Birmingham age-herald., 1894-11-20
AN UNRECoGNIzED DEMOCRACY.


 AN UNRECOGNIZED DEMOCRACY. The Municipal Democratic Club very wisely, as the News thinks, remonstrated against an early primary. Now that its re- jmonstrance failed, it will again act wisely by good humoredly, promptly and loyalty Accepting the decree of the committee, for t is inevitable that ecery good Democrat Iyiu uote for the Democratic nominee for Moyor. Evening News, March 2b, 1894.
 AN UNRECOGNIZED DEMOCRACY.
 The duly authorized officials of the or- yanized Democracy have issued it's orders. The News readily submits and falls into inc, and so should every other Democrat. Evening News, March 26, 1894.
 AN UNRECOGNIZED DEMOCRACY. 0-
 That was good work by the city commit ec last night. They rose to the occasion nd have harmonized the city Democracy. -Daily News, April IS, 1894.
 And what a recordl The police force re- uced to about twelve men on duty at one ime, because of wrangle with the police commission, when sneak thieves. burglars and aurderers were holding high carnival in Bir- gham, and the lives and property of citi- ems were practically unguarded. By the
 ay, Mir. Warnock was member of the po- ce commission: He did ,Ret--ad t much,
 
 But s1'-..alis happened when the present
 unrecognized city democracy'' was be- lg fully "recognized'' by the News, and png before it said all those pretty things bd April it was so gus hingly loyal to the
 stwhile recognized" party. Don't you
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 The real issue in this campaign is, shall be democratic party be destroyed in Br- lingham and Jefferson county?
 There are those who are unreasoning and nthinking enough az to say, "Let the arty go to the devil.' 4---se-'-
 Such iS the cry of some of the 'treiUrn arty,o Some there are, too, who think lat as the party has recently suffered de- |at that it will be better for the county for The republicans to be in control, and are ready to desert the democratic party. Have they reflected what it portends to give over our county and ultimately our city to the republicans? It means putting in charge of affairs such men as Parsons, Moseley, Vaughan and others. Let all democrats consider the result of breaking up the party. Let them reflect whoare aiding and abetting in the destruction. Republican ism in New York and the northern states conditions to face, different exigencies to meet. We must sustain the party, aud the duty of democrats IS plain. Be loyal to your party in this hour of her trial. Let it not be imagined that the disaffection will be confined within our city limits. Like deadly poison that has found lodgment in g single member, it will permeate the whole body. It will spread from city to county and from county to state. The conse- quences will be far reaching and disas- trous.
 If there existed at any time a doubt of the real an minus of the VanHoose coalition with Moseley and his dusky followers, it is fast being ,lissipated. That seductive promises or hints have been given them IS certain. The following extract from O negro paper, Wide Awake, dated Novem. Der F, shows what dreams and fancies are filling tbe mind of the "brother in black:'
 "Mr. Warnock may be good man and all right, but he is candidate of the ma chine, and the machine has DO earthly use for the negro but to put him in the chain gang. Therefore we see nothing in it to commend him further than to let him alone or defeat him if possible.
 "For the past four years the machine has held full sway in the city. What has the colored population been given by it but that they want him to support it, eh?
 'tMaybe some smart Aleck will come up and say, You are not going to get any recognition from that other side.' Sup pose we don't, and the other side' az you call it wins, don't you know you have knocked the wind out of the organized democratic machine, and by tbat you have struck blow for honest and fsir elections.
 ssThe machine is an invention to keep you and from having any choice as to who shall enforce the laws over you. Vote to knock it into smithereens." Have the reformers made trade to put a republican machine in power in Jefferson couuty2 The circum stances that point that way multiply every day. The republican leaders are not supporting Van Hoose for their health.
 MT. VapHoose poses as business candi. date. He asserts that he will run the af- fairs or the city upon business principles. He ought first to inform himself about the financial condition of the city. He would learn that he could not extend the school |systen, establish two more divisions of the lire department and increase the police Iforce unless he could Increase the revenues Sof the city. He scorns details and talks with large generosity of his plans. He has Ia palpable inconsistency in his platform; he proposes, first, to increase the expendl- lures, and, second, to run the city govern \ment more economically than 1t is now }operated. He further claims that he will refund the bonded indebtedness of the city st lower rate of interest than is now paid upon the same, but he admits that the fIord only knows how he will do this hne Spiece of fnanceering.
 Emerson spoke of dazed and bewil- .dered man who proclaimed himself thus: ssI am both the doubter and the doubt.' >Mr Van Hoose can say with equal certainty Ind truth: ''I am both the re!ormer and he reform.O His reform is. to get him. elf into office. That is really the begin