The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-04-27

And as it is possible that some fellow not out Of his teens may read this, 1 shall drop into remniscence and tell a story that mas the virtue of truth Henry Davis, down in Barren county, Kentucky, threescore years ago, was a renter and farm laborer. He worked hard, ate his bread in the sweat of his face He died and was buried, leaving son. a lad of ID or F years. He also left debt some $50, due Catlette Thompson. There was no legal responsibility on the part of Jim Davis to pay his fathers debt; but the boy felt there was moral obligation to do ESQ. And he toied from sun to sun, saved and denied himself, and Heaven approved for at last. when he was not yet 20 he had got together the money and took it to the astonished Thompson, who refused to accept it, but the boy would not be denied, and went back home with the note his father had made cancelled and receipted. Was there not a Sam Davis hanged as spy in Tennes- see during the war on a point of honor something like that?
 Well, as long as Jim Davis lived in that community his credit was as good as any other mans 1 think he went to Texas, and if he did, and is yet living, I make no doubt his credit is good there also. His payment of his fathers debt . was an investment, an asset worth many fold the amount. He rarely asked for credit when d man grown but for 20 miles round every dealer wanted him for a customer.
 It would be a grand thing if the gov ernment of the United States was half as honest as Jim Davis.
 Well, Daniel opposed Mahone, ran against his candidate for governor, and was beaten. But Mahoneism would have died even had Ben Hill not knocked it in the head during the extra session of the Senate in 1881. In 1884 Daniel was elected to Congress and became trust ed counselor of such men as Carlisle Morrison, Mills, the Breckenridees, Will son, Turner and those other giants whose advocacy of honest and constitutional taxation had preserved the life of the democratic party and made possible the election of a democratic President in 1884
 But Daniels served only one term in the House of Representatives. It was the FortY-ninth Congress that saw the defeat of the last of the Morrison bills At the next election fat was fried out of the privileged classes at Pttsburg and put in the hands of professional laborng man one Jarrett who took it out to Illinois and bought William R. Morrison's seat in Congress for old ,Tehu Baker. who subsequently, got to be a Bry' an republican.
 March 1. 1887 John w. Daniel succeeded William Malone as senator in Con gress-of which body he has been dis tinguished member ever since, and there is small doubt that he will die senator One of the most captivating public speak CTS in the Senate he Is careful to pre- pare himself before he discusses any i'm portant measure. His speech on the rate bill last Congress pronounced by many eminent lawyers to be equal to the ablest that was made on that question. l That is praise indeed, when we recall | that Bailey. Spooner Foraker Lodge. 1 and Carmack also discussed the ques- | tion.
 I think it is a pity that Senator Daniel | did not take his political life in hand | and make a fight against the Bryan actoc- i racy in the democratic party. I believe 1 the day is nigh when the south will reap | a bitter harvest of the seed sown this | year of 1908 That Mir Bryan will he l beaten. if nominated, is absolutely cer- tain. That he will carry a state outside