The age-herald., 1899-05-15
GOV. JOHNSTON AND
 THE REPEAL ACT
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THE REPEAL ACT
 a~sa.sa<4sssr From the Anniston Hot Blast. -
 If Governor Johnston. has a suggestion for getting the state democracy out of the hole in which he has placed 1t, It is time for him to make 1t.
 From the Alexander City Outlook.
 There are scores and scores of men who were for repeal of the constitutional con- vention act who will be actively against the governor for the United States senate. From the Florence Times.
 And so the convention is dead. Every thing drops to the ground a. sponge has been drawn over all the convention work of the regular session and all the work of the democratic party in relation to the matter. All this leaves the democratic party in a badly broken up position. From the Oakman News.
 The democrats who were dashed into do- ing the bidding of the chief executive against the view of their constituents have written the first chapter in their political history. The people will white the next but oh, how different. Whenever one of these fellows shall stick his head up and ask for office he will be mashed as flat as a pancake
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 The senate has followed the example of the house and deserted the true and tried principles of the democratic party and re- pealed the act calling a constitutional con- yention. No more undemocrat;c act was ever enacted upon the great democratic party. It certainly is a pity that Alabama cannot have legislators who have the back bone to stand up for the rights of the peo- pie against the personal aspirations of a bolting governor.
 From the Pine Belt News.
 Ye convention advocates, be of good cour- age. Don't let Johnston victory cause any one to lose sight of the fact that his political sun is setting. His days in public life. are numbered. An outraged people will rise in their might in opposition to czarlsm. as embodied in Alabama's present chief executive, and consign him to political ob- livion, where he rightfully belongs. Down with demagogic office-holders and office- seekers!
 From the Tuskegee News.
 People in many counties were doubtless indifferent to the constitutional convention because their county papers were indiffer- ent. We have no sort of doubt but what the white people of Alabama after being fully acquainted with the far-reachng advantages of the convention would unani- mously favor that measure. And it is the duty of our press to do all in it's power to mould sentiment along right lines. From the Edwardsville Standard-News.
 The governor has succeeded in his scheme to defeat the constitutional con vention for the present. but the people will be heard from at the August election in 1900. The sentiment in favor ofa new con- stitution has been growing for number Of years, and while the voice of the people has been stified for the present the defeat of their will is only temporary. They are determined that the white people of Ala bama shall rule the state, and this result can only be reached by new constitution, the realization of which has only been de- layed.
 From the Montevallo News.
 It seems that there is something radically wrong somewhere, and if these papers rep resent the true sentiment of the solid democracy of our counties, day of reck- 0nlng VIII Surely cOme TOT tHoSe III oHicd who with such reckless disregard seek only their own aggrandizement.
 From the Falkville Chronicle
 Governor Johnston has succeeded, with the help of majority in the legislature and senate, in having an act passed repeal ing an act calling for a constitutional con- yention. This places the governor and those who followed him in right peculiar position. It puts them in direct opposition to the state executive committee, whose proceedings we have always recognized: and causes a wide breach in the partys which time alone can repair.
 From the Jasper Mountain Eagle.
 It will all be to do over again. We mean the constitutional fight. The next state campaign for the nomination for governor will have that as the leading issue and the two men pointed to as logical candidates are Jesse F. Stallings and Frank Pettus. the former anti-conYention and the latter for the convention.
 PARTY MEASURE
 From the Huntsville Mercury.
 The Montgomery correspondent of the Birmingham AgelfTerald wired that paper yesterday that the populists will oppose every amendment offered; that they are in high glee and anticipate split in the dem- ocratic party. Here we have bit of direct evidence tending to show how unwlsely Governor Johnston acted in using the popu-- lists to repeal democratic law.
 Governor Johnston can hardly hope to influence the populists to support the pro- posed amendments. If the reeommenda- tions contained in his most recent message are adopted, it must be done by democrats,
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