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The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-04-12

press name Of the party or OF the dcmoe-
racy no distinct and pointed pledge of
anybody to anything. But all intelligent
and honest men know what that platform
means. ard they know that they musfae-
cept it If they desire to remain In the deah-
ocratic party. The common rules OF ass5-
citation demand as much. and no democrat
refuses it acceptance
So It is with the safe platform. It's ut
terances are fully as explicit, as definite,
as positive. as distinct as are those of the
Chicago platform.
I'VE, the Democrats of Alabama, in con-
ventlon assembled, do hereby declare that we
favor the holding of a constitutional conven-
ton"
Later they said by vote of two to one
alt is the sense OF this convention that
constitutional convention lie held"
There is nothing in the Chicago platform
more emphatic more pledgeful than this
nothing one-half so much so, for the state
declarations are expressly made in the
name of the democrats of Alabama
The discussion of the question really
makes ore tired. Every intelligent demo-
crat OF Alabama knows he is pledged to
constitutional convention, just as he knows
he has a nose on his face. One sticks out
OF the platform fully as much the other
obtrudes itself on ones physiognomy The
sum and substance of the matter is just
this-the man who supports the convention
proposition is a democrat, and the man
who does not is not a democrat. He may
be a suspended democrat, but he is no
longer a democrat in service and rccogni-
ton The chances are that a man will by
the current of events be carried in among
a motley herd of republicans and middle-of-
the-roaders, and there he will be apt to
stay. Such a man Is not to be trusted
hereafter. He was not democrat in a
democratic crisis. when the party was
bravely endeavoring to lift the state out Of
the demoralzation of ballot-box corruption,
and he will not be trusted when the days
of stress ard struggle are ended, and the
victory won.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-04-12
Cars Peace CONGRESS.

{ The peace congress that is to meet at The
Hague on May IS is widely misunderstood
The czar's proposition does not call for dis
armament at all. 1t does not look to the
musteriEg out of armies or the breaking up
of :ieets. Nothing of the kind has been or
will be proposed. No ship will be put out
of commission, no soldiers will go back to
chops and fields. What Russia desires Is
this: An opportunity to develope her great
territory through the stagnation of war ex-
penses She asks tho nations to hold mill
1ary expenses and preparations at stand
stil--to stop the present rivalry OF arma-
mants, even though they be considered de-
feasivc measures and peace preparations.
At present each of the powers increases its
aImy or navy or both because some other
power .,as done something OF similar ma
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-04-12
Gomez and Annexation.

The venerable Maxine Gomez, the hero
of many countries IS essaying his old-time
role in Cuba. He has procured reinstate-
ment as the head of the Cuban army; but
as that army is, with his cooperation una
assistance, soon to be mustered out it is
plain that he win soon be a commander-in-
chief with none to command. But he Doubt
less sought the honor as a stepping stone
to leadership as an agitator for Cuban in
dependence.
The Independence that he KNOWS and
seeks is the independence of most of the
Spanish American countries-an indc-
pendonce that gives room for two ~
more swashbuclllers and their followers,
while the great mass of the people have
10 voice whatever in the government. IT
is an Independence that affords peace and
security and prosperity to no one, not even
to the hooters themselves.
The Cuban landlords and other property
holders do not want that kind of govern
ment and they are seeking in increasing
numbers annexation, or at least cont'n-
uancc of military rule. No doubt TWO
parties will arise in Cuba-the one favor
ing either annexation or American occupa-
tion, and the other, following Gen. Gomez.
will demand immediate evacuation and
Cuba libre The best judges of the situa-
ton say that Gomez will steadily lose
ground, and will eventually be beaten.
In the meanwhile this government is
pledged to render life and property secure
throughout the island, to put down ban
dts, to preserve order, establish peace, and
If possible, bring in prosperity General
Brooke may not be a model civil admins
traitor, but he certainly is an honest one,
and that is a kind of ruler that Cuba mad
never known. Time alone can disclose
Cuba's real interests and desires, and while
public continents is crystallzng Gomez is
as good a leader of the Spanish-Latin
school as the Cubans could reasonably OK
pect to have. The school is more to he
Blamed that its venerable and picturesque
exponent from San Domingo.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-04-12
THE ISSUE IN TIE STATE

From the Fayette Tribune.
1t seems to us the plain and manifest
duty of every white man in Alabama, who
believes in white supremacy, and the purifi-
cation of the ballot box, is to go quietly but
bravely on and support the call for a con-
stitutional convention. The great war cry
and slogan of all white people, regardless
of all previous political affiliating or ALI
ance, so it appears to us, shall be "whito
supremacy and honest ballot" This has
been the watchword of the populists and
republicans, too, for that matter, for a
number of years in Alabama, and there is
now no occasion for division on that great
doctrine. The constitutional convention
belt of this commonwealth, such purity of
and feasible. With the present and past
conditions that confront the great black
will mako that effort and call, practicable
The ballot has been difficult of successful
perpetuity.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-04-12
Gov. Iohnstcn's Rash Revolt

Government in this country is govern
ment by part.es-always has been and al
ways will be while republican rule en-
dures. It follows then that any attack
upon the strength of parties from within is
unpatriotic, unwise and unfavorable to
popular rule. Attacks by one party upon
another are wholly legitimate, laudabe,
DIES rable and valuable. One party keeps
another in the straight and narrow path
of honesty and decency. But internal dis
suasons and divisions and intrigues never
worked in this country anything but harm.
The rule is. keep within the party traces
while you stay in the party. You are free
but while you stay in the party you must
obey its commands Ordinary common sense
shows that in no other way can a party
be kept in an effective condition; and as a
party is but a machine for the enforce
ment of certain principles and policies, it
follows that an inside intrigue is an in
trigue against those principles and poll
cies.
The democratic party of Alabama has
been fully committed to the joint and al
lied policies of white mans rule, and the
Riding of the state from ballot box cor
forts 10 undermine the regularly consti-
tuted and well approved authorities of the
democratic party, is in very truth attack
ing and endangering the allied policies of
the party. He is rendering insecure the
permanent establishment of white rule in
the state, and he is perpetuating the cor
ruption and it's attendant decentralization
of all sorts that go with the ballot box
rregularities-Dallot box stufllng in all its
varied guises. His scheme would delay if
not prevent, the former, while it would be
very sure to prolong the course of The
latter.
Treason to the party thus becomes trca-
son to the state and to the people. The
Age-Herald advises Governor Jonson not TO
take the fatal step, both for his own good
and for the good of the commonwealth.
For his own good because he will assured
ly end his career as a democratic leader
when he antagonizes every popular leader
In the state, every newspaper but two, and
the entire body of the democratic party.
Fo, the good of state, because a convention
is the quicker and more comprehensive and
really the more economical method for cur
ing the ills of tho body polite. Let Gov
ernor Johnston look before he takes the
proposed leap. 1t is desperate in the ex-
IRENE and 1t means ruin to his political
fortunes at least.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-04-12
PNEUMONIA AND
GRIP DEFINED


From the Philadelphia Medical Journal.
1t seems to have been the universal be-
lief whenever a new epidemic of grip
swept over a country or over the world
that the disease itself was new. The Spec
tator, for example, speaks of the disease as
being not only of recent origin, but as ex-
tending so far back as 1887. Our contem-
porary, the British Medical Journal. shows
that epidemics of the disease not only
broke out so long as fifty years ago, but
that they occurred at least GOO years ago,
the Handbook of Hirsch listing the epidem-
les from 117S to 1174 in ten pages. In 1427 it
was called in Italy the mure or murre; in
1910 in all Europe it was named the coco
luche; in 1852 the English termed it the new
acquaintance. and also the catarrhal fever;
in 1913 it was called epidemic cough, while
still later Huxham named it feveret. In
our own time the belief is gaining ground
that not only influenza, but also the conn
mon cold" if not due to common germ,
are at least due to different germs.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-04-12
THE BLACKl,ERRY CROP

From the Troy Messenger.
We are sad, very sad. Just at the time
that we had begun to indulge the hope that
we would be able to pull through the sum-
mer by the help of the blackberry crop, we
are informed by an appreciative friend
that the freeze has done the work for the
blackberry briar; that the briar had been
killed clear to the root, and the prospect
for blaclxberrics this year vanished. Cruel
fate! The departing visions of pan pies
and blackberry rolls leave an aching void
that can be filled by substitute Our
delinquents will please take notice of our
departing hopes; forward and contribute
to our relief by paying their dues so that
We may provide against the threatened
blackberry famine.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-04-12

thing to do with beef contract or any
other sort of a contract Involving mere
filthy luere is as preposterous and rldeu-
lous as it is outrageous and abominable.
1t is known that Mr.. Hanna IS of a sensi-
tive, peetieal temperament who spends MS
whole time far from the madding crowd and
from all things evil in peaceful rural re-
tirement contemplating the beauties Of
nature, watching the innocent lambs gam
boiling over the pastures, and composing
odes in praise of ooltical integrity and OF
the stern and simple virtues of the ruGe
forefathers of the republic. 1t fairly makes
the blood boil, even in the peaceful wells of
an anti-imperiallst to think that such a
pure idealist and lofty patriot should be
connected with coarse, unsavory embalmed
beef contracts.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-04-12
FIVE BABIES IN ONE YEAR

From the st. Louis Post-Dispatch
Mrs johnson gave birth to triplets last
April. The event was made county cole
bratlon, and the home of the Johnsons at
Attlebury, Duchess county, was deluged
with gifts. The children died within two
weeks and the Johnson household was
childless again until March 81, when Mrs.
johnson gave birth to twins, thus bringing
into the world five children in less than
twelve months.
The mother and twins are doing we'll.
Mrs. Johnson who is 80 years old is frail.
Tho father is ten years her senior.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-04-12
PREyENTABLE DISEASE

From the Health Journal.
While progress in civilization has brought
greater care of human life, there is yet a
prodigal waste. DR.. A. Hill, vice chancel-
lor of Cambridge university, states that
one-fourth of all the diseases that destroy
life are absolutely preventable, and that if
the practice of hygiene were only on a
level with its theory, the average longevi-
ty would be raised at once from 50 to 60
years. The greater number of diseases
over which the individual has control are
due to mistakes in eating and drinking
One purpose yet to attain is a more exact
knowledge by every citizen of the causes
and properties of preventing diseases, but
it is hardly surprising that the-knowledgc
is still so slight when every medical man
hardly realized twenty years ago, although
one-third of the COWS in England are tuber-
culous, and half the milk sold distributes
the bacillus of tuberculosis.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-04-12
TOMATOES AND CANCER

From the Pail Mall Gazette.
A few years ago an eminent London ply
sician on my mentioning to him tomatoes
as an article of diet for myself, said: 'Why
do you eat tomatoes? ! said: "Mhy not?"
He said, "Well, l think that there are
grave reasons for thinking it possible that
eating tomatoes increases, if it does not
produce, the liability to cancer. l do not
say positively that it does So
1t strikes a layman as n fact, that the
consumption of tomatoes has increased as
much in England of late years as has cam
Ger,
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-04-12
The News in
the Bloom.

yesterday gave to the public Governor
Johnstons letter to legislators asking their
views upon the advisability of calling an
extra session of the legislature to repeal
the constitutional convention act The
Age-Herald was twelve hours ahead of all
other Alabama newspapers. This morning
The Age-Herald goes farther and gives to
the public the views of the legislators on
this important matter. The editor of The
Age-Heraid yesterday morning sent
special telegram to each and every senator
and representative at their home addresses
in the various counties and rendered to
them the free use of the wires to express
themselves on the question. Many were
absent from their homes, but the answers
in this issue will afford to the people and
the governor much of the information de-
sired.
The Age-Herald started the great work
of giving to the people the news. ahead of
all its rivals, in the recent war with Spain.
1t was twelve hours ahead of any southern
newspaper in the detailed news of Dewey's
great naval battle at Manila, and repeated
ly since it has registered great scoops"
but none Of more Importance than this
first and correct exposition of the COVER
nor's plans, and the views of legislators
and nominees for delegates to the consti-
tutional convention upon it.
If you don,t-gead The Age-Herald You
don't get the news when it is fresh in the
bloom.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-04-12
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR
From tho Now York Press.

From tho Now York Press.
Usually the worst of the degenerates is
the one who writes and talks about them.
The average pretty woman playing poker
holds her cards like she was carrying on
a Irritation behind her fan.
1t is a shallow woman who does not know
why the most careless man hates to sea
her. act a loose part he cannot FILL
Women NUT like sexual problem books
and plays because they can dirty their
minds without having to dirty their hands.
No matter how much a woman loves her
husband, she can't help feeling respect for
the judgment OF a man who skillfully inti-
mates her husband is not good enough fon
her. :,
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-04-12
SIMPLY AWFUL
From the Baltimore Sun.

The thought of dragging the ire
proachable name of Hanna into anything
has never before entered into the most ma
licious of human imaglnations. Heretofore
none have known him but to love him,
none have named him but to praice. Hanna
has been the synonym of political purity
and moral altitude, a household word for
all that is good and great, glorious and vir-
tuous. To suggest that he would have any
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-04-12
CoNsTITUrIONAL CHANGES

From the Oakman News.
1t is to be hoped that under the proposed
new constitution that townships and school
districts will be granted the privilege of
taxing themselves-if they see proper to do
so-for educational purposes. If this is
done the time is not long when We will see
better school houses all over our state, and
schools running from six to nine months,
instead of from three to five, as they now
do.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-04-12
From the Sand Mountain News.

If the coming constitutional convention
wishes to immortalize itself and place its
name where future generations will sing
its praise, let it give us the initiative and
referendum and imperative mandate in its
pure and simple state, and we will here in
Alabama set an example in popular govern
ment that will open their eyes and place US
even ahead of that ideal republic, Switzer-
land.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-04-12
100 YEARS OLD AND SENSIBLE

FROM the National AdVcrtiser.
An Alabama newspa per prints this adver-
tisement: ITO the Ladies: I am a widower,
OF years old, and l am looking around for
a smart wife of about 50 years-one who
knows how to work, aid would be willing
to- help manage the farm. No young girls
need apply. l want woman who has at
least co years experience. and | promise to
make such a one happy for the rest of her
life"
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-04-12
WuAT,s IN A NAME?

From the Chicago News.
Mr.. Wines, the man who has been APP
pointed assistant director of the census, is
reported 10 be a strong and consistent adj
yocate OF temperance. But, for that mat
ter, MI Booze, who has represented Mary
land in congress, is a man of exemplary
habits. - ....-..s-.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-04-12

If Governor Johnston has a right to cat
echze legislators as to a certain question
before he convenos them to consider that
question, then he has right to ask the
judges of the supreme court now they
will vote on the commissioners court case
before an appeal is heard.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-04-12
London,s TerrihIe Grin

Deaths in London alone from influenza
have rushed up to 125 during the last week,
this beating all records of mortality for one
week for four years. The doctors are
puzzled. Instead of the severe cold killing
CT the bacilli of the mysterious disease
they are thriving in the intense cold. The
harder the frost the more energetic they
become. 1t is questionable If the poor have
ever suffered so much as now. Influenza
has even found its way to a lighthouse a
mile away from land on the south coast,
where all four keepers were thrown down
by it. 1t was only by supreme effort that
the lights were kept trimmed till relief
came, says a London cable letter.
But infiuenza'is not confined to men. Dogs
and cats have fallen victims in great num-
bers. 1t has even been found, according
to medical evidence, that in some cases
cats have spread the disease in families
with whom they dwell. 1t has been thu
same with dogs, and Lord Fitzhardings
hounds have not been able to hunt this
week owing to an outbreak of influenza in
the kennels.
1t has been a strange winter even for tho
variable climate of the British Isles. Al
first we had storm after storm in rapid suc-
cession, causing disaster on land and sea
that had been unequaled during the last
quarter of century, and yet with the mild-
est of mild weather. Now that the trees
were budding, and in many parts even COW
cred with blossoms, the country has been
clad in pail of white and the severest
frost that has been experienced since the
memorable year 1894 has prevailed this
week In the north particularly traffic has
been upset by snow drifts on the railroads,
and in the midlands skating has been in full
swing for the first time this year.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-04-12

From the Washington Star.
Ii will be impossible for Admiral Dewey
to use all the swords presented to him I'M
less he employs a caddie.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-04-12

The king of Corea is absorbing civiliza-
ton so fast that he has reached q point
where he needs frequent periods of relaXa-
ton from public duties. In other words, he
deadbeats for a week now and then.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-04-12

Between public trusts in northwestern
cities ard the antitrust law of Arkansas,
the bubble blowers are not happy. II there
is anything they do despise it is a public
CT
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-04-12

The expansion of American industrial
work does not favorably impress our Brit
ish or German cousins.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-04-12

The Quay machine and charges of Quay
bribery and Quays trial for bank wrecking
all seem to so tremendously and pnsur-
prisingly together.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-04-12

Governor Johnston has turned the extra
session question over to legisitiye refer
endum. Is this constitutional?
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-04-12

The Mayor Sam Jones boom for governor
is bringing back insomnia to the Hon.
Mark Hanna of Thomasvile Ga.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-04-12

People so soon forget. Ager said not
long ago that he had decided to serve out
his term and yet people will entertain ru-
mors of his removal.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-04-12

Support and approval of the beef in
auiry is now considered treason by the es-
teemed administration.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-04-12

Nicaragua has been placed on the wait
ing list, because too much Latinism cannot
be admitted at once.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-04-12

The western cities propose to benevolent
~ assimilato the street railways and other
public utilities.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-04-12

The business of capitalizing dreams has
been oycrdone in Wall street.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-04-12

Germany has sent an apostle of bellig-
erency to the peace conference, Professor
Stenge.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-04-12

Tha Dreyfus affair is always with u.s. be-
cause justice is a Stranger in France.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-04-12

Despite all, Hinly Dink will warm his
old seat in Chicago's council chamber.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-04-12

and 3S,e90 American soldiers are to be sent
home
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credited everywhere, even among the
lambs.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-04-12
WHY COME TO THIS

Municipal Imperialism is winning in city
after city of the northwest.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-04-12

In the northern states exploring parties
have been sent out in search of the first
robin.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-04-12

Europe VIII attend the peace conference
because Mars is on vacation anyhow
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-04-12

This is Mr.. Bryan's busy month. He has
published a book, and is to eat two din
ners.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-04-12

David 3. Hill will eat his jefferson din
ner in quiet restaurant on a side street