Birmingham state herald., 1897-02-07
APPLYING THE BLISTER.
On the Montgomery Advertiser, Roasting Her Right and Left.

The State Herald had as well quit wasting it's energies in an indeaYor to get the Advertiser to commit itself on the proposition as to what it will do four years from now in case the national dem ocratic convention should reaffirm the Chicago platform. What would It amount to If the Advertiser were to come out flat footed and say that it would sup port the platform and nominees! D1d it not come out that way before the last national convention was held? Did IL stand up as 1t had caused every one. who had any confidence in it, to believe IL would? Did it not lay great stress on the duty of a loyal democrat to submit ana stand by the platform and the nominees of his party? Every reader Of the Au- yertiser well remembers how 1t fought Tor Clarke and gold bug delegates 10 the na- tional convention, and every one also knows how 1t refused to. submit to the defeat of it's effort in behalf of the deie- gates. Does any one believe the Ao. yertiser is any more reliable now than IL was then? It would not amount to any thing if the Advertiser were to answer the State Herald's question. We fail to see why it does not do so.-Russel Regis ter. 1
 One of the amusing incidents we heard in the legislature while there was about
 
 the floor making a speech, and in the course of his remarks he said he had no-I ticed an article in the Montgomery Ad- vertiser, one of the leading democratlc papers of the state" At this point Ce. cil Brown, of Talladega, arose to point of order, stating "The gentleman from Jackson is out of order" The speaker replied, State your point Of order
 'The gentleman from Jackson said MT Brown, "has no right to call the Mont gomery Advertiser democratic news paper" ~ ,,,
 The point was well taken.-Scottsboro Progressive Age.
 The Montgomery Morning paper, m us blind hatred of Gov. Johnston, intimates that the governor is trying to build up personal following by securing legislallon increasing the number of appoint1ve o1- fees. This malevolent travesty on jour nalism ignores the fact that it's readers remember that Gov Johnston recom- mended the repeal of laws authorizing the appointment of county registers ana a member of the board of equalization from each county which reduces the number of appointees over 1O0.-Mont- gomery Journal.
 The Advertiser is not sore over any late defeat In the late campaign it's chief ambition was to see the Chicago St. Louis populte fusion defeated, and in that it was gratifed.-Montgomery Ad- vertiser.
 Of course the Advertiser Is not sore over the defeat of the democratic ticket in the national election. 1t did all in it's power to bring about it's defeat. It did what it could to insure the election of McKin- ley and Hobart and is gratified at the success of the republican ticket and at the triumph and principles and pur- poses of the republican party.
 The Advertiser headed toward the re- publican party when it commenced to advocate the unconditional repeal of the purchasing clause of the Sherman law and continued in that direction until it finally reached the point where it openly fought the platform and nominees of the democratic party.
 'In the second place the Advertiser is not sore over any late defeat In the late campaign it's only ambition was to see the Chicago-St Louis populite fusion defeated, and in that it was gratified.- Montgomery Advertiser.
 The result of the fight made by the Ad- vertiser in Alabama in the late cam paign was thing over which 1t should be gratified. And it is CD It is in that blissful state the Apostle Paul de- scribes in the following beautiful lan- guage: 9A
 ..So, when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is writ ten, death is swallowed up in victory. 70, death, where is thy sting? o. grave. where is thy victory. y."-Russell The Alabama Monitor has one hope of being able to rally the populists once more in opposition to the democratic party in this state. In its issue this week 1t says:
 It does seem that the gentle and affa- ble Montgomery Journal really became exasperated at the suggestion of the Monitor that the Montgomery Advertiser was happy over having been restored to it's position in the democratic party. The
 Journal actually objected to an express sion of satisfaction on our part that the Advertiser should be taken back-rather invited back-and seemed not to relish that fact. To the uninitiated in the pe- culiarities of democratic politics, this may have seemed strange, but the Jour- nal understood what it meant. The Ad- vertiser will gradually forge it's way to the lead and within two years will be ip it's pristine glory as dictator and be cracking the whip to make these popo- crats rally round the gold bug flag, and they will rally. The Journal could almost hear the echo of the old familiar whack that was wont to make it dance. and be- fore its vision Haunted. that old nag 1t hated yet if Knew It WOuld nave to 1aii on it's face and pay it's alterations as of yore.
 The Monitor may as well abandon the hope that the Montgomery morning pa- per will ever again forge It's way to the lead" and 'glory as dictator" to the party. No doubt the Monitor which Is finding it's party 'dissolving and going to pieces, would be glad tc see the Mont gomery morning paper once more in con- trol of the party machine. Nothing would so delight all the. ancient. and not so.ancient. enemies of the organized dem