Birmingham state herald., 1895-12-10

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 Federation. moderation, salvation.
 The man with grievance is generally a man who ought to have one.
 MT. Cleveland does not approve his own administration. He refused to sign the tariff bill and now commends its wise operation.
 What has become of Powell of Gull man? We have heard of no bloodshed up there yet Is Powell turning his ploughshares into swords and getting ready for the conflict?
 It is said that Henri and Grover don't speak now when they meet. If Grover had as many original ideas as Henri he would have to rent ground to stack them on.
 The North Alabamian thinks MT. Glass should enter the race for governor If MT. Glass should conclude to enter the race the Advertiser would never have to modify any conclusions as to inter- views, etc.
 The State Herald is willing to hazard something that neither Governor Oates nor Colonel Tompkins were invited to the conference at Montgomery last Satur- day. It is supposed that senatorial honors were visible in the distance
 If we are to have an administration" candidate let's have one that approves all the acts and appointments and poli- cies of all the administrations, state and national. It would be a shame to follow the commander-in-chief and ignore the brigadier-general.
 The departure of President Cleveland on hunting excursion, to be gone six or seven days, with congress about to begin the work of legislation. some of which is badly needed for the country, was the subject of considerable com ment in the house.
 
 In his speech before the legislature of Georgia last week MT. Secretary Hoke Smith said that up to 1893 he did not know enough about the financial ques- tion to even have a suspicion. If MT. Smith knew so little up to that date it is no wonder that he is still in the dark on the question.
 It is universally conceded that the fee system should be abolished and that fed eral officials should be placed on salaries, but so far congress has not been able to reach such a salutary reform. We are glad to see from the report of Attorney General Harmon that he earnestly rec ommends the change.
 There are thousands of democrats who remember the period from 1868 to 1874, when negroes and carpetbaggers filled the capitol at Montgomery and legisla- tion was on sale to the highest bidder. And these democrats do not wish any factional fight that will tend to restore that saturnalia of corruption.
 It is really cheeky in the secretary of the interior after admitting that he did not know what the legal ratio between gold and silver was up to 1893, to proceed to tell the country that he now knows more about the financial question than such men as Morgan and Beck, Alexan- der Stephens and Thomas Jefferson.
 It seems that MT. Clarke is to be called on to save the party by spontaneous" appeal of the democratic masses on let ters sent out prepared for signature, by self-consttuted committee of saviors. It would have been so much more artful to have had these letters come in the natural hand of the enthusiastic signers.
 The nomination of Judge Rufus w Peckham to the vacant place on the United States supreme court bench is in every way excellent. Judge Peckham is not only a man of high character and eminent learning in the law, but his ten years experience on the bench in New York as justice of the supreme court and court of appeals has given him a special ly good training in judicial work.
 Some of our populite friends are ready to fuse (Moseley says he prefers "com- bine;" he doesn't like to welt a populte) with the republicans in order to get fair election law. The republicans had control once in Alabama, and under their law there was no penalty whatever for illegal or fraudulent voting: but the man who challenged a fraudulent voter could be indicted and jailed. The State Herald does not want any colored brothers to enact laws for it.
 The Greensboro Watchman, strong administration paper, gives the Adver- tiser to understand, in language that is plain, that it's attempt to force a fight in the democratic party will be resented by thousands who have heretofore fol- lowed it, and that the people are tired of discord and division and will refuse to be led by this rule or ruin dictator" The Watchman is telling the truth so forcibly that it will be remembered next spring.
 Mir. Clarke may be persuaded to make the race for governor. If he does it will not be because he desires the office, for it is we'll known that he aspires to be sem ator: but 1t will be to put certain fac ton under obligations to support him for what he really wants. MT. Clarke is a