The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-01-17

Let the young boys and young girls begin to plan life early-nurse their childish dreams-they are sowing seed for usefulness. We cannot build any thing without some kind of plan and certainly nothing is so worth wh'le as our own character building. There IS no human structure perfect, but 1t is never at it's best unless it is fitted Tor Guty-ready to put their best efforts in some worthy calling--to know what appeals to their nature and where best they can please and then work
 "He who follows one thing and but che is sure to achieve it before life ends be done.
 But he who follows all things and
 not one
 
 Henderson you again definitely and emphatically affirmed and ratified your former verdicts. The election of Mir. Henderson was conceded by the most ardent prohibitionists to be a re- rudiation by the people of this state of the propaganda which had been so in- dIstriously promoted by the .Anti-Sa- loon league.
 In that same campaign the same question was at issue between the can- didates for United States senator and i1 electing MT. Underwood you again showed that your deep attachment to the vital principle of local self -gcvern- me mt Was intense and burning and at the same time conferred well earned honor upon a great and national char acter.
 Until convention of the democratic party of Alabama repeals these blanks of these platforms they are and Will continue to be law. binding upon the consciences of those who receive com , a n bands of democratic electors. No con vention has assembled to abrogate or impair tnese emphatic declarations of political faith Not even when prohi- bitionists, masquerading as democrats, were in full charge of the executive committee. did they dare to ask tie democracy of this state to become party parasites or embrace the political he resies represented in the bills to which | have referred by calling state convention or submitting the issue or state wide prohibition to vote of the people at large. No man can assert the l democratic law may be look ed for else l V here than in the declarations CT a | ccmocratic convention. No man can de- | ny that political principles formu- | lated by the democratic party endure l until the same authority alters CT re- peals them and no man can refute the | assertion that the last and repeated expressions of people and conventions l upon this subject were not unequivocal | emphatic snd binding declaratlcns ln | favor of local option.
 | I express a truism when l say thai 1 whenever candidate seeks the suffrage ] of the people as a democrat he repre- | sents to the electorate that he will bt bound by the pronounced principles ol ! the party. whatever may be his persona 1 views When he Is elected as such. his | .f, nlf peoples acceptance of that offer by his | election, constitutes solemn and bind ing obligation and contract between hin and his constituents that he will bt bound as a representative of the dem ocratic party, by the party platform ano party principles. l, therefore. charge thai members of the legislature, aiding in the passage of these bills, who ran as dem ocrats and were elected as such, con ! tracted with their constituents and the 1 body polite that they would be governed | by and exercise the functions with which l they were invested by the party law as
 declared in the party platform. | Repudiates Contract
 l These members of the legislature have | therefore 1t is clear, repudiated their contracts with their people, and being elected, have abandoned the representa- l tions upon which the offices they occup. were sought and gained.
 ! I know that the constituents of som' 1 of them have not awaited their return | from the attempted assassination of dem 1 ocratic principle to call them to accoun for misrepresenting them in the halls O | the legislature.
 | It is but superficial student of Eng fish history who cannot trace the politica and civil freedom which we enjoy todd, 1 back to its dim and far-off source in tha passion for local self-government tha animated even the savage tribes of an cient Britain. and to which the English
 speaking people have chung with unyield
 ing tenacity through all vicissitudes Tn
 proud race to which we belong has neve
 suffered arbitrary power to Interfere witt or limits its liberties. insisting under al
 circumstances and demanding from al
 political authority the priceless right O local self government and individual lib | erty As consequence we enjoy } l measure of civil liberty and politica freedom that is without parallel anon
 the peoples of the earth.
 Through the bills to which I have re ferred. the legislature takes from yo that right of local self-government yo now possess, which is an inheritance fror l your fathers and which the party plat forms of the state and of the nation hay
 carefully sought to preserve.
 ; From you as citizens it takes the birth right of your race; from you as demo , ,crats 1t takes the cherished principle of your party: as to you, the constituent : of the members voting for these bills,
 breaks their solemn pledge to observ the platform of the party.
 , The legislature has assumed by tn passage of these bills that you are n
 longer capable of self-government. It
 assumed that you, from whom it's men
 bers receive their commissions. you wh : elected them, are too easily debauched { ] exercise longer the privilege of saying LII der what laws you will exist
 It would seem that this legislatur srrongantly assumes that it alone : aise enough. strong enough and sui
 ficiently removed from unwholiy an Ivenal influences to govern you. These things were explicitly said b a leader of the triumphant majorit
 while the rape of your rights WAS be