Birmingham state herald., 1896-02-26

that he can never be nominated. We are ready to extend to the Advertiser our hand of sympathy, for if any Ala bama newspaper ever needed sympathy when defeated it will surely need it. and in abundance, too.-Oxford Enterprise
 The Johnston meeting in Montgomery night before last was a hummer. Every seat in the opera house was taken. This was better than Clarke had, for there were some vacant seats when he spoke. Whenever Captain Johnston would salt the Advertiser the crowd would yell. The old girl got dose of her own medicine right in her own home. And the Adver- tiser printed good part of the speech. It shows that the old lady is coming around on the side of fairness. She sees the handwriting on the wall. The Ad- vertiser is no fool It has observed the Johnston cloud rising from every quar- ter of the state, centering toward the capitol building, and that paper is pre- pairing to get out of the wet when the water spout bursts.-Sema Times.
 In conversation with MT. c. D. Hunter few days ago he remarked: "A man without gratitude is a man without a soul.' He was talking about Joe John ston. He referred to what Captain Johnston had done for the democratic party of Alabama. That was grand sentiment that MT. Hunter uttered He believes that the people of Dallas ought to stand by Captain Johnston for what he has done. No man has been more loyal to the white people of Alabama than Captain Johnston. Mr. Hunter knows this. Remembering what this gal lant democrat did for white supremacy he is going to vote for him. And hun dreds of other democrats are going to do the same thing in this grand old county of Dallas. Captain Johnston will carry Dallas in a canter. He will be the next governor of Alabama. MT. Hunters sen mi ic nrtI, ,f 1,i t,,,< {sa and the people will indorse what he says in the approaching democratic primaries Selma Times.
 John F. Buhler, writing from Knoxville Tenn, to the Selma Times says: Several gentlemen who are now resi- dents of this city, and who were former Alabamians, have expressed the hope that the democrats of Alabama would this year nominate Capt Joseph F. John ston as their candidate for governor There is no democrat in Alabama today that has done more for.the success of the democratic party than Joe Johnston. Then, again, in the dark days of years gone by 1t was he who led the brave lit- tie band known as the boys in the trenches to glorious victory for white mans rule. It makes me laugh to think that the little Clarke followers are try ing to carry dear old Dallas county for Clarke-the county which is the old home of the gallant Johnston; the coun- ty where he made his brave fights for democracy first. It's no use for them to try, for when the time comes the girls will sing with sweetness, Goodbye My Lover, Goodbye I see the steamboat going round the bend with sixteen Joe Johnston delegates on board from dear old Dallas county
 If ever a man did prove himself loyal to any party, Joseph F. Johnston has so proved himself to the democratic party of Alabama. He did this thing during the last gubernatorial canvass; he did it in the canvass preceding-he has done it all along. He has done it by the mag unanimous use of his talent, his time and his means. His patriotism is unsulled and of record in times that tried mems SoulS His devotion to the interest of Alabama has been tested too frequently and in too many emergencies to suffer the slightest shadow upon 1t. There is not in the entire commonwealth a citi- zen more deserving of respect and recog- nition; there is no mau so well qualified, all things considered, for the high office to which he aspires; there is no man who would bring to the discharge of the du- ties of the responsible position a more active, conscientious and intelligent de- votion. And there is not man the peo- pie could place at the head of their af- fairs, not one, whose ambition and eff fort would be so tireless to deserve their approval by making, to the utmost of his aD1hty, splendid success of his official career Should he again be defeated-a thing that does not now seem at all pos sible-he woul5, no doubt, be, as hereto fore, at the fore front of the fight for the success of the tieGet. He does not doubt, so he has publicly Asserted, that his able opponent is as true to the party and will be found, when defeated, in the thick of the fight for the democratic triumph He declares that he by no means holds his opponent responsible for all that his organ at the capital, the Montgomery Advertiser, has done and said. This is but another index of Captain Johnston's loyalty Co tic party and generosity to his opponents. He knows, as well as any one. that whatever it may once have