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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-07-13
Let Us Pull Tooether.

A state primary is to be held and
the convention system in Alabama is
Alabama history now. This is all set
tied and disposed of, and we should
now forget or put by all recollections
or divisions over the subject. The
state committee has spoken, and it is
the duty of all Democrats to fall in
and accept the adopted plan without
hesitation or complaint. Our duty
would have been likewise If directly
contrary determination had been
reached. Discipline is necessary in a
party, and discipline appears as soon
as a question is authoritative1y de-
cided The primary's the thing now,
and no Democrat will speak or act
otherwise than in full obedience to it..
Our duty as Democrats relates now
to a general and strong effort to make
the coming state primary politically
successful, particularly in the direction
of a fair and honest vote. The task
is almost Herculean, but 1t comes to
us of the present year, and we should
rise to it and meet it. Every county
executive committee should take ac-
tive steps. The county executive COM
mittee is charged with the duty of
appointing inspectors in each precinct,
and the responsibility for the proper
conduct of ,Me primary therefore rests
upon it. If the county committee ap-
point honest, just, courageous and in
telligent inspectors all will go well,
but if its appointees are ballot box
wizards and men in whom the people
have no confidence all will go i'll. The
character of the state primary de-
wolves then upon the county commit
tee.
But this is only true primarily
speaking. Every citizen can help
some, and it is the duty of every cit
izen to do all that in him lies towards
relieving the state of dishonest cleo
tons. Only registered voters who
have paid the poll taxes assessed
against them can vote, but even with
in this restriction many frauds are
possible, and all good men should be
alert in preventing such frauds, and
in exposing any irregularity or fraud
that may occur. This is big task in
some localities, but the new Alabama
is equal to 1.-THE Alabama of the
new constitution. Let us get ready to
do our full duty. The state expects
every man to do his duty, and every
mans full work is needed in this vital
and all-important matter.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-07-13
The sorrows Of the Great.

The troubles and sorrows OF the great
have always possessed the most intense
interest for mankind. and such interest
has given Immortality to many figures
in history" said man who has Travelled
much in the old world.
This simple suggestion viii remind all
students and educated persons of Mary
of Scotland, of Louis XVI. and Marie
Antoinette of the Man of the Iron Mask,
of Casper Hauser, Josephine and Others,
and all these are recalled by the death
of the Earl of Arundel, only son of the
greatest nobleman who owes allegiance
to King Edward namely, the Duke of
Norfolk, premier duke and hericItaly
earl marshal of England.
Lord Arundel, who was literally and
truly the heir of the ages. was born men
tally an idiot and physically helpless on
September 5. 1879, in Arundel castle, the
Duke of Norfolk's renowned country seat
in the county of Surrey. His birth took
place in the bed chamber in which, nearly
three centuries before, Queen Elizabeth
had slept as the guest of one of his an
cestors in the direct line. And so he who
was born to the greatest earthly glory,
next to the throne itself, never enjoyed
one moment of reason and never mo-
ment free from physical pain.
THE unspeakable affiiction of his only
son, and heir to the long list of titled
honors and vast fortunes of the illus
trious house of the Towards, has been
the one great and abiding sorrow of the
Duke of Norfolk's life. 1t has been said
from the beginning that it was only the
dukes profound religious convictions, that
kept him from blank despair and hopeless
melancholy. He was born a Catholic as
had been all of his proud race of How
ards for uncounted centuries, and in
religion he was and is one of the most
devout men in all England. His uncle
was a cardinal prince of the Catholic
church and for fifty years was attached
to the court of the pope, and every gener-
alton of his family for eight-centuries has
furnished this church with great priests
"As the Duke of Norfolk is the first
nobleman of England, ranking every man
outside the immediate royal family, he
is therefore the first layman Catholic,
and although many families of the most
ancient nobility are Catholics. they are
as of yesterday when measured by the
date of the Norfolk titles, honors and
with the most princely charities, worthy
of the princeliest house of England; and
at Inc coronation of the King, the duke
in his sorrow and lonely greatness will
be first
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-07-13
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hope in the water flowing through lifes
old battlefields. and while it may muir
muir by ruined mills there are new mills
for it to turn. and the turning may grind
out plenty, honor, love and peace.
In Gays that are darkest, things are not
what they seem. We do but fight wind
mills and herds of swine, imagining them
to be knights in armor with lances poised
against our hearts. The shapes that APP
pal us most are but thing shadows of our
selves.
The hope of the faithful is unafraid
and ever beautiful-as beautiful by con-
parison in the realm of real life as a
young girl passing to woman's estate.
Behold her, all in white and belted in the
pink of the dawn when the cool and en-
trancing shades of the night are fallen!
Iiebe and Phyche in one. with the dash
of bounding Aurora. In the laughter Of
innocence her white teeth cleaning. her
shadowy eyes clustering in merriment
and her shadowy hair, fluffy and waving,
tossed by the regal head in the soft
breezes, first-born of the night-winds
soothing whisper. Her gentle speech and
wondrous laughter ripping and trilling
and rolling like a sigh from the great
heart of midnight" as the noble Hugo
said, drawing and compelling alteration
she might not understand she swayed
in the shade by the quivering nighttime
flung, and the world might have stood
there and said, This is Hope and Life and
Love In onel
SO shall we who are of coarser fabric,
materially and spiritually, accept her as
she graciously lends her presence to
brighten our lives with the radiance of
that purity that is akin to the angelic
She is the type of hope and the inspira-
ton to noblest endeavor She is the de-
monstration and the inspiring force that
the stream still flows on to turn the new
mills of human purpose and honest hui
name effort under the holy admonition of
the faith. Aye the faith Aye, the faith!
without that there is nothing, nothing.
And the stream of opportunity for good
and worthy deeds, for success in life and
love and peace still is flowing. flowing
flowing.
THE MURMURER.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-07-13
Registration This Week.

The total registration of voters in
this county up to the present time is
but 1912, and there were in the cen.
sus year 1882 males in the county
over Fl years of age. That number has
since been increased to something
over $4,000. When the negroes reg
istered are deducted it is thus seen
that less than one-half of the white
voters of the county have registered.
Such neglect exists nowhere else in
the state, and the chief seat of this
neglect is in this town itself.
This neglect of plain and import
ant duty should be looked squarely in
the face. 1t means not only loss of
political power to this city, but it in
wolves a serious loss to the county in
at least two directions, for it will less
en- our voting power and probably our
proportion of representation.
No doubt this neglect is based to a
great extent on misapprehension. 1t
is popularity believed that registration
will subject one to taxation, when in
fact it will do nothing of the sort. Poll
taxes are now paid voluntarily, and no
compulsion is possible. Street taxes
are collected without reference to any
list. The redoubtable Gamble gath.
ers them in as he goes along, and no
registration is needed or employed by
him. There is in fact no way in which
registration will operate to increase
ones taxes.
The board of registration will sit
at the court house all of this week
and unless 1000 additional names are
registered in this town we viii lose
standing in the county and in the
state. The registration in most of the
counties in the state has been carried
to a good percentage of the white
vote, and it should be carried in this
county to fully 10000, and even then
there will be at least 5000 white men
unregistered.
The Age-Herald bespeaks a common
effort in this direction during the pres
ent week. TIL registration of Jefferson
is exceedingly deficient. Two thousand
names in this town should be added
to it. Keep this in mind this week
Send every unregistered man to the
court house, where in two minutes he
can register without inconvenience or
trouble, and he will then be registered
for life. Subsequent registration will
be both difficult and bothersome. as II
will be based on intelligence or prop
erty.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-07-13
Piu Iron Production in Iune.

The weekly capacity is still rising
uuantity, standing on July l at 352, 290
tons. compared with 344.74S tons on
June /. Several furnaces were blown
put or banked in June, but the blowing
In of some large plants in Ohio Offset
Iii losses, and production goes on at
B rate approaching 100000 tons a
kear. And yet furnace stocks are ex-
bemely small, being on July l but
lb.O37 tons, as against 73,208 tons on
kune 1. The small gain is not signif-
liant.
The production of this district has
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-07-13
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
AND ELSEWHERE
A Million for Tlekets.

The ticket sales at the Birmingham
union passenger station this year will
certainly reach a million dollars and may
exceed that amount" said an official Of
the union ticket office.
In one month we have sold tickets to
the value of hundred thousand dollars
The sales Of tickets have more than
doubled within three years, and You
know that 1900 was an exceedingly busy
year in Birmingham.
esThe business of our office exceeds that
of the union ticket office of every other
city In the South. In New Orleans,
Memphis Nashville, Atlanta and other
large towns there are city ticket offices.
so-eallsd. fiat Is. branches of the union
offices: but we have no branch office in
Birmingham All the railroad tickets for
points outside of Birmingham are sold
in one office in the union station, where
six clerks are now required to handle the
business
another interesting fact is that an
overwhelming percentage of the tickets
sold in our office is for local traffic-for
nearby points-to people who go out for
or come in for local business. Unmis-
takably this denotes great prosperity and
a great increase in population. That the
population has Increased to a remarkable
extent is manifested by the increase of
one hundr ed per cent in our Birmingham
ticket sales within three years. for
strictly speaking, Birmingham and the
district were comparatively as prosper
Gus three years ago IS now.
And another plainly observably fact
is that most of our sales of tickets is to
people who work for wages In short, It
Is the workingman who is swelling our
sales to the enormous total of a mil
lion dollars a year. Ticket sales are al
ways heaviest in the summer months,
and just now we are selling consider
able number of tickets to people who
are going away TO the summer resorts
outside Of Alabama; but these latter
sales are really but drop in the bucket
Our local business is the business
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-07-13

steadily risen from 1858 tons in Feb
ruary to 1914 tons in June. The pro
duetion Of the first six months Of the
year IN this state was 674.S9e tons of
coke pig. About $4,000 tons of char
coal iron was turned out at the same
time, thus carrying the total produe-
ton to about 100000 tons. The years
production may reach 100000 tons,
which would be a new Alabama record.
The prompt settlement of the coal
strike renders such an output possible.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-07-13
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.

From the New York Press.
Widows are never SO young as they
count themselves.
As If it were a boat on the sea, faith
or should be an anchor for his child; a
mother it's harbor in storms.
Why the mosquitoes fool around wom-
ems open-work stockings so much is be-
cause some of them look so much like
mosquito netting.
Some men haven't got sense enough to
learn when they are married that wom-
an can be managed only by letting her
manage the man.
The surest way to find out whether a
woman's hair is red or she is only pre-
tending it is, is to make fun of red
headed children and see how mad she
doesn't get.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-07-13

vi Alabama. They have demanded
a primary election law and
~ they have 1t. The vote of
Democrat of Winston county counts just
as much as the vote of a Democrat of
Dallas county in selecting Democratic
candidates for state offices. It will be
the peoples own fault if they don't Sc
lect the best men. No county. in the flu
tuIe. is to have mere power than its
neighboring county. It is hereafter the
man and not the section.
There are these who are disappointed
and there are those who are pleased.
There are many who don't know just
where they stand refer, of course, to
candidates and would-be candidates.
The matter of supreme interest now is
whether Governor Jelks will be opposed.
and if opposed by whom.
Joseph f. Johnston, former Governor
of Alabama. is a figure upon whom all
political eyes are conferred. The question
is What is Johnston going to do about
it?"
Johnston has eyes rivete1 upon a seat
up in the United States Senate chamber
in Washington He has leaned and looked
IN that direction for years past. and he
seems determined to lean and look and
pull and work until he gets there if it
be possible. Just how to proceed is the
great moving question with him right at
present. If Jelks is reelected Governor
ard vacancy occurs in the United
States Senate Johnston knows he will
have no chance. Therefore Johnston
would defeat Jelks. If that be possible
He believes he could do 1t if he would
run himself. but IL he wers Governor he
couldn appoint himself to the United
States Senate. Therefore Johnston would
prefer to run a friendly spirit against
jerks. But here is another difficulty. He
can't cor entrete upon the man whom he
believes can win over Jelds. though he
has thought and is thinking deeply and
is SEEMING the political streams of tho
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-07-13

more than Mr.. Bailey himself. He acted
upon impulse and made mistake The
matter, however, will be forgotten be-
fore Congress meets again. and the
chances are that Bailey will resume his
high position in the United States SEN
ate when that body reassembles IN De-
eember
He has very properly entirely ignored
the statement CT Solicitor Penfeld Of the
State Department.
Senator Bailey Is the youngest United
States Senator and one of the ablest. 1t
Is only matter of time before his mental
ability should make him the leader OF
the Senate.
am glad to know that the injunction
suit against the Seaboard Air Line has
been set aside and that this great system
is soon TO have its line operating into
Birmingham. It means the expenditure,
directly and indirectly, of perhaps sew
eral million dollars IN and about Bir-
mingham. and the opening of valuable
coal mines in the Cahaba field between
Birmingham and the present East and
West Railroad.
The settlement of the dispute as to
wages between the coal miners and the
operators of the birmingham district
means that some 10000 miners who have
been idle for twelve days past will go to
work again on Monday, and the wheels
of industry IN the Birmingham district
will again begin to revolve.
The pay rolls of the district consequent
upon the twelve days of idleness will be
reduced this month something like $780,,
900. This, however, is a mere bagatelle to
the tremendous pay rolls of the district.
and the merchants and other business
men. who have been somewhat alarmed
over the situation, will renew their orders
for goods which were held up pending
the settlement of the labor situation; and
business should thrive again.
Indeed, the prospects are bright for q
continuation of prosperity and increased
business in every lire IN the Birmingham
district
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-07-13
EVANS PROMOTION.

From the Chicago Chronicle.
London dispatches report that H. Clay
Evans is delighted with his new post az
consul general. Quite natural. To con-
sort with the nobility and landed gentry
of Great Britain at $4,000 per year is OBJ
viously more conducive to comfort and
satisfaction than to dodge brickNats for
5000.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-07-13

These are Convict Harry Tracy's
busy days. and few care to drop in
on him out in Oregon.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-07-13

The monk" at Harry Lehr's dinner
was given no chance to decline. This
was brutal.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-07-13

Beveridge nobly refuses to shut off
Bailey's wind by accepting the vice
presidency.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-07-13

Lord Kitchener's regrets to report
are all forgotten in London today.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-07-13

Senator Beveridge need not fear
that he will be conscripted into the
viee-presidency.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-07-13

Mary MacLane's conversational En-
glish is too warm to fit the Boston
climate.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-07-13

The stork that brought Col. Astor
daughter now wears a diamond neck
lace, the envy of his set.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-07-13

The shore naval officers cannot be
turned over to the army, because the
army would not accept them.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-07-13

The Roosevelt faction is more than
neck ahead of the esteemed Hanna
faction.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-07-13

Lord Kitchener comes back hero
both in war and diplomacy.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-07-13

Convict Tracy is still two laps ahead
of the detectives, and gaining all the
time.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-07-13

The soaring of corn does not affect
corn juice, whose tendency is still
downward.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-07-13

The test of the Gates corner on
corn will come in the closing days of
this month.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-07-13

President Harper and the self-ad-
vertising professor are about to part.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-07-13

The farmer grows the corn, but Mr.
Gates affixes the price tag.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-07-13

The political malaria that exists at
Oyster Bay is very fatal to office
seekers.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-07-13

Col. Tracy of Oregon may have gone
to meet Mr.. Frank Duncan at rem
devious unknown to Sheriff Burgin.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-07-13
ALABAMA POLITICS.

From the Chattanooga Times
Alabama has fallen into line for a state
primary election and has relegated the
Tennessee will come next, for If the
Democratic party is to control in this
state something will have to be done to
check the growth of that laxity of party
discipline directly the result of bossism
and machine methods that have we'll
nigh made party nominations by-words
of reproach. We must get back closer
to the people and to popular control or
look defeat within a few years longer
at furtherst squarely in the face
From the Montgomery Advertiser.
The result will receive the approval of
the great bulk of the Democrats and will
be acquiesced in by all of them. The
friends of the new constitution want a
state government and legislature which
approve that great organic law and are
not going to do anything calculated to
prevent such a contamination. The way
is now open for every Democrat to ex-
press his choice for every state office to
be filled this year, and under the rules
laid down by the committee, Democrats
only will participate in the primaries.
The report of the committee is published
In full in today's Advertiser, and is SO
clear and unmistakable as to need no
comment or explanation. 1t is to be a
Democratic primary, and no loyal DEM
ocrat can object to 1t on that account.
From the Nashville Banner.
The decision in favor of the primary
is distinct triumph over the machine
that fought for it's continued existence
in the survival of the convention plan
Alabama politics for some years past
has been dominated by this machine,
that came to be fiagrantly INSCRIPTIONS
in its methods. Under the machine oper-
alton Black Belt oligarchy had grown
up that gave the counties in which there
are large negro majorities complete
dominance in state affairs. Without re-
gard to the actual vote cast the alleged
vote of these negro-congested counties
was so manipulated as to carry the cleo
ton according to the machines desire.
This plan must of necessity be aban-
doned under the new constitution, which
eliminates the negro vote and leaves no.
latitude for the counting of majorities
with which 1t was the former habit of
the machine to overcome majorities in
the white counties. 1t was an outgrowth
of the reconstruction anarchy that once
held the state in thrall. The carpet-bag-
gers and scalawags used the legitimate
negro vote to dominate and pillage the
state and the Democratic politicians
who succeeded them used a fictitious
negro vote, one of their own counting,
to work their will in state politics
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-07-13

Triggs is sure DR.. Harper did not
have him in mind.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-07-13

The Alabama newspaper men were
up against Boston weather yesterday.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-07-13

Bandit Tracy, Pat Grove and Frank
Duncan are in position to form syn
didate and write for the magazines.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-07-13

President Harper wants professors
who are not afflicted with lack of
common sense. He needs a new outfit
all round.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-07-13

The anthropoid at Harry Lehr's din
ner was very ancestral. and he no
doubt recognized his own earmarks in
bis fellows on that occasion.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-07-13

- HE people are in the saddle in
vi Alabama They have demanded
a primary election law and
Il they have 1t. The vote of