The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1892-05-06
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Gov. JONES, of Alabama, will still
be Governor Jones, of Alabama, after
the next election. He now has
enough instructed votes to make his
election sure. Gov. Jones is to Ala
bama what Judge Turney is to Ten
nessee, the Moses of Democracy; and
AIF. KOlb is to Alabama what Mr..
Buchanan is to Tennessee, the Jonah
to the Alliance.
Gov. Jones and Judge Turney OPP
ened their campaigns very much
alike; that was, a public exposure of
the Alliance as political party, and
an open and direct attack upon the
political demands of that party.
Gov. Jones was the first to lead off,
and such another hue and cry as
was raised against him by the Oca-
Iaites, was never heard before. They
grew red in the face and tore their
hair and ploughed up the earth. In
some counties they declared that a
man who would fight "the reasonable
and Just demands of our noble or
der" and wantOnly attack the honest
yeomanry of the country, should not
speak in their boundaries. They not
only threatened the Governor of the
State with personal violence, but
they swore eternal political damna-
ton to any and every man who dared
proclaim himself a Jones man,
And when they had bulldoZed to
their hearts content, then they COM
nd oh nj
Munchausen! how they did lie! They
claimed not only Alabama, but the
whole earth and to the middle of the
river on both sides the stream. The
labor elements of the cities, they said,
were wild for Kolb, and the bone and
sinew of the country were running at
the mouth for him. Jones would no:
carry a civil district in the State;
KOlb had it all.
The cOntagion spread. 1t extended
into Tennessee and that Christian
gentleman and patriotic statesman,
the deIectable John Henry from DE
Shea, was deceived and beguiled and
unwittingly builded castles as high
as the best of them. And the little
OcaIaites of Maury opened their
mouths and brayed and raised their
heels and danced the can-can.
This continued until the people,
through tseir county conventions.
began to talk aud instruct their dele
gates. These Instructions fell like
dull, sickening thud upon the OcslA-
ties, both there and mere; and as the
word passed down the line their
mouths closed.
History is repeating itself. Like
nroduoes like. Tennessee Ocalaites
frothed at the mouth and swore all
last winter. Now they are Dragging.
In another month they will be whist
ling to keep their courage up. When
the convention meets they will probA-
bIy be in it IN one sense OF the word,
In another sense they will not.
The OcaIaites met here yesterday
by appointment. The program was
tn make q show. The purpose WAS to
deceive the people. They claimed
srventeen districts out of twenty-five.
Among the seventeen they included
the Columbia box. They have no
more chance OF carrying the Columbia
box than John Mcdowell has OF
going to heaven; but they claimed it,
They claimed about nine others that
they will never carry. And they
know it. They are simply blowing
bluning, Dragging and claiming, will
fully, purposeIy and premeditatedly
to.deceiye the people, hoping that
some will think they are strong and
fail in with the crowd.
The recklessness OF their claims
shows their insincerity and their
fAlseness, and will deceive few il any.
The .TOrney men are not saying
much, not doing much but Judge
Turney will carry the county just the
same, because It 10 q Democratic
county and IL opposed to the ocala
demands.