The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1897-08-27

the honor, If honor it be, of bringing out
the first candidate for governor 1t says:
There is an epidemic of gubernatorial
nominations. The Home claims this honor
of having brought out the first candi-
date-our distinguished Eufaula contem-
porary, Editor Jelks"
Editor Jelks, of the Eufaula~ Times, ac-
cuses the Selma Times of not nominat-
ing a man for governor in several days
and suggests that it turn its attention
to the Turner boom. The Times replies:
You are correct in stating that we
skipped two days, but we bobbed up Sc
renely yester lay Nth Hon JOS. Rich, of
Mobile, who, for some unhn lwn reason,
abandoned the race two years ago, when
he stood a fair chance to be governor.
Oates friends would have come to him
before they would have gone to John
ston, and Johnston's friends would have
gone to him before they would have gone
to Oates, and. thus no power on earth
could have kept Joe Rich from being
governor If he had just sat still in the
boat with Mobiles seventeen votes which
was the balance of power"
The HumtSvilla Mercury thinks 1T has
made Edj.Cu Lame, of he Tribune, take
balax water The following is from the
Mercury of recent date:
The democratic party is the negro
patty in the south if there is anything in
the le, urnl,, which sEcx that every white
precinct goes republican and every negro
ccuGJty and precinct gos.s democra,ic. =
Mondays 1tibune.
when taken to task regarding TITS as
sertjon, the Tribune thus bolstered rs
settlement:
% There is NOT a coui-ty in the static of
Alabama, NOR HAS there been since 1894
xxr1a Ir a mag ma
which is rot a democratic County accord
ing to elscIlcn 1,aturnS. 1t ifs a matter of
Lti1tory That the courties which have
thrown off the democratic yoke have in
vl3Tiably been counties in which the white
element largely domire,ted.'
Here the Tribune crawfishes. First g..
md every white precinct goes repubii-
CAM now 1t says The counties which have
Thrown off thIe temperate yoke have IN
varably been couIi les in which the white
.elemerJt largely do-ainated.' But in the
second tallneEt it does r,1ls say that
every pgecihct goes n pu'blican.' Its first
atement was as ridiculous as 1t was
untrue"
The Bessemer Weekly secs d.scori in
the ranks of the republican pencil push
ers as ltds clipping vfll show:
THE utter weakness of the Journal In
IT'S new political field AMI alignment and
in '.le purpose and expect tons of le
prsssn man pull ito C Is seen in lis vicious
attack ON DIR. Mosseley and the Birm.ng-
ham. Times. The i.rir,. as too much for re-
pub lcarS. The fl SON with he populrlts,
tha,t the p'opultis tairlt is too much for the
republicans. THE Jou.mll asks, savagely,
Who al ieo1-zeii DR.. Mcc'elsy ard the
Times 10 speak for the republican party?'
This is emIhatioially unusually II ch gall
The idea of the Bessemer Jou. nal calling
the Authority of the Meteor ara the
Joshua and he leading organ of Alabama
repuIbl cardsm into qustt.on. What
next?"
The Ozark Star thinks Charley Lane
has shown undue haste in denying that
he is or will be a candidate for governor.
1t says:
Charley Lane, editor of the Huntsville
Tribune, the official organ of the repub-
lican party in this state. denies that he
Is or will become a republican cardidate
for governor. 1t really IS too e; \ for
Charles to announce. for it is by no Means
Z certain what he will be in political way
by the time of the election"
The Csnebrake Herald thinks we should
all be consistent. 1t says:
Alabama the battleship now being
built, is honored with the name of this
state. The vessel, it Is said, will be
equipped with diagonal armcr (whatever
that isl and will be a formida BILE craft.
"A gold standard contemporary rises
to make remark about presenting the
vessel with a set of silver plate, but we
insist said contemporary is out of order.
Let the gold men stand t. their Plat
form and present the vesseT with set
of gold utensils. Then the silver men will
arrive bringing along an armful, more or
less, of deprecated silverware. Then the
boat will be well supplied"
DR.. Mosely is quit 2 .optimistlc about the
republican vote in the Seventh district 1t
seems that the genial doctor believes al
most amy old candidate. just SO he Is .