The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-29
HOBSON ADDRESSES
THE COLBERT VOTERS
Speaks Tuesday in Interest
of Candidacy
OUTLINES PLATFORM
Insists All Representatives Should Go
to Washington With Definite End
in View to Protect and
Develop Alabama
OUTLINES PLATFORM

Tuscumbia, May 2S.-(Special.)-
Richmond Pearson Hobson delivered an
address in the interest of his candidacy
for senator yesterday morning at the
courthouse to an immense audience. He
was introduced by John d. Rather of
this place and for two hours he held
the undivided attention of the entire
assembly
He stated we were living in the
midst of great empire building. He
realized In one sense of the word he
was no politician, having spent Is years
In the navy from the time he was Ia
until he was 80 years. at the very for
native period of a mans character,
but he knew the needs of the country
particularly Alabama, and he was try
ing to meet those needs as far as was
in his power He stated he was not
playing the game of politics and he
was not adapted to it's intracicies. In
this canvass it was his desire to get
the people together and consider the
tasks that were before a representa-
tive of the people, either in the House
or the Senate. Before he commenced
-
to show his policy in regard to wom-
ans suffrage. He explained his plat
form and stated in the coming CAM
paign many things would be said of
him, some true and some otherwise.
He spoke of the natural resources of
the south in regard to agriculture, both
in plant life and live stock. The whole
world was dependent upon the south
for the increasing demand for cotton
Clothes were an actual necessity that
could not be abolished.
I'm her mineral wealth Alabama Is
unsurpassed" declared the speaker
Transportation was better in the
SOUTH" he continued, land the facil-
tiles for getting products to marke,
were increasing. Since the Panama
| canal is on the verge of opening a
new commercial era for the United
States the point of universal distribu-
tion would be changed and from the
Gulf of Mexico the south would senc
her products to the ends of the earth
To-day We send the raw material tc
New England, to be manufactured; we
send the coal to produce the steam by
which the cotton is made into cloth, and
then purchase the cotton from the New
England manufacturers, when we could
manufacture the raw material within
should cooperate with the south IN
controlling the price of the staple. To-
day the price was regulated by cap
italists from New England, and a fight
would be made when a change was
projected, for the capital was already
invested in New England and not IL
the south. Distant markets regulate the
price of our products.
Alabama has iron in quantity and
quality and the furnaces send raw ma
terial to be developed. The water powai
of the Coosa, Black Warrior, Tom
bigbee and the Tennessee was enougl
to turn the wheels of industry all oyel
the south and the time for 1t to bt
utilized was at hand"
He insisted that all representatr YES
who were sent to protect and develor
Alabama should go with a definite enc
in view and that end was to get the
United States to assist in the great en-
pire building of the south.
He closed his address with a most
beautiful eulogy upon the emphasis
that voters should put upon the char
acter of man sent to represent Tho
state, for after all the preservation OF
the integrity of any state depnded upor
the purity of morals, combined with in
tellectuality of the men who repre-
sented her in the council of our nation