The menace. [volume] (Aurora, Mo.) 1911-1920, 1918-06-22
1 n HE statewide democratic
tH primary election will be
III held throughout Alabama

PRIMARY eleCClOn VIII D(
Ml held throughout Alabama
A on August 13, this year
and entered therein for the gu
bernatorial nomination, which
is the equivalent of election, are
five candidates, two being bright
as FURNISHED brass on the burn.
ing, all-consuming principle Of
anti-papalism, while the remain.
ing trio are of that dull-thud Of
mind so common to the genera,
run of politicians.
Thos. E. Kilby, incumbent
acknowledgement of the state
stands like the REAL MAN that
he is squarely and vigorously
against the encroachments and
aggressions of Romanism in
state and nation; and John H.
Wallace, Jr., state game and fish
warden, faces him rectangularly
with the declaration to the elec-
torate of the state that he de-
fends the intrigues and machi-
nations of popery. Thus the
line between these two positive
minds is made so plain that a
congenital fool can see the di..
vision.
The three minor candidates
for gubernatorial honors, Messrs.
John Purifoy, W. W. Brandon,
and Charles Teasley, irresolute
as to the white-hot issue of the
contest, would thank you for
your vote, particularly second
choice, even thirds acceptable" 4"
Each of these is known jocularly
over the state as "old second
choice" Not one Of these can
didates makes any appeal to the
electors. This old saw sums I'D
what the people of Alabama
think Of this trio: "Stand for
something, even though you but
reveal your incapacity to stand
for anything; the neighbors will
understand"
On August 9, 1916, more
than a year before the great
anti-Catholic revolutionary up
heaval in the Birmingham elec-
tion, wherein the present cap
ital anti-papal municipal ad-
ministration, headed by Mayor
N. A. Barrett, M. D., and which
administration is an amazing
success, and at a time when
the cowardly politicians of Bir-
mingham and Alabama were
afraid to declare themselves
on the subject of popery, Thos.
E. Kilby, in a public address
to the Confederate Veterans at
Sulphur Springs, Calhoun coun-
ty, wherein he resides, boldly
(for the politicians so consid-
cred it at that tirne) challenged
papal autocracy to mortal duel
with the electorate of Alabama
as referee. Mr.. Wallace prompt
ly interposed himself vicariously
between Kilby and popery-and
he Is now sorry he "done" 1t,
too-and hence the altogether
unequal combat Is between
Thos. E. Kilby and Wallace.
Well, you know, "fools rush in
where angels fear to tread"
The Birmingham Age-Herald
of August 10, 1916, reported the
lieutenant governors lengthy |
Sulphur Springs address in full. |
from which account the SUBJ
Joined excerpts are culled: |
'T have addressed you as comrades,
and since you know ! am too young
to have followed you in the '6Os, you
wonder why / chose that salutation.
] did 30 because I, conceive of COM
radeship as being spiritual and not
physical; because ! can 20 back in
spirit and become one with you, Just
as you become young again in con-
temptation of Sthose heroic days of
trial that lifted mems souls to i'm
mortal heights. A great poet has
said that all souls are Of one age,
and 1t Is as a comrade that love to
mingle with you and look into your
faces and read there the lines that
tell me you have become great in
spirit through the sufferings you
Have borne. Suffering and sacrifices
have ever been precedent to peace,
liberty, freedom and life more abun-
dant. Man is born into this life
through suffering. It seems a part
of Gods divine tempering process
that he should continue to suffer and
to sacrifice, in order to reach a high
er stature. It was true with the
ancientsi true In the day sf Nssss; /