The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-05-08
JOHNSON CAMPAIGN
 OPENED MALABAIMA

what may be expected if one certain thing happens. In every. instance this | one thing" was the nomination of Bryan for the third time. That the | party would crumble if such course l were finally determined upon was free ly predicted by those who occupied the l rostrufh last night. A 17El
 And there was at least hope. ii was claimed, in the nomination of the .doer of things" and the winner of victor ies, hailing from the great North west. Here was man.. they. pro- claimed, who at least presented the hope of harpooning the Republicans In me rorthcoming national election. Here was a man. who,. rising from the hum ble. place of assistant "washerwomsn" to his mother to the biggest gift in the hands of strongly Republican State, had demonstrated signal abil- ity and wohderfui qualities of get ting there."s e.3s. t ts
 No attack was made on Bryan at the meeting. sss ss-s
 A sad featureofs the occasion. other wise orderly, was the repeated inter ruption of the speakers by R. H. Greene. an attache of the Alabama Su- preme Court. He sat 10 the left of the speakers in the orchestra circle of the theatre and rose more than once amid the addresses of Hon. Sidney J.. Bowie. Hon. Q. F. Strom and Hon. Jesse F. Stallings.
 Mir, Greene was tolerated rather good naturediy by Mir. Bowie. the first of I the speakers, who, however, professed he could not see either the propriety of the interruption or the point aimed at. Mir. Strom would not give MT. Greene an opportunity for interrup- tfon though the latter arose amid the hoors of the audience and waved for recognition. e -. t
 Mir StaIlings. just after the impa- tient hearers had booted the inter rupter. and cried for the police to eject him, took pointed shot at him in this manner: whenever. in all my experiences, I have found a man all the time .soueaking and squirming in the audience. I have found an ofiice- holder always opposed to a change of things for fear his head might go into PoIfce Called for Mir. Greene.
 l. At this the audience was convulsed | with laughter and cries of Init him again" rang through the theatre. There after. Mfr Greene sat duiescent for q few moments, but even once again att tempted to rise for an interruption of the last speaker. The manager of the theatre requested Police Captain Miles smith to attend to the source of the tiisturbancet With the approach of Captain Smith, MT. Greene resumed his seat and only talked aloud at Inter- vals thereafter.
 | The source of these interruptions was taken to. be a representative of the Bryan wing of the party, and looked to be in the attitude of cross question ing the speakers He read from cleo tfon records of the Republican and Democratic parties and asked questions in such excited tones that they were not ,intelligible to the speakers ex- cept, perhaps. the first. MT. Bowie l heard himself asked if Bryan did not poll some several thousand more votes than did some other Democratic candi- | date at a previous election. To this MT. Bowie heatediy replied that what ever the amount of votes Bryan boiled in excess of other candidates. "he al l ways lacked double or treble that amount of beating the Republicans"
 Colonel Troy Prealdea.
 Col Alexander Troy. of Montgomery, introduced the speakers. He extolled Governor Johnson as a man of spot less life. bIameless high character and untold energy" He is a man essen Etially of the people. Ills ability as Q leader had been demonstrated by his matchIess victory in his native State. where he triumphed over the Republi- cans by a majority of some 1000 or | 5000 for Governor at a time when President Roosevelt carried the State by more than 160.O00. majority.
 Mir. Troy made the point which was mad eby the speakers after him, that it was not fight on Bryan, but a fam fly disputation" in the ranks of the party. to see if winner could not be selected after the long pilgrimage of the Democrats. N
 Ex Congressman Bowie appeared at his best last night. He was familiar with the celebrated career of the Min he 1 clared, to oppose or. advocate Johnson, 1 but he had a desire tG speak to and N for the Democratic party. "The Democratic party" said he, 'is the only national party that we have. The Republicans are not a national party It is a sectional organization. It will never. with its present princi- pies and practices, benefit the South
 It's every aim has been inimical to the progress and the institutions of the Southland.
 The Democratic party Is a national party the speaker declared. one that has ever stood for the immortal prin- ciples of equal rights to all and spe- cial privileges to none.
 The speaker asked in earnest tones 1T the Democratic Party was not the only one which has been strict con- structionists always and the only par ty that had stood for white suprem- acy.
 At this 1uncture. after telling that the South's percentage of strength in the electoral college is only thirty al present, Mir. Bowie raised his fingers aloft and addressed himself prophetic. ally to a recent stirring event in the politics of America:
 Southern Representation.
 Fellow citizens and Democrats when President Roosevelt not long age discharged the soldiers who ,particip. ated in the Brownsville outrage, ht performed an act winch alienated hin and his party from the vast balance oi | power in the East and West. The ne. groes and the negro-lovers of those
 sections, who, it might be said, con. stitute the voting balance, turnet
 against the administration and the,
 would be against the administration
 candidate, MT. Taft, if something hat not happened since.
 And what was this subsequent event, fellow Democrats, L~in which turks a worse menace to the South. erner than anything else that has hap. pened in many a year. The Republi. cans. under the control of the Taft following in Ohio. put Into their plat form a few weeks ago a plank which aims at reducing the representation oi the South in Congress. If this is car ried out and 1t has reached a serious stage, gentlemen-it would strip the south of perhaps half her electoral strength"
 The speaker expressed the beliei