Birmingham state herald., 1896-06-30
LET THE CARD COME.

The Russell Register, published at Scale. in Russell county, in the Third dis trict, indirectly calls to mind the fact that the card from the present member of con gress from that district is behind time and should be forthcoming. The Regis ter was a strong advocate of the gold standard policy of the administration and was an ardent admirer of the pres ident, and 1t an all probability still has great confidence in the occupant of the White House. But the Register is a democratic newspaper, and believes in that principle which is as old as the democratic party itself, which Is that the majority should rule. Now that the democratic party of the state and of the nation has declared that free coinage of gold and silver is a democratic principle and policy, the Register, unlike many of the state papers that advocated the gold standard has come square1y to the front, and will accept as democratic that which the highest party authority in the land says is democratic. This is, indeed com mendable in the Register, and marks 1t as being truly a democratic paper and will elevate it in the estimation of all fair-minded people, regardless of how
 
 question: In the last issue of the Regis ter we note the following editorial, which leads us to remark as above that the card from the present member of con- gress from that district is past due. Here is what the Register thinks about it and the ingenious and polite way in which it calls for new "hoss" for the approaching race:
 aTha ra ri V ahntf1d all means be consistent and conservative. Everybody admireS and respects man or a party that is consistent, but the par ty that is on both sides of any proposi- tion has no position in fact, and is in reality on neither side
 "The democratic party in Alabama at it's state convention declared for free sil- yer by large majority, and put out its nominees on that side of the question; 1t sent delegates to the national conven- tion nearly all of whom are for free coin- age; they are instructed to vote as unit and the vote of Alabama will be cast solid for free silver candidates and for free silver platform. There are already elected, or conceded, maj tority Of free silver delegates to the national conven-' tion. and 1t will only require the vote of that convention to settle which side or the silver question the democratic party will take.
 with the state democracy for free sil- yer and the national democracy for free silver, 1t would be the veriest of folly for the democrats of the Third district to nominate a candidate for representative whose record on the silver question is not in full accord with his party.
 'The Register, as is well known, has always stood by General Harrison; It was for him before he was nominated be- fore; it still admires his sterling ability and his manhood to stand by his honest convictions. He has made a good and faithful representative in congress. The convention that nominated him indorsed MT Cleveland and his administration and General Harrison has stood true to MT. Cleveland throughout his term. Were not the situation just as 1t is the Register would still advocate the nomina> tion of General Harrison for congress. but the situation has materially changed from what it was two years ago, and 1t would seem that 1t calls for man whose record is in accord with the policy of the party on the money question"
 There can be no doubt left in the mind of the reader that the Register is friendly to the present member of congress from its district and in tacitly advising him to send in his card desires to see him get out of the way before he gets run over