Birmingham state herald., 1895-12-27
T0MPKINS FOR THE SENATE Chairman of the State Executive Committee Will Resign AND ASK GREATER HONORS Will Measure Political Lengths With Gov
 ernor Oates. AN EARLY CALL WILL BE SENT OUT And Meeting Held to Receive His Resig- nation-Candidates for the Jefferson solicitorship-Groa of
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AN EARLY CALL WILL BE SENT OUT

democratic state executive committee to meet in this city on January 21 It is au- thoritaively announced that one of the prime reasons that the committee has been called to meet so much earlier than usual is that Col. H. c. Tompkins desires to present his resignation as chairman. Colonel Tompkins considers that it is improper that he should remain at the head of the committee, being. as he is. an avowed candidate for the United States senate.
 Secretary Thomas H. Clark regards 1t as only fair that all parties in interest should have full notice of the terms Of participation in the primaries, and he be- lieves, with others here, that the earlier that proposition is decided the better it will be for all concerned, and for the party as well. The democratic national committee will meet on January 16. and the state committees meeting five days later will make the third week in the
 Candidates on the Hustle.
 new year full of interest to Alabamans.
 MT. Lee c. Bradley. Col. s. w. John and MT. H. H. Brown, all of Birmingham. were in the city today. to confer with Governor Oates relative to their pros- pective candidates for the Jefferson county solicitorship. A very large num- Der of letters and petitions have been presented to the governor in the interests of the several gentlemen, and also in be- half of Messrs. John Mcqueen and H. P. Heflin. who are also prominent candi- dates. It is believed that the appoint ment will be made in a. day or two. Murder Near Greenville.
 Near Greenville. fifty miles south of here, yesterday the body of Bob Will liams negro, was found dead in pub Isn. T ri |. T l,o g.. and he had evidently been murdered. A negro named Elias Thornton was arrest ed today. charged with the murder, all though the evidence against him so far is purely circumstantial. Robbery is be- lieyed to have been the motive for the zaurdery Williams had been working at i}olling, near Greenville, and is supposed 10 have been on his way to Greenville to speBd Christmas with relatives there, when he was killed. He left Boiling with $z5 in pockets, and when his dead body was found yesterday the pockets were empty.
 Violent in Its Madness
 The Montgomery Journal prints the following editorial leader this afternoon:
 s"The Montgomery Postoffice has be- come violent i'm its madness. It sees that Captain Johnston is going to be nomi- mated, and it is this very thing against which it has fought for so many years. It sees it's waning glory depart and as it rants and raves it gives utterances to expressions which explain and point to the seat of it's disease. Instead of allow ing itself to enjoy the sacredness of Christmas day. and following the injunc- ton, Peace on earth, good will to men,, the Postoffice closeted itself to ponder over its waning glory and pending mis- fortunes. and having wrought itself into e paroxysm of despair gives vent to the following furious assault upon Captain Johnston:
 re'It (the Postoffice) regards him as an insincere trimmer who is always looking for the currency that he may jump to the front of it yelling louder than the loudest irrespective of party principles, or party consequences, or the general good He is constantly on the alert for some policy or movement upon which he can ride into leadership irrespective of it's soundness or consequences. His eye is invariably single to his own politi- cal welfare. He never strikes one lick for the party without calculating that he will count two for himself. The result of this Is. of course. that his cunning never amounts to craft; that his smart ;ness never attains the proportions of sagacity: that his rashncss never be- comes boldness. His coup detats have invariably turned out to blunders and his pathway has been marked by failures
 i"This hysterical outbreak on Christmas day which found its way in the Mont gomery Postoffice personal grievance or gan on the following day, shows only what the Journal has too often pointed out. that the Personal Grievance is in a bad way. Its hatred of Johnston bor- ders on madness; implicable in It's rage, senile in it's stupidity. and vile in it's purA poses and unrelenting in Savagery"