Birmingham state herald., 1896-07-17
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l only instructions 1t obeys are those of 1 it's own brain and conscience. It is not directed by the bimetallic league, ala s 1 the silver steering committee, or any oth- l CT power outside of it's office.
 The Advertisers chief aim just now is | to secure the defeat of Goodwyn and his gang and the continued supremacy of the democratic party in this state. And if the State Herald had as much brains as 1t ought to have, it would not throw any obstacles in the way of that important result just now. If it wants to handica D
 the state ticket by the development of a sound money movement, it can easily do it by such attacks as 1t made yesterday upon the Mobile Register and the Ad- 1 vertiser, for in showing it's spleen at | them it strikes at the entire sound money contingent in this state
 l Discretion is the better part of Valor | The State Herald had best not kick too
 hard at sleeping on.-Montgomery l Advertiser.
 The State Herald did not mean that ] the Advertiser was lacking in the nec- l essary courage to announce its bolt of the l platform and ticket of the national dem
 ocratic party. Not by any means. That
 was exactly what the Advertiser did in
 the article which brought forth the com
 ment of the State Herald referred to by l the Advertiser as above.
 The lack of courage or the absence of 1 advice was apparent in the Advertiser S l failure to call upon its following either
 to support Mckinley or organize a new l party after having announced to them l that the democratic party had nomina ted a populist on a socialistic platform and was trying to capture the White House. l The people of Alabama, we admit, had l come to regard the Advertiser as a cour- | ageous paper. They were, therefore, un- prepared to witness such display of the lack of courage on the part of the Ad- yertiser which 1t is just now spreading before them.
 It requires great moral courage to fight
 hard, get whipped and then walk up like
 a little man and confess it. In bolting
 the Advertiser shows a lack of moral
 courage.
 It matters not what influence the Ad-
 yertiser would make believe controls the
 State Herald the people recognize in it
 the only important morning newspaper
 left in Alabama to stand by the deme-
 cratic party, it's nominees and platforms,
 state and national. Whether the people
 believe that the only instructions the Ad-
 vertiser obeys are those of it's own brain
 and conscience or not, the fact remains
 that a newspaper thar declares that a
 party has prepared and adopted a social
 istic platform and nominated upon 1t a
 popuist and is marching on to the White
 House, and in the same article hesitates
 to call on the people to rally to its sup
 port in an effort to destroy such party,
 is either insincere in what it says of the party, it's platform and nominee, or 1t
 is sadly lacking in moral courage or per forms under the direction of some direct or, who at the time was not at hand, and | the people see and realize it.
 If it be the chief aim of the Advertiser ! to secure the defeat of Goodwin, thus | far it aims well. If to do that the Adver- 1 tiser thinks it necessary to denounce the 1 platform upon which the ticket opposing MT. Goodwin stands, it will be conceded l by all nsen everywhere whether the Ad- l vertiser is really directed alone by it's | town brain" or not, that of all the papers l on earth needing an addition to its brain l power it is our Montgomery morning 1 contemporary.
 l If it wants to handicap the state tick 1 ct by the development of sound money I movement, it can easily do it by such at l tacks as it made yesterday upon the
 Mobile Register and the Advertiser, for | in showing it's spleen at them it strikes | at the entire sound money contingent in this state.'
 Such threats as this have no terrors | for the State Herald. If the Advertiser thinks it can silence this paper by | threatening to bolt the state ticket it | reckons without it's host. Besides, if it
 thinks it has the sound money democrats | of Alabama backing 1t up in it's dis | graceful bolt of the national democratic ticket and platform after having gone into the contest proclaiming that the ac ton of the national convention must be accepted as final and that there the issue ought and should be fought to finish, it is sadly off it's base. Ninety per cent of the | sound money contingent" as the Ad 1 vertiser is pleased to term the democrats l in Alabama who believe in the sound 1 money' theory, are democrats true and | tried. They are men who believe in the | fundamental principles of democracy,
 and therefore cheerfully subscribe to the | doctrine that the will of the minority 1 must bow to the will of the majority | freely and fairly obtained. Being such
 men and holding steadfastly to such l doctrines, they do not and will not in- l dorse the Advertiser either in its open | bolt of the national democratic party or l in its bushwhacking milk and cider sup 1 port of the state democratic nominees. | The State Herald has no fear of the 1 sleeping lion.' Let the Advertiser | proceed to put its threat into execution.
 Let the lion come forth from its lair. l True Alabama democrats fear neither its | roar nor its paws. There yet remain
 Samsons enough in the great state of
 Alabama to see to it that not even with
 the loss of the influence of the Montgom-
 cry Advertiser will the negro yoke be re- l placed upon the necks of the white peo- pie of this state by the election of Good | wyn and his republican cohorts.
 Awake, sleeping lion!" proud king of
 the forest CD, and when the ides of Mo-
 vember shall have passed let the people
 write an honorable epitaph to your mem
 ory.
 HERE LIES THE REMAINS | OF THE
 l MONTGOMERY ADVERTISER