The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-03-03
COMMITTEE NOT
 READY ID REPORT
Mass Meeting Last Night Was
 Largely Attended
PERSON ALITIES
MANY
Young Mems Good Government Club Marches to Theatre In Body Headed By Mass Band-The Speeches
 Are Loudly AppIauded

At an enthusia stic mass meeting of O'Neal followers held last night at the Jefferson tn eatre the citizens commit tee appointed at the rally held last | Thursday night to indorse the can didacy of seven Jefferson county as- | pirants for the legislature and state senator recommended that more time be given before the definite announce ment of a ticket. Through motion of | P. c. Bowman 1t was decided that the committee be given until next Thurs day night to make the final report, an- other mass meeting of O'Neal support CTS being held on that date to indorse or reject the ticket. A meeting of the committee was held Monday afternoon and another yesterday afternoon but both resulted in failure to arrive at a definite choice of candidates.
 The keynote of the meeting last night was the indorsement of the cleo tion ofa straight O'Neal ticket, no quar- ter being shown to the Mallory forces | The speakers of the evening were P. G. Bowman. Jesse Stallihgs, White E. Gibson and James Leath, neither of
  ment of certain persons and organs including notably the Birmingham Led ger, Ray Rushton, James Buchanan El- lis and lesser lights.
 1 Something in the nature of surprise was sprung when P. c. Bowman, In answer to a remark made by mem Der of the audience. paid tribute to Gov. B. B. Conner and Judge s. D. Weakley. When they cut loose from these" said MT. Bowman In referring to the Mallory forces, they cut loose from the only full men on their side These men promised their con- stituents they would go in to fight the railroads. Governor Conner went into the ring as a man with courage and brains to fight the railroads, and | fight them he has, never hitting below the belt To the allies of Mallory and Rushton I may suggest they might for ever learn at the feet of Weakley les sons in law. manhood and religion" MT. Bowman's statement came on the heels of charge that Ray Rushton, after a recent speech made to Conner appointee the assertion that the Nal lory forces had "cut loose" from Co., mer and Weakley, but could perforce hook them in" regardless.
 AS prelude to last nights meeting, the members of the Young Mems Good Gov ernment club assembled at the courthouse and marched. with the accompaniment of brass band, to the theatre. White E. Gibson, the young attorney who is men toned as a possible senatorial candidate, acted as chairman, and opened the meet ing with few brief remarks on the pur- pose of the rally. It was held, he said, mainly to hear the report of committee appointed to decide upon men to repre- sent in the legislature not the corpora tions, the farmers any private inter- est but to represent every man. woman and child in Jefferson county. 70 Neal Is not trying to dictate to the people of Jeff ferson county he said '"The county is able to select for itself men congenial with the cause of liberty and good gov ernment." The report of the committee was next heard and the action taken.
 In reply to the chairmans call for any possible resolutions, E. w. Booker came to the rostrum and offered resolutions denunciatory of the policy of the Bir- mingham Ledger The resolutions were unanimously adopted, one dissenting vote being had when an amendment was off, fered providing that copies be furnished ''the press' MT. Booker stated in intro ducing his resolutions that they were in spired by mo campaign committee" and that he-alone was responsible
 | P. G. Bowman next assumed the floor, with an introductory rendition of "Dixie" by the brass band. The chief feature of MT. Bowman's speech, aside from many personal allusions, was statement that ONeal will be elected governor by ma- jority of from 5000 to 75000 votes.
 | James Leath of Ensley followed in an optimistic speech in which he indorsed | the election of straight ticket" with | MT. ONeal. Jesse Stallings closed the meeting with an address that was en- thusiastically received. MT. Stallings de- clared in the course of his speech that he had willfully cast no aspersions on Colo mel Bankhead, as, he said, was reported. He paid high tribute to the farmers of Alabama, stating that he himself was an | "agriculturist' and fully recognized their earnest patriotism and conservatism.
 Eighty per cent of the farmers of Ala bama. said MT. Stallings, will vote for | Emmet o Neal