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The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-08-19
A SILLY COMPLAINT.

Some of the Johnston organs are al ready doing the baby act and charging the State Committee with unfarness be- cause 1t did not allow a longer time for the campaign. They argue that Jelks was a known candidate all the time and that Johnston should have had at least three months in which to make his can vass.
 This is all rot. of course. Johnston has been in opposition ever since the Consti- tutional Convention was called and his su porters know it. He organized com mittees before the State Committee met and acted. They know that 1t has all along been his intention to run for Gov ernor unless he could find some one whom he considered stronger than himself He could find no one. or in his conceit he believed himself stronger than any one else and makes the race on this belief He has been laying his wires and prepar- ing his plans longer than Governor Jelks has been candidate. and has been un- ceasingly active all the white in makiu.- preparations to defeat Governor Jelks and bring discredt CT the ConstitTtion if he could by any means compass those ends
 All this Is well known and to nobody better than to those newspapers which are now most active in his support They know that no snap judgment has be,n taken and that their man has not been taken by surprise. They know that his determination to oppose Jelks antedates bv some months the action of the State Committee. Knowing all this they try to make capital by complaining of the short time given to their candidate. It is a weak argument but it fits a weak cause.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-08-19
WINTER AT WETUMPKA.
He Defies the Johnston Men to At
 tack Jelks's Administration

Wetumpka. Aug. S-CSpecial Judge J q Winter of Montgomery spoke here today To an audience of l50 200 voters in behalf of Governor w. n. Jelks. He said that issues are involved in this campaign of far more importance than the mere preference of men He reverted to the dark days of reconstrlic- tton when the ballot was placed into the hands of the ignorant negro who acted as d vampire that sucked the life blood from the body polite of the South. He depicted. feelingly the condition of affairs under the dark reign of negro domination, saying this condition of affairs left only two alternatives to rid the State of negro misrule-force or fraud-and the people adopted the latter. which was pra~- tiCed till the utne was ripe for constitutional enactment to do legally what they were com pelled 10 practice by fraud. The Legislature of 1898 passed an act calling C institutional Convention for this purpose, hut the will of the people was thwarteI by Governor John ston, whose personal ambition overrode his desire for the welfare of the State.
 He spoke of the election of he lamentel Sanford; another call for Constitutional Convention and the enactment cf ar organic law far superior in a Sr.at many respects to tic old, especially the riddance of the isnor- ant negro vote He alluded to the bitter fight of cx-C;pN Nornor Johnston against it's ratiicd- tion and his method of trying to incite the .Prejuliccs of the people in tn" white counties by telling them that thousands of white m n would be disfranchsed under the new Con stitution while the black belt would regis- ter practical yall of the negroes.
 He also alluded to Johnstons charge that Jelks's administration had cost the people S7oloN. which he said was true hut that SSlo oo0 had gone back the people through the common schools to educate their childrcn; $15apoo tp the old and maimed Confederate soldiers; $50,QoO. collected as licenses und sr n law which was unconsttutic nal, was paid back to the people He said eX-Governor Johnston and his friends cannot find a single official act of Liovrrnor Jclks 8 with which to condemn him.
 Judge Winter spoke for an hour and n half He vas given close attention and was ire nuautly interrupted by applause
 xeCutive Committee met here
 the returns from the county
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-08-19

Ex-Governor Johnston's Alabamian complains of ex-Governor Oates's expos ure of the formers erroneous statement as to amount of cash in the Treasury December 1. 1896, and says:
 We understand that when Governor Oates secured the correct figures from the Treasurer he ascertained that MT. Boyd had unintentionally misled Cover nor Johnston and that this error in the sta tement of MT. Boyd had not been dis covered until he (Oates) had the second statement prepared. Why. in the name of fairness. did Governor Oates make it appear from his letter that Governor Johnston was willfully misleading the people? We had not expected this from a veteran of the civil war and a Cover nor of Alabama. It smacks more of The Montgomery Advertiser.
 And now. fair minded Alabamians, lis ten to this. Johnston spoke in Huntsville last Friday and still repeated his stale and disproven statement of the amount of cash on hand when he became Governor. The Huntsville Mercury, in it's report of his speech says:
 The Governor then told the audience that when he went into the office as Gov ernOr, he found only $36,O00 in the treas ury. He probably had forgotten that there was a little over sl50OOO when he went into the office; that it was one month later that there was a balance of only $36,00O.
 Now. in the name of fairness, why should not Governor Oates and all other friends of truth and justice. tell the ex- act facts and let the world know that the amount was nearly $l5o,OOO. Governor Johnston hah he continues to repeat disprovcn charges.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-08-19

In the interesting notice in Sundays Advertiser of the late Lieutenant Cover nor Moren and the placing of his picture in the Capitol there were one or two errors which should be corrected. There was a transposition of figures of the vote cast for Attorney General. It should have been 74.423 for General J. w. A
 Sanford and 7253S for Joshua Morse. The former was elected but the transposi- tion made 1t appear otherwise. At the
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-08-19

Commenting on statement of a Kan sas paper that there are two towns m that State in which d negro is not al lowed to live. The Chattanooga Times thinks that the first thing We know the South and West are going to get d bad mix-up in the Boston idea of civilization. |" There's no earthly excuse for any mix-up about it. Even the Bostonians ought to be sufficiently well informed to know that there is no town in the South whore a negro may not live in peace if he wishes to do so
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-08-19

time the Republican Senators withdrew, one of them, Sibley of Madison, re- mained in the hall and Of course Hon. A. N. Worthy. the only Democratic Sen ator at that time. remained until the vote was counted and the result an nounced.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-08-19

There were two well informed gentle men in town Monday, who. when lnqulry from the writer was made stated that they d'd not know of ai Johnston man in their respective communities. This is an index to the situation. though Johnston will receive a few scattering votes.0Choc- Jaw Adv cate.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-08-19

The Democrat believes that ex-Gover' nor Johnston does not expect to get the nomination over Governor Jelks. but is making d noisy campaign for the purpose of hiding the real issue, which is on the quiet to secure Johnston men in the Leg islatu:e, and thereby going to the Sen ate.-GuntcTsville Democrat
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-08-19

The Johnstonites are bragging of a met ting at Huntsville last Friday night, in the court house yard. which was large ly attended. That a great many of those present were Jelks men is shown by the following item from The Huntsville Mcr- cury;
 If the little Johnston bands had not come down from Maysville and Gurlry Governor Johnston would have spoken to the chilliest audience he ever faced
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-08-19

Chicago, in addition to other claims to greatness, is getting up quite reputa- ton for missing women, as The News states that fifteen women who mysta- riously disappeared during the month of July have not been accounted for. We hardly suppose Chicago Is proud of that showing.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-08-19

When the sh 1w down comes on the 25t instant, Joe Johnston will ther, learn tn kind of vindication he deserves from tn Democracy of Alabana.-Rockfor Arg
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-08-19

A copy of the Ulster County Gazette of "i904' is playing d date in Barrow, where it is looked upon as valuable relic.-Pen- sdcola Journal
 We should imagine 1t would. A news paper printed two years ahead of time should be as readable as Edward Bel lamy's Looking Backward"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-08-19

Governor Jelks's administration defies the attacks of his enemies, no matter how malignant they may be. His friends could pay him no greater compliment.-Foct Deposit Reflector.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-08-19

If 'Johnstons prospects are growing brighter every day" as some of his friends assert, it is good thing that the campaign is nearly over or some of his followers would need smoked glass
 Sometimes we are almost persuaded that Colonel Denson was right in many things he said about some of the news papers.-Blocton Messenger.
 That is an honest confession. coming s=AA 6 RaRer which supports Johnston.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-08-19
WITH THE WEEKLIES.
What They Have to Say About the
 Campaign

The knowing ones say that it is land slide for Jelks. It really looks that way, too, if we may judge from this section of the State.-OZark Star.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-08-19

To vote for Jelks expresses satisfaction with the rew Constitution and concur renee in opinion with a large majority of the leading men of the State. while an opposition vote savers of contention and Strife-a disposition to oppose for the sake of opposition. Let us have peace. ' The new Constitution has been made and adopted. Let us be satisfied with it and give it d fair trial with a friendly ad- ministration.-Clar County Democrat.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-08-19

The Montgomery Advertiser remarks that Richmond is getting almost as up- pity as Atlanta" and wishes to know if We have no chemists who can put the wa ter m capsules, The Advertisers q!res- pie of this city indulge sparingly in wa ter as beverage. Capsules, Indeed! It is put up in fifty-pound blocks and sold on the street-after being frozen.-Rich- mCnd Dispatch.
 Then we misunderstood former item, and you only need a chop-axe to break up the ice. instead of wanting it to carve up Richmond water. Or, do you have any unfrozen water?
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-08-19
HON. DABNEY PALMER
Declines a Nomination on Prohibition
 Ticket-He is for Jelks and Pettus.


 Troy, Ala, Aug. l6, 1902. Editor The Advertiser:
 saw in The Advertiser of the 18th that had been nominated for Commissioner of Agriculture and Industries by the Prohibition Party. I will respectfully decline the nomination. l will vote for Jelks, and want to see the new Consti- tuition tried before it is amended And | want General Pettus returned to the United States Senate.
 Respectfully yours.
 Dabney Palmer.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-08-19

The friends and supporters of Governor Jelks are more and more encouraged each day. In this county there is but one beat that is likely to go for Johnston, judging from the best reports. The fact of John ston's opposition to the Constitution is causing many of his former friends to forsake him. We have talked with many from the country and all of them say: We are for the constitution as it suits and we are for Jelks." This is the yer dict enerally.-Georgiana Enterprise.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-08-19

It may he true, as claimed that paper money spreads smallpox but we've been thoroughly vaccinated.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-08-19

Billy in the low ground" has quit tot mug his own skillet and is now carrying the frying pan for Joseph F. Some of the newspapers are ripping him up the back for the uncomplmentary terms in which he referred to the newspapers. We think they are wasting their ammunition on mighty poor game. Denson is dead duck one-gallus" statesman out of a job.-Bullock County Breeze.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-08-19

The smallest thing that has been said about Governor Jelks is the charge of drunkenness. The writer has known the Governor intimately for twenty-five years and while not a total Gbstainuer if the whiskey Jelks has drank in one year was put in one vessel Joe Johnston could drink 1t a one time and make,a ,a land deal that would pay himself hundred per cent. before the water thirst came on Marion Standard.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-08-19

to be yindimated. He is nettled and his political pride wounded. He wants to show his resentment and to punish his party because it did not obey his beheSt. The old Greek maxim was that whom the gods would destroy they first made mad Have they not marked Governor Johnston as their victim and brought him into the race for Governor with wicked purposes to work his destruction ?-Scotts- boro Age.
 We may safely judge a tree by the fruit it bears. If it bears bad fruit the tree is fit for nothing but to be cut down and cast into the fire but if it bear good fruit the tree is good. themfOre we let it stand Governor Jelks has given us good fruits His administration has been a successful businesslike, conservative one. There has been nothing to justify the unwarranted and really untrue charge that he is not posse sser of sufficient ability to make a good Governor.-Russell Refister.
 Vote for Governor Jelks and the new Constitution. Joe Johnston fought its rat iiication. and now seeks to be elected Governor of Alabama so as to amend abridgc and destroy it. A vote for Gov ernor Jelks is a vote for good govern ment, progress and advancement. A vote for Joe Johnston is vote for retrOgres- sion, for the rule of a demagogue who is seeking his own elevation, not the good of the people-Sumter Sun.
 We cannot see why Governor Jelks. ac- Cordlng to Democratic usage, should not be given d second term. He is not shown to be incompetent or unfaithful to the great trust committed to him. but on the contrary the affairs of State have pros pered under his management. and his ad- ministration compares favorably with the records made by any of our former Gov ernors. As we have been able to judge not single plausible reason has been assigned for turning him out against all Democratic precedent to make room for mathematician Standar6
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-08-19
SAMPLES OF HIS FRIENDSHIP.

In the hands of Joseph r. Johnston the new Constitution of Alabama is safe be- yond a peradventurc.-Johnst Ala ba inian.
 Here are a few samples of Johnston s friendship for the new Constitution. He canvassed the State against its ratifca- tion and in Autauga County the posters announcing his appointments began in these words:
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1902-11-21

Professor Jowett. the great master
of Ballot college, had wise words to
speak on the crucial topic of growing
old. He wrote to friend:
1.-THE later years Of life appear to me,
from Il certain point of view, TO be the
best. They are less disturbed by care
and the world. We begin to under
stand that things really never did mat
ter so much as we supposed, and we
are able to see them more in their true
proportion instead of being ovcrwhelm-
cd by them. We are more resigned TO
the will of God, neither afraid to de-
part nor overanXious to stay. We can
not see into another life, but we believe
with an inextinguishable hope that
there is something still reserved for
US"
1t is worth while to remember his
hints for old age. full as they are of
a practical wisdom:
Beware Of the coming on of age, for
it will not be defied.
A man cannot become young by over
exerting himself.
A man of sixty should lead quiet.
open air life.
He should collect the young about
him.
He should set other men to work.
He ought at sixty to have acquired
authority. reticence and freedom from
personality.
He may truly think of the last years
of life as being the best and every year
as better than the last if he knows how
to use it.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1902-11-21

women are rigidly excluded by the reg
ulatiunS Of the service. The plan is to
employ them merely in shore hospitals.
There are about Il hundred trained
nurses in the army corps. The navy
will have fifty to begin with, it is
Thought. that number being sufficient
TO provide few for each of the shore
hospitals They will he recruited as
the war department recruits its nurse
corps by suhjecting applicants TO Il
rigid ordeal of examination not only as
to their knowledge of the business, but
also in regard to their fitness physical
ly and otherwise for the work re
quircd of them Their pay. 500 a
month, will be sufficiently high to at
tract many times as many candidates
as can be employed.
The fifty nurses or Whereabouts re
cruited for the navy will be- every one
of them. first class experts. They will
be graduates of institutions, Of which
there are quite Il number in this cOun-
try. which require several years of
training in hospital and other work as
a preliminary to the granting of di-
ploma. Most of them will know
enough about medicine to prescribe for
patients in emergencies and if need be
to diagnose, much more difficult
branch of the doctors business.
The employment of women nurses in
military establishments is new de-
parture that is likely to be watched
with interest by foreign powers. This
country was the first to organize a fe-
male nurse corps as an adjunct to its
military service. In England, however,
women nurses are employed to teach
the art of nursing to men in both army
and navy hospitals. a noteworthy rec
ognitiOn of their superiority in work of
this kind.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1902-11-21
The obedient Table.

You can make a light parlor table or
chair obey your will and move when
you want it to in the easiest possible
manner. and no one viii be able TO de
tect you after you have practiced it
little Attach n silken thread to the in.
seam of your trousers below the knee,
allowing it to fall in a loop almost to
the floor Pick up the small table, ask
your friends to examine it and then
place it upon the floor. allowing one of
its legs to fall within the loop Of the
thread. Step backward and command
the table to move. As soon as you have
frightened the thread the table will nat
urally go where it is pulled, and the
audience will be mystified.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1902-11-21

A member of a certain Massachu.
sets parish, prominent for his thrift
and personal consequence. was also
notorious for his overbearing assump
lions and pompous airs. Under the dis
tress and fright of a dangerous illness
he put up notes" on several successive
Sundays, and after his recovery, ac-
cording to usage, he offered a note to
be read by the minister expressive Of
his thanks.
The minister was somewhat large"
in this part of his prayer, recalling the
danger and the previous petitions Of
the Squire" and returning his CRATE
full Acknowledgements with the prayer
that the experience might be blessed
to the spiritual welfare of the restored
man. He closed with these words:
"And we pray, o Lord, that thy serv-
ant may be cured of that ungodly
strut, so offensive in the sanctuary"
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1902-11-21
Cut Flowers.

Many people who profess themselves
very fond of flowers seem not to love
them well enough to take proper care
of them. Especially is this true of cut
flowers, which unless properly cared
for last such a short time. During the
day give them the coolest place in the
room, the icebox if you have one.
Choose for all long stemmed flowers a
deep vase, change the water every day;
at night take them from the vase and
plunge them in cool fresh water to the
very bloom. You will find them much
refreshed in the morning, whereas if
they stand all night in the same water
or in an insufficient quantity they will
be limp and discouraged by morning
Those who complain they cant keep
flowers" are usually those who neglect
these simple precautions.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1902-11-21
A RecOil Joke.

Not so many years ago there was a
veteran teacher in a boys high school
who often made his classes vince I'M
der the lash of his bitter sarcasm and
ready wit. One day little half starv-
ed yellow cur strayed into the school,
and the boys thought they saw chance
to express their feelings toward "Fus-
sy," who was busy in another room.
The frightened mongrel was picked up,
quickly fitted with pair of large wire
spectacles and placed on the teachers
chair.
"Fussy" entered the room, walked to
his desk, calmly surveyed the work Of
his pupils and then. turning to them,
pleasantly said, I'm my absence l see
you have held a business meeting and
elected one of your number chairman"
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1902-11-21

far out at sea to mark some dangerous
rock or shoal. they are battered and
tossed by furious storms.
While every year sees more or less
damage to lighthouses and beacons,
there is only one spot along the coast
that has detieS the lighthouse builders
successfully. and that is Diamond
shoals, off Cape Hatteras. the most
dangerous place in the service.
Several attempts have been made to
build a lighthouse on the shoals, but SO
far unsucceSsfully. SO this year, as in
previous years. lightship will mark
this danger spot, dreaded by every
mariner who sails the southern coast.
As showing the dangers Of this sta
ton the departments directions for
this year are conclusive: Light vessels
No II and - will be used on this station
alternately" Each Of these ships is
fitted so that she can move under her
own steam, so she will not be an abso-
lutely helpless hulk when she breaks
away from her mooring in a bowling
gale. as she will more than once in this
coming winter
Lightship No GO, also built to 20 un-
der her own steam. was driven from
her anchorage six times in four
months, but managed To steam back TO
her position each time. The seventh
time She failed She fought against the
hur ne for three days and then went
up ON the North Carolina beach near
the Creeds Hill life station. The life
savers got her crew off.
The value Of the Diamond Shoals
lightships is shown by the fact that
during this vessels last year on her
station 800 steam vessels and 2,576
sailing vessels passed her.
The United States lightship that has
had what is probably the most eXtraor-
binary experience is Columbia river
light vessel No 30 Her station is off
the Columbia river, eight miles Off
shore, in the Pacific. one November
day n gale began To blow from the sea.
The chains snapped, and she moved
toward the breakers. Sail was made,
and she was worked twenty-five miles
to sea. The next day two tenders
steamed ont to tow her in. Both failed.
By dusk she was in the breakers She
was headed for the beach and struck.
Her crew was taken off in the breeches
buoy
Such are the perils which the guard
ians of the coast are compelled TO
face each winter. Yet through it all
they keep their lights burning except
when overwhelmed by disaster. With
out them navigation Of Uncle Sans
coasts would be well nigh impossible.