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The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-06-11
AN OUTRAGE WITHOUT DE-
 FENCE

One of the most in lefensibie and brutal outrages that has been cum mitted in the United States in many years was the lynching of five men in Modoc County. Cal. few days ago, an account of which has been pub lished in the papers. The causes and conditions, and the act itself, deserve something more than a passing notice. as 1t was such an outrage as is hardly conceivable in a civilized community.
 It occasionally happens that cer- tain unpardonable crime is committed by a negro brute in the South and he is put to death at the first opportunity. Usually this is done while the horror and indignation caused by the out rage is still fresh in the minds of the people among whom the crime was committed. Sometimes. 1t is true, the victim is lynched after plenty of time has elapsed for reflection, but most of these lynchings take place while the passions are yet hot, and are generally punishment for one specific crime--a crime for which there is no pardon or mercy.
 1t is useless here to argue the right or wrong of these .lynchings, for they have nothing to do with the California incident. The causes bear no resemb- lance and the circumstances are en- tirely different. These five men in Californf a were, as a contemporary expresses it, taken from their beds in the middle of the night, bound and gagged, and without explanation. with no opportunity to be heard or any show of trial they were hanged in brutal fashion, some of them being actually dragged over rough ground to the place of execution
 And for what crime? Tt is alleged that for many years the men lynched had made a practice of stealing horses and cattle,"-is the reason given, and the only reason. So far as we have heard they were not desperadoes, out laws or bandits, but it is alleged that they stole horses and cattle. For this offense, supposing them guilty, they were dragged forth at night and hanged without trial or investigation.
 There was a time in California and other Western communities, before civil governments were formed or the machinery of law and order estab- | lished, when it sometimes happened that honest, law-abiding men were | forced to take affairs into their own hands and deal out justice for the safety and welfare of the community,
 bupt even these Regulators always
 gave their victim an opportunity to
 establish his innocence, and allowed
 him some form of trial. Executions
 of this kind occurred in obedience to
 what Is called "the first law of na-
 ture,' and the outlaws who were a menace to the public were driven off or put to death as the only means by
 which life and property could be made | secure.
 | In this Modoc affair we do not learn | that there was any form of trial, any | inquiry into the guilt or innocence of the accused, or any opportunity given l them to establish their innocence. They were simply taken out and mur- | dered. It must be borne in mind that Modoc is an organized county of Cali fornia. It has courts and judges and juries. and, presumably. has officers whose duty it is to execute the law. If there was reason to suppbse or sqS-
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-06-11
ELEVATE THE GovERNoRsH1P!
The Office Should Be Made Most At
 tractive for Itself.

Mobile Register.
 The Constitutional Convention will probably fix the term of Governor at four years and make the incumbent ineligible for reelection; neither will the incumbent be allowed to use the Governorship as a stepping stone for the Senatorship, as some men have at tempted to do. This being the lnten- tion. The Register urges that, as turn about is fair play, the office be made worth getting for itself alone. Let the salary of the Governor be raised to a respectable figure. This thing Of re- quiring a serious sacrifice of not only ones time and energy in the States service but also of ones material in terests. is not in keeping with the dignity of this great commonwealth. It is admitted that good men and true have from time to time made the sacrifice. but it is also apparent that men with ulterior designs have made an expedient out of the office. The Governorship ought to be the full and fitting reward for the man the people delight most to honor. It is now, how ever. something between a dumping ground for men we do not know how to dispose of otherwise and a Ealf way house for men bound elsewhere. Let this Convention see to it that no man when asked hereafter to aspire to the office of Governor shall be forced to say: 'I cannot afford it."
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-06-11

pect that these men were thieves, why
 was no effort made to apprehend and
 bring them to trial? What were the
 officers of the law doing that men in
 a civilized community should go on
 for years stealing cattle and horses with impunity and no remedy be found but lynching?
 Looking at the matter from any point of view, we can see no excuse or palliation for the act, and we are not surprised that the California papers are very much exercised over 1t, not only on account of the crime itself but because, as The Sacramento Bee es- presses it. everywhere California will be under reproach because of it," and because the occurrence "tends to create the impression that human life is not as sacred or secure in California as it ought to be-"
 It may seem slightly malicious If we remind The Bee that the Northern
 newspapers. almost without exception,
 exert themselves to create the same
 impression as to the South that The
 Bee fears for California. When a
 black brute is informally executed down here, the impression is sought to
 be created in the North that the oc- currence Is a natural and habitual one, and that human life is not safe. Yet we confidently assert that there has 4, ing the dark days of reconstruction, an outrage as absolutely without excuse as was that in Modoc County.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-06-11
IN THE PUBLIC EYE.
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Interesting Notes of Persons Talked
 About Now.

About Now.
 The Earl of Sealfield holds Great Britain's record as tree planter, hav- ing planted 60,O00 trees on 4O,0OO acres in Inverness shire.
 The Diwager Duchess of Abercorn, who will shortly enter her ninetieth year, can boast more descendants than even Queen Victoria could. The Queen had seventy four of these surviving, while the Duchess has IFS.
 John McDuffie of Cambridge, Mass, is to be reward for twenty-five years of service as clerk of committees or that city by a trip to Europe. The Mayor will grant leave of absence and the citizens are to subscribe $l,5oo.
 Among the passengers who landed from the City of Pekin at San Fran cisco the other day was Loo Chm An' 4 Chinese dignitary, who Is a taotal. or commissioner of commerce. LOO Chin An has been commissioned Dy ms government to visit the United states and examine into its commercial history and methods with view of adopting whatever may be good in them for the celestial kingdom.
 Emerson McMillin, the banker of New York City, who formerly llved Tn C0lum DuS, O.S Has PlOhAAoSN " N~--~S the expenses of week in the country for 1000 poor children of Columbus and other towns embraced in the Co., lumbus district of the Epworth League.
 Paul Revere the Revolutionary hero' was an inventor, though not many peo- ple are aware of the fact. He was the first man to refine and roll copper. In 1901 he founded the Revere Copper Company, and the concern is still run ming, under the same name. in Canton' Mass.
 Many theories have been put for ward with regard to King Edward s choice of name; that is, the dropping of the appellation Albert. IL IS, however. no secret that the King never liked the name of Albert" and 1t was only in deference to his mothers Tish that he signed himself Albert Ed ward" More than once he asked to De allowed to sign himself 'Eiwrcd cut the Queen was obdurate. The King knew that the name of Albert" would not be congenial to the British naticn, and as soon as Queen Victoria had nassed away he communicated to Lord Salisbury his wish to be known aS Eo- ward VII.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-06-11
Got the Best of Them

CentreVille Press.
 The whiskey element in a Mississippi town nominated a minister of the gos- pei for constable. thinking it would anger him, but the little joke didn't work worth cent. The reverend gen. tleman pulled off his coat and went out electioneering among his congregation, and the best element and was elected. He now declares that the Sunday and midnight closing law will be enforced. He can attend to his spiritual affairs and keep an eye on the violators of the law at the same time. We venture to say that no more fool jokes of that kind will be launched.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-06-11
Valuable for Reference

MOnfoe JournaI
 When man buys a daily newspaper that claims to print "all the news" his disappointment amounts to disguest when he fails to get what he has paid for and has right to expect. No com plaint of this character can be justly lodged against The Montgomery Ad- vertiser regarding its report of the Constitutional Convention. Verbatim stenographic records of proceedings are published each day in The Advertiser, and while few find time to wade through the entire mass, this fact de- tracts nothing from the commendable enterprise of that paper. A file of The Advertiser will be valable for future reference
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-06-11

The Chattanooga Times explains that it used the term available" as applied to Southern men as Presiden- fial possibilities, as meaning that one could not be elected and had no thought of saying or intimating that there are no Southern men fitted for inc position. Taking that view of the term The Times is doubtless correct, however much we may regret it.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-06-11
Butchers on a strike.

oakland, Cal, June 10.-Between 800 and 400 butchers, meat choppers and carvers, walked out of the various butcher shops of the city this morn ing and during the day. The trouble is between the men and the wholesal- CTS at the stock yards, who refused to display union cards.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-06-11
Educating the Voters.

OOV HE IUII 11IIIGI pr IS6.
 The Advertiser is educating the vot- CTS. and they are anxious learners and will stand by the convention, provided the convention stands by their prom ises and will pass such laws as will absolutely purify politics in Alabama :. The people are not so much interested in holding congressional seats as they are in securing sons worthy of the places. Then disfranchise Sambo. boss and ballot thieves and the people will surely ratify the action.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-06-11
A New Sandwich Filling.

Truly delicious is a sandwich filling of fresh grated cocoanut, to which a little sugar and some mt meats tEop- ped very fine have been added-the whole moistened with sweet cream be- fore being spread between thin, crust less slices of white or brown sandwich ed bread.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-06-11

The ,Greencastle Qnd) Star-Press has this to say on our conventions work:
 should Alabama constitutionally rid it. ssif of the Ignorant negro vote and the rnerchantable white vote, 1t will take is election results will be unquestioned because of election records from which all corrupt and questionable methods have been eliminated.
 That is. just the object for which good and true men at the State House are Iaborins. and we have an abiding faith that they will succeed
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-06-11
The Advertisers Gallery

CaIera Sentinel.
 The Advertisers art gallery of mem- bers of the Constitutional Convention is popular feature of that paper. The pictures are not only good, bus the ar rangement of them is very artistic. The Advertiser is a favorite paper with the masses of Alabama.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-06-11
The Protective Tariff Idiocy.

Johnstown (Pa.) Democrat.
 Men. trade. if untrammelIed. where they can buy lowest and sell best. England is taking our cottons and silks and iron products only because we can offer better bar gains than the people of other coun- tries. And yet we find influences at work to maintain the high tariff wall that greater prices may be demanded of producers and consumers in the pro- tected home market than In the open markets where we find profitable de- mand for our protected products. IL is nossible that idocy has lower depths. hui not probable outside of an asylum.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-06-11
Tariff Revision Must Come.

Dallas News.
 . MT. Hanna is reported to have said that he does not expect any great change in the Dingley tariff bill by the next Congress and the admins tration is said to be opposed to any such change. These expressions are entirely natural. There is ip the Re- publican party a disposition to change the tariff laws. and if some opposition is not shown the cut made might be very deep. Hence. these words Of op- position are merely in the nature of move to prevent radicalism in dealing with the favorite law of the Repunh- can party. The people of this ccun- try will not submit to law which re- suits in foreigners being charged less for American goods than an American is charged. And no one knows this better than the Republican party. It's ear is never a foot from the ground.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-06-11

An item is going the rounds of the newspaper to the effect that the ren which Aguinaldo held in his hand when Funston's Macabebes coilared him has arrived in this country" but We sus- pect the statement only applies to one of the pens. It will require well equipped pen-factory to ecp up with the demand. as soon as the fad be- comes fashionable.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-06-11

Scotland finally swallowed her pride and accepted Carnegie's $1O.OOo.0Oo. as was right and proper. Voluntary coi4- sributions for charitable or educational purposes can be accepted by any com munity without discredit. and We were never able to understand why there should have been any objection on the mart of any of the Scotch people.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-06-11
WITH OUTSIDE EDITORS.
Vigorous Views of Prominent Papers
 on Timely Topics.
One of the Present-Day Needs.

One of the Present-Day Needs. Boston Herald.
 We need now a division of parties which shall make the control of men at the center as little absolute over those men at the circumference as is compatible with their good, and we may add, with our own. We need to keep our character as a republic, with the aim of freedom for all, at the helm in our public policy, and not to lower the standard to conform to the practice of nations which have not cur republican ideal.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-06-11

The Indianapolis Journal is unduly worried lest the Constitution of the United States shall be everlastingiy souabashed by some of the Southern states. We beg to remind The Journal that the hot season is nearing us and if should avoid. undue excitement.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-06-11
Thinks It a Good Idea

JdSper EdgIe.
 We believe that the idea to make those within a certain age produce a poll tax receipt before he can vote Is a good one to incorporate into the suf- frage plan. Nearly all good. substantial citizens, the men who have the welfare of their county and State at heart, al- ways have to pay poll tax, they nev- CT escape, and it is>nothing but right that the other fellows pay poll tax. too, if they vote.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-06-11

The Piedmont Enquirer certainly or it would not defend or advocate the dog-tax ordinance introduced into the Convention. That is purely leg islative matter and has no business ;n a Constitution.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-06-11

The %syllacauga Enterprise is con- yinced that popular sentiment favQrs a reduction of the number of square miles necessary to form new counties in Alabama, and we believe The En- terprise is correct. The Constitution should reduce the minimum, and then let such new counties be formed as she people most interested desire.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-06-11

If TiIlman and McLaurin and the Governor have any doubts about theIr duty. let them combine and make the. rssignations unanimous as to Senator ships.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-06-11
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 WITH ALABAMA EDITORS.
An Idea of Twain
Mobile Register.

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 An Albany minister has me ie a com parison between Mark Twain and the Devil and his judgment .s that Twain is worse than the Devil. We have long thought that Twain was Q devil of a fellow. \
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-06-11
Forcing Sampson to the Front.

Washington Uimes.
 The country is heartily sick of the Sampson -Schley controversy, but 1t will probably be kept alive just as long as the navy ring insists upon shower ing honors upon Sampson to which he is not entities. The placing of Samp- sons portrait upon medal commence rative of the naval operations !n West Indian waters, to the exclusion of that of Schley. is in itself a small matter, but it is of piece with the studied effort that has been made from the beginning to enhance the glory of Sampson at the expense of Schley.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-06-11

Looking at the matter from this dis tance. we are profoundly impressed with the view that Tillman needed something much more extensive than a patchwork when Gov. McSweeney's letter reached him. He needed an ar nor plate, for even his paehyderma- tous cuticle must have been pene- frafAd.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-06-11

Kansas. too, has gone over to the money power, and is now one oS the communities where a calamity howler can't earn his salt at his favorite oe- cupation Eae ~
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-06-11

A contemporary intimates that i: there is any doubt about when it Is ssfiy time..' it may be settled by bear ing in mind that it always come when a dog gets after you.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-06-11
The Louisville Courier-Journal is getting tired of defeat and remarks:

It may be very sinful of us; but, some how. we would just like to win one more National victory before we pass In the only little white ones, mind you MT. Richardson!-and get out aad over to the side of a majority.
 Democracy's time will come, we verify believe, but we must get us back to the old landmarks and follow the old paths.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-06-11
Progress Along Tariff Lines.

Albany Argus.
 It is already apparent that the low tariff wing of the Republican party in the northwest has not been dead, but only sleeping. Even President Mo- Kinley makes speeches and statements which the hidebound organs of protec- tionism. learning nothing and forget ting nothing, feel obliged to explain or deny. The significance of 1t all is unmistakable. The cause of tariff re- form. in the interests of the many. Is today in a more hopeful condition than for many weary years.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-06-11

A Chicago crank offers a reward or si 900 to any man who will carry on his business for one month honestly and without lying. Are editors barred?
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-06-11

The Savannah Press insists that every good Democrat Is more of Tiilman than a McLaurin man. The Press evidently reads The sCommoner.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-06-11
AN EASTERN PRESIDENT

The Chattanooga Times serves mo- tice on those Western Republicans who are preening their feathers for A flight towards the Presidential chair that they may as we'll settle them selves on their perches for an indef- mite period of rest, for it says the nominee will undoubtedly be an East ern man. The Times points out that since the Republican Party was or- ganized in 1856 1t has had but one candidate from the East-James G. Blaine-and he was defeated. That really doesn't seem like good reason for taking a candidate from that sec tion in 1904, but The Times reasons in this way:
 Next time the Party will find itself un- der the necessity of taking some man tinuous relation to Federal affairs, and Odell of New York is the most promising as to availability. A special effort will be required to hold the three normally close and doubtful States, New York, New Jersey and Connecticut in the Republi- can line. In that regard no Western man would lend any strength to the ticket and the old scheme or giving the East
 
 tail that wags nothing, not even itself will not do, in. 1904.
 It is altogether probable that New York will be the battle ground in the next campaign, and for that reason prudence and good politics will lead the Republicans to select a man who can carry that State. MT. Blaine once remarked, with more force than delicacy, Western men have too d. much record" and 1t may be that the Western aspirants are overloaded with records of kind which will make them obnoxious in the East. In that case the Party will naturally look out for the strongest man, and if, he is an Eastern man, that will settle it. 2.
 Meantime, what of the Democrats2 Are they not expected to have any finger in the pie? If Democracy expects to cut any figure in the contest and to enter it with either hope or desire of success. those who control the organi- zation may as we'll make up their | minds to look to the Eastern section of the country for the necessary electoral votes. Our Party has never elected man whose home was west of Ten neseee ,and is not likely to do so. Talk about uniting the West and the South is all rot, unless some better ground of union can be found than has been tried So far. If We can go before the country with a candidate and a plat form offering a fair chance to secure the great Democratic States which voted for Cleveland. we may succeed, but no more rainbow chasing if you pleae! If Democracy has man who can regain New York and other States which were lost by political lunacy, let him be brought forth and placed on a sound platform, otherwise we may. as well let the election go by default. There is no more room for experiments nor the exploitation of any one mans theories. The fight must be made on Democratic platform and led by Democrat, otherwise we may settle ourselves for a rest until 1908 at least.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-06-11
Prepared to Live at Home

DUIHdH SIItlngS.
 We are going to buy us a small spot of land and when the "old gushing" habit hits Dothan. we will be in the swim or next to it. Incidentally. we shall strive to build us small house and chicken coop on 1t, and when the oil comes gushing up at rate of $30,0oe pr $iO.00o per day. we will be prepared to live at home.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-06-11

If Mark Twain set out with the pur- nose of stirring up Dr. Ament. he cer- tainiy made monumental success Of the job.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1901-05-25

Three children, boy and two girls,
brother and sisters, have had a terrible
avalanche experience at Ornon. The
children, neither of whom was more
than 10, were overwhelmed, and the
brother was carried over a, precipice
300 feet high and buried under tons of
snow, ice and rocks, his body not yet
having been recovered. One of the girls
was thrown into a shallow crevasse,
whence she managed to extricate her
self. The other girl caught at a tree
as she was falling and managed to hold
on to it. For half an hour she chung
TO the branches, with a drop of 800
feet below, until her sister succeeded
in obtaining assistance. When she
was ultimately rescued by man who
was lowered over the precipice by
rope, she was in on exhausted condi-
tion, and collapsed on being brought
to solid ground.