Birmingham state herald., 1896-04-19
LOOK FOR THE OLD TIME MAJOR
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divided The effort made by Captain Kolb in 1892 to break down the party precedent of giving faithful and efficient officers an indorsement by electing them to a second term resulted in a boiling convention, and under the name of Jeffer- sonian democracy a goody portion of the white people of the state followed MT. Kolb out of the regular organized demo- cratic and conservative party and joined in the effort to elect ticket composed of men who al that time claimed to be bet ter democrats than those whose names appeared upon the regularly nominated democratic ticket, The effort failed. In 1884, still claiming to be a Jeffersonian democrat, Captain Kolb went before the people as the nominee of what was term ed the Jeffersonian democratic party of Alabama. In that year the republicans, as they did in 1892, again came to the rescue of the Jeffersonians, and did all they could for the success of the ticket but the returns demonstrated that the Jeffersonian party was not as strong in Alabama in 1894 as it had been proven to be in 1892 and again the effort to defeat the nominees of the regular organized democracy resulted in failure. Follow
 
 election in 1894 the Jeffersonian demo- cratic party disappeared. It was com- pletely swallowed up by new party It became the populite. or third, party. Up to the date of the swallowing up of the Jeffersonian democratic party by the third, or populte, party, Kolb, his lead CTS and his followers claimed to be dem ocrats They scorned the idea of their
 
 those who had remained in the leader ship and ranks of the regularly organized democracy of the state. We therefore had no populite party in this state until after the August election in 1894. From that time until some time in the fall of 1895 the populite party remained intact but in the fall of 1895 the republican par ty, which had. though voting the Jeffer- sonian ticket in 1892 and '94 preserved its organization, set about to do for the pop ulite party in Alabama what that party had done for the Jeffersonan democratic party-swaHow it up. The work went on for some time, and in many quarters it had rough sailing; but the republicans finally made the landing, and the popu- lite, or third party was literally swal- lowed up by the party which has been led and dominated by R. A. Moseley, L. E. Parsons. ct al, in this state since they were routed in 1874.
 So we now have only two political par ties in Alabama. It is now the democrat ic party against it's old enemy, the repub- lican party. There will no longer be po- ltical strife and turmoil in this state. The greater part of the men who went off after Kolb under the name of Jeffer- sonian democrats will return to the ranks of the democratic party. Many of them called halt when it became the popu- list party. Many more of them drew the line when 1t was finally settled here :n Birmingham some months ago by the leaders of the populites and the republi- can bosses that the state and county tick cts were to be a mixture of republicans and former democrats who were willing to be yanked upon tickets alongside of lifelong republicans Men who will ac- cept nominations on tickets with lifelong republicans are not popullsts or Jeffer- sonian democrats-they are republicans, pure and simple. Not lifelong repub- licans possibly, but new converts. They are republicans all the same. We have here in Jefferson county republican ticket in opposition to the democratic ticket It is composed of eight old-time republicans and eight latter-day repub- licans. Of course, that course has been pursued by the leaders of the republican party and the leaders of the populist par ty in the hope of carrying the state. but those leaders lose sight of the fact that the men in Alabama who followed Kolb out of the party of their first love, the ,tu not ignoramuses They are men who can see a thing or two as well as the leaders They realize that they have come to the parting of the ways, and they are going to part, too. The result will be that there will be a larger percentage of the white vote of Alabama vote the republican ticket this year than usual, but not enough larger to make any difference in the result of the August elections. There are some few of the old Jeffersonians who will probably not get back home this year, but the most of them will, and the thing will wind up leaving the democrats of the state once more reunited and a few more republican leaders to scramble for federal pie.
 There will be a straight republican state ticket and straight democratic state ticket, just as Is the case in this county. On the state republican ticket will be about half old-time, lifelong re- publcans, and the remaining half will be new converts-republicans, but not of 50 long standing as the others. That is the way it will be, and the common people see, know and fully realize it, and those who are not republicans will vote the democratic ticket, and 75 per cent of the white men who rallied under the flag of Jeffersonian democracy, under the lead ership of Kolb, are still democrats Kolb will find himself powerless to line them up for a republican ticket We are going to have democratic landslide this year. All we need now is conservatism and an aggressive campaign, and that we are going to have, and the democratic major ity in August will be above the 50,Q00 mark.
 THE WAY IT LOOKS.
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