Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1896-03-22
IN THE CORRIDOR.

This Is a good country for fruit" said
Mr.. Ira e. Shawbaugh of Chicago to the
corridor man last night. Il am mere
looking into the fruit industry. You
have the climate and the soil. What do
| propose to do? Well, there are some
people in Chicago who have means, who
think they can find good investment In
this section in the investment of money
in a fruit farm. We think that 1T Will
pay to establish a colony of people who
understand fruit culture. This town OF
Culman, just north of Birmingham,
understand was started the same way.
There has also been a movement to-
wards fruit culture at or near Admission.
This is essentially a fruit country, and
there is money to be made, l think. We
have purchased no ground yet, but will
probably do so in the next few weeks"
"I see Arkansas has gone for MoKin-
ley" said a gentleman at the Florence
hotel last night "Well, I'm not sur
prised, but I'll tell you a story about Ar
kansas. When Tom Reed was speaker of
the house during the F'ifty-first congress
delegation from the Mississippi river
bottoms showed up and showed up
strong, too, asking for an appropriation.
Tom Reed was even Vhen a candidate
for the presidential nomina ton, although
he didn't talk about 1T much. Well, the
Arkansas people, who wanted a liberal
darby. a copper-colored individual,
named Jones. up to Washington to use
his supposed influence. Jones was coun-
ty clerk of Desha county. He was
shrewd fellow, and had always managed
to keep in office. He knew on which side
his bread was buttered. and never made
himself obnoxious Well Jones, who
was, of course, republican, went to see
Mr.. Reed in the interest of the river and
harbor bill Jones was little fellow
not much over feet, and everybody
knows that Tom Reed is a wall. Jones
stated his case and Reed glared at him.
"'You Bouthern republicans are al
ways wanting something and you can't
do anything for the party; you can't de-
liver any votes quoth Mr.. Reed wrath
fully.
livery true, Mr.. Reed said Jones,
not a trifle abashed. We can't deliver
any electoral votes, but we can and will
deliver some votes in the national con-
vention to the man who helps u.s.
Tom Reed loves a Joke and laughed,
but he isn't laughing much just now,
for Arkansas instructed for Mckinley"
1.-THE gold men are stirring up unnec-
essary bitterness in the campaign in our
state said James L. Wilson of Memphis
at the Florence last night "There Is no
doubt but that the democratic party in
Tennessee Is for the free and unlimited
coinage of silver in the proportion of 16
to l. 1 doubt very much If the ratio of
gold men is even so large. At any rate
we silver people will control the conven-
ton, and there are lots of gold advocates
who are going around making threats,
who are simply hurting the party and
their own cause Now, as a matter of
fact, the democrats of Tennessee will
vote the straight ticket as usual. Bob
Taylor will probably be the nominee for
governor OF course he will be elected
All this talk about Evans is rot. Mr.
Evans is unquestionably a strong man,
but he Is republican, and no republican
can be elected in Tennessee. The demo-
Gratis have learned lesson; they will reg
lister and vote in the future and il the
gold men will quit trying to disrupt the
party everything will be serene In our
section. AS a matter of fact however
the gold people won't cut much figure
Josiah Patterson will not be renominated
for congress from our district again.
United States Marshal Manson, ex-
speaker of the state senate, an able and
strong man, will be the nominee, and
he will, of course, support free coinage.
Silver Is on top in Tennessee