Mississippi leader. (Jackson, Miss.) 1892-1895, 1892-08-18
TIE ALARAMA EMnROGLIO.

THE ALABAMA EMBROGLIO.
The Age-Herald is most disposed
of Alabama Democratic papers to tell
the truth about recent extraordinary
political events in that State. 1t al
most assents to the mixim of the great
founder of Democracy who pronounced
1.-THE voice of the people the voice of
God"
III was bitterly hostile, as a Demo
crat and as man, to Mr. Kolb," said an
Alabamian, who was here yesterday
II deemed Mr.. Kolb personally unwor-
thy, and then, l am straight Cleve-
land Democrat. But when know, as
everybody knows, that a large MAORI
ty of the white people, and of the ne
groes, too, for that matter, have pro-
nounced against Gov. Jones and in
favor of Mr.. Kolb, | deem him cleansed
of all iniquity. In fact, | am COM
PEELED, as citizen and as a man, to
take off my hat and salute Mr.. Kolb as
the Chief Magistrate of Alabama. /
cannot recognize the acts or person of
any individual in this capacity. l can
not approve Mr.. Kolb's extrusion from
office by processes of fraud only to be
tolerated when endured that we may
thus evade subsection to negro desp OF
ism. We tolerated this ballot box
stutfing practice wherever negroes
and knaves were dominant, as in Birm-
ingham, Montgomery, Selma and in
the Black Belt everywhere. We whites,
in these towns and counties, used to
register as voters, that the men,
who fiXed results, might know how
many votes TO cast and only stupid,
honest old souls ever took tho pains to
go, with the innocent darkeys, to the
voting places. The counting and not
the voting always determined results.
In the negro districts we really had no
elections and the returns show that
there have been none in this Jones'
Kolb contest. We tolerated this dis
honest system because we dreaded and
hated more the greater evil of negro
and Republican mastery. Approved"
continued our interlocutor, because
it was matter of life and death. 1t
were wiser to suffer few sharp fellows,
in every town and county, in which
blacks we're most numerous, to manage
our public affairs as they chose, than
incur dangers of Republican domina-
ton. Anything was to be preferred to
the reign of blacks and buzzards that
settled down upon this carbon of free
government left us by our late Rspub-
lican masters"
Mr.. Kolb, whatever may have been
said during the heat and violence of
the late partisan conflict, is now white
as snow in the eyes of Alabamians.
He is of right and should be de fdcto
governor of Alabama. The great poll
ticians and would be senators and other
smaller ballot box suffers should re-
tire for time to private life. They
have served themselves and country as
lOlS 40 bhO pCOpIO hcou CLoIu dLu d Low
class Of political thinkers, even repre-
sentatives of the many and of the poor
and of those who have been digging
tariffs and taxes out of the ground
these many years, propose to have a
hand in practical affairs of government.
However unwise they may be and I'M
practiced, they can do no worse than
this gang Of adventurous and party
and election managers in Alabama who
have dared to loot, in the eyes of the
nation, State government.
If Cleveland has any repect for his
own honest fame he will instantly re-
pudiate the conduct of his managers
and unworthy representatives in the
unhappy commonwealth of Alabama.