Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1896-08-16
THEN AND NOW.


First, it blazed out the route for the bolt
ers of 1896, and secondly, it caused the
leaders in the present bolt to go on record
as to what standing boilers are entitled
to in the estimation of those who loyalty
stand by the old ship.
Being the first to lead off in denouncing
boilers in 1892 and the first to lead off in
the bolt of 1896, we will reproduce first
some extracts from the Montgomery Ad-
vertiser, taken from the editorial columns
of that paper, dated in 1892.
On the 14th day of May, 1892, the Ad-
vertiser entertained and expressed the
following opinions of men who proposed
to bolt the organized democracy:
"IT IS ANTICIPATED THAT SOME
MEN, CALLING THEMSELVES DEM
OCRATS, WILL INITIATE THE RE-
PUBLICANS IN ALABAMA AND SET
UP AN OPPOSITION MEETING NEXT
MONTH. IT is SINCERELY HOPED
THAT SUCH WILL NOT BE THE
CASE. BUT IF IT SHOULD BE DONE
THOSE WHO BOLT THE ACTION OF
THE PARTY WILL INJURE THEM
SELVES MORE THAN THEY WILL
THE PARTY. THEY WILL PUT PO-
LITICAL STAIN UPON THEMSELVES
WHICH YEARS CANNOT EFFACE.
THE MEN OR SET OF MEN. WHO
WOULD ATTEMPT TO DIVIDE AND
REND ASUNDER THE WHITE RACE
IN ALABAMA IN ORDER TO SATISFY
SELFISH PERSONAL ENDS COULD
MEET NO FATE COMMENSURATE
WITH THE OFFENSE."
No one can read the above from the
Advertiser and reach any other conclu-
sion than that at that time the Advert
ser was not of the opinion that boilers of
the organized democracy were patriots.
on record as follows in regard to the du-
ty of those who vote in democratic pri-
maries:
MEN ARE NOT EXPECTED TO
PLEAD THE BABY ACT, AND AFTER
SUBMITTING THEIR CLAIMS TO
RECOGNIZED TRIBUNAL DRAW
OUT AND DECLARE THAT THEY
WILL NOT ABIDE A DECISION BE
CAUSE IT is NOT ACCORDING TO
PREVAILS THERE WILL BE NO USB
IN FUTURE FOR TRIBUNALS TO
DECIDE UPON THE CONFLICTING
RIGHTS THAT MAY ARISE"
The reader should not lose sight of the
fact that when the Advertiser printed
the above extracts it was thought by
many that there would be bolt when
the state convention met because 1t was
being charged in many quarters that I'M
fair methods were being resorted to by
the controllers of the party machinery
in the interest of Governor Jones, VINO
was then a candidate for second term.
The men who bolted in 1892 alleged
fraud and unfair practices, and they
were notified by the Advertiser that
MEN did not plead the baby act. The
Advertiser, after going into primary,
and without being able to present even
a semblance of fraud, deliberately bolts.
Now, pray tell us, how much 1t ana lts
followers lack of being MEN according
| to it's own standard set up in 1892 Ii
| there was no fate severe enough IN 1897
| for "the men or set of men, who would
| attempt to divide and rend asunder the
| white race in Alabama" pray tell us
what fate 1.-THE men or set of men VINO
are engaged in that business in Alabama
| in 1896 justly deserve?
| Let us see how Governor Jones, who is
| now engaged in bolt, thought of boilers
| and boiling in 1892 1t happens that he
made a. record in that memorable year,
| On the 10th of June the governor was
| nominated for a second term. At that
| time he was to be the beneficiary of the
democratic principle that the MINOR
ITY. SHOULD SUBMIT TO THE WILL
| OF THE MAJORITY. In his acceptance
| speech the governor said on the subject
now under discussion:
THE PRESENT MOVEMENT
AGAINST THE PARTY, IN WHAT
EVER SHAPE IT MAY BE DIS
GUISED, IN ESSENCE AND Split,
is AN EFFORT TO WELD AND
MOULD INTO ONE COMPACT FORCE
ALL THE SCATTERED ELEMENTS
OF OPPOSITION TO THE FURTHER
RULE OF DEMOCRACY. THAT
THERE ARE GREAT AND NEEDED
REFORMS DEMANDED IN THE IN
TEREST OF THE PEOPLE IN FINAN-
GAL AND ECONOMIC QUESTIONS
HAS LONG AND STURDILY BEEN
MAINTAINED BY THE DEMOCRACY
THROUGHOUT THE LENGTH AND
BREADTH OF THIS UNION. THAT
THEY HAVE FAILED OF ACCOM-
PLISHMENT IS NOT THE FAULT OF
| DEMOCRACY, BUT THE WORK OF
| IT'S ENEMIES, FOR THE PARTY HAS
| NOT HAD THE POWER TO LEGIS-
| LATE IN THE LAST QUARTER OF A
| CENTURY. so FAR AS THESE RE
| FORMS DEPEND UPON FEDERAL
| LEGISLATION, OUR ONLY HOPE
LIES IN THE TRIUMPHANT AND
| AGGRESSIVE DEMOCRACY. A DEM
OCRAT WHO SEEKS THE ROAD TO
| THIRD PARTY OR PROMOTING d.
| VISION IN HIS OWN PARTY is ONLY
| FIRING INTO THE BACK OF HIS
| FRIENDS IN THE HOUR OF BATTLE.
| PARTISAN RHETORIC AND DECLA-
| NATION MAY ASSERT IN GLITTER
| ING GENERALTIES THAT THE PAR
| Try HAS NOT MET THE JUST EXPEC-
| TATION OF THE PEOPLE, BUT LIKE
| BREATH UPON THE PANE OF GLASS
| THEIR ASPERSIONS PASS QUIETLY
| AWAY IN THE LIGHT OF THE
TRUTH. POLITICAL, LIKE OTHER
| ERRORS, CAN ALWAYS INVENT
| PRETEXTS TO EXCUSE WRONG,
| AND THE PEOPLE. WILL JUDGE OF
| THE SINCERITY AND TRUTH OF
| THE CAUSES ALLEGED TO JUSTI-
| Fly DIVISIONS, AND EXCUSE FOR
| THE REFUSAL TO SUBMIT TO THE
| FAIRLY EXPRESSED WILL OF THE
| MAJORITY"
| 1t was impossible to disguise the fact
| in the opinion of Governor Jones in 1892,
that the bolt then going on was any,
| thing save AN EFFORT TO WELD
| AND MOULD INTO ONE COMPACT
| FORCE ALL THE SCATTERED ELE-
| MENTS OF OPPOSITION TO THE
FURTHER RULE OF DEMOCRACY.