Birmingham state herald., 1896-06-07

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 The New York Herald, after canvass in the different states, comedies that the silver men will control the Chicago con- vention by large majority. The sil- yer wing has been able to control the na- tional democracy in every convention of the last dozen years. The only question has been the policy of exerting its power.
 A civil rights bill like that recently passed in New York will be one of the fruits of successful fusion. It might not come at once, but it would come. Two thirds of the fusionists are in favor of mixed schools, intermarriage of the two races and civil rights bills, and yet they ask white men to vote their ticket.
 
 If the Charleston district in South Car olina should be represented in congress by a negro on the theory that the negro vote in that district predominates, then why should all the officers in the black belt counties in Alabama not be filled by negroes? Captain Goodwin can answer this question if he chooses.
 If the republican party had put out ticket with such men as General Burke and Colonel Long on it they would have had some claim to the respect of the peo- pie, but to sell out for two places, and give one of these to Grimmett, only shows that they will sell out for nickel, and on a credit at that.
 We doubt if many of Captain Good wyn's lieutenants, even amongst the white republicans, agree with him that it would be wise under any circumstances to support negro for the high and im- portant office of governor of Alabama. If single one does we will be glad to hear from him.
 There is not man in Alabama who does not know that so long as the demo- crats hold our state government we shall never have mixed schools, civil rights bills or intermarriage of the races. How many can honestly say that these things are not at least probable if fusion should win?
 We are of the opinion that very few men in Alabama who followed Captain Kolb out of the ranks of the organized democracy in pursuit of relief from boss rule, as many of them alleged, will fol- lowed Captain Goodwin in his wild ef- fort to out Herod Herod as a republican.
 Little did the white men in the Fifth Congressional district of Alabama think when they were voting for Goodwin to represent them in congress that they were voting for man who would delib- reately cast his vote for a negro to be seated over a white man in that body.
 It would be interesting to know how Dr. Moseley and Evangel Manning stand on Goodwyn's declaration that he would vote for a negro for governor in prefer ence to a ballot box stuffer. Do those leaders agree with their nominee on that proposition?
 Since the outflow of gold began April last. the shipments have aggregated about $22,000,00O, and more to follow. It Is probable that tourists to Europe will carry away $50,0O0,0O0 more of the yellow metal before September 1.
 Should the fusion crowd get control of the state by the vote of 100000 negroes and 50,000 white men how long would it be before laws against miscegenation would be repealed in Alabama? The recent pernlc1ouS activity or a goodly number of high federal officials is more than likely to permanently retire them to the shades of innocuous desue- tude after the 4th of next March. | If we could only persuade Chris McGee to return to Alabama this year with his barrel how it would liven up things. As it is. the poodle is not likely to flow very much beyond the select few. Can any of the wise leaders of the oppo- sition inform the public how much of a step 1t is from supporting a negro for governor under any circumstances to mixed schools in Alabama?
 Of course there can be no denial of the fact that Goodwin voted to unseat a