Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1896-07-05

and Caiaphas of that corrupt old party
are getting them ready for the unholy
work
All honor to Professor Burruss for
spurning the hideous and shameful con-
spiracy. His proud Virginia heart re-
volted at the surrender and is now pulls
ing and throbblng with true southern
blood. Abuse him, IL you wish, abject
men who still stick to this miserable cabal
of trafficking politicians. The gallanh
and true men of Alabama, with its brave
mothers and daughters, will throw over
him their shields and keep him from hurt
or damage. Whatever errors of the past
he may have committed he stands to-
day purged from them, with the con-
seriousness that he is true and loyal to his
adopted state. But GOODWIN and Kolb,
after accepting republicanism, with dts
robber tariffs and recommendation, cry
out oh! we are for the free ballot and
fair count" Your plunderlng confeder-
ates, the republicans, make the same pre-
tensions. Think, honest voters of Ala
bama, of the chances for it when Good
wyn and Kolb turn the solid negro vote
over to Lodge, Chandler, Moseley and
Smith, to be delivered as military con-
tingent or promised quota at each recur-
ring election. That old giaour, the re-
publican party, pledgts itself to have all
these votes counted, but for itself, OF
course That will make pure and whole
some elections, of course. The biennial
same party in each successive election
would furnish model of sound and hon
est elections for the admiration and imi-
tation of tho political world. This dense
crowd of wooly-headed voters, black as
Erebus under Kolb, Goodwin & Co., al
ways to be driven to the polls as brute
beasts and then to be precipltated in
solid legion against tht white people of
Alabama. These "sainted hypocrites''
ought to be spurned by the white people
% Ia1N nd 1pix ioatn thn TAt.fxy
of retired life. For refusing to follow
such men Professor Burruss deserves the
hearty paudts of all true Alaf mi1ns.
The editor of a little paper N Besse-
mer, Ala, abuses Professor Burruss Sc
verely, accuses him of wanting "sus-
tenance" and says let him go, it is only
one vote and we can kill it with that of
the "measliest and oneriest negro. An!
there it is. AS the poet says: "Hie aut
nusquam quod quearimus." Yes, voters
of Alabama, here Is the neophyte to flu
sion recent convert, talking of blotting
out the white vote by drawing on this
black fund to kill off white voters. This
same fellow is a candidate for a. fat Of
flee 0ax assessor) against that great,
big-hearted man, Felix Mclaughlin, and
expects to beat him by killing the votes
of white men with negro ballots. Think,
white voters of this candidates pro-
gramme of cancelling white mems suf-
frage with that of the "measliest and
up and stand around the noble Felix and
bear him into office with thunderous
shouts. A few more words and we close.
Poor Goodwin, what a spectacle to men
and gods. He deserts his home land and,
like a second Coriolanus with his black
Bolscians is marching on to destroy 1t
with his black cohorts. He will fail, and
in time to come rising generations in Ala
bama will point at him as the man who,
under misguided ambition, was willing
to fetter and forever enslave the white
people of his sunny home"
word to the Birmingham Tribune. 1t
treats Professor Burruss decorously and
cavalierly, but patronizingly. 1t COM
mits some fearful and unaccountable
plumbers as to his political record. 1t
twits the professor with his change and
very complacently takes praise to itself
for its safe, consistent position. Let me
remind it that he who laughs first some
times fails to laugh last. Professor Bur-
rus, like the grand, majestic Abraham,
has escaped the doom of Sodom with no
smell of fire or sulphurous vapor on his
garments, but alas! the Tribune is still
in the doomed city tsat will soon perish in
the rolling surges of burning, devour-
ing lake of fire. Obi that Lot would es-
cape to the mountain or flee unto Zoar.
FRANK