The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-10-13
Splemdid Fair and
Large Attendance

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Large Attendance
a GREAT fair was promised and
y no one has cause to feel dis
appointed. Every year marks greater
variety and an increase in the value OF
the farm exhibits and this season wit
nesses the greatest strides of all. The
cattle show at the fairgrounds is moth
ing short of a revelation. AS extern
sive and interesting as the live stock
exhibit was last year, the present ex-
hibit makes all former displays look
small in comparison. The amusement
features are full of thrill and in many
respects surpass those of any previous
year.
State fairs, such as Birmingham
presents, are educational in high de-
gree. No farmer who attends fails to
find an inspiration and none can go
away without feeling directly bene-
fitted. He sees what others have done
and learns how they have done it, and
he makes up his mind to redouble his
cffo-ts in improving his stock and in
increasing crop production, thereby
minimizing the average cost and
adding to the wealth of the state.
But no agricultural or industrial
exhibition can be entirely successful
unless the public shows its apprecia-
ton, 1t is gratifying, indeed, to know
that appreciation is shown in the in
stance of this years State Fair. The
city is full of visitors and the gate re-
ceipts at the fairgrounds are larger
and larger each day. The drop in the
temperature has brought US ideal
weather and bright days and STAR
lit evening will likely continue to
the end of the week. Truly this is
Birmingham's gala time of all the
year.
Wilson Continues to
Arouse Enthusiasm
ID RESIDENT WILSON'S second
. dash into the middle west
aroused wild enthusiasm His visit
to indianapolis was nonpolitical and it
was brief, but demonstrations there
and along the route were spontaneous
and significant If the outpouring of
the multitudes to do honor to the
President means anything it is that
his administration is Endorsed and that
the people will come forward in their
might to vote for him on the 7th Of
next November.
AS on his trip to Omaha last week,
when the ovations in his honor sur
passed anything of the kind known in
many year, the splendid receptions
accorded the President in Indiana and
Ohio were the result, not of an Or
ganized plan, but of feeling that
President Wilson's wonderful achieve
ments have made for peace and pros
perity and that the best interests of
the country demand his reelection.
The contrast between the character
of greeting to President Wilson and
to Mr.. Hughes is having a decided
effect on the contest. The President
has only to show himself anywhere to
set the people aflame with patriotism.
When he makes an address his audi
tors hang upon his words; but alto
xether remarkable and almost un-
parslleled is the tumultuous applause
that fills the air when he simply says:
God bless you, my friends"
Mr.. Hughes is now on an extended
western tour. 1t is the third of his
trips to the region of doubtful states.
He is breaking all records in the num-
Der of campaign speeches delivered,
But he INDUCES in platitudes and says
nothing that rings with the note of
sincerity or that suggests constructive
statesmanship. And because of the
fact that Mr.. Hughes oratory is only
humdrum his audiences grow tired and