The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-09-23
"Spattering Each Other With Yolks of Sparrow
 Eggs" He Terms It
SAYS THE SCENE
 IS DISGRACEFUL
Says He Cannot Understand Why the Newspapers Are Not Lam- basting Him and His
 Campaign

"Spattering each other with the yolkS of sparrow eggs from head to foot was the status that left my two opponents in last Saturday night when I spoke here on this corner, but now things have changed, and you hear one say you are 8 liar, and then it comes back, you are another, until 1t has gotten to be dis graceful" said Commissioner of Public Safety Arlie Barber last night in his ad- dress, appealing to the voters to elect him president of the city commission.
 When a recent commissioner of the city of Birmingham stated on the plat form, in criticism of one of my oppo- nents, for what that opponent had said about the other one, that this opponent would take the dead bodies of his own kin and make fertilizer out of them, l think that was time to call halt. for things had gone beyond the reign of de cency.'
 REFERS TO EDITORIAL
 MT. Barber spoke of the time when Judge Lane put his arm around him after he had defeated Judge Lane and stated that while his present opponents might not put their arms around him, he was going to defeat both of them and then take them to his bosom in an embrace. And" he said. 'I may defeat them in the first race, but surely in the second and they both know that am going to do that"
 MT Barber referred. to The Age-Her- ald,s editorial of July IS, wherein he stated that The Age-Herald lamented the fact that George Ward was retiring from the race and said that the city needed a Pierpont Morgan to lead It ana steer it safely through the snares' lie said that on September 13 they had found this Pierpont Morgan at East Lake, doctor. and that he was now known as the candidate of the man whro had ad- mitted that he had gotten stale at the city hall.
 "Only few days ago, when this commissioner resigned his office, alt CT serving the city for six years, he admitted that he had gotten so stale that he could not stand himself two months longer and that he would nave to get out" continued the speaker.
 SOMEONE ASKS QUESTION
 .I cannot understand what is the matter with the newspapers. They are not lambasting me any more. The re- porters call upon me now when they never used to do so and when l see one coming now I don't know what is ,p ii is so unusual. Only this after noon a message came to me over the phone from a newspaper office and they asked me to state what l thought about my race. told them no. l would not make any statement, because they knew as we'll as I did what I would say that I would be elected, and that they did not want to print that. The young man was nsistent. He stated that AIr. Glass wanted me to make a statement for the News. He said that I could just tell him what l was going to say on the corner. to which I replied that he could come down and hear it. for his paper was not friend- ly to me and that I was not going to he under any obligations to them, and did not want them to print any thing for me"
 Someone asked Mir Barber what he thought of Barrett and he piled: It's what you think of him. and you think hard. too. but don't forget me"
 "The Alabama Power company has never and is not now paying one cent to the support of the government" he said. "and I can't understand how they get away with It. The commits sioner who resigned recently would have his candidate. whom he Is trying to put in the city hall. do the things that he did not do. for he knows that he did not do his duty toward making S the Alabama Power company pay taxes that they should pay"
 Tn conclusion Mir Barber said that any man who did not vote his honest convictions was traitor to the high : est and best that there was in him whether it was a vote for Barber or not.