The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-11-19
REApY-MADE ORGANS.


 when he has an organ ready to his hand in The Birmingham Times. True, it is a thoroughly Republican paper, but it has been fighting the battles of the antis all the time, and is still at their service. It can misstate the facts as well IS any paper they can find, and we have no doubt but that it will do their work at much less cost than they can get it done by a new paper. For example. The Times says:
 From this time on there will be two Democratic parties in Alabama. One will repreesnt a few black belt Demo- crats and all the negroes. The other will represent all the white Democrats in the white counties.
 Of course all who know anything of the facts know that there is not word of truth in the insinuation that the ad- vocates of the Constitution represent "a few black belt Democrats and all the negroes.' The Times knows, as the rest of us know, that wherever the negroes could be influenced or controlled by the enemies of the Constitution, they were practically solid against it. They were organized and solidified by Johnston and his associates, assisted by Republi cans like The Times. and it is pointed falsifcation of history to claim other wise.
 And a faithful coadjutor in the work of misrepresentation is The Huntsville Republican. which says:
 
 to know that every white county in the State went against ratification. This shows clearly which side had the en- dorsement of the white people of Ala bama.
 It will doubtless be amusiEg-if it is not disgusting-to the people of Baldwin and Bibb, of Calhoun and Chambers, of Escambia and Henry, of Jefferson and Lawrence, of Limestone and Madison, of Pike and Pickens and Randolph, and perhaps some others, to find themselves placarded as "black counties" or to learn that theirs are no longer to be counted amount the white counties of the State. They will want to know when the change was made and who had the authority thus to transpose them.
 The whole truth of the matter is that certain men. who were once prominent in politics, found themselves no longer in positions of honor and influence and they determined on one desperate effort to reinstate themselves. In this eftort they were seconded and assisted by men who have never been anything else than the enemies of Democracy, and who gladly took advantage of what they ccn- ! sidered an opportunity to pay of old scores The effort was a failure. but the Republican allies of the dissatisfied | and disaffected clements think this a good time to complete the breaking up of the Democratic Party, and they may be expected to use all their efforts to that end. ~:
 If any one thinks that these Republi- cans are backing up the naturalization Democrats because of a desire for honest elections, or for any other commendable reason, that person is badly mistaken. Their only object is to create and foment dissatisfaction among Dem ocrats and to bring about rupture in the Democratic Party. That there are reputable Democrats who are willing to be used as tools by designing Repuolicans is true. and 1t is to be regretted that they will thus allow themselves dsedl by those whom they should look on as their implacable political enemies. l. shows how disappointed ambition will control some men and how far they will go to revenge themselves on those who are no longer willing to look on hem as leaders to be trusted and followed. The Times and The Republican are willing coadjutors of the Johnston followers but not sGGh as Democrats should be proud of.