The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1892-08-09
IN THE CORRIDORS.
Interesting Chat Heard at the
Different Hotels.

j. II. Hall, OF Dothen, Ala, who has
been spending the summer with rela-
tlves in Tazewell county, was In the city
yesterday, and in regard to politics in
his State said: while I have not been
at homo during the hottest of the cam
paign nevertheless understand the sit
uation pretty thoroughly. So long as
he considered that there was any chance
for him Kolb was a good Democrat but
whom he at last came to understand
that Democratic gubernatorial light
ming seldom strikes small timber he ut
once became the head and front of the
Farmers Alliance movement. hoping
to receive the nomination, draw all of
the isms' to his support, and, by reit-
Grating the assertion OF his sound De-
mocracy, draw enough disconnected
Democrats to his standard to elect him.
Nor were his myrmidons and henchmen
slow to avail themselves of the uncer-
tain negro vote by such means as they
could reach him.
However, tho true blue Democrats
understood Kolb all along and knew
how to meet him at every point along
the line. We would have looked upon
alo OAcCb1Oh dS W d 06puD-
lican victory and hence the bitter ness
of the fight. But from the beginning
it was a we'll known fact that Kolk
could not be elected. The Democrats
Of Alabama remind me OF an i'll as
sorted couple that were tenants on my
fathers place when l was boy. They
would have a good old fashioned family
row in which the socalled better half
of the copartnership would come out
second best.
Several efforts were made by their
neighbors to part the combatants, and
it invariably ended in both of them
jumping on the kindly hearted mediator
and giving him sound f1ogging. So
long as they are left to themselves the
Democrats of my State will split up in
factions and isms and quarrel and fight
among each other with heroism worthy
of q better cause, but the moment any
other party intrudes itself the old differ
| ences are forgotten, they all unite and
| the result is that the fate Of the in
truder can only be compared to that of
Pompeii and Herculonum.
Eyes, | am aware of the fact that
charges of fraud are freely made by
both sides, but it strikes me that in
order for fraud to be extensively used
| in an election a great deal of money is
hCSOooatJ- w uOG hnOW dUOuI UQo
| Kolb faction, but 1 am sure that very
little money was spent by the Alabama
Democrats, for the truth is they did not
have it to spend. Governor Jones is a
poor man. he would not permit his
friends to spend money to elect him to
office, and if he were rich he would be
above buying votes to defeat any man
or party. Perhaps after all there is
| very little in this talk of fraud at the
polls. The defeated side must always
have someone to abuse, and it is seldom
that either will do justice to it's oppo-
nent.
Eyes, sir. my section Of the State is
improving very rapidly. A few years
| ago whore Dothen now stands was o
cross roads store and q big opring of
cold water. The Alabama Midland rail-
way passed through and our city sprang
up as though by magic from nothing to
six thousand population. The entire
southeastern part of the State has been
apparently in a. lethargic condition
since the war, until g. few years ago,
when it began to improve, and now il is
my opinion that not even the wonderful
growth of this beautiful region greatly
| Surpasses ours"
S. M. Meyers, OF Harrisburg, Pa, was
at the Ponce de Leon Hotel yesterday
| "hiN IL AOSoA0 w VIC pOlltlCdl SITUATION
in Pennsylvania said: cit is indeed
difficult to tell what affect. if any, the
late troubles at Homestead will have in
the fall elections. Many of the people
in that region are foreigners, not en-
titled to vote and many of them know
so little about the situation th at they
will vote as directed. Pennsylvania, out
side of Philadelphia and Pittsburg, is
| Democratic.
my opinion is that in that State, as
elsewhere, this fall will witness more
independent voting than the country
has ever known before. People @
about tired of being manipulated as a
party machine and they are beginning
to think for themselves and they will
vote accordingly. OF this l feel certain
that Pennsylvania will not go Eepubli-
can by anything like 80 large majority
| as it gave Harrison in 1888"
| Woman Was the Cause.
Richard Duffiebower, we'll known in
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