Birmingham state herald., 1896-02-16

titudes of democrats here that will cheer him to the echo in all he says in praise of President Cleveland, but these self same democrats believe that Johnston is | the right man to put in the gubernato- rial chair.-Huntsville Argus.
 The Advertiser says Mir. Clarke is
 making the finest political speeches in ] his own behalf for the governorship ever l heard in Alabama, while the State Her | aid says Clarke is really making weak
 and puny efforts. So you pays your | money and you takes your choice" But | there is one thing ycu may put down as | certainty: Nearly every vetar in Ala i bams. has made up his mind how he is
 going to vote in the approaching pri- I mary and no amount of speaking by either Clarke or Johnston is going to 1 make many converts; certainly not l enough to change the result. MT. Clarke
 and the Advertiser will be badly beaten
 this year.-Greensboro Watchman.
 l According to the report of the Adver-
 tser, the ovation at Montgomery had
 well nigh overwhely1ed the "blue-eyed | boy of destiny" Ills emotional nature | got somewhat the mastery and his gold | en voice grew husky and his blue eyes | grew dim, and the oration at the ovation | swelled into paeans of praise for Mont | Somory's "rock-ribbed democracy" and l for the stalwart governors Montgomery 1 had furnished our great commonwealth. 1 And then his throbbing sentences 1 thrilled the vast company of rock-ribbed | and unterrified democrats into strange | sensation of ecstatic silence as he as- sured them that none but the genuine | Smon-pure (such as he) had ever | found or would ever find their way to yonder's capitol. I."-ShefTield Standard. When such men as Col. R. B. Kyle, Dr. | J. P. Rails, Capt. J. M. Elliott, Jr., w. R. Phillips and Obal Christopher favor the l nomination of Captain Johnston for gov | ernor, it is significant. These men are l only a few representative Johnston men; l we might add 100 others. We will men l ton or interview other representative | Johnston men during our succeeding is | sues. Colonel Kyle, as is conceded on all | sides, has the largest interest and has
 | done more for the development of this | section than any of our fellow citizens.
 l Dr. Rails has been distinguished in the | councils of the democratic party for well | nigh a half century, having been l member of the Confederate congress.
 | Captain Elliott is the president of the FL | liott Car company, and also of the Gadsi 1 den Land and Improvement company, 1 and is largely interested in the progress
 of our section. W. R. Phillips is young man, a representative merchant and an | ardent admirer of Captain Johns. on. 1 Opal Christopher is a representative | working man, a lifelong democrat and l an enthusiastic silver and Johnston man. ! -Gadsden Tribune.
 "Blue-Eyed Destiny Dick Clarke and | his swallow-tailed gang of financiers | need not f1atter themselves with the idea | that they can make the industrial classes | in this state believe that they care for | their welfare. The whole political career of MT. Clarke and his gang of goldites | prove the contrary. Dick and his gang love workingmen with an intense love, l just before the election, while afterwards | they are undeserving of the slightest mo- | tice. Sacred history informs Us that the 1 willy serpent beguiled Mother Eve, but 1 "Blue-Eyed Destiny Dick and his swal-
 w-tailed gang of veneered democrats | cannot beguile the honest-hearted, horny | listed democrats of Alabama. Nay, nay | thousand times nay. Mr. Clarke and
 his gang care nothing for the working 1 man, the amount of wages he gets or the | sort of money he is paid in.-Blount | County News-Dispatch.
 We have long been desirous of knowing | just what our single gold standard | friends mean by sound money" We l had about come to the conclusion that | they meant gold dollar with the gov | ernment stamp thereon. That, really, l to our somewhat confused vision. seemed | to be the trend of all the eloquent gold bug discussion to which the country has | been treated for many months past. l But now here comes MT. Clarke, known | everywhere as "blue-eyed destiny" and | the irrepressible Cleveland congressman and candidate for higher honors-here I iic CoHitS- III 6ICdt opcCCH OcIote d | crowded Montgomery audience, and tells, | beyond any doubt or misconception- | tells just what "sound money" means. | We are grateful to MT. Clarke for this easy and accurate test-so easy and so accurate that even the wayfaring man may decide at once whether or not his 1 money is sound or merely a sham. Mir | Clarke lays down the test thus: Sound money is any dollar that will pass any where without the stamp of the govern ment upon it." There are only three things needed, according to this splendid | and unmistakable simultaneously three single things. First. sound money must be a dollar; second, it must pass any | where; and. third, it must not have on it | the government stamp!-Sheffield Stand ard.
 The Advertiser, in commenting on the stand taken by Chairman Knox relative to joint debate between MT. Clarke and Captain Johnston says: "The debate be- tween Governor Jones and Captain Kolb had no effect on party harmony, and | were approved by the leaders of the democratic party" Of course the de- bate between Governor Jones and Cap tain Kolb was approved by the party leaders, and for the best of reasons, viz: Governor Jones had been declared the nominee of the regularly organized dem ocratic convention, and Captain Kolb was the nominee of differently organ ized body. Governor Jones could not do OtnefWlSe than ueIeHu nlf1lSeiL anu the party from the attacks made on him by l Captain Kolb and his friends. He could not have consistently done otherwise. l But the facts are far different in the con ! test now going on between Captain John ston and MT. Clarke. They both claim to | be loyal democrats. and are recognized by all parties as such. Hence the chairman of the executive committee did exactly right in dscouraging joint debate be- | tween two loyal democrats, because the | inevitable result would have been a widening of the breach already made in | the party by the Advertiser and it's fol- l lowers. We are also glad to see that | Captain Johnston was patriotic and wise enough to follow the advice of his friends and the chairman of the executive com mittee-Opelika Evening News.
 Mir. Clarke has opened his canvass for governor in Birmingham, the home of his competitor. Captain Johnston. We know | of no law that forbids an aspirant for | a state office going into the home county | of his opponent of the same political party and contesting for its delegation Yet this is the first time we remember