Birmingham age-herald., 1895-07-26
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Birmingham Evening News to cause a boycott of the Age Herald. In circula- tion, Democratic consistency and gem eral equipment for usefulness to the peo- pie of Alabama the Age-Herald towers so far above the afternoon blusterer as to make the barkngs of the bragot hard- ly worthy of notice in these columns. If the Evening News had always been a Democratic newspaper, if it had not bolted the party in this city in 1894, when Republicans. negroes and discontented non-partisans banded themselves togeth- CT and overthrow organized Democracy here-an overthrow which it may re- quire years to gain back-its crockodile tears at the change of ownership of this paper might go to some account. But Democrats have not forgiven and will not forget that when it suited the con- venience of the afternoon paper to stab Democracy it's blade was a willing tool, and by it the work was done.
 With such a crime on it's record, what influence can the Evening News hope to have as an exponent of Democracy? It comes with the very blood of local party organization on it's hands, and fain would teach lessons of proscriptve De- mocracy to a community of sensible men,
 The spirit of intolerance manifested by the News is in keeping with it's ever seeming purpose to rule or ruin. What matters it to a reading public enjoying the services of a paper, which proves itself to be a purveyor of news, and an advocate of sound principles, who may be the stockholders of that paper? When conductors proprietors or editors of newspapers learn of their own personal insignificance as compared with the ut terances of cold type the more useful will the press become-to the public. The people will ever look to the tone of the paper rather than gaze upon the pom posity of the great "we," who inficts them with his presence.
 Mr. Aldrich has stated to the News that he has, with other gentlemen, pur- chased the Age-Herald as a business in- vestment nothing more. This he had a right to do. Had he purchased fur mace. a coal mine, bank or store, there would have been no serious objec- tion by the News, but it so happened that it was newspaper-a Democratic newspaper, and one that is bound to prove to be very much in the way of the Evening News. MT. Aldrich and his as- sociates are not without means to build up a newspaper, and they discovered that such an enterprise as a live. wide-awake journal, with ample means to go tor- ward. was much needed for the develop ment of this section. Largely interested in the mineral, manufacturing and landed interests here, wise men as they are. full of spirit and enterprise they found an opportunity to further ad- vance these interests by purchase Of the Age Herald. They have struck the key note, and their efforts are going to rebound to the good of this entire com munity.
 By the late purchase of the Age-Herald Birmingham has a daily newspaper. an exponent of the thrift and enterprise of this district, a journal out of debt, free from all entanglements, and ready, willing and anxious to serve the public as a representative organ. not Of class but. of people. This is something Of which Birmingham could never before boast, and the statement will be re- ceived with delight by the merchants who advertise and by the people who read these columns and are interested in the progress and development of this city and section.
 Y Not a single wide-awake, broad mind ed, enterprising business man in Bir- mingham will withdraw his patronage from the Age Herald because Truman H: Aldrich is a stockholder therein. Not a man of ordinary business sense, who i,1 as a careful and cautious man of af- fairs supposes for one moment that he does not understand that a daily repub- lican newspapers cannot succeed in this section of the country, and that true journalistic exponent of public thought in Alabama must be on the side of De- mocracy.
 While it is true that MT. Aldrich is Republican, men of his stripe are not given to the luxury of distributing funds for glory. The truth is that he and his associates have purchased at low fig ure the most valuable newspaper prop erty in the State; that it will prove to it's owners a paying investment and to the people of Birmingham and the State of Alabama a most valuable exponent of the thrift and enterprise of this sec ton of the South. It's policy shall ever be for honest money. honest elections and honest work for the advancement of the people, and the battle shall be fought under the flag of genuine organ ized Democracy.
 The Age-Herald is here to stay. The gobbling-up season is over for its enc mies No more of that. The Evening Bombastic Booster can't have the field of Democratic journalism to itself and must bide its time on the stool of re- pentence until the people forgive its crime of 1894.
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