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ever the fraternity exists as a thirty-thffd d degree member. who has been Grand Mas ter of Tennessee, Grand High Priest of the Grand Chapter, Royal Arch Masons, Inspector-General of the Ancient and Ac cepted Scottish Rite of that state, and Lieutenant Grand Commander of tho Mother Supreme Council of the World.
 Such is the man the state of Tennessee can offer to the next democratic national convention as a candidate for the highcs. honor in the gift of party, the nominatioa for the presidency of the United States Behind him could gather the entire da- mocracy of the country, and those de- spairing ones in other parties who cannos find the realization of their ideals in those parties as they are-now being led Differ ing democrats will find him a point q. which to converge Extremists of all sort. would under his leadership find a common ground upon which to stand. As as an e,.- cmplar of the policy of forbearance and re- specting the opinions of patty assistants, h. would indicate a course judieious, progress sive, patriotic and democratic, a course that all democrats desirous of success and anx- ious to secure the benehcent results of ths operation of democratic principles put into execution, could pursue.
 The democracy has a splendid oppor tunlty. The glories of the war are not tn, property of the republican party. Th American flag waves over all, and the dem. ccratic party has been instrumental tn planting it where 1t was never unfurieI before. It was the democratic party that first declared for Cuban freedom. It wa. the democratic party that forced a timiu and trembling administration to take uC the sword in the cause of humanity and ir Vindication of the outraged honor of the nation
 Democratic troops have shed their blood, democratic heroes have performed thrill ing feats of gallantry and brilliant acts of generalshio.
 With the blood of the youth of the lane and the treasure of the nation at its dis posal, the republican administration has proved cruelty incompetent. Thousands o. homes, now mourning, have not the pa thetic consolation of saying that their be- loved departed died the heroes death. bu. in bitter chagrin bewail the fact that their fathers, brothers and husbands died a- home camps, the victims of official neglec.. incompetence and-horrible thought!-per- haps of official venality and corruption.
 The republican party has made the issue? upon which the democracy can win.
 Public office is a private snap" was never better exempliied.
 Trust" is King and Pull" his servant
 Let the democracy name for president the subject O. this sketch, frame a plat form true to democratic principles, and upon which all decent men may stand, anI success in 1900 is assured
 JESSE F. STALLINGS, Representative Second District of Alabama
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Paying Money to the Cubans.

The Cuban soldiers are slowly accepting the money that the United States offers them. The officials in charge of the three million fund think that all or nearly all entitled to shares in the money will apply and turn in their arms.
 It is plain that the muster rolls are very imperfect. The Cuban service itself was very imperfect, and the rolls presented are very like it. Many who apply bearing eer- tificates of service are not enrolled, and many who are enrolled are dead More applied Sunday than on Saturday, and it is believed that all will apply in the course of the present week. The payments out side of Havana will be begun today at Santiago de Las Vegas. At Havana all arms received are turned over to Senor Perfecto La Coste, the mayor of that city.
 The disbandment of the Cuban army, and the return of the men to peaceful oc- equations is an important step in the paci1cation and up-building of the island. There are demagogues in Cuba, as there are elsewhere, and efforts are continually made to incite the Cubans to revolt Gen eral Brooke is giving the situation close study, and it is believed he will have no moro difficulty in restoring peace to Cuba than his brother officers had in Porto Rico.
 Cuba is very near the gulf states, and the people in this section are naturally in- terested in the efforts to bring order out of the island affairs, and after a while prosperity and trade. Intercourse between the gulf states and Cuba will soon be an everyday affair, and the sooner affairs move along smoothly the better it will be for all of us, for the home people as well as for the island people. The compleie Americanization of Cuba and it's annexa- tion to this country are not improbable events. These things can come about through consent in both quarters-in Cuba and in this country. The consent of both parties is pretty well assured.
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GENERAL OATES AND OTHERS
m the Montgomery Advertiser.

From the Montgomery Advertiser
 There has been a great deal of comment on the suggestion that General Oates was a choice of many as a candidate for gov ernor next year. While it known that the general is not favorable to the project to run him for governor again, it cannot be denied that there is a strong and growing sentiment in his favor, and he may be forced to go into the race on the part of those who want an aggressive, safe and conservative leader. While the political situation has not taken definite shape, it is very sure that there is great dissatisfac- tion and unrest apparent every hand with the present order of things, and how to bring order out of chaos and confusion is the desire of every party man just now, who wants to see the white men united, white supremacy perpetuated and the prin- cples of the party fully maintained.
 A leader is being looked for, and as soon as a satisfactory one can be found, the other candidates will hear something from the people that may be unpleasant, but which will convince them that the old time democrats are still in the saddle and cannot be trifled with at the polls. The people know what they want next year, and are going to have things their own way at any cost.
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From the New York Journal.
 The list of democratic presidential possi- bilities would not be complete without James Daniel Richardson. whose abilities as a pariamentarian have made him the most conspicuous member of the house of representatives, and whose services to the party entitle him to the respect and admi- ration of the entire democratic party.
 Mr. Richardson, faithful to the tenets of his party, answering in his devotion to the masses, which that party seeks to serve, fast as Gibraltar on the side of right under all circumstances, is the type of leader who at this time would prove of incalculable benefit to the country in the presidential chair Fifty-six years of age, ripe in experience, calm, dispassionate, cor dial, loyal friend, a true public servant scholar and a gentleman, he has that rare combination of qualities that wins re- spect and inspires confidence.
 The antithesis of Cleveland, he possesses the valuable factulty, so conspicuous in Me- Kinley, of harmonizing party differences. He is not greater than his party; he is not wiser than the combined wisdom of all the other party leaders; he is not an egotist panderer to the rieh great, a self-seek- ing hypocrite, who, under the guise of superlative goodness, seeks to conceal the avarice of a Shylock and the arrogance of a satrap.
 With Richardson in the presidential chair there would be no repetition of the gloomy policies of diseord, wrangling, mutiny and party betrayal that character ized recent past democratic administra- tions. On the contrary, differences would be healed quarreling factions would be brought together; all true party men would be welcomed at the white house; advice and counsel from leaders would be listened to with respect; the principles of Jefferson and Jackson would be revered by an ar dent discipe the spirit of modernity would permeate the council hall of the party; no narrow, restricted construction would be placed in the fundamental laws of the country and the party; progressive de- morcracy would have its hand at the helm, and the nation would go on to greater glories, to prosperity and to the place it deserves-the foremost in the world.
 Democray means advancement in all di- rections. Democracy means progress in it's widest sense. Democracy means the great est good to the greatest number the up- building of the masses; the protection of the poor, the welfare of all. Richardson is eminently the man, who at this crucial time, would realize the aspirations of the patriots, the ambitions of the masses.
 A glance at his personality reveals a tall, slender, intellectual, steady-eyed man. moments conversation shows him pleas ant-voiced, sympathetic, cordial, well-read gentleman. A perusal of his speeches dem onstrates him a student a deep thinker, clear writer and speaker, and a democrat. Presiding in the chair, his pre-eminence as parlamentarian is apparent. Quick, dis erect, tactful, masterful in his knowledge
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The Czar's Dream of Peace.

It is of course a far cry to Tennyson's s "parliament of man, the federation of the world" because mans passions remain to a large extent unchanged. Ambition, greed, cruelty, prejudice, all exist, and doubtless they will lead to more wars. But the hope is that worldwide public senti- ment can be created at The Hague that will operate to lessen the number of wars, and that a machinery can be created that will give this sentiment effect and free scope-an international court of arbitra- tion.
 The frightful cost of the present armed peace is perhaps the chief incentive of the new movement, and there is certainly basis enough in current figures for it. The actual expenses on account of armies and navies of the six great powers of Europe will this year be about one thousand mill lion dollars. England's bill is the largest two hundred and forty millions; France
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of parliamentary law. he is today the fair est, the best presiding officer in the house of representatives. When the late Charles Crisp was speaker, Richardson was elected speaker pro-tem. During MT crisps ill., ness and absence for weeks, Richardson oc- cupied the chair to the admiration of his party, to the satisfaction of all. His four teen years in congress have demonstrated his capacity.
 Richardson was born in Rutherford coun- ty, Tennessee, March 10 1S49. He went to country schools as a child, and to Franklin college near Nashville, as youth. At the age of eighteen he entered the Confeder- ate army as a private, leaving college be- fore graduation. He served four years in the army, the first year as a private the remaining three as adjutant of the Forty fifth Tennessee infantry. His army was permanently disabled at the battle of At lanta When the war was ended he read law and began its practice in January, 1876, at Murfreesboro.
 He naturally drifted into politics-nearly every southern youth at that time did the same. He was soon conspicuous in his community, and was elected in 1871 to the lower house of the Tennessee legislature, and although but twenty-eight years of age, and associated with graybeards he enjoyed the unusual distinction of being elected to the speakership The next two years he served in the state senate. He was a delegate to the St. Louis democratic convention in 1876, and to the Chicago dem- ocratic convention in 1896, when he was temporary chairman, and owing to Perma- nent Chairman Whites illness, presided much of the time in that officers stead. His success as a presiding officer was on that occasion made apparent to thousands. He was first elected to the Forty-ninth congress, has served in all subsequent congresses, and has been elected to the next.
 When the democratic representatives in congress several years ago took the stand that Spanish oppression in the Western Hemisphere should cease, Richardson's s speech may be properly described by that much misused word great" It will live in history as a profound yet ringing expo sition of the democratic policy on this subject.
 The most serious historical work he has ever accomplished is his Messages and Papers of the Presidents" task intrusted to him by congress. It is a superb com pilation of all public presidential docu- mentS, and constitutes a history of this country and it's marvellous expansion from the standpoint of the nations various ex- ecutives. In it's indexing, in its commen- taries and explanations, MT. Richardson has performed a difficult work most cred- itably from the view point of a historian and a Htterateur. It will endure as a val uable contribution to historical literature and a reference for students of the world.
 As Mason, Richardson is known where
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IRON AND COKE FOR EUROPE

From the Chicago Record.
 A scarcity of coke is reported in the man. ufacturing districts along the Rhine in Prussia. In consequence of this mills have shut down and firms have ordered pig Iron and coke from England and America.
 In the United States the iron and steel industry has grown to gigantic dimen- sions, and its products are able to compete in the markets of the world. We can sell even in the English markets our rails and beams and cast iron pipes at prices which cannot be met without a loss by the English mills. Buildings with steel construction, railroads and iron bridges are built everywhere, not only in Europe. but in South America, Africa, Asia and Australia. These markets are open to our trade, and our manufacturers are alert to conquer them.
 We have in this country the best iron ore at low price, our furnaces and mills are well located and turn out the product cheaply by employing the best labor sav- ing machinery. In spite of paying three and four times the wages paid in Europe our product is cheaper than that in Europe. We need, however, better ship ping facilities from the mills and furnaces to the seaports and American ships to car ny the American goods under the American flag to the markets of the world. The merchant marine must be fostered by the repeal of harmful shipping laws if the manufacturers of this country are to se- cure full benefits for their skill and enter prise.
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SCHOOL BOOKS IN ALABAs1A

From the Alexander City Outlook.
 The Birmingham Age-Herald says that the next thing for Alabama to do Is to furnish all scholars of common schools with text books free of charge. Some ten states in the union are already furnishing free literature to their schools. This is @. wise suggestion. Instead of spending thousands of dollars in equipping sham az ricultural colleges in the districts, tho state ought to buy the text books of our public schools
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AJAX O'BRIEN

From the Selma Journal.
 There comes a pointer from Birmingham that George B. Burkhalter and Frank r. O'Brien will be candidates for the state senate at the next election. The Mobile Register gives the information that the former will run under the patronage of Governor Johnston, and the latter in the attitude of Ajax defying the lightning" From present indications Boss Johnston S support in Jefferson is a slender political reed on which to lean. The Ajax crowd will win, mark the prediction.
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gotten trial. He will invest his narrative with a clearness of language and charm of expression that few men in any walk of life are capable of employing, and what he shall have to say will be looked forward to with deep interest by all intelligent stu dents of Alabama history.
 The meetings of the state bar association in Montgomery are always delightful occa- sions for the members. This is largely due to Hon. Alexander Troy, the ad- mirable and universally esteemed secre- tary ,who was one of the organizers of the association and who has always been one of its most indefatigable supporters.
 Three or four commercial travellers, each of whom seemed to be assigned to a large territory, last night were discussing muddy country roads and dirty ones, and muddy and dusty streets. Evidently they had suffered greatly, for they spoke feeingly.
 This spring I spent a day in Union- town, Ala.," said one of them, land wasn't happy. I believe that was the muddiest town ever visited. I saw four mules hitched to wagon on which there was one bale of cotton stall in the main street of Uniontown."
 That's nothing" remarked another one of the party. T saw Jack Cohen, who sells umbrellas from New York, stopped dead still in the main street of Guthrie, Okla homa, on account of the mud. Jack was in an ordinary buggy, drawn by four horses, and carrying only himself and his 'telescope.' He was moving Slowly along through the three feet of mud, when sud- denly his team stalled They couldn' t budge an inch further''>
 some of the Texas towns beat the earth for dust" said a third man. q have seen the dust eighteen inches deep in the streets of Waco. Few towns in Texas have any sort of paved or macadamized streets, and the result is impossible mud in wet weather and uncomfortable dust at other times. Just outside the union passenger station in Dallas I have seen mud more than a foot deep.''
 Captain Gus Wright, whom many thou sands of the travelling public know and feel kindly towards as the keeper of the exit gate at the Birmingham main passenger station, had to deal with 15,0O0 excursion ists on Sunday; and he discharged his task with his characteristic good nature. One great fact noticed by Captain Wright, and one which gave him real pleasure, was that not one person in the b 900 was intox- icated. He declares that it was the most orderly crowd that he has ever had to deal with. and the absence of drunkenness was a, tribute to the vigilance of the Brming- ham police in enforcing tho Sunday saloon closing law.
 Congressman John L. Burnett, of Gads- den, is in the city
 United States Commissioner Frank Bait zell, of Montgomery, spent yesterday in Birmingham.
 Joseph Galloway, of the Montgomery bar, has been visiting his brother, Sam Gallo way, of the Louisville and Nashville, in this city,
 R. A. Mitchell, of Gadsden, is in town.
 
 R. c. Godhelp, of Nashville, Tenn, Is at the Morris.
 J. M. Williams. the popular tobacco man from Lynchburg, is in town.
 R. F. Morgan. of Cincinnati, is in Bir- mingham.
 Cecil BroEne. of Talladegaa is in the city.
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Congressman Stallings' tWo-column bloom" in the New York Journal for James Richardson of Tennessee as the democratic presidential candidate for next year would be all right if the people had not already fully decided to put William Jennings Bryan in the White House. Classlcally speaking, Mr. Stallings has the wrong sow by the ear.
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A MATTER OE EX-GOVERNoR

Frm the Selma Times.
 The Anniston Hot Blast proposes the name of General w. c. Oates as a suitable one to lead the democracy of Alabama two years hence. If we have to nominate an ex-governor as the next nominee for chief executive of Alabama, we would pre- fer ex-Governor Kolb. How would this suit the Hot Blast?
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FORWARD! MARCH!


 Happily this is country where lese ma- jeste is unknown, despite the recent com plaints of some of our anti-expansion friends Certainly the freest speech is al lowed when the Deutscher Kriegerbund. at festival in Harlem River park, New York, which was attended by the German consul general of New York City, could sing the following song, which was printed on the programmes: g..L Der Yankee is ein Smarter" Mann. Noch, smarter ist der Lady; Und hat sic auch ein Loch i'm Strumpf So ist doch Alles ready. Die deutsche Frau arbeitet auch, 1s Sic sagt nicht "I don't care" Die Yankee Lady hat den Brauch. Sie sitzt i'm "Rochingchair." Ja dasz ich nun kein Yankee bin
 Das ist doch recht fatal Sonst ginge ich mach Washington
 Unde wuerde General Doch will der Yankee bandein an
 Nit unseren deutschen Heere Damn kregt mach Noten Pruegel CT Nehm' CT die weise Lehre. Wir wuenschen diesen Yankee1 nal Dasz seie sich init uns messen Die Pruegel die der Yankee kriegt
 Wird CT nicht leicht vergessen. Und Cozhlan fuehrt das groze Maui Vie CT hat juengst gezeigt Doch wird CT das in Deutschland thun Vie wuerd er-heimgegeigti Und Holleben in Washington 'ssl Haelt diplomats 'sches schweigen Fuer Rathsam, doch, wird ihm's gu bunt Eroeffnet CT den Regen. Was sagt der Deutsehe Kriegerbund Zu Coghlan's laepp'schen' "F'aible?" Hat Jeder aus Gewohnheit nicht
 Die rechte Hand am Saebel? Und wartet auf's Kommandowort So vie auf die Parole "Voran, Du Deutsche Kriegerschaar!" Der Teufel Coghlan hole.
 A free and easy translation of the fore. going produces the following: A smart man is the Yankee man, Still smarter is his lady; Fen though her stockings have hole She always is all ready. The German wife knows how to work, Nor eer says 'I don't care" The Yankee lady's labor is .l To work rocking chair. i,st No Yankee I-the worse the luck. German, whate'er befall; Or else I'd go to Washington And be a Generawl. But if the Yankee meddles with Our German army bold, He'll get the thrashing that he needs, And these here facts are cold. We wish these Yankees once would try To match themselves with us The licking that the Yankee'd get Would sure impress the cuss. Here's Coghlan with the gaping mouth He's just been spouting from, If he'd done that in Germany, How he'd be fiddled home! And Hollebeu, in Washington, He wisely sits mumchance; But if the music gets too loud You'll see him join the dance. What says the Deutscher Kriegerbund To Coghlan's foolish jabber? Has not each man, from habit, put His right hand to his sabre? Is not each waiting the command, The watchword of the night, Forward ye German soldiery!' Coghlan the devil bite!
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The Ohio republicans will meet this week to ratify Mr. Mark HIannas choice for eoy- ernor, Judge Nash. The peoples turn at the ratification mill does not come until November.
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Little Marian Clark has completely eepsed in New York city the war heroes. All are mentally searching for her. Hu- manity outranks hero-worship.
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Captain w. P. Barker lived to see the streets he had laid out well filled with busy people. The regularity and width of this eitys streets sprang from the brain of the excellent engineer who died last week.
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From the Memphis Commercial-Appeal
 The effort of Governor Johnston of Ala bama to pour vitriol on the troubled politi- cal waters has been entirely successful.
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The child stealing case in New York is undoubtedly an attempt to secure a ransom from kind-hearted people Who have money for the parents of the little one are poor
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The presence of the Paris on the rocks of tue Cornish coast is still unexplained, and the English papers say it came about through ineXplicable bundering.
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This is Dreyfus week. The unfortunate ried back to France but whether he will have fair trial or no remains to be seen.
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Secretary Alger is looking after ethe col- ored troops" at least. He has detailed Chaplain Stewart to write their history. It is well to know that he does take good care of some soldiers.
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Birminghams bank clearings for last week were 494 per cent. grea:ee than they were in the corresponding week of last year.
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"our Jess" practically repudiat tes the crats to frame a new platform for MT. Richardson-Slick Jim of Tennessee-to stand on.
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The appointment of Professor Hadley to the presidency of Yale college is widely commended. Not a word of disapproyal has appeared.
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Jumping from the Brooklyn bridge bids fair to become a new calling in New York, and it is a reasonably safe one.
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The latest double-turreted hats for women are fortunately summer hats. and the theaters are closed.
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The next speaker will be either General Henderson of Iowa, or MT. Hopkins of Illi- nois. The east is no longer ''in it.
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It is understood that the determinations in the House in the Wood are not to be applied to China.