Birmingham state herald., 1897-07-15

a state of indecent exposure. What vo- eiferous bagatelle. How enormous the 'question whether it will be able to keep up the effort it has scorned so long to contemplate except as fit work for plot ting rouges and foul populstsl
 The Advertiser kept the division out of state politics last year. by a steady neglect to take a hand in the campaign. Did it even once publish the state plat form in it's campaign labprs to keep the division down.. No. it stopped short with positive and impertinent "cussings" of the document not published.
 The most that the Advertiser did for the state leader of the democracy last year was to admit that, while Johnston and Goodwin were the same in politics, there was an inequality between the men, contained in Johnston's wide knowledge of finance and his administrative expe- rience. As a tax payer, the Advertiser preferred the executive officers, state and county, that would come in with Johnston to those who would come in with Goodwin. The Advertiser prefer r q the legislature that would choose Pet tus rather than one that would chose Parson Jack Hearn. of Choctaw, to the United States Senate To the extent of this preference. or these preferences the Advertiser kept down the division in state politics" If the Advertiser had possessed the courage of its convictions, that Johnston ard Goodwin being equal to the same thing were necessarily equal to each other. it would not have kept down the division in state politics" It would have applied the heroic remedy. It would have put Goodwin in office, de- stroyed Johnston thus irrevocably, and, on the homeopathic theory, eternal Fly have eliminated Bryan and populsm from AL abama politics. It had only to adopt for its motto "Similia similibus curaHt tllr, and the thing was done-done, provided always the Advertisers stateeraft was worthy and enduring. perfect and balmy substitute for Johnston and dem- ocracy.
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 The Advertiser has been profuse in s admissions that the Bryan sentiment d ? s in fact control in Alabama;. it candidy avows to use it's own words, that "a large ma iority of the present orgahiza- tion is for free silver" What next? What do the threats eff the Advertiser to "kick" the Bryan men out of the prin1a- ry or failing in the effort kick itself out mean? It means only that the Adver- tiser lacks again the courage of it's con- victions. Politics often move in ways that are dark, often win by tricks tn at fructfy. The Advertiser will stand aIoof in '9S as it did in '96. Again 1t will play upon its string of injured innocence. it will chant again its lay to the lost Le- the soid gifts it holds and will rest in the faith of a call for it in 1900 to come forth from some point along the peri phsry of Cevelapdism.
 The only opportunity of the Advertiser in Alabama is in the surrender of the democratic politics of the free primary and the committee that is subordinate to the state party convention. If the pri- mary sends delegates direct to the state convention and if the state committee has rn laad - .iie control of the repre- sentation in one place or another, the people are safe ard the Advertiser will not la-fger be troublesane. D.
 Birmingham.