Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1896-06-21
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
Prof. Burruss Says These Are
Synonymous.
MEAN A CLOSE CONCERN
For the Judicious Distribution of Republican
Pap" Measley" Recruits Wanted
by the Combine.

has not pretended to answer his argu-
ment. We were awaiting. his own an
swer to himself, which we confidently ex-
pected in q brief time and, sure enough,
it came last Sunday.
Ignorance in a statesman is crime"
The leader who knows not whittier he go
eth or whence he cometh is snare and a
ptfall. If Professor Burruss supported
Garfield in 1880 and Blaine in 1884; IL he
voted for Harrison in 1888 and Cleveland
Elm 1892; if he was a Malone member OF
the Virginia legislature and q defeated
republican candidate for reelection.
If he voted for Jones in 1897
and for Kolb in 1894, he may well pose as
firm and valiant leader of the Johnston
Omaha platform phalanx of 1896.
The above extract is taken from the
Peoples Tribune of June Is, 1896, in reply
to my second article. The Tribune con-
fesses that it did not answer my argu-
ment published in the State Herald June
Z, 1896, because it was confident that /
would answer 1t myself, which 1t claims
l did in the State Herald of the 14th of
June, 1896. The Tribune, then, accepts
my article of the 14th instant as conclu-
sion of the whole matter, but adds many
mistakes of fact Under the alembic OF
correction, the facts of the Tribune melt
away like the eyanescent dew. Facts are
the worst enemies of cooperation. 1
supported Hancock, not Garfield, in 1880;
/ did not support Blaine in 1884. I took
no part whatsoever in politics in 1884.
I became a resident of the state of Ala
bama in May, 1884, and hence could not
vote. / never was a Malone member of
the Virginia legislature. l never was a
member of the Virginia legislature.
never was candidate for election or re-
election to the Virginia legislature.
am supporter of Joseph F. Johnston. I
did not observe that Captain Johnston
was present at the republican gold stand
wi To-,
with the McKinleyites and the proprie-
tor of the Tribune. The unquestioned
ability and general capacity of the Trib-
une, when it has any ground to stand on,
Is freely admitted, but cooperation has
nothing to recommend it in economics,
ethics or party policy, and it is bound
to go down beneath the surging waves of
popular indignation and defeat.
Now fades the glimmering landscape on the
And all the air solemn stiffness holds,
Save where the beetle wheels his droning
And drowsy tinklings Iull the distant
For who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey,
This sd pleasing, anxious being e'er resign
Left the warm precincts of the cheerful
Nor cast one longing, lingering look be-
Burruss Flocks by Himself.
The Bessemerite, June 10, 1896.
Every political party is inflicted more
or less with sporadic cases of political
swell heads, persons who imagine them
selves possessed of the brains and hence
demanding the favors and emoluments
of the party. These people discredited
in one party are generally on the look
out to curry favor with and join another.
The peoples party of Jefferson coun-
ty has been bearing the burden of one
of these aspiring ambitious, political
swellheads, whose time since he an
nounced to the expectant, anxious null
titude that he was populist, seems to
have been devoted to figuring out an Of
flee of sufficient magnitude in honor and
emoluments to suit his high deserts.
1t seems that the party has very firm
ly and unanimously declined to recog-
nize any special merit or the existence
in itself of any obligation. The result,
apparently, has been a souring on the
party, sulxing, as it were, in his tent,
and finally a tremendous explosion,
which he thinks has shattered the party
into fragments.
The party doesn't care. Such detection
never hurts it. If the organized dems
think they have got a soft thing in him,
let them take him to their BOSOM. 1t
must be sustenance that he is after.
But we doubt If the dems would waste
much substance on him. In fact, Henry
Page Burruss must be fiocking unto him
self.
he desire Oh the SOULFUL h1lleln nIfIl,
for his hands refuse to labor" 1.-THE slug
gard is wiser in his own eonceit than
seven men that can render a reason"
THE lips of truth shall be established
forever. but lying tongue Is but for a
moment" What is a lie? According to
the authorities on the subject lie is the
utterance of a falsehood to deceive under
the impulsion of motive of pleasure,
greed or malice, or from constitutional
tendency or from tendency planted in
the nerve centers by many repetitions
of the act of deception. The latter variety
constitutes the habitual liar. Prolonged
idleness, 'tthe DEVILS workshop" often
produces this species of liar. LaZiness, "a
vice in itself is the fruitful parent of this
despcable product The constitutional
liar is greatly to be pitied. and the world
extends a great deal of charitable eonsid-
Grafton to this class of unfortunates The
establishment of an institution for the
scientific treatment of this moral insanity
affords an opportunity for the exercise
of an enlarged spirit of beneficence and
philanthropy. The liar for pleasure, who
seeks diversion in the temporary excite
ment and diSmay of the deceived is repre-
hensible in high degree This vice has
been prolific of many fatal shocks. What
shall we say of those who deliberately,
premedtatedly and with a distinctly in
furious purpose in view lie to crafty the
lust of greed or the passion of maiice2 A
few days since. happening to cast my
eyes over the Columns OF the HcW Gu
operation paper at Bessemer recently
launched upon the journalistic waters,
my attention was caught by an article
on the editorial page of the paper with
the personal caption, "Burruss Flocks to
HIMSELF" 1 read the editorial with some
degree of surprise, as there was no
ground in fact for the statements made.
This editorial shamelessly disregards the
truth in all of it's statements and insinua-
tions in regard to my political conduct
while connected with the populist organi-
cation of this county and state.
These misrepresentation are deliber-
ate, premeditated and malicious false
hoods. I have never sought office or ia
vors at the hands Of any political party
since I have been citizen of Alabama,
a period of twelve years. 1 became an
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS candidate for the
state senate for the purpose of present.
ing the populist position on the money
question, disentangled from q COM
promising alliance with the republican
party. I uniformly, persistently and
firmly resisted the urgent entreaty of
fusion populists to submit my candi-