The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-11-08
Hundreds Gather i'm City to
Observe Tooth Anniver-
sary of Victory Over
the Indians
UNDERWOOD AND
BLACKMON CHIEF
SPEAKERS OF DAY.
Memorial Formally Presented by
ID. A. R.-Big Parade Feature
of Notable Exercises-City
in Gala Dress
sy HUGH W. ROBERTS

TaIadega, November 7.--(special. .)-one
hundred years ago today Andrew Jack
son crushed the Creeks near the SPOT
where Talladega stands
This event the city of Talladega cele-
brated today.
Every house here was decorated in hags
and bunting and the schools declared
holiday. Shortly after the noon hour the
parade occurred At the opera house,
with music and patriotic addresses, tho
ceremony was continued. Later. at the
federal building. the tablet eommemorat-
ing the historic dead was unveiled.
The celebration was under the auspices
of the Andrew jackson chapter of the
Daughters OF the American Revolution.
The orator was Oscar w. Underwood, the
democratic leader of today. The tablet
was received in behalf of the government
by Congressman Fred L. Blackmon of this
district. In behalf of the city it was
received by j. Wellington Vandiver, mayor
and president of the board of commits
sioners. The tablet was unveiled by Miss
Mltte MeElderry,.
A feature of the day was the appearance
and faithful work Of the famous band of
the Boys Industrial school
Hundreds Had Gathered
To hear Mr.. Underwood, many hundred
men, women and children gathered. The
orator was in fine fettle save for bad
throat. Without attempting to stir his
auditors with oratoricaf flights. the states
man contented himself and thrilled his
| hearers by a simple though forceful ac-
count of the stirring deeds of a hundred
| years ago. He told in sympathetic toAs
Of the little band OF faithful pennies
/ in Fort Lashley, surrounded by Yelling
! bloodthirgty Indians, and doomed to die
| under torture: of how a friendly Indian,
Selocta, disguised in the skin of hog,
| left the fort, penetrated the lines of the
warriors dreaming of the gore to be spilled
on the following day, and after an ardu-
Gus and dangerous journey, during which
] he forded the Coosa, reached the head
quarters of General Jackson: OF how the
general put his army in motion, held his
men together on the march despite mutiny
repeatedly threatened, and how eventually
he surrounded the Indians and destroyed
them.
Jackson Prominent
Mr.. Underwood stated that Jackson was
the most prominent figure in American
history between the time of George Wash
ington and Abraham Lincoln. He drew
from the struggle of a hundred years ago
the lesson of the survival of the fittest
The democrat was given a great demon-
stration. 1t was said on the streets fol-
lowing his address: There was on this
spot hundred years ago great man.
Andrew jackson; today there IS another
Oscar w. Underwood
As Told by Mr.. Williams
The story Of the stirring events of today
in the celebration of which Talladega
scored signal triumph is told far bet
ter than ] could tell it by Thomas r.
Williams, the star man of Our Mountain
Home:
Under a genial southern sky, to the
strains of martial music. as Old Glory
fioated In a caressing breeze from fiagstafr
and housetop, and amid decorations gay
and inspiring, while hundreds of happy
and prosperous people of a city that now
In part rests upon the field OF carnage OF
100 years ago, thronged it's streets Talla-
dega and the guests within her gates gave
enthusiastic and hearty expression to its
patriotic nature and In fitting manner
and entirely with credit celebrated the
one hundredth anniversary of the battle
Of Tallade"a which was fought 100 years
ago on November .. 1913. with Andrew
Jackson's Tennessee Volunteers and
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