Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1896-03-12
THERE WIFI. RE PLENTY

In a double loaded editorial this morn
ing the Montgomery Advertiser an
nounces that it will investigate the alleg-
ed frauds in the primaries in Morgan and
turn on the electric light of truth 1t
affects a sanctimoniuos and hypocritical
air about this proposed invasion of Nor
gan to insult the democrats of that eoun-
ty by attempting to wash the dirty linen
of the party in public. 1t constitutes It
self a board of inquiry, a smelling COM
mittee, as indecent as it is despicable in
its purpose, and the democrats of Nor
gan, If they restrain their Indignation
and fail to ride the representative for
that paper on a-rail for his officious IN
termeddling and insolence, will deserve
great credit for their tolerance and for
bearance. When did the Montgomery
Advertiser become 50 conscientious so
holy, so sensitive in election matters
Was it during the Kolb-Jones contest In
the primaries when Kolb was crying
frauds from every stump? Was 1t during
the general election, when Kolb was cry
ing fraud and was endeavoring to get up
a dual state government? Was it dur
ing all these years when the journal was
called the ALLIANCE Herald echo by 1t
because the Journal advocated honesty
and fairness inside the party? Was 1t
only a few days ago. when it attempted
to discredit JohnStonS democracy Tor
saying something about honest elections
and agreeing with Goodwin that we
should have honest elections? Away
with such pretense and hypocrisy. VINO
believes in its sckly and shameless cry
of frauds? Who doubts its real purpose?
Seeing that Johnston's nomination Is in
eVitable it now attempts to destroy the
democracy of the state by crying fraud
and attempting to parade the private
grievance and the sore toes of a few dis
gruntled democrats of Morgan before
the public Naturally Clarkes friends
in Morgan feel sore over their defeat.
While they are feeling this way the Adj
Vertiser will get expressions from them
that they will regret later on, but 1T VIII
have accomplished it's purpose in Great
ing discord In the party. Could anything
be more impolitic and ridiculous? The
state committee should either meet and
call the Advertiser down or meet and re-
pudate it as a recognized organ OF the
party and let 1t appear as 1t really Is De
fore the public, a malignant newspaper,
with no policy or purpose but to destroy
honest democrats against whom 1T has a
personal grievance. and falling in this,
to destroy the y.-Montgomery Jour-
nal
Now, the State Herald desires to, and
does here and now, call its esteemed con-
temporary. the Montgomery Journal,
down most emphaticaly on its sugges-
ton that the state democratic executive
committee meet and repudiate the Ad-
vertiser as a recognized organ or the par
ty. The state committee has already re-
pudiated the sheet, and following In the
wake of the action of the state commit
tee came the action of the Montgomery
county committee, which also repudlated
that sheet. Then came the unterlhed
democracy of Morgan county and repudi-
ated it, and on the 18th of April the re-
mainder of the democrats of the state
will do the same thing. Dear Journal
don't you be at all uneasy, there Will be
ample reputation of the Advertiser this
year to crafty all good conservative
democrats, without the meeting OF the
stsaa committee for that purpose.