Birmingham age-herald., 1894-07-08
Kolb's Intentions and Acts Clearly
 Set Forth.
PLAIN STATEMENT OF FACTS
Chairman Tompkins Shows There Is No Excuse for Dem-
 oCrat's Voting for Kolb.
To the People:

To the People:
 Where is Captain Kolb leading his fol- lowers?
 To this question there can be but one an- swer-into the republican party. The course of Captain Kolb is not without parallel. lt has such parallel in the course of William Maj to1 5f Virginia, an l we prt dict for it a most ingloi Il eLd Ma hone started in Virginia so- called demo- cratic convention of his own. So Kolb be- gan in Alabama. Malone and his conven- ton proclaimed themselves better demo- crats than the regulars and elected dele gates to the national democratic convention that was to meet in Cincinnati few weeks thereafter. Kolb and his convention pro- claimed themselves better democrats than the regulars and elected delegates to the national convention that was to meet at Chicago a few weeks thereafter. From this point the parallel continues. But Kolb moved on the lines at a much faster gait than did Malone. Malone and his followers did support the nominees of the Cincinnati convention to which his con- vention had sent delegates, but Kob re- fused to support the nominees of the con- vention which he recognized by sending delegates to it as the regularly called demo- cratic convention, and on the contrary, 5uDDOTt0I L06 UOnlu6e6 Ol tue TepuOIACan convention.
 It took Malone about fifteen months to walk into the republican ranks-it took Kolb about three months to run into these ranks. Malone developed into a republi-8 can by degrees-Kolb threw off his demost cratic garments and donned the republican, attire in as little time as it would take an, ordinary man to cast off his old suit and put on new one. Malone claimed to have separated fromathe regular party on state issues, and called himself at first a. "readjuster' and then a republican. Kolb claims to have separated from the regulars on state issues and calls himself a Jeffer- sonian. There is this difference: When Malone commenced to cooperate with the republicans he no longer called himself readjuster, but proclaimed himself a re- publican-but Kolb, two years after unit ing with the republican party by aiding them in an attempt to elect that most bit- ter republican partisan, Benjamin Harri- son, to the presidency, still undertakes to hide himself behind the so-called Jeffer- sonian mask. We submit to the candid that Mahone's course was the more manly and honorable of the two.
 Virginia tried Malone and his crowd, but only for @ little while. They went in at one election, they all went out al the next, and the people of Virginia will have no more of them. Here the parallel ceases. The people of Virginia did not find out Malone before the election. hence they elected him. The people of Alabama have found out Kolb before the election. heuce they will not elect him.
 Wehave made the above statements de- liberately and propose to prove them.
 It was believed in the canvass of 1892 that some deal had been made by which the Weaver electors, in event of their elec- ton, were to vote for Harrison, but no positive proof of the trade could be ob- tained. Some time after the election Ben DeLemos, leading republican politician, stated there was such an agreement. The charge was denied by the Alliance Herald, but in March last Col. J. M. Whitehead, one of the candidates for elector for the state at large on the Weaver ticket, pub lished in his paper, the Living Truth, the following editorial statement relative to the agreement:
 "Ben DeLemos has asserted--as has been asserted before-that the Weaver electors in 1892 were obligated to vote fer Harrison in the event of contingency.
 "The Alliance Herald, ever and anon, rises to deny the allegations and to defy the the proof. It looks from the constant de- nials of the Alliance Herald that much de- pends upon keeping the truth-if it be truth---hid from the public eye.
 "Now it happens that the editor of this paper was one of the electors for the srate- at large, and he desires nothing but the truth. He advocates honest politics, and believes that nothing should be done under cover-that the light should not be let iu upon.
 "Ben DeLemos has told the truth, and the Alliance Herald is singularly ignorant if it don't know it. After the LakevIew convention the electors were summoned to Birmingham by Col. P. G. Bowman. Most of them responded, and at Birming- ham, in Colonel Bowman's office, in the presence of Captain Kolb, the electors d i'd sign an agreement that had been written out by Colonel Bowman, or under his di- rection, and presented to him by which they obligated themselves in writing to vote for Harrison in the electoral college if it should be apparent at the time that Weaver could not be elected. ,,o. "The edito1 of this paper signed it yol- untarily as one of the electors, because-as a choice between Clevelend and Harrison he would have voted for Harrison if there had been no obligation to that effect. He would do the same today if that alternative were pres snted. If he had no such prefer ence between the two goidbug candidates, still he would have signed the oblighq9p !, | if thereby chances would have bean,p in . creased for making Weaver president. oI t | to conceal. To one who loves open politics | and square dealing, this constant effort to | cover up and conceal thing that was hon. estly done grates harshly on the sensibili to the attempted concealment by letting on the light. It may not strike the eau tious Jeffersonian as the proper thing tc l do, but for a straight out from the shoul-
 der populite, as we are, it is eminently ht- 1 ting and appropriate that the truth be told | This inasquerading in democratic grave
 clothes by those who are honestly opposed 1 to the democracy ought to cease"
 This established the charge beyond { doubt. It could no longer be denied tha | such an agreement had been made, so Cap
 tain Kolb and his special friends fell back | a denial that ha fNqntQin K0lbl con
 sented to or even knew anything about th'