Birmingham state herald., 1896-04-19

quotes the opinions of other men to sus- tain his position. Why should not Crisp quote Smith to show that Smith is wrong?-Brunswick (Ga.) Advertiser. The celerity with which the national house of representatives passed the riv- CTS and harbors bill gives vivid idea of the business body that it has come to be when the spur is applied to it. The mem- bers appear to be docile enough under | the deprivation of the privilege of speech
 making. There is no limit to the amount | Of business that may be done in this way, | and it has the approval of the country, | if it is not carried too far.-Boston Her | aid, Ind. Dem. ! It is disreputable display of the gen eralship of the Spanish army that has been put before the world during the war in Cuba. Spain's most skillful strategist and her most ferocious destroyer, besides a bungler who came between them, have tried their hands against Cuba for four teen months, and all three of them have been good for nothing as generals, and | unable to suppress an insurrection which each of them has described as patry affair.-New York Sun, Dem.
 With Colonel Breckinridge a candidate for reelection to congress and Jack Chinn a candidate for the state senate, the political skies of Kentucky are still | spectacular with something of their old time pyrotechnic and skyrocketty effects. Not the least 1urid feature is the an-
 nouncement that Pitchfork Tillman of South Carolina Is coming oyer to make blue grass hay while the free silver sun shines. No wonder Colonel Watterson
 lit out.-Cincinnati Times-Star, Rep. MT. Whitney would be singularly ex- empt from ordinary human emotions if he failed to derive profound sat isfac- tion from the numerous and widespread expressions of opinion in favor of his
 candidacy for the presidency. The most gratifying feature of these opinions to
 him should be their manifest sincerity and spontaneousness. Very rarely in deed has it happened in the history of American politics that any man has re- ceived such support unsolicited.-New York World, Dem.
 If meeting for the purpose of express ing the sentiments of the republicans of this city toward the candidacy of McKin- ley for the presidency is held here, as appears to be possible, it will demon-
 strate that the commercial center of the central counties of the leading commer- cial state of the greatest commercial country of the globe is enthusiastic in it's desire that the man who is identified
 with the principle of protection as is no other man now living shall head the re-
 publican ticket next November.--Syra-
 cuse Herald
 The name more often mentioned in connection with the democratic nomna- | ClOn Indn any other IS tndI or CrOVer
 Cleveland. This has been especially true
 since Secretary Carlisle's recent letter.
 The sound money sentiment is very
 strong for Cleveland, and if the only way
 to place the democratic convention on a
 sound money platform is by forcing the
 nomination of Cleveland, it is believed
 here that the demand for him will grow
 so powerful that only a peremptory de-
 clination on his part will prevent his
 name going before the convention.-Phil-
 adelphia Ledger, Ind. Rep.
 By the election on Monday of free sil-
 yer delegates to the Alabama state con-
 vention, which nominates the governor
 and state ticket, not only does Alabama secure by an overwhelming majority
 state officers pledged to bimetaIlism, but
 she places herself at once on the list of
 states whose delegations will vote for sil-
 yer at the Chicago nominating conven-
 ton. For the same convention which
 nominates the state ticket elects dele
 gates to the national democratic conven- ton; and, as the state convention is pro-
 the delegation to the convention at Chi
 cago is assured at once as being bimetal- lie Missouri, which held elections to a state convention this week, has also de-
 clared strongly in favor Of bimetallism;
 Colorado has done the same, and such
 start is, therefore, of splendid
 augury for the compiexian of
 vention. It is not without reason that the goldbug organs of the northeast are beginning to admit, with a certain
 amount of fear and trembling that after all "sound money will probably not have everything it's own way at Chicago New Orleans Times-Democrat.
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