Birmingham state herald., 1896-07-14
WHAT DOES IT MEANp

A correspondent of the Mobile News has the following to say in that paper of the Mobile Register on its departure from the democratic fold:
 T have read with much care, some amusement and more bewilderment, the remarkable editorial of this morning s Register. I have reread it slowly and carefully, as 1t is an alleged definition of that journals position.
 All that l can sift from it's Aux of words is the one statement that nobody is right but the editor of the Register. He asks himself several not new conun- drums, and furnishes himself with their stock answers. Then he proceeds to de- clare that he cannot carry his great in f1uence for the democratic nominee, and that he will not sway waiting worlds by throwing it into the republican scale. Alasl and woe is me! There is but one deduction from all these gravely printed words. It is the terrible one that the editor of the Register is going to emulate that ambitious sinner who desired a pinch of sulphur and a few matches, that he might make "a little hell of his oWn.
 '"rhe column of alleged logic is headed We Remain The wondering reader asks: Where? If the Register has read itself out of the democratic party, be- cause of the exceeding purity of its own democracy; and if Gas it alleges) it is not reading itself into the republican party where does it remain? Not or the fence, which now. more widely than ever be- fore, divides the two great parties No individual-far more no newspaper. how ever limited may be it's influence-will perch in the great struggle at hand. The democratic party will demand a showing of hands, not only in Alabama, but from Maine to California.
 Therefore, when the editor writes We Remain he either means nothing, or he
 means this
 We, the rule or ruin minority of the democratic party, having ignominously failed to coerce it's vast majority to our own uses, do hereby propose to make a third party, composed of ourselves, and become known to history as the Trojan horse party We cannot win, but we can hollow out our own yearning bowels, replace them with any and all foes to the popular will so long as they wear yellow armor, and then prance nimbly towards the republican camp! 1.-The Trojan horse was unique ani- nal of yore. Luckily his hollowness has become historic. There is no danger in the modern structure, when its sides are plainly labelled: Enter and ride, all ye in yellow guise. The silver Carthage must be destroyed!
 "Either the remains of the Register
 meant nothing, or they mean that 1t is
 the proper caper to go into the Trojan
 horse trading business To neither horn of it's dilemma has any man the right to object. The Register presumably be- longs to the editors who write its obitu- aries (on the silver craze on democra- cy, or on it's own remains). They have the legal right to ask themselves and the
 public conundrums; but the public may pause to do little guessing before 1t ac- cepts the stock answers to them sc gravely and ponderously furnished. CT do not aver that the Register is | trying to grow from goldbug colt into a l Trojan horse: but If 1t be not. then its solemn column of conundrums and an. swers means exactly-0."