The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-31

him that the people of Alabama cannot
 be deceived and that his efforts to make
 A breach in the democratic ranks-by your false and deceptive claims that you ana
 vo,,r partv are the representatives Of
 morality, temperance and religion nave fallen on deaf ears and that all the ef- forts of the republican party to disrupt inc solid south--all the money you have collected by illegal assessments on post masters-all the corruption fund piaceo | in your hands by the national republican campaign committee. have failed to ac- complsh any results or to induce any member of the democratic party to join | in the conspiracy you have attempted 10 inaugurate to restore to power a party
 whose past record brings the blush Of
 shame and indignation to every patriotic son of Alabama.
 Alas. Jodie, I fear my advice Is in vain: You will not forsake the flesh
 pots of Egypt" iaf
 A scathAag Denupcintion
 When you prate so loudly about law enforcement, it might be well to in- ouire what is your own record on this question. You arc the internal revenue collector of Alabama. You have occu- pied this important position for num- Der of years. The law imposes on you the duty to prevent the sale and man ufacture of intoxicating liquors without the payment of what Is commonly known as a government license. "Yet, according to your own reports. there has been in the past few years an enormous and alarming increase in illicit distilling and the illicit sale of whisky in Alabama. Your sworn re- ports show that in the past three or four years illicit distilling has more than trebled in Alabama
 "Instead of using the influence of your office to suppress the Illicit sale and manufacture of liquor in Alabama, you have devoted your time to the peddling of federal offices-to levying contribu- tions and assessments on federal post masters and officials, to be used in pro- noting your own political fortunes--to organizing a political machine in Ala bama which can control the selection of
 delegates to the, national republican
 convention, to melting the negro of Alabama to aspire to high federal of- flee, to doing the dirty work of Hitch cock at Washington and to using your position as referee of the President to build up political machine to over throw white supremacy"
 The Negro Secretary
 On the question of the negro secre- tary. he said: "I did not charge that you had employed a negro as your sec
 retary. That charge had been repeat edly made by others on the stump and in the public press, and am not ad- vised that you have given it public denial. You do not deny that the negro in question is deputy internal revenue collector serving in your office and the presumption Is that as federal appoint ments are made in Alabama with your approval he must have secured this pN Nsltlon through your recommendation and indorsement
 You declare that I am trying to raise the negro issue in this campaign. You are again mistaken. It Is you yourself by your own declarations and by your platform who have raised this issue. You denounce In unmeasured terms the poll tax provision in the suf- frage article of the constitution and demand It's repeal You are not so ig-
 norant as not to know that tho poll
 tax provision Is the most important section in the whole scheme of the suf- sfrnge as provided by the constitution
 tbat Its repeal would open wide the
 door for an alarming and dangerous in- crease of negro voters"
 DenOunces Slnnderous Charges
 Colonel O'Neai. in discussing Thomp-
 sons charges, said: |a