The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-10-07
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 when he rose to speak, which lasted for quite awhile.
 We are not going to have but one election, and that one is Monday, ne said, and the crowd again went enthusiT astically wild. Amy of you here last night?" he asked. Cries of Yes, sir; yes, sir. Yes. sir -ee," came from hundreds in the audience. and the good hunored up- roar broke out again
 You were told at that performance last night that there was some force waiting back there to put you out 1T you showed desire to be boisterous.
 That Is characteristic of the campaign that has been waged by Ward throughout his whole speaking tour l want to tell you that the character of the campaign that Ward has conducted demonstrates to a certainty his unfitness for the job. Since he has been speaking to the pubic you have grown quite familiar with the Language of the fish market ou LOOK upon all men now with squint or the eye and with a suspicious mind, because your next door neighbor much to your surprise. has turned out to be liar.
 Gan you recall any real intelligent statement or claim for the good of your government that George Ward has made?
 They rail and rant of secret societies. The greatest secret society ever known in the world was known as Young Italy headed by Garibaldi Do you know who they were fighting? They were fighting the pope of Rome.
 George has at last got record. It took us a long time to get it out of him. It was so much easier and so much more natural for him to be cheap and vulgar than to tell the people what he had done or what his hopes for the city were. But we finally got it out of him, and he claims credit for everything but the Ten Com mandments.''
 WOODLAWN MAN SPEAKS
 M. J Land of Woodlawn, the veteran railway conductor, made a brief but characteristic speech. George Ward has gone out of his way to exhibit one of the most disgraceful mudslinging cam paigns we have ever had In this state, he said. George looks upon everyone who is not supporting him as being mighty bad. He says if they don't sup port him they are not true Americans.
 Mcbride said last night that George Ward would get 65 per cent of the labor vote. I want to say that Ward won't get 15 per cent The time has come. thanks to our public schools, when the laborng man does his own thinking, and neither Mcbride, myself or any other leader or supposed leader can tell them how to vote, If we are right, they will listen, but if we are not right they will turn us down."
 A. L. REESE SPEAKS
 "One of the happiest things for me to do is to oppose George Ward for --e- election to the presidency of the com mission," said A. l.. Reese, formerly prin- cipal of the Elyton school T notice on page five of his booklet he claims the credit for ablishing the playgrounds He says that, through his influence he has reached 100000 people.
 Now. I happen to know something about that was principal of the Ely And being interested in the playground movement I had good lot of dealing with MT. Ward. And all the credit. every bit of it. should be given to James Weath- erly. And am not making speech for Mr. Weatherly, but against George Ward. Ward didn't have thing to do with this playground movement except to kill 1t.
 ''The playground movement had prac- tically suspended for the lack of funls There was nothing left but the superin- tendent who was drawing a salary from the city of $1SO0 8 year. An $500 a year superintendent with nothing to superin- tend. I went to the city commission with a delegation and asked that this salary of $500 being paid to superintend- ent be split up so that we could have a supervisor at each of the playgrounds for four months, at the end of whi h time we hoped some means would be provided to continue the work. But George said he wouldn't do 1t; that ne had brought this $1S00 q year superin- tendent here and he was going to keep him, even if there was nothing for him to do
 George Ward claims credit for the