Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1896-10-23
GLOOM is THICK.
You Can Cut 1t With Knife Around
Sound Money Headquarters.

You Can Cut 1t With a Knife Around
Sound Money" Headquarters.
There still hangs a funeral gloom about
the sound money local Republican Aid
society (allegeO headquarters on First
avenue which even the presence of
Uncle jeff" with his book of free passes,
has not at all relieved Some say it is the
failure to bring any cheering material
c'boodle) from the treasury of the ma
tional Democratic Museum"
AS representative of the State Herald
entered the lobby of the Morris hotel on
Wednesday his attention was called to
the long faces and generally mournful
air exhibited by Chief Undertaken CHAIR
mani Crawford, First Assistant (Chair-
NAM Kettig, Assistants Brown and 9TH
ers as they completely surrounded Uncle
Jeff in earnest and secret consultation.
The panied and anxious look borne by
Uncle Jeff" was indicative Of having
been asked questions of the following
tenor, viz:
did you come up to bring us that few
thousands of stuff that you and we ex-
pected you would extract for our use
from the bank account of the sound mon
ey people?"
The look upon the crowd showed plain
ly the answer to have been nit"
do you think enough can be had so
that when we have finished this ire
mendously enthusiastic, spirited, hust-
ling, never-equaled campaign Especially
here in Jefferson county, where we are
so persistently working it up Ito NAM
moth SucceSs) here in the Ninth diStrict?''
Cant you take us upon nice junket-
ing trip, like that to Indianapolis, when
the campaign Is over, to aid us In re-
cuperating the lost strength, sleep, ETC.,
brought by the close attention, hard
work and sleepless nights we are devot-
ing to the canvass?"
do not you think that 1t would be a
mastery stroke of policy to circulate ru-
mors to the effect that the silver demo-
cratic management have threatened to
individuals and business men here to
have the incoming legislature, in case
they contribute funds to the sound mon
ey campaign, enact laws compelling them
to have one-half their heads shaved. to
wear petticoats, ladies' hose and ladies'
shoes, etc. as that would relieve the
finance committee of responsibility for
non-collection of even decently small
fund, and give an excuse for not contrib
uting, which has proven so successful
here in the claim that the corporations
have been threatened in case they con-
tributed to our campaign"
Have you heard of q sound money
candidate for congress from this NINTH
district having got lost in the heavy
jungles or swampS of Hale or Perry coun-
ties, or the mountain Businesses of Bibb
county, as much time has elapsed since
his several promised appearances here,
and we fear CD he has forgotten the way
to Birmingham or become lost, but our
close, hard work ~ here prevnts us from
heading a relief party to rescue the lost
(strayed or stolen), and hope you can
suggest competent parties who will give
the time and stand the expense of max
ing the rescue"
I'm the event of the great nervous strain
(superinduced by the heavy work we
have done in this blooming campaign)
producing nervous prostration, etc,
would not some railroad kindly loan the
services of it's salaried surgeons to pre-
vent having to pass the patients to one of
our state institutions at Tuskaloosa?"
The questions were so pointed that re-
cess was taken for the purpose of con-
sidaratinn