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The age-herald., 1901-06-12
plants making finished products.

plants making finished products.
 Having made arrangements for addi- tions to the present finished product plants and improving the ore mines of the Tennessee Company, Mir. Bacon, the chairman of the board of directors of the company, will at noon today leave for Chicago. He will go to New York during the latter part of the week and return to Birmingham early in July.
 Mir. Mccormack's Successor.
 It was announced yesterday that the successor to MT. G. B. Mccormick, gen. eral manager of the Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Company, would be MT. Charles McCreery, who was formerly con- nected with the Duquesne Iron Company of Pennsylvania, and at present general manager of the Nova Scotia Coal and Iron Company. MT. McCreery will arrive in Birmingham about the 1st of July, and will at that time relieve MT. G. B. Me- Cormick as general manager of the Ten nessee Company.
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White Cliff Hotel. White % olln
ST. CLAIR SPRINGS

The Baden-Baden of Alabama will be opened as a first class health and summer resort on
 JUNE THE FIRST, 1901. by the undersigned. We have built g. large dining room, bath house and pavil- ion. and have fitted up number of cot tages with all the comforts of modern hotels.
 Our service, cuisine and accommoda- tions will be perfect, our prices moderate. St. Clair Springs is the best family re- sort of the South.
 For terms or any other information write us either directly to St. Clair Springs, post office Cornelia, St. Clair County. Alabama, or care of our city ad- dress, the new Metropolitan Hotel, Bir- mingham, Ala.
 LESSER 6 oILARDoNI. 5-22-wed-fri-sun-tf
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 to prevent strikes and settle labor dis. putes. He said its power was only to be enforced in cases where both parties agreed to abide by its decision. That fl was impracticable to make it binding un- less the parties agreed.
 He then explained the article which all lows sheriff to be impeached and sus- pended from office for allowing a prisoner to be taken from him or seriously hurt while in his possession. He said the law should protect a helpless prisoner, and If an officer did not do his duty, there should be some way to punish him.
 The section allowing the Governor and Treasurer to loan temporarily any sur plus funds n the treasury was explained in it's details. The only objection to be urged to it sad Governor Jones, was that 1t might be considered improper un- der any circumstances to ever allow money to go out of the treasury except in payment of debts.
 A Lively Debate.
 Governor Jones at the conclusion of his remarks withdrew his first motion and moved that the ordinance be read section by section. This motion was adopted, and the first section was read. This enumer- ated the various State officers. which were the same as at present with the exception of a lieutenant governor. The word State was stricken out in the sec ond line before the words treasurer and auditor on motion of Governor Oates.
 MT. Long of Walker then offered an amendment to strike out the words lieu tenant governor. He said he thought 1t was unwise to create this office. It was no more needed. he said, than wagon needs five wheels. It did not fix his salary, which was left to the legislature It took away the right of the Senate tc elect its own presiding officer He said the very mention of lieutenant governor would take away 10000 votes among the Hill Billies. The Democratic leaders had taught the people to despise this office, and the convention was pledged not to create more offices They might as well
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CONVENTION ADOPTS FIRST TWO
 SECTIONS OF THE CONSTITUTION

Continued from First Pase.)
The Conservative, 1901-04-25

York; are usually permitted to tell the
jury anything they choose, whether it
is in the evidence or not When the
jurors have listened to the speeches Of
counsel, and the charge of the judge,
they have only commenced their work
their most difficult duties are yet to be
performed. They are now expected to
weigh all the testimony, which they
have heard, and thoroughly analyze it.
To do so, properly, and proftably, con-
where reconcilement is possible, and
where it is impossible, wise discrimi-
nation must be exercised, in selecting
from this testimony, whatever seems
most worthy of credence.
Necessity of Mental Training.
From the mass of evidence-often
from maze of contradictions-the
facts which establish, or most strongly
tend to establish, the truth must be
extracted ; and to accomplish this sue
cessfully, there ought to be clear un-
derstanding of the points at issue. If
these various steps are executed in
thorough manner, demand is made
upon the reasoning faculties to greater
degree than the intellect of the average
man is accustomed to-; and while it may
not absolutely necessitate mental train
ing and discipline in similar work, yet,
such training will be of great assistance,
in arriving at correct conclusions. It is
obvious that the man who has had
wide experience of trials in court; who,
as q part of his profession, has been
compelled to listen to the testimony of
witnesses, and to carefully consider, not
only their testimony, but their demea-
nor, while on the witness stand; whose
mind, both by education and experience,
has become trained to logical processes
of thought, and to the ready detection
of fallacies in the arguments that are
addressed to him, upon the testimony, is
far better able to arrive at an accurate
determination of the issues involved,
than is the man who has no such exper-
fence, and no such training.
But the jurors duties are not yet con-
cluded. When he has weighed and
sifted the evidence respecting the truth
of the matters Of fact involved, func-
tion of paramount Importance and
serious difficulty remains to be exercised.
He must now apply the law, as given
him by the judge, to the facts. To do
this, intelligently, often requires much
clear-thinking and a more-than ordinary
exercise of the reasoning faculties, for
the instructions of the court are often
numerous, as we'll as lengthy; some of
them, in addition, are likely to involve
more than one proposition. Moreover,
The Conservative, 1901-04-25
TRIAL BY JURY.
PART II.


proceedings, has now been reached. In
criminal cases, the jurors have but one
question to decide, viz: The guilt or
innocence of the accused, and, it is pos
sible, that the employment of juries, for
this purpose, may, at present, be the
most desirable method of reaching a
conclusion. The questions involved, in
the majority of civil cases, are far more
intricate and technical.
The jury system exists, chiefly, in the
United States, Great Britain, and coun-
tries under British control. Instead of
being the usual method Of determining
matters of fact, among the enlightened
nations of the world, it is the excep-
tional method It has not been adopted
by the nations of continental Europe,
although such countries as Germany,
France and Switzerland, have attained
a high degree of civilization, and are
engaged in most of the numerous indus
tries of the age, both commercial and
agricultural. AS result, the controver-
sizes in their courts, are as varied, and
as complicated, as are those of the En-
glish-speaking world, where trial by
jury is the almost universal custom;
and as they are apt to arouse the same
passions, as we'll as to excite the same
prejudices, they demand an equal
knowledge of the practical affairs of
life. Continental Europe, however, ap-
pears to have found no need for the
jury system, in spite of it's operation for
centuries in the neighboring country Of
Great Britain, and for fully century in
the United States Moreover, it is unde-
niable that nearly all the nations of con-
tinental Europe, which have adopted the
process of trial by jury in criminal
cases, have rejected the characteristic of
unanimity, which is considered of para
mount Importance in the Great Repub-
lie, and in the British Isles. This con-
dition shows that trial by jury is not
essential to the decision of important
questions of fact, and it also furnishes
oOAAO ONAuOACO ~ 10 AAOV UAAO UCoU
method, otherwise, it would, in all prob
ability, have been incorporated in the
judicial systems of all nations.
Incompetency of the Jury.
The absence of experience, in the
functions of legal tribunal, under
which the majority of juries necessarily
labor, is of itself complete disqualifi-
cation for dealing with cases Of an in
volved character, such as those which
occupy great part of the time of the
courts. Any case, which contains a
complication of facts, with contradic-
tory evidence on both sides, and requires
both natural sagacity, and the habit of
weighing and comparing conflicting
arguments, and rejecting plausible falla-
The Conservative, 1901-04-25
Che Conservative.

pected, are often unable to agree upon
verdict. Upon the other hand, it not
infrequently happens, that when they
have succeeded in coming to an agree
ment, they have drawn wrong conclu-
sions from the evidence, and the in
jured party is compelled to incur the
expense and delay of asking the courts
to order new trial
The judge, seeing the bewilderment
of the jury, occasionally indicates what
the verdict ought to be, but most judges
are very reluctant to do this, lest they
be charged with usurping functions,
reserved for the twelve "good men and
true" But, if decisions of juries are to
be, in reality, the decision of the judge,
or, if they are to be revised, when erron-
eous, by an appeal to a higher court,
what object can there be in putting liti-
gants to the trouble, delay and expense
of jury trial?
The law proclaims it's distrust Of
juries by denying them the right be-
longing to every other judicial body
Of deciding their differences by major
ity, and by exacting unanimous decis-
ion. In effect, it says, that the verdict
of a jury, unlearned in the law, must
be valueless, unless all twelve jurors
agree, while the decision of a majority
of judges, who are trained lawyers, is
sufficient to determine the most compi-
Gated questions that reach the courts.
Verdict Should be Result Of Reason.
The assertion, so often heard, that
jurors are better fitted than judges, to
decide all matters Of fact, is not correct.
A verdict is supposed to be the result of
reasoning. The power to reason accur-
ately is not possessed in higher degree
by farmers, by merchants, or by store
keepers, than by judges, who are
usually men of ability and learning,
whose previous education and training
peculiarly fits them for the task. There
may be some cases, in which, owing to
rules of trade, or other unusual circum-
stances, more within the knowledge of
the laymen than lawyers, the decision
of the former would be, of the two, the
more correct. But, what is needed, in
these cases, is not twelve men utterly
ignorant of the technical questions be-
fore the court, but one skilled assessor,
to aid the judges. Even if jury be
considered essential in such a case, as
the one described, that is not valid
argument in favor of trial by jury, in
all cases.
Jurors are not required merely to de-
eide the disputed facts; they are requir-
ed to decide them according to the law
and the evidence. Tt is an error to sup
pose, that all that is necessary, in order
fo 1o fh;c ic RI 1icton tr> tho foctiyno,,u
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from the fact that the dependencies
are attached 10 the central govern
usut and are not Ia line for statehood
And when the people Of the South see
that their newly acquired doctrine
Of foreign expansion conflicts with
and refutes their old hersy concern
ing the source and center Of political
power they viii have learned the lead
Ing truth in current history and one
whose demonstration has demanded
over century OF craftsmanship All
the while the old Democratic position
is losing ground. and will possibly
give way eventually. yet the leaders
OF that party insist upon nothing but
the application OF principles They
do not read what is passing The
policy OF the Republican party is de-
structive Of the validity OF their prin-
ciples. and il IS strongly recommend
ing itself TO many who take issue
with the administration on minor
themes. So the Democratic mana
gers. aside from the stock theories of
platforms. are confronted by the addi-
rional disadvantage Of the overwhelm-
ing popularity Of the REPUBLICAN pro-
ETdmIIe-
Never were heayyweights for lead
ership in more demand than now
Protection. concentration and expan-
sion all combine in one gigantic issue
for the assault OF Democracy. You
readily see then the inefectiveness of
an aggressive campaign on old lines
No man Of understanding and discre-
ton would entertain the idea for an
instant And Jones. of Arkansas. is
none too slow as national chairman
in view of the task that awaits him
and the ground TO cover. The very
objections raised against him are his
best recommendations Don't cashier
Jones. He has the virtue of knowing
the situation and taking things easy
Taggart. of Indianapolis. would be a
very inadequate substitute. for he has
never had the requisite training for
Srasping great plans. He has accu-
INFLATED some property. is good TO
his influential friends and has reached
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or DuT wsifu poritrtS~ fff~a rFJfwrf "a On
Ioo,0O0 people is vastly different from
plotting Hills frail bark on the bound
less sea OF presidential contest The
held OF a national chairman is too
wide and diversified for a man of
Iaggarts experience He has never
YET operated in so ample an area. and
there is no particular evidence of his
mental acquisitiveness except by
practical contact. His deficiency is
the absence of theory You never
catch IN in ponderlng attitude. He
sits and walks erect and combs his
hair smartly back from his forehead
he has beautiful manners. however
and good counteuance. and has made
II easy for a thirsty man on Sunday
Much that is commendable might be
said of Taggart He isn't bad-but
mas he the heft? Now Jones has heft
and moves like one of large propor-
ton.
Taggart and Hill are alike in that
they are what are known as practi-
clans in politics. They go at a thing
tooth and nail. like a hustler in busi.
ness And both are orators. Hill has
.ne more wind, but Taggart's speech
Is the more classical Between the
two a rafting campaign could be
counted on. AMI If it consists in moth.
ing more than throwing spellbinders
INTO doubtful states Taggart will do
as well as anybody. But spell-binders
don't win campaigns. and the propri-
ETY. or employing them is to be very
seriously questioned BRYAN and
cochran were superfiuous. convincing
nobody. Their misfortune was that
they bucked against the impossible
Bimetallism and anti-imperialism had
no more weight than 3 feather. Bry-
an was not responsible for defeat
The majority was fixed Il was adam
antlne in its firmness. And il is this
adamantine quality of the majority
that is the condemnation of the party
in opposition The statesmen who
labor for the future in the struggles
OF parties for the ascendeney ALWAYS
look beyond the temporary achieve.
ment OF an election and strive TO CON
vince the larger part o. the people.
That is working for permanency. and
L Is that which distinguishes the man
agement of Senator Hanna. David
b. Hill. who understands politics IL
not statecraft in its best sense. nav /
have some acquaintance in this direc- |
ton. and il be has, sees very plainly /
70 be President II was difficult to |
eradicate the error that prevailed be /
ore the great rebellion. but ii is much /
more difficult TO crush the truth that 4
displaced it.
In the face OF this ponderous fact /
he astuteness or euteness OF nation i
y chairman cuts but sorry figure.
md II Mr.. TagSart. OF indianapolis
II Tam. as the bows have ii. is given
'onsroi of his party's machinery. he
VII ma medicine for IS olsappoint-
aent in the history of masorifies. II
ellis wonderful tale and viii save
n energetic man from the proftless
xertion OF misdirected blows. There
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4 SONG or The WAY.
Frank L Stanton in Atlanta Consti
tution-I

Frank L Stanton in Atlanta Consti-
tution-l
The way seemed bitter. and black.
and long.
God fashioned the way: but it found
a Song.
In the face Of His heanven-frowuing
back.
A lily blOOmed in the thunder-traek,
And the Song sang Day"
To the lonely way.
And the stricken winters Of God were
May,
The way was bitter. and black, and
long:
But a Harp was there. and Soul
said. Song
And the Song said "Sun,"-and the
4 CLEAN of bright and dream OF
dew,
And over the wav
Was the glory OF Day.
And never a rose did red thorn
slay,
III.
God fashioned the way. II was His
to say
Il ever its Darkness should lead T.
Dav:
If ever the rivers. of light unblest.
Should ripple their wearisome way
10 rest
The rivers tossed
Where His lightninsS crossed.
But ever they sang. Not lost, Not
lost"
Wherefore. l say: Not darkened way
But a hand strikes through il. and
cleaves to Day,
Come hither. Sweet, of the Swallowed
Gods rain is but for His storm-swept
skies
There is hope in His Night:
Love is bloom-Love is bright.
And you rest on Loves breast like a
Lily of Light,
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I sort must accepCaUIy. que ne IS to,
/ old for service. He landed the loaC
ftom Buffalo all right in 1884. bu
/ that was long time ago. has passed
out OF mind. and was never appreciat
ed. Cleveland bowled onto the hi.
| public stage like a star by divin,
right and merry monarch he was 4
born side-splitter. every attitude wa.
ravishing. And one wide. tremendou:
scream went up at his fling with Lily
the Queen. That was a beautiful eli
max in neat and graceful comedy
And such another pair was likely
never known in the realms of throne.
and presidencies. But all was not
revelry. The cloud sat as lightly on
the brow of our President as the sun
shine. Great Britain was defied and
her ministers dismissed. Then we
looked serious and surprised.
This is but meager sketch of the
great man who pushed back his
stanch supporters in crowding to the
front. and instead of restoring his.
tory. as he deemed his mission to be.
relegated his party to its place of op-
position by exposing the sham OF a
revenue tar. But what prestige of
success the Democrats have had of
late years came originally. in large
part at least. through Germans sup
port Of Cleveland. As already point
ed out. however. the MARYLAND can't
talist is too old TO hide his time and
watch like a cat in the dark for the
ray OF an opportunity. He will in all
probability be gone before the Repub-
lioan party has reached the zenith of
its career. The young gentleman who
has the distinction Of leading the mi
noritv Of the House. Mr.. Richardson.
would ill the bill IL he has fortitude.
And that is really the virtue now most
demanded OF Democratic politicians.
They want fortitude mixed with vigi-
lance. The hammering campaign
must necessarily be ineffective. The
success of that implies the weight of
superior force against that of an
inferior one. Grant would never have
inaugurated IL in the army but for
the fact that he was better equipped
than Lee and outnumbered him. That
was big advantage, but in addition
TO Il Grant was a hard and skillfui
hammerer. Yet he found IL difficult
TO make his way through the Wilder.
ness The aggressive campaign in
war or peace Is 10 be measured aud
determined by the forces entering
into IL And We do not recall a time
more unpropitioas than now for Dem.
ocrSts 10 adopt hammering tactics.
The reception Of the President in
the South and West. more for his
policy OF expansion in nearby AMI
foreign seas than for his high Office.
shows the sentiment in those sections
IN the question OF the day and those
,f older date that bear upon il and
IRE associated with t. These are pro
lection and the constitutional con
'truetion Of national supremacy. The
states right doctrine can By no twist
" application be made TO embrace in
'alar dependencies. That is evident
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that 'd tt-ss ss.h44 sep1eEs the dining room
by so doing, you also run the ris,
that she will return to her room. sta,
there half an hour, and spoil the ain
ner.
Don't tell your wife that she viii
always find you her best friend. OIL
she will conclude that you have giyer
Cupid notice to leave.
- ~
Don't spend half your time bother
ing, tormenting your wife, or you will
discover yourself in the act of spend
ing the other half indemnifying her
for it
Don't tell fibs to your wife. Never
attempt to teach a monkey how TO
make faces.
"hen you have taken your Young
Vile TO ball where she has been
admired all the evening, and you re-
turn home, don't fail to be amiable
IN the carriage. enterprising. bold
even. There's your chance. II Won
miss ii she will dream all night of
the success she has had at the ball
OF all the pretty compliments she
has received. and, maybe, of some of
the men who have paid them to her.
You have it in your power to surpass
yourself and them all. A man who
Is cold toward his wife on returning
from a bali with her is a brute and
an ass. A woman never forgiyes a
man who misses his opportunity. In
her eyes he is ridiculous
- ~
For the love of everything which
YOU hold sacred. never commit the
slightest act which may cause Won To
appear ridiculous in the eyes of your
Vile. or even may make her laugh
at you. The day on which a woman
has laughed at her husband she has
ceased to love him.
- -
Remember always that. in the ewes
OF woman. you have TO be manly.
that Is to say. genrous. magnanimous.
woman will rather forgive an act
OF brutality than an act of meanness
IN the man she loves.
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woman can afford to be wrong
because she has not TO acknowledge
IT, but You. nv dear man. don't ever
make such 4 mistake as to be wrong.
because. being able TO acknowledge
Z. you viii have TO pay dearly for it
- -
Never frown ar home. and always
BE- indulgent for the little foibles OF
-o1r wife and the faults of your chill
lren- Be their pal their friend
ma eonhdant- Let your son well un-
serstand that II ever he should get
nto trouble. into scrape. the best /
hing for him TO do Is to come straight /
o vou- make a clean breast of II and /
ecetve good advice and help. There
ne stern fathers who insist on be-
ns called Sir" hv their sons and
rho wonder that their sons turn bad /
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The Party in Opposition,

down but for a season The shift
ing 81 the parties from power TO cp-
position is faIIzcy. and is not based
on human nature. The eomparatf -
ease with which Jefferson got con
troll through the state legislatures Tas
deceptive TO him. but al the same
tirne twsnty-four years in Office with
no serious break in popularity at the
end Of that time should have opened
his eyes 10 the fact that the element
OF immutabiiity Is very strongly
marked in the American mind And il
Is this rather than the faculty for
quick Transformation that is the safe
y Of the republic. Jefferson was al
together too Freuchified in his ideas.
and made the blunder OF looking -
France and America from the same
point OF view.
Take our political history from the
first and analyze the sources Of its
activities. which are the sentiments
Of the people. and il Eill be seen that
the party in opposition is doomed TO
successive defeats and must grope for
the light patiently and wisely The
Democratic statesman who can wit
and watch is the man for the occa-
sion. And he must be content to sit
in darkness. that he may the better
descry the dawn should il come before
he dies. In the event OF its not ap-
pearing. then he goes TO the higher
and everlasting reward of the long
suffering. So he isn't out anything.
The man who does this. with brain
trained and alert-bent to the point
OF absorption-will at least see the
slips of his enemies. and with the
genius to profit by them may do favor
able execution. German has the ma.