The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-10-16
JOE MANNING'S TALK
SOME SHARP WORDS FOR ALA
 BAMA REPUBLICANS.
Alexander City Postmaster Says Office Holders Packed Nrming- ham Convention and Party
 is to Be Reorganized.


 Allexander City, Oct. 15-(special)- public the following signed interview in which he uses plain words about Ala bama Republicans:
 'Disowned, condemned and repudiated This is the fate of the Republican polit- ical machine of organized chronic offlce- holders. The Birmingham climax to the shame and fraud that was labeled as a Republican party. but when uncovered was discovered to be political bastard, has been the straw, that has broken the camels back.
 Many white Republicans and many more Populists will vote the State ticket but this will not be on approval of the miserable and contemptible cabal behind 1t and that nominated 1t. When the cleo ton is over then the second thought of all conservative and thoughtful Republi- cans will turn them forever away from the Vaughan Bingham combine and a re- organization of the Republican party in Alabama will occur. To state it correct ly. an organization of Republican party in Alabama will be brought about
 There Is at present no Republican party in Alabama. The machine issued forth from that officeholder's mob is not party. It does not represent voters, but officeholders. The delegates thereto were herded up by deputy marshals. dep- uty collectors, whiskey gaugers and ma chine postmasters who felt that they had to obey the commands of the former party patronage distributors. The office- holders thought they had 1t all fixed that Dimmick and Wellman were the undoubt- ed referees for the hereafter. but they overlooked one thing and that one thing was the complete undoing of the whole plans of the mob. President Roosevelt saw through their cunningly devised plans and when the Bingham combine had lined up the cabal In grand conclave at Birmingham, the President threw a bomb into their midst and burst ed them:
 They say the party has been disor- ganized.' What party? Where is the Republican party in Montgomery County? where was the Republican party in Mont gomery County when the mass County Republican Convention met to elect dele gates to the State Republican Conven- ton at Birmingham? Only twenty white men attended this mass County Conven- tion in this great. County with white registered voting population of 4,42S. Those who did attend were officehoders and their clerks. assistants and deputies from the government building in the city of Montgomery. Here is the personal and  National Committeeman J. W. Dimmick after forty years of uninterrupted Fed eral officsholding! Is it not a pity that President Roosevelt has disorganized Dimmick's Republican party in Mont- gomery?
 Wake up, MT. Carpetbagger! The truth of the business is that there is now Republican President whose eyes have turned the x-ray upon the old Republi-
 
 welt has gone behind the returns and looked into methods by which that Bir- mingbam cabal was gotten together and he has found the wAole disgusting and disreputable affair permeated with rot tenness and the Lily Whites sepulchre is now full of carpet-bag and office-hold- CTS bones.
 'The county Republican mass meeting in Chiffon County was attended by eigh- teen men. In Lee County twenty men as- sembled The delegation from Tallapoosa County that was seated in the Birming- ham convention was selected by one postmaster and two whiskey gaugers. What a pity it would be to see such an or ganization ground into powder by the President! Is 1t possible that this Vaughan-B Bingham machine has counted upon such a record as they have made in Alabama as not showing up their real lacking? Have they thought the Presi- dent a fool to be beaten and hood winked by their infamous pretenses and dirty political chicanery?
 ''The mask has been snatched away from the Bingham -Vaughan-D -Dimmick- WeIIman combine. The prestige of the refereeship has been denied them. Who are they now? What are they now? How many office holders and backwoods post masters can they line up now? Echo answers how manyT How the mighty has fallen! And not a drum was heard nor funeral note.'
 But the pity of 1t all is that President Roosevelt has blasted the hopes of car pet-bagger Dimmick's Republican party in Montgomery County?