Birmingham state herald., 1896-05-14
THAT GoopWYN LETTHR.

I state, in fact does not know, whether | or not Captain Johnston will pay any attention at all Ito the letter sent him | the other day by Mir. Goodwin. We do know, however, of one source from which l the republican nominee will receive an | emphatic reply tosthe insult to the demo- crats and the democratic party of Ala | bama which he offers in his exceedingly l offensive and disrespeetful communica- | ton. The source of which we speak | and from which the new leader of the | republican hordes in Alabama will re- ceive reply to the insult offered is the | true democrats of Alabama and the ex- act date in which he may expect that re- ply is the first Monday in next August. | On that date Mir. Goodwin will hear | from the people to whom he now flip panty offers insult by impugning their honor. Some men in this state will be surprised that MT. Goodwin appended his name to such document, but they | are the men who have not fully awaken | ed to the fact that Goodwin is absolutely in the hands of the carpetbag and scala wag leaders of%you, who are now using his sort to pull chestnuts out of the fire with. We don't think there was really any stimulant needed to put the demo- | crats in Alabama to work and make | them resolve promptly that this demo- | cratic state of Alabama shall not be de- | livered over again to the radicals but l if anything of the kind was needed it | Is supplied by the contents of the letter 1 Of Goodwin to Johnston. The man who would deliberately pen and put his name | to the letter sent Johnston by Goodwin | can never be elected governor of the state of Alabama. The archives of this great state will never contain a message I to the law-maEing power of the com monwealth of Alabama signed by a man as governor who has written or who would write such tirade as Goodwin writes against the people who have stood between the white people-the white wo- men and children, if you please-of Ala bama and negro rule.
 | As stated above, we do not know and have had no intimation as to what course Captain Johnston will pursue as regards the communication, but we do know that 1t is clearly evident that Goodwin and his henchmen expected Captain Johnston to treat it with silent contempt, else they | would have waited a reasonable time in which to have received reply from John ston before rushing 1t into print Within | few hours after the letter had been de- livered to Captain Johnston it also ap- peared in the public prints. Candidates who make respectful challenges or re- | quests for joint discussions with their op- | ponents usually await reasonable time l for reply, but we guess it would be ex- | pecting entirely too much of a man who | penned the tirade in question to hold that | he should have waited decent time for a reply before giving his challenge out to the press. The rules applicable to men who send decent challenges or re- quests for joint discussions or concert of action should not be applied to men who send under the guise of request for such purposes an insult to every democrat in the entire state of which he seeks to be- come governor.
 The State Herald lays before it's read CTS this morning the letter of Goodwin to Captain Johnston and asks of every democrat and every white man in Ala bama whose eyes chance to fall upon these lines after he has read the letter the following question: Do you want the man who penned that letter to be- come the chief executive of your state ?" =
 Tom Grlmmett, who is the combination nominee for secretary of state, was once the sheriff of Macon county, elected by the negroes in reconstruction times. He believes in negroes holding office in Alabama, and if elected would doubtless Install a colored secretary at the capitol, and yet MT. Goodwin preferred Grim | T I 1t. put Grimmett on the ticket.
 Bob Moseley said year ago that the republicans had been furnishing the votes and the pops the candidates long enough, and that it had to stop. The pops nominated one lifelong republican Bingham) and then took two men rec commended by the republicans. Moseley got half the. ticket this time filled out with old-time, lifelong republicans. He will want it all next time.
 The Opelilxa News thinks Goodwin was out of place on the same platform with Moseley and other old-time republicans speaing to an admiring audience of negroes. That was part of the contract, and Mir Goodwin will have to swallow larger doses than that before he gets through with the 'unholy alliance
 The Jacksonville Republican says that last year the. pops denounced Colonel Oates for holding one office and running for another. We suppose that MT. Good wyn will show his good faith now by re- signing seat in congress and paying his own way. kaa.
 Notwithstanding the fact that he is and has been for years standing can didate, for governor of Tennessee, H., Clay
 Evans is just now engaged in little
 scheme which he hopes will make 1t
 appear that he was made the nominee
 of the republicans of Tennessee in spite of his desires to the contrary.
 The Montgomery Journal truthfully and very appropriately says: White SUI premacy is the shibboleth and slogan of this campaign. Let us make the welkin ring with it from every hustings and ev- -r--- e.