Birmingham age-herald., 1894-08-05
ON THIS QUIET SABBATH.

The issues in the campaign which will close at 5 o'clock tomorrow are neither nu- merous nor far to seek. The complaints of fraud, the Sayre election law, silver, the tariff, are mere subordinates to the con- trolling and overshadowing and momen- tous question that presses upon every in- telligent man with heart and conscience and love of home and country in him.
 Shall the orderly administration of gov ernment and the law in Alabama be over- thrown, and confusion, reaction, revolu- tion, turmoil, revenges and wild schemes take it's place?
 It is a serious thing to think about, fel low w-citizens-turning government in Ala bama over--to whom? Not to Captain Kolb. He would not be the czar nor the dictator. He would be merely the official head of the party, and the party would ad' minister the government and would con trol this man. II
 But we said the party, not the man, would administer the government. And what is the party? It is a conglomerate mass of odds and ends, without principle in common. Its only bond of union is the desire to overthrow the Democrats. The Jeffersonians are inspired solely by spirit of revenge and hunger for the offices. The Populites want to fasten all the ''isms" of the cranks upon the State. The Republicans are grasping at a restoration of responsibility which they for feited in carpet bag days. Once in power, they would all three be at each others throate, scrambling in mad exhuberance over the corpse of law and order and dignity and intelligence. IT..
 Such is the tripartite party that seeks to rule. Now, who are the men who would control or rather dominate that party 2 The absolute masters of the party would be, in order of influence: P. G. Bowman, A. T. Goodwyn, Frank Baltzell, W. H.. skaggs, R. F. Kolb, Judge McKinstrey. J. R.Max- well, Lewis E. Parsons and s. M. Adams. All the others would be mere dancers to the pipes of this aggregation of leaders. Maxwell would soon desert for better com pany and Adams would be eliminated for obstinacy. and then the whole thing would wind up in a row, with Alabama as the football of the rowdies. a
 In the quiet and peace of this Sabbath day sit down in the sacredness of your home and think over the grand course of the history of this great State, of the men who have governed it and won it's honors. Think of what government is and ought to be, of it's dignity and power and grandeur; how it stands between the weak and the strong; how it administers law through the sacred machinery of the courts and juries; how it stands for the whole people and represents them before the world. Think that the very purpose for which we estab- lished and maintain government is the administration of our laws that public order may be enforced for the benefit and preservation of the individual man.
 Think over these things with sense of your responsibility as a sovereign citizen and then go vote to displace the Democratic party with kolbism, Bowmanism. Skagg ism, and all the other sfisms" that have met under the banner of the Kolb party for an onslaught on tue orderly rule of law in our grand State. sw
 Let us love Alabama and preserve her glory Suntarnished for our children.