Birmingham state herald., 1896-01-07
MIR. CLARKE, ADDRESS.

federal capitol, and not from his home in Alabama. He had not decided to an nounce himself as a candidate before leaving his home to attend to his duties as a representative in congress, but af- ter reaching Washington his mind be- came clearer, and the first announce ment of his candidacy was made to re- publican, and came to the State Herald last week through that questionable source. In the introduction to his card we regret to see that MT. Clarke makes an indirect attack upon Governor Oates. who was not willing to be used as a cats paw for governor when he had long since announced himself as a candidate for senator. MT. Clarke is more patriotic, in his own estimation, than Governor oates. He holds it to be his duty to sub ordinate his preference for the chair of senator to the sacred duty of beating Captain Johnston for the nomination. In this respect he throws Governor Oates completely in the shade. It is the belief of all men who have any knowledge of public affairs in this state that MT. Clarke was so incensed at the sugges- ton thrown out by Captain Johnston af- ter the vote on the sherman repeal act, that those representatives who voted for it would be signally rebuked by their constituents, that his present candidacy for governor is simply a matter of per sonal spite, and utterly reckless of the welfare of the democratic party or the safety of the business interests of the state. The people of Alabama will not permit this state to go into the hands of the republican party to please the van- ity or salve the wounds of MT Clarke.
 Mir. Clarke announces himself as a necessary exponent, ayenger and de- fender of each and every act of the ad- ministration. This is simply ludicrous. In 1892 he was for free coinage of silver. MT. Cleveland said no, and thereupon MT. Clarke halted. Before the meeting of congress in 1893 MT. Clarke declared through the New York World that he fa- vored free state banks. Mr. Cleveland now says no, and MT. Clarke says that the administration must be obeyed. At the called session MT. Clarke voted for the coinage of the silver seigniorage. MT. Cleveland said no, and MT. Clarke then voted to sustain the veto. At the na- tional convention in 1892 MT. Clarke was present in the lobby as an avowed oppo- nent of MT. Cleveland's nomination, and he is reported to have said in the agony of his soul: "At least give us a demo- cratw
 We submit to the people of Alabama whether MT. Clarke is doing himself or his party justice in now attempting in the face of his public record, to ostracize that great body of the true and unterri- fled democracy of Alabama who have stood by their faith from the beginning. Because the children have eaten sour grapes are the teeth of the fathers to be set on edge?
 The utter absurdity of the pretenses set up by MT. Clarke in behalf of the financial schemes of the administrato ton are dissipated like leaves before the wind by plain statement of facts.
 Secretary Carlsles report shows that prior to 1891 the demand for coin for United States notes during the period of thirteen years from July 1, 1879, to July l. 1892, was only 43,310, ,S96, while the re- ceipts of gold for United States notes during the same period amounted to $16OO00O00. The withdrawals from the treasury from July 1, 1892, to December, 1885, have amounted to s3G0, 266,512 During the first term of MT. Cleveland, when he was powerless to affect our currency and tariff policy, the senate being republican, the gold increas- ed from $240, ,000,0 ,000 on April 1, 1885, to $320 900, ,O00 on April 1, 1889. This gold came into the treasury without cost in exchange for United States notes or gold certificates. It is just to MT. Carlisle to say that he attributes the withdrawal of gold to silver legislation, yet the Bland- Allison act was in force from 1878 to 1890, when the accumulation of gold occurred, and the great body of gold was with drawn after the act of July IA, 1890, was repealed.
 These plain and undeniable facts knock the props from under the delusive bond scheme to replenish the treasury reserve of gold MT. Clarke cannot successfully defend that scheme. or the sole gold ba- sis scheme, or the foreign syndicate scheme, or the prohibition state banks scheme, or the $500, ,OOO, ,OOO currency con- traction scheme, or any of the other i'm mature, reckless and dangerous schemes that have marked the tortuous path of the president from the day he refused, as Colonel Oates has said to call the leaders of his party into council and CO., operate with them for the preservation and permanency of the only party that has stood as a stone wall in defense of the rights of these southern states and of freemen and freedom everywhere
 It is with regret also that we have to notice MT. Clarke's allusion to the debt of gratitude we owe the administration for putting down anarchy at home" When and where has there been a con- dition of anarchy in this country? The allusion is no doubt intended for the in- terference of an armed force at Chicago to put down the labor strike on the the ory that it interfered with mail contracts. DO we understand MT. Clarke as indors- ing the use of the army of the United States to suppress domestic insurrec- ton in a state when no call has been made by the governor or the general as- sembly for help from the federal govern ment? If this is to be one of the issues of his campaign the labor organizations,