The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-10-14
AMERICA HAS GOOD REASON ID REJOICE
Seed Here and Lauds Demo- cratic Administration
WILL TAKE STUMP
Lieutenant Governor Declines to Per. nit Campaign Committee to Pay His Expenses in Making
 Tour of State

Instead of complaining in that busi- ness conditions in America are not as excellent ss they have been in the past we should rejoice in that we are not embroiled in internecine warfare.
 Thus spoke Walter D. Seed, lieutenan, governor Of Alabama, who spent yester- day in Birmingham.
 We were presented with invitations to fight continued the lieutenant gov ernor. "We could have offered battle without any material trouble On the other hand, our difficulty lay in prevent ing the wholesale slaughter of American youth, the riling upon the shoulders of the nation, an almost insurmountable debt, the wrecking of business through out the nation
 We were very fortunate in that a democrat was at the head of the govern r1ent and that that democrat was Wood row Wilson Had some other individual been President we might have been at var with Mexico, we might now be em- broiled in the titanic struggle of Euro pean nations. Had a certain individual of whom we can think without effort been President, tEere is little question but that America would be suffering today almost as greatly as France and Germany, Eng land and Belgium, Servia, Austria and Russia.
 Wilson a Blessing
 "The democratic party has accomplished more since MT. Wilson was inaugurated more for the masses of the people than the republican party has ever ac- complished But for the sudden develop ment of the European war, we would be enjoying unprecedented prosperity. In the effect on business which the war has caused, republicans see a fine oppor- tunity to impress the people with the idea that democrats have failed. There is no question, however, but that these tricks will be shown up in their proper light. In Alabama we are going to poll the largest democratic vote ever boiled in this state in a general election We are going to show to the nation that we are heart and soul with the national admin istration, and that in it's ability to leg islate for the comon veal, we have abso- lute confidence. Democrats throughout the nation are going to be returned to power. We will elect democrat Presi- dent two years hence. I predict that the democrats will remain in charge of E the government for the next 25 years all because we have legislated for the masses as against the classes, and have kept out of battle.
 The wars effect on cotton will result fin good in Alabama-and elsewhere in the south. We will begin actual diversified in, oro "a m other words turn the color of the earth from white to green
 Lieutenant Governor Seed while in the city, visited campaign headquarters of the democratic party in the Jefferson County Bank building. He announced that he would be ready to take the stump Oc- tober 26 and remain on the stump from that date to the conclusion of the fight. He declined to permit the campaign com mittee to pay his expenses.
 As matter of fact" he said, 'I feel that it is duty that we all should bow to. We should go abroad and spread the truth about democracy simply because unfortunate conditions, over which we have no power. occurred to check pros- perity and to give an opportunity to the political enemy of the people adversely to c1iticize.''
 Barnes Comes Today
 J. Lee Barnes of Guntersville member of the campaign committee, will reach Birmingham today and he and George B. Tarrant of Birmingham. will have charge of headquarters. Announcement was made yesterday that Borden Burr would, on October 29 and 90, tour St. Clair county, making four or five speeches in the interest of the party. Oscar l.. Gray, congressman-elect of the First con eressional district. is ready to aid in speechmaFing. and will soon be assigned