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The age-herald., 1899-04-08
Democratic Committee Ioday.

The state democratic executive committee will assemble in the rooms of the Commer- cial Club at noon today to devise plans for the constitutional convention election in July, and to proceed to organize the cam paign to carry the call for the convention in accordance with the declarations of the recent democratic convention.
 The committee should perfect a thorough organization in every county in the state and carry the convention call by an oyer- whelming majority. There are enemies who pretend to be democrats. The exec utive committee should watch for them and prevent any injury to the party by them
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Pettus as a presiding officer. and probably no man in the United States surpasses him in that capacity. The Age-Herald has au- thority to state the distinguished states man and orator of Dallas will not be a can didate for president of the constitutional convention. The Age-Herald weeks ago ventured to state that MT. Pettus and MT. Knox would not oppose each other for that exalted honor The Age-Herald spoke ad- visedly. It seems now that the only avowed candidates for the presidency of the con- vention are MT Knox, of Calhoun. and MT. Lomax, of Montgomery. Each is shining light in Alabama democracy. Each is wor- thy of the honor he seeks.
 
 II never saw anything quite equal to the development of the Birmingham suburbs" said MT. Ignatius Pollak, the great dry goods merchant of Montgomery. Tt is really extraordinary" said MT. Pollak and he added a warning that his name was not to go Tin the paper" MT. Pollak returned to Montgomery yesterday afternoon, ac- companied by Mr William c. Hurter, the gifted young son of the lamented John c. Hurter, of the Capital City.
 Hon. Cecil Browne, of Talladega, is in Birmingham.
The age-herald., 1899-04-08
What the Act of 1868 Forbids.

The Columbiana Advocate, a populist paper. quotes the law under which Alabama was readmitted to the union. The section in question reads as follows:
 That each of the states of North Carolina, South Carolina, Louisiana, Georgia, Ala bama and Florida shall be entitled and ad- mitted to representation in congress as q. state of the union when the legislature of sucn state shall have duly ratified the amendment to the constitution of the United States proposed by the Thirty-ninth congress, and known article IA, upon the following Fundamental conditions: That. the constitutions of neither of said states shall ever be amended or changed as to deprive any citizen or class of citizens. of the United States of the right to vote in said state. who are entitled to vote by the con stitution thereof herein recognized, except as punishment of such crimes are now felonies at common law, whereof they shall have been duly convicted under laws equally applicable to all the inhabitants of said state.
 The Advocate assumes that the people of Alabama propose to violate the pledge of 1868, when as a matter of fact they have no such intention. The trouble with all the opponents of constitutional revision is that they know too much, or rather, they assume too much. They accuse the demo- crats of the state of intentions that have Dever been "thunk" at all. They draw upon too vivid imaginations. They see things that are invisible to the quiet citi- zens of the state. The best citizens do not propose to wrong any man.
 FT7t,. umns certainly does not transgress the pledge of 1868 in the least. That plan calls for an alternative educational and property qualifcat tion=-ape Fsdtiteeer6le to all, black or ~l~1ite; suffrage for all soldiers, whether they belonged to the Third Alabama or the First Alabama, or any other regiment in any other war; and the right in the next legislature to bestow the suffrage upon any worthy person, be he black or white. Only one legislature should have the power 10 correct injustices of this nature. There ing that contravenes the spirit of the act of 1868. The object of that law was to pre- vent discrimination. There is none in the plan we have outlined. The legislature would beyond doubt grant the electoral franchise to worthy blacks as well to worthy whites. To say that Alabama can not impose an educational qualification un- der the act of 1868 is to assert the ridicul- ous. She cannot discriminate, and she does not propose to discriminate, as the Advo- ,cate will see if it patiently holds out until
The age-herald., 1899-04-08
The OyershadoWinq Trust Issue.

although the supreme court of the \ nited States fully upheld the antitrust ,aw in the Trans Missouri case, employing in its defense remarkable and unmistaka- ble language yet the administration has practically decided through Attorney Gen. eral Griggs that it will not enforce anti trust laws. Mr. Griggs, of New Jersey, lays down the proposition that the admin istration proposes to stand upon, when he says: If amenable to any law they (the respective states" This is entirely, he goes on to say, matter of state control
 The purpose of the administration is first, to avoid the necessity of prosecuting the men and the concerns who make up it's slush fund. and, secondly, to transfer the odium of non-action as far as possible to the states. And yet the supreme court of the United States court has peintedy up- held all antitrust legislation. It is a mere pretence that the trusts have no relation to interstate commerce. Not single trust has been formed or will be formed that is not or will not be engaged in interstate traffic-that will not be dependent upon in terstate traffic for it's means of business The supreme court has decided that the United States can regulate all such traffic. Every trust can. in other words, be regu- lated by the United States out of exist ence.
 But MT. Griggs, of New Jersey, attorney general of the United States, has said that the United States cannot and will not in- trefere with the trusts. that all such in references must be of state or local ori- gin; that the general government washes ats hands of the entire business. And vet 1t is plain that local action cannot meet and overcome the powerful monopolies that are being formed every day in almost every article of daily use. Says Governor Thomas. of Colorado: "The trust is a com bination of the usurer and specuator to levy tribute on all pursuits Prosperous enterprises are united, stocked and bonded; i;
The age-herald., 1899-04-08
CAUSES OF APPENDICITIS


 As the result of a study of 1,4O0 cases of appendicitis collected from various sources, Mitchell C'Bulletin of the Johns Hopkins Hospital" January to March, 1S99 D. 35) found that true foreign bodies were noted as being present in per cent. while among 700 of the whole number in which a defi- nite statement on this point was made there were faecal concretions in 45 per cent. It is. therefore, concluded that foreign bodies, at one time thought an essential feature of appendicitis, are now known to play much smaller role than was former ly accredited to them, while faecal concre- tions are more likely to be present as an exciting cause.
 While many curious and unexpected things are occasionally found, the appendix would, nevertheless, seem to act especially as trap for pointed bodies and for small heavy objects like shot or bullets Con- spicuous among pointed bodies acting in this manner are pins, and ther presence in the vermiform appendix is not at all un- common. Foreign bodies of light weight. like grape seeds and cherry stones, popu- 1arly assigned as a cause of appendicitis are In reality exceptional in this connec- tion, and their frequency is much overes- timated on account of the close resem- blance of faecal concretions and the lack of careful examination of the bodies found.
The age-herald., 1899-04-08
Advertise RiIm inqham,

The plan of the New England newspaper men to advertise Birmingham is a good one. It was submitted to the Commercial club yesterday and was indorsed by tha organ ization. It is set forth in another column.
 Birmingham is well advertised today, but 1t needs more advertising It should take pie offer. There is abundance of capital and surplus of skilled labor in New Eng land. Both are necessary to Birmingham to develop it as Birmingham is entitled to
The age-herald., 1899-04-08
LADY CURSON'S SUMMER HOUSE. From the Boston Herald

From the Boston Herald.
 The former yiceregal residence at Simla, which was almost a cottage perched on the summit of a precipitous crag, and, which moved Lady Dufferin, then it's occupant, to declare the house was like the ark, bal anced on top of Mount Ararat, and that in the rainy season she felt like Mrs, Noah, has been greatly improved upon by the res idence where Lord Curzon and his beautiful American wife are to pass the next six months. The viceregal summer palace is like hugo villa, and, situated on what is known as Observatory Hill, affords mag nificent view of the surrounding country. It has superb gardens and tennis courts, though no golf links. Owing to the hills, there is little flat ground at Simla, and everybody gets about on ponies, or in dan dies, which are chairs hung on bamboo poles. The first great state function at which Lady Curzon is to appear in all the glory of Worth and diamonds will be on the empress queens birthday. on which occe- sion the viceroy holds great state levee, standing on a silver throne or ponderous magnificence.
The age-herald., 1899-04-08
RESTRICTIONS OF A BACHELOR

From the New York Press
 Next to being bad the easiest thing is being worse
 In the spring time womans fancy lightly turns to shirt waists.
 There is nobody who can believe in mind- reading without shuddering at what people would discover about him.
 The most shameless man that ever lived could not go around before the servants with what clothes a woman doesn't put on.
 If 1t was as hard to get married as it is to get divorced, people would break their necks trying to stay in the halters they now try to get out of
The age-herald., 1899-04-08
THE FUrURE BIRMINGHAM.

From the Fort Payne Journal.
 Birmingham is the coming city of the south. Twenty, possibly ten, years from to- day it will have outstripped all it's sister cities Fort Payne will feel the effect of It's wondrous growth as will the entire towns in the mountainous mineral district of Alabama.
The age-herald., 1899-04-08

development. The advantages and facili- ties of Birmingham should be placed be- fore the people of New England in attrac- tive form. Nothing of value can be accom- plished without cost. The land companies, the manufacturing interests. the real es- tate owners and the prosperous ones of Birmingham. and those who hope to pros per, should unite in that work which is possible today.
The age-herald., 1899-04-08
THE SENATORIAL SECESSION.
From the Pine Belt News.

II IUIIT VII6 T IIIU I1tII 1NtWS.
 While we have in the past criticised Nor gan for the stands he saw fit to take on national questions, contrary to our views, no one questions his ability as a states man. Compared to the present governor, Morgan stands as a mountain to a mole hill
The age-herald., 1899-04-08
From the Mobile Register.

The Registers loyalty is one of indiffer- ence to the party, but the governors loyal ty is quite another natter He is the head of the party in Alabama. He is not, how ever, the party itself, and he will perhaps discover eff the Montgomery Journal will be quiet awhile and give him a chance to thinB) that he will do better to abide by the decisions of the party convention. It is possible that he may want some favors at the party's hands, but. even if that be not so, he has received favors and owes his gratitude to the party. Let him be loyal.
The age-herald., 1899-04-08

From the Columbana Advocate.
 Bryan is undoubtedly the ablest man in the democratic party, and he has the cour- age of his convictions, which can be said of but few men of national reputation in the United States.
The age-herald., 1899-04-08
THE MAYROLITY CONTEST.

From the Huntsville Mercury
 The defeat of Hon. Ross c. Smith for mayor of Birmingham will be generally re- gretted all over Alabama. He would have been credit to the great city of the min- eral region.
The age-herald., 1899-04-08
From the Evergreen Record.

No man may expect to be United States senator from this state under a demo- cratic administration or even justice of the peace who fails to support the most important of all measures that concerns the welfare of the entire people of the state By all means let us have consti- tutional convention.
The age-herald., 1899-04-08
THE CONVENTION GAINING GROUND.

From the Suligent Lightning
 Doubt as to the carrying of the consti- tutional convention is fast disappearing. since it is to be submitted back to the 'peo- pie for ratification or rejection.
The age-herald., 1899-04-08
From the Eufaula Times.

Mel Drennen surprised the Birmingham m boys and Ross Smiths friends by getting nominated for mayor. He ran ahead of MT. Smith by four five hundred votes. Drennen is a fine fellow and Smith is a charming man. too. It was charged that Smith had the machine behind him, and Birmingham voters have had it in for the machine
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MT. Kipling is mistaken when he says he will never be able to repay the many ex- pressions of sympathy he has received. Let him turn that pen of his loose, and repayment will attend the first effort.
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The populist papers are condemning the convention proposition, and covering Gov praise. Joe Johnston," says the Green vile Living Truth, "has a big head full of brains under his hat" So runs the world away
The age-herald., 1899-04-08

If the golden rule is to come into politics, one in the west is this: "Do unto others as others would do unto you, and do it fust l"
The age-herald., 1899-04-08
GOVERNOR JoHNsTON's POSITION.

From the Centreville Press.
 Governor Johnston is said to be knifing the constitutional convention. We don't believe it. He wasn't built that way, away back yonder when the woods were on fire
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From the Eufaula Times.

Several populists, including Dr. Grove. have resolved to fight the constitutional convention. However, most of the leaders or the populist party are in favor of the convention. Before election day there VIII De little objection made to the proposition, the Times thinks.
The age-herald., 1899-04-08
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE

On Monday night next Robert J. Lowe will address the voters of Pratt City in the advancement of his own candidature for delegate to the constitutional convention. MT. Lowe will be introduced to his audience by Senator R. M. Cunningham, who is an ardent supporter of the distin- guished chairman of the state democratic executive committee. Senator Cunningham and Mir. Lowe are on the closest political and personal terms, and the senator cor dially supports MT. Lowe in the present contest. It is perhaps needful to mention anew for the information of the numerous public men from the various counties who will be in Birmingham today and for tho democracy of the state at large that the actual cause of Mr Lowe's failure to be nominated in the regular primary was his lateness in announcing himself as a can didate. According to the returns, MT Lowe was nominated, but upon recount of the votes he was made to tie with MT. R. c. Hewitt, brother of the late Congressman Goldsmith w. Hewitt, and for many years tax collector of Jefferson county. The ballots cast in several beats were destroyed by the managers and there fore could not be counted. This produced such an unsatisfactory condition of affairs that it was determined that he and MT. Hewitt should once more appeal to the voters.
The age-herald., 1899-04-08

The scalawags of the Illinois legislature also want law calling for signed news paper articles. All such legislation mvaria- ly comes from the republican camp.
The age-herald., 1899-04-08

The beef testimony is keen enough to sting Mark Hanna, and it takes something very penetrating to do that.
The age-herald., 1899-04-08

The munieipalization of the Detroit troll ley lines is now assured, and the people begin to look forward to free cars for all instead of a few.
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It is now conceded that MT. Bryan did well, politically speaking, when he de- clined the invitation to the Croker-Bel- mont s10 dinner.
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Mayor Carter Harrison, Mayor Sam Jones, and Ex-Mayor Pingree hold the cen ter of the stage in the wild and wooly west.
The age-herald., 1899-04-08

The political forecasters and ticket mak- CTS for the great 1900 race are as busy as bees, but not half so useful s4
The age-herald., 1899-04-08

Water is turning the heads of Wall street. They revel in watered stocks, but the debauch will soon be ended
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The temple of Janus is still open. and will continue to be while the Turks and Bulgarians are neighbors.
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Joe Jefferson is himself again. He is touring the south, and one night stands are exactly to his liking
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A Chinese baseball team has been organ ized in New York, and Chin On is it's cap tain is most natural.
The age-herald., 1899-04-08

The Jeffersonian club of Indianapolis pre- fers Bryan and Schley in 1900.
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The north is afflicted with April snows and municipal elections.
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In the northern states the only spring flowers in the markets are sold by the milliners.
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Chicago proposes to send it's campaign brass bands to the Philippines
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Even Ex-Governor Flower is talking against water in trusts.
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Samoa is an illustration of the fact that the strong do not care to fight each other. .'
The age-herald., 1899-04-08

It is, in the circumstances, not be- trayal of confidence to make public the fact that MT. Love committed to a number of his most intimate personal and political friends the question whether he should ap- peal to the voters. These friends decided that he must do so, and hence he is now a candidate in opposition to Mir Hewitt. MT. Lowe is nothing, if not chivarous. Some weeks in advance of the primary MT. Lowe declared to Senator Cunningham that he would not oppose the senator if the sen ator desired to be a delegate from the state at large to the constitutional con- vention The matter was not finally de- termined upon for several days, but Senator Cunningham decided that, in view of ex- isting conditions, he was impelled to seek nomination in convention, whereupon Mir. Lowe somewhat tardily announced himself as a candidate for Jefferson county. MT. Lowe's announcement was the signal of violent opposition from certain elements of society," chiefly because he opposed the Moody liquor dispensary bil in so far as it applied to Jefferson. This much it is due in common justice to MT. Lowe, to once more state in the Age-Herald
The age-herald., 1899-04-08

Mayor Sam Jones' golden-rue platform is becoming popular outside of Toledo.
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Aguinaldo can at least pride himself on his masterly retreats. He saved himself
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The Chicago people are glad because the campaign brass band is to take vaca- tion.
The age-herald., 1899-04-08
THE EARNEST OF THEM ALL.

Russia is assimilating the Finlanders.
The age-herald., 1899-04-08

Agoncilo Is doing his fighting at present in Paris, which is not on the firing line
The age-herald., 1899-04-08

''The suggestion that has been sent abroad that Mayor Carter Harrison, of Chi cago, is unfriendly to MT. Bryan is ridicu- lously absurd" declared Hon. John w. Tomlinson, last night. MT. Tomlinson pro- ceeded to say: Garter Harrison is the president of the William J. BryaRrclub of Chicago, and at the annual banquet of that club on Jackson~-D6y in 1897-9S-S9 MT. sD5fsssa has been the guest of honor MT. Harrison is a straight Bryan man, a per- sonal friend of MT. Bryan, and a supporter of the Nebraska statesman, and has been for several years. He has been a consist ent advocate of MT. Bryan and a staunch supporter of the great principles repre- sented by the distinguished leader of the democracy. Therefore, it is worse than silly to suggest that his notable victory in Chicago is even in the smallest degree antagonistic to MT. Bryan. At banquet which 1 attended at the Fremont hotel in Chicago in 1897, on Jackson day, on which occasion MT Bryan was the guest of honor, and when Carter Harrison presided as president of the Bryan club, the Carter Harrison boom for mayor as started"
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 the manufacturing interests. the real es tate owners and the prosperous ones oi Birmingham. and those who hope to pros per, should unite in that work which i, possible today.
 -------- The populist papers are condemning the convention proposition, and covering Gov ernor Johnston with the most fulsome praise Joe Johnston,' says the Green. vile Living Truth, "has a big head full oi brains under his hat" So runs the world away.
 MT. Kipling is mistaken when he says he will never be able to repay the many ex- pressions of sympathy he has received Let him turn that pen of his loose, and repayment will attend the first effort. If the golden rule is to come into politics amendments may be expected. A popular one in the west is this: DO unto others as others would do unto you, and do il fust."
 The scalawags of the Illinois legislature also want law calling for signed news paper articles. All such legislation nvaria- ly comes from the republican camp. It is now conceded that MT. Bryan did well, politically speaking, when he de- clined the invitation to the Croker-Bel- mont s1O dinner
 The municipalization of the Detroit troll ley lines is now assured, and the people begin to look forward to free cars for all instead of a few.
 Mayor Carter Harrison, Mayor Sam Jones, and Ex-Mayor Pingree hold the cen ter of the stage in the wild and woolly west
 Water is turning the heads of Wall street. They revel in watered stocks, but the debauch will soon be ended. The beef testimony is keen enough to sting Mark Hanna, and it takes something very penetrating to do that
  The political forecasters and ticket mak- CTS for the great 1900 race are as busy as bees, but not half so useful. The temple of Janus is still open, and will continue to be while the Turks and Bulgarians are neighbors.
 Joe Jefferson is himself again. He is touring the south, and one night stands are exactly to his liking.
 A Chinese baseball team has been organ ized in New York, and Chin On is it's cap tain, as is most natural. -
  In the northern states the only spring flowers in the markets are sold by the milliners.
 Samoa is an illustration of the fact that the strong do not care to fight each other. e'. The Chicago people are glad because the campaign brass band is to take vaca- tion.
 Agulnaldo can at least pride himself on his masterly retreats. He saved himself  Agoncilo Is doing his fighting at present in Paris, which is not on the firing line Mayor Sam Jones' golden-rule platform is becoming popular outside of Toledo. Chicago proposes to send it's campaign brass bands to the Philippines. The Jeffersonian club of Indianapolis pre- fers Bryan and Schley in 1900.
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 The north is afflicted with April snows and municipal elections.
 ------------------------ Even Ex-Governor Flower is talking against water in trusts.
 Russia is assimilating the Finlanders.
 THE EARNEST OF THEM ALL. From the Columbiana Advocate. Bryan is undoubtedly the ablest man in
The age-herald., 1899-04-08

Hon. Francis L. Pettus, of Dallas, is in town to be present today at the meeting of the state democratic executive committed
 MT. Pettus is nominee for delegate from the state at large to the constitutional con- vention. There has been a great deal of gossip to the effect that MT. Pettus would be a candidate for president of the consti- tutional convention. This gossip was evil dently based upon MT. Pettuss command ing position in the party and his unequaled prestige in Alabama as a presiding officer
 No other man in Alabama equals MT