not gen orally carry the interview which was put out by Bishop Waters and other negro delegates who went to MT. Bry-
  yeiws on the Brownsville matter ani various other issues concerning the ne groes It was not until I began to pound MT. Bryan concerning the state ment put forth by Bishop Waters re- port. MT. Bryan now says that he dld not tell this negro delegation that ne condemned President Roosevelt Bur what did he tell them? They had gone 1 to Taft to get satisfaction, and could l not get it. They went to MT. Bryan l to get satisfaction, and came away sat isfied What did Bryan say to them? The whole south is entitled to know. If the Lord spares my life, l intend to smoke MT. Bryan out on this Browns vile matter, and make him say where he stands Before he shall have the 156 electoral votes of the southern states, he has got to have the spunk to come out and take the southern side on that Brownsville matter.
 Question Dodged.
 "On the question of what he said about the Confederate soldier in 1891, he has lodged. He says he voted for Crisp. So he did, but that vote was cast in the House of Representatives after the democratic caucus had nom mated Crisp and had made it MT. Bry- ans duty, as democrat, to vote for Crisp, or be read out of the party. The voting that was alluded to by Alfred Henry Lewis and myself was his voting in the caucus itself, wherein MT. Crisp, Mr Mills, MT. McMillan and MT Spring CT were candidates for the democratic nomination. MT. Bryan continued to thow away his vote on Springer after springer had ceased to be a candidate and had begun to vite for Srisp. When asked why he threw away his vote in that manner, Mr. Bryan said that he ddi not think he cared to face the old soldier element along the Platte with the record of having voted for an ex- Confederate soldier. MT. Bryan has never denied the use of this language.
 and he will not dare to deny it. I
 know of at least one case, where a
 Georgia democrat-a Bryan man
 wrote to MT. Bryan, asking him specifi cally whether he used that language.
 Mir. Bryan refused to reply, contenting
 himself with stating simply that he
 was a friend of the south, and always
 had been.
 The platform upon which I stand
 represents the democracy of Jefferson
 and Jackson, applied to modern con
 ditions Put into law it would give
 back to our country the prosperity 1t
 enjoyed in the decade preceding tie
 civil war. If the south will follow me
 in this campaign, revolting against the
 odious conditions under which she IS
 expected to serve MT. Bryan, she will
 at once resume her old place in the sis
 terh ood of sections. She has no lm-
 portance now politically, because she
 has no independence. Being demo
 cratic asset, which can be counted on
 with certainty, nobody regards her.
 paws any attention to her interests or
 thinks of her feelings. Let the south
 become politically uncertain, and she will again become politically great. "Where Are We At?"
 "Is it not high time that we were making practically the same inquiry that was flung into the debate some years ago by my bibulous friend Judge