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The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-01-28
HILL AND NIXON
 OUT FOR HARMONY

Former Governor Pleased with New
 Leader and Latter Wants Peace. New York World
 Ex-Governor David B. Hill. leader of the upstate Democrats, was in the city partly to confer on the, political situa- ticn.
 The ex-Governor, World reporter learned yesterday. is greatly pleased with the selection of Lewis Nixon as leader of Tammany. The Hill Democrats north tirement is genuine. They are keeniy in- terested in Mir. Nixon, who. they believe, will cooperate with them in restoring Democratic harmony.
 The story was floating around the Hoff- man House and Tammany Hall yester- day that Mir. Hill and the Democrats in Greater New York would hereafter act in harmony. This fact, it is expected will be deppnstrated at the next Demo cratic State Convention. when candidates for Governor and all other States offices are to be nominated. In this connection It has been stated that Frank Campbell of Bath, Hill partisan, probably would retire as Chairman of the State Commit tee, and that Senator Patrick H. Me- Carren. of Brooklyn, who Is friendly wit, both city and rural Democrats. Is likely to be chosen.
 Speaking only as representative of
 
 Nixon yesterday, "I shall be very glad to cooperate in any effort to bring about harmonious action in future Democratic State. city and county conventions. I have not seen MT. Hill. but any effort to get all Democrats together in the inter- est of the party, regardless of persons. will have my hearty support In what ever I may do in this direction I shall act through no intermediates. but shall welcome any plan which seeks to pro- mote party harmony"
 MT. Nixon was asked about the per- ststent reports that he would not have the loyal support of the various Tam many leaders. He replied:
 Such stories are to be expected. If the leaders were really against me you would find the opposition papers most probably on my side.
 Over thirty of the leaders have frankly and openly taken my hand and pledged their support. They are strong men: and I shall not let any misgivings of the papers which are opposed to me shake my confidence in the truthfulness and loyalty of these leaders. Several of the leaders resent being placed in false positions by statements that they are against me, and they have told me so."
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-01-28
UNITED STATES COURTS.

Early in December Hon. Oscar Under wood introduced bill in Congress to transfer Judge Jones to the Northern District. substituting Judge Toulmin as judge at Montgomery, but allowing Judge Jones to continue to reside here. The people of this District. who naturally are much averse to the proposed change. paid little attention to this bill, since it was not considered 1t ever had the slightest chance to become law. Though not so intended, that bill was so unjust and uncalled for, that it had few friends any where. The Advertiser is in position to state that Judge Toulmin was not con- suited about that bill. and expressed himself emphatically against 1t as soon as he heard of it.
 With that bill out of the way. several plans have been broached to divide the Northern District. composed of two divis ions. with courts at Birmingham and Huntsville respectively, between Judges Jones and Toumin. Yesterday at a large meeting of the lawyers of Birm- ingham, it was unanimously resolved to | petition our Senators and Representatives against ..any change" in the existing laws. which means, if the lawyers have their way, that Judge Jones snail con tinue to hold the courts In the br"- ingham division. What view the Hunts v,lie Ear and other lawyers in that division entertain. we are not adviseo.
 Judge Jones, who has heretofore oe- cl,ned to express any opinion for pupf- cation. when told of the Birmingham resolutions, and asked to state his posi- tion, said:
 l. am glad you speak as you do oi Judae Toulmin. He has acted throusn- out with great dclicacy. We are warm nersonal friends, and there IS not .ns slightest friction between us. ne hau m lot ar part in the bill to deport me Srom here. and has not sought, l believe, to interfere in, any way to get el.neI VA the divisions in the Northerh Disu &.. I think he thoroughly agrees With ine o that there is no necessity TOT cnanse m the existing law nave not asAeI as ,.'s. when I took the office of Judge, was well aware of the labors which 'attached to it I think l can easily handle the dockets here and at Birmingham ana Huntsville. Judge Bruce was not aoie to do so, on account of his long con. timed i'll health. If 1. find l can not keep up with the docket. at all three places. I will be among the first 10 an nounce it, and to seek aid by asking to have some of the territory now assigned to me transferred to Judge Ioulihii'
 until then. | do not feel called on to volunteer 10 give up any part of 1t, or to choose between places l would prefer
 to give up. My only ambition is to do my duty, and my only preference IS not to be where for any reason of convenience or other motive pertaining to the puonc good the Bar and the people may think | it best to have another judge. s.'
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-01-28
AIM AT SUGAR TRUST.
Beet Men Ask Removal of Diner
 ential Duty With Cuba.

From Washington to Chicago hecoro-
 Cuban reciprocity agitation maintained it's reputation today by developing an other sensation. when the sugar beet men unexpectedly suggested to the mem bers of the Ways and Means Committee that the differential duty on refned SUI. gar be removed. With the exception or the Cubans themselves no one has se- rio0sly entertained the suggestion that reciprocity would carry more than slight reduction. say 20 per cent of the Dingley rates upon the raw product. The
 most ardent advocates of reciprocity nave not dreamed of going as far as the sugar beet people now propose .,
 The differential duty has afforded the protection under which the American re- fining industry has developed and which is held to he essential to the prosperity of beet sugar refining. It seems, how ever as if the representatives or beet sugar are determined to remove the question beyond the phase Of our pialn duty to the Cubans' and make 1t ngnt between the sugar trust on the one side and gather to the support of American tobacco and beet and cane sugar man ufactnrers on tho otaer all the opponents of the trust. , It.. |, Congress should propose to include Tn Cuban reciprocity the removal or all pro. lection or refined sugar the sugar trust would reverse it's position and cease urg- ing concessi ons on raw sugar Tn the nope that by doing so the agitation to remove tha differential duty will cease. should the differentiai duty be removed the beet people believe the sugar trust would no io1ser be able to control the markets.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-01-28
PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT.
Interesting Notes of Some of Those
 in the Public Eye.

Interesting Notes of Some of Those
 in the Public Eye.
 Emma Calves father is 80 years. old, lives in the South of France and Is hearty peasant.
 Mrs. Mary Miller of Greentown, Ind. has violin made in Scotland, In 1oOo' ny the great-great-grandfather or her nus band.
 T. F.. Spurr of the United States Geo. logical Survey, is making a survey of Macedonia and Albania at the request and expense of the Sultan of Turkey.
 The memorial tablet to Sir Walter Be- sant, which is to be placed in the crypt of St. Paurs, London, will be set next to that which commentaries Charles Read.
 It is said that the Empress Eugenie is writing her memoirs which, after her death, are to be placed in public build ing where every one will be able to read them.
 A woman's auxiliary army post in Washington has been named for the wife of General Miles, the name given the or sanization being Mary Sherman Miles Auxiliary.
 James c. Needham, s member of the House of Representatives, was born at Carson City, New, in an emigrant wagon. his parents being en route across the plains to California.
 Leonard Reeder of Quincy. Ill. one of the few men now living who witnessed the battle of Waterloo, elghty-seven years ago, will celebrate soon his 1O2nd birthday.
 It is reported in Paris that Queen Al exandra is likely to become the owner of the villa San Martino. in the island of Elba. which was Napoleon's residence during his first exile. gal,, Al ha Hnnea of Representatives, was for ten years an actor, and played with Edwin Booth, Jo- seph Jefferson, Salvini, MT. and Mrs. w. J. Florence and other well known stars.
 At the suggestion of Alfred Moseley of London and Lord Deay. President of Uni versity College. London. a special com mission will be sent from England to this country to inquire into labor mat ters and the relations between masters and labor unions.
 Mrs. David B. Stamp of Finchville. N. r.. who celebrated her 10Sth birthday re- gently. lived at Fishkill when Robert Fulton's steamboat made its first trip. She remembers the incident well and en- joys telling of tho excitement the spec tacle caused In the village.
 Mir. Harkins, young Georgian who has just returned from service in the United States army in the Philippines, has presented to the National Museum at Washington, complete set of all the various kinds of knives. dirks and swords used by the natives of the islands. Notwithstanding deep seated political differences MT. Morley and Mir. Cham | herlain have keot their personal friend ship unbroken ever since the Liberal split | of sixteen years ago. They occasionally drive down to the House together, and have a friendly fight as to who shall pay | the cabInah.
 Major O. T. Longhorne If the United States army has placed on exhibition 1T | the War Department at Washington, q | silk United States flag presented to hin by Father Francisco Alcantara, a Fili | pino priest. It was made and embroid | cred by natives, sewn in Manila and em. broidered in Lueban, Province of Tayas | has.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-01-28
annw1INa AS USUAL.

The Baldwin Standard in its anxiety to find some tenable ground Of opposl- ton to the payment of poll taxes as prerequisite of suffrage, indulges in this mode of reasoning:
 This 'shead tax is. always was and always will be obnoxious; It IS a. me placed upon a man for being a man; and because the money so paid, goes Into the school fund does not reconcile one to the tax. so long as there Is better way of providing for school as well as all other public expenses.
 This is on a par with much other mis- leading reasoning intended to create both dissatisfaction and opposition among the people of Alabama. If poll tax is fine placed upon a man for being man. then a property tax is fine placed ois him for being so fortunate as to own property. The fact is that all taxes are paid unwillingly. and we have not learned that the head tax" as The Standard terms it, is paid with any less willing ness than other taxes are. In the past. so far as we have noticed, one tax has been no more obnoxious than another.
 To come down to the real truth of the matter, the poll tax is the most equita- ble. and ought to be paid with the least objection, of any tax that is paid. Quite a large per centage of the people of Alabama pay no property tax at all, be- cause they have nothing that is taxa ble. Many of them. though, have chil- dren to be educated. and they should have too much pride and too high a sense of justice and fair ness to refuse to pay such a small pro- portion of the money which comes to them by way of the school fund. A man who is having from one to half-a-dozen children taught in the schools and is unwilling to pay s1,50 per annum into the school fund must have singular conception of his duties as citizen. This is leaving out all consideration of the duty he owes to himself and the State to qualify himself to assist in the selection of those who are to make and execute the laws to which he looks for protection to himself, his family and his property. That is a consideration which should prevent any man neglecting to pay his head tax"
 1t would be we'll if those who are so earnestly trying to create prejudice against the Constitution would show some disposition to build up something better, if they know what it is. of which we have grave doubts. It is easy 10 speak in general terms against what has been done, and to say that something better should have been done, but what that something better" is we have yet to learn.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-01-28
CREAM OF THE SPECIALS


particularly interested in MT. Bo, the President of the company. not only or account of his name. but because found him an exceedingly well posted the Panama company had been placed and appreciated that If he did not SCI to the United States at the figure wmcn the United States offered we would pulia a canal elsewhere.
 eThese gentlemen convinced me thai the Panama property could apsoiuteiy ss us transferred to the United States' aho that the title would be perfectly cleaI If we take the property we need nave nave no apprehension that litigation ana com, plications between the United States and the citizens of France will foiioW.
 Having been convinced Of tnls m nortant fact. | became a Panama man, in the first place. because the Fanania route is forty-nine miles ana the Nica, q. ragua 1S3 miles; because the cost ., ., Nicaragua, when you add the excess oI maintenance, is almost as much more than Panama as Panama was more than Mica aragua before the revised oIter oa the French company was mace Deoause ..s z every foot of ground over the Panama route is known, whereas nearly all oi the engineering questions on Nicaragus are unknown quantities; because tnere has beaa for fifty years ear nors ra'sfaS at Sieara qua. and finally. because there are harbors at either end Of the Panama Canal that are now in use. wnlle the ingenuity of man will be taxed to con struct and maintain harbors az eltnef epd of Nicaragua.
 /"I have mad something to do with the great problems of construction. and from q business standpoint there can be no question that Panama is vastly superior to Nicaagua, because at Panama we knom just where we arc and what we nave to do. Yet I am grieved to say that some very eminent gentlemen. for whom have the greatest respect. are still TOT Nicaragua. They remind me of very old story. which you may pardon me for
 Judge said the witness in court, did I say that the horse was sixteen : You did replied the Judge.
 Well. privately. Judge. said the man the horse was only sixteen hands hign, but as I said sixteen feet I'll stick to It, and sixteen feet it is.'
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-01-28
All That Has Changed.
Richmond Times.

ttlcnmOnu Times.
 Soon after the war there was such a demand for cotton that the farmers of the South used every possible acre of ground in it's production. and under those abnormal conditions 1t was more profit able to raise cotton than anything else, and the farmer could afford. with the high prices he obtained for his cotton. to buy his supplies. But all that Is changed. The price of cotton has come down, until 1t is now only a little higher than the cost of production, and 1t is suicidal for the farmer to eXpend all his energies in producing cotton and use the proceeds to purchase his supplies. Take for example wear like this. when by reason of the scarcity of corn in the West the price Is more than doubled. But it cost the farmers of the South no more to raise corn in that year than in other years, and so those farmers who did not raise corn are compelled to pay double prices for their supply of that cereal. On general principles. we say that a farmer can produce everything that his farm will produce cheaper than he can buy 1t from somebody else. be- cause when he produces 1t he gets it at prime cost, whereas when he purchases 1t he must pay at least two profits, with the cost of transportation added.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-01-28
Gives It Up.
Selma Times.

Selma Times.
 Montgomery Advertiser. Blest if we know, neighbor. Ever since the wonder full possibilities of the suffrage plank and registering plank of the new Constitution have been made manifest to us by a long and exhaustive investigation Of the power of that little innocent looking mark called the comma" which seems to have been scattered thro' them pro mIscuous like on thedr construction, we have been simply befuddled. Wo have lost all knowledge of our starting point. if we ever had any, which is doubtful, The possibilities of the comma" tho. are vast and far reaching, and while pleading ignorance as to the location of our starting point. We are certain or where we are at and could make pretty close guess as to where we'll land. The Advertiser should not ask such questions at this stage of the game.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-01-28

occasionally. and most of them take 1t in good part and--just 90 their own way!
 We don't know what The Register will say to the title proposed. but as 1t is several years older than The Advertiser it can have no objection to being looked on as one of the grandparents of Ala bama journalism. The uncles. cousins and aunts in the profession can have no kick coming
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-01-28
Mud and Coal.

Lowndes News.
 Ten dollars-almost-a ton is what the coal The News Is burning costs, regard less of the fact that we are within twen- tv-five miles of Montgomery where 1t may be had for & or less-only twenty five miles of MUD! rich, sticky mellow Lowndes loam. of black, bottomless. lob
 lolicky fertility. so. rich. that what tho comparatively, where vegetation groweth less rank. Mud, su3h mud! primitive mud. the same unwrought unknesked mud through which the light-footed In dian plodded like a peg-leg. where the hear goes alway on all-fours. wishes for a fifth foot and refuseth to dance, and ! where skeletons of wild geese, begged up thousands of years ago. are plowed up, Oh, this Loam o'Lowndes-its name is mud when we want coal! Ye poor barren hills of rock and ore of Jeffer- son, slide down and give us shirt or belt of chert,
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-01-28
ANOTHER CRUSADER.

The evil example set by Mrs. Nation has had it's natural effect In her case she had the questionable excuse that smashing saloons was the way to sup press an evil, but the example has turned the heads of some who can use no such arrument. For example, young lady in New Haven, Conn.,, doesn't like candy and has imbibed the belief that 1t is a great evil which should be suppressed and The Register of that city. adds this as one of the results of her false reason ing:
 srna vounr woman did her best to start a .crusade" against candy. She u,ent into store and began to smash candy jars. which is much easier than kriocking in the heads of beer kegs II is a sort of kindergarten smasnns ieS- com Rut A policeman came In Defore she had gone very far and stopped tue performance and took her into GUS GUS tody: and before she was allowed to haVe her own way again she hao paio q Ii1o of a rather discouraging slze' NotnIle .a has since been heard of her lntentlohs to abolish candy.
 Legally. this young woman had as nuch right to smash candy store as Mrs. Nation had to smash saloon' hut in the latter case, as we have in- timated, the woman Justihed her o"l- raaeous acts by the plea that the sals of liouor is hurtful and that in hahsas' at least, it is illegal; consequently sno had A perfect right to destroy IL "heh- .,,or che found it and to destroy the rronsrtv of the saloonist who dealt In H. This was reasoning from false premises of course, but there was color or Jus''- fcation for her procedure.
 The act of the New Haven girl was wbo,ly without any such excuse. Tho fact that she does not like canoy' anu .,.. .he considers the use of it hurtlui' is neither a legal nor moral reasoh "n' .ha sbould destroy it, or smash the TUT piture of the shop which sells H. ms
 .,,.,oas bosiness is always liable to run 4e o,+remes. any way. People who ieei .a,,aa ,non to suppress what they con .,l,o. oro evil never stop to consider that otber people not only have lesai iie".s' hut that they have individual rish'' cultivate and gratify their own tSs.eS. nr,.o sa,ne, intolerant feeling which got .b,. New Haven girl into trouoie "oU.N
 ,othar to organize a crusaoe
 o,,s. cakes. or pies or any other Kinu of food which she might cohsiue, 'ar u wholesome. It is all an outcome oi o' euo" nerformances as that of the Kansas termagant, and if all the crusaders were brought up as suddenly and as ef1ectuaiiS as was done in the case Of the New Haven young woman the crusade ousl- ness would soon become ootn unpopuia' and unprofitable-
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-01-28
MIR. DEPEw LEADS
 THE PANAMA MEN.
Senator's Argument Helping Their Cause More Than Commis-
 sion's Report.

From Washington to New York Herald.
 Senator Chauncey M. Depew since his return from Paris. has been very out spoken in advocating the adoption of the Panama route for an isthnian canal. and his argument is having more effect than the supplemental report of the Ca- nal Commission.
 T am a canal man as well as rail- road man." Senator Depew said today. Il have always been a friend of the Erie Canal This may seem strange. but l have disagreed with railroad men gener- ally on this point. My contention has been that the Erie Canal would concen- trate the grain business at Buffalo and divert the great mass of grain traffic to the seaboard from other routes direct' down the Mohawk Valley to New York city.
 When I went to Paris recently I was waited upon by the counsel of the new Panama Canal Company. who asked me if I would consent to meet the president and managing director of the. company and talk over their proposed offer to sell to the United States. I did so. l was
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-01-28

Why should a visit to Europe make toadies or idiots of some men?- Schwab, who ought to be a level headed man, told Emperor William. during his recent visit, that "All great ideas come from Europe, '' or words to that effect If he didn't know better he is not it person to travel abroad, and if he did know better he is all varieties of snob for using such an expression, for it isn't even ap- proximately true
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-01-28
Prosperous Bessemer.

Bessemer Workman.
 With every industry in and about Bes- semer working full handed, employing thousands of men at fair wages, hunoredS of dwellinss and business houses being constructed which are often rented even before completion business in all lines ir prosperous condition, the city admits tration going ahead with substantlal pub lie improvements that will very soon make Bessemer the most beautiful city ir Alabama, there would seem to be every reason to look to the future with hope and expectancy.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-01-28

That The Montgomery Advertiser has accepted and is known as Grandma, :" why not call The Mobile Register "Grandpa?' According to age we believe The Register is entitled to it over other dailies of the State. Of course, The Register is not as big growler as ''Grandma" but that will compare favorably with nature.-Brewton Banner.
 Who's growing. if you please? The Advertiser never hesitates to express itself on any and all subjects. and if it sometimes administers little advice to good. If it is old enough to be called fGrandma" it is certainly old enough to give the youngsters a gentle spanking
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-01-28
Specimens of Professors Wit.


 Dr. Varnadoe. a noted professor of Creek is very fond of flowers, and some days ago on returning from his college duties, he found in his front yard pesti- ferrous calf belonging to a neighbor. The Doctor gave chase. and the animal plunged toward the flower pit. and in another instant crashed through the glass cover and mixed at random with the pots and plants below. When another professor passed few minutes later. he said. gravely: 'I do not under stand, Dr. Varnadoe, why you should object so seriously to having a modest eowslip added to your fine collection of plants" The Doctors drowning face relaxed. "Ah, Sanborn," he retorted, you see. this was only a worthless bull rush."