Birmingham state herald., 1895-11-15

HI 4uliEHSs UQE UiltFIlA AEubniitEA U anu it's purposes. When the meeting got ready for work Saturday Colonel Bow man was there in great shape. He promptly planted his magnificent pres ence and matchless Yalor upon the open space in front of his chairman and re- mained there in upright attltudei beeom- ing to Apollo in brass. generally ordering the procedures. but always oYerseer of all in sight. Let us see what became of Col onel Bowman and how he came where he was at when the meeting broke up.
 A little sheet down at Wetumpka ana one of the same breed here in this city have been engaged by small band or factiOnists for some months upon the quizical and childish labor of sweeping this newspaper from the face of the earth exinguishing the public influence and private business of Hon. k. +. kolD and laying the ropes for the disintegra- ton of the peoples party and absorption of it by the republicans. That is the 1n- terest Colonel Bowman brought into the meeting Saturday and that is the mter- est which gave the complexion to the meeting just described. No other char acter of interest would have called mere member of a popular meeting whose ob- tests had been long advertised, To as- sume the tragic role and resort to the heeler tactics which distinguished the day and its leaders last Saturday.
 in short, any citizen of Jefferson coun- ty favorable to fair elections, free coin age and anti-bank rule was a legally qualified member of the meeting Hon R. F. Kolb was such member. Logical ly, therefore, naturally, we might say, TOT reasons obvious to all save political buc- cancers his should have been the first name on the roll of thirty delegates to represent this great county. Bowman prepared or brought in the list, not Tn legitimate sympathy with the object or the conference, but in defiance of that ob- ject and in outlawry upon that object. gentleman, Dr. Ragsdale, with a more Just sense of the dignity of the people volunteered to the meeting to substitute Kolbs name on it for his own. Bowman harangued in his usual violent style for an hour against admitting Kolb. Your genial Reuben kept his temper ana won the contention. The cut and dried scheme for sentencing him without trial before the state conference is dead. He is del- egate appointed by the very meeting packed and domineered to keep him out.
 "The last moments of the Saturdays meeting were occupied in considering and voting upon some resolutions favor ing fusion. Delegate Kolb voted against them. In that he overtopped the pro- gramme originally prepared to eXterml- nate him.
 'While' Bowman argued that Kolb should not be allowed as a delegate some thoughtless soul on the other side of the room demanded of Kolb whether he would vote for a nominee of populist convention if said nominee should be gold bug republican. O, yes; nothing easier than to give an affirmative answer to an impossible hypothesis. kolb will vote for a republican gold bug if 'populist' onvention nominates him, and upon the same general reasoning, that would compel him to support res olution from the same source calling upon sunrise to hold on where it is until day after tomorrow! Kolb will always be ready to vote for the nominees of populist convention-a 'populist con- vention. mind you-but no populist con- vention of the Bowman stripe will ever raise the question in dispute here last Saturday. A republican convention may attempt it, but no issue involving the &C., ton of a republican convention was brought up for settlement as condition precedent to Kolbs appointment.
 Bowman was we'll pleased CD with Kolbs committal and withdrew his op- position. Bowman voted yea on the fu- sion resolutions and Kolb voted nay. So if Bowman and Kolb are not together upon Bowman's own issue who is it that is lefti'
 MT. Bowman had no opportunity of signing the call' between Saturday and ready for work Wednesday Colonel Bow man was there in great shape
 The little sheet" at Wetumpka and the one here that had "been engaged by small band of factionists" for some months for the purpose of "extinguish- ing the public influence and private busi- ness of Hon. R. F. Kob and laying the ropes for the disintegration of the peo- ple's party and absorption of it by the republicans" had certainly not been dis charged between Saturday and Wednes- day That is the interest Colonel Bow man brought into the meeting Satur- day" What interest did he carry into the meeting Wednesday? We demand that the Tribune MT. Kolb's paper, answer, because the voters who were standing by the Tribune in it's fight to keep them out of the hands of the republicans must know the truth. "The last moments of the Saturdays meeting were occupied in considering and voting upon some reso- lutions favoring fusion. Delegate Kolb voted against them. Tn that he over topped the programme originally pre- pared to exterminate him.
 The last moments of the meeting Wednesday were devoted to voting on resolutions favoring fusion. Delegate Kolb voted for them, and in that did he again overtop the programme?
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