Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1896-03-29
PARTY NOTES AND NOTIONS.


| Ona Parity.
| Free silver's battle once begun,
| Bequcathed from party sire to son,
| win cease not till the fight is won
| And evry goldbug's OH the run,
| Regardless about parity.
| To coin the metal by the ton
A W ask no no ip peb g son
| With Hamilton and Jefferson.
| Who never stopped for parity.
| From thirteen states to forty-hye.
| Where sev'nty million souls should thrive
Like bees with honey in the hive,
| Yet labors barely kept alive,
| Because of that fraud, parity.
| Just watch that money king or duke
| Some silverloon try to rebuke-
| The hatulent sound money fiuke-
He nearly makes his hearers puke
With belching up of parity
The Chattanooga Times, which, by the
way, seems to be taking a notable deal
! of interest in republican politics in-Ala-
| bama has this comment:
Hon. L. e. Parsons, the most promi-
nent and able republican leader in Ala
| bama tells a Washington correspondent
| that the populists and republicans will
| fuse there this year. Mr. Parsons thinks
| the combine will carry the state. He
| was Harrison's United States attorney
| for Alabama, and is a man of a good deal
| of force and character. He says the flu
| sion VIII be on both state ana nat1onal
tickets
| The republicans have been showing a
| degree of hopefulness in Alabama this
! year, which is one of the effects of Mr..
| Clarkes abOrtive campaign of principle.
| But once Captain Johnston Is nominated
| there will be nothing left of the opposi-
| ton save a display and parade of the
| loyal, who expect to get pie from the next
| administration in the event it is repub-
| Lean.
1.-The Favorite Son" seems to be play
| ing a very brief engagement this year.
Somehow l have a notion that Ex-Gov.
| Jimmie Campbell of Ohio will be big
| factor in the democratic nomination for
| president gentleman who recently
talked with the governor told me he had
| heard him say that if he were president
| and congress should pass a silver free
| coinage bill he would approve 1t. GOV
| ernor Campbell is very much of man
| of the people and a glorious campaigner.
| Governor Jimmie would be the very man
to pit against Gov. Billie Mckinley, and
| outside of republican Ohio would arouse
a whirlwind of democratic enthusiasm
About AGO votes will be necessary to
nominate in the republican national con-
| vention. States which have held con-
ventions so far have indicated for Nc
| Kinley 178, Morton 81, Allison 81 Reed
AZ, o.
| but few votes more than two-thirds of
| the convention. 1t is a big bulge for Nc
| Kinley, but it must be remembered that
| the Reed states, all New England, ana
strength here and there elsewhere nave
| not yet spoken, and 1t Is possible that the
| combined opposition will decidedly out
| number the followers of the Buckeye pro-
| lection Napoleon. But there will have
to be a genuine Waterloo to head him
|
| r,l,at tho CIa rho nDaipn for princiDle
| is weakening one has not only to take
| look at the cloth sign stretched over
| it's headquarters on Second avenue bear
| ing the melancholy legend, Clarke
| Club" The sign is all awry. The word
Club" has fallen and the sign Is sadly
| disfgured; it is after the fashion of the
| bear and the fiddle, which begun very
| we'll and broke down in the middle, and
| is accordingly very like the Clarke cam
| paign for principle. That sign cloth has
| been dropping at half mast for week
| and none so poor to do 1t the reverence
| of righting it. The few sound money"
| folk who took strangely sudden notions
| to abandon Captain Johnston, who had
| in no wise changed his views of finance,
| have not made a ripple in the tide bear
| ing that gentleman to the goal of his am
| bition To nobody is his steady growth
| due more than to himself. There are
| not a few of his friends, maybe, who
would like to take him in hand and give
him advice, but the fact after ALL Is very
patent that he has gained most wherever
| he has appeared among the people. Mr..
| Dick Clarke sprang into the arena piano.
piled with principle and anointed with
| White House JUNCTION, which private
| Secretary Thurber keeps at the door of
| the executive chamber for all faithful
| cuckoos. He sprang in, did Mr.. Richard
| H. Clarke, with those celebrated blue
| eyes flaming, and assailed Joe Johnston
| as though that gentleman had committed
| some objectionable sim His offense had
| been that he had failed at all times to
| speak of the administration in terms of
| unqualified praise and approval. He
| fancied did Mr.. Clarke, that he would
| by laying stress upon this call drive the
| so-called sound money men to support
| of him, the panoplied and anointed. But
| it should be remembered that not all the
| so-called sound money men are cuckoos;
| that there are democrats among them
| who regard themselves as quite as able
| to judge as to the propriety OF supporting
| Captain Johnston as Mr.. Clarke. They
| know the captains record as citizen, as
| asaemocrat and as bimetallist as well
| as the most ardent free silver man. They
| know he has never lodged the question
nor been converted in the night time.
Even the News, which is wont to do
| lively battle in any cause in which 1t era
| lists, is doing very feeble fighting for
Mr.. Clarke. My friend the general dhe
| EDITOR felt himself called upon to aban-
| QOn captain JOllilStoi ptNduoS VI piihSi-
| pie, dontcherknow, and having done so,
| the efforts to vindicate It's course consti
| tute about the most amusing and harm
| less thing of the campaign. 1t is like the
| News war against the races. The fun
will all be over by the time it's, position
| may be understood. But perhaps after
| all the News is just doing this way for
| instance" 1t is like the chap who wrote
| his name on the hotel register. The clerk
| asked him if he wished a room. mo"
| DO you wish meal?" mo" what
| do YOU wish?" Nothing" Then, why
| did you register?" "Oh, l just wanted to