The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-24

| by a frenzied crowd of his fr1ends, eacn of whom desired to shake his hand at the same time. MT. Underwood expects 1 to leave for Washington today.
 Greeting to Morrow | Richard w. Massey, president of the | Chamber of Commerce, introduced Hugh Morrow, the toastmaster of the evening. Mr. Morrow, on arising, was greeted with bolsterous applause, the banqueters hail. ing him ''the next governor of Alabama | When Mir Morrow was able to quiet the l clamor of the crowd, he said; | MT. President, Members or the Cham- | Der of Commerce, and Gentlemen: When I look down from the dizzy | heights to which you and your ban- quet committee have unwittingly ele- vated me, my head swims with an emo- | tion that is entirely new to me, and realize, as never before, that the | post of honor Is the post of danger. wonder, with all of you, at my sc- | lection to preside over this enthusiastic gathering. I confess that I must trust to the inspiration of the occasion to make a fitness which does not other | wise exist We are here tonight to show the feeling of this great city and this great l state toward our distinguished guest | of honor. Kentucky claims him be- cause 1t was there under the smil- | ings of favoring heaven that he first saw the light of day. Minnesota claims him because in his boyhood days he played in her parks, swan in her streams climbed her trees and gath cred her fruits and flowers. Old Vir- ginio lays her claim to him because it was there in his growing manhood he drank from her greatest fountain | of wisdom and learning. Alabama claims him because here among us and with us he has toiled and risen to q T., irr,a 0f .J | The nation claims him because his un selfish, his untiring, his patriotic, wise and conservative work and leadership | in Congress have impelled the belief | in every quarter and in every state that he and the principles for which | he stands are bound to triumph.
 He has added lustre and honor and | glory to Birmingham and her oppor- tunities. If this were not so her Cham | Der of Commerce would not be here tonight. I call upon the distinguished | secretary of that altruistic body MT. J. B. Babb to attest the truth of the state ment and to respond to the first senti- ment: 'Birmingha's Opportunity.
 Babb's Brilliant Speech
 MT. Babb made brilliant speech on
 'Birminghams Opportunity" He first spoke of the needs of Birmingham, re- ferred to the eradication of the Belgian
 
 and the new hotel. He then remarked:
 But Birmingham's opportunity lies not in it's coal and iron, but in the develop ment of it's manhood
 When the name "Underwood' came from his lips boisterous applause greet ed his remark.
 "Underwood," he said, "has caused Alabama to come from out the shadow Of AppomattoX. and proclaim to the peo- pie of the universe that we are part and parcel of the union-that we are no longer only of ourselves"
 Now you are beginning to talk cried the banQueters.
 "Yes," continued Mr. Babb, Under wood has opened the doors of the White House to every boy born within the wide domain of the southland. The south has at last come into it's own"
 With a fine compliment to the ability and sagacity of the congressman of the Ninth district Mr. Babb concluded his remarks amid great applause. From every side of the house cries of Underwood, Underwood" arose.
 It was only after great effort that Mr. Morrow, following the conclusion of MT. Babb, gained the attention of the ban Queters.
 Introduces Senator Johnston
 After MT. Babb's speech the toast master said:
  marks of your distinguished secretary recalls to my mind what an old dar- key once said at a prayer meeting:
 'Brudderin, said he I feels as if could talk mo good in five minutes dan 1 could do in a year."
 Introducing Senator Johnston he | said:
 We have with us tonight one who has helped in no humble way to make Alabama. He has helped in no humble way to let her opportunities be known to the nation. In his quiet and unos tentatious. but able and effective. way he has done a great service for his state and his country in the United States Senate. I predict that the peo pie of the state are going to take ad vantage of one of Alabama's oppor- tunities and employ his talents for an- other term. We are hpnored with his presence tonight and l am sure that one who has lived more than a third of a century in her borders-has been more than once her chief executive, and is now one of her representatives in the greatest deliberative body of the world can speak interestingly and entertainingly and truthfully of Ala bama's Opportunity.
 Senator Johnston Speaks
 Senator Johnston, as he arose, was greeted with great applause, and cries of red rooSter, reminding or former po- litical campaign were heard. Senator Johnston gave a keen rebuke to those | who have endeavored to gain an instruct | ed delegation to the national convention | for second choice for the presidential | nomination, and his every reference to | this subject was greeted with cries of | approval.
 When he cried that If we declare | for a first choice and then second | choice, we might as well call down our first choice" the banqueters got on their feet and exclaimed their satis- faction. Senator Johnston, in opening | his speech, said: When I look over | the broad domain of this republic and | see the state of unrest, business almost | stagnant, enterprise chilled, politics | chaotic, socialism and anarchy grow ing, the foundation of our policital and | religious faiths assailed, many citizens | ready to abandon the constitution and | government of our fathers the gov ernment which has grown from 3,000.- | 900 people and 13 states to 100000 people and AS states, the mightiest na- ton of the earth, and many ready to believe the most infamous scandal of the very men elected by them to office, when we see many ready to adopt the methods of Chinese warfare when the stinkpot was the most dangerous weapon used-it is refreshing to come back to the south. this Ararat of democracy and find here in Alabama one man of long and tried service, a democratic Gibraltar, standing serene and smiling in this tumultuous sea un- shaken by any wind and relying upon