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Show If the Democratic party should fail to declare in favor of the free coinage of silver and nominate a candidate hostile to silver, as Mr. Cleveland's record and declarations have shown him to be, the solid South cannot be counted for the Democracy with the certainty that it has heretofore been counted. There would be no going over to the Republicans Repub-licans in such an event. That would be jumping out of the frying-pan into tiie lire; but the Alliance men eould not be held in line, and would vote for the third party nominees. Birmingham A(jc-Iknld. . office was kept warm with a horde of plain drunks who had made night hideous hide-ous with their drunken brawls Monday evening. James Carey, James Riley, John Kelly and Frank Hewitt were each taxed $5, but they didu't have the dust, so of course they were turned over to the tender mercies of Marshal Brown and his co-laborers. . - Thomas Osbon, an unusually tough case, had the tariff raised 100 per cent, higher than the previous toughs, causing caus-ing him to languish iu the clutches of the law and the street supervisor for a perion of ten long days of twenty-four hours each. The cases of Don Credew and John Barrett w ere milder than Tom Osbon, so that the Judge administered a smaller small-er dose of the Chinese grub, insomuch that they will live happily under the present administration for the six days and twelve hour3. After such a haul as that we may expect ex-pect to see the chuck holes dn Seventh street disappear as if by magic. The Democrats in other States are growing impatient under the assumption assump-tion that the next Presidential candidate candi-date of their party must be a New York man. lhe word is now being passed around that it will not be safe to nominate a Xew York man and that Pattison of Pennsylvania is the most available candidate. Buffalo Commercial. |