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Birmingham state herald., 1896-07-21
PUBLIC OPINION.

The simple truth is that both McKin- ley and Bryan are silver men. The for mer, however is on a gold platform, which his record does not fit; and the latter is on frank free silver platorm, which his record fits to nicety.-Boston Post. Dem.
 It is gra atifying to know that Consul General Lee is interesting himself in the condition of the Competitor captives, and is demanding better quarters for them. If General Weyler had his way, none of the captives would survive until their cases are decided.-Boston Journal, Rep.
 Senator J. Donald Cameron. for many years leader of the republican party, says that he will support the democratic national ticket Senator Cameron is man of force, and his defection from the republican party is a severe blow to the plutocrats.-New York Mercury, Dem.
 Agnosticism is not growing in this country as fast as 1t was few years ago, while it's vigorous opponents seem to flourish famously The Society for Christian Endeavor. which, ten years ago, had a. membership of 10000, now has enrolled on it's banners nearly 3,OO0,000 of people. Christianity cannot be losing it's grip very fast while growth like this con- tinues.-Boston Traveller
 Since it was the desire of a great ma jority of the democratic convention to pronounce for the free coinage of silver, no more representative cndnplOn could have been put forth to lead the battle. The free and unlimited coinage of silver at 16 to 1 has seen no more persistent, no abler, nor any more sincere prophet than he. It Is an idea which has master ed him and forced him into the arena, there to fight for it. The frankness and force of his championship compel re- spect.-New York Journal, Dem.
 It is possible that there may be still another convention. The sound money" democrats may call one, though it would seem very foolish for them to do so. They refuse to support the Chicago ticket because it stands for that which they be- leve to be ruinous to the country, and If they place O second sound money" ticket in the field to divide the sound money vote they must know they will indirectly give aid and encouragement to the populist party and it's doctrines, which they despise and condemn. A sec- ond sound money ticket, whether so in- tended or not, would be in the interest of 16 to free coinage. silver monometal- lism and 50-cent dollars. It could be nothing else.-Detroit Journal, Rep.
Birmingham state herald., 1896-07-21
WHAT SHOULD BE TAxEDp

The New York World, in its lucid mo- ments, sometimes strikes the keynote of sound democratic doctrine. Under the above caption it recently published the following sound and patriotic editorial
 "A, morning newspaper denounoes as more than a hint at commun!stic con- fiscation' the demand of the Chicago platform for such tax as will reach wealth.
 "rhe reason given in the platform for the re-enactment of an income tax is
 so that the burdens of taxation may be equally and impartially laid, to the end that wealth may bear It's due proportion of the expenses of government
 'Is there anything wrong about that? Should not wealth bear its due propor- tion' of the cost of the government? What should be taxed if not wealth? Is not the old rule sound and just, that all taxes should be laid with view CD to ability to pay and @ to benefits re- ceived?
 That wealth does not pay it's due pro. portion of the expenses of the federal government is too notoriously true to be even denied. Since the war s166, 900. 900 of internal revenue taxes, almost entire ly upon wealth in some form, have been repealed, leaving the entire burden of government to rest upon taxes on con- sumption-chief1y of the neoessaries of life Not a single dollar of the national revenue is now derived from a tax levied distinctly upon wealth or it's representa- tive.
 "The passage of the income tax was 8 perfectly legitimate attempt to remedy in some measure this injustice. Purely as a matter of business economy the combination of rich men that succeeded in nullifying this tax could better have afforded to pay 1t ten times over for the rest of their lives than to have cou- tributed so potentially to the popular up. rising that now confronts them."
 Those who believe that an income tax is proper and that wealth should bear its just share of the burdens of government
Birmingham state herald., 1896-07-21

It is wonderful how profusely the heart of your genuine silk stocking gold bug of Wall street and vicinity bleeds for the poor laboring man and the farm CTS. Their grief at their determination to have financial system that will give them increased wages and better prices for their products Is pitiable. indeed equal. If not greater. than that expe- rienced by Mark Twain at the alleged grave of our common ancestor, Adam after the old man had shaken off his mortal coll some COCO years or more.
Birmingham state herald., 1896-07-21
Home-Seekers Excursion to Texas, July 21.

Home-Seekers Excursion to Texas, July 21.
 On July 21 the Louisville and Nashville Railroad company will sell round trip tickets to Texas at one fare plus $2 for the round trip, good to return on any Tuesday or Friday within twenty-one days from date of sale.
 Stop-overs will be allowed on the going trip within fifteen days in home seekers territory.
 The Louisville and Nashville Railroad company and it's connections out of New Orleans offer the safest quickest and best route to all Texas points. Only one change of cars between Alabama and the principal cities in Texas.
 Be sure that your ticket reads via the Louisville and Nashville and New Or leans. f4g-
 For any further inforna ton call on or address R. F. BEASLEY,
 Passenger Agent, Birmingham, Ala
 7-16-5t
 Electric lights produce no heat.
Birmingham state herald., 1896-07-21

It is confidently predicted by those in position to know that Bryan and Se- wall will carry the state of New York by a large majority in November. Dr. J. McCullum, president of the Consolidat- ed Mining and Reduction company. with offices at 239 Broadway, New York, one of the populists delegates at large from that state to the peoples party conven- tion at St. Louis. said to a New York Journal reporter last Friday:
 "In every district in the country the friends of Bryan will be concentrated, and in New York he will come down to the Harlem river with a majority that will more than offset any defection of the democratic vote in this city and Brooklyn"
Birmingham state herald., 1896-07-21

On the 21st of July the Kansas City, Memphis and Birmingham railroad will sell round trip tickets to all points in Texas, Arkansas, Indian territory and Oklahoma at one fare plus s2.00 for the round trip, tickets good to return within twenty-one days from date of sale. For further information write to
 CHAS. JONES,
 Travelling Passenger Agent,
 1914 Morris Avenue. 7-1-til21
 Stop striking matches and use electric lights. 7-9-12t
Birmingham state herald., 1896-07-21

The fact that the metropolitan gold standard organs of New York, Boston,
 Philadelphia and other cities in that sec ton of the country are bending all their powers and using all their influence to have "sound money" representatives elected to congress is indubitable proof that they realize that Mckinley and Hobart will be defeated. To thwart the win of the people is the sole purpose of these tools of the bond syndicate and money gamblers, and knowing that @ republican president cannot be elected. they are desperately determined to ac- complish their purpose. if possible. by
Birmingham state herald., 1896-07-21
Peoples Party Convention. St. Louis, Mo-,
 July p.

On July 1s. 20 and 21 the Louisville and Nashville Railroad company will sell round trip tickets to St. Louis and return on account of the above convention at one fare for the round trip, tickets good to return until July 27.
 Double daily trains and through Pull man sleepers via the Louisville and Nash vile, which Is the most direct route to St. Louis -T *e
 For any further information call on or address -s%st R. F. BEASLEY,
 Passenger Agent, Birmingham, Ala.
 7-16-5t
 Electricity sold by meter. 7-a-12t
Birmingham state herald., 1896-07-21

roastingear and green pumpkin curren- cy statesman of Georgia, will locate in New York after March 4, 1897. His re- moval will be no loss to the democracy of Georgia and doubtful gain to New York mugwumpery.
Birmingham state herald., 1896-07-21

The loss to the democratic party in Tennessee by the desertion of the Chat tanooga Times (daily) Is many times compensated by the accession to its ranks of the leading republican journal (weekly) of the town of Athens, in that state
Birmingham state herald., 1896-07-21

The Salt Lake Herald ventures the opinion that no man In all the country knows the cost of greatness" so we'll as Mark Hanna, as he has the vouchers gA.,
Birmingham state herald., 1896-07-21
Free silver means free America.

Harpy Hannas Hired Hessian is the exact equivalent of Millionaire Marks mortgaged man. and the concisest desig nation of both in one is-McKinley.
Birmingham state herald., 1896-07-21

If the "common masses of the common people, desire to put themselves where they will envy the condition of g. "cat in hell without claws" they can secure the luxury by voting in August for negro fondling Goodwin, and in November for Fat-Frying Hanna's underling, Force Bill Mckinley.
Birmingham state herald., 1896-07-21
STEAKS WE'LL ANp BODIES No 1II

The report of the meeting which took place in Montgomery Saturday night Showed that there were present and participating in the meeting none of the democratic leaders and workers. It was a meeting of a few business men who have never been active in advancing the party's interest. They were men who have always gone quietly to the polls and deposited their ballots for the nominees of the party and gone back 10 their places of business. Many of them doubtless have in the past subscribed lib- orally to the campaign funds of the par ty, and in that way aided in keeping the country in the hands of the democracy. They are not the men who have studied closely the financial question and come to realize that there are two sides to it.
 Such being the case. it is probable that there will never be meeting of the club which was organized Saturday night.
 Every day since the Chicago conven- tion acted has witnessed gradual disap- pearance of the opposition to the ticket which sprang up in the party immediate ly after the platform was made and the ticket named. Many of the men who avowed the day after Bryan was nomi- mated that they would not vote for him have, on a sober second thought, recant- ed and resolved to lay their individual convictions and opinions on the money question aside support the action of the convention by voting for it's nominees. and allow time to either vindicate them in their opinions CT demonstrate that they are mistaken In their judgment. There will be but few men in Alabama who have always been democrats who will fail to bow to the will of two-thitds majority of their party and go along with them in the effort to keep the control of the national government out of the hands of Hanna and the trusts and combines he represents.
 The absence of old-time party leaders from the meeting in Montgomery Satur- day night speaks well for them and bodes no i'll will to democracy.
Birmingham state herald., 1896-07-21

The active interest being taken In the pending contest for the presidency of the United States by the money power Is ample notice to the workingmen of the country that they should rally to the sup port of Bryan and Sewall and the Chi cago platform.
Birmingham state herald., 1896-07-21
---------- A NEW JACKSON.

At Tammany ratification meeting of the Chicago platform and candidates of the Thrtyfifth Assembly district of New York city last Friday night Hon. Henry D. Purroy, a gold standard delegate to the national convention from New York, after describing MT. Bryan as he ap- peared before the convention, and the demonstration that proclaimed the siIn- burst of a. new genius-a new peoples idol-upon the political horizon of our country, said:
 Great emergencies produce great lead CTS, and l am seriously mistaken if the democratic party has not found new Jackson in the bright intellect and com manding person of William J. Bryan of Nebraska. Whatever theories of finance our candidate may sincerely advocate, the important fact remains undisputed that his nomination was the result of the honest, unpurchased votes of an untram- meled democratic convention, whose ac- ton no newspaper nor no man on earth was able to anticipate by even a single day; while, on the other hand the nomi- ma ton of Mckinley was the outcome of a hidebound prearranged republican convention, organized by the money in- fiuence of greedy, selfish monopolies-a convention whose choice was openly and accurately prophesied months before hand, and whose every act was abso- lutely controlled by the iron hand of a single commercial party boss"
 The treasury lost by withdrawals of gold last Friday $2,S33, 100. reducing the gold reserve to $93.s71, ,216. During last week about $7,O0O,O00 in gold was drawn from the national treasury by the shy locks and money gamblers of Wall street, most of it for shipment to the European nI, oF he f1ta spirators. The gold of America, procur- ed for this nation by the sale of bonds at pawn shop discounts, Is being rapidly absorbed by other countries and foreign money gamblers and our national credit daily imperiled by the disgraceful man. agement of the treasury department and still the president fishes at Buzzard's s Bay without one word of protest or one act of defense in behalf of the people, This has been going on for nearly three years by the permission. if not en- couragement, of the chief executive and the secretary of the treasury. and yet the cuckoos and fetich worshippers com- plain that the Chicago convention re- fused to indorse the administration. The state campaign is progressing
 
 ara closed on the evening of August 3 every democrat and lover of good govern ment and white supremacy should be up and doing. That Johnston and the whole democratic ticket is going to be elected Is a, foregone conclusion, but let's everybody get down to work in dead earnest and see just how overwhelming the democratic majority can be made There is not beat or county in the state in which democracy has not made material gains up to this date. and 1t is possible for the democrats to carry near ly every single county in the state, If every democrat will do his field duty during this and next week there will be piled up on August such tremendous democratic majority that the "piebald" party will not be heard of again. The fact that the metropolitan gold
Birmingham state herald., 1896-07-21

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 cannot consistently vote for Mckinley and republican candidates for congress, for through that party no measure of that kind will ever become part of our federal statutes; on the contrary, it is their duty to support the democratic platform and candidates.
 The republican party as it is now con stituted and managed is nothing more nor less than the active agent and pliant tool of the most pernicious and in- iquitous combines, trusts and monopolies that ever cursed a people, organized and operated in direct hostility to the rights and welfare of the republic and the vast majority of it's people, and 1t is only to the democratic party the country and the people can look to carry out any measures of reform and relief that will rebound to their welfare and prosperity.
 The World knows this, and if 1t does not become thoroughly corrupt it will yet be found, before the end of this cam paign, the staunch supporter of the peo-. ple's cause and their rights.
Birmingham state herald., 1896-07-21

securing a republican majority in the lower house of congress. Their scheme will utterly fall. Both the executive and legislative branches of the federal gov ernment will be democratic after the 4th day of next March.
Birmingham state herald., 1896-07-21

The Booneville Record and Somerset Republican, both leading and lifelong republican organs of eastern Kentucky, have declared for Bryan and Sewall. This more than offsets the damage. if any, to the democratic party in that state by the bolt of the poor old imbecile Courier Journal and the other cuckoo and mug wump sheets of Louisville that pretend to be democratic newspapers.
Birmingham state herald., 1896-07-21

Last Friday night, while upwards of 5000 patriotic citizens were gathered at Capitol park, this city, indorsing the Chicago platform and ratifying the nom- nation of Bryan and Sewall, at Minne- apolis, in the same auditorium in which Harrison was nominated in 1892, 5000 sil- yer men were engaged in the same bus- ness. It was distinctly a. meeting of those who have hitherto been republi- cans. Prominent among those present were several ex-congressmen. the lieu- tenant governor of the state and many others who have hitherto been promi- nent in republican councils.
Birmingham state herald., 1896-07-21
Home-Seekers' Excursion.

Electric light wires can be concealed. 7-9-12t
Birmingham state herald., 1896-07-21

Good health with impure blood is an impossibility. Hoods Sarsaparilla in- sures both.
Birmingham state herald., 1896-07-21

When the horny handed sons of toll begin to meet an4h resolute against the Chicago platform and ticket, then it may be accepted as a fact that the party has q bandoned the prineiples of democracy.
Birmingham state herald., 1896-07-21
BIRMINGHAM STATE HERALD

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Birmingham state herald., 1896-07-21

There is no complaint or protest com ing up from the farmers and laboring men of the country against the Chicago platform and the democratic candidates.
Birmingham state herald., 1896-07-21

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Birmingham state herald., 1896-07-21


 NATIONAL TICKET. FOR PRESIDENT. William Jennings Bryan of Nebraska. FOR FOR VICE Z5 El,,Id PEFsFPEMT; sF Msins STATE DEMOCRATIC TICKET. GOVERNOR: Joseph F. Johnston of Jefferson. SECRETARY OF STATE; J. Kirkman Jackson of Laudefoaie' TREASURER: George ". Ellis of Montgomery
 AUDITOR: Walter S. White of Colbert. ,s ATTORNEY GENERAL: William c. Pitts of Tuskaloosa. SUPERINTENDENT OF EDUCATION: John O. Turner of St. Clalr. COMMISSIONER OF AGRICULTURE: l. F. Culver of Bullock. COUNTY DEMOCRATIC TICKET, FOR SENATOR. Dr. R. M. Cunningham. FOR REPRESENTATIVES:
 J. J. Altman. I. A. Brown.
 D. A. Greene. John Harlxins.
 l.. Y. Lipscomb.
 D. J. Ovens.
 FOR SHERIFF:
 Frank r. O'Brien. FOR TAX COLLECTOR;
 J. B. Francis. FOR TAX ASSESSOR: J. Felix Mclaughlin. FOR TREASURER: Kenneth r. Hawkins. FOR COUNTY COMMISSIONERS: w. P. Stradford.
 l.. D. Lacey. William S. Morrow.
 George L. Young.
 FOR CORONER:
 k. E. Jones'
Birmingham state herald., 1896-07-21
"GOLD FOR SlLVERp

Hon. Sam win John, Birmingham
Birmingham state herald., 1896-07-21

Electricity sold by. meter.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1896-12-21
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resting safely In the trophy room. the Tiger
affiliate. AZ. a,r.,dv havjnninv % LII sor,v.rd
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TO inc approaching season on the diamond ana
track. Trainer Jack McMasters ia having the
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baseball work, and candidates for the 1907 team
will begin TO play shortly after the midyear ex-
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before the season opens. Billy Earle. who
coached the team last season. was in town this
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the football eleven, intends to try Tor third base.
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The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1896-12-21
Gossip of the Ring,

The match between Tommy Dixon and Eddie
Curry has been arranged for Dec. 20.
A local club will make another attempt TO match
Johnny Murphy OF Boston against Jimmy Barry OF
Chicago.
Paddy slavin.ert for England on Saturday. Tho
Australian says he Will be back again in about n
month.
Sammy Kelly arrived homo from England yester.
day on the Paris. He says he viii challenge Barry
10 hght.
John Coston. colored. Of New Haven says ho is
ready TO meet Tommy West at 100 or 1874 pounds
for a purse.
Doc Travis OF Brooklyn says he is ready to
make a match with any ll2. pound man In the bust.
ness, either In a limitct-rouIu go or TO a finish.
In reply to Sharkey's desire TO fight Peter Maher,
John j. Quinn, Maher's manager, says Peter viii
meet sharkey after his contest with Steve O'Don.
neII.''
Dan stuar! yesterday told The Sun reporter that
he had received q despatch from ~Fitzslmmons to
the effect that the latter had left san Francisco for
this city.
Jack Downey OF Brooklyn. who is matched to
meet George Dixon next month, Will leave for
Oceanic. N, j., today, where he Will ~nnish.his
training for the night.
II. was. stated in Brooklyn sporting circles yes
terday that Police Justice James q. Tighe had So
cured the controlling interest In tho Bay View A.
O., at sixtieth street and Third avenue.
Jack Eyerhardt may be Dick Burgess next OBJ
ponent. EyerhArdt says he has q hacker who will
put up $H.oUO for . match between himself and
the Englishman. Tho night will in all probability
DO held before the National Sporting Club or Lon
don.