Birmingham state herald., 1896-03-28

extensive purchases in Alabama pig iron. Commenting upon this, the Iron and Coal Trade Review says:
 England Is threatened with an in- vasion of American pig iron. This is one of the most serious blows to the suprem- acy of Great Britain as a manufacturing nation"
 In a recent issue of the Pensacola Daily Times we find the following announce
 knent:
 Cleared yesterday Spanish Leonora, | Bustinza, for Liverpool, England, by the | Gulf Transit company, with 25O tons of | pig iron"
 Birmingham is just now enjoying the | presence within her gates of quite num- | Der of visiting Christian young men. The | occasion of this visit is the regular an
 nual meeting of the state convention of | the Young Mems Christian association. This association has grown very rapidly | since it's first introduction into this coun- try, and is doing a great work. The con yention is fairly well attended and the
 delegates are all pleased with Birming-
 ham. The State Herald, along with and in behalf of the people of this city, eX- tends to these young workers in the cause of Christ hearty welcome to our city. We trust they may have pleasant stay while here, and that when they go to their
 respective homes that they will carry with them pleasant recollections of their visit to the Magic City.
 If a candidate for governor or any oth- CT office in Alabama in 1890 had declared that he was in favor of the single gold standard and the retiring of the green Io, 4I,fI int, est-bearing bonds, and opposed to the | further coinage of silver at any ratio, he would not have secured the support of 1000 men in Alabama calling themselves democrats. Why? Because they would
 have said he is no democrat; he ought to
 run as radical Why the change? Have
 certain people changed, or have radical doctrines come to be democratic? The very same fellows and newspapers that just knew in 1893 that the uncondl- tional repeal of the purchasing clause
 of the Sherman act would cure all our
 ills are now thoroughly satisfied that free coinage would give to the country a
 depreoiated currency They did not know what they were talking about in
 1893. or they willfully engaged in an ef-
 fort to mislead the people, and they are in the same condition now as regards the
 effect free coinage of silver would have on the country.
 The Advertiser continues to howl fraud in Morgan county and claim the earth for it's candidate, Clarke. The only reason
 that Clarke has continued in the race up to this date is because all the counties except Morgan will act on the same day Had the counties selected delegates along at different dates, as they used to do, Clarke would ere this, have gotten his licking and gone back to Washington.
 The same newspapers that assured the
 people that the repeal of the purchasing
 clause of the Sherman act would cause
 gold to cease to leave our country and
 bring confidence back are now telling the
 people that the free coinage of silver
 will bring all manner of harm to them.
 They were mistaken in 1893 and they are
 mistaken now.
 One of Clarke's newspaper supporters
 is exceeding anxious, it appears. to
 assure the people that Alabama will not
 have democrat for governor during the
 next term. Recently it told its readers
 just why Clarke could not be elected
 were he to procure the nomination. The
 very same state of affairs exists now that
 existed then.
 The louder a man brags, the weaker
 he is. ly.-Montgomery Advertiser. If you are correct MT. Clarke is in- deed a weak man. He has been going
 about over Alabama stating that he
 would carry Jefferson county. If any
 man can brag louder than that he Is a daisy. The truth is Mr. Clarke stands a
 powerful good chance to lose Mobile county.
 The Advertiser will have to convince
 the public in Alabama that 1t Is not go- ing to support John Shermans candi-
 date for the presidency before it can make
 any headway in trying to warp any. of
 the expressions of the State Herald into
 meaning that this paper would under
 any conditions support Mckinley. Any paper that assured it's readers that
 gold would cease leaving our country and confidence would return, bringing with it prosperity, if the congress of the United States would repeal the purchasing
 clause of the Sherman act should have
 no standing with the people as a prophet
 on the financial question. The Advertiser says when Clarke gets Jefferson's thirty votes lie will have a hundred majority. Yes, when he gets | Jefferson he will have a thousa nd- ana- | jority. That is when he gets Jefferson.F | Gold continues to depart from the l treasury and confidence does not return. Keep lookout; there will soon be de mand for more bonds. ei.f 
 The single gold standard, anti-eight
 hour law candidate>for governor of Ala
 bama is finding Jordan truly hard road to travel .hf Now that it has become so palpabiy evident that Clarke stands no chance in
 Jefferson or Dallas that even the unsus- pecting. see it-yea, the blind even sea it.
 it is real amusing to hear the Clarke fel-
 lows crying out that Clarke can win without Jeffe rSon and Dallas