The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-23
CHAIRMAN YOAKUM ! PAYS A NOTABLE TRIBUTE ID O'NEAL Frisco Chairman Greeted By Local Men, Includ-
 ing MT. Underwood MAN WHO FILLS SOIL IS MAN OF FUTURE Citizens Who Aid in Soils Pro- ductiveness Are Doing the Most
 Vital Work for, the
 Nation

 | At the head of party of prominent executive officials of the Frisco lines and Chicago and Eastern Illinois rail- road. B. F. Yoakum, chairman of the directorate of the two systems, was in Birmingham four hours yesterday morning He arrived with the party aboard af special train over the Frisco | lines at o'clock. At that hour the distinguished railroad operators were up and about the Terminal station and breakfasted at o'clock. A few minutes l later Walter Moore, a friend of Frisco officials, arrived with two automobiles, carried the party down town and later appear with them at the Southern club where a few friends gathered and met the party of visitors.
 | Among the citizens to greet them was Oscar W. Underwood, whose pres idential candidacy elicted commenda- ton from Mr. Yoakum, President Win chell and others of the party.
 MT. Yoakum said business was splen- did, touched upon the fact that unin- terrupted prosperity would not be en- joyed until the government and bus mess interests were reconciled, and gave his additional evidence of friend ship to Birmingham by remarking that this town was the one vital place for developments in the whole southeast ern country.
 Tribute To Governor O'Neal
 After dealing in general propositions Mr. Yoakum said: You have one man | in this state that I like"
 | "To whom do you refer?" was asked Your governor" answered the rail- road chief. He thereupon launched forth upon perhaps the most notable public tribute ever paid to Emmet O'Neal since he has been governor of Alabama and this is what MT. Yoakum said:
 l T do not know your governor per sonally. I know men better by their public records. I know few men per- sonally By their record we judge men in the abstract and without any sentiment or deteriorating factors en- tering into an analysis.
 "He Is a constructionist
 He has been going abroad telling folks what you have here in Ala bama and the south. And he has accom- plished a world of good. It is pity that such a man who beckons into your state the stranger and with him develops your resources. could not be elected time and time again. I con- | sider the governor of Alabama and Erie Brewer of Mississippi two of the most important men in this section. There is great number of rich men | who have seen the folly of the stock market who are seeking the proper kind of investments in the south. MT. O'Neal and MT. Brewer have gone forth and told these men that Alabama and Mississippi | hold fortunes and safe investments for them. These rich men have money to do | things with. The south wants them. When that consciousness is awakened and the net result of the work of these two men as emissaries Is fully realized the two states will owe them debt that can not be repaid. When the great majority of our people come to know this truth, that the wealth of the earth comes from | the soil, we shall then have a prosperity | that is to be unequalled. When the American people come to know that from | the soil comes prosperity and the men as- sist in the productiveness of that prosper | ity they will be doing the most vital work of this nation. Alabama and Mississippi
 
 room for the citys teem,ng millions, and | when they scatter and come back to the | soil this country's march forward will be truly wonderful. ONeal Is, to my | mind one of the men who realizes that propos%aon.'
 | MrAfoakum said further that Governor | O'Neal was a man of great ability and | that he was glad that such a man as he and Governor Brewer were at the helm of the two sister states.
 Inspect New Properties
 That an inspection would be made of the newly secured Mobile, Jackson and Chicago railroad. running from Jackson, | Miss, to Mobile, was the statement of | MT. Yoakum. He added that the trip was , for the purpose of seeing the property after it's purchase announced several days | ago.
 He said that Birmingham never looked | of progress would continue and he had no doubt but what such would be the l case.
 | MT. Yoakum, who is democrat, was very much interested in the likelihood of l Congressman O. w. Underwood's landing | the democratic nomination. He said that | ..Our Oscar was one of the ablest men that the democratic party had produced | in many years, and that no better in- formed man lived in America than MT. Underwood when it came down to the issues facing the voters of the country.
 The officials will return to St. Louis the | latter part of this week. The party in- cluded in addition to MT. Yookum, B. l.. Winchell president Frisco lines; w. B. Biddle vice president; w. c. Nixon, vice 1l