Birmingham state herald., 1896-02-06
WILL, FAIL ACKNOWLEDGEMENT.

The popuist papers, the State Herald and the Montgomery Journal are about all the papers that commend the order opening the democratic pastures to the public.-Roanoke Herald.
 Now 1t should be borne in mind that the Roanoke Herald is one of MT. Clarkes mouthpieces in this campaign, that is, according to the Advertisers standard, long since erected and made by that paper applicable to Captain Johnston and the papers advocating his nomina tlon. Whatever the Roanoke Herald says must be taken as the words of the candidate whose cause it espouses; there fore such democratic papers as the Huntsville Argus. Anniston Hot Blast, Jacksonville Republican, Huntsville Democrat. Sheffield Standard. Hartselle Enquirer, Athens Courier, New Decatur Advertiser, Florence Herald, Opelika News. Bessemer Weekly Gadsden Tri- bune, Talladega Reporter, Talladega Mountain Home. Sheffield Reaper Leigh ton News, Lafayette Sun, Clayton Cou- rier, Abbeville Times, Troy Messenger, Roanoke Leader. Tuskaloosa Gazette, North Alabamian, Blount County News Dispatch, Birmingham Evening News and some forty or fifty other solid demo- cratic papers in Alabama will take mo- tice that this organ of MT. Clarke rises to remark that they are not democratic, but populsI papers. True it is credit able to be called a populist by paper which only last week made the following complimentary CD remarks in reference to an action of the duly constituted party authority in Alabama
 We publish elsewhere the action of the state democratic executive committee, and unhesitatingly pronounce 1t the most cowardly and pusilanimous document ever promulgated by similar body in the length and breadth of the country.
 'We warn the tricksters who have torn down the party safeguards in the inter- est of a candidate that such practices are dangerous in the extreme"
 paper that talks in that manner about the state democratic executive committee is more than likely to question the democracy of a democratic paper. What the Roanoke Herald may say about newspapers and the state commit tee is truly matter of small importance, but the State Herald several days ago called the Advertisers attention espe- cially to the above, together with other still more disgraceful remarks, if possi- ble, from the same paper regarding the party authority. and had at that time hopes that the Advertiser would repudi- ate the intimation that MT Clarke ought to be held responsible for such utter ances on the part of his papers, at the same time declaring it's own disapproval of them, but to our surprise the Adver- tiser did not do so, and has never to this good day done so, and instead of doing so continues itself to make war on the com mttee, it's action and the individual members comprising the majority of the committee. Verify the Advertiser is doing it's utmost to lay the groundwork to "Kentuckyize' Alabama. Fortunately. however, it's object has been found out in due time, and the democrats of Ala bama will see to it that the reckless effort of the erstwhile leader of the party in Alabama to rent it's spleen on loyal democrat, even at the cost of the life Of the party, meets with ignominious fail