Birmingham state herald., 1896-06-14

UT the 1rlDune ldSI NOVemDeT Dy lHc lu- sionists charging that he had sold out to the demoeratic party under an agreement to oppose fusion for the benefit of the democratic party may seem to identify Dugald Dalgetty That he Is rapidly losing his importance I will not gain say. The awful energies of the people of Alabama will adjudicate this matter. l do not aspire to the rank of a political soldier of fortune. field for whose op- erations confess lack many prerequi- sites of adequate success In the po- litical canvass of the Tennessee valley in 1894 I rather counted myself soldier of misfortune, putting up at 75 cent boarding houses and running portion of the time upon two meals day because the funds in the hands of the state cam paign committee had run so low on the home stretch. Still some more favored campaigners did manage by dint of rigid economy and the exercise of wise discre- ton to register at hotels, the ample ac- commOdations of which rendered it un- necessary for the 1owly canvasser to oc- cupy the manager. The history of all re- forms is not governed by a painful con- of valor in genuine and apt soldier of fortune. If Madame Rumor is not en- tirely at fault and timely conf1agration had not destroyed the stately fabric of the Caldwell the retentive walls of her upper stories might reveal page Of campaign bookkeeping so eloquent and irresistible as to lead to the adoption of another plank In the cooperation plat form to protect the sacredness of cam paign funds, whether derived from domestic or external sources and apply them to their legitimate purposes. Some soldiers of for tune might oppose the introduction of this plank into the platform, but 1t can be demonstrated that it is very neces- sary to the establishment of honest cleo T,. fxrf hnxU many crimes are committed in thy name" We must have honest elections in Alabama, but the methods of co-opera- ton do not present the most expeditions route to those happy conditions. The legions of popular indignation are moy. the strongholds of corruption and fraud wherever situated. The ingenious sol diers of fortune cannot deceive the mass es of the people as to the location of the citadels of the pretorian cohorts. The conspiracy of Catiline, inaugurated in the indorsement of Aldrich September, 1894, Is rapidly approaching its close. Catiline has already rushed from the sen- ate chamber in frenzy of despair and hurried out of the "city" to his Etrurian camp, whither his servile hosts, regis tered, drilled and panoplied for the con- fiict, are gathering to meet him. The people of Alabama, with more than Ro- man nerve, will reproduce the field of Pistoria. The shattered remnants of the defeated bands will reform on the line of rich republicans for congress and mixed republican electoral ticket for the fall campaign. "Lochiel! Lochiel be- ware of the day!' Coming events cast their shadows before.''
 "As o'er these scenes my memory wakes,
 And fondly broods with miser care,
 Time but the impression stronger makes
 As streams their channels deeper
 wear"
 The fiippancy with which the Tribune treats the Omaha platform leads to a sus- picion bordering on a conviction that the Tribune is not soundly populistic. Evil communications corrupt good manners" Republican association will tend to mod fly the original streams of populistic fn- spiration. This is "as normal as the de- crease of the moon" As an. illustration of the facility with which the Tribune can "whirl around the circuit" as the weeks come and go, we beg leave to ap- pend an extract from the editorial col umns of the Tribune under the date of October 24 1895. The Tribune in this ar ticle evidently "approximates its normal state of mind on politics." That the Tribune will draw up upon a ticket that "approximates its normal state of mind on politics" we cannot undertake to pre- dict. In view of the violent opposition Of it's columns and it's proprietor to fu- sion or cooperation last fall and their easy and absolute surrender to co-opera- tion on the home stretch we cannot read fly discover it's normal state of mind on politics." We prefer to try our DOW CTS upon subjects more visible to mortal view. Your orator respectfully prays" that the subjoined extract from the Tribune of October "A, 1895, be made a part of this exhibit.
 HENRY PAGE BURRUss.