Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1896-10-23

in this contest by giving of your means
10 cents up solicited.
Following is list of the subscribers
terday:
| Total neutrality-suspicious..
| The wheat growing farmers have taken
| the position-and a correct position, too,
| it is-that a system under which the price
| of wheat can be forced down, and kept
down until the farmer is forced to sell,
and then forced up when the wheat
| reaches the hands of the Spectator,
| thereby levying a tax on every consumer
| of wheat in the country for the benefit of
| the speculator, is all wrong, and should
| be remedied
Free trade breeds trusts says Mr. Nc
| Kinley. We have not had free trade in
| this country since the close of the war.
| At that date we had no trusts now they
are plentiful. That very statement is
| sufficient to and should defeat Mr.. Nc
| Kinley in his candidacy for the highest
| office within the gift of any people. No
man who has such little regard for facts
as Mr.. Mckinley is shown to have by
/ that expression. should be elected to the
| presidency of the United States.
/
| "Hon." Lee Fairchild, hailing from
| Seattle, and performing as one of the re-
| publican campaign spell binders is up on
the strongest argument that side of the
| question affords. In a speech in Brook
| Ign few nights ago he said: This coun-
| try will never permit itself to be governed
| by the Altgelds and the Tillmans, nor by
the followers of that uncomplimentary
| thief from Nebraska"
1t is not at all surprising that the chair
| man of a political party in the United
States that proposes for our people to
await the pleasure of foreign powers be-
fore making for themselves a financial
| system should attempt to desecrate the
| flag of the union by attempting to use it
| in coercng free American citizens to vote
| for the nominee of the party of which he
| is chairman.
| Kolb is a complete back-number in this
| state. He has no more influence with
| the white populists than some we'll
| known negro leaders have with the re-
| publicans of their ace.-Montgomery
| Mckinley Advertiser.
In the name of all that is merciful and
decent, pray tell us what Influence" the
Montgomery Mckinley organ is exert
| ing? Order another car of sapolio.
We imagine that some of the fellows
| in this district who have been paying Ii
cents per pound for meat and 10 cents
per pound for sugar and so cents per
pound for coffee will really feel like vot-
ing against Bryan when told that if Bry-
an is elected what they have to buy Will
double in price.
The registration in the city of Chicago
is 375, 900. Out of this number the Chi
cago Record has succeeded in getting
! only a little over $4,000 to vote for Nc
| Kinley, and it's postal card election Will
| soon be over. If there is anything COM
| forting in that to the McKinleyites, let
| them enjoy it.
There is no claim put forth by any body
| that Palmer and Buckner stands any
| chance to carry Kentucky. 1t is claimed
| by everybody that the larger their vote
| in Kentucky the more likely the state is
| to go for Mckinley. then why can it not
be truthfully said that Carlisle is in Ken
lucky speaking for Mckinley.
Men who have their homes and their
money invested in Birmingham, but who
| commissary system, should do all they
can towards procuring legislation to reg
| ulate it. The commssaries are sucking
the life blood of this city.
Mark Hanna should have gotten the
| millionaire merchant of st. Louis who
| got himself arrested and placed under
| bond for discharging twelve of his clerks
because they proposed to vote for Bryan
| to join him in his proclamation condemn
ing coercion.
Just think of the banks, bond syndi-
| Gates, trust barrons, shylocks and gold
gamblers chipping in their money to a
| campaign fund to help elect candidate
because the success of his opponent
would not be good for the laboring men.
| 1t Is hardly to be expected now that
| any working man will vote for Bryan
that life long friend of the working
men. Russell Sage, has come forward
| and remarked that McKinley's election
would be best for the laboring men.
As an evidence of the earnest interest
the men who are losing sleep for fear the
| wage-earners will get paid off in so cent
dollars, we cite the fact that not all the
sound money advocates are In some way
| connected with comm!ssaries.
$3.50 49, - EY
The attempt of Hanna to use the ma
tional flag as a republican banner is en-
tirely inReeping with the man and party
that desires to use the national laws in
the interest of the International gold and
other trusts. g -t
After issuing his flag proclamation
Hanna notified all his agents to watch
and whenever the flag was not found to
find out the reason why, but Chairman
Jones and Mr.. Bryan promptly called his
| hand.
Every newspaper now supporting Nc
| Kinley, either directly or by way of the
| political stiffs, is predicting the defeat of
| Bryan. The same papers predicted that