The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-05
GOVERNOR SENDS WORD ID TAMMANY Pays Compliment to Frenzied
 Finances ORGANIZE SIGNAL CORPS The Capital Is Quiet on the Fourth, Not Flag Flies Anywhere About
 the Capitol Building or
 Grounds.

Montgomery, July 4.-(Speciall-In a message to Tammany Hall today, Gov. B. B. Conner, the strenuous Alabama execu- tive. says: Public conscience is aroused as never before, and will surely strike down oppressive tariffs check the depre- cations of monopoly and stamp out manipulations and evolutions of securi- ties by frenzed fnanciers.s
 The telegram of the governor is in re- sponse to an invitation to address the assembled hosts of the famous democratic organization Tn New York. He could not go, being engaged in making a speech at Samson today, though urged to do so by a committee composed of Daniel F. Co., halan. Charles F. Murphy, Timothy D. Sullivan Louis F. Haffin. Julius Harber' ger, JohnJ. Scannell and John Fox.
 Other than that quoted above the gover- nor said: "One hundred and thirty-two years ago the founder of democracy framed that declaration which rang in patriotic hearts until freedom was pro- claimed from every housetop in the land. Fifty years later Andrew Jackson sprang from the democratic masses with will power as strong as the hickory of his native hills and struck off the chains which special interests had forged around the peoples rights.
 Patriots today are bending their eager eyes on organized democracy; they are praying with you for another Jefferson to declare and another Jackson to uphold the independence of the nation and free us from trusts and corporation control, Alabama democrats send greetings to Tammany and the democracy of New York. The fight should be won if every democrat will shoulder a mans burden and strike out boldly for JeTersonian and Jacksonian democracy"
 Signal Corps.
 Gen. Bibb Graves, adjutant general Of the Alabama National Guard, has begun the organization of signaI corps, In line with the recent military laws ". l.. Martin of Montgomery, a graduate of West Point has been placed Tn command by appointment of the governor with rank of major and so commissioned. He Is very anxious to enlist men from Mont gomery Mobile and Birmingham, and any ether places where electricians and teleg- laphers can be secured This is a new part of the service and General Graves is very anxious that it shall be the best
 Fourth Is Quiet.
 Not a flag flew from the.., Alabama capitol Tn celebration of .fe birthday of the nation, and no otter evidence of the significance of tle day was made mani fest at the state house save pretty gen. eral cessation of work on the part of the attaeles of the offices. Most of these howe, CT, put in the better part of the morning in getting desks clear and catch ing up with the accumulation of the week. that has as a whole been rather strenu- ous.
 But otherwise the day was like all the rest. A great flag pole sent by Hobson from d sunken Spanish vessel in the Santiago harbor raised it's gaunt length to the skies without decoration, and the sta if that towers heavenw ward from the dome N as likewise bereft of the colors to which all men give obeisance. Quiet reigned in the halls of the aforetime capitol of the Confederacy and a holiday peace fell over the corridors.
 Many of the heads of departments were cut of the city. Governor Conner spoke st Samson, as noted in full; Gen. William Brandon, auditor and candidate for gover- TOT, spent the day picknicing at Buhl, lr Tuscaloosa county, and Treasurer Walter D. Seed delivered the speech of the day at Abbeville, in Henry county Many of the others went to gatherings about the city and not a few to out of town places. Everybody seemed to take the view that 1t was a day for rest and recration and acted in accordance with that position.