The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-03-05
EIGHT GOVERNORS OF ALABAMA
 1S4-1901 P fs
No. 1O6-Interna Party Disturbance Thomas G. Jones, Governor
1S74-1901

The state convention of the white mems party would meet in the capitol June s, 1892 In every county the clash of the rival factions, Jones and Kolb, resounded. ''In Fayette the county convention broke all to pieces" In all the other counties there was profound emotion, there was agitation, confusion. uproaf which portended an in-practicable state convention.
 What the cause belli? The. very day Governor Jones took the oath of office, December, 1890 representatives of the political ideas which Captain Kolb stood for in the present situation were Alabama delegates to the Ocala, Fla, National composed largely of northern men. The ocala platform unanimously condemned the Lodge force bill, then before Con gress, a republican patty measure in tended to continue Indefinitely the most aggravated features of reconstruction in the south. The Ocala platform unani- mously committed the Farmers Alliance against trusts and rlonopolies. This platform demanded the abolition of banks
  tions currency the force and unlimited coinage of gold and silver at the pre- yailing legal ratio of It ounces of silvar to one of gold.
 But, each and all. these blanks of the Ocala platform were prime and ancient axioms of the democracy of Alabama. Free coinage was contended for as a measure of relief from an inadequate eurrency supply. To contribute to this relief. Colonel Oates, democrat. from the Third Alabama district, and General Wheeler, democrat, from the Eighth, then had bills before Congress to repeal the prohibition tax on the issue of pri- vate banks. w. H. Denson of the Sev- enth district, was an eloquent advocate of the measure. State Senator John T. Milner had then in general circulation, at his own cost, a pamphlet argument written and published by himself, going to prove that the currency of private banks. regulated by state statutes, had been the controlling factor of great pros perity in Alabama and was safe me- alum of exchange.
 A congested and inadequate volume of currency, United States banks of issue controlling the currency. the high price or money ana low wages, sudden concern tration of wealth, poverty, alarmingly on the increase, was the argument of the Kolb wing of the democracy of Alabama.
 The last week in March Governor Jones met Captain Kolb ir joint debate at Ozark, Dale county The audience was large and interest intense. Dale was d democratic county, d county of white men. At the general election of 1890 it had voted 15S4 for Jones to 9oS Long, the republican opponent.
 The first week in April the rival leaders gave to canvass of Kob's native county, and still his legal home Barbour. Tn joint debate they proceeded from pre- cinct to precinct Jones carried Kolb S precinct, Eufaula, in the primary to choose delegates to the county conven- tion which in turn would send delegates to the state convention. Jones carried a majority of the other precincts in the primary. In 1890 Barbour county conven- ton sent a delegation to state conven- ton instructed for Kolb as a unit
 Kolb protested that precincts where hundreds Of negroes voted, all republi- cans, to tens of whites, all democrats, had sent delegates to the county con