Birmingham state herald., 1897-05-02
NEW REPUBLICAN SLATE IafH
  The Old Timers Are Being lg- nored and NEW CONVERTS RECOGNIZED What an Old Warrior Has to Say of the Slate Making For Alabama and It's 20.
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A representative of the State Herald met a leading republican yesterday and called his attention to the new slate for Alabama as published in the Evening News, which is as follows:
 It is currently stated now that MT. Vaughan will go to Spain as minister from this country. Shelby s. Pleasants, of Huntsville is named, in the new ru- mori for the office of district attorney for the northern district of the state Pleas ants is a relative of David D. Shelby the prominent Madison county republic an. He is also the law partner of Col Shelby. Col. Shelby is perhaps the best known republican in the state north of Jefferson county.
 Robert Barber, chairman of the Ninth district executive committee, but an anti Mckinley man before the St. Louis con Vention, is, according to the Huntsville story, to get the marshalship for the northern district. It Is stipulated that James Bruce, now one of the deputy clerks under Clerk N. w. Trimble, in the United States court, but formerly in the office of Marshal Musgrove, is to be Marshal Bar ber's chief deputy.
 Dan Cooper, now Un-i.sd States ccm- missioner at Hamilton, in Marion county is 'to receive the in 1ernal revenue collect olEAip a. Birmingham.
 J. M. Claybrooke, of Huntsville, is to be his chief deputy.
 John Cu.t,s, the weh-kaown young re- publican from Wirei.on county, is to get the Lcstilon of rsSiAtar in the land office at Huntsville.
 M w. Mccullough, of Huntsville will be receiver of public moneys in the land office at Huntsville.
 tt is slated in ;-le rumors tha MT Bar bef,s Sppoin m T.. to the mars ha lship for Tl'OF Is f4@ 11 cay or two now, MT J. c. Musgrove, che pt'asent occupans of tha office, to tender his resignation.
 These rumors are given for what they are worh They are interesting, to say the least
 "Whzl. do you think of the new slate ?" put in the reporter.
 Well, hardly know what to say, But l do know one thing, the republican par- ty in Alabama is getting about as badly twisted as the democratic party. If the slate continues as started there will not be enough old line republicans left in lnesto keep the new ones straight Un- der the slate.making process thus far. you will notice very few, if any, real old fashioned, dyed-fE-t the wool quarter cen tury, fought, bled and died stock has been remembered. Where is Mosely? who stood in the forefront and took every villl6cation known to the trade fer twen- ty-five years. Where arc .ile .Aldriehs. who represented two Alabama dis tricts in congress the last term? I understand they are not in 1t with the administration. Wha:e are the Smiths? The governor l understand voted for Bryan and is for free silver, but two of his sons yielded to the pressure against their inclination and accepted he com bination nomination of the republican and populist party for the state senate and for attorney general respectively. All Of these am informed are not in it with the administration. Take away the ad- vice of Gov. Smith, who has not been very active in politics for years, but who has virtually dictated what was done, and represented the state al nearly ev- cry national republican convention for the past thirty years, and you have brok- en the camel's back as far as real, gen. uine, non-office holding, honest repub- licans are concerned. I tell you the solid south will never be broken on this line, and enough of old-line republicans will join the silver democrats in 1900 to snow under the gold bug democrats and gold bug republicans too deep to find with a snow shovel. Mark the prediction"
 "Bult some of these you mention were for lMcKin9ey,' put in .he reporter.
 50 they were, but it was from a party standpoint, and not that they agreed with him in his principles. l tell you, the hon. est, old-Ene republicans who wen their spurs fighting theii neig'hbors in war and suffered the imposition of Ku- Kluxism rather than sacrifice their principles are not made out of the Mckinley material Principle above everything is the sol dier's and patriots be,tle-cry, and this class of republicans is not of the gold standard persuasion. Mckinley will not recognize them, and they know it; hon. est, died in the wool, union men of 1860 are not on his ring; he is after the rear guard of both sections, and, Ike his pre- decessor, Cleveland, believes in honoring substitute in preference to an honest soldier"
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