Birmingham state herald., 1896-07-17

men, it is, as a party, unworthy of recog- milton. l noticed that the reputable bus mess men-lawyers and learned classes, without regard to their ideas of protec- tion or the financial theories of either party, vote without exception the demo- cratic ticket. I have had business rela- tions long enough in Birmingham to get acquainted with the personnel of the re- publican party of Alabama, and if you had a respectable voting power of young gentlemen like MT. Robert Houston, who was the postmaster of Birmingham un- der Harrison, a gentleman sans peur ct sans reproche, you might build up a re- publican party in Alabama. Then MT. Youngblood is a man of high character and ability, and, like MT. Vaughan, is disposed to set the standard higher than heretofore. I do not believe any of these gentlemen will take much stock in the abortion called fusion. There can be no fusion between the two divergent and wholly different streams of thought-one pure white, all white, and the other mur- ky, dark, black, all black
 "The highest law, the obeyance of which has given inspirational force to higher civic forms of government in all the ages, given as written statutes, or ganic law, from which liberty has been evolved, is the law of race. Will you ignore it and elevate a San Domingo type to plane of equations with you that the brutfsh power of his jungle hand may pull down a government the whites have built with so much care?
 Look at the republican party in Ala bamal The drift of the whites-the trash that the moraine leaves in the low lands and marshes after the sun has melted it away, is not unlike that class of whites who, unable to rise to higher planes, rot among the negroes of the black belt-the absorbents of political malaria.
 "The republican party made a great mistake when it conferred the ballot in- discriminatory upon the negro-it cre- ated and gave birth to the tetse fly. that swarm to plague in every national con vention. What honor is there in chal- lenging and receiving the support of these higher types of the chimpanzee, whose fathers a few years ago were can nibals on the Congo? What sort of a government would you have in Alabama based on this vote?
 But the alliance or fusion is an abor- tion in politics. How can the third par ty, which declares for the free coinage of silver at IS to 1, unite with the Mc- Kinley republicans, who are in favor of a gold standard? The fight is on throughout the union between these two lines of thought, and one or the other must go down in the fight"
 "Then I understand you to say that though you are for Mckinley you would vote for Captain Johnston if you lived in Alabama %
 Most assurediy, for he is unique in his position and represents the highest aims and best thought in your state. It is throwing away and trifiing with political forces to waste any time or votes on the third party. You are making assegais out of negro ballots in the black belt the best blood of Europe has been split by them. Pause a moment, and when the inherited pride of a race that has asserted it's supremacy through the ages shall have crimsoned your cheek with blood that has never paled before opposition let its inspirational prompt ings teach you the reason why I should vote for Johnston.
 Man fears the lions kingly tread, The tigers fangs of terror;
 But man himself is most to dread
 When mad with social error.
 No torch tho lit from heaven, illumes
 The blind-why place 1t in his hand?
 It lights not him-it but consumes
 The city and the land"
 Here we reached Dadeville and part ed with this old and ancient republican, and I have copied from my note book verbatim as I caught it from him.
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