Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 September 1894 — FUSIONISTS IN ACCORD. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

FUSIONISTS IN ACCORD.

Meet anil Agree Upon a Division of tli* Congressional Delegation. The Alabama State Executive Com-, miiteos of the Kolbite, Populist and Republican parties (Moscly faction 1 ,

met to outline a plan of their Congressional campaign, 'f ho result of the conference was an agreement to combine forces, as was done during the recent State campaign. The Republicans are to have four out of the nine Congressional

nominees, and t h gwilmam c. oates Kolbites and Popi lists fivo. A slate was prepared which will be ratified by district conventions of the threo parties. The insurrection which was threatened in Alabama by the followers of Reuben P. Kolb, farmers’ candidate for Governor, who it was claimed had l ecn fraudulently defeated in previous elections, makes the leaders of the campaign-of more than ordinary interest. Reuben P. Kolb is an Alabamian by birth, training and cnlucati in, and is about sfi years of age. Ho spont threei years at Howard College, Marion, and in 1839 graduated from the University of North Caro ina. t-inco that, time ho has been a farmer, except while in the field during tho civil war, and has enjoyed a national reputation as a scientific agriculturist. Col. William C. Oates, the newly elected Governor, is a native of the Suite and is 58 years of. a go. Ho is a law •or by profession and sorted with distinction in tho

Confederate Army, lie wa-i promoted to coo ol for gallantry on tho Hold of l att e. He lost his right arm in front of Richmond. Col. Oatos was a dolegate to the Democratic national convention inlHfiS and four yours later was the me cssful candidate of his party for 'Governor.ln tho same * year ho was defeated lor Congross, but was

elected to tho Forty-seventh and has been a member of each Congress down to tho Fifty-third.

REU BEN F. KOLB.