The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-06-25
IN HOTEL LOBBIES



1T is generally believed in business
circles that after this month there will
be decided Improvement in general
trade" said N. d. Cullen. member of
a manufacturing firm In Philadelphia
II can recall the time when political
agitation depressed business. Presi-
Dental years usually witnessed inertia
in the business world. This year has
been an exception to the rule. Not
withstanding the political excitement
of the past two or three weeks. with
uncertainty as to how the Chicago con-
vention would turn out, business has
been fairly good. OF course, there is a
lull just now, but July Will mark a
genuine revival. and If the crop reports
are satisfactory we will probably have
a boom.
IF the democrats nominate a radi-
cal Of the Bryan type. President Taft
will surely be reelected II, on the
other hand, a safe and sane democrat
like Mr.. Underwood heads the demo-
cratic ticket the business interests
would rest easy, for no matter whether
the democrats or the republicans win,
| liAC COuHlIJ WOQlu 10 oeAAS* -AH-RFo%-
to be a republican voter, but If an able,
conservative democrat is elected I will
not worry. And think that Is the at
titnde of most business men who vote
the republican ticket"
Approprinting n Democratic Emblem
THE adoption of the bandana hand
kerchief by the Roosevelt party in Chica-
go yesterday smacks of stealing the en-
blem of oe of the wheel horses OF de-
mocracy." said Percy Clark.
ALLEN G. Thurman, popularity known
as the nobest Roman of democracy in
the days when the south was struggling
out from under the dismal darkness of
reconstruction, was known also as the
bandana statesman, as he always car
ried one. II came to be in those days the
emblem of conservatism, sterling sinteg-
rity and wisdom.
How marked the contrast and to what
| antipodal temperamental statesmanship
| it Is now called to lend individuality. It's
| said the idea is TO attract the popular
mind. Napoleon said that one of the
| patent influences governing men was APP
peals to their imagination, as witness the
inspiration to troops of drum and fife
and flying colors. think it would be
more fitting that the Roosevelt party, con-
sidering their geographical prospects. their
characteristics as individuals, their pur-
poses to war and scalp, not only the re-
publican sachems. but the Tammany and
other democratic braves, should adopt the
Navajoe blanket with its rich crazy-quilt
colorngs.
ut has been suggested that there is a
possibility of Roosevelt carrying Ala
bama This, too. when that splendid type
of the real negro, W. NJ. Nixon of Selma,
was at the baptism of the infant at its
birth in Chicago yesterday and officiated
as the parsonl Shades of Houston, Shell
ley. Morgan and Petus attend us! I would
as soon expect to see the sun forget TO
shine for a whole summer as that this
man Roosevelt-the first man of standing
claiming a touch of southern blood in his
veins that ever entertained a negro at his
table should carry Alabamal And tbs
said that one of the basic planlSs of the
Roosevelt party will be wiping out the
color line. In the language of Puck,
what fools these mortals be.''