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The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-08-14

Postofice Department went to West var.
ginia some time ago and made Inquiries
into the personal character of a man
whom Senator Scott had Recommended
for appointment, for the purpose of as
pertaining his fitness. The Senator re-
scented the action bitterly, and, as the In
spectors are under the Fourth Assistant.
made demand for the removal of Mr..
Bristow
The demand was not compiled With. It
is now understood that Senator Elkins has
Joined with Senator Scott in renewing it.
The friends of the Senator'S say that the
President has agreed to appoint q sue
cessor to Mr.. Bristow, but this Is not ac-
cepted here by men who know all the
conditions of the case. 1t would undoubt-
eddy be a great mistake.
Mr. Bristow has been the target for at
tacks by high dignitaries in the Repub-
lican Party before. Senator Burton began
one as soon as he was elected, jumping
at once on a train for Washington and
pouring out his soul to President McKin-
ley His only reasons for Directing to Mr..
Bristow was that he was a Leland Re-
publican, and not a ourton Republican.
Mr. Mckinley heard him patiently enough
and then said in his most soothing tone:
wen, Senator. we find Mr. Bristow so
useful man here that we don't feel that
we can spare him: suppose, instead Of
turning him out and filling his place
WIN one Of your friends. you find me two
or tnree more just like him and send
them on. We can take care of them, I'm
sure. Senator Burton soon dropped his
hight as bad Job.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-08-14
WEST FLORIDA.
The Awful Story of Annexation
Conspiracy Exploded.

To the Editor of Mobile Register:
At the last session of the legislature
vide, for the Annexation of West Florida
to the State of Alabama, etc.
1t is beyond comprehension that an at
tempt should be made to prejudice the
people Of Mobile County, and particularly
of this city against Governor Jelks on
that account.
A large delegation from Pensacola visit
ed Montgomery during the session of the
general assembly, and urged legislation
looking to annexation. There was
strong disposition in the legislature to
recognize them, and to do something to
evidence a hearty willingness to acquire
the proposed territory.
The truth is that the idea of squaring
out the State and getting a more extern
sive seaboard has a fascination for any
Alabama legislature. and the State will
undoubtedly buy if Florida will sell at
reasonable price.
And it is just as solid a truth that
Florida will never part with any part or
her territory.
AS l recollect the bill originally in
troduced. it provided for the appoint
ment of a commission to visit the capital
of Florida to try TO arrange for annexa-
ton.
and others opposed that as dis
courtesy to that State, insisting that we
ought not to make a proposition TO buy
without some indication of Willingness
on its part to treat.
a substitute was nndIIy pppOScu ana
adopted that the Governor should APP
point a commission on the part of Ala
bama to confer with like commission on
the part of Florida to provide for an
neXation.
/ believe the records show that l voted
for il: | had forgotten doing so, but l
don't think any one will imagine l was
engaged in a conspiracy for the ruin OF
Mobile.
injury would result to Mobile from the
annexation of West Florida
In the next, the most alarmed friend
of Mobile, dreading annexation. could not
have adopted a better way of putting an
end to the whole discussion, and of send
ing the movement to the tomb of the
Capulets
AS the Alabama commission could act
only upon the appointment of a similar
commission by Florida, the project died
as it was born.
But if it was such a crime, let 1t be
visited only upon the guilty.
Governor jerks did not originate the
bill, did not work for it, did not vote
for it. and did not approve it.
1t was approved by Governor SANFORD
on the fourth of March, 1901.
R. H. Clarke
Mobile. August Q. 1902.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-08-14
URGE Villas FOR GOVERNOR.
Wisconsin Democrats Look to Former
Senator to Lead the Ticket.

Milwaukee Special to Chicago Chronicle.
Democrats are now urging the consid-
Grafton of the name of William F. VI
las of Madison, former United States
Senator and one time Postmaster Gen
eral and Secretary of the Interior. 1t is
admitted that Mayor Rose controls the
Milwaukee delegation and has enough
strength in outside counties to give him
over a third of the total vote in the con-
vention now. Had an early convention
been held. as was urged by the Rose men.
nothing could have stopped his getting
the nomination with whoop. Postpone
ment has brought out other candidates,
and if the field could combine against
Rose there might be good show of his
defeat by one of the other candidates,
but it is very doubtful If any such COM
bination can be made.
Senator Villas Is admittedly the strong
est man in the party today so far as
brains and integrity and reputation are
concerned and he, Of all other men. could
make the kind of campaign which is
urged as necessary. But he does not
want to be a candidate and it is very
doubtful if his friends can persuade him
to enter the field. He will be in the con-
vention. however, as delegate from
Madison and it NAV be that he can be
persuaded to allow the use of his name
He would not be averse to another term
as Senator should the Dem ocrats con-
troll the Legislature. which Is among the
possibilities. Good Judges of the situation
elect a Governor this year they can Sc
cure control of the Legislature and elect
the next Senator and if they do Villas
would have a better chance than anyone
for the nomination.
Two of the most desirable candidates,
former Governor Peck and E. G. Wall.
are almost certain to be shut off by the
fact that they live in Milwaukee. They
are very popular here, but Mayor Rose
will have the delegates. He absolutely
controls the organization. Peck could
command more of the Republican votes
than any other man in the State but
unless the convention does something I'M
usual the nomination will not come his
way.
MIR. Wall was the first man in the State
to be actively doomed for the nomination
for Governor. He is a gold Democrat, but
has always acted with his party. He was
the Wisconsin member of the Democratic
National Commute for a great many
years until succeeded by T. E. Ryan
two years ago. He is President of the
Milwaukee Chamber of Commerce, has al
ways taken a prominent part in all the
Democratic State campaigns, is wealthy
and has the respect and esteem of both
the rank and file of the party throughout
the State.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-08-14
Bird s. Coler May Be Democratic
Nominee

From New York to Chicago Tribune.
Bird S. Coler, formerly controller of
this city, will be the Democratic candidate
for Governor if the nomination comes to
Greater New York. Ex-senator Hill
spent part of Sunday with Hugh Nc
Laughln. leader of the Democratic
organization of Kings County at James,
port, and told Mr.. Mclaughlin that the
situation seemed to demand that the can
didate come from New York City, and
that he knew no one who would make
a better run than Coler. Mr.. McLaugh-
lin told Mr.. Hill that Golfer would get
the support of the Kings County dele
cation.
To emphasize the fact that Mr.. Coler
is the choice of ex-senator Hill, 1t was
learned today that Messrs Hill and Coler
would make a tour of some of the west
ern and northern counties of the State
together and that Mr.. Coler would do
lot of handshaking and speaking among
the farmers at county fairs this fall, in
order to offset far as possible the
favorable impression that Governor Odell
has created among the agriculturists.
Meanwhile, ex-senator Hill and Mr..
Coler are saying nothing about politics.
Mr. Hill refused to be quoted. When
Mr. Coler was seen today by reporter
he was asked the following question:
Have you received any assurance from
ex-senator Hill that you are to be the
Democratic candidate for Governor this
fall?"
Collar
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-08-14
White Responsibility.


MODlle register.
The negro cannot deteriorate, cannot
shrk his work, cannot become indepen-
dent of the white man without mourning
injury and intiictng injury. The white
man must suffer from the deficiencies of
the negro; and to whatever extent he is
Indifferent to those deficiencies, he Is the
cause of his own suffering.
The negroes come of a people who lived
in the open, pursued game for living,
had little to do with agriculture and moth
ing to do with civil government. The
original traits are still apparent here.
The negroes love to wander; they have
very few home ties; their homes are not
made attractive by them or for them by
others; they find the bonds of settled life
irksoma When they can do SO they
abandon one place for another, believing
that there is always a better life just
beyond the border. They do not as
rule know how to accumulate wealth;
they have no assertion with the land on
which they work, except during the time
Of a CROP; and we do not find it strange
that hordes of them are attracted by the
cheap railroad rates, EXCURSIONS etc,
and start off for Texas, Oklahoma. Kan
sas or any other promised land the
cv"nrsi"n agent nicturcs to hem
The duty of the whites is to take
deeper interest in the Cohultioh ol IN
negroes than they are now DONG Al
hitting that much that may be done
will be fruitless; that gratitude must not
be expected; and that it will he labor
that will have TO wait for Its reward,
nevertheless. the time for DONG some
thing to help these child-people is here.
The whites must strive to save the
negroes from themselves, and this must
be done not solely because 1t is the obli-
CATION the whites assume when they take
full charge of the government, put PC
cause failure to do it reacts upon me
whites themselves, deprives their fields
of Iahorers and retards the progress OF
The country.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-08-14

4.O76. 231, 374

All along the line from the States in
the great grain growing belt come cheer
ing messages. Wisconsin announces that
she has the biggest oats crop she ever
raised and that her corn is in excellent
condition. Indiana calls her corn crop
phenomenal" and submits the lgures-
1000 600 bushels to prove it. Nebraska
declares she has 100000 bushels more
corn in her fields than she ever had be-
fore: Illinois hopes to add nearly 100. 000.-
900 to her last crop of that cereal Ohio
makes her wheat crop practically the
same as last years and raises her corn
limit 100000 bushels.
Kansas will not raise more than half
as much wheat as she did in 1901. but
she compensates for this loss with
corn crop five times as large-unoflicially
estimated at 3000 900 busheus. virtually
the government figures of month ago.
Oklahoma promises something like 150.-
00O O00 bushels of wheat and IS. 100000 of
corn.
Up in Minnesota and the Dakotas the
harvest of wheat has begun with a cOndi-
tion above 90 points. Nearly everywhere
the corn in the fields besbpeaks MAJ nit-
cent crop and the oats output, 1t is said,
will exceed that of 1899
Until the thrashers began to tell their
Joyous tales it was believed the wheat
crop would not come up to the record
breaking total of a year ago hut some
statisticianS now believe that the crop of
1902 will exceed that Of its predecessor by
at least 100000 bushels. This is the lat
est estimate of B. w. Snow, one OF the
best known crop experts in the country.
His total is 77S,000 600 bushels. The same
authority says the corn harvest will be
500 600 600 bushels or nearly double that
Of a year ago He puts the oats crop at
Ssh 600 Cf0D.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-08-14
JELKs's GOOD WORK AND RE-
CORD

The question of education Is secondary
in the present campaign only to the main
tenanco of a white mans government
through the faithful execution of the
new Constitution. Governor Jelks and
his administration have done more for
education than former Governor Johnston
did. The Auditors reports establish
this fact beyond peradventure. Let us
take a glimpse at these reports. During
the fiscal year ending September 80. 1901,
there was. disbursed for common and dis
trict schools the sum of 1925, $50. 46 During
the fiscal year ending September 30, 1900,
there was disbursed for the same purpose
the sum of s7sS.37227; that is, $1S7. 1873 10
less than for the succeeding year. Dur
ing the fiscal year ending September 80,
1899, there was disbursed the sum of
$685. 1922: that is, $330.117.24 less than was
disbursed for the year ending September
go 1901.
There was disbursed for education and
benevolence. which includes the schools,
during the fiscal year ending September
~, 4o'i, the sum VI @loOo,o-0.oo. mere was
disbursed for the same purposes during
the fiscal year ending September 80 1900,
the sum of s1.14S.024.27; that is, the sum
of $40S Los less than was disbursed du-
ring the succeeding year. There was dis
bursed for the same purposes during the
fiscal year ending September 80, 1899, the
sum of 1929, 43079: that is. the sum of
1926. S94.54 less than was disbursed during
the fiscal year ending September 80, 1901.
Governor Johnston went out of office
December /. 1900, consequently those who
succeeded him were in office only ten
months of the last fiscal year. But of a
total of disbursements for the year
amounting to $3.50, 767.6s. only 1891 IA
was dsbursed during October and No
vcmber, 1900
Former Governor Johnston was very
boastful when the expenditures for edu-
cation and benevoence reached the mil
lion dollar mark during his administra-
ton. The present administration has
gone to 81, $685. 325. SO, in its first ten months
and that, too, without any increase in the
rate of taxation. These figures present
the strongest possible argument in favor
of the retention in Office of Governor
Jelks and those surrounding him for a
second term.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-08-14
THURSDAY, AUGUST Ia, 1902.
DOUBLE GOLDEN SYMBOL.

The American Newspaper Directory uses GER
tain signs to denote the relative standing and
merit Of the whole field OF newspaperdom
which comes under its notice. and one Of these
signs is the mystic symbol [0] denoting
golden which stands for high quality, and
is thus explained:
Advertisers value this paper more for the
class and quality OF its circulation than FOR the
mere number Of copies printed"
Such papers are credited with single sym
boil: but there is a higher grade. according to
this standard authority. which have BOTH
QUALITY AND QUANTITY. and require the
DOUBLE GOLDEN SYMBOL LOO to describe
adequately their standing.
Tho Advertiser has been accorded this
double golden symbol 100 and is the only
paper so distinguished in this section of the
South.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-08-14
NOTABLE EXTRACTS FROM
THE BIG DAILIES' CORRE-
SPONDENTS - - -

where this money is? Well. s45O. 900, 900 is
loaned by national banks on the bonds
or industrial corporations The corpora
tons issued bonds instead of stocks be-
cause the national banks can take the
former and can't take the latter In
trinsically they are no better than stocks.
In most of them there has been a lot of
water-curing. Here you see where $780,
100000 or the country's surplus stands
against lot of undigested, promotion
produced securities The irust companies
have rat out millions more in the same
way.
That is where we stand. 1t is all
right as long as it Is all right. But 1
don't want to see anything happen |
don't want to see these industrials begin
to topple over, to fall against one another
and come down in a heap like children $
play-blocks. And this is one reason why
/ am opposed to a tariff revision agita-
ton that might start things going the
wrong way"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-08-14

Brightman. c. w. Hare, J. J. Harlan,
-. l.. Huddleston, b. C. Jones. w. NJ.
Lackey. George A. Sorrell, NJ. IL. What
ley. ID. NJ. White.
Sixth District-M. B. Cameron, r. A.
Grear. George A. Searcy, G. Brooks
Smith. Stephen Smith, G. b. Wimberly.
Seventh District-W. l. Bullock, J. L..
Herring, ]. II. Meigs, r. A. Mitchell, j..
w. Perkins, L. b. Williams.
Eighth DistrictJohn G. Eyster. Walter
A. Given, Joseph II. Nathan, John F..
Proctor S. T. Vert.
Ninth District-C. p. Beddow. John b.
Christian. Hugh McGeever. James G..
Moore, j. G.. Oakley, r. r. Robinett. Is.
F. Roden. Robert Ii. Thach.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-08-14
Lesson Not Yet Fully Learned.

Philadelphia North American,
1t has been geenraIly believed since our
recent unpleasantness with Spain that
the War Department had been taught the
lesson Of efficiency and preparedness ana
that the conditions existing under Secre-
tary Ayers administration had oeen
corrected for all time. For that reason
it will be something of a shock to be to!u
by the army board of inspection appolnt-
ed by Secretary Root that tne iorts
about New York harbor have been
found unit for us in time of Emergency
Possibly If the attention Of the war De-
partment were less occupied with a war
of foreign conquest the coast de1enses
of the United States would not be allow
ed to fall into neglect.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-08-14
Steadily Climbing Upward.

That thu circulation Of The Advertiser Is
steadily climbing upward is demonstrated oy
the appended sworn statement covering the
daily and Sunday issues, for the month Oh
July jus past.
The daily and Sunday average. as Indicated
below, for the dullest of the dull summer
months, is remarkable, in that II is considerably
above the figures for the best months OF the
past Winter. when business in all lines Is
much better than in Summer.
The Advertisers circulation is steadily in
creasing. This Winter we hope to show at
least 600 daily and 5000 Sunday sub
seribers and the prospects are particularly
bright.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-08-14
CROPS BREAK RECORD.
Most Bountiful, It is Believed, in
Nations History.

Chicago Special to Baltimore Sun.
Nature and the farmers of the United
States have outdone themselves in the
wheat, corn and otas crops of 1902.
The most bountiful harvest in the his
tory of the nation has already been gar
nered or is practically immune against
damage by bad weather. From COM
pilation of figures of crop economists 1t
is estimated that the profits for the farm
ers this year will be 5000 900 600 or more
most of which has been realized on corn
and wheat. The calculation is based on
an average Of the estimates Of statisti-
clans This average gives approximately
the following results:
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-08-14

The Mobile Item a few days ago an
nounced that Hon. ]. N. Miller of Will
cox County. was speaking for Joe john
ston. After The Items attention is called
to 1t, will it correct its statement by
saying that the Miller it referred to was
j. M. Miller of Marengo, and not ]. N.
Miller of Wilcox?
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-08-14

ly tame ceremonies. Had Edward re-
manned In good health the event would
probably have been the most magnificent
and gorgeous of modern times, but as 1t
was 1t was shorn of most of its attrac-
tons. And yet Edward is every inch a
King. just as much as If the first pro-
gram had been fully carried out.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-08-14
nAsH1NG TO THE POLE.

The failure of Baldwin's expedition af-
fords another evidence of the futility of
the dash to the North Pole program.
This was not the first attempt of the
kind nor is 1t likely to be the last, for
some people are hard to convince. Nor
would it be entirely safe to say that the
pole can never be reached in that way,
because so many unexpected and appar-
entity impossible things are done in the
present age that it is imprudent to assert
that anything is impossible.
Going to the North Pole by one con-
tinuous advance is much like starting to
cross an unknown desert. If open water
extended to the pole of course a ship
could take along sufficient supplies to
last to its destination and also for the
return voyage If man should start out
to cross a desert of unknown width pru-
dence would suggest that he carry enough
water and provisions with him to last
him on the return journey, il he failed
TO reach the other side, and the same
prudence and regard for his own safety
would cause him to stop and turn back
before he had gone so far that return
would be impossible with the supplies on
hand.
1t is much the same with going, or try
ing to go, to the North Pole. When a
ship has sailed as far as possible, and
the crew start out with sledges to con-
tinue their journey. they cannot predict
with any degree of certainty what OBJ
stacles will be encountered, or how far
North they can go, and will be under the
necessity OF stopping while they have
supplies enough to bring them hack 10
their vessel This is one reason why
those who undertake to accomplish their
object by one continued effort have al
ways failed. and why they are likely to
fail in future. If the pole is ever reached
1t must be done. in our opinion. by grad
ual approaches, possibly occupying sew
eral years. and by always having base
of supplies to fall back on in case of
necessity. Still it is probable that there
will continue to he 'dashers" who think
they will go right on 10 their destination
by one continued effort.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-08-14

There were thirteen cows in a shed in
Martinsburg. Pa. There was also a box
in the shed, and in that box there were
some dynamite cartridges. A cow tried
to chew one of the cartridges and then
thirteen cows disappeared, 1t was a bril-
liant success, that bovine experiment was.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-08-14

Governor Johnston is greatly disturbed
because a few white men failed to pay
their poll tax. He never reminds them
that they can pay that tax next winter
and reinstate their privilege to vote.
Neither does he tell them that he tried
to induce the Legislature to provide for
a larger poll tax and require every voter
to pay 1t. He keeps that strictly to him
Mercury.
Every man in Alabama subject to pay
ment of poll tax was warned time and
again that If he did not pay it by the
list of February he could not vote in the
primaries or the general election this
wear. 1t was their own fault if any of
them failed to heed the notice. Those
who pay what was due before February
l, last, and what will be due on or be
fore February l, 1903. can have them
selves enrolled as voters next
year. The failure to pay poll
tax interfcred with no mans right
of registration. Johnston had no
other proposition for suffrage reform
than a poll tax higher than $3.50 and for
payment of which every man in the State
without regard to age. should he liable
Now, he is whimpering because men I'M
der As have to pay $3.50 to the school
fund in order to become voters.