The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-11-01
NOTABLE SPEECHES MADE
 FOR TAFT AND SHERMAN
COL T. G. BUSH, eoWRoN H CLAY EVANS
 SPEAK AT BIG MASS MEETING AT THE HPPopRoMg

wooden shoes. with no stockings. straw stuffed in their shoes to keep their feet warm Do the men who grow rice in South Caolina want to compete, if you please, with peasants in India. who live on cents a day? I believe in a man having clothes for himself and family and meat on his table seven days in a week, and work six.
 H. Clay Evans.
 (Band plays Dixie.) We can always wait for Dixie. (Great applause.) Ladies and Gentlemen-I am delighted to see the interest manifested here to- night. It has been a great pleasure in deed for me today to go about your city and meet my old friends, and make new ones; also to visit your neighbor- ing cities, Ensley and Pratt City, and see the progress made. l came to Bir- mingham in it's infancy about 3S years ago. l remember my first visit to Bir- mingham-there was no Birmingham 1t was a cross roads. I came here with number of capitalists looking over the prospects of building the alabama and Chattanooga road. I marvel today at the wonderful development, the great amount of capital invested here, giving thousands of men employment, and see your great skyscrapers. I am here to- night to simply talk to you as re- publican, not expecting to make any votes for the national republic ticket However, l wish that Alabama would deliver it's electoral votes to the great republican candidate, but I do not be- lieve 1t will, and 1 am satisfied that we will have an abundance without them Great applause). But We do promise you all the benefits and glories and progress and prosperity that will be brought about by that happy result We are going to force it on you. (Laughter). 1 was most interested in the speech of my friend. Mr Bush. see he does not even claim that Bryan Is democrat. Why he never was democrat. He simply got a sort of lease on the democratic party they really seemed to have made an as- signment to him. He gets up the con ventions; he writes the platforms, and in other ways uses the democratic party. Why he nominated himself twice for the presidency of the United States, and twice he has been turned down cold, and now, again, he is with us. Laughter). And by next Tuesday night we will have done with him again for four years
 James Bowron said in part.
 As l understand this meeting, it is ono
 
 ladies present. I am business man. To- night is my jubilee, for have just fin- fshed a half century of business life On November 1, 1S5S I began my work Tomorrow morning will be jubilee, and I feel that l can do nothing better as a business man in such a cause as brings us together tonight. You hear on every hand about the panic It is true panics come at all times and to all countries. n tIsa a,v,tA fr1. A. States came at the same time to other countries. England where the democrats are in power, and the panic in England is worse today than it is in the United States. In all countries and at all times nations-like individuals, go too far in their extravaganza and must suffer the consequences. The last panic that took place in this country happened under a democratic regime, and it was so bad that it took five years to recover from it's effect. This one is already practically a thing of the past-and would be, entlre- ly, if 1t were known to the largest em- ployers of labor, the largest consumers of material in the United States, the rail- road companies, who have been trampled into the mire by the democratic adrninis- trations, that they could look forward with safety to a. chief executive being elected who would be sane, conservative
  ployed would be given a chance to go back to work and earn a living fe. themselves and families. As to the amount of railroad work that is hanging over and waiting for Mir. Taft's election as estimated by the best informed rail- road man of this country-dean of the railroad corps-Mr. J. J. TIill, is something like ss,000 000,000 to be spent over the next five years in this country. It would require the expenditure, as you will see, of practically $4,000,000 per week day for the next five years to catch up with the construction of railroad work in this coun- try. If Mir. Taft is elected there is reas- onable prospect of the continuation of regime of republican prosperity. There is sometimes great deal of criticism of the subject of government officeholders or employees, and the undue influence which they exert in a community.
 It may be amusement for Ar Bryan but it seems to me sad, sad indeed, that tins great democratic party can't find a good democrat to run for President. MT Bush also seems to be lamenting the fact that the south has not even had a Vice President in 40 years. Why he seems to have forgotten Georgia. It has two presidential candidates this year. MT Bush seems to be hard to satisfy-he seems to have forgotten these things It has been my pleasure to know the great man that represents the republican ticket for about 20 years. I think he Is one of the truest men; one of the most lovable men I ever knew. I think he is the best qualified man for the duties and responsibilities of the great office of chief executive of the nation that has