Birmingham state herald., 1896-02-09
Chamblee Bros.
NOTES AND NOTIONS.

No use disgusting it, boys-you Clarke boys-you were sadly disappointed in your candidates opening of the cam- paign in Jefferson. You expected great things and MT. Clarke gave you only a few small things.
 That was pretty good subtle little dab of General Rhodes in yesterdays News when he referred to how MT. Clarke had to use MT. Cleveland's name to bring down the house. Said the gen. eral of the president and the candidate who used his name as a bladder with which to swim on a sea of glory: His name can start a cheer when orators can find nothing else to conjure with. MT. Clarke knows this as we'll as any ybody. and with him, of truth, knowledge is power
 The Clarke folks little while ago. were carrying blank papers about beg ging for names to swell the list of their party and they succeeded in getting enough to stretch out list of few hum dred. Bless you, no newspaper in Bir- mingham can hold the names of the Johnston men in Jefferson. For Clarke s hundreds Johnston's are thousands.
 
 Let no vain Clarke kid imagine the Johnston people are sleeping. They are full of figt, sonny, and you are going to hear the vox popull lion roar soon in a
 
 the performance will begin here some time this week.
 One of the amusing things of the cam paign is the sublime confidence of some of the goldbug kids who assist in beating the tom-tom and raising the war alarums at the Clarke gatherings. Why, they have got the thing down so pat that all the old war horses, the bald-headed and gray-whiskered veterans, may go home ,t,1 eyix cpl Politics is no longer uncertain. They have already carried Jefferson. and are ready to bet--in their minds-on the ma- jority.
 Peyton Bowman comes along and says "Go it. boysr' and the g. b. kids dash around corners and asseverate between hiccoughs and lemonades. We've got 'em on the run! We've got 'em on the run.'
 
 MT. Clarke's egoism and vanity are only approached in magnitude by the conf1- dence of the goldbug kids.
 Gen. Charles M. Shelley Is here from Washington, and his room at Hotel Mor- iris is popular resort for numerous friends and admirers, who are ready to serve him, no matter how he feels on the financial question.
 Frank Glass was here for the Adver-
  per after the Clarke speaking good deal of "they say" rot. For instance this: "One Clarke man says that as he came out he talked with seven persons who had come to the meeting in favor of Johnston and had been converted" This .'Clarke man." 1t is needless to say, on this occasion was not a liar; he had simply been dining and his potations made seven Clarke men grow where one grew before.
 Mir Clarke will get pretty good SUD- port among the railroad commissioners -as many as two of them being active partisans for him.
 democrat, who was down at Mont gomery the day the democratic execu- tive committee met, said yesterday: "Clarke's reference to the work of the committee was rather awkward. He did not say that Captain Johnston bossed the committee. but that the committee acted in entire accord with his wishes Now. want to know how that is any discredft to Captain Johnston. Suppose they had done what Clarke wished, wouldn't he have felt good over it?"
 Not many days ago MT. Richard H. Clarke, candidate for governor. who MT. Kettig says is making no still hunt for