The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-04-08
SPEAKER REVIEWS
 O'NEAL'S HISTORY Says He Was Not Loyal to the
 Democratic Party MALLORY RALLY HELD John Morgan Burns Defends Mallory Against the so-Called O'Neai ln-
 dictment-He Maintains the
 Amendment Is Dead
RALLY HELD

The Greater Birmingham Mallory clubs of Ensley, Bessemer, North Bir- mingham, Elyton, Pratt City, Wood lawn, East Lake and Birmingham unit ed in a Mallory meeting at the 'leifer- son tn eatre last night and listened 70 an eloquent address by John Morgan Burns of Monroeville. The. lower floor of the theatre was about half filled, but the audience was regarded as fair sample of the average political meeting in this campaign. Charley Hice' president of the clubs, presided.
 The sensation of the meeting was one of the closing sentences of Col T M. Caldwell: Some gentlemen who are leaders of the O'Neal faction have, I think, pretty bad regulations as dem ocrats and they want you to take MT. O'Neal, sa man who doesn't reach up to the true qualifications of democrat who has a flaw in his record be- cause he voted for gold bug. Are you going to join this hue and cry with these gentlemen who are always the enemies of organized democracy"
 Early in his speech MT. Caldwell said that he had heard eX-Chief Jus tice Tyson say that O'Neal had been charged with voting for Palmer and Buckner, and it had never been de- nied.
 MT. Caldwell reviewed the old Pal mer- -Bickner fight, read MT. Mallory's speech on the amendment issue, agreed with him that it is dead and called cif n him.
 MT. Burns also used some language which has not been heard here before in Mallory meetings. He began with review of the greatness of the Unit ed States, the dangerous pitfalls in | her path and the assertion that It IS now imperative that the democratic party exist to drive the money changers | and the grafters out of the govern ment to arbitrate the ever increasing differences which are springing up be- tween warning factions of anarchy" He said that Alabama must have peace; must be brought back under the bonds of fraternal love and pushed up to her predestined greatness and glory
 OMce of Governor
 He then turned his attention to the office of governor, the greatest within | the gift of the state, which vitally affects you and me-" It is his duty l to fill vacancies, use the veto power and see that s2O,ooO,oo0 are properly expended.
 Now. we have two men who aspire to this office. We have a right tc examine their public life from tho cradle to this day. We must turn on the calcium light look all over them rat1t fnp pvO -f the public problems of today.
 MT. Mallory courts that sort of an examination. So far as l have beard ONeal Is shrinking from it. He is go- ing over Alabama like a weakling, ask ing the people of the state to vote foi him because he was 'agin It.
 q am sick of these narrow-minded bigoted men, thinking that all the fu, ture problems of state will be decided by the question, Were you for or agir it'?"
 Takes Up O'NeaI Indictment
 He then took up what he called tho O'Neal indictment against Mallory. I'm first was MT. Willets charge that h.
 is a weakling. In order to answe
 it he thought 1t necessary to give MT
 Mallory's social, moral, political an'
 fraternal history. Starting with hi
 record In the civil war, MT. Burns tolt
 of his helping his father after the war
 of his single-handed fight in the lega
 profession, of his success against som
 of the big giants before the suprem
 court. which he thought will make MT
 Mallory live. Referring to Stone
 Brickell and Mcclellan as three Of tn
 greatest legal peers in Christendon he said that these had respected MI
 Mallory for his worth.
 MT. Burns then told of the unsolicite , call of the greatest Baptist denomina ton, which discovered that he was leader and a man of intelligence; hoy the great Masonic order, recognizing
 his ability had called him to be gran
 worshipful master, and closed with MI
 Mallory's record in the democrati
 party as a leader in the ranks 10