Birmingham state herald., 1896-07-12
A TRIUMPHANT DEMOCRAT MARCH

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 A TRIUMPHANT DEMOCRATS MARCH
 Yesterday marked the closed of anoth-
 CT week of the state campaign. At many
 different points in the state during the week democratic speakers have been
 heard. In every instance the speakers have had good crowds and the effect of their speeches upon their hearers has
 been marked Every day has brought fresh support to the democratic standard
 bearer. The ranks are filling up all along
 the line. Every real democrat in the state is at work for the ticket. In every county a determined effortfs being made for the success of the county and state ticket bearing the democratic colors. It is developing into the nveliest cam paign from a democratic standpoint that has taken place in Alabama for years It mattered not what course things might have taken at Chicago, the demo- cratic ticket was going to win in Ala bama, but the action of the national con- vention was the very best thing that could have happened for the party in this state It means a reunited democra- cy. It means that the white people of Alabama are to line up once more, sol
 
 Goodwin, the nominee of the fusion par ty, stood no chance of winning a week ago. He has had no chance to win at all If he had had any wind in his sails the wind of the Chicago convention would have taken it all out. The reason the nomination of Bryan and the adop- ton of free silver platform did not ut terly destroy every vestige of chance Goodwin had of making even credita-
 ble showing was because he had no such chance when the convention met
 There has not been time since Good wyn was nominated when he stood the ghost of chance of winning There has not been a time since it became evident that the free coinage element in the dem ocratic party was going to control the Chicago convention when Goodwin stood the ghost of chance to make even a respectable race.
 If Goodwin had not voted to unseat Elliott and to seat Murray in congress, | and the national convention had deelar- l ed for the gold standard, he would prob l ably have been able to have made a | respectable showing on election day, l but he could not have been elected. There are three weeks more of the | campaign. In a few days now the na- | tional populite party will meet in St. | Louis and indorse the action of the Chi | cago convention. Then the party to which Goodwin attempts to claim ale
 glance will have abandoned him. He
 will be the nominee of party that has | no connection in the wide world out side of Alabama, and no principles save | the want of office.
 | Nearly all the former members of the democratic party have already left him, and by the time the St. Louis convention to come has adjourned the last man in the ranks of the Goodwin following who believes in the principles of democracy and is really and truly in favor of finan- cial reform will have left him. If he | does not retire from the race he will be | left on election day with a part of the l 2,000 negro supporters about whom we have heard, and not enough white | following to count. The 4000 or 5000 | white men that Kolb's Tribune predicted would constitute the white strength of a
 "piebald" party in Alabama will be 1 found to have been an overestimate. In the meantime the democratic cam | paign will go on. Captain Johnston, the | gallant democratic standard bearer, will | fulfill the promise he made the conven- l ton when accepting the nomination giv- en him by such an overwhelming vote, | which was that he would take the party 1 banner in his hand go on the stump and | proclaim the old democratic principles | from the Georgia to the Mississippi line, | and from the Tennessee valley to the | gulf coast and roll up an old-time ma | jority for democracy in August.