Birmingham state herald., 1896-01-31

regular party nominee by journal pre- tending to have the welfare of its party at heart? The platform of the democrat | ic convention of Kentucky was identical with that of the Chicago platform. and each was open to a double construction. Each was intended to be susceptible to such construction as any one might wish. Mir Bla ckburn could stand upon 1t and eonstrue it as he pleased, and nothing that he said or did was yiolative of that platform.
 When the legislative caucus met MT. Blackburn was nominated as the party candidate for the senate. He was en- titled by virtue of that nomination to re- ceiVe every democratic. vote, and had the gold standard men voted for him after his nomination he would have been elect ed and one more democrat would have been added to the senate. The responsi- bility for the election of a republican senator from democratic state will rest with the gold standard members and with the Louisville Courier-J Journal
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 Says the New York Sun of Sunday: Our Baltimore contemporary, the Man ufacturers' Record, prints a. full review of the business adyancement of the south during the last. year. We learn from it that in the year the southward move- ment of population was of unprecedented magnitude; that cotton mill building in the south was phenomenal;' that there was a remarkable revival in the iron bus iness that the output of coal was heav- fer than in any previous year: that sev- eral southern shipyards made large con tracts; and that in short, the year was one of marvellous success in all branches of industry. After surveying the field our Baltimore contemporary says with pride that in the year 1895 "a solid sub stantial foundation was laid for growth greater than any ever before seen in the south, if not in any other part of the country"
 The majority of the democratic state executive committee Is composed of a set of ninnies, who imagine that it is their peculiar business and privilege to run the party.-Ashville Aegs.
 According to the Advertisers stand ard MT. Clarke is politically responsible for the above insult offered the following array of gentlemen and democrats: Messrs. John B. Knox, J. w. Rodney, J. A. Rountree J. G. Winston, Jr, S. D. " George P. Jones, W. J. Bullock, John L. Burnett, s. J. Bowie, H. s. D. Mallory, A. c. Smith, Tennant Lomax Breck Musgrove and J. Lee Long, The Ashville Aegis is a Clarke paper and according to the standard the Advertiser, Mir Clarke's main mouthpieee in this campaign, has set up the above are the words of MT. Clarke. Does the Advertiser persist in standing by it's standard?
 The little town of Abbeville, S. G. is historic. It was there that the first se- cession speech was made and the last cabinet meeting of the late southern Con- l federacy was held. The secession speech ] was made by Congressman Armistead I Burt, a renowned lawyer, who died sev- eral years ago very suddenly of heart disease alone in his law office. This speech was made nn a high hill within 200 yards of Miler's hotel. The outlook from this hill in every direction is pie turesque and beautiful. The last cabinet meeting was held in Congressman Burt's house. The Confederate money was placed for safe keeping in the Abbeville National bank, of which Col. Benjamin $. Barnwell, brother of Hon. Robert Globes Barnwel formerly of Atlanta, now of Tallulah Falls, was cashier.
 Capt. Joe Johnston made another of his blunders in being in Montgomery at the meeting of the state executive com mittee.-Ashville Aegis.
 Now, really, are you not mistaken? Certainly you did not intend to say that Why, Mr. Clarke, your candidate, came