The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-04-26


 1t can strain out the camel.
 
 Editor The Advertiser:
 Who is Vice-P President of the United States:
 In the event of the death of President Roosevelt. who would succeed him?
 Enquirer.
 Senator Frye is President of the Senate. and to that extent is acting vice-Presi- dent. In case of the death of President Roosevelt. however. he would not be his successor, In order that the successor of President. in case of vacancy. might be of the same political faith. the sue cession law enacted few years ago pro vides that the Secretary of State shall be successor of President, who had become President by reason of being Vice. e-President at the time the vacancy occurred. Other cabinet officers are named in succession to the Secretary or State. The time has been when the Senate wa. not in political accord with the President and of course its President would be with the ma jority of that body.
  dent of the Senate to be in the line of succession man might become President of the United States whose party had been badly beaten at the last election
 
 Brief mention was made in these columns recently of the case of Kan sas woman who was tried for murder be- fore jury of young men and acquitted. The Wichita Eagle thus alludes to the circumstance:
 There is, little doubt upon the part of those who followed the evidence that the woman killed the man. But she being smart and pretty withal. her attorneys applied themselves successfully to the task of empanelling jury made up of young impresionable men. The average man won't hang any woman. guilty or not guilty. But when the woman is pretty as is that Missouri woman, acauit- ted of killing her husband, or as is the Stanley woman, at Ottawa, 1t is little more than farcical to try them before jury made up of virilc and Impressions ble men. Had the pretty Stanley woman been tried by a jury of her peers. consist ing of a dozen women. there is little question that the result would have been different.
 And yet The Eagle is not an advocate of women juries, nor are we so sure as it seems to be that such g. jury would have convicted the woman in this case. Her attorneys would have convinced the jury that the man deserved to be killed and that the wife did the proper thing when she put him out of the way. 
 It is estimated by parties in position to know whereof they speak that the removal of what Is known as "the diff | ferental duty on refined sugar would | reduce the public revenues about eight ! relieve the people of the United States | of not less than thirty million dollars a l year in the reduced cost of the sugar | they use. The loss to the government would be matter of small consequence | compared to the benefit that would ac- | crue to the people. but the removal of | that duty would not only reduce the profits of the sugar trust. but would | make breach in the tariff wall, and both these causes will probably proven, any reduction in prices of sugar. |
 We expected The Bessemer Herald. Journal would strike snags when it inti- mated that Pocahontas was a myth, and were not surprised to read this warning from The virginlan- Pilot:
 l If that Bessemer editor ever has oc. casion to pass through Virginia, he wants to make his transit in the night. We say pass through, for of course he wouldn't have the temerity to think of stopping off.
 | If our Bessemer contemporary is called on to pass through "Ole virginny" hell travel incog. or in box car or in some thing else that will hide him from the wrath of the Cavaliers. lest they eat 'en alive. To us. Pocahontas is as real a. Osceola or Pushmataha. and We don't intend to let her get lost. |
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