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Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1899-05-24
TIME TABLE.
From and After January !, 1899.
TRAINS,

f. @. SMITH, Genn Pass. IL Tick
Agent.
G, p. DENIsoN, Superintendent.
The age-herald., 1899-04-23
ltIs Up to the People

The democratic party still lives. The new rep-pop-Johnston party will include very few former democrats-a mere handful at the best. The party of Morgan and Pettus and Bankhead and Underwood and of a thousand other brainy and true leaders is still the party that men will follow in Ala bama. It is the time-honored democratic party, and no man who knows Alabama's needs and dangers will leave it.
 The meeting of the state executive com gomery on Friday was chiefly remarkable { for it's warm support of a Constitutional convention, for enthusiasm, and for a de- termination to uphold the party in the full |. only the honored organization, but to up- hold the convention policy without qualifi- cation or deviation of any sort. March straight to the front" said Senator Morgan to the committee, and that is just what the committee now leading the party proposes to do.
 The state executive committee proposes to hold a grand ratification meeting in Mont gomery on the eve of May 2. The Age Herald begs leave to suggest that each of the sixty-six county executive committees support and promote the work in hand by holding at their respective court houses county ratification meetings before the meeting of the legislature. The resolutions and the speeches and the tones of such county meetings would be wholesome be- yond doubt, and they would be felt in the action of the legislature. An honest repre- sentative always desires to know the will of those whom he represents. County rati- fication meetings between this time and May would be excellent opportunities for testing and measuring public sentiment. The sentiment of the party will be found to be sound and full of courage. Trust the people under any and all circumstances. The man who distrusts the people either has something up his sleeve, or else some thing is buzzing in his bonnet.
The age-herald., 1899-04-23
The Journals Man of the Hour

If the word, or rather the Judgment, of the~inspired Montgomery Journal be in- failible, ft-is all over but the shouting; for it declares that there will be no constitu- tional convention. It says so with tears in its eyes; for it seems that when the demo- cratic party decided to support the conven- tion proposition that settled adversely the conventions fate. The reasoning of the in- spired Journal is very peculiar, but what it lacks in logic it makes up in emphasis It declares over and over again that the con- vention proposition is doomed to defeat be- cause the democrats of the state have de- cided to support it. No matter how bad a man or party may be- it is generally con- sidered gain when that man or party de- cfdes to support a proposition. But it seems recruits weaken a cause in the Journals eyes. But all is not lost, adds the Journal. The proposed constitution is hopelessly and utterly lost, but out of the wreck "a man of nerve and courage" has appeared. His aame is Johnston, and he has appeared to
 
 old party-to save the people-to snatch them from an yawning abyss. He proposes no doubt to weld the fragments into party of his own. The heroic remedy is to be ap- piled, for the hero has appeared. He will lead to the rescue all of the populists and republicans in the legislature, but just how many democrats he will be able to pull into the new and strange combine does not as yet clearly appear Private Secretary Cory's statements over the wires are not official, and fuller and better returns are awaited. In the meanwhile the inspired Journal should not be so unqualifiedly and altogether cocksure. There are many slips between the cup and the lip, as the recent vote in the state executive committee plainly shows, and the inspired Journal should furnish more names and specifica- tions and do less crowng
The age-herald., 1899-04-23
THE MURMUR
 OF THE WORLD

When the thunder roared and the light ming flashed, and the rain came down in vast flood, yestereen, possibly many of us who looked and listened and wondered, and rejoiced in the majestic beauty of it all did not comprehend that in it all there was hu- man suffering. Human joy we most of. us comprehend in some indistinct sort of way; but human suffering we too often lose sight of in the pursuit of our own pleasures.
 
 We all of us often neglect the things we ought to do; the infirmities of all of us being great But what we neglect most is the word of good cheer when it can be really and actually and practically good cheer, and the doing of the good deed when it is good to do it. We pass the Thin Red Line" sometimes when we had best pause at it, and reflect. Mrs. Buffers immortal picture is a heritage of our race Balaklaya can no more pass from us than the magma charta. Onward thundered the six hum dred! and they must go onward through all the ages. The last of the Cardigans perished there; but how noble his passing! It was all mistake-the sublimest mis- take in history. It was the nobest of all exhibitions of human courage since the band of Leonidas died, save Plckett's charge.
 In these piping hours of peace we have
The age-herald., 1899-04-23
The Hague Conference

Like the Chicago platform whether it re peace conference at The Hague, whether it at once brings disarmament or not, will bo very historic. Each will mark in hs- tory and in fact, a new era. The final effects of each cannot now be measured or even foreseen.
 Disarmament, as we all know, has long been discussed by those given to the ex- presson of ideas in the abstract. While such people were advocating peace, their respective governments were swelling out their war budgets that they might later on add to their armaments, both military and naval. But now comes the young czar at the head of a great military machine, and asks that a halt be called in war prep arations. No other power or potentate could have spoken in such a cause with equal effect.
 He speaks for great country in a fa- vorable time. He speaks when no inter- national question threatens-when the de- sire for peace is almost worldwide He speaks at period h she worlds history when wars have through material causes become extremely expensive and burden sonic. and comparatively infrequent. We
The age-herald., 1899-04-23
Popular Election ot a Senator

The Mobile News is mistaken when it says that the manner of electing United States senators cannot be changed except through an amendment of the federal con- stitution. That instrument does declare that senators shall be chosen by the legis- latures of the several states. That instru- ment also declares that presidents and vice-presidents shall be elected by little knots of selected men, called electoral col- leges. The latter provision stands, and yet it has been abolished, paradoxieal as the statement may appear. The people nomi- nate and elect presidents and vice-presi- dents, and the electoral automatoms are placed on their honor, and not one of them has ever failed to meet the wishes of the people,
 Exactly parallel action could be had in the matter of electing United States sena- tors. The people in their respective con- yentions or primaries could select party candidates for senator, leaving the legisla- ture to ratify the selection in accordance with political predilectons. If, for exam ple the democrats of Alabama nominated John Smith for United States senator, the democratic legislators, if in a majority, would confirm the nomination. And the legislators would act as honorable represen- tatives, just as the electors act in the electoral colleges.
 The nomination of a senator in state convention would, however, be nearly as objectionable as the selection of one in legislature. Trades and dickers and in- trlgues would come in in each case. South Carolina has adopted the best popular
The age-herald., 1899-04-23
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE

The Southern Argus is to be revived within the next two weeks, and will issue from Montgomery Colonel Robert Mckee will be the editor. It would be in Alabama journalism a sacrelige if any newspaper bearing the name of The Southern Argus bore any other name as editor than that of Robert Mckee The recreation of the Southern Argus will be an event in Ala bama journalism of very great importance.
 Colonel Mckee "belongs" to Maysville, Ky, and whilst he was still youth was made editor of the Louisville Courier, the rival paper to George D. Prenttce's famous Journal; the two papers now being com bined as the Louisville Courier-Journal. The Courier was southern in it's sympathies, and young Mckee 'called down., Prentice on all occasions. Colonel Mckee was forced to fly from Kentucky, and with him the principal owner of the Courier, w. N. Haldeman, now the manager of the Courier-Journal The federal bayonet had come to rule in Kentucky.
 Colonel Mckee was appointed a staff of- fcer after he was forced to fly southward, and so comes rightfully by his title. He served with the confederate forces in Mis- sissippi and endured many privations. On one occasion he was forced to pay twenty five cents a cup for water, which was so full of wiggletails that he had to strain 1t through not very clean handkerchief. At the end of the war between the states Col- onel Mckee, a very young man still, pro- ceeded to Selma and there established the Southern Argus, weekly journal to which his genius gave more character than was deserved by any other southern newspaper. For many years Colonel Mckee conducted the Argus with great success, and made himself the first journalistic force of Ala bama, and therefore the first political force For more than dozen years he did more to shape the public opinion of Ala bama than any other man in the state.
 In 1860 Colonel Mckee was made private
The age-herald., 1899-04-23

may not appreciate the fact that wars are becoming rarer, but the fact Is none the less true. The world Is outgrowing the set- tlement by force of controversies. The Sa- moan problem is a case in point In some former periods such a trouble would have been settled by blood-letting on large and almost disastrous scale; now three mild mannered men, going to the scene in a ship doubtless adjust to the satisfaction of all concerned the entire problem. They may be able to please even the half-civilized sa- moans Equity and right, as the czar ex- presses 1t, are supplanting the sword.
 But some of the proposals that are to be discussed at the ezar's peace conference firearms, new explosives and more power full powders-the use of high explosives, and the discharge of shells from balloons the use of rams and torpedo boats-are of doubtful utility. The barring of such things would, it is claimed, make war less dread- full; but is It wise to make war less dread full? Wars are becoming less frequent be- cause they are so dreadful, and perhaps it would be well to let the process work out its logical results.
 There is, however, a side that will stand promotion and development to the fullest possible extent-arbitration, peaceful arbi- tration for the settlement of international issues. The establishment of great inter- national court for the settlement of boun- diary disputes, of doubtful clauses in treat ies, of troubles among or over small states of everything, in short. except national revenge or national glory-might avert many wars. Even without the aid of a great international court The Hague con- ference may be able to promote arbitra- ton. The world inclines to arbitration. Today this country is engaged in settling by arbitration boundary dispute in the Klon- dike country, a commercial dispute in Canada, and regular international shindy in Samoa. The United States is an object lesson to the diplomats whom the czar has summoned to The Hague, and this country will doubtless stand there for the widest possible extension of the happier and bet ter method for settling international differ euceg
The age-herald., 1899-04-23
The Music Festival

Bir1ningham's Music Festival is yet nearly two weeks off, but 1t Is believed that by the end of this week enough tickets will have been sold not only to relieve the guar antors, but to put a good balance in the associations treasury for next years fes- tival. Certain it is, the festival is topic of absorbing interest, and will be untl it is over The indications are the auditor i1m will be filled at each of the three per- formances.
 Those who have had the privilege of att tending the rehearsals speak of the work of the chorus in terms of unbounded praise. Cincinnati boasts of larger festival chorus than Birmingham's but in tone quality, ensemble and all the other points that go to make up splendid choral work this city does not suffer at all in comparison. As for the vocal soloists and the orchestra, several of the former have achieved high fame, and they will not fail to delight the music lovers of Birmingham, while the latter made such an excellent impression a year ago that no one who heard it then will willingly miss it this time.
 In the midst of our material, work-a-day life, it is indeed refreshing to have the fes- tival to look forward to. Good music is es- sentially refining and uplifting as well as diverting. It is in a large measure relig- ious. Birmingham cannot have too much of it.
The age-herald., 1899-04-23
\ NED BRACE TALKS ABOUT POLITICIANS t/
 AND WHY IT Is BETTER NoTTO BEO ONE }

I am sorry to see so much bitterness and anmosity in the political world. Life is too short to spend 1t in all fighting and no fun. I don't blame people for fighting If it is necessary, but continued bad temper is fatal to digestion and dangerous to health. I was sorry to see the governor deal in some temper and much innuende in his mes- sage, but think the executive committee
 men and nominees for delegates to the con- stitutional convention roasted him rather severely.
 It strikes me that the governor has made big mIstake-a fatal political error But he is human, and he seems to be thoroughly honest in his belief of his own greatness, and his power as a great leader or dictator However, Governor Johnston is not the only man who has achieved high office and suf- fered from his own greatness.
 He is different from his ex-great and good friend, MT. Cleveland, who rantankerously opposed having congress on his hands," Governor Johnston seems to like having the legislature on his hands, he having called an extra session to repeal the constitutional convention act which the legislature pass ed and which he signed. He has the power to call the extra session, but perhaps, when it convenes he will regret having another legislature on his hands. hear the plan is to adjourn on the very day it meets and l rather think 1t good plan, simply be- cause I think the people themselves best know what they want. When the people speak, they usually right If the peo- pie don't want a constitutional convention, 1t is with the people to say so. And every good citizen, whatever be his sphere of life, should accept the result pacifically.
 The governor shoots at Alabama editors bit in his message, but that does no harm. Editors are supposed to express the senti- ments of the people, and they usually do. The governor would make it appear that those who oppose him do so for selfish mo- tives purely. No one, apparently, in his opinion, can have any interest in the main- tenanee of the honor and integrity of the democratic party, and pure and good gov ernment in Alabama, but himself. He in- inmates that all not with him are desert CTS. tax dodgers, office seekers without ability, or rapacious corporations Indeed, he gives no one credit for honesty of pur- pose but himself. This is why 1t looks as if the governor is bit angry. But hope that neither personalities nor weapons of innuendo will play any further part in the campaign.
 The whole matter is simply a great econo- mic issue for the people to determine, and it should be determined calmly and con- sistently.
 Men get mad in politics and aften say un- kind things about each other, which should
The age-herald., 1899-04-23

go unsaid. Mistakes of this kind have been made on both sides. was sorry to see the other day that one of the Age-Herald cor respondents, in writing from Montgomery. spoke of several gentlemen holding office under the state administration, as "hench- men, of the governor, working for him in this contest. Such things at this are great mistakes. There are as good and true men holding office under the state administra- tion as can be found in this state or any other state of the union. These men are entitled to the credit of just as much hon. esty of purpose as are men on any side of any other question. I know many of them, and I don't know any bet ter, purer, or more honest men anywhere, than such as Captain Booker, Auditor White, Bob McDavid, and indeed, all of them. I rather think some of these men don't appreciate the importance of the sit- uation to the democratic party, but they are as much entitled to their honest views as am to mine, and it is mistake for either side to throw mud at the other side. The question itself Is strong enough to oc- cupy the attention of the people of the state, but intelligence exercised for the benefit of the whole people should settle it.
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 Politics, after all is an unproductive and unpleasant avocation of life. We have too much politics in Alabama There has been a continuous round of it-primaries, elec- tions, conventions, legislative sessions and suabblings of all Kinds, for many months past. It is time for the business men to have their turn. They want good laws un- der which they can do extensive business ard they should have these laws and have them quickly. Bob Taylor said the other night that the happiest days of his life have been since he was pushed out of poli- tics, and he said 1t with an earnestness which showed he meant every word of it. Even the great Thomas B. Reed is surfeited with it. and has announced that he will re- sign the speakership of the house of rep resentatives and conflne himself to legiti- mate business and pleasures of life for the remainder of his time on earth. It is said that Reed has been offered retainers to the amount of $50,000 year to settle down quietly and practice law. Of course, every politician can't get out and get a salary like this, but it is rare that you find a man who can't better provide for his family out side of politics than within. I will venture the asserton that the present governor of Alabama was much happier as a bank president than he has been as governor.
 The holder of public office is a legiti- mate target for everybody and that alone is far from pleasant, yet he invites it by accepting the office
 Speaking of politics, perhaps the most
The age-herald., 1899-04-23
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gravestone of the other is Browning" God help the man who could stand there without some feeling of reverenee!
 It was not the purpose of this little story to discuss Balaldava, or Thermopylea, or Pickett at Gettysburg, or to deal with a purely personal matter relating to Alfred Baron Tennyson. These matters merely ran in, so to speak. What caused it all were thoughts of Tennyson suggested by the greening trees of these spring days-of Maud" of Sir Launeelot, of Sir Galahad and hundred other creations of the great est of all men who have sung in England. Shakespeare was not a singer. The majes- tic sweep of many hearth on this dark globe sighs after many vanished face. and many planet by many sun doth roll with the dust of a vanished race!" appeals to all men and all women, and there is no nobIer in our language.
 
 The greeningA trees-and how wondrously beautiful is their greening-should give fruitful lesson to us all It is the renewal of the worlds youth. of the youth of man. kind It places upon every one. posscssed of soul the marvellous spell of truth, of the recreation, of the dawn of the new day, when the birds sing, when the flowers brighten the earth, when the violets paint the land in royal purple, and when the laughter of children gladdens every heart that is not hardened! There is the new life the new flowers, the new leaves upon the trees-the new hopes in the human heart. THE MURMURER.
The age-herald., 1899-04-23

remarkable instance In the history of this country is that which has just occurred in Pennsylvania. The legislature refused to re-elect Quay to the senate He was on trial for extracting from the state treasury funds of the state to be used by himself in specuIatfng. Quay was strong enough politically to bring about his acquittaI in face of the evidence, and added to that, he was strong enough to force the governor of the state to reappoint him to the senate.
 I don't think much of Quay's honesty, but no one can fail to admire his nerve re- member when Quay was called before the famous sugar investigating committee in Washington. He was one of the last sena- tors called. The others had all denied that they had ever bought or sold sugar stock, though everybody knew that fully one fourth of them had been speculating in 1t. When Quay was called he said: "Yes, I have bought and sold sugar stock, and I propose to continue to do so if care to. It is nobody's business but mine" That end- ed the matter so far as MT. Quay was con- cerned. His fellow senators respected him for his statement.
 I am glad to see the official statement that there were no negroes present at the Jefferson dollar dinner, which MT. Bryan attended in New York. MT. Bryan's politi- cal enemies made every effort to injure him in the south by sending out the story that he had dined with negroes, but this official statement on the part of the Associated Press, which first gave credenee to the political fake, will put an end to the mat ter.
 I am glad to see that the real estate men and property holders of Birmingham are coming to their senses and that everybody is opposed to another boom. Rooms are ing benefit. The only way to prevent one in Birmingham now is for property holders to refuse to sell on small cash payments, and am glad to see that number of the largest property holders of Birmingham have agreed among themselves that they will not sell any property and accept less than one-third cash as a first payment wild speculation. That's what every good citizen wants. Birmingham is right now in a delicate condition. The prospects are that it will become a great city, and that many millions of dollars will be invested here but foolish action on the part of its present citizens and property holders would kill it in short while.
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The age-herald., 1899-04-23
A WIDER RANGE. A DEEPER SEA

 B. w. Waltermire in Ohio State Journal. I love to finger near the shore When tempests beat and thunders roar; When breakers dash against the main And reel and stagger back again. When white-caps, rushing from the sea, Strike hard and cry, q will be free'' Like things of life they seem to leap, And lift themselves from out the deep-- With purpose fixed to rend the rock Submerging all beneath the shock That they may range forever more In space, unbounded by shore. To me, these pillows seem to cry; I'll scale these shores, rock-ribbed and
 high;
 l must away; I will be free; There is a wider range for me, ,S A broader field, deeper sea, As boundless as eternity Though all the ocean, wide and deep, Is theirs through which to range and leap, They seem to cry; '"This narrow sea Contains not room enough for me- And lifting high their crest again, They hurl themselves against the main. And so, within this house of clay, My soul cries out: T must away, This narrow earth, and air and skys .t My boundless longing doth defy. ,l,. There is a wider range for me, .j TX A shoreless. vast eternity" sI .,t.s is