The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-11-05
In Address He Urges Every Patriotic Citizen to Vote
 for Wilson Today
ISSUES INVOLVED THE
 MOST IMPORTANT EVER
O'Neal Predicts Overwhelming Victory of Wilson, Who Desires People and Not Special Interests
 Shall Rule


 Montgomery, November 4-(Speeial.)- Earnestly appealing to every patriotic citizen of the state, regardless of his past political affiliations to join with the dem ocrats tomorrow. Tn the fight for indus trial and political freedom and for a gov ernment free to serve all classes of our people," Governor O'Neal this afternoon, on the eve of his departure for his home, in Florence, issued an appeal to the voters of Alabama.
 In his address to the voters of the state Governor O'Neal called attention to the fact that in Governor Wilson the party has candidate worthy of the enthu- siastic support of every patriotic citizen who desires dissolution of the partner ship which has so long been established between the government and special in- | terests."
 Governor ONeal declares that the issues involved in the present campaign have l been the most important that have en- gagged the attention of the American peo- pie since the close of the civil war. Shall the government be free to serve all the people or shall it contine under the dom l ination of the special interests?' asked the governor. He predicts the overwhelm- ing victory of Governor Wilson and ex- presses himself as delighted with the pros poets for democratic government for the next four years.
 l The Governors Address l Governor ONeal's address to the people is as follows:
 "An Appeal to the Voters of Alabama
 Tn the closing hours of the campaign on the eve of my departure for Florence to cast my ballot deem it my duty to make this final appeal.
 Our confidence of victory, strength ened by reports from all sections of the country should not lessen our ardor or chill our enthusiasm. We should not over look the fact that the issues involved in this campaign are the most important that have engaged the attention of the Amer ican people since he close of the civil war | the issues of life or death Shall the | government be free to serve all the peo- pie or shall it continue under the domina- tion of the special interests? Neither fac tion of the republican party, whether led by MT. Taft or Colonel Roosevelt, offers any relief. They both advocate the con tinuation of that system of high protec- tive tariff which has checked the growth and expansion of American commerce and industry, which has enormously in- creased the cost of living, caused period- cal panics and business porstration, which has driven the American merchant marine from the high seas, and which by the l destruction of competition has fostered | monopoly and special privilege, lowered the moral and political tone of the coun- try, and which has encouraged the union ot crooked business with crooked politics 1 and under the false pretense of protect- ing the wage earner has made harder and more grinding his struggle for existence. | In every speech which he has delivered Governor Wilson has earnestly sought to | impress upon the minds of the American people the unmstakable truth that mon opoly is not only economic and industrial but political, slavery. That social and | economic injustices exist all parties ad- init. but the third party and the repub- | lican party offer only the remedy of reg | ulated monopoly. | For only two years during the past 5n has the democratic party had any power | to translate its programme into legisla- | tion.
 During that long period we have seen uusts and monopoles grow from few dozen to many thousands, shielded and | fostered by an unjust and unwise sys- | tenn of tariff taxation. It has been truly | said that instead of the government reg | ulating monopoly under the rule of the l republican party monopoly has regulated the government. Through enormous can- paign contributions they have dictated the nominations and shaped the policies of the republican party. fixed it's tariff schedules and imposed such burdens upon the American people as the greed of the special interests might suggest. Both the republican and progressive parties pro pose to regulate monopoly. The demo cratic party opposes this plan because it would only strengthen the bonds of our industrial and political slavery. The dem ocratic party does not propose to injure any legitimate industry It only proposes to open wide the doors of opportunity and dlslodge monopoly from it's entrenched position. It wants no favored monopo- lstic class established and maintained hy law by which the great masses ot our people would be condemned as hewers of wood and drawers of water because
 egalized monopoly had shut the door of opportunity in their faces. It has been truly said that no individual has monop- oized or controlled the industries of the country because the span of human life Is too short and uncertain and individual wealth too insufficient. It has only been through the agencies of the law by the consolidation and merger of various cor pcrations shielded and protected by an unjust system of taxation that competi- ton has been crushed out, individual en- terprise destroyed unreasonable profits exacted and monopoly established. The democratic party absolutely denies tha. the greatest development or the most lasting and permanent prosperity can lcome through closing to men and women