The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-05-31


 In Birmingham. Thousands abandoned the city. but ex-Governor Jones remained with his stricken people, and was made the chairman of their Relief Committed. which old splendid work throughout the trying season.
 State Military Service
 The martial instinct was never dis couraged In this paroled soldiers varied scenes of life. As soon as the State gn srnment was organized after the War, he formed and commanded an in- dependent company of volunteers to re- port to the Governor. Conditions were most hazardous to the public safety. This organization. under Major Jones. vas probably a feature of general movement organized in Montgomery. At any rate, the late Mak F. C. Randolph Of that town. a distinguished calvary officer of Forests Corps. came then into the Canebrake plantations with authority from Montgomery to appoint officers who would summon citizens to loin in the protection of the white people and he appointed the late Mai John William Tayloe of Marengo. a large landholder. and also veteran of the Army of North ern Virginia, as Captain In that com muaity.
 Gov. Edward A. O'Neal. a soldier by instinct Brigadier General of fame in the Confederate Army expressed his ex- plicit confidence in Colonel Jones as commander. and paid him the honor. dear to a subordinate. to request the withholding of a rroffered resignation until at least the Governe~'s own term should expire. The State troops, officers and men held him in esteem SO high that none equalled him.
 Public Addresses
 Mir. Jones and Senator Morgan. among public men of Alabama, were distin- guished in the capacity of combination orator and essayist. Tn 1870 Major Jones was invited to Winchester, Va. to de- liver the Charge to the Knights" and the coronation Address" at an approach ing tournament. Tn 1874 he was selected Memorial Day at the cemetery In Mont gcmery
 His speech on this occasion was a most remarkable one. exciting nation wide interest and remark He appealed to the South, saving: Honor to noble foes is the warriors highest courage. We can bequeath to our children nobler legacies .than discords and hates"
 The speech was delivered in the very heat of the days of the preparation of the white people to make their final desperate campaign of 1874.
 A lady in Ohio read the press reports. Her husband and two sons had fallen in the war She sent to the orator hand some silver cup, upon which was engraved these pathetic words; "A Northern Woman Widowed and Bereft of Her Sons by the War"
 few years later Major Jones was in- vited to Marietta, O., to attend a re- union of the Grand Army of the Re- public and receive from them a hand some gold medal upon which. with other patroitic words, were Inscribed the two sentences just quoted from the speech and that were engraved on the cup. The event at Marietta was published generally in the Northern press and excited re- markable attention among the papers there. The impression then made In the North survives to this day.
 In contrast in 1897 the Ladies Memorial Association of Montgomery completed their labor, of thirty and odd years. In the building of the very noble monument. now seen on the capitol grounds, erected to the honor of the fallen Confederate sol diers and sailors.
 As the Association employed itself m preparation for the event, they besought Ex-Gov. Jones to deliver the dedicatory address, at the unveiing of the four mar ble statutes, mounted around the shatt: a calvaryman facing westward with saber and spurs; an infantryman with rifle facing southward: an artilleryman facing tdStWdTQ, WltI Aopt anu II seiiioi ietNiir, northward. An heroic stasute of Liberty stood on the apex. The Ex-Governor re- piled, "an orator should be found for so great an occasion." He was peremptorily admonished to consider himself selected. A vast throng, from various counties, as- sembled. The address was most appro- priate and inspiring. Among other para graphs of sympathetic tone was this; '.The impartial voice of history will de- clare that the Southern States, In assert ing the constitutional right of Secession, did not enter upon rebellion.
 Twice Elected Governor
 In the spring of 1889, Col. Jones declared himself in the Montgomery Advertiser a candidate for the nomination by the State Convention of the Democratic and White Mans Conservative Party for Gov ernor. The convention was not due to meet until the summer of 1890 No other candidate announced until late in Decem- Der. when Capt. R. F. Kolb published his candidacy in The Age-Herald.
 Kolb was accepted as the candidate or the farmers. The farmers were organ ized upon several distinct propositions of reform: repeal of charter of national banks, government issue of all money, the volume to be $50 per capita of population, free and unlimited coinage of silver and gold; war against trusts; the primary election for all candidates All of these. severally and collectively, were substan- tially principles of the State democracy. What was the difference between Jones and Kolb, candidates before the one con vention for nomination to the same office
 State Convention of 1890
 The State Convention assembled in the capitol on Wednesday. May 2s. 1890 R. F Kolb, Joseph F. Johnston. William Richardson. James Crook and Thos. G. Jones were placed before it promptly. and amidst most intense excitement. for the nomination for governor. Balloting was continued until Saturday, Saturday all the candidates. save Jones and Kolb were withdrawn. One ballot. taken Saturday morning, gave Jones 32 majority and the nomination.
 Jones was undoubtedly the most accept able nominee the convention could have selected from the candidates. considering the view of the general public.
 On Saturday morning the capitol and grounds were crowded with the public. assembled to await Jones' formal nom ination expected. After the one ballot Henry D. Clayton. KoIb's fioor-leader, called upon the convention to nominate Jones by exclamation. As soon as the usual formalities within the hall closed, the nominee was placed in an open car riage. drawn by four horses. brass band opened. the cheering multitude fell Into line and great procession of honor escorted him to the Excuange Hotel No corresponding honor had ever been paid to nominee
 B. M. Long became the republican nom- inee in opposition. Jones defeated him by more than T.000 majority.
 Inauguration, 1890
 The most imposing spectacle of It's kind ever witnessed, even to this day was the In n cyI1 ro nf ,1at.