Birmingham age-herald., 1894-08-18
He Sends Forth Broadcast Over
 the Land
A LETTER TO HIS FRIENDS,
Rehearsing His Oft Repeated Tale of Woe-UrgeS
 Them to Action.

Captain Kolb, defeated populist candft date for governor, has written letter and sent it broadcast over the state. It IS not manifesto nor pronunciamento, but just plain and plaintive letter, rehearsing his old, old cry of fraudulent elections. He concludes this somewhat extraordinary let ter with an appeal to his followers to take some sort of action to make him governor.
 The letter reads as follows:
 To each and every man who honored me with their votes on the 9th of August l re- turn my warmest thanks. You made a grand and noble fight, and that you have won glorious victory by an honest count of the vote as cast DO intelligent and we'll informed man will deny. That the frauds of 1892 have been repetaed, even to greater extent. all will admit.
 The Montgomery Advertiser of August Il says that the address sent out by the chairman of our joint campaign committee, under instructions of the conference held in Birmingham on the 9th instant, recltlng some of the frauds and outrages perpe- trated by the organized democracy Of Ala bama at the late election and calling on the people of the different counties to meet and take action thereon, and to organize Flaw and order leagues, :" 'sverges closely on in- cendiarism and treason.o If to call the people together and ask them to express their sentiments as to whether they are to be kept in slavery to the breakers of law, under the forms of law, and to advise them to organize themselves to enforce the law "verges on incendiarism and treason," then the Advertiser and it's henchmen can make the most of 1t.
 The election of 1892 was stolen from the people of Alabama after they had carried it by more than 35, 1000 majority, ana by stuffing the ballot boxes in the fifteen black belt counties, with more than 23, 900 hcti- tious majorities, and by throwing out more than 10, 000 of your majorities in the white counties for failure of inspectors of their own appointment and their own party to certify to the results of the election.
 After the election of 1892 was stolen the man who was acting as governor, and the press and leaders of the organized demo- cratic party, promised the people that they would pass fair contest law, and thus lulled them into submission and then de- ceived them.
 In the counties of Pike, Conecuh, Shelby, Talladega and Madison, where contests were begun, the cases had to be dismissed under what was passed as an amendment to contest law under which the contests were begun, because the courts construed the amendment as repeal of the old law and did not provide for the cases already begun to be carried on and tried, to settle the question:. The people in these coun ties were thus defrauded by laws passed for that purpose.
 The legish ure elected, or counted in by fraud in 1e then undertook to pass an act calIinl constitutional convention, the act dec fing in effect tfat the consti- tut1on winch framed and adopted would disfranchise citizens of Alabama now eu. titled to vote. h this they failed.
 Then the election law under which the frauds of 1892 were perpetrated was amended, leaving all its provisions inviting fraud and perjury untouched, and provid- ing for the disfranchisemen of thousands of voters in the white counties, both white and black, because of their inability to read and intelligently cast their votes un- der said law.
 This law, known as the Sayre law, was prepared in order that the black belt elec- tion thieves might roll up fictitious major- ities with more ease and certainty than un- der the law governing the election of 1892. How we'll it has succeeded let the majority of 34 1000 just returned from these black belt counties tell. ar--
 The people of Alabama are disfranchised. and less than 15, 900 white men who reside, in the black belt counties, by fraud and perjury, and who cali themselves ''heroes,' - have done this thing. You who live in the white counties of this state, together with your wives and children, are slaves to ballot box thieves and their will.
 If we submit to the outrage thus heaped upon us we will be justly branded as cow ards by all true and brave men of this nation. And what, ask you, will be the future of Alabama as an industrial state if these conditions continue? Unless we can have honest elections and nforce an honest expression at the ballot box and have our votes honestly counted, capital will never seek investment within our borders, and thousands of dollars already invested will be withdrawn and thousands of our best citizens will seek homes in other states. It is sad condition to contemplate, and will