The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1892-07-26
A Hot Campaign in Alabama.


A Hot Campaign in Alabama.
The democratic newspapers OF Ala
bama are vigorously denouncing the re-
cent speech delivered at Opelika by one
Bowman who seems to be Kolb's leading
campaign orator.
Bowman in his talk to the negroes about
the democratic whites said:
l am in favor of killing them II they don't
count it right. They have said that can't
win this fight If we don't so over their dead
bodies. l for one am willing to have them go
over my dead body to SECURE you in the right
of voting for whom ydu please and casting
your ballots unmolestef. l had rather see
Mobile bay filed with l'nkerton'S detectives,
the banks of every river and creek In Alabama
lined with federal bayoIetS and crimson with
blood, than see you deprived of the privilege
of voting for whom y9u please
Other speeches have been made Oh the
same line, and Kolb'$ supporters declare
that they will go to the polls with shot
guns and see the negro vote counted.
1t is the scheme of these men to excite
the negroes in the black belt and induce
them to go armed to the polls to bulldoZe
the few whites in those counties who are
going to vote the democratic ticket. Such
methods will not win. The white demo-
Gratis of Alabama viii not allow the cleo
ton to be run by q mob, and The Mobile
Register makes this pbint:
If the black vote SHOULD come ont with shot
guns ut the polls the RESULT would be that the
managers would close the polls. We OPP
posed to the shotgun parade, but If Kolb is
inclined to go into that kind OF theatrical
amusement it might bd well for our Jones
friends to consider the DcODrjptY of getting
up q bogus shotgun parade the part OF
Kolb'S negro followers, and thus enable the
managers to yield to Intimidation and close
the boxes.
If kolb's champions cannot map out
a better plan of ca mpaign their chief
should call them in alt once. The white
people of Alabama and other southern
states are not anarchists. They know
how to hold an orderly election and pro-
tect every class of voters and they are go
ing to do it. But this shotgun talk must
stop. 1t encourages laWlesSneSS, and If
carried into effect would MeXicaniZe this
part Of the country. Let us haye' no
more of 1t.
The republican organs are becoming
alarmed at Senator Hills silence. He'll
wake them up long before they are ready
for him.
Safe Bank Currency.
The Richmond Dispatch, referring TO
the fact that the Vincennes Qnd.) bank
is In q deplorable state of insolvency,
remarks:
Yet nobody is afraid of being caught
with any of the circulating notes on hand,
and nobody will look lat the notes i'll his
pocket to ascertain whether he has any of
them or not"
We have seen such statements as this
before and the cOmplAcency with which
they are put forward as an argument i'll
favor of a perpetuatipn of the national
bank system has given us special cause
for wonder. AT the outside, this bank
could not have had more than 100000
in notes in circulation, and the proba-
bility is that 1t is nea rer S3O,OOO let us
say $4,000. If the notes had been worth
less the loss would have been about
$4,000, but the notes are good and the
unprotected depositOfs lose S4oO,OOO,
which is the amount the able president
Is said to have made way with. OF what
nrotit is it to man tb save his $40 note
and lose his 5000 deposit?
We repeat here what we said the other
day. that the public has lost moro by the
insolvency of national banks since the war
than it ever did by Wildcat banks. we
merely make this point to show that there
can never be absolute perfection in a sys-
TEN invented and maintained by human
beings.
We desire to call the attention OF The
Richmond Dispatch to the fact that the
system bv which the notes Of national
banks are secured WAS borrowed from
the state banks 1t wds perfected by Mil
lard Fillmore when, as state comptroller,
he had charge of the finances OF New
York It was in opera ton in New York,
Massochlset :. and perhaps other states,
and was Incorporated in the national
banking system.
We have alluded to this before, but 1t
o,,oht to he a very interesting fact to those
who take it for granted that the notes of q
state bank cannot be promptly secured;
that by some hOcus-pocus, the circulation
of any bank will be llnsOund unless the
security is deposited in the bosom, SO to
speak, of the federal government.
Yet it is impossible for the federal gov