The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-10-05
Barrett Addresses TWo
 More Suburban CroWds
No Meeting Will Be Held Tonight But Grand Final Rally Has Been Arranged for Tomorrow Nigh[Explalns East
 Lake Improvement Bonds

body of Birmingham. The work was
 completed under the Birmingham ad-
 ministration. but instead of carrying
 out the terms of the contract I had
 made as mayor of East Lake the city
 of Birmingham, in some manner, by
 somebody, changed the contract and
 issued a general obligation bond,
 pledging the revenues and the full
 faith and credit of the city of Bir-
 mingham to the payment of the bonds
 and interest and making the interest
 payable semi-annually. And in this
 same statement Sydney J. Bowie makes
 concerning the East Lake improve
 ments he gives comparison of the
 prices paid in Birmingham, Ensley and
 East Lake, showing that Birmingham
 paid less than East Lake and Ensl y
 less than Birmingham. If the qualifi-
 cations of city are to be fixed by
 his comparison, then Ensley should
 have absorbed Birmingham instead of
 Birmingham absorbing Ensley
 DISCRIMINATION IN LICENSES
 q have asked George Ward if it Is
 not a fact that a certain merchant on
 Second avenue Is getting a special con-
 cession from the city in his license; if it is not a fact that he has given this merchant a special dispensation to op. crate his stores for $60 a year when his competitors are paying $200 or $250 for the privilege of engaging in the same sort of business.
 T have asked George and his speakers and his evening mouthpiece to tell us of a single constructive measure he has initiated, stating that I would retire from the race if they would do so, but to none of my questions have they re- piled. They simply throw up their hands and tell what bad set the T. A. society are.
 George says that I was brought out I by the organization he calls the T. A. society on a certain Sunday afternoon. | The Sunday afternoon he mentions I had been in the race for several weeks. And 1 I want to say that never before I an- 1 nounced, nor since l announced, has any | man, or any set of men, approached ne l claiming to be members of this organiza- | ton and telling me that I had it's in- | dorsement. l hope, however that have | their indorsement, and the indorsement | of every other society which is lawful | and American and believes in America l and American institutions. And I sus- l pect that from the noise George Ward | is making that I will get the large ma l jority of the votes in this organization l he terms the T. As. If they were not | for me and were for George, we wouldn't l hear much about them.'
 Dr. Barrett read ms platform Of con. | structive and progressive work which ht advocated and would attempt to carry out when elected. He read the principle! |! of the order designated as the T. A. so ciety and said he approved every one O I them He said that after calling upor 1 Mr. Ward for two weeks to tell whether he favored them or not, he had finally swallowed them whole.
 l Dr. Barrett's speech at Fairview wal
 practically the same as that at Centra
 Park Fully 250 people were present il | the Odd Fellows hall and the enthusiasm for the East Lake candidate was mani fested at every opportunity.
 There will be no Barrett meetings to | night, the speakers taking a breathin. spell for the big rally tomorrow nigh at the Jefferson theatre.