The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-10-04
ANN|STON GIVES
 WELCOME ID KERN
Candidate Stops fsr Short Time
 on Way Through
INDIANA FOR DEMOCRACY
New Lieutenant Has Been Elected By Calhoun RifIes-Jury In Belcher Damage Suit Gives Verdict
 for Defendants.

Anniston, October S-(Special)-Fo
 just a few minutes yesterday evening.
 the Hon. John Worth Kern, candidate
 for vice president on the democratic ticket, was the guest of Anniston. Pass
 ing through the city on his way from birmingham to Atlanta he delivered a ten minutes address to considerable crowd at the union passenger station.
 while his train waited. Mr Kern said he was glad to greet the loyal demo- ! crats or Alabama, who could always be
 relied upon for support of democratic principles and candidates and was espe- clally glad to assure Alabama voters thai
 In thls democratic year his own stale
 ol lnolaha would also be found lined up
 slde by side with loyal Alabama. He said also that other western states would
 do likewise as well as the empire state or New York and that the demoera. .ic
 ticket would win in the battle now being waged
 MT. Kern discussed the trusts and the
 republican record of trust bustine as conducted by the President. He sbozv.d | now MT. Roosevelt had "busted" inc heef
 trust and the Standard oil trust so com
 pietely that they were both doing busi-
 ness at the old stand as though no ..bust Ing" had ever been attempted. He dis cussed In brief way the cost of living
 to the working man and kindly touched
 up Candidate Tafts record on labor in- Junctions.. He said the working man
 might find out by asking Judge Taft XN1 hot
 thrust into jail by an injunction order.
 put that neither the beef nor the Stan
 dard oil trust would be reached bv the
 same method He said no honest cor
 poratlon has anything to fear from MT. l Bryan. It is only the dishonest con- | cerns that have cause to fear
 | The republican party, he said, through
 protective tariff has fostered and be-
 friended dishonest corporations. They fla
 Vored the rich few as against the many i who toll for living. He spoke of the bank guaranty plank of the democratic
 platform as well as the document as a l whole, as magnificent pledge of the | party to deal rightly with the people.
 John s. Mooring of this city introduced
 MT. Kern to the crowd at the station, | having come with the party from Bir- l mlngham. Hon. J. Ham Lewis, of Illin-
 ois, W. C. Whiffen, representative of the i Associated Press, Mrs. John H. Bankhead
 and others were members of the party
 The Calhoun Rifles at their armory in | Oxford last night elected c. o. MeCraw l lieutenant of the company to succeed 1 Thomas L. Smith. who recently resigned | There was no other name presented and ! MT. McCraw's election was unanimous i Mir. McCraw is a well posted military , man and an enthusiastic member of the
 company and will make a most excellent 1 officer.
 M. w Howard, of Fort Payne, will speak at the courthouse in this city Mon day night at 8 o'clock. in the interest
 of Hisgen and Graves, the candidates for | president and vice president respective | ly, on the independence party ticket. MT. | Howard is a great orator and will have | something of interest to say to those i who hear him.
 The jury in the case of Kenneth Belcher
 vs Schauer ct al yesterday afternoon
 returned a verdict in favor of the de- ] fendants. Belcher had sued for the re- | covery of S5000 damages for injuries al. ] legged to have been received while af 1 work in the Anniston mattress factory. l Yesterday afternoon the trial of the suit
 against Schauer of J. S. Belcher, father