Birmingham state herald., 1897-05-21
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 batterfss on Gov. Johnston and Auditor White. Those who have kept track of the Alabama republican mouthpiece need not be told that it never makes move on the chess-board wq.hout a purpose, bs it ever so small. They also know that it's pretended patriotism and party fealty is fraud upon it's face. For years it played the people of Alabama for fools, and, strange to say, many were duped in,.o following its dic;ation, and few even now believe it is honest In it's prin- ciples and convictiors- Let's consider for a moment its last founder in the pond and see if 1t la honest. What is plainer to the public mind than sfat it's opposition to the back tax 9nd coal oil laws is for no other purpose than to prejudlcs the mind of the unsuspeciting reader against the present administration with he hope of making the defeat of the party possi- ble in 1898, when 1t can put up its roosters and say that told you so? More un- couth vindid.iveness was never encom- passed in any one place than is sheltered under the roof of the Montgomery Adver- tiser and the extent of Its pretended loye for he people ard their interests is like the prayer of the old selfish deacon for the Lord to bless me and my wife, my son Joe and his wife, we four and TO more" During both sessions of the leg islature it sit upon the bank as il were, and fished fncessantly for ahe le2Slt en- aotment by that body on which it migEit raise a yell like a panther with grind stone on it's tail," to prove to the people that there was no truth in the s.ate- h Of tba "a makers to enact wholesome laws, which would ada to she betterments and com forts of the entire people, as promised in the platform on which they were elected. Failing to find anything that could be legltmately utilized for is filthy pur- pose, 1t undertook to warp the meaning of the two laws referred to, and for more than three months has been Haunting into the faces of it's readers concocted evils to result therefrom. And failing to got refrain from the people and the press sustaining it's wanton and unjust position, it has laid aside for a s5ason its hobby and is now directing its att tention to abusing and malignlrg the democratic state officials.
 This second move, however, is for an- other purpose than simply to prejudice the minds of the people. And r. is ors that the Advertiser well knew it could succeed in demanding the approval of another leading Alabama newspaper.
 Since MT Mckinley has begun to throw his political ak around rather carelessly quite a number of heads in Alabama have fallen into the official basket The ma jority of these heads belonged to the bodies of postmasters. Among these heads has. been that of the Birmingham postma ster. Next to- Birmingham the postmaster at Montgomery and Mobile receive the highest salary of any in the state. Thus far there has been no talk of removing the postmasters of Mont eomery and Mobile. The question na- turalIy arises why this discrimination among democrats? As Sam Jones would say: Now listep and we will give it to you in a nutshell:" The postmaster at Birmingham is an outspoken, organized partisan, free sIiv r, Bryan and Joe -John- ston democrat, without frills or fringes; active and uncompromising and would walk ten miles on a frosty night to vote for the nominees of his party and wake up every man on his route who he thought would vote with him and there was any danger Of his over-sleeping him. self
 Now listen: The postmaster at Mont gomery is none other than the editor-in- chief of the Montgomery Advertiser, who used to tell us that any white man in the south who would hold office under a re- publican administration was little better than 'nigger' and rot as good as a "scallawags" This postmaster sup ported Palmer and Buckner and has been bowling for Mckinley and bounding Bryan and Johnston and everything dem ocratic ever since McI<inley's election. This is the democratic editor who is posing as the Moses to lead democrats out of the wilderness and back into the fold of the fathers.
 Now listen: At Mobile we find as post master, hanging on like grim death to a consumptive, the editor of the Mobile Register. While the Register supported the state and national democratic tickets it did so under protest, and sheltered it. self from the embarrassment of being kicked out of the party under the techni- cality that it supported the ticket. No sooner than the election was over than this wolf in sheep's clothing turns its batteries on the party and men 1t claims to have helped elect and is lending it's influence to createonet only a breach in democratic ranks, but is openly support ing the Mckinley administration and preaching republican doctrine in every issue of his paper.
 Here are the pictures of your demo- cratic newspapers who stand up like the publican and proclaim their democracy the wise-acres who would teach not only newspapers but such Alabamians as Morgan, Pettus, Johnston, Bankhead, Stallings, Clayton and host of others that McKinleyism is democracy and the promulgators of the Chicago platform are idiotic asses.