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THE STATE HERALD,
Birmingham, Ala.
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A big hotel, to cost $1,800,000, is to be
built in tile City of Mexico.
They say that Howard Gould is going
to marry Katherine Clemmons, the ac
tress.
Gen. Basil W. Duke says that the
Kentucky horse is the best cavalry horse
in the world.
Great Britain has $.1,000,000,000 In in
vestments in the United States, and nat
urally takes an interest in this country.
The Xew York Evening Post thinks
that the prestdent and congress are both
engaged in the "gleesome game of ‘put
‘em-in-a-holei’ "
Mr. Roosevelt says “England never lets
a consideration of abstract right or mor
ality interfere with the chance of her na
tional agrandizement ormercantilcgain."
Sir Lewis Morris says that the only
reason why Great Britain does not rescue
Armenia from the Turks Is that she Is
afraid of a war with America at the
same time.
The New York Mail and Express says
that a great effort has been made this
season to make Creole cooking fashion
able in Gotham. and that to a large ex
tent the departure has been successful.
J. Pierpont Morgan is to finance the
forthcoming issue of bonds.—Mobile
Register.
Of course he is. Who Intimated that
he would not?
The Opelika News says the silver men
have some fourteen majority in the sen
ate. and the gold men have a large ma
jority in the house, and thinks there can
be no financial legislation.
Dr. Parkhurst has a poor opinion of
his congregation. He told them last
Sunday that not 10 per cent of them
knew what the Monroe doctrine was. and
the rest did not know how it should be
applied.
It has been discovered that potatoes
can be evaporated like apples, and used
in the same way. The potato crop in
Michigan was very large this year, and
potato evaporators are being started
•up all over the state.
The first official act of Governor Brad
ley of Kentucky was to pardon a man
who had been convicted of violating the
election laws. It is quite natural that a
republican governor of Kentucky should
not consul r that a very serious crime.
The Chicago Inter Ocean says that
whether the old Confederates are jingoes
or not, there are a good many people still
living who know that they can fight,
and that when they line up with the
yanks people who do not want to get
hurt had better keep out of the way.
IT LOOKS BRIGHTER.
Many inquiries have come to the State
Herald regarding the progress being
made by the committee having the steel
plant in charge, and to satisfy these, as
well as the general Interest in the enter
prise, the committee were seen yester
day and questioned regarding it. From
them it was learned that the prospect
grows brighter and brighter, and there
is much to encourage them over the final
outcome. The committee called on one
of the presidents of a Birmingham land
company,* ard he promised the fullest
possible co-operation on the part of his
company; not only that, but he was will
ing to try to secure similar action on
the part of all the other companies, and
he thought it entirely feasible to obtain
such co-operation. In addition to this,
a letter was received from a northern
capitalist, entirely familiar with all con
ditions here, who expresses a desire to
aid the enterprise, and says if Birming
ham will only make a suitable move
from this end of the line that he will un
dertake to raise all funds needed at his
end. And this from one who is abun
dantly able to do what he says. Then
there is another offer from a local man
that is very favorable. So the enter
prise is well under way and the commit
tee feel genuine hope and encourage
ment over the outlook. They will start
in for subscriptions early in the new
year, and Birmingham will have her
long-talked-of steel plant before it ends.
It only remains for our citizenseto do
their part. Let the enterprise receive a
liberal backipg in lands and the rest is
assured. This is a plan for the devel-'
opment of Birmingham in real earnest.
Now let every friend of Birmingham do
his part, and the city will soon have new
life and vigor in all its arteries of trade
and business.
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CURIOUS BUT TRUE.
Some weeks since the Advertiser open
ed the gubernatorial campaign by an
nouncing that it was absolutely essen
tial to democratic harmony and success
that there should be no contest for the
nomination. It called upon Governor
Oates to become a candidate and urged
all democrats to unite upon him. The
governor declined to run. Whether he
suspected the sincerity of the Advertiser
is not known. Captain Johnston an
nounced his candidacy. Up to date he is
the only candidate in the field, and the
democratic press of the state largely fa
vors his nomination. Even many papers
that do not agree with his currency views
are his ardent supporters. Thereupon
the Advertiser declares a candidate
“shall be found” to oppose Captalnjohn
ston's nomination. In effect, that it is
absolutely essential for harmony ana an
enthusiastic campaign that there should
be a fierce struggle for the nomination.
There is no question about Captain John
ston’s Integrity or capacity. It s not
denied that hei went into the army a
youth and was four times wounded while
fighting in defense of his country. It is
admitted that he has given liberally of
bis time, talent and means in every con
test for the success of his party.
His unpardonable sin is that he has
not modified his views on doctrines
taught as orthodox many years by ihe
Advertiser. That organ is now practi
cally demanding that no democrat who
believes in free coinage shall be eligible
to even a state office. No reasonable
man can believe that the Advertiser real
ly believes that such a doctrine will tend
to unite our party. It can mean nothing
but disaster. There must be toleration
of honest differences, and the State Her
ald has no doubts but that 'the democrats
of Alabama will set the seal of their con
demnation on the methods of the Adver
tiser in a way that will prevent it from
inflicting any further injury upon our
partyr-Johnston will be nominated by
an overwhelming majority and tri
umphantly elected in August.
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A CARNIVAL.
There is no reason why Birmingham
should not have a carnival for mardi
gras. There would be no rival or com
petition with other cities in the matter.
At first it might not come up to the mark,
but gradually It would evolve into an en
tertainment which would draw thousands
of visitors to the city. Speaking of Bir
mingham’s ambition in ftds respect, the
Mobile' News tries to throw cold water
up<m the sceheme. Our Mobile friend
must bear in mind that energy and
money will accomplish at once what it
has taken so many years of experience
to bring about In New Orleans and Mo
bile. We have the benefit of their expe
rience. There Is an idea that it is only
in so-called Creole towns, whose
people are descended from the Franco
Latins and which have large Roman
Catholic tendencies, that the carnival can
be a success. This is an error. The car
nival of New Orleans grew out of that
of Mobile, and that of Mobile is of com
paratively recent origin. It has no taint
of the middle ages and was originated
and Is conducted by young men of all re
ligions and by many, unfortunately, of
no religions. It is simply a holiday com
bining pleasure with business.
imo ween uigt-u umi rurmingnam is
too far to the north for a carnival, but
we should bear in mind that the most
successful and enjoyable carnivals of the
old world are in cities whose climate is
far more severe than that of our own
temperate city.
Here is what the News says. We may
read it, although we do not agree
with it.
"The News Is apt to ‘catch on’ to every
thing In the way of its namesake,
whether in or out of town, If it has any
bearing on Mobile. We presume our live
contemporaries will wake up by New
Year to the fact that Birmingham has
grown so ambitious as to propose a car
nival. and by her own little self, next
mardi gras. Our city editor has tumbled
to the fact that the Chicago of Alabama
proposes to dam tile stream of travel
to Mobile and New Orleans, and divert
it to Birmingham uses, by an Imitation of
their long considered and world-known
beauties. She has gone so far as to or
ganize a 'Birmingham Carnival associa
tion,’ and to print letter headings and
envelopes with that alluring. If deceiv
ing, device. We are not offering advice,
but It may be well if Birmingham stop
right there.
"The great cities of the country have
Imitated our Creole carnival; notably,
Baltimore, Cincinnati, St. Louis, Al
bany, Louisville, Memphis, Vicksburg,
and evpn New York. They have spent
anywhere from $30,000 to $125,000 on their
varied attempts. Today the carnival
lives In only two cities—Mobile and New
Orleans St. Louis has annually a grand
and brilliant fall pageant, and that ends
the list; and even in three of the success
es cited above, the big cities had to se
cure their designer and their expert arti
sans from Mobile.
"The reason of their failure to continue
their pageants (eVen when flnanclaW
nnd artistically brilliant successes) p
two-fold: costliness and want of expep
ence. «*• r
“It has taken Mobile sixty-five suc
cessive years—and an outlay of some
$2,000,000 in hard cash—to reach her pres
ent pre-eminence. The carnival spirit
nnd the traditions of the great mys|t{c j
orders descend from father to son. If '
has cost New Orleans forty years of
study and labor—-plus an amount of
money we would not dare to estimate—
to reach her glorious record of today.
St. Louis, we have heard, has spent as
much $125,000 on a single Veiled Proph
et celebration week.
“Yet. our hustling and practical neigh- ,
bor, "Birmingham,'hopes for a ‘carnival’
of her own: fixes it for the same date as
Mobile and New Orleans, and begins to
talk of it just sixty days in advance!
We arp proud of oifr Magic City, proud
of her growth,her pluck and the practical
way in which she is striving to pull out '
of her post-boom 'slough of despond.’
But we really do not believe that she will
fail to. read the lesson of the somewhat
larger and richer towns we have named;
that sljo Vill attempt to do within sixty
days what it has taken us more years to
perfect, or -llraA- she.-will be unable to
translate the truth: 'Non omnia pos
sum us. omties!1" T V
THAT ALLIANCE.
The rumor that come from across the
water to the effect that England will try
to get France and Spain to unite with her
on the Venezuelan", question must be
taken with mueh allowance.
Spain has all she can do t9 attend to
little Cuba. France will not break with
Russia in order to help England-: she will
remember how rapidly her army left
Maximilian to his fate when the million
old yankee and rebel soldiers turned their
faces towards the Rio Grande in the
spring of 1865. The combined population
of Great Britain and Fiance but little
exceeds that of the United States, while
our resources are vastly greater than
those of the two combined. The popula
tion of France in 1891 was 38,313,192, and
of Great Britain 37,888,153, or h. difference
of only about 500,000 in favor of France.
It is now announced that the census to
be taken the coming year will show that
the population of Great Britain is the
greater. The reason for this reversal of
relation is the small birth rate of France
and the unusually large one in Great
Britain. There has been no immigration
of consequence into the latter country,
and France has lost but little by emi
gration, so that the above cause accounts
for the relative British increase of over
1,000,000. The area of France is 240,000
miles, and that of Great Britain only a
little more than half as great, or 121M81
miles. The population of the two couji-*
tries is very little larger than that ,of
ours, while we. could take up Great Brit
ain and France and set them down in the 1
state of Texas. The new holy alliance-^a
most unholy one it would be—could riot
whip us upon our own shores, even, if
Russia should not take a hand in the
fracas.
T *• l„ 1 I 1, I * V, . Tr’.,.. .. 1. .. d 4V.,-.
Spanish, looking at the safety of their
West Indian islands; should make com
mon sympathy, if not common cause,
with Oreat Britain, but there is evtry
reason why Russia should have no sym
pathy with England and very great sym
pathy with the United States, Russia and
tile United States are coming face to
face across the Pacific ocean, and the two
great powers must join hands in ruling
the destinies of the orient.
THE CZAR.
Czar Reed is the man wrho manages
the committee on rules, and he Is the dic
tator who rushes a tariff and a currency
bill through the house under whip and
Spur. lie does in one day, in a delibera
tive body, what usually requires weeks
of consideration and debate. His gag law
not only limited the debate on both sides
of the chamber, but it effectually silenced
not a few members of his own party
who were preparing to rebel against
what they deemed nn unfair treatment
of their constituents' interests. Under
the ifarty whip, however, they followed
Mr. Dingley’s leadership, the representa
tive of Reed on the floor, like so many
sheep. A number of malcontents, wlio
had not altogether lost their independ
ence, recorded their disapproval by re
fusing to vote on the tariff bill, while
a couple of others, more bold, flatly voted
against the bili. Of course the senate
will act with due deliberation and permit
those opposed to these two measures am
ple time for discussion. In this way the
people wdll know the merits of the ques
tions.
Jiti lu me larin Dili, ine senae will in
all probability reject it. as tlie condition
of the treasury is sueh that no additional
revenue will be needed during the present
congress, and the probability is that the
existing tariff will by that time bring In
sufficient money to make up the loss of
the income t.ax.
As to the bond bill, the action of the
house will meet fierce and prolonged op
position In the senate. The populists in
the senate will vote with the body of the
democrats against locking up or retiring
the greenbacks unless such action is ac
companied with free silver coinage and
relief for state hanks.
Mr. Reed may apply h1s gag to the
house and run rough-shod over the rights
of the minority, but, happily, he cannot
rule the senate and cannot suppress the
voice of the people through the press.
Hon. I. F. Culver of Bullock county is
a candidate for the office of commissioner^
of agriculture. Colonel Culver is tihd'1
senator from Bullock and Macon e<tim-'
ties, and Is one of the most successful
farmers of the state. He is In love with
his profession, is a veteran democrat,
and. If chosen; will make an efficient
commissioner. ( -i!
The Russell Register says it wili be.:
be sorry to see Mr. Clarke enter the race
as the representative of Mr. Cleveland'* I
views, because It believes the result 'yklf
not reflect the views of the party in Ala
bama. It says many Cleveland demo-:
crats are supporting Captain Johnston, ;
and it believes he will be nominated
whether Mr. Clarke runs or not. 1 : -s'f
—---- T. (i:
The first issue of the Wetumpka Dem
ocrat, ably edited by W. L. Hunter,
breathes the right spirit in declaring that
its policy will be to favor means which
will tend to unify ouy party, and that ft
does not believe that our people can be
driven into adopting any policy. The
Democrat deserves the support of the
old guard.
Thanks.
The State Herald's Sunday edition was
a beauty. Enjoying, as It does, the larg
est circulation of any dally in the state,
edited, as it is, by men of brains and
prudence, it bids fajr io be the Just pride
of Alabama. Our state has long been in
need of a first-class dally newspaper, and
the State Herald seems to be making ef
forts to fill the "long-felt want.”—Oxford
Enterprise.
"In your heart may bells of gladness
Ring their happy chime;
Fain we would that nought of sadness
Cloud your happy time.”
ECHOES OF THE PRESS.
Breochpin Burned Out.
The recoil of the Montgomery Adver
tiser Is attributable solely to the fact
that the breechpln of her gun is burned
out. She should semi it to the gunsmith
for repairs.—Sheffield Reaper.
Wants Better Game.
Many of the papers are coming out In
favor of Hon. Richard Clarke for the gub
ernatorial nomination. In our opinion
the “blue-eyed boy of destiny” is in quest
of better game.—Athens Courier.
Misprint and Reprint.
"Johnston, get your gun, your sword
and your pistol, there's a goldbug in the
coal scuttle, and Wb’ll have some fun,”
sings the Montgomery Morning Hypo
crite. “And we'll have some fun.” cho
ruses the Afternoon Reprint.—Sheffield
Reaper.
Going to Win.
Don't worry about the relations of the
Journal and the State Herald and John
ston's campaign. Johnston is going to
be nominated and the only thing that
worries the Journal is the possible bolt of
the postofflces.—Montgomery Journal.
Entitled to the Nomination.
While we have nothing to say against
Mr. Clarke, we believe that Captain
Johnston Is entitled to the nomination
and that he will receive it at the hands
of the democratic party and that he
will be the next governor of Alabama.—
Colbert County Banner.
Has Taken the Contract.
Doesn't the Herald know that the es
teemed Montgomery postofflce has un
dertaken the contract to defeat Captain
Johnston? It is a devilish big contract,
and it fully realizes it, but it is attempt
ing it daringly and desperately. As to
the State Herald it is but natural and
right that it should defend its townsman
from the wanton assaults of a malignant
newspaper.—Montgomery Journal.
From What Source, Please?
We would like to know from what
source the Advertiser would draw re
cruits to the democratic party, if not from
the men who hdve In the past opposed
that party? Then, If they are to come
from that source, how are they to be
obtained if they are not allowed to par
ticipate In the primaries? Shut them out
of the primaries, will they then march up
and vote the democratic ticket? We think
not.—Weekly Mirror.
Pretty Hard.
The Montgomery Advertiser is an
amusing old jade. Without her journal
ism would be a hand-organ minus the
monkey. Once a power in the state, she
has gone Into a fit of political decadence
that makes her know she is dying if not
dead, and amid it all, standing with one
foot in a grave of her own digging, she
pours forth humor fit for gods. A good
old soul In her time, she will ere long be
held In grateful memory.—Oxford Enter
prise.
None but Its Anointed.
Can It be possible that the Montgomery
Advertiser will non even give its gracious
oonsent that the State Herald may ap
prove the president’s message relating to
the Venezuelan boundary? We submit"
that of all the petty Journalism we have
ever known, this freak or our Montgom
ery contemporary is the smallest. What
wretched stuff it has been dealing forth
to Its readers! And this is the savior of
Alabama democracy that will have none
but its own personal high priests to sit
in the party temple, none but Its anointed
for governor.—Huntsville Argus (Adm.)
Let the Thing Bant.
The way to harmony next year is not
to follow the Advertiser, which seems to
have gone clean daft on its Johnston
abuse, but to let the old thing rant while
the party gathers Itself together and fol
lows willingly the will of the majority.
That will doubtless result In the nomina
tion of Captain Johnston and the adop
tion of a free silver platform. But if the
majority hffnestly says no, then what
ever it recommends let ^very true demo
crat acquiesce in and help on to success.
Because the Advertiser sulks is no rea
son the whole party should go into
mourning.—Talladega News-Reporter.
The King Bee.
The Uniontown Canebrake News says:
It seems that the Advertiser has at last
treed a gubernatorial candidate. He will
soon announce himself, and then the fun
will begin.
Yes, the Advertiser, the king bee of the
remnant of Handolphism in Montgomery
county, is the accepted leader of this
movement to get out a candidate against
Johnston. Handolphism under the pre
text of serving the party has been guilty
of many crimes against the party, not
the least of which is its present effort to
disrupt it.—Montgomery Journal.
Swayed by Selfish Interests.
The democrats who advocate the free
coinage of silver at the 16 to 1 ratio are
advocating what they believe to be, and
which has been, one of the fundamental
principles of democracy since Its founda
tion. The goldites want them to eschew
this great principle before they are will
ing to have harmony, as shown by their
strenuous efforts to get out a candidate
to oppose Captain Johnston, who, it is
admitted by nearly every newspaper in
the state, can come nearer solidifying the
party than anyone else. If they are so
anxious for harmony, as they desire us to
believe, why so much opposed to the only
man who can bring it about? The motive
is covered with too thin a gauze—it can
be clearly seen through. Personal pique
and selfish interests sway them, and not
patriotism and the good of the party.—
Clayton Courier.
Democracy Has So Decided.
Speaking with reference to the proba
ble candidacy of Col, R. H. Clarke for
governor, the Russell Register, an ad
ministration paper, says: “We shall be
very sorry to see him enter the race as
the representative of the views of Mr.
Cleveland, because we do not think the
result will portray the true sentiment of
the democracy of Alabama as to those
views. We believe that many Cleveland
democrats will vote for Captain John
ston. for reasons entirely foreign to the
currency and money question, and we be
lieve that Mr. Clarke, in entering the race
and making the light on these lines, and
the Advertiser, in endeavoring to use
the lash to secure the vindication of the
national adminstration, will distort the
nomination of Captain Johnston Into a
repudiation of Mr. Cleveland, when such
will not be the fact. Wre believe that
Captain Johnston will be nominated
whether Mr. Clarke runs or not; or
whether Mr. Clarke runs as an adminis
tration candidate or not. The democracy
has decided that Captain Johnston should
have the nomination, and that same de
mocracy is going to give it to him.”
Let Us “Tote” Fair.
The Argus can see no relief, no safe
ty for our country except through the
financial plan so ably urged by Mr.
Cleveland. But this is a purely national
question and can only be effected
through national Issues. But, while we
abate neither Jot nor tittle in our faith
in the gold basis of value, so long as there
can be no international agreement, we
can but recognize that there are a great
many democrats of another view in
Alabama. Even the most sanguine gold
advocates will have to admit this; which,
being true, so far as the Argus can have
a voice, we shall not let it be said to our
brethren, when it comes to state offices,
that they are good enough to vote, but
not good enough to hold office. We should
like to see such sound money democrats
as Herbert, or Clarke, or Seay or Tomp
kins sent to the senate. But we should
also like to see some faithful, honest,
tireless party fighter like Joe Johnston
made governor. In this we are, un
doubtedly, but reflecting the views of
many Cleveland democrats (if you choose
to so term’ them) all over this end of Ala
bam a. It la with this kind of concilia
tory spirit that our forces are to be
brought together and kept together for
the struggle with the common dhemy
in August, 1896. Democrats must “tote”
fair with each other.—Huntsville Argus
(Adm.)
Calhoun All Right.
The Montgomery Advertiser is now
catching at straws. It sees that the
chances are now strongly in favor of the
silver democrats controlling the next
state convention, and it is whistling to
keep up its courage. It even sees that in
the move of the Republican from Jack
sonville to Anniston that the silver dem
ocrats are not as strong in Calhoun as
has been reported, and expresses a hope
that next year Calhoun will be found in
PRESENT A TIONS
FOR
THE HOLIDAYS.
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NECKWEAR.
SUSPENDERS—Silver Buckles.
HANDKER CHIEFS—L men & Silk.
UMBRELLAS.
SMOKING JACKETS.
BA III ROBES.
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L. ROGAN & CO.
the "sound money" column. It fans it
self into this delusive hope by reasoning
that if the silver democrats in Calhoun
were'as strong as said to be. that the
subscription list of the Republican would
enable it to stay in Jacksonville and
make money.
Does the subscription list of the Ad
vertiser pay its expenses and give its
editors a living? No; neither does the
subscription list of any other paper in
Alabama pay such an amount. The Ad
vertiser well knows from its past expe
rience that for any paper to prosper it
must have a liberal advertising patron
age. This Is what the Republican has
come to Anniston to get, and it Is going
to get It.
As to the Republican's subscription
list, it is larger than any other paper in
this section, and is at least four times as
large as will he that of any goldbug
weekly ever published in this county.
The Advertiser need not worry ovei
Calhoun. Three-fourths of the demo
crats of this county are for the free and
unlimited coinage of silver, and will so
declare in next year’s convention.
Calhoun Is all right.—Jacksonville Re
publican____
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