Birmingham state herald., 1896-08-01
BURY IT TOO DEEP FOR RE5UR-
 RECTION.

Every democrat in Alabama can do something today for his country. This is
 the last day in which you can serve your self, your party, your country and your
 family by working for the success of the
 democratic ticket before the polls open.
 It lies within the power of every dem
 oerat to do something today that will
 help swell the democratic majority next
 Monday. To do that something is your
 duty.
 For twenty years the state of Alabama
 has been in the complete control of the
 democratic party Thousands of men are
 living today who know what republican
 rule in Alabama means. They have ex-
 perienced it. That 1t was, indeed, bit
 ter experience each of them can testify.
 Within very few years the state debt
 was run up from $5,000, 900 to $30 900.
 Taxes were increased constantly and
 rapidly. and when the vampires were
 hurled from place and power the tax rate
 amounted almost to confiscation. Every
 interest was destroyed. Legislation be-
 came a subject of barter and sale. The
 ignorant and vicious ruled in the land.
 Once in power and control the white mans party began to bring order out of chaos. The public debt was reduced un-
 til now 1t is a small matter and the tax rate has been constantly lowered. Life and property have been made secure in the state. Honesty and economy have characterized the rule of the democratic party.
 Today the people of Alabama are con- fronted with a proposition to abandon the kind of government the democratic party has given them-a government un- der which they have prospered and under which they and their property interests have at all times been safe and secure and once more turn the governmental af- fairs over to the men who participated in the government that despoiled the fair name of our state and ruthlessly robbed our people.
 At each recurring state election in Ala bama since 1890 the long, lank, lean, pill fering hand of republicanism, striving once more to get into the peoples treas ury, has been seen in the background of the contests that have been waged against the democratic party. Taking advantage of division that sprang up in the ranks of the democracy, which was to a large extent the outgrowth of per- sonal ambition, republicansm sought af- ter eighteen years of retirement to once more fasten its poisonous fangs on the reins of government in Alabama and to spread it's blighting curse over every household within the confines of the state.
 In the first two efforts made thousands of voters were so blinded by prejudice, m ci inc int i,,ds 6xr the interruptions designers against the peace and prosperity of the people, that they refused to see or believe that the de- feat of the regular organized democracy would inevitably lead to the enthrone ment once more in Alabama of republl- canism. Because of that fact thousands of men who would shrink from the real fly Of republican rule voted for the tick ct opposing the democratic nominees and gave to the opposition voting strength in 1892 and again in 1894 that greatly en- couraged and emboldened the republi- cans.
 Thus encouraged and believing that the then prevalent opinion that republi- canism had awaiting it a walkover in the national election was corrects what had been a dark shadow in the background, though plainly visible to the unpreju- diced, stalked forth last spring in its true colors and proclaimed boldly that it was in the fight to win.
 Repubicanism came to the front and proclaimed openly that it intended to take charge of the affairs of this state hoping and believing that by the help of the men who had in an hour of pas sion and prejudice gone away from the party they would be able to do so.
 The result has been fatal. The bold step taken by the republicans has re- coiIed upon them and tens of thousands of the men whom the radicals thought had imbibed sufficient poison to keep them from returning to the ranks of the party, though to remain away meant the aiding of republicans to get into place and power, have deliber- ately rose up in their might and man hood cast aside the bondage of blind prejudice and returned to the democratic party and done valiant service towards keeping the party of the people-the dem ocratic party-the bulwark of the peo- ple's safety, in control of the affairs of government in Alabama.
 The result is that republicanism in dis guise, which proved a formidable com petitor in 1892 and again in 1894, will, while appearing this year in its true col- CTS, meet with ignominious defeat.
 In appealing to democrats everywhere to be on the go from now until the polls close next Monday night, the State Her aid does not mean that this should be done in order simply to defeat the op- position. It is already defeated. We simply want the democrats to pile up such an overwhelm- ing majority that that hidra- headed monster, republicanism, will not put up it's head in Alabama again in twenty years. It can be done if every democrat will do his full duty. It will be- done, because every democrat is going to do his duty.