Birmingham age-herald., 1894-08-10

that they are in no humor to question the result, and will leave him to howl out his disappointment.
 PARTICULARLY GRATIFYING. New York World (Dem.)
 h the present discouraging condition of the democratic party any victory gratify- ing. The election of courageous candi- date on good platform over q demagogue supported by an unprincipled coalition is particularly gratifying.
 MINOR DIFFERENCES BURIED. St. Louis Republic tDem.)
 Mir. Oates has received the loyal support of admi istration and anti. admi n Stratiou democrats. Minor differences have been buried in the great purpose of main taining the supremacy of the democratic party, the only custodian of safe governmental principles.
 HARMONY, SWEET HARMONY. Houston Post.
 Alabama is all right. Harmony prevailed in the democratic convention and, as a re- suit, Oates, who was Cleveland man, is elected governor and Morgan, who is not Cleveland man, will be elected to the United States senate. Alabama democrats illus trate the beauty of harmony.
 ALARMED THE FARMERS.
 Chicago Inter- Ocean tRep.)
 1t indicates also a falling off from the old time populist strength, for Kolb was a populist on modern national issues, though democratic as Jefferson Davis himself on states rights questions and in opposition to negro supremacy. The south is con- serVative section, and the excessively radi- cal, not to say revolutionary, speeches and acts of such populst governors as Altgeld, Waite, Lewellyn and Hogg, governors not the less populist because some of them call themselves democrats, have alarmed the steady going democrats of the south.
 poPULIsT PRETENsIoNs EXPLODED. Kansas City Star Qnd.)
 The result of the election in Alabama again explodes the preteutions of the popu- lists in the south. Their achievements in that section have, in the main, been ab- surdly out of proportion to their claims. The south, with it's ample material re- sources, which are now in process of devel- opment, has reason to desire a sound cur. rencv and a stable financial system, & revision of the tariff remittng the duty on raw materials and a general conformity to the principles of true democracy as con- tended for by the administration. The bring nothing but harm to the south, and this fat is well understood by it's people.
 WOULD HAVE BEEN A DISASTER. ts. Philadelphia Times (Ind.)
 The returns from Alabama indicate the election of MT. Oates for governor over the republican populite fusion, and if his suc- cess be assured by decisive majority it
 
 of whatever party must rejoice. Oates is square Cleveland democrat, with the cour- age of his convictions, and he represents the cause of tariff reform, of honest money and of constitutional government. Kolb represents all the socialstic heresies, all the vague discontent and all the disorgan- izing and lawless tendencies that have al- ready produced SO much mischief. in the south, gathered up together and united with the selfish interests of disreputable ant.t l.rx national disaster; his defeat will be & long step toward the redemption of the country from the perils of the populist delusion.
 THE FUNERAL CHANT.
 Memphis Commercial (Dem.)
 The Hon. Reuben F. Kolb is a thing that was. He has passed into the void, leaving nothing but the clinging perfume of his fame as memento of his brief but violent splurge in the business of statesmanshfp. The Hon. George Frisbie Hoar will follow the mutiated scraps of what once was Kolb to the bone- field and chant a nasal dirge for his pet patriot, and the Boston Home Market club will weep at bis tomb because of the money they have sunk on the de- ceased. And then the obsequies will be over and Kolb will be forgotten.
 But all the fools are not dead yet. There is Waite and there is Lewellyn, and there is rillman and there is the orator from Texas, whose parts of speech are always crimson with human gore aud whose im- agination sports with human insides with the most appalling recklessness. Verify the fool killer IS still far behind lis orders.
 A PARTY OF PRINCIPLE.
 Courier- Journal (Dem).
 The result teaches that not only the south has not lost it's head and been swept off it's democratic feet, but that successfnt politics is something more than a mere game of combination and assault upon the party in power. There eau be no common ground of principle upon which honest democratic and populists can unite in Ala bama any more than there can be such a ground upon which honest democrats and populists can unite in Kansas. The poIit- ical party which lives and becomes power ful in this country must be party of prin- ciple and not Of mere opposon to the par ties of principle. The populist party, when fused with either of the other parties, is only party of opposition; when stand- ing alone it is scarcely less party of mere opposition, for the principles it professes to advocate are in themselves inconsistent and impossible of combination in any in- telligent administration of the affairs of the country. CONGRATULATIONS TO THE COUNTRY. Louisville Commercial (Rep.) The election in Alabama has resulted in the triumph of the regular democracy and the choice of legislature that will res turn General Morgan to the senate. On the whole, we think the country is to be congratulated. It is desirable to break up the solid south in so far as the south is solid on anticipated notions about the negro and the war, so that southern people eau feel free to divide as intelligent people do elsewhere, according to their views on questions of importance, but there is no advantage to be gained by using men with l the wild and unsettled opinions of Kolb and the populists as a help to doing so. To secure permanent breaking up of the solid south, the intelligent, order-loving dominates in the long run, must be di- vided, and any separation of the people