The age-herald., 1897-09-19

2s. William c. Oates, native of Ala bama; 1S94-96.
 2s. Joseph F. Johnston, native of North
 Carolna 1S96.
 The recapitulation stands: Virginia, &;
 North Carolina. A. South Carolina, 4;
 Georgia, 4; Tennessee, 8; Ecetland, |; Alabama, r5-29.
 The incident eff 1865, when Watts, the
 legal ii5euinbcnt, was ousled by federal
 usurpation, and Lewis E. Parsons in- stalled instead; the incident, three years later, when Patton, the legal incumbent,
 was busted, and Smith put in his piacs tj5' unauthorized cleo lion, that is carpet
 bag supremacy; the further incident Of
 1868, when the state constitution was re-
 vcked by congress and the so-called con- | stltution of that year ssit up; the inci- dents of 1892 and 1894, when 1t became | necessary to party interests for the leg issature 10 baulk the right of contest for governor as between Kolb and Jones and next as between Kolb and Oates, will remain and increase as unsavory records along the line of the Alabama guberna- tonal office.
 The twenty-nine governors have all
 been democrats except William H. Smi h and David P. Lewis, republicans. Warts
 was a whig in 1869. but as that party was lost and he acted with the demo- crats on all issues thereafter he may be | ciassed as a democrat when he held office.
 The twenty-nine governors, including l the present incumbent, have filled thirty nine terms
 w. w Bibb was territorial governor
 when chosen state governor.
 It is evident that Alabama, in a nor- nal condition, is a democratic state In the contest of 1924 for the presidency between Andrew Jackson, William Har- ris Ora wford and John Quncy Adsms, the state went for Jackson. It was a l Jackson state ito the last. William R. King and Dixon H. Lewis were the po- tential forces in the twenties, thflties
 and fortie.s. They were democrats, but they were widely separated on the fed eral questions of their time. They did not pretermit any part of those ques- tions. They did not compromise from first to last. They stood up before the people and fought the issues out before them. King was a Jackson man and unionist in the nulifica ton time of 1892; Lewis wls a nullifler and supporter of Calhoun. They were both university men, both able statesmen and devoted 1 leaders. Politics was on a high plane with them. Before the issue between
 Jackson and Calhoun was joined, whie Calhoun was yet president, the leg islature chose Gov. Gabriel Moore to the
 senate. That was in the winter of1831- 32. When Jackson, in 1883, wanted to send Martin Van Buren as minister to England, Senator Moore voted wMh the Lewis and Calhoun faction against Van Burens confirmation. The Alabama leg slature at it's next sss ion was so much under the influence off the King side
 that it called on Senator Moore to re- turn his commission. Moore refused, on
 the ground that the legisla tuqe had no
 lawful control over the senate; that if
 the principle in that case was correct,
 the legislatures of the states could dis solve the senate altogether. He did not
 recover his popularity. When his ssna-
 torial term expi9ed Reuben Chapman defeated him for the lower house of con- gress. Some time after that he went to Texas, while Texas was yet an inde- pendent republic.
 Here WAS announcer DllleF cl2Sn De-
 tween the King and Lewis factions of
 the democracy in 1S47-48 Both leaders concured in the sentiment that the ter rftory that Mexico had surrendered and sold to the United States by the treaty of Gaudaloups -Hidl1go was common do- nlain that the people of all dlha states had the right to enter upon the land for settlement and to carry each immigrant T under the laws of his state or the United States. The King and Lewis factions were at unity belween themselves upon the rights of the south in the territories; both contended that Illinois had no more right to send corn, wheat and pork to the sniners of the territory California, and demand protection for it there by the United States government than Ala bama had to send the negroes there, whose ancestors her people had brought from Massachusetts and Rhode Island shipmasters, and demand the protection of the property from the same source. California was then common domain, won by two southern soldiers to enc from the north.
 When the democratic party of Ala bama met at Montgomery in February,
 
 democratic convention to meet at Bal timore, the next spring, the Lewis men put forward young lawyer, William L.. Yancey, to offer resolutions and speak to them requiring the delegates from Alabama "to vote in convention for no man for president or vice-president who was not in accord with the doctrine of equal rights in the territories for all the states It was already known that ne- gro labor would be prof table in Cali fornia; as Chinese labor has since proven profitable there. Yancey went into the convention with Lewis resolutions in his pocket. He read them and spoke to them He carried them through with not one dissenting voice from a convention with delegates from. every csunty seated but Coyington.
 King did not like these resolutions. They were in advance of any general public opinion and King was a smooth rpoyino loader He avoided r,raciptcaa