Birmingham state herald., 1895-12-06

ber-sides" was, but vA shall now wonder 10 more. We have come in contact sey-
 al times in the past few years with thel youth who sat in the corner eating piece of Christmas pie" and we know who now and then makes him repeat the performance. But is Mother Goose, old sober-sides, your most valued posses sion? Does nothing else thrill you as It does?-Eufaula Times.
 Yes, the "phunny" paragraphs in the Eufaula Times sometimes thrill us. They carry us back to childhood again and we imagine we can see little urehin as he plays smart for company crook his neck to one side and prick his pants as he re- cites in one tone Little Boo Peep." Sweeping the Cobwebs From the Sky" 'The Cow Jumped Over the Moon,' Lit tie Jack Jingle" -Four and Twenty Blackbirds Baked in a Pie,' etc. These "phunny" paragraphs bring up retrospection that makes us feel proud that some men never got grown and we are thus enabled to retain the childish smartness in it's pants uncovered by moss and with unkempt hair.
 
 The Advertisers Attitude.
 The Russell Register rebukes the Ad- vertiser in the following scorehing lan- guage:
 "The Montgomery Advertiser has been for some time quite solicitous towards Governor Oates to stand for another term on the pretended ground that he is the man for the place at this time. It was quite complimentary toward him and did not hesitate to praise him and his views.
 Tt did not succeed in getting him to do what it wanted him to do. It did 1.t .1-EA k-t.. T@t. af< as it had hoped to do. It did not get him out of the senatorial race, as some peo- pie think it hade hoped to do. It twist ed and commented on what he said when it interviewed him as to what he would do in case he should be rendered the nomination in such a way as to put him actually in the race for another term; but he refused to be so put out as can-. didate, and now the Advertiser would make it appear that Captain Johnston and the State Herald have run Governor Oates out of the race for another term. It attempts to show him up as political coward, not by calling him that, for 1t knows that it is not true, but by speak ing of the matter in such a way until such is legitimate inference.
 "The Register admres evidences of true friendship. They are beautiful, even in dog; but it has supreme contempt for the sneaking, mean, snake-like ma neuvers of an enemy under the garb of friendship. The dirty work of an assas- sin is far above that class of exhibition
 'The Advertiser has known all the while that Governor Oates had deter- mined not to enter the race for governor again. When it announced that he had consented to become a candidate it knew that such was not the fact. When 1t said that he declined to be party to an- other contest like that of last year it knew that he had said the same thing before. as well as after the State Herald and Captain Johnston had announced that he would have to go through with such a contest in order to get the nom ination
 'The Advertiser has sought to put Governor Oates in a false attitude all the while, and the Register expects in the near future to see 1t come out square against him as candidate for the sen ate. When 1t does this and shows its real attitude as an enemy to Governor Oates senatorial aspirations the Reg ister will have much more respect for what it says than it now has while un- der the cover of friendship.
 Some people can see through Glass sometimes"