The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-02-03

ed to destroy personal liberty In Ala
 bama, repeal our Bill of Rights and give to a minority the right to rule majority
 of the white men of this state. Emmet
 O'Neal was wise enough to see and be-
 leve what many of us at first failed to see and believe. He saw and believed
 that the people of Alabama had been awakened or could be awakened to 1 true sense of the situati He it was
 who took the lead and went into the
 th;ckest of the fight and lead us on
 to a glorious victory. He was our cap 1 tain and now we privates are going to
 make him our governor.
 Tn organizing a campaign committee
 party of the state. and the interest of
 all, rich and poor. high and low, alike.
 Having as we have high principles upon
 which to make this flgh. sincerely hope
 that no man representing the interest
 of our candidate will see fit to appeal to
 tho prejudices of the masses against the
 classes or the classes against the masses.
 What we shall advocate is 2 square
 deal and equal justice to all. Our can -
 too fearless to stoop to such methods.
 We are now ready for business and
 the chair will be glad to hear from
 some one on the floor as to matters per
 tinent to the occasion.
 MT John c. Pugh has consented to act
 as our secretary during this campaign,
 and I will ask that he keep record of | this meeting"
 Tomlinson Talks in New Orleans An interesting interview with Col John | W. Tomlinson, who is in New Orleans,
 on the Schuer case was printed In Tues
 days Daily State. Colonel Tomlinson
 said:
 "The primary to nominate the gover-
 nor will be held on May 2. Emmet | O'Neal, who was the leader of the anti | prohibition movement forces that recent | ly carried the state by over 27,O0O ma- | jority, is thought by many to be sure of the nomination. MT. Henderson, the president of the railroad commission, | also was against the amendment, but he l Is supposed to belong to the Conner fac | ton, and the recent victory is claimed to | have been also an anti-Comer victory. The candidates who favored the prohl- | btion amendment in the constitution are | Mallory, Weakley and Seed.
 Tt looks as if the prohibition question
 and the railroad rate question will be | injected into the gubernatorial campaign,
 but the people, in my opinion. are thor | oughly tired of the agitation of these | two questions as a hobby to ride into | office on They wanted some reforms | in reference to railroad rates and regu-
 lation, also in reference to saloons but the recent victory, very clearly shows that the extremists on both of these questions are not in favor with the ma Jority of the people in Alabama. Certain reforms having been accomplished. peo- pie want a rest from continual agitation to the end that the business interests of the state may be advanced. It Is more than probable that Bankhead will | be reelected to the United States Sen ate.
 What about national politics? Well" continued MT. TomlinHon, Tit is too early l to talk about the national election. It
 looks now as if Harmon' if he carries l Ohio again, will be the nominee for 1 President, and that Marshall. if he car ries Indiana again, will be the nominee | for Vice President on the democratic | ticket. With these two men, l believe the democrats would stand an excellent | chance of carrying Indiana and Ohio, and with these two states would only have to
 carry two other western states besides
 those they usually carry, in order to get
 with the solid south the majority of l the electoral vote. AS long as we have domination of the boss system prevail | ing in the eastern states in the demo- cratic party, we will have little oppor- | tunity of winning there.
 | T do not think MT. Bryan will be a
 candidate for another nomination and
 do not believe he will undertake to force l to the front any new question that | would tend to embarrass the democratic vicssry in the next national election. He owes too much to the party which has honored him and to the personal friends who have stood by him in the past MT. Tomlinson Is largely interested in
 the Tate Spring company. which owns the celebrated miner springs of that name
 in Tennessee visited by so many south ern people. 4