The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-09-16
O'Nedl Opens Fight With
 Vigor Tn Eufauld Speech
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of the most approved and scientific leg islation against the spread of disease and epidemics, to encourage the conservation of our tilnser supply and natural re- sources to invite the investment of cap ital within our borders by guaranteeing to every legitimate enterprise the equal protection of our laws, to demand from all public service corporations just, fair, impartial and courteous service and reas- enable rates, free from discrimination and rebates. and full recognition or the fact that they are subject to the para mount authority of the state, to carry out the letter and spirit of the constitutional oath of office, to see to it that the laws are faithfully executed. to enforce every law upon the statute books for the pro- motion of temperance among our people may be mentioned as some of the sub jects which will engage the attention and demand the conscientious labor of the incoming democratic administration.
 We have had enough strife. agita . tion and political turmoil in Alabama :. The state stands today upon the thres- hcp1 of new era tof unprecedented de- veloprneft and prosperity. Let us place no obstacle to the realization of fu- ture so radiant with promise If, in the recent campaigns, We differed as to the best method of solving an important moral and political issue-if in the heat of political discussion and debate we questioned each others motive and bit terness was created or a spirit of in- tolerance engendered. let us today in yoke that wider and wiser spirit of Christian charity which will accord to all others the same sincere and patri- otie motives we claim for ourselves This broad spirit of toleration Is not only the crowning glory of Christian itys but the unmis takable index of the highest and noblest type of citizenship. and he must be possessed with a spirit both narrow, mean and uncharltable who cannot understand that differences of opinion on a great moral and con stitutional question can be entirely con- sistent with high sense of duty and with patriotic motives on the part of both sides to the controversy l can only feel a profound pity for the in tellectual and moral horizon of the man who does not recognize that In the recent campaign those who favored as well as those who opposed the proposed constitutional amendment, those who advocated state-w wide prohibition as well as those who declared for local option, were all governed in tn cir views by a conscientious sense of public duty. Those who claimed that on their side
 
 abiding element of our people, simply proclaim themselves the victims of that spirit of bigotry which is the accursed progeny of servile hypocrisy and which has filled the pages of history with the darkest chapters in the record of hu- man folly and depravity. It is gratify- ing to know that if this spirit exists 1t is confined to an infinitesimal portion of our people, and that the democratic party, reforming it's lines, presents as of yore the same unconquerable and victorious phalanx to our common enc my. We all recognize that if no cam paign committees had been organized and not a single speech delivered, our state would still have been triumphant. Yet we also know that party apathy leads to party disintegration and that eternal vigilance Is not only the price of liberty but of party success. Men may become so absorbed in their prl-
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 Republican Party
 "The public press informs us that the black and tan wing of the republican party, known as the Thompson faction, composed of postmasters, federal office holders and federal officeseekers, in the convention which met in Birminghams in August. sought in vain to induce some gentleman. whose allegiance to the Grand Old Party was not caused solely by the cohensive power of public office. to ac- cept the nomination for the office Of governor. but that no one could be found willing to offer himself as a sacrifice and that in sheer desperation the con- yention had been forced to tender the nomination to Mir Joseph o. Thompson. whose chief distinction was due to the fact that he was referee of the President md controls the federal patronage in Alabama. That this nomination was made solely to show that the faction or the republican party controlled by MT. ,rbonpson had not utterly collapsed was eenerally understood. It was necessary fo convince the authorities at Washing ion that the Presidents chief pie dis penser still held firm grip on the party machine in Alabama and that he was in control of the party organization. It must be surprising to the people of Ala hana to learn from the interviews of this ~entleman. as well as from his recent eneech of acceptance of the nomination for aoyernor that he takes himself seri- ously. considers his nomination not mere 1v a matter of form, but also regards himself as the champion of a great moral