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Birmingham state herald., 1896-06-17
CHRONICLES OF THE COURTS

In the criminal court yesterday, Judge Greene presiding, the following cases were disposed of:
 Tom Hall, grand larceny; guilty.
 Jeff Jackson, same; guilty.
 Jim Tucker, larceny; guilty.
 Very little business is yet to be trans acted in this court, and the docket and jail are being cleared very. rapidly.
 Bills Filed.
 In the circuit court suit in chancery was filed by Bessie G. Porter ct al. vs. Matte G. Bruce. The bill was filed for the purpose of securing @ settlement of matters pertaining to an estate as re- gards lots Nos 5, 6. ', and 10 in Wood lawn.
 In the city court bill in equity was filed by Mike Sullivan ct al. vs. D. B. Sul- livan ct all for settlement of the estate of Stephen Sullivan, deceased. Petition- CTS pray for cancellation of a deed to property at the southeast corner of the northeast quarter of the southwest quar- ter of section 20, township F. range 3 west.
 Probate Office
 In the probate office the following land papers were filed:
 Richmond Miller and wife, by assignee, to Edwin T. Hutcheson, lot at North Bir- mingham; $25.
 Edwin T. Hutcheson to J. C. Smith, lot at North Birmingham; $25.
 A. G. Henry, assignee and trustee, to John A. Lusk southwest quarter of southeast quarter of section 12, and west half of northeast quarter and northwest quarter of southeast quarter, section 13. township Is, range 1 west; also lot and cottage in Mt. Pinson; S200
 John B. and Laura Watson to Cham bers McAdory, block 10. Chambers Mo Adory's first addition to Bessemer; $5SS.
 Chambers and Leonora McAdory to John B. Watson, lot 65x100 feet on north east side of lot 10. as above; $233
 F. w. Cullom and wife to Franklin M. Frazier, part of block 795. Fourteenth street and Eleventh avenue. south; $500.
 Christie c. Jabeles to s. R. Bains, lot in Bessemer on Twenty-first street and First avenue; 5000.
 Articles of Incorporation. Articles of incorporation of the Railway Mercantile company were filed In the probate office by ". E. Alexander, w. NJ. prenner and I. s. Parrish. The capital stock s.s $2500.
 Marriage Incense. A marriage license was issued t5 George B. Wallace and Mrs. Lucy Lee Watkins.
Birmingham state herald., 1896-06-17
erArn DEMocRAr1c PLATFORM

We the democrats of the state Of Ala hama. in convention assembled, declare our continued faith in the old time ana honored principles of the democratic party, ana among theee pi"iNiP'~s N the following:
 The free and unlimited coinage of silver and gold at 16 to 1 as the standard money of the country, without any ols- crimination against either metal and 1vithout the consent of foreign nations, as inc limited States coined silver and gold before the republican party ob- tained control of the government and cbanoed the coinage laws of the country Cor inc benefit of a class and to the in- iury of a great mass of the people,
 ?. The unconstitutional penalty of 10 ,,em centum on each issue of state bank notes by any state or national DanK ought to be repealed.
 If Is our purpose to maintain a govern ment in this state fair and just to all, under control of the white men of Ala bama. ,
 The faith and credit of the state must he maintained untarnished.
 Our system of public education should be improved and extended so far as the state has the ability, without oppressive taxation.
 We are in favor of honest and fair elections and we recommend that laws he enacted under which primary elec- lions and other party proceedings for the selection of candidates may be con-
 We cordially invite all good citizens of this state. and especially all democrats who strayed from the party, to unite with us in an earnest and determined ef- fort to maintain good government in the state of Alabama.
 Let us preserve the dignity and credit and peace, and, if possible, the prosperity of our state.
Birmingham state herald., 1896-06-17
DETERRENT MATERIAL,

The New York World appeals to the gold standard element in the east to take courage and renew the battle for the Brit ish gold standard at Chicago. It cites the work of Platt and his aides-de-camp at St. Louis, and says what was accom- plished by Platt al the republican conven- tion can be accomplished by Platt's sort at Chicago.
 It may be that the World can see no difference in the material Platt had to work on and that which will be on hand at Chicago. Whether the World is aware of it or not, the fact remains that the men who will go to Chicago pledged to represent their people and to vote for a free coinage platform are an entirely diff ferent class of men to those in St. Louis. They are white men. They are men that cannot be bought with gold or frightened by power or bosses from the straight path of duty. The hotels have not yet nor will they ever have to refuse to entertain the men who go to democratic national conventions. There will not be a single negro among those who will constitute the Chicago convention. There will be no white men there who, for the sake of place and political power, have crawled
 
 with the free negro. It will be a poor field for Platt's sort to undertake to labor in.
 The New York World, in its wild rav- ings for the British gold standard. has most certainly gone daft if it sees no diff ference in the character of the men whom it says Tom Platt has influenced" in St. Louis and those who it urges the agents of the British and American mCn- ey power to get ready to go to Chicago to "infiu
 Tom Platt and the other Wall and Lom- bard street minions who. with him, have been on the ground at St. Louis working for the gold standard, may and doubtless did Influence" the action of the motley crew that went there to constitute na- tional republican convention, but such agents will stand no show in Chicago. If the World should succeed in getting them to undertake 1t they will soon dis cover that they are in the wrong pew.
Birmingham state herald., 1896-06-17

a politician from Alabama, found his way, and he told of his experiences as he tilted his chair back against pillar in the corridor of the Laclede.
 "I hadn't much else to do, so I let a young fellow who had a face like hang ing basket because he hadn't shaved, buttonhole me in behind screen of red cloth, and there I was invited to toss rings over the heads of canes, while @ bald-headed man at the other end of the room was trying to play a tune on cash register.
 After I found that the heads of the canes were too large to let the rings slip over I punched the man with the Brus- sells carpet face and knocked the mutton brained musician from his seat with a soap box. They wanted to have me ar rested. but the policeman told them it was too bad I hadn't killed them"
Birmingham state herald., 1896-06-17

It was evidently delightful to the south hating radicals of the east to be able to gaze upon cold black negro from South Carolina occupying a seat between Two white men from Alabama in congress, while he would occasionally permit them to take whiff at the bouquet he received upon being seated in that body over a white democrat.
Birmingham state herald., 1896-06-17
SUNSHINE IN ALABAM'.
s'Sass.''

"SaSS.''
 Landlord Dick Rodney of the Drummer's Rest hotel, Smithville, is the only one of the kind in America. The old colonel is loyal to North Carolina Chis native state), to democracy and his toddy. Fat and blunt, he abhors shams, despises lazy man and is a gentleman of the old school in his treat ment of women and ministers. While not a church member himself. he has decided leanings to the beautiful ritual of the Epis- copal church, and he invariably attends it's services whenever there has been sweep ing democratic victory-and only then.
 After abusing the porter for not getting out some baggage in time-abuse couched in such classical profanity that it rang like the metre of a Greek ode-the old colonel pulled up his chair and said: "A nigger will be a nigger, sah, if he was born over again three times a yeah! Now that fool porter came marching up here with a preacher last Monday, instead of letting him go to the other house; blame idiot knew I nevah charged a minister of the Gawspil! took him ill the front room, where I keep little toddy on the mantel and the boys 'casion- ally plays kyards. The parson hadn't been in that room five minutes before he smelt of the bottle, glared at the kyards and groaned at a rate calculated to make every thing miserable in the house. He wasn't one of our kind of preachers. but he was a blaze-faced Teller whose WhiSkerS nad turned gray sooner than his head-reckon Cos he had worked his jaws more n his brains; and he talked with whang like a small boy hollerin' through drain pipe.
 q Bruther, CT, Rodney said he, what chuch do you belong tew.' told him I hadn't joined any yet, and then he gave me a forty minute lecture on general princi- ples-hitting the democratic party and the Episcopal chuch a wipe as he warmed up, and closed with a solemn assurance that I needed a change of heart. and told me that I acted like nobody but me and my porter was going to get to heaven.
 "Well suh, I got as hot as a hen a layin'. I replied by telling him that didn't need no change of heart; but that what me and all the boarders needed in that house was more liver, and that I thought the agrcul- tural interests of the country was just a yearnin' for his sort to chaperone a young mule and a bull-tounge blow over the blithesome meadows, and then I proceeded to cuss him out for makin' fun of my kind of religion. Well, he stayed with me three weeks and eat grub like a nigger at a corn shucking. En- did I charge him anything Well, no, not for board, but I presented a bill of S5 for sass, and made him pay it."
 WELLINGTON VANDIVER.
Birmingham state herald., 1896-06-17

fitted for our civilization. Above is sour estimate of the fusion party, now that 1t is really in existence. We take pleasure in reproducing below just what Kolb's Tribune in November last thought of the party it is now supporting: E
 "Fusion of the peoples party with re- publieans In Alabama will erect in this state a republican party composed of 125, 600 negroes and some 1000 or 5000 white men, among whom, white and black, not ten individuals can be named whose quail ifications for governor would be passed upon favorably by competent commits sion of disinterested examiners.
 "Such a party as this would fall so in- finitely below the level of social life in Alabama that 1t could not possibly make laws, judge of laws and execute laws fit- ted for our civilization. We would all cry aloud for the return of the army to gov ern.'
Birmingham state herald., 1896-06-17

The money power seems to have the republican national convention "by the leg and is pulling it for all there is in it. The result will be straight. square. un- equivocal declaration for the present gold standard of measurement and against the free and independent coinage of gold and silver at any ratio.
Birmingham state herald., 1896-06-17
A Butchers Experience.

Mir J. ". Herring, a butcher of Phe- nix City, Ala, says, May IA, 1895: For five years I had indigestion, which con tinuud to get worse till my suffering was intense I spent hundreds of dollars try ing to get relief, but grew worse until the fall of 1893, when I commenced to use Kings Royal Germetuer. I took only the first use of it. I bought it of Dr. D. 10. Morgan, and he can tell about my case cheerfully recommend Germetuer as the best medicine for indigestion and dyspepsia" New package, large bottle, 10S doses. S1 For sale by druggists
Birmingham state herald., 1896-06-17

It is enough to bring the blush of shame to the cheek of every white man in Ala bama to contemplate the joy the radicals got out of making Goodwin, white man from the state of Alabama, fawn upon a cold black South Carolina negro.
Birmingham state herald., 1896-06-17

The republicans who gave Goodwin his seat in congress made him champion the cause of the negro. Murray, from South Carolina. They-wanted to make him show just what was In him.
Birmingham state herald., 1896-06-17

The financial plank of the republican platform will be for gold and would be so construed by a republican administra- ton, whatever may be it's phraseology
 The single gold stardard was first es- tablshed in this country by the demon- etization of silver in 1873 by the republi- can party and for more than twenty years that party has made fierce and unceasing warfare upon the white metal. When the leopard changes his spots or the Ethiopean his skin, then may the re- publican party cease it's attacks upon silver; and until then no friend of that metal can afford to support republican candidates for the presidency or for con- gress.
Birmingham state herald., 1896-06-17

My Personal Opinion of the St. Louis Convention" by T. c. Platt, would be an interesting and good selling book, espe- cially if written in the best vein of tha t celebrated author.
Birmingham state herald., 1896-06-17

It is authoritatively stated that the ne gro delegates to the St. Louis convention are for gold, gold, only gold; in other words, the colored troops will fight nobly for a gold standard plank in the repub- lcan national platform.
Birmingham state herald., 1896-06-17
Headouarters for California Wine,

$3 per dozen quarts pure and whole some claret; $2 per dozen pints, pure and wholesome claret.
 Southern wines, $4 per dozen quarts, $2.5O per dozen pints.
 We also keep full line of ports sber- ries and best grades of Californias growth, equal to imported wines, at req sonable prices M. & A. WISE,
 No. 8, corner Morris ave. and goth St.
Birmingham state herald., 1896-06-17

There are four companies of patriot Cuban women in Maceos army, fighting for freedom The history of the world does not match this spectacle.
Birmingham state herald., 1896-06-17

Why doesn't somebody propose Billy Bryan as the free silver candidate for president ?-Atlanta Journal.
 It may be that MT Bryan's friends pre- fer to see him succeed Hoke Smith and help to make up democratic cabinet.
Birmingham state herald., 1896-06-17

The fine Italian hand of Thomas c. Platt has played great game for the shylocks and money gamblers of Wall street with the republican knaves at St. Louis. For the occasion his name has been An Sin and his ways peculiar.
Birmingham state herald., 1896-06-17

If the League of American Wheelmen should put up presidential ticket the other parties would have to do some scorching to beat it.
Birmingham state herald., 1896-06-17

Weyler has now forbade the exporta- tion of bananas from Cuba. If he isn't careful he will have Italy after him.
Birmingham state herald., 1896-06-17

candidate and forcing a declaration for the republican-British gold standard upon the democratic party has "Gone glimmering, like a dream of things
 that were
 A schoolboy's tale, the wonder of an hour
Birmingham state herald., 1896-06-17

The graduation essay will now retire into innocuous desuetude. and the cam paign oration will take the center of the stage.
Birmingham state herald., 1896-06-17

There are not ten men In the fusion party in Alabama all told who are com petent to fill the office of governor. The 2arty is composed of some 125,00O negroes and oew thousand white men. The par ty has fallen so infinitely below the level of social life in Alabama that 1t cannot possibly make. judge and execute laws
Birmingham state herald., 1896-06-17

The new woman boom is moving along at a rapid pace John D. Rockefeller has just given Vassar $1, ,000, 900.
Birmingham state herald., 1896-06-17

And now the Pelican state has gone and elected a solid free silver 16 to dele gation to the Chicago convention. A few short weeks ago the goldbugs were claiming at least half that delegation.
Birmingham state herald., 1896-06-17

There will be meeting of the state democratic executive committee in Mont gomery today.
Birmingham state herald., 1896-06-17

Another complication. Hetty Green has arrived in St. Louis to make few re- marks
Birmingham state herald., 1896-06-17

MT. Cleveland wants to stop 1t, but the brakes won't work.
Birmingham state herald., 1896-06-17

The golditea' hope of controlling the Chicago convention and for goldbug
Birmingham state herald., 1896-06-17
HE MET THE TAKERS.

Abner Randolph of Alabama Tells of His
 Adventures. St. Louis Post.
 Across the street from Covington hall are the stands of numerous fakirs who follow a crowd like a hungry mule aces hay.
 Into cue of the places Abner Randolph.
Birmingham state herald., 1896-06-17
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Birmingham state herald., 1896-06-17

Who thought four years ago that then honored member of the democratic party would in the year 1896 fawn upon a cold black negro in the house of congress and cause the representatives of the demo- cratic party in that body from this state to blush with shame for their state, while the negro-loving radicals of the east looked on with delight? s8
Birmingham state herald., 1896-06-17


 The wise and conservative republicans understand and appreciate the danger of a declaration for the gold standard by the republican convention. T. F. Brown, a rominent republican and practical business man of Toledo, O., whose money is invested in a variety of enterprises, said to a party of delegates to the St. Louis convention in that city a day or two since:
 "The word gold in that platform will lose us Ohio even with Mckinley as the nominee. Politicians do not appreciate the strength of this silver movement. The people of this country have come to the conclusion that the gold standard is responsible for their troubles, and whether they are right or wrong, they are going to vote as they believe. The word gold would lose us every state west of the western border of Pennsylva- nia.''
Birmingham state herald., 1896-06-17

A correspondent writes to the Atlanta Journal to know who is considered the smallest man in congress, to which the paper very aptly replies: Dear reader, there are so many of that kind that we are afraid of discriminating. ."-EVening News.
 The above calls to mind conversation that is said to have taken place not long since between Senator Joe Blackburn and Senator-elect Money of Mississippi, which ran about as follows:
 Senator Money-Blackburn, who do you think is the biggest fool in Cleve- lands cabinet?
 Senator Blaekburn-Pretty hard ques- tion, Money. What do you think?
 Senator Money-Well, I think Morton is the biggest fool of them all.
 Senator Blackburn-Well, Money, I would like to agree with you. we are gen. orally together, but I'll be d-d if I ain't committed to Hoax Myth.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1896-11-24
JUST IS OVER 10000.
BRYAN's MAJORITY OVER TKIN-
LEY IN VIRGINIA IS 2o,OGi.
VOTE BY COUNTIES And CITIES.
Table showing the Number Re-
ceived by the Highest Elector on
Each Tfcket-The Congressional
PIuraIities, 25.Gft.

The State Board OF Canvassers, having
disposed of the election figures touching
the contests for congressman, the can
vass OF the returns of the vote cast for
presidential electors will begin at IL
o'clock this morning. The Official certi-
ncates from all Of the counties and cities
have been received at the Capitol in
cluding several that had TO be returned
to the clerks. I'm order that slight irregu-
larities in them might be corrected.
While the figures have not been official
" compiled. the Dispatch has taken the
mains TO 20 over the certificates. and
make up what Is believed to be an abb
solutely correct table. The figures have
all been verified and the additions are
thought 10 be correct. OF course. If
anv county is thrown out, the result
would be changed. but this will hardly
be done.
Our table shows that Bryan's plurality
in Virginia is 2o.cel. This Is just above
a figure on which hinges the decision Of
many wagers made on the result in this
State. In every instance our hgures IN
dicate the highest vote received by any
elector on that particular ticket. The
piuralities are considerably
larger. BY the official returns, as ac-
cepted by the Board OF Canyassers, they
strn No 249g3 while II the count be
made without considering technical ir-
regarding the names of can
didates. they add up 25,54l.
THE VOTE IN DETAIL.
tIoro is tho presidential table:
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1896-11-24

at the Hotel Hanover to-day, and things
passed off without much friction. Newark
was awarded the pennant. and II was this
which caused the only trouble experienced
during the meeting. Manager Barnie raised
a strong objection on behalf of Hartford,
but according to the constitution, was
forced to abide by the presidents ruling.
The Board OF Directors audited and ap-
proved the report OF the secret2ry and
treasurer. An extra tax was levied on the
Norfolk and Richmond clubs for admis-
sion. With the addition OF these two
clubs the league was organized for five
years.
The election OF a president for the en-
suing year resulted in the choice OF Ed
ward Burrows. Of Paterson, n. j., by a
vote OF 5 to 3. The candidates for the
presidency in addition TO Burrows were
Horace Fogel, sporting editor Of the
Philadelphia Ledger; Arthur Irwin, and
John B. Day. Mr. Burrows was part
owner of the Paterson club last season.
but sold out his interest to G. j. Mckee.
who is now the sole owner of the club.
The Board OF Directors elected consists
OF William Barnie c. j. Mckee, and w.
b Bradley.
The constitution was changed so as to
allow the president.to make out the sche-
dule. He will send copies 10 each club at
least one week before the next meeting
OF the league. which will be held some
time in March. The season was extended
so that 40 games will be played. each
club playing seventy games at home The
season will begin May 1st and continue
five months.
The league proposes to take steps against
the farming system, and II will pro-
badly be decided that no National-T.ea
players will be accepted except for the
entire season. The permanent headduar-
ters Of the league will probably be I'm New
York.
The delegates present were: George f.
Ellis. 90 Newark; William Barnie. OF
Hartford; c. j. Mckee, of Paterson.
Messrs. ONeill and Broome. Of Norfolk
II. II. Hensel and Frank Rim. OF Ian
caster; ". B. Bradley, OF Richmond: Den
ny Long, Of Wilmington; II. Niles and
William Sharslg, Of the Athletics, OF this
city.
Manager Long. OF Wilmington. is stnl
undecided whether he will keep his club
in Wilmington, or remove to Reading. Pa.
but he seems to favor the latter city.