The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-09-10
CULPEPPER
Takes Pop at Editors. Democrats and
 Other People.

I in 1892. Under the wrong colors and for despicable reason he pretended. to I support right principles, His history Is such demonstration of treachery that l the men who have confidence in him are to be pftied. The people of Ala
 bama are to be pitied if they suffer themselves to be beguiled by any man l who breaches Populism and yet calls
 himself a Democrat. He only beguiles l to betray.
 I'm pestered about the probability of an extra session of the Legislature.
 know the people generally regard the members of the present Legislature with high favor as intellectual giants.
 but the Supreme Court on several oc- castons, has been a little slow to put l the stamp of approval upon the popular | estimate. It may be a mistake to com init surplus to the gentlemen of whom l the Court is suspicious of full Solo 1 monic development. Now, surplus Is l a wicked thing and invites jobs and graft and educational ardor. l think, 1 however, if I were Governor and going to be sick--unto absence from the State ,-I would think a surplus comfortable | thing
 1 There are various and sundry ways to | reduce a surplus, even to a deficit, but it hardly ever occurs to wise men that | a good way Is to pay debts. think
 
 about debt paying to engage the ap- proval of high-minded law makers. The man with 8 political future can | tap the surplus with impunity, for. 1t seems, the "watch-dogs of the Treas | ury" have all taken some kind of dis temper which units them for service. But that surplus won't have any great bulk to boast of after the friends of the poor country child" and the "old sol dier" have ''pull' at 1t. The extra session will perhaps, be the occasion for the arrangement of the shifting of the teat" among the always hungry yearlings of the Capital. I don't mind predicting that they'll all have the Pop ulist bleat and below or go without a teat. This new-fang1ed, fool Democratic Populism has a curious way of work ing. In Alabama it wants what Geor- gia has and in Georgia the fool thing complains that Alabama Is doubly blessed. can't understand 1t. neither indeed can any sensible man except that the things gone mad. It takes sensi- ble men to i'll the Populist garment. Whenever a Democrat undertakes to play Populist he spells 1t.
 Would you ever have thought that Hoke Smith, who was once patted on the head by Mir. Cleveland. and is now | candidate for Governor of Georgia, would confess in open daylight that the doctrines and principles which he ad- vocates were the ones taught in the Farmers Alliance? Now. would you? Isn't he too slow a scholar and too dull of comprehension to make an in telligent Populist? I would not be un- derstood as intimating that he won't suffice for a Democrat, but the people need bright men for Governors-fellows quick to learn.
 hot Ia huy candidates are about as bright and smart as Hoke Smith. They are Popu- lists born out of time'' and have a zeal without knowledge They are to be pitied for they don't know where they're at."
 They are dangerous. I feel sorry for the sure enough Democrats in the State and have studied out plan to save them from humiliation.
 If you make nominations in any way. you are sure to get frenzied freight rate fool Populists for your candidates. True, they call themselves Democrats, but that's for want of sense. They won't call themselves Populists because that would look like a desire to have people think they have sense.
 If they can't get the Democratic nom- ination so as to be 'X. l.. c. R." stand ard bearers they won't run.
 Don't nominate, in any wayi That's the diplomacy to save the Democrats from disgrace and the railroads from ruin!
 So mote 1t be.
 If the Farmers Alliance was good: if Populism was better, do not these Latter Day Saints of Populism owe us an apology? And ought not a very lit- tie sense of propriety indicate the de- cency of their remaining in the back ground till their minds grow?
 If they are now advocating what they SO lately and earnestly and criminally opposed, how can they respect them selves? If they can't respect them selves, how can they ask respect from others?
 That's poor patriot who would foist upon the people Governor for whom he can have no respect!
 Away with him.
 Let's have respectable State officers -old-fashioned, self-respecting Popu- lists Amenl
 J. Culpepper.