The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-09-07

two or the officers. I told my audience
 mat the government gives a guarantee
 to every holder of a bank note. and
 with equal right sh ould guarantee the depositors@ in banks. The principle Is the same. There Is all the more req
 son why this should be done when the
 fact IS considered that the govern ment VIII not make deposit in any bank without first securing a guaran-
 tee of indemnity from loss. Is it fair
 then, asked, for the government to
 insist Upon a guarantee for it's depos-
 its and refuse at the same time to af-
 ford like degree of protection to it's
 citizens? In my opinion there is TO
 logic on the part of the opponents to
 the principle of the guaranteeing of hbank deposits"
 W. A. Miller, member of the national committee from Oregon and member of the committee in charge of the Speakers bureau, was a visitor at head l quarters today He will remain in Chi
 cago until the full meeting of the ex-
 ecutive committee on the Sth. Among other things, MT. Miller is arranging for the assignment of a number of speakers of national note in the Oregon
 campaign.
 Carlyle, ILL, sends out a challenge to .
 that will furnish more votes for Bryan : for President than the Hubert family of that city. There will be total of IT
 votes with Anthony Hubert, the father,
 aged 84 years at the head of the list. Uncle Tonney," the name by which he
 Is known by scores of friends in this
 locality, has been voting the demo-
 cratic ticket ever since he was old
 enough to cast his first ballot, which Nrnc fcF4 To- T. Tl-1I- n
 He is an uncompromising democrat, and
 generally votes 'er straight, unless
 there is some candidate on the ticket
 below the President and governor who
 does not suit him. He will then do a
 little scratching. That he always ex- ercises good judgment Is evident from
 the fact that he has guessed the suc-
 cessful presidential candidate in the last six campaigns. He is very anxious to stick one more ballot in for Bryan. for he believes he Is going to pick an
 other winner.
 Uncle Toney" has six children 33
 grandchildren and nine great grand children. The Bryan votes will be fur nished by himself, four sons and 12 grandsons, and they will be scattered through at least four different states
 Seven of the votes will come from Frank Hubert, who lives near Carlyle,
 
 l6 children, all living excepting one and he is not an old man either. A picture of this remarkable family was
 sent to President Roosevelt, and he sent back letter congratulating the parents and inviting the entire family
 to visit the White House. They are going to accept the invitation, but will do so after March 4, when they declare
 that they will have the opportunity of
 accepting MT. Bryan,s hospitality.
 There is much misrepresentation in
 the press of the attitude of organized labor with respect to the position taken by Samuel Gompers, John Mitchell and other leaders of the Federation of
 Labor who take the position that the
 election of Bryan and Kern Is for tho best interests of their organization. Practical proof of this statement was
 given in Chicago when the various
 branches of the Federation of Labor in this city with practical unanimity
 voted to sustain MT. Gompers in his advocacy of the election of the demo-
 cratic national ticket. The actual news of that important meeting has never
 been accurately given to the people of
 this country save through the press
 bureau of the democratic national com mittee. Only four votes were cast at this meeting of the representatives of all branches of federated labor in Chi cago against the Corners and Mitchell programme. and these were the votes of socialists, who are opposed to both political parties. The action of the Chicago branch of federated labor was of great importance for the reason that 1t was the first of the great labor
 bodies to meet the issue of the indorse-
 ment or repudiation of MT. Gompers
 course. What the Federation of Labor in Chicago did has been followed by
 branches in New York and oth CT cities
 The opposition of MT. Gompers' course
 has come largely from republican in fuences which find expression in many of the metropolitan papers of the coun- try. Up to the present time MT. Com pers' course has met with the approval of all organized labor bodies that have taken cognizance of his attitude in na- tional politics. Speaking of the mis- representation of his fight to have or- ganized labor indorse his course with
 respect to politics, MT Gompers wrote
 the Central Labor Union of Brooklyn, N. r., the following letter:
 "1 beg to assure you that I appreciate your letter more than I have words to express In view of the deliberate mis.
 representation by the press of labors
 position, as well as my position, in tho present campaign, 1t is not only gratify- ing but encouraging and helpful to re- ceiye such letters as you have written. As you will understand, in this fight we will need all the help that can be pos
 sibly given us.' 44
 Col. w. B. Haldeman of Louisville Ky, one of the owners of the Courier-Journal and Times, was in the city today. When asked what he thought of the outlook, he said:
 q have no knowledge of conditions | in the east as have been in the west | for two months past have no doubt the state of Colorado, despite cor porate interests that are said to govern :, that state, will cast its electoral vote i for MT Bryan next November. I also l believe that Nebraska will be found in I the democratic column. I find wher- l ever I have been. throughout the west l a vast number of republicans who will l vote the democratic ticket. and I have | failed to find a single man who was a democrat by conviction who will not vote 1 for Mr. Bryan. The democrats who were l numbered as gold democrats In 1896 and were democrats from conviction, will ! vote for MT. Bryan in 1908, and those | who belonged to corporations or were | subject to corporate interests and be- l came republicans because they recognized | that they had to look to corporate in- | terests, will vote the republican ticket | because they have been republicans ever l since 1896. and were at heart republicans | before 1S96 I find that many Roosevelt | republicans who look upon President 1 Roosevelt as the great American of ths l last 5ot years also think that Mir. Bryan originated ideas that MT. Roosevelt ap-