Birmingham state herald., 1896-03-14
HE PROVES TOO MICH.

The able, profound, experienced, and,
 above all, impartial(0 Judge McIVer
 has rendered his judgment on the Mor-
 gan county primary. It came forth bll-
 ing yesterday morning.
 The State Herald predicted that it
 would be a verdict of guilty, and so it
 was
 The judgment is that the primary cleo | ton in Morgan county was fraud. or course nobody was at all surprised at
 that, because the "chief justice" had l been sent there to render just such yer
 dict. He had orders not to return with | out it. The Advertiser needed that sort 1 of a thing in it's business. It has walked
 up to the fact that Johnston is going to l be the democratic nominee and intending | to bolt the action of the party in the
 hope of destroying it, thing it would 1 greatly prefer seeing done to that of the | nomination and election of Captain Johnston, the Advertisers command to | the staff" correspondent, "Chief Jus
 tice" McIver, was "Go ye, into Morgan | county and return not until you can 1 bring with you verdict of guilty. l Hence any one can readily see that 1 "Chief Justice" McIver, having no real 1 desire to remain in Morgan county ct l developed that things were notae1tirely | lovely up that way for hm), and being | learned in inc business, and instructed to stay there until he could reach yer l dict of guilty, lost no time in preparing his report That report is that the demo- crats of Morgan county are dishonest;
 that they stuff ballot boxes; that they cannot be trusted; that the limited time at the command of the "chief justice
 made it impossible for him to tell really
 how much stealing was done by the Nor gan county democrats.
 But murder will out. In his report on
 Morgan county "Chief Justice" Mclver has done like the parrot did. He has talked too much. He throws ample light on the situation in Decatur to brand | his conclusions as false and entirely un- 1 warranted by the facts. He informs the l public that Dr. l.. H. Grubbs is the dem
 ocratic chairman of that beat Now, Dr. | Grubbs is an ardent supporter of MT. l Clarke Dr. Grubbs had the appointing l of the managers. He appointed Clarke l and Johnston men. The "chief justice l also informs the public that at the De 1 catur box a man suggested by the Clarke 1 leaders was appointed as clerk. This l man put in as a clerk, we are to infer, l was competent man. The "chief jus
 tice" does not inform Us anywhere in his
 report that he was busted, made drunk
 or changed over to Johnston.
 l With the appointment of the man l agers in the hands of Dr. Grubbs an ar
 dent Clarke man, and the appointment
 of a clerk suggested by the Clarke forces
 on the ground, it is clearly evident that 1 Fair aIa ha at the Dar9fIlF
 box, and any allegations or verdicts
 to the contrary are simply ridiculous especially when they come from the Ad- | vertiser, a paper that has for years in-
 sisted that all the elections in Alabama
 have been fair, notwithstanding in many places in many counties the opposition l ticket frequently has had no represent
 tation at all. If smelling around, hunt | ing up names of men who would say | after an election was over that they had | voted for a certain man, and getting a | larger list in this way than the returns
 showed had been boiled for said certain | man, is to be taken as clearly establish | ing fraud, the Advertiser should get | down on it's knees and apologize to the Kolb crowd, for they have been making
 those kind of showlngs ever since 1892, 1 and during all that time the Advertiser | has been consistently hooting at the idea | that those sort of showings proved any
 thing. The Morgan county primary was | fair and the Advertiser knows 1t. It is proven to have been fair at the Decatur
 box by the statements contained in the judgment of "Chief Justice" McIver. The Advertiser is only following in the foot
 steps of Kolb in making it's prepara-
 tions to bolt when the party in the state
 shall have done as- the party in Morgan
 county has already done-declare for | Johnston for governor to (which
 event will transpire on the 11th day of
 April next.