Two old friends woke me last night, and they would not let me sleep until I composed this message to the young. Old Ben Franklin said, “Remember I was asked , what kind of government have you Founding Fathers created?” And remember I answered “a ‘Republic’, if we can keep it.” Afraid some younger than my 90 years do not remember that in a Republic you cast your vote for a representative, then that person
Category: Politics
‘Bama ‘Dema-Goshers’
Appears we’ve got lots of political ‘dema-goshers’ lately. But I’ve yet to hear of any recent political demagogue who matches the theatrical skill attributed to James Folsom, the Governor of Alabama back in the 1950s. A son-of-Alabama, former State Senator Ramsey Neil Metcalf, told me about one “Kissing Jim” (nickname acquired after some lady filed suit in an Alabama court) Folsom appearance that I still remember. On that Saturday, a crowd gathered at a county courthouse