The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-06-26
Nearly Million Americans Un-
 der Carpetbag Rule.

burdensome central government at the capital of their Island.
 Think of seventeen governors of Ala bama, with five boss governors in Mont gomery. and think of every other State officer of Alabama multiplied by seven- teen. and you will have some degree of conception of what the Unted States Congress Is preparing for the Filipinos
 True the Filipinos are. within certain restrictions, to "elect" these seventeen Governors, as well as some local of- ficials, including Mayors; but they don't know how, and 1t will require years for them to learn now And need anybody doubt the class of men who will be elect ed? They will be American carpetbaggers and native tools of American adventurers. The much-talked-of Governor Gardiner ordered the people of his province to elect him and directed them to elect cer- tain men of his naming to the local of fees.
 The Fllipinos will be ns completely dom- mated by carpetbaggers ns were the negroes cf the south in the accursed days.
 Give carpetbagger his choice be- tween the Philippines and heaven, and he will say, I'll take the Philippines" declared Senator Pcttus on the floor of the Senate. and 1t Is well enough to re- peat that declaration here. If any man in the United States knows the carpet bagger thoroughly that man is Senator Pettus
 God help the Filipinos-lt has been out of the frying pan into the fire with theml Purchased from Srain to be subject to American plunderers IS a bitter fate.
 
 Governor William D. Jeiks has made two short visits to Washington within the past few days. stopping here On his way to and from New York, whither he journeyed to bid adieu to hls dangf- ter, Miss Catherine Jel5s, and his sister in-law, Mrs. c. c. Hanson. of Atlanta, who sailed for Europe. They will be ab- sent till September Governor Jelks spent several months in Washington nearly twenty years ago as private secretary to former Governor William c. Oates. who then represented the third Alabama dis trict 1T, Congress.
 Capt John Bacon Mcdonald of the Third United States Cavalry, who was lieutenant-colonel of the First Regiment, Alabama Volunteers, in the Spanish American war, has been promoted to be regimental quartermaster, and as soon as practicable will proceed to Fort Assin- boine, which Is on the frontier line be- tween the United States and the British Northwest Territory. Since Captain Me Donald returned desperately wounded from the Philippines two years ago ne has been stationed at Fort Myer, near this city. He greatly distinguished him. self In the Philippines.
 It will bring sorrow to a great many Alabamians to know that Mrs. Mcdonald is and has been for nine weeks danger ously III in this city, though she has ex- perienced some slight improvement within the past day or two. Her condi- tion causes grave anxiety. During the years from 1889 to 1892, when Captain Me Donald was the army officer commando ant at Auburn College. his charming wife endeared herself very greatly to the stu dent body the people of Auburn and to the innumerable fathers and mothers who from time to time visited their sons in the college. She Is a native of Texas. Captain Mcdonald Is, as Is well known, an Alabamian.
 LUCIEN JULIEN WALKER.