The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-10-27

resident Harding
 1 know. he will serve us well, honor
 Ing himself, his friends and neigh
 bors. and the land for which he | speaks
 Tribute to Bankhead
 ''But I must speak of another Ala
 baiua friend. with a genuine sorrow
 that he is no longer here to join with l you in your cordislity of welcome. l had deep respect for dear, old Sem
 ater Bsnkhead, and know we
 shared affectionate personal regards
 In him you had and the nation had a
 stalwart statesmen and fearless de-
 fender.
 T hope 1t is not unseemiy to relate
 personal incident which strangely { touched me. Amid the early precon-
 vention speculation my name was
 mentioned as a possible candidate for l the presidency. One day. Senator
 Bankhead beckoned me to his com
 mittee room. and in the fellowshi
 of man to man, he said: Harding |
 am southern democrat l do not know how the 1920 election Is going
 to result, but # we are to have a re- publican President. l want you to know some of us Alabama democrats
 would rather see you In the executive office than any republican we know.
 If can give you any pointers. or any
 personal influence In Alabama to help nominate, do not hesitat to call
 upon me
 Naturally, I treasure that expres- sion of friendship, but revere his memory because of his wisdom, his unfailing courage, and his inspiring l Americanism, his reverence for our inherited institutions, the preserva- tion of which Is the security of our republic
 1 Captain Bankhead made every
 sacrifice Tn hts devotion to the Con- i federste cause. which was happily 1 lost I saw him one day, in line with
 tn Confederate veterans in reunion,
 wearing the uniform in which he | fought lie wore 1t proudly. too, and l saluted him with affectionate re-
 gard because I knew that in a proud | Confederate's heart there throbbed 1 passionate love for our reunited country.
 Hue and Gray "Somehow I wished for him only a
 few days ago. It was my fortune to
 visit the marines in camp on the bat tleground of The Wilderness. Az guests of the marines, informally and
 without premeditation. was a group ] Of Civil war veterans, half of them 1 in blue and half In gray. When I
 greeted them a picture was sug- gested, and suddenly we found our
 selves posed, the Tanks in blue flanking my right, the Confederates In gray flanking my left. Just as the
 cameras were about to click, some
 one proposed that we alter the pose and instead of having the blue on the right and the gray on the left, we blend the blue and the gray. No
 flank movement was ever so quickly
 executed. and the President was flanked by blue and gray on both sides.
 That was a symbol of the rededi-
 cation, out of the old order which settled indissoluble union and tri-
 umphant nationality for all succeed 1 ing time, and every heart was in I unison. fetoicing in our common country. more costly and more l sanguinary rededication was made when the sons of the south and the 1 sons of the north touched elbows in defending the flag in war for Cuban ] liberation, and again a still more costly sacriflcial offering was made l in 1917. when America entered the 1 World war
 q recall that the first Ohio boys to bear the flag of new world lib- erty to aid threatened freedom In Europe came to Alabama for their training. and they caught the spirit of your devotion, Just as they im- pressed you with their determine ton. and your sons and our sons brayed the seas together, and gave new courage to our allies In Europe, | and won new glories and a new con- sciousness for the American people. Work for Peace. l United conservation for war shall never be challenged again. Our tasks now lie in applied concord and no less patriotic devotion In solving the ! problems of peace. These are not easy tasks. A world disordered amid the upheavals of war is not readily put in order again, and nations torn by the fever of conflict are not read fly restored to normal ways But we shall succeed. Unshaken l By the world cataciysm. we hold our foundations to be eternally right. The nation which withstood the interne- cine conflict. so heroically fought as the Civil war. will tolerate the threat of no minority which challenges the supremacy of law or endangers our common welfare.
 There will never come the day when the rights of any minority are denied, however formidable or weak 1t may be, but no minority shall ever challenge the supremacy of the rule of law.
 The readjustments and the res storations of peace are not easy. War invariably leaves its impress on the industrial and financial life of every participating people. With all my heart I crave | better and higher ip- dustrial state. as a compensation for
 the sacrifices made. But we can no more maintain the abnormal heights that we can favor the return to the old-time levels. There must be- there is---a righteous mean between these two extremes, and we mean to find it. It will be 8 lawful pursuit, orderly In our practices, and revsrent for the government, where justice Is supreme and the law is our security. Decovates Bare.
 At the conclusion of hts address President Harding. In q few words. conferred distinguished service medal awarded by Congress upon Col Walter E. Bare. The President spoke feelingly of the interest which he personally felt in the bravery of this division in that boys from, his own home town. Marion. Ohio, were rep resented in this outfit.
 Among those seated at the speak CTS table with President and Mrs. Harding were Sydney J. Bowie. Mrs. Bowie, Senator and Mrs. Underwood,
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