Birmingham state herald., 1896-02-13
PARTY NOTESsANp NOTIONS.
Cats and-Dem ocrats. (Contributed.O

| 4 GaIS- ana --De1n OCf9tSs (Contributed) When cats at 12 o'clock at night The slumbering neighborhood alright Ifssx By horrid caterwaYIs,s
 Then sportive skip the pesky rats, Who know the ways of pussy cats, About the catless halls,
 They scamper over loaded shelves, | And chattering freely help themselves.
 When democrats. when times are dark At one another snarl and bark And sneak behind and bite, Then loud hurrahs each pesky "rad' | And pops" get insolent and glad And strut and crow for fight; | They drop all quarrtls 'mong themselves | And prey on democratic shelves. | The moral here is very plain
 To any party man half sane - h Who studies politics.
 IT Don't smite your brother for his faults. tS While most you need against assaults H His courage and his lcksa E Even then don tpaw the ground andbeIlow E eptl you whip the oener Ienew' q Hon. W. c. Davis of Marion county, who was an Oates man in the last race 1 for governor has written friend here that Marion county, which was for Oates in 1884, ill-bes for Johnston this year, 5 to l.
 Hon. A. B. Hurt of Washington, D. C., assistant superintendent of the free delivery system of the postoffice depart ment, who is in Birmingham on official business, was a doorkeeper of the house of representatives of the Fifty-third con- gress, one of the most popular officers of that body. I asked MT. Hurt if the republicans about the national capital were not showing a good deal of confi- dence just now over the political outlook Yes he replied, but they are no little worried, too, over the danger of a split on | the money question: Yes, I think itsis question that is going to cause trouble | in both national conventions. If there is any advantage in experience we demo- crats ought to have it, as we have been fussng fer some time. Because it is something new for the republicans to fall out over question of finance it is none | the less a serious danger that menaces | their party. The western republicans are | just as immovable from their adherence to silver as the western democrats, and both will make uncompromising fights in the national conventions" It will probably be decided and given out for the public today what evening | the grand Johnston rally will take place.
 A prominent and well-posted politician said yestefday: Johnston lacked only 17 votes in the last state convention of | getting the nomination. This time he is certain of getting in north Alabama
 
 | convention that he did not get in 1894 | Resides, he will carry a. dozen other | counties more than he carried before. l Johnston will beat Clarke more than 2 iifd1. The Johnston forces are thorough | ly organized in order that their strength may be registered and represented in the r Cpnvention." k 5yA business letter >ffsJmS a leading attor- ney of Guntersville to the State Herald l incidentally mentions that there will be fpo fight against JohHston~in Marshal Il Ltounty, and thatthe will also carry De- II Kalb and Cherokee counties.
 F The people who have, nvedein the>same | town with Congressman Dick Clarke are l the least surprised a his confidence. One | of them said in my hearing that 1t l would not take much urging to get him
 <to run for president. 1--..-. I Supporters of Mr. Clarke around here, | like their leader, seem utterly devoid of any argument except. that he is-an ad- l mtnistraton man. Yetsy administration snenl are numerous here who resent the effort to lash them, into serYitlide to the reckless ambition of a man who Is draw 1 ing pay from the government for ser vFes at Washington which he is not | rendering, and who Instead of being in | his seat attending to the duties of a rep af | the state assuming that if is public | duty to make him, gGguyernor. because
 f9rs99n ns escfed s the b se s,hs s,g aqai7a,q = Jefferson county gave MT. Clarke a l civil reception. Now he isegoing about | telling people he is going to carry this county It deceives no sensible man of | average information. There is big diff l ference sometimes between civflity and | indorsement, between.c unconventional polish and partisan support But Mr"' Clarke | has too little of magnetism to get near enough to men to feel how their hearts beat. He is a nice ,smooth-spoken,- honest man; but, as remarked one who had | shivered as he looked into the frozen deeps of his Montgomery Advertised blue eyes Hes as cold as the handles of a metallic coffin, or the shady side of | a marble tomb on Nebo's lonely moun- l tain in a December twilight" What an icy douche his nomination would precipitate upon Alabama democracy. The party would have a congeStive chill.