The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-10-02
NOTE AND COMMENT.
About Matters That Are Mostly
 Political,

There will be three-cornered fight for Governor in New Hampshire. as there was in Vermont. Alonzo Elliot, Man chester banker. will run as an indepen- dent Republican. He makes this an- nouncement: 'I shall ask the voters Of the State. irrespective of party. who be- lieve in honest government, law enforce ment, sound money and a general rail- road law similar to that of Massachusetts to vote for me. am for high license local option"
 The single taxers in Delaware will sup port the Democratic ticket for State offi- cers on the ground that Tom Johnson IS likely to be the next Democratic candN date for President They reserve, how ever. the right to cut any Democratic legislator who antagonized their legisla- tive bills calling for separate assessments and local option in taxation" This help for the Democrats. though, will be onset by the independent Bryan men, who will run a separate Democratic ticket, back cd, as it is declared, by Gas Addicks's money.
 Senator Marion Butler (PopulisO of North Carolina and a member of the Pop ulist National Committee, says that the Populists will have a national ticket of their own in 1904 and that the Democrat ic party lis drifting toward Cleveland tsm,''
 Forgetting about the indicted Republi- can boodlers of St. Louis, The Springfield GID News (Rep) remarks that "the Democratic ring in Missouri is having a hard time explaining away. large dis crepanciSs in State finances
 President George F. Baer of the joint coal and railway trust reporting on the vania trust magnates said: We dis cussed the coal strike situation and re- ports were made of the condition of af- fairs in the various collieries. All that can be said is that miners are returning tn larger numbers every day.
 The Cleveland Plain Dealer Dem.) con- tinues Its discussion of the Tom Johnson campaign in Ohio by expressing an opin ion in favor of the decision of a Pennsyl- vania judge to the effect that offensively loud singing, whistling and piano-playing which annoy neighbors are nuisance and can be suppre ssed by law It com ments as follows: "It Is evident that the petty character of the dispute is quite lost sight of in the important question Of individual rights. Can man who sings or whistles be suppressed if his singing or whistling proves offensive to part or the community"
 The Indianapolis Sentinel (Dem) quotes President Roosevelt as saying that the tariff question should be taken out of politics. but that the tariff should be re- vised by it's friends" The two proposi- tions do not consist"
 some DeI1OCTdIlC TUT Speakership in the next Congress are talk ing time by the forelock. Their excess sive "previousness' Is to be noted. The New York Times reports: Democratic Congressman In this city have received letters from Congressman John S. Will Hams of Mississippi asking their opinion on the advisability of his entering the race as a candidate for Speaker of the next House.
 Robert Kirkland. a leading Democrat of ToAe ngip the political situation there as follows: "I don't believe that there are ten Dem ocratic votes in the County that Rose will not get. I make this statement from speaking, I believe that Rose will have
 .600 plurality in this County. This is ultra gold DemocSatic territory but I know of no disaffection among the Democrats. Jefferson County sometimes goes Repub- lican, but of late years has given few hundred Democratic majority. Bryan carried the County in 1900 by 400
 J. M. Hawke. an English social re- former, says that London is as bad as New York and speci1ces gambling in this way: Gambling in all forms is carried on to just as great an extent in England resorts Is certainly not so blatantly ad- vertised. but most men in society know where several may be found any night In the week Here they are run in the shape
 
 even thousands. of pounds change hands" He adds that police bribery is common and notorious in London.
 Referring to the platform adopted by the New York Republican State Conven- ton. which declared that Roosevelt was the logical' Presidential candidate for the Republicans in 1904, The New York Times Qnd) says that more logically he would be the Democratic candidate Showing the differences between the Pres ident and the ultra high tariff machine and trust Republicans like Boss Platt The Times says: Would 1t not he just the other thing? Is he not about the most illogical candidate upon whom the Republicans could fix their choice?'
 The New York Sun (Rep) says that the Roosevelt plan to plunge the country into a campaign for a constitutional amend ment relating to corporations and trusts would damage beyond estimate the com mercial and business interests of the country" But" it adds, the injury to the financial and commercial interests of the country is more serious to contem- plate as Is the fact that the adoption and ratification of this amendment would revolutiOnize the United States govern ment. The amendment proposes to place the various domestic corporations therein under a newly created police power of the Federal government. If this proposition should become part of the Constitution this country would no longer he the Re public or democratic federation which the fathers founded"
 The Tammany Democrats of New York City elected as delegates to the Demo- cratic State Convention many leading business men, bankers lawyers and men of other classes of the highest standing and responsibility in public affairs One of the Tammany delegates is John G. Carlisle former Speaker of the House and Secretary of the Treasury under President CIeveland; John F. Walsh, a leading banker; William B. Hornblower, the distinguished lawyer appointed by whose nomination was rejected by the Senate; Randolph Guggenheimer. promi- uent in business circles; William McAdoo, Assistant Secretary of Navy in Cleve-
 and's cabinet Joseph Pulitzer of The New York World, former Mayor Thomas F. Gilroy and a hundred or so other men among the very highest rank.