The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-07-02
TUESDAY, JULY 2, 1901.
rHr sELMA TIMEs WORRIED.


 The uaper of all in the State most worried about those State Press reso- Iutions is The Selma Times. In its ad- vocacy of the strictest loyalty to all the Party,s pledges, 1t is showing all the zeal of a new convert, for be 1t re- membered it has not been very long since The Times's editor was a loyal Populist.
 The Times keeps slurring at The Ad- vertiser about these resolutions. It's latest deliverance is on this page. It has turned on a number of good Dem- ocratic papers with it's sneers. But neither The Advertiser nor any of the papers named by The Times has ever bolted a State Democratic ticket, which is more than The Times man can say.
 The burden of The Times's article is q request for more of the names of papers which voted for those resolu- tions. Unfortunately Secretary Roun- tree did not keep a list of those voting, and we cannot from memory recall them all. We remember that among them were MT. c. w. Hare of The Rus- kegee News, MT. c. H. Fry. of The Pratt City Herald and MT. H. S:SWil- Hams of The Anniston Hot Blast in ad- dition to those named by The Times. The Times can not successfully assail their Democracy.
 Now let us give The Times some in- formation that it may not relish. One of the conspicuous opponents of the resolutions was MT. w. S. Griffith of The Gadsden Peoples Voice. He made a vigorous speech against the action taken. He said that the Alabama De- mocracy was up against a tough proposition" in trying to carry out its pledges, and he was not willing to give the Party any help in its predicament. Among those who voted with him were Messrs. J. H. F. Moseley of The Bir- mingham Labor Advocate, A. J. O'Keefe of The Birmingham Agitator, a labor-organ. and W. w. Kent of The Birmingham Newspaper Union. not one of which is distinctively Democratic paper That is the sort of help the op- moments of the resolutions had. We can readily see that The Times man would have. been with them, if he had been present.
 The point is clear that there was a much larger per centage of papers not distinctive in their Party loyalty, on the side of the ten who opposed the
 .a..&tors &ho, %ha1a woe o,aon-. A. o majority of twenty. The total vote was entirely and fairly representative of the Alabama press, and there is nc getting around the force of the action by begging the question.
 In this connection The Advertiser calls attention especially to the injus- sice of The Timess slur upon the rep resentative of The Eutaw Whig and Observer. Mrs. Rutherford, the daugh. fer of the lamented MT. Monroe, was the representative. She has grown uI in The Whig office, is a mature wo usan, and has done vast deal of news Ieaaper work. She knew how to vott sust as well as any man present. Rev MT. Gay. who is also sneered at. dit not vote at all, but if he had, he coul( not have been criticised. for he has al ways been a Democrat.
 Now as to the meat of the matter Will The Times inform an anxious pub lie how the two pledges in the plat form-the one not to violate the Fed eral Constitution and not to disfran chise any white man, are to be faith fully observed? The Suffrage Commit tee does not seem to have solved tn problem, after a months work, if tn report of the able minority and thu provisIon of the majority for an ex pected court decision, are any proof.