The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-01
WALKER PERCY IN RACE AS AN ANT|-
 BRYAN CANDIDATE Will Run for Delegate to Den yer from the Ninth Con-
 greSsionaI District
CUNNINGHAM AND MOODY
 FOR DELEGATE AT LARGE
MT. Percy Gives Johnson as Preference For Democratic Candidate, But Will, of Course, Follow h. stuctions of Voters.

A new interest in the Alabama fight for and against Bryan is caused by the an- nouncement of Walker Percy as candi- date for delegate from the Ninth dis | trict as Johnson man. The Johnson ad- l mirers have placed the Nebraskans name On the primary ticket, and an effort IS | being made to send the delegation in- | structed for Johnson.
 Other newly announced candidates are Dr. R. M. Cunningham of Ensley and
 Frank s. Moody of Tuscaloosa for dele gate from the state at large, making six qualified candidates for this office Congressmen Hefin and Clayton and John w. Tomlinson and Capt. E. W. Booker, being the others.
 When seen last night and asked about his candidacy Walker Percy said: "I have filed with the chairman of the plication to have my name appear on the ticket in the approaching primary as
 a candidate from this district to the na- tional democratic convention.
 q believe the democratic party has golden opportunity if it will only grasp it. A few months ago the people of the United States enjoyed prosperity as great and more generally distributed than blessed or perhaps ever blessed any other people on earth. Laborers skilled and
 unskilled were eagerly employed at 1tl,- | receiving good prices for bountiful crops
 Every mill in the country was working
 overtime to supply an unsuitable demand
 To-day countless mills are out The farmers of the south are despondently be- ginning to raise a crop for which they do not expect fair compensation. Many idle ] laboring men are wondering how they will pay the grocer when their scant sav- ings are exhausted. and merchants and
 manufacturers are struggling against de- moralization in prices and lack of or ders.
 For this lightning change from pros perity to poverty, from boundless hope
 to despondency, believe President Roose- welt, the leader of the republican party, is chiefly responsible. President Harri- son once said that the proudest boast of the republican party was that the prospect of it's success had never caused
 alarm among the business men of this
 country
 This boast would not bear repetition in view of the needless cruel and unjustifi-
 able panic caused by a republican admin istraton. The country weary of the in cessant domineering and often unconsti- tutional meddling of President Roosevelt with it's business interests would seem ready to welcome as it's chief executive man of proven executive ability, whose
 regard for constitutional limitations would stop the dangerous tendency shown by President Roosevelt to usurp legislative
 and judicial authority and to encroach on the reserved rights of the states. If we are to have an improvement in business we must have confidence in return to conservative government.
 'I believe Governor Johnson of Mnne- sota is the man of the hour He is the only democrat who has been able ito sweep the republican state of Minnesota. His strength in the northwest is unquestioned He does not have to retract or apologize for crude theories of government owner ship of railroads.
 ''He has been a winner, not loser of political campaigns. With such candidate
 on platform that would command the confidence of laboring men, farmers, mer- chants and manufacturers, the democratic party should win
 "It is with the hope of assisting to