The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-06-09
AaAIN THE DAY COMES.


 Tn due and proper time the people of Alabama have ceased from following after strange and violent policies and returned to their older and better ideals of wisdom and moderation. The Advertiser Is gratihed. but not sur prised. that a majority of Alabama's people stand where 1t stood two years ago, and where it stands today. The Advertiser refused to be frightened or moved by the violence and denuncia- ton which marked the unfortunate campaign or two years ago.
 The people of Alabama were led to believe that they were being piundered and robbed by public servants whose integrity had always been unimpeach- able. They were led to believe that the honorable men whom they had raised to place and honor had betrayed and robbed them. It was dinned into their ears until they believed it. that their leaders were bought and sold like sheep while the corporation pick ed the pockets of the people. wisdom gave way to wildness. Intelligent dis eussion gave place to denunciation. Ex- orbitant and ridiculous promises were demanded and given. A State govern ment which had been conducted de- gently and in order since the days of Reconstruction was given over to hys- teria and fanaticism.
 The Advertisers voice was raised against this miserable and unhappy propaganda. With what power it pos sessed it sought to hold back the flood that demagogy had Ioosened. For its far-sightedness and devotion to duty, it was villihed and abused. From every stump where demagogue could get a footing 1t was denounced. It's honor was assailed; it's character was at- tackled. Because 1t refused to abandon it's conviction. it's good name was slan- dsred on the stump and on the street corner. Many good people believed those islanders.
 But in due and proper time the de- ceived people awoke. The people would not stay. fooled. That they now under stand the campaign of demagoey and hatred, that they have reaped the bit ter harvest that has come from those seed of hatred and violence may not be doubted. The verdict was written in the returns of May 1s.
 It is 50 clear that 1t may not be mis- taken. The unprecedented result in Georgia, where. for the first time since the war, a Governor was driven from ofice at the close of his first term, is but a reflection of public sentiment as 1t exists in Alabama. Every sensible and intelligent man knows it. No man is foolish enough to doubt it in his own heart.
 The Advertiser would prefer always to stand with an intelligent majority of the people of the State. It would pre- fer never to have to oppose what most of the people of the state think wise. But 1t win never sacrifice it's princi- ples to be with the majority. It has never done that. It has never crucifed It's conviction to run with a majority after policies which it believes are dangerous and destructive.
 It can only welcome the day when the people realize the deception into which they have been led and return again to sanity and justice. The day has come again. Gratined that again majority of the people of Alabama think as it does on that campaign, based on impossible pledges and vio- lent policies, The Advertiser takes pride in the fact that 1t again had the courage to stand for its convictions against a majority. even though slan- der and prejudice did their worst.