The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-06-26
Day of Doom at Hand

your day or doom is at mana.
Tn jeopardzng our form of government
and those dearly bought liberties which
the fathers secured the republican apos-
ties, as promoters of misrule, federal
usurpation and political corruption,
threaten the very founSation of the great
est cathedral builded by modern civiliza-
ton. The cornerstone of the temple IS
Plymouth Rock. The Declaration of In
dependence and our matchless constitution
are Embedded in the foundation thereof.
The superstructure has been reared block
by block with years of toll by patriotic
and able craftsmanship. This fair and
noble achievement, this matchless fabric,
Ill guarded, neglected profaned and mu-
tilated while in the custody of republican
officials, left open thus to the attack OF
vandals, socialists and alien anarchists
is menaced with destruction. II the threat
oned ruin COMES. the happiness of the new
world will forever fail and the great
march of modern civilization and true
progress will be forever stayed.
ut is not the wild. swirling. cruel meth
DDS of revolution and violence that are
needed to correct the abuses incident to
our government as to all things human
Neither material nor moral progress lies
that way. We have made our government
and our complicated institutions by ap-
peals to reason, seeking to educate all our
people that day after day. they may see
more clearly, act more justly, become
more and more attached to the fundamen-
tai ideas that underlie our society. If We
are TO preserve undiminished the heritage
beoueathed us and add to 1t those ac-
cretions without which society would per-
ish, we shall need all the powers that
the school, the church, the court the de-
Lucrative assembly and the quiet thought
of our people can bring to bear.
1--WE are all about to do battle against
4. ST .f x,s4l4 -
ton and liberties and the hordes of ig-
norance which are pushing forward only
to the ruin of our social and governmental
ia brio and their own damnation.
Too long has the country endured the
offenses of the leaders of a party which
once knew greatness. Too long have We
been blind to the bacchanial of corruption
Too long have we listlessly watched the
assembling of the forces that threaten our
country and our firesdes. The time has
come when the salvation of the country
demands the destruction of the leaders of
dehauched party and the restoration to
place and power of men of high ideals who
will wage law against both rich and poor.
AMI who will treat guilt as personal and
punish 1t accordingly.
For their crimes against American citi-
zensaip the present leaders of the repub-
lican party should be destroyed.
For making and keeping the bargain to
take care of the tariff in consideration OF
campaign they should be destroyed.
For encouraging the creation of COM
binations to restrict trade and refusing
to enforce the law, for like considera-
ton, they should be destroyed.
| For the lavish waste of public funds;
| for the fraudulent disposition of the peo-
pies domain and for their contribution
TO division of the people into classes
| they should be destroyed.
| For the efforts to seize for the ex-
elusive development of the federal gov
eminent powers rightfully belonging to
| the states they should be destroyed.
"All destruction will be theirs this very
| year if we but DO our duty.
What is your duty? To think alike as
| to men and measure? Impossible, even for
| our great party there is not a reactionary
among us.
inevitably human that we shall not all
agree that in single highway is found
the only road to progress. or each make
! the same man of all our worthy candi-
dates his first choice.
| 1T is possible, however, and 1t Is our
duty to put aside all selfishness, to consent
| oheerfully that the majority shall speak
| for each of us and to march out of this
| convention shoulder to shoulder, heralding
the praises of our chosen leader. and that
will be his due, whichever of the honorable
and able men now claiming our attention
be chosen"