Birmingham state herald., 1896-02-23

eanvass-North Alabamian.
 No abler nor more manly speech has
 been delivered in Alabama since it left
 the chrysalis condition of a territory
 and donned the habliments of statehood
 that that delivered by Capt. Joseph F.
 Johnston at Thomasville Clarke county,
 February 15-Huntsville Argus.
 If there was anything lacking to dem
 In 1892 Congressman Clarke said that
 MT Cleveland was "a d-n mugwump
 and no democrat" No one ever heard
 anything of that character from Joe
 Johnston. He has opposed the presidents
 financial policy in an open, manly way.
 but at no time has he ever indulged in
 such expressions as MT. Clarke did to
 express his opinion of Mir. Clarke.-North
 Alabamian.
 It is now pretty generally conceded that
 Clarke isn't in it for governor The gu-
 bernatorial b3 rrel has a leak in il and peer Clarke has just about dropped out.
 While the leak S being stopped Johnston
 is being poured in at the bung. This is
 the voice of the people and that settles 1t, Good democrats all over the sta te will bc
 glad to honor Captain Joseph F. John
 ston.-Suligent Lightning.
 The people of Limestone county are for gallant Captain Johnston, and will see to it that the delegates to the county con- vention who are to select the delegates to the state convention are Johnston
 men. This is needing careful attention, and if you let MT. Clarke's friends slip up on you it will be your own fault. The Johnston men are ten to one or more in Limestone.-Athens Courier.
 A gentleman from New York was in the city Monday, and having several hours to spare on his hands, he dropped into the court house to hear MT. Clarke. When the speaker had finished the New Yorker turned to a bystander and said: By the way, what state does that hand some gentleman want to become gov ernor of? I listened closely, but he never mentioned his state."-HuntSville Argus. The Montgomery Advertiser, Richard H. Clarke and Peyton G. Bowman are working hand in hand to defeat the nomi- nation of Captain Johnston. As Peyton G. Bowman is known throughout the state among his other good qualities as the arch enemy and foul abuser of every thing democratic, is there not something
 putrid in the concerted action of the aforementioned trio?-Blount County News-Dispatch.
 MT. Clarke's speeches, while well deliv- cred, are chiefly remarkable for three important omissions, namely First, he onitS to say that he is not a candidate for the United States senate:s second, he omits to tell that he called MT Cleveland "d-d mugwump" at Chicago and urged his friends to vote for anybody else in preference; thirdly, he omits to mention single state issue within the state of which he is trying to become governor Huntsville Argus.
 MT. Clarke has wound up his work in Madison and Jackson. As he hied him westward to Limestone to pursue his hopeless task of winning delegates from Johnston, he did not bear the aspect Of a happy man. He has been right up to the
 wall and traced each letter of the hand writing, and his blue eyes are not now
 illumined with gladness. These counties are all for Johnston and straightfor- ward, practical administration of Ala
 bama affairs.-Huntsville Argus. MT. Clarke has made four speeches this week in Jackson county and still the namesake of Old Hickory is overwhelm- ingly for Johnston If MT. Clarke, with these four spell-binding effusions, has only made this progress, how much more time would the state executive commit tee have to give MT. Clarke before he could carry the state? It would take an aber pedagogue than the meagre pay out of our state school funds could secure to compute the time.-Huntsville Argus. Captain Johnston has opened his can yass in South Alabama His first speech is in excellent taste and temper, no blus- der, no bragadocio, but manly presen- tation of his position on the issues that most concern the people of Alabama. The captain has a nimble wit and the manner in which he handles some of the mistakes of his adversary is rich indeed. He draws ludiefeHs picture of lone of our yankee or English friends sitting with his bag of gold and waiting for Clarke to be nominated for governor to dump it into Alabama."-Fort Payne Journal.
 Captain Johnston was introduced at the theater last night by Hon. John D. Roquemore, but the Montgomery Adver- tiser's account of the speaking makes but the briefest reference to it. Colonel t- md r,ao hlIf he, like Captain Johnston, comedies to every democrat the right to differ on this question without being boycotted. Colo mel Roquemore is one of those gentlemen with enlarged views and liberal ideas, who is not to the Montg emery Adverti- ser's liking But Colonel Roquemore is a gentleman of wide popularity and great influence in business as well as the polit- ical world.--Montgomery Journal Richard H. Clarke is the politician who styled MT. Cleveland "A God damned mugwump." Now, this blue-eyed destiny political whrilgig is cavorting through Alabama denouncing every one who does not approve of John Shermans fraudu- lent financial policy as approved by Wall street and the Rothschild bond sym dicate Dick Clarke is brilliant fnan- cier himself, and draws $14 day to serve his constituents in the Fifty-fourth con gress where his seat in the house of rep resentatives is in state of innocuous desuetude. The question arises unbidden, is the "blue-eyed boy of destiny" a demo- crat ?--Blount County News-Dispatch. The Clarke men only stop yelling "the silver craze Is dead" long enough to shout "Captain Johnston was afraid to meet Clarke in debate" This is what they are now passing Clarke's claims upon. If Clarke had not met Bryan and Stallngs and Bankhead on the stump, and the democratic executive committee and leading democrats throughout the state had not advised against a joint discus. sion those who do not know either John ston or Clarke might possibly think the latter was real Boanerges-that Is, if they had not kept up with his record in congress. With the lights before them, however, the dear people wink their other
 eye and are for Johnston.-North Ala bam,an.
 Capt Joe F. Johnston. candidate for governor opened his campaign at Thom- asville last Saturday in speech of two
 hours to a large audience. His speech
 was one of the clearest-cut and we'll
 timed of any that we have read in long time He is not fighting anybody, but f4r fo nIn