Birmingham state herald., 1896-10-02
THEY HAVE FUSED,

1 republicans and bolters so far as candi- 1 dates for congress are concerned. It will be remembered that the gold standard advocates have claimed since l the state convention that the Sixth con- Sressional district was a sound money district. It has also been eontended by them that in the Ninth district the gold standard sentiment was very strong. We find that in the Sixth and Ninth
 districts the republican nominees have
 been hauled down and the gold standard
 nominees put up by the bolters endorsed
 by the republicans. Certainly none are
 so blind as to imagine that all this has come about by chance. It is easy to dis cern that this has come about by agree
 ment. It is hoped in this way to elect l congressman from the Sixth and Ninth districts who will oppose Bryan if he is elected president and uphold Mckinley l should he by any unforeseen accident be l elected to that high position.
 The evidences of fusion are not con- fined to the two districts above men, 1 tioned. At a recent meeting of the re- l publicans in Lee county, Mr. Conner, the l gold standard nominee of the boilers for 1 congress in the Third district, was en- | dorsed. Tn that district no straight out
 old time republican has been nominated,
 the new convert, MT. Conner being entire
 ly satisfactory to the McKinleyites. In the Fifth district the republicans
 were so well pleased with Goodwyn who
 is now as good a republican as any of
 them, that they promptly endorsed him
 after a few of those who were once Jeff
 fersonian democrats, but who are now to
 all intents and purposes republicans, had
 gathered themselves together at AleXan-
 der City in Tallapoosa county and nomi-
 hated him. Goodwin having obtained
 the endorsement of the republicans the
 convention of gold standard bolters that gathered in the Fifth district was ei- tirely satisfied to adjourn without putting up a candidate and will, of course, do what they can 10 bring about the defeat of the Hon. Willis Brewer, the democratic
 nominee for congress in that district
 which, if successful will result in the re-
 turn of Goodwin to congress who has,
 so it is said on good authority an-
 nounced that he was going to organize
 Mckinley clubs all over his district.
 In the second district the Hon. Thos.
 Hallelujah Clark, a gold standard bolter,
  Kinley wing of the republicans, he hay ing already been given the unanimous
 nomination of the Palmer wing of that
 party.
 In the Seventh it has been decided by
 both the Mckinley and Palmer wings of
 the party that it is best to put a candi-
 date in the field from both sides. It was Agured out that open fusion in that dis
 trict would more than likely throw the fat in the fire and result in the election of Hon. w. l. Bullock, the democratic
 nominee, and in order to, as
 they have figured it, insure the election of a republican, in that district, it was decided best to put l MT. Parker in the field to draw support 1 from Bullock and thereby the better ena- l ble the McKinleyites to procure plu- l rality of the votes. About the same con- l clusion was reached with reference to
 the Eighth district, and up there Calla- l han was put up to hold while the brilliant | and ever consistent CD Hundley captured
 the prize.
 In the Fourth district report says that l MT Alex Wilson will in a few days re- | tire and all hands will join the middle of l the road pops, which is only short | name for eX-Jeffersonian democrats, who l have been eVoluted into straightout re- l publicans in the effort to elect MT. w F. l Aldrich, that consistent free coinage re- l publican who promises to help elect Me- | kinley in order that he may be on hand in the white house to head off by the use of the veto power any free coinage bill that he (Mr. Aldrich) may succeed in rushing through the house to the exquis- ite delight of the free coinage portion of his admiring constituency in the Fourth.
 So it can be seen plainly that both the Palmer and the Mckinley wings of the republican party are working entirely in harmony in Alabama in the effort to cap- ture some of the congressional districts. It cannot be doubted that all of this has the approval of Marcus AureIius Hanna, and that he will ship some poodle to Ala 1 bama. Marcus would not allow his bar l rel tapped on the pretense that McKin- 1 ley had even a fighting chance in the l state, and this congressional fusion had l to be patched up in order to get some- | thing to make the mare go."
 The final outcome of all this will be l that some little will be added to the cir | culating medium in Alabama and on the morning of November the 4th all of the | old time republicans will find themselves | trying to explain why it turned out that way and all of the Palmer republicans vii be trying to deny that they had any- thing at all to do with it.