Birmingham state herald., 1896-04-05

making assertions so wide of the facts.
 Johnston will carry Cullman by a good
 majority.-Cullman Gazette.
 If ever a man deserved a nomination at the hands of a party Joe Johnston is
 the man. Never since the war has the
 party had battle that Joe Johnston did
 not lead in the thickest of the fight, and that without any reward or expectation of reward. Go out and vote for him next Saturday week.-Mountain Eagle. It is a great mistake for a democratic
 newspaper to abuse a prominent candi-
 date seeking a democratic nomination,
 as does the Montgomery Advertiser. It
 speaks of Captain Johnston as "a small calibered, insincere disruptionist and dis | organizer" and says he is not "ft to be governor "-Jacksonville Republican. The nominaton of Joe Johnston will tend largely to break up the entente cor diale existing among a certain set of dem ocratic politicians in Alabama by which they try to control the offices and honors of the state without consulting the peo- pie. Let this ring be smashed to pieces and let the people be heard. .-Wileox Progress.
 Says the Standard: "It would not sur prise us much if Perry goes for Clarke" etc. Now, don't you think it would sur prise you great deal, neighbor, if Perry goes for Clarke? MT. Clarke has some
 mighty good men in Perry county who espouse his cause, but one and all admit that he hasn't a ghost of a showing in
 the great state of Perry.-Canebrake Herald.
 It comes to us in a most authoritative
 way and we do not doubt it. that MT. Clarke is deeply discouraged. We do not wonder at this. It is impossible for hm | to fail to realize that he has been most desperately duped by the Montgomery Advertiser and the ca|bal He will be | overwhelmed by a majority of at least | 200 votes in the state convention.-Hunts- | vile Argus.
 Some days ago the Register became so | patriotic as to advise the voters of Jeff | ferson county that they should not vote | for Johnston simply because he was a home man. But today it is injuring it's | epiglottis in an effort to beguile "the | party to turn and become enthused be- cause Hon. R. H. Clarke is4>a "distn- guished neighbor and a fellow towns man."-Mobile News.
 The sound money democrats in Coosa county have decided to oppose Captain Johnston no longer, and will go to work
 to secure his nomination. They have be- come convinced that he is the most avail able man for the democracy to nominate, and are willing to waive their financial views in order to harmonize the party. Coosa'S five votes were for Oates in 1894. Greensboro Watchman.
 Sound money democrats keep the Clarke boom a-going,' chants the Bir-
 
 tones. Yes, they keep it a-going-in fact they have to or it won't go. You see that Clarke boom is much like one of these little rubber balloons. You blow it up, and it squawks all the wind out, and so you have to blow 1t up again to keep it a-going.-Canebrake Herald. | MT. Clarke is making a reputation chiefly for the celerity with which he can emerge from where he is "at' and arrive elsewhere. In other words, he requires
 greater amount of territory in which to | tell what he knows than any candidate | we ever heard of who considered his 'calling and election sure" MT. Clarke | evidently entertains the idea that it be- | hooves him to hustle. ."-Shefneld Stand | ard.
 That Clarke club which was establish l ed and organized in Camden on the 2Oth | of March-with it's fifteen in number as counted-seems to have been organized | not for Camden beat only, but for the | whole county. It was surely very thin plaster to be spread all over the county, and its drawing virtues will not be great we are very sure. It was too much head with not enough tail to it.-Wilcox Prog resS.
 Tt is well enough to give attention to politics, but in doing so let us not forget our business interests" The above is | from the Montgomery Advertiser of | March 26 The same paper devotes 2 | inches of editorial space to "our business | interests" and two columns to fighting | Johnston and endeavoring to prove that | the white people of Alabama are thieves | and ballot box stuffers.-Fort Payne Journal.
 The Birmingham News, 1t would seem, | has already nominated and elected MT. | Clarke to the governorship. It has an | editorial in Tuesdays issue headed | Gov. Richard H. Clarke" The News ought to be ashamed of itself for not let | ting the people know when the nomina- | tion and election of this distinguished | Alabamian took place. They would have | liked to have been present. But you cant always tell what sort of curious capers | Colonel Rhodes is going to cut.-Greens- l boro Watchman.
 | The confidence of the Johnston men | everywhere that Johnston will be over whelmingly nominated, and that the ex- | pression of the people will be so emphatic | that it will not be necessary for the coun- | ty conventions to determine the result makes the heart of the PoStoffice in this city very sick. The Montgomery Post | office is in a bad way. It has dominated | the party so often and denounced so l many people so recklessly and without | cause that it is now meeting with its l first defeat amidst the plaudits of long | suffering and patient people, not only in | Montgomery, but all over the State.-- | Montgomery Journal.
 Major Screws spoke at the court house | here Monday night, devoting his entire | time to what his paper and other papers l of like tendency call a dead issue. The | town was in high state of rejoicing over | the good results of Captain Johnston's | speech two days before, and the Clarke
 men were hungry for someone to knock | out the captain, but they were sadly dis | appointed. To be candid, the majors | speech fell fiat What the Advertiser | said of Johnston's speech must really have been intended for the major, for 1t | was his that fell flat. He not only failed | to make converts, but didn't even cheer up the 'old guards. ."-Brewton Standard | Gauge.
 It now seems that there will be no con- | test in Anniston over the election of del- egates to the county convention. Fortu- nately for the city, there has been no bit | terness or i'll feeling engendered here be- | tween the supporters of the two candi- dates for the democratic nomination for governor. This county is overwhelming | ly for Captain Johnston and the Clarke men here so concede 1t. In doing this and deciding not to make a fight for the del- egation from this beat the Clarke men