The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-31
O'NEAL ANSWERED THOMPSON AT SELMA Assessment of Postmasters Is
 Again Condemned WAS SCATHING REBUKE RidecuIes Black and Tan Candidate and Gives Him Advice--snys
 No Bolters Among Honest
 Democrats
WAS sCATHING REBUKE

The address of Col. Emmet ONeal at Selma, last Friday was devoted to the republican candidate, J. O. Thompson. and when he had finished the audience could find nothing but shreds. It was the warmest rebuke and the most scath- ing denunciation of the campaign. In opening Colonel ON'eal said;
 'The dignity of the position I occupy as the standard bearer of a party which em- braces in It's ranks an overwhelming ma- jority of the people of Alabama would or dinarily prevent me from dIgnifying with ! notice the false, malicious and reckless statements of this 'bombastes furfoso' of the black and tan faction.
 1T fully realize that his whole purpose Is, by insulting charges. by coarse vii tuperotion, and by cowardly insnuations against myself and the party have the honor to represent to attract some at tention to candidacy which had only aroused public ridicule and contempt. Yet with the aid of enormous contribu- tions and assessments levied by his cam paign manager on postmasters and fed eral officeholders In Alabama, in gross violation of the penal laws of the United States, he has secured the publication of his recent utterances by many leading democratic papers and through the malls Is disseminating his scurrilous charges oyer all parts of the state.
 "I, therefore, deem it my duty, more In sorrow than in anger, to administer that rebuke which his insolence, his ar rogance and his sanderous utterances demand." s.s 44.~-
 Q m r. ing at which MT. Thompson spoke he dis sected the words of the presiding officer. James Bowron, in which he said that MT. Thompson is not self-seeker:
 Joseph o. Thompson not a self-seeker perish the thought. Every republican in Alabama knows to his sorrow that Joseph o. Thompson has lived on the public crib since he attained his majority and deserted his party and his race Postmaster at Tuskegee, deputy mar shal. internal revenue collector and now referee and dispenser of public patron age. he has yet managed by thrift and proper use of his opportunities in strict accord with the republican standard, to acquire from his meagre salaries, accord ing to Mir. Lee Brock, a princely domain In Barbour county, until he now boasts that he Is the largest taxpayer and land owner in county famous for its large landed estates"
 Then he took up MT. Bowron's state ment that when Mr. Thompson saw his colored brother being offered intoxicat- ing liquors by the weaker members of his race.e he agreed to make the race to save them.
 
 injustice to Joseph o. We had been led to believe that he was just ordinary standpat republican, who was a firm be- liever Tn that good old rule,
 That simple plan
 Of let him take who has the power
 And let him keep who can.'
 "A rule first promulgated by Rob Roy and which has been the cardinal creed of every political pirate from that day to this, and which in recent years has be- come the slogan of the standpat black and tan wing of the republican party
 eve are now pleased to learn that, in addition to his other virtues, Joseph o. Is a self-sacrificing philanthropist.
 Great Wide strnddle
 "I fear, however. that the effort of this modern missionary to bring his colored brethren to teetotalism. through the saw ling grace and agency of the republican plat tform is foredoomed to dismal fail- ure, for does not this same James Bow ron, this august master of ceremonies, also say Our convention made great wide straddle, seven feet wide, on the liquor question.
 "When Thompson was depicting the wreck and ruin which would follow the lccntinued domination of the democratic party and the drunkards a democratic Legislature would create, no doubt the most ardent of his followers could not fail to ask themselves the question. what relief can you offer us with a platform which your chairman declares and you admit is cowardly straddle-'a great big wide straddle, seven feet wide, on the liquor question
 "Yet, although he proclaims himself as the only simon pure, unadulterated. statewide prohibitionist in Alabama-the unfaltering opponent of the sale of liquor In any form or under any circumstances. he did not have the courage or manhood to denounce and repudiate the contempt ible and miserable straddle which his own platform promulgated" Nf Advice for Thompson
 Later in his speech Mir. O'Neal gave lhis candid advice to his opponent, whom he says is not running for governor but for referee.
 "Confine yourself to the lofty mission assigned you by your friends and sup porter, James Bowron.
 Make yourself, as he declared you were, a missionary to elevate your col ored brother.
 Teach them not only temperance but impress on them their duty to obey all the commandments.
 "Tell them you were mistaken in hold ling out to them social and political equal Iity with the superior rece. Tell them frankly that the white race is the su- perior race and will not share with them the responsibilities of government.
 write President Taft that you have done grievous wrong in securing the ele- vation of the colored man to high public office in Alabama.
 "Dismiss your private secretary. select some competent white republican for that position and convince the people of Ala bama that you are not a renegade to vour race and an enemy of white su-