Birmingham state herald., 1896-03-15
LET'S MAKE II UNANIMOUS That Is the Practical Expression of the State Press AND THE TREND OF THE TIDE Is Swift and Sure for Johnston-The Popular
 Voice Has but One Grand
 Note.
The gold craze in Alabama is expiring.

The gold craze in Alabama is expiring. Mobile Journal.
 A scarce article-Clarke men in Blob county.-Blocton Intelligencer.
 The more speeches H. H. Brown makes for MT. Clarke the further off that job of railroad commissioner vanishes in the distance.-Selma Times.
 Captain Johnston is sure to get Hale's nine votes in the state convention. The great majority of the people are for him, and they will let it be known on April H. 1S96.-Greensboro Watchman.
 Captain Johnston is conducting a most satisfactory canvass throughout the state. He is pleading everywhere for harmony and concession within the dem- ocratc ranks.-StandardNe
 After the state convention we suggest to the friends of Hon. R. H. Clarke that the organize expedition to search for him, for by that time he will have succeeded in dropping into pretty large sized vacuum.-Mobile News.
 Captain Johnston is the man to beat the populite-republican combine in Au- gust, and there is no doubt about it. He is in touch with the country voter and he can beat the stuffing out of Good wyn or any other man they nominate.- Clay County Advocate.
 What fall is there, my country men," It is now said that the blue eyed boy of destiny'' will be beaten by Captain Johnston in Marengo. When it is taken into consideration that this is MT. Clarke's home it makes the pill more bitter to swallow.-Mobile News.
 Morgan county held primary last Fri day and Johnston won the fight two to one This has been hotly contested ground, and the victory is glorious one for Johnston Chambers is overwhelm- ingly in favor of Johnston. He is the prime favorite intercollegiate Sun.
 The Birmingham News Topped. Let her flop. The paper has been all the while looking one way and trying to travel another. Open enmity is prefer able to the lofty attitude of pretending to be for man while quietly prodding him under the fifth rib.-Fort Payne Jour- Journal.
 The Advertiser says put Jackson down for Richard H. Clarke" That's what you told us to do with Morgan. As Morgan goes, so goes Jackson, and the rest of the Eighth district. We fear you will have to be content with little Geneva and the Birmingham News Fort Payne Journal.
 Johnston will not only carry Mont gomery, Dallas and Jefferson, but will sweep every county in the Eighth dis trict. He will go down into Dick Clarke's district and capture few more counties. He may conclude to allow Mobile to join in the procession and make it unani- mous.-Athens Courier.
 The outlook for the continued triumph of the democratic party in Alabama was enhanced a hundred fold by the signal victory of Capt. Joseph F. Johnston Tn Morgan It was a straight primary the people individually giving expression to their choice and more than two to one voted for Captain Johnston.-Huntsville Argus,
 The action of Morgan county is cor rect index as to what the result will be in the Eighth. Seventh, Sixth and Ninth Congressional districts. Johnston will carry all four districts in about the same proportion-two to one-and he stands an excellent show of securing majority of the delegates from the other five dis tricts.-Jasper Mountain Eagle.
 1.-TWO weeks ago the most asanguine Johnston man would not admit that Mir Clarke had a ghost of chance in Nor gan. There is fine prospect now for MT. Clarke to carry the county. The Johnston forces are badly rattled." That Is the way the Advertiser wrote before Morgan acted. After the primary that Daper cried fraud.-Selma Times.
 Kolb said while in Hale county last Saturday that he had just returned from Morgan county and that in his judgment Cla arke would easily carry that county The primaries were held in Morgan the day of the statement and Johnston car ried it nearly two to one. We simply mention this to show what sort of po- IItical prognosticator Reuben is--Greens- boro Watchman.
 Out of the five newspapers published fin the city of Mobile the home of Can didate Clarke, three are against the "blue-eyed" candidate and for Johnston. State Herald. And just think of the difference in the circulation of the pa- pers, By ourselves we get out about twice as many copies as the two Clarke sheets let alone what the others are do- ing.--Mobile News.
 The killing of Railroad Bill' was op- perfume for the Montgomery Advertiser, coming as it did on the heels of the news of the great victory for Johnston in Nor gan. It diverted the "OId Ladys" fro led mind somewhat from her disap- puintment over the result at least we infer it did, as about five columns space was devoted to the dead negro and less