Birmingham state herald., 1895-12-28
EDITORS LETTER BOX.
Go On With the Good Work.
 .r- GreenYille. Dec.

GreenV1lle, Dec. 70.
 To the State Herald
 Knowing your wish to always give to
 your readers the truth as regards the po-
 litical situation, give you the result of
 my observation from recent trip
 through several counties and impress
 sions gained from converSng with lead
 ing men in this section. I find that while
 already strong, Captain Johnston is
 growing stronger each day with the mass
 of democrats, regardless of their financial
 views. I feel sure that Lowndes, Butler, Crenshaw, Covington, Pike, Henry Ge-
 neva and Bullock will each send John-
 ston delegations to the state convention. One man, very prominent in politics In the state, remarked to me that While he
 indorsed every public act of MT. Cleve- land, and was agreed with him on ques- tions of finance, that the fact that he could call by name more than 100 white menin his county who would VotAfor Joe Johston and who would not vote for any other possible nominee of the party, and believing the same to be the condition in other counties, he earnestly favored his nomination, confident that he Is the only man who can reunite our party. Like expressions come from others Tn position to know the feeling of the mass es, many of whom are with the admins tration on the financial question. Some go so far as to say that they believe the Advertiser, knowing that Johnston will be nominated, is trying to defeat his cleo tion before he is nominated, as it's propri- etors would prefer turning the state over to the republican party to seeing him governor Bearing on this line, one man, who is in line with the Advertiser crowd, remarked that he hoped the republicans would nominate a good man, as he be- lieyed they might elect their ticket next year. But we are glad to know there are but few of these extremists, and that those who are really democrats, and not democrats for revenue alone, are willing to vote and work for any good and true man the party may nominate, and no matter how much they differ with Captain Johnston on the financial ques- tion, they know him to be a true demo- crat and one who has done more unself- ish work for the white people of the state than any other man now before the peo- ple. and they are willing that he shall be honored for his unselfish party service. The fact is that those of us who have been fighting in the ranks since the days of the noble and unselfish Clanton know who are the leaders that we can trust, and do not propose to stand idly by and see them set aside by set of self-consti- tuted party dictators. The days of 1876 to 1880 told who were the democrats, and not the little family quarrels of the | last few years.
 | Let every white man who will say that | he will support the ticket be invited to leaders. Then let the dictating crumb- l eaters Gas that grand old Roman, Col | James G. Gilchrist calls them) be rele- l gated to the rear-then there will be no l cencern with democrats as to whom the | republicans nominate. as the majorities l will be piled up so high there will be no l possibility of his being elected.
 l Go on with the grand work, the people l are with you. Wishing the whole force
 a happy Christmas. am yours as ever, l SUBSCRIBER.