Birmingham state herald., 1896-06-03
VOICE 0F JACOB,
 HAND IF HAM Why Mir. McMaster Can't Vote
 the Fusion Ticket. ANGLO-SAXON SUPREMACY Is the Real Issue of the Hour-No Sophstry
 Can Disguise the Fact. THE HORRORS or CARPETBAG RULE Wildly Recited by One Who Passed Through the Dark Days in South Carolina. DARK LANTERN METHODS EXPOSED
Wildly Recited by One Who Passed Through
 the Dark Days in South Carolina.
DARK LANTERN METHODS EXPOSED
"Wherefore," Saith the Writer, 'sthe Con- clusion of the Whole Matter Is, Let Us Return to the House of Our Fathers
 and Vote the Democratic Ticket"

The following communication speaks for itself:
 Birmingham, June 2. To the State Herald:
 In 1894 I supported the state ticket headed by Captain Kolb. My position was based upon the fact that MT. Cleve- land had been indorsed as a democrat by the organized democracy of Alabama. Not viewing MT Clevelands policy in references to the finances of the govern ment in accord with democratic tradition or policy, and considering the same as the direct cause of the distress and pow erty among the people, l earnestly advo- cated on the stump the platform of the peoples party, which declared for the free and unlimited coinage of gold and silver at 16 to l.
 In the canvass of 1894 one of the issues injected was: This is a white mans fight" and the negro was neither sought nor solicited by the then peoples party.
 In 1896 we find the leaders of that move ment conferring secretly with the leaders of the republican party at Washington, and later convention of the peoples and republican parties meet simultaneously an Montgomery.
 A fusion, cooperation or combination is effected, wherein two acknowledged republicans are placed upon the so-called peoples party ticket, and a plank, sayor- ing strongly of protection, is inserted in the platform adopted, and it goes forth to the state as the peoples party platform.
 I only allude to these facts to show the influence of republican espionage over the so-called leaders of the peoples party in Alabama.
 The platform is sphinx -Eke-it reads re- publican doctrine, but under the name and guse of the peoples party, party which has shown a steady adherence to principle, deriving, as it does, it's name from the preamble of the constitution I've the people," When has the doctrine of protection ever been principle of the Omaha platform? On the contrary, 1t is expressly denounced as one of the chief causes of the present distressed condition of our country, "a legislated robbery of the masses by the classes
 The platform as promulgated IS an ln- geniouss attempt to mislead and deceive the people of Alabama who followed the reform movement with honesty or pur- pose and patriotic conviction.
 But the deception is not as heinous as the means with which they openly avoW to accomplish it. namely, that the peo- pes party shall fuse and be forced to vote with the 142.000 negro voters in Ala bama. The negro in his place is entitled to all the protection with which the law surrounds any of its citizens. But when they are led by demagogues and dishon- est and interruptions politicians they be- come a menace to society and threaten Anglo Saxon civilization and extraction.
 Mr Editor, I know the horrors of re- publican rule in South Carolina. ne- gro lieutenant governor negroes on the supreme and circuit benches, negro con gressmen and legislators, negro probate Judges and sheriffs, negroes in the state of and that too "in the Harry Percy of the union
 Up to 1876 was a period of sorrow and shame and blot on the fair escutcheon of that noble state. That condition was due to the republican negro) party, with the aid of few carpetbaggers and scal- awaggers, condition which could not again exist except through blood and carnage.
 I do not mean to cast any reflection on any white republican, many of whom honor. I respect any honest difference of opinion but when combination IS made with ,000 negro voters, ignorant and absolutely unqualified for the fran chises imposed upon them, one naturally inquires whether the good of Alabama is sought or their own selfish ends are de- sired.
 I don't care what is the name or poli- tics of the party combining with them.
 The plea is made for honest elections. Can the mass of the peoples party who honestly believed what was spoken on the stump in 1894 hope for honest elections in the republican party? Was there a single honest election in the south during the long period of reconstruction? Was there or could there have been an hon. est election in Alabama under republican regime, when by law it was made a crime to challenge even fraudulent voter, when on certain occasion sev- eral hundred negroes were openly voted in Tuskaloosa and then carried and voted at several points on the Alabama Great Southern railroad? Can there be any desire for honest elections when an open and shameful combination is made with black ignorance and with a party with this history? These are questions which many who followed Captain Kolb arc now asking themselves. When I hear a northern man crying combination with the hordes of black men for the purpose of protection of his manufactured prod ucts 1t seems I hear the bugle blast of the robber band: but when I hear a southern man crying combination smell the tainted breath of treason In the air
 It is no answer to say that the party in power votes the negro, or counts him if not voted. No combination has ever been made with them. and they are not recognized as a controlling political fac tor in the state. The present attitude of the so-called peoples party does.
 The evil effects of this combination may not be felt in this election, for the ticket is of white blood and the nominees men of character, but the great evil is in future elections and the future of Ala bama. The great principle of Anglo Saxon supremacy is involved. The pow. CT of the negro once recognized as con-