St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-12-05
BOUND TO BE GOVERNOR.
He Issues What He Calls a
Message to the Legis-
latupe.
EXPECTS REPUBLICAN AID
In Seating Populists--Con-
gpeSs to Be Asked to In
veStigate.

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. Dec. Ar. F.
Kolb. who claims to be governor OF Ala
bama. today completed message to the
legislature, which he signed as gov
ernOr, and which will be transmitted TO
that body tomorrow. The message is
also addressed TO the people of Alabama,
and is a long and in many respects rev.
olutionarY document, as it recommends
that his followers do not pay their
taxes for awhile. He further says: Il
advise those tax collectors who value
the cause | represent, and which will
assuredly prevail In the end, to delay
all payments of state taxes into the
state treasury until an impartial hear
ing is had of our complaint under fair
and honest contest law" When it is
remembered that the tax collectors in
thirty-eight out of sixty six counties III
the state are KOlbites, 1t will be seen il
they take his advice the Kolb govern
ment will find strong support and Ala
bama will be threatened with anarchy.
In his message KOlb says further:
1.-The revolutionary conditions OF our
state government must become the sub
ject of your continued and most anxious
contemplation. The plans of usurperS,
so alarming to you, are abating in moth
ing to reduce you to an aOJect and final
submission to the unbridled will and
passions. You have seen your Just de-
mandS for the full execution of the
election system of governor and other
state officers, secured to you by sacred
constitutional guarantees, deliberately
set aside by the legislature. itself only
a creature of the constitution. L de-
clare to you, with 10 fear of cOntradlc-
tion, that if the present party in control
OF our government be not arrested IN
it's mad career no elections can be held
in Alabama under the law and constitu-
s.tiOn. In the name of the great body of
white men in Alabama l have set in
motion their solemn protest. l have
taken the oath of governor, and l in
tend to prosecute in your name my
right to that office. Solely upon the claim
by your ballots, cast i'll the legitimate
and orderly way prescribed by the
forms of law. / was appointed to 1t on
Aug. 6. 1894"
He then reviews the provisions or the
constitution, and says: because the
legislature of 1S92-95 did expressly re-
woke the sections OF the civil code, how
ever uUpeTI0Cl6u, WulCu oCOLuCO W al
low a contest OF election for governor
and other state officers, refusing on de-
mand to restore them or TO subStantlate
others Of a reasonable and practicable
nature, you are perfectly Justihed In
declaring there can be no election for
governor or other state officers under
the constitution OF Alabama binding on
you which is tainted with fraud at the
ballot box" He urges the legislature
to enact contest laws, and advises his
friends to organize clubs to assist in the
general object Of his appeal.
The message concludes: "lf Col.
Oates and his faction fear not the truth;
if they court equity and are ready to
abide by justice, they will hesitate at
nothing to remove the color of dishonor
from his title to the office he has seized
by arms. Again say my contention is
alone for the execution Of the guaran-
tees offered by the constitution of my
state for liberty for all. l demand OF
the legislature that action which every
member on oath has bound himself
solemnIy to take in the observance Of
the constitution"