The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-17

1 state which gave me handsome maJorl- | ties both In the primary and in the l state election, and in Montgomery and
 Barbour and some few counties where | the popular vote was recorded in all the | beats. When, however, we remember l that negroes did not participate in the | primaries and that the white population | in a county necessarily determines the number of it's white voters, and recall,
 what no one can deny, that in Alabama as a general rule the majority of the white voters in a county elect the dele gates to a democratic state convention, we have unuuestioned data, which snow beyond a reasonable doubt that a very large majority of the white voters of the
 state, including in the count republicans and third party men, as well as the dem ocrats. who participated In the primary,
 cast their ballots for me in the primaries
 of 1892.
 Chairman UnderwoOd's Report Shows
 Majority of 174 Delegates for Reg
 ular Nominee
 The report of the committee on creden- | tIals. made by Chairman Underwood to
 the state convention June 10, 1892, after | the roll of delegates was made up, | showed that 320 delegates were elected to | that convention who favored me, and 146 delegates who favored my opponent, giv- | ing me a clear majority of 1I4 in a body | composed of 466 delegates
 The counties which elected delegates to the state convention in my favor, with tthe respectiye white population in them,
 were as follows:
 Autauga 4796 Baldwin 567S. Barbour l3, 454 Butler Il .326, Calhoun 23,9H. Cleburne F. .427 Colbert 12,36l, Cherokee lL6oo, Gov ington $685. Crenshaw 11,74o, Cullman b. 401. Dallas S016. DeKalb 1e,S0, Escampla 5s43. Greene 3225. Hale 51S0, Jackson 24,l1s rc Q 1e7. I,owndes 456S Marengo 7946 Marshall 17. 652 Mobile 2S, 369 Montgomery 14,6S2 Monroe S379 Marion 10,769 Morgan lS,93l Dickens 9eS4 Russell 5S1l. Shelby 14,2S9 Taladesa 15, ,309 Washington 4eS6, Wilcox 6794, Winston 6516
 Tn all 30 counties with a white popula- ton of 458,1S7.
 The counties which elected delegates Tn favor of my opponent, with their respec- tive white population, were as follows:
 Bibb 9O8O Bullock 6055 Chambers 12,f6o
 Chiffon Il, ,4s3, Coffee 10237, Dale 13,ssl, Fillmore II, AS, Fayette 11,14, Franklin 9o2 Geneva s664, Henry 1603s, Lamar Il, 4S9 Lawrence 12,553, Limestone 12,1s, Macon 4251. Pike 15,34e, Randolph 13,9l4, Talla- poosa 16951, Tuscaloosa 1S,26l, St. Cldir 14,303
 Tn all 2o counties with white popula- ton of 240, POT.
 The counties which divided delegates be- tween us on pro rates, sometimes in my favor and sometimes in my opponenSs favor. with their respective white oopu- lation, were as follows
 Blount 2O.155, Choctaw S2o9, Clark 96S5, Clay l4.06l Conecuh 79S7, Coosa 10,552, Es- owah 1S,171, Madison 19,345, Perry oSlz' Sumter 5943, Walker 14422.
 The Il pro rating counties had white population of 135342.
 If we give my opponent the pro rating counties as well as those which lnstruct- ed solidly for him, the delegates chosen for me represent a majority of 82,63S white
 population This calculation, however, would not be just since the vote cast In the pro rating counties showed in the az gregate that the white voters in then voted in the proportion of 40 per cent for me to 60 per cent for my opponent.
 Delegates For Me Represented Ma
 jority of 192,912 White Population.
 or Over 30,0O0 White Voters in the
 State
 Taking into account the proportion of white population in the pro rating coun- ties and adding it to the white population of the counties carried soidly by us re- spectively, the delegates chosen Tor ne represented 512, 323 white population and the delegates elected for my opponent represented a white population of 321, II,
  the counties which sent delegates in my favor. If We take one voter for every six population, the delegates elected for
 me represented a majority of I,Sl8 White voters, or if we take one voter for every five population, majority of 3S, 1S2 white
 votes in the primary.
 Opera House Ticket Far Weaker
 After That Convention Than Its Candidate Was in the Democratic Primaries
 It is equally clear that the nominee or the regular democracy received the Iote
 of quite large majority of all the white voters in the state at the state election in 1892 Nothing happened after the Opera House convention to change the views of the majority of the white voters, so de- cidedly manifested ih the primaries that year. It is well known that the Opera | House candidate did not have the same | strength with the white voters after that | convention as before. Of the 146 delegates | elected to the democratic state conven-
 ton in his favor, e. or nearly half, re- l fused to follow him to the opera house | and declared that they would not supposS | him in the state election. This abau0on- | ment of his cause by such a proportion | of his delegates reflects corresponding | attitude of quite a large portion of his | former followers. after the Opera House
  | press at the time show the quick aban- | donment of his cause by prominent lead | CTS in nearly every county in the state, | and an ayowal of their purpose to support I the regular nominee in the state election.
 The constant drift of the white voters 1 after the Opera House convention was tp l the regular ticket Indeed. it is a part
 of the history of the times that the great | body of the democratic white voters of
 the state, regardless of their choice in the primary, dreaded the effect of supporting | the Opera House ticket on the candidate I for the presidency, and thought that put | ting 1t in the field, whether beaten or not, | might lead to the success of MT. Harrison, 1 whose views as to the proper solution of
 certain of our domestic problems created, | many forebodings in the minds of the peo- 1 ple of the state. On that account alone
 many who had been supporters of the opposition refused to follow it's flag after the Opera House convention.
 The Reliance of the Opera House Leaders
 The only hope of success of the Opera l House ticket lay in bringing to the aid l of the minority of white voters behind it
 @ very large majority of the negro voters, | to overcome the large majority of white voters opposed to it.
 | All through the campaign and up to snc assembling of the state convention nu7 | merous and bitter attacks had been made
 upon me over the state because or tne | position taken in my inaugural in, lS9O 1 against the withdrawal from the negro
 race of any portion of the school fund to l which it was entitled under the constltu- | flo, and laws The argument then made as ,o tbe dutv and policy alike of the