Birmingham state herald., 1896-05-31

"Ill fares the land to hastenng ills prey When hybrid politics prevail and men decay"
 Doubtless the men who have fathered fusion here will rise to protest that such things can never be here, but they are fol- lowing step by step the very path that led to these results in North Carolina they are making the same issues, using the same battle cry and forming the same alliances, and like results follow always like causes.
 It is certain that none of these things will ever happen under democratic rule. Decay ofPeople's Party. The peoples party is steadily ap- preaching It's dissolution. Arising when great discontent and unrest prevailed amongst the people, and offering new and untried remedies, it carried several states, elected some half dozen senators and a number of congressman. In the last election 1t did not gain single senator, lost about one-half of
 its congressman, and today does not con-
 trol a single state in the entire American
 union.
 If its measures were good it has no men in public station to carry them out. It has abandoned nearly every issue upon
 which it gained it's short tenure of power
 In the few states it carried. It has not
 even the semblance of respectable organi- zation in many of the great states of the
 union, and here in Alabama 1t Is being
 used as the political cats paw of the re- publican party.
 Professing to favor free coinage of sil-
 yer and fair elections it has allied itself
 here with the unrepentant party that
 aided Tn demonetfzing silver, that made
 1t crime to challenge an illegal voter,
 and provided no punishment for the
 greatest fraudssupon the ballot box.
 Not declaration in favor of public
 schools Is found in its platform though
 nm Iaf ffr,,,. <,1,. I11~
 an expression in favor of white surprem-
 acy, though this would probably have
 prevented its present partnership.
 Protesting it's allegiance to frequent
 changes in public officials and pledgng
 itself to the one-term idea, now nearly
 every one of it's county officials are seek ing reelection.
 It's platform shows that it has either surrendered or betrayed or abandoned l nearly every policy that it demanded for years. It advocates now nothing that is good that is not found in the democratic platform. It lives on the cry of fraud
 and invites into its companionship the men who overturned the government of the white men of Alabama in 1868 by a legislative fraud almost inconceivable in | free government.
 | It claims to have twice elected it's can didates to offices never occupied by them and proclaims its expectation of a like result again.
 It is now surrendering its creed and at- tempting to deliver its followers into the
 ranks of party whose doctrines 1t pro- fesses to hate.
 All of1ks promises are unfulflled, and not a Ie measure that 1t ever advo- | cater ling from other parties, has everl la law. It draws its supplies from hblican party and relies upon 1 it for ey5tence. It has outlived any use- fulnessSand will go down to it's grave unwept, unhonored and unsung. There are thousands of honest men in Alabama men with blue eyes and straight hair, who will refuse to follow reckless leaders into the ranks of party whose misrule is yet felt here. If it could succeed this year the men who would rejoice with the greatest joy
 are the men who oppose white supremacy
 and believe in the equal civil as well as
 political rights of all
 Popullte Loss of Votes.
 To confirm what have said about the
 decline of the peoples party I give the
 vote boiled by that party in 1892 and 1894
 in the states shown:
 States. 1892. 1894.
 Kansas ..... .163 III 11S,329 Nebraska ........ ........ 83134 65,666 North Dakota ..... ...,.. 7,700 9,354 Idaho .... ........ ........ 10,520 TIP
 New York ...... ...... 16,429 11,049