Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1896-08-12

WINGED that it is wrong to bolt No, boys,
cannot go with you now. I shall shelter
myself under the democratic banner held
by Mr.. Morgan and others and rest salts
fed that am in good company. There is
another view of this question. l believe
that in 1884 congress enacted law for
the coinage of both gold and silver. If
this is true, and history records 1t as
fact did not Jefferson advocate it? If he
did then advocate it, when and where did
he ever abrogate his action? If he did
not so abrogate it, is not the coinage of
both gold and silver principle of Jeffer-
Spnian democracy? If so, why are the
fellows boiling? You boys had better
stay where you are; you are fixing to get
mighty lonesome. / have never known
man to bolt the democratic party who
did not ultimately get into the republican
party You ridicule the idea now, but
time will tell
There is one thing just as certain as
fate, and that is, the people are deter
mined to change the financial arrange
ments of this country They are deter
mined that their interests shall be looked
after little bit. They may be thwarted
now, but silver and gold will be coined IN
| this country free and unlimited and ma
tional banks will be abolished within the
next decade voted for r. II. Clarke as
| a Sound money" candidate. l did so
conscientiously. Since the democracy, IN
| both state and national conventions, has
L
down my arms, have fallen in with the
| majority and propose to keep in line with
| the boys till we get there.
Here's to our next president and vice.
president, Bryan and Sewall! These
| Sound money" democrats will find out
about the first Tuesday in November of
this year that there are more democrats
in Alabama than they ever dreamed of,
and that they are organized and mean
business. E. K. FULTON.
birmingham, Aug. II, 1896.
| To the State Herald:
AS advocating certain secondary doc-
trines of the correctness of which they
are convinced, there is nothing porten-
tious to democracy in the meeting at
Lakeview Monday night Neither IS
there special cause for alarm at the earn
estness and tenacity of that faction OF
| the southern people, for small and weak
factions are commonly firm in conjunc-
ton, but in that the meeting is indicative
of the dissolution or too great relaxation
of the bonds by which heretofore the
people of the south have been held to-
gether, there is not lacking matter for
serious consideration.
Recollections of the days when the
white race, the only element in the south
endowed with virtue and intelligence, be-
ing disarmed and impoverished, the form
of government they had ever boosted
was outraged before their eyes through
republican practices and misrule; recol-
lections of the subsection of intelligence
to stupidity, of education to ignorance,
of virtue to vice, engendered in the
hearts of southern men a bond OF resent
ment stronger than bond q mere SEN
| timent.
Democracy born of that resentment be-
came an institution of the southern heart
and mind as sacred and reverend as re-
Hgion. The base solder of material in
terest and of intelligent egotism melted
as wax in glowing heat. The south was
solid for democracy, solid not only IN
the net upshot and result of her cleo
lions, but "solid' in the hearts and al
fections of the people.
Look here upon this picture and on
this"
hypocrite,'' now stalks abroad, rushes
stormfully upon the astoniShed earth and
advocates measures, not men, that COM
mon cant of affected moderation, that
base sort OF counterfeit doctrine, faDri-
Gated by knaves and passing current
among FOOLS" breaches that other baser
cant of lukewarm democrats, national
issues.
Were they not true patriots who, be-
leving in the union and opposing seces-
sion, yet shouldered fire arms with the
majority of their neighbors in 1861? or
is it your idea of patriotism that they
should have taken up arms in support Of
their particular ideas? Had they not,
many of them, as much at stake as most
sufficient men among the rank and file
of these patriots of 90? You are BAH
bahed out Of your suggestion of the ne
gro question by these patriots, these ad-
Vocates of measures and not men, these
national issuists," by the assurance that
the negro question is dead. These same
worthless have been nowhere but where
we are now, have seen only hands
breadth deeper into this southern ques-
ton than we have seen. The following
from the Philadelphia Press shows that
the sentiment in the north that gave
birth to that old resentment" in the
south is still alive
Alabama will cast it's vote in Novem-
Der as 1t did this week, for the democrat
ic candidates, and the reason 1t will do
so is because the republican negro vote
| is kept from the polls by violence, or, If
| its votes get there they are counted out.
But for the votes obtained in this way
for Bryan and Sewall the Chicago ticket
would be defeated already Northern
| men who were against agitating the
| southern question because 1t was bad
for business are likely to find out before
| they are through that this is a world In
which there Is nothing quite SO bad for
| business as unredressed wrongs"
What wrongs are here suggested?
| Who's in the woodpile? Show this clip
| ping to the next patriot" you meet.
| SOUND MONEY DEMOCRAT" :
rro h,,iId ~, ond 9ranotban the weak