Birmingham state herald., 1896-07-29
DISGUSTING AND P1r1ABLE.


 There was disgusting, deplorable, pit fable scene witnessed in Birmingham Monday night. Would that every white man who left the democratic party in 1892 and in 1894 who has not yet returned to the white mans party could have gazed upon it. If they could have done so there would be today not single white man who was formerly a democrat following the lead of Goodwin.
 On an improvised stand erected on street corner in this city sat Goodwin sandwiched in between one or two life long republicans and some three or four great, big, greasy, burly, black negro bucks. In front of the stand was an audience of negroes There were not enough white faces present in the audi ence to authorize the statement that 1t was a mixed crowd. From the stand oc- cupied as mentioned above the man Goodwyn, the man who would have and is appealing to white men in certain sec tons of the state to elevate him to the high office of chief executive of the great state of Alabama, spoke to that crowd Of ignorant and irresponsible negroes.
 How it would have made the blood chill in the veins of the honest white men of the mountains and wiregrass counties of this state to have been present. but unobserved, and heard the once gallant democrat. the once brave Confederate soldier, the man who has more than once been honored at the hands of the white mans party in Alabama, A. T. Goodwin, the now nominee of the "piebald' party, address that crowd of negroes as his be- oil them that it was one of the highest honors that had fallen to his lot to be permitted to address from that stand, surrounded by three buck negroes and two white republicans, such large, intelligent and cultured au- dience of the most choice citizenship or Alabama, appealing to them for their suffrages.
 To have heard Goodwin assure and re- assure them that of such as they are the salt of the earth, and how it was neces- sary that they must rally to his support to help down and forever route from places of honor and poWer the cussed democrats would have brought the blush of shame to the cheek of every white man who prizes white supremacy and the rule of the white man above political preferment and partisan politics who is in any way lending aid or coun- tenance to the candidacy of Goodwin.
 Think of it! Is there any longer room to doubt that the contest between John- ston and Goodwyn is a straight, square contest for white supremacy, led by Cap tain Johnston, and negro supremacy, led by Goodwin? Disguise it as Goodwin and his managers may attempt to, the fact remains.
 No man worthy to occupy the position of governor of Alabama will go down so low in the cesspool of partisan politics in the effort to get votes as to cast off his mask of responsibility and stand up before an audience of ignorant negroes and abuse the men and the party that took from the neck of the white man the heel of the black man in this state, and has saved the state to the rule of the white man. No such man will ever be- come the chief executive of this great state.
 It is indeed pitiable to imagine an ex- democrat, an ex-Confederate soldier, pro- claiming that he prizes 1t as one of the highest honors that has fallen to his lot to be permitted to stand under the broad canopy of high Heaven, near an electric light, and malign, villify and abuse dem ocrats to an audience of Jefferson county negroes, to say nothing of actually wit messing the scene. While witnessing the disgusting scene who could refrain from asking the question, what has become of the former cry of the Jeffersonians and populites that they were the representa- tives of the white men of Alabama.