Birmingham state herald., 1895-10-11
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The Journal publishes six columns of delinquent tax sales, and so delighted is the editor that he throws aside the finan- cial issue and exclaims:
 Clear the track! The Journals com ing The grasshoppers and ants had better get out of the way. The engine can't stop for such Life is too snort. Buy your ticket or you will get left. All aboardr'
 Men make the party and not the party the men, says the Talladega Reporter: '"The man who says he is for party flrst and principles after confesses that the
 party makes him instead of his making the party Such weakling has little principle and is out of place in the dem ocratic party. Only men strong enough to make party can preserve it, and only such men can be democrats in every sense. Let us keep the democratic party strong enough and brave enough to re- tain strong, brave men in it, and make it party inviting to the best and most courageous patriots in the land."
 The Huntsville Argus is doing some sound political thinking and making some fine calculations. It says:
 Although the next election in Alabama is ten months off speculation is growing rife as to who will succeed Oates as gov ernor and Pugh as senator. Politicians
 will continue to punch away at these plums with great activity, while the peo- pie will do the thinking more and more for themselves It must be admitted, however that there are conditions which make Johnston a strong factor. and if he and Bankhead pull together no other team can afford to despise them" On launching the Escambia Messenger, a new paper at Pollard, the editor, MT. c. z. Fulton, in his salutatory, makes his position plain and simple:
 Tt is my purpose to make the Escam- bia Messenger weekly record Of the local news of the county, reliably and carefully selected and arranged; me- dium through which to keep posted upon current events, a necessity for those who subscribe for but one paper, and val uabe addition to any list for those who can afford more. In politics the Escam- bia Messenger is democratic, and Will be found at all times laboring for the ad- vancement of the principles of true gov ernment founded by our forefathers. The Tuscaloosa Times thinks the Mont | gomery Advertiser great paper ana ably edited, but that Its attitude towards those Democrats who differ with 1t on | the financial question is petty and needs reforming:
 "The Montgomery Advertiser is ex- | tremely unfortunate, we think, in It's at l UtuQe aIOWdTuS lIlOSe ucIloSi otIS ASoo CTS who differ with it on the financial | question. Itcontinually carps at them and l their policies often unfairly. When crit | icism sinks to mere petty and pettish | faultfinding it always fails of it's pur- l pose. The Advertiser is great paper, |. ably edited and deservedly influential, l but a little reform on these lines would | improve it."
 The Mobile Daily Herald is getting to l be very amable with the republicans. | It is an ardent supporter of the gold | standard and would pine away and die | in an instant if democrats who sup ported Captain Kolb should be allowed l to vote in the primaries next year. Hear ye him: .-
 "It is evident from what we have said l that democrats and republicans can l meet on common ground in seeking to | place the finances of the country on | firm basis. The financial policy of many l leading republicans has been creditable l to them. When democrats are twitted | then for holding financial views in &C., | cord with John Sherman, it should not l disturb them any more than Secretary | Herbert would be disturbed if he was l charged with holding the same views in regard to increasing our navy as were | held by ex-Secretary Tracy"
 The Tuskaloosa Times agrees with the | SIdIe Herald that the ulSCuSSlOn or the financial question should be on its mer- | its and devoid of passion and bitterness: "The State Herald learns that MT. Her | bert pronounced himself a bimetallist in | his Montgomery speech and indulged in I no abuse of gentlemen who do not agree | with him. The money is one that should | be discussed solely on its merits, and | with view of reaching correct and just onclusions-conclusion that will pro- | mote the welfare of our people and con- cord in our party.-State Herald.
 The Times fully agrees with its Bir- mingham contemporary in the foregoing. Already there has been entirely too much bitterness and passion injected into this | financial discussion, and for the good of the party as well as for the relief of a long-suffering public it should be stopped l Let's discuss the question on it's merits Nothing can be gained by abuse, while | much may be lost"
 Carrollton News: A call for a county mass meeting and beat mass meetings | of those who would advance the cause of free silver and honest elections will | be found in another column. The meet ings will be strictly non-partisan, and are called by two populists and two silver democrats The address recommending these meetings has the following in rela- | tion to it's non-partisanShip: We, there fore, propose that a representative con- ference be held which all can attend with out affecting their party relations. A convention implies some authority in the body over its members, and mass meet ing implies that it is not representa- tive body. The gathering should be of representatives of all the people who favor honest elections and free silver, but neither the numbers of the confer ence nor those who elect them will be bound by any recommendation or other action of the conference which they do not approve"
 Let honesty, integrity and noble man. hood prevail, says the Talladega Re porter, and all good citizens call for justice though the heavens fall:
 "The NewS-Reporter is in flavor of all fair, open and honest primaries, conven- tions and elections. If evil disposed men
 have managed things anywhere let them stand aside that honesty, integrity and
 noble manhood may still prevail. Why should any gentleman be afraid to be watched? Why should he oppose ma jority rule. if that majority is honestly Thara ic lttla danpar Of mo-