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The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-12-05
News ano Gossip Qf Washington
BY LuoIEN JULIEN wALKBR.

Washington. Dec. 4-(Special.)- Ut will be worth the while of all the standpatters and staypatters, the swift hotfooters, and good American citizens generally, to await the possible election of MT. Roose- welt to that greatest of all elective of. fees which he now holds by virtue of the constitutional law of succession. He will set us some new examples that will be praiseworthy.
 Estimated entirely upon the conditions and circumstances of this political mo- ment, it is plain to see that MT. Roose- velt's election is very probable.
 But in politics, as in all other affairs of human life. it is given to none of us to know what the morrow shall bring forth.
 Not only may MT. Roosevelt not be elect ed President, but it is quite possible that his party will deny his desire for the omination. Still there is no, present probability of his def eat in the Republi- can National Convention, and unless the Democratic party gets together and quits all foolishness. MT. Roosevelts election is as certain as the call of the taxgath- Ter,
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-12-05
A rArR AND JUST VIEW.

The fair-minded Northern newspapers are beginning to take a proper and just view of Southern affairs. The Portland oregonian. for example. says that the South's determination to get rid of all danger of negro rule is "a resolve in which the South now has the sympathy of discerning men at the North" and adds:
 The people of the South must be permit ted and required to run their politics Tn their own way. There must be no inter ference from the North in their local problems, including regulation or the elective franchise upon existing lines.
 That is from one of the great Repub- lican papers of the country, and it is as positive and as definite as it could be ex- pressed by any Southern man. We note in reading our Northern contemporaries that quite number of them are now dis posed to admit the right as well as the propriety of the Constitutional provisions adopted in Alabama to regulate the suf- frage and admit, with The Oregonian, that our people must be permitted and required to run our politics in our own way"
 The long failure or refusal of major ity of Northern people to recognize the fact that those who were most nearly af- fected by the race problem should be left free to settle it has been the cause of incalculable harm. It matters not wheth- CT they were actuated by ignorance Of the true conditions prevailing in this sec ton or by sectional vindictiveness. the re- suit has been the same. Instead of ben citing the colored people in whom they assumed to take so much interest they have invariably injured them by embit- tering our people and making them more intolerant towards the negroes than they would nave otherwise been. Nothing has been gained but to put off the death of sectionalism and increase race prejudice
 There is one paragraph in The Ore gonians editorial, however, with which we fail to agree, and that is this one:
 The appointees are agents of the na- tional, not local government. and Roose- welt is President of the blacks as well as the whites The reason why the peril or negro dominats is excluded rom nls policy is that it has no place there.
 Technically, perhaps, The Oregonian is correct. but practically it Is not. for it assumes that the President may fill any Federal office in the South with a colored man. This he has a constitutional and legal right to do. of course, but what practical difference would it make>to the people of Montgomery, for example, if we were to have a negro postmaster. that the President had right to appoint him? We do not admit that the President has any moral right to appoint a colored man to any office, either in the South or any where else. if there is decided sentiment against 1t. The sentiment of the people of a community or a State should be re- spected in appointments as we'll as in elections. That Is where we differ from The oregonian, probably because we are better informed on racial matters than 1t is.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-12-05

welt Is responsible for all the blunders to which he calls attention. We cannot be- lieve that the President is trying to inJure his party at the South merely to make a point in the Northern States. MT. Bank head says: The President says. in ef- feet, to Southern white Republicans, You must take the negro or l shall have none of you That appeals, of course. very strongly to the negro vote in the North but it tends at the same tiUe to perpetuate the Democratic solidarity of the South."
 But in this one respect we feel sure he Is mistaken. We do not believe that MT. Roosevelt sets up this hypothesis. nor do we believe that it would in any case make favorable impression on the colored voters North. They understand, of course, that the President has had no hand in the enaction of the laws disfran- chising iliterate negroes in Louisiana, Mississippi Virginia and the Carolinas. And certainly they cannot hold him re- sponsible for the logical consequences of that legislation.
 MT. Bankhead's statement, however, is thoroughly important.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-12-05
HOW THEY REMEMBER.
Says The Birmingham Ledger:

It is a dreadful thing for son to kill a drunken father to protect his mother, but it is right Everybody knows that no drunkard ever gets drunk enough to hunt up a policeman or a bully to fight, but goes home and fights his wife be- cause he doesn't know what he is do- ing" He does know full well that she is weaker than he.
 It is a fearful thing. as The Ledger observes, and unless it was th 'nly way to save the life of the mother 1t was an alternative which few could defend. II may be that in the case to which The Ledger alludes there was no way to save the mothers life except by taking that of the father and in such an extremity the son would be held excusable, bad as 1t would be.
 But there is always something about drunken men that we have never been able to understand, and we have seen a Koodly number of them in our day. A man rarely gets drunk enough to forget or forgive an injury. He may be full through and through; drunk from head to foot, inside and out When he gets over it he will be ready to swear that
 
 did or said, or of anything that passed, but if any one injured or insulted him when at his drunkest he will remember it next day and always afterwards He for gets all that he has done to others and remembers all that was done to him. Funny thing, that is.
 And, as The Ledger remarks, drunken man is not apt to tackle any one who can do him any harm He steers clear of the man who would be sure to reduce him to a physical wreck but saves his pusilistic inclnations and Ill-humor for especial use at home It would be well In some cases of this kind if the abused wife would tie him to bed-post and print a map of the United States on his back with a tough hickory, not leaving out a stream, land line, railroad or other mark. That would be d lesson that he could carry about with him, and one that he wouldn't forget And we think it would have wonderfully permanent ef- feet on his memory The next time he got drunk and thought of abusing his wife he would feel imaginary stripes on his back which would point 10 real ones if he attempted any violence. Yes, drunk man has a very convenient memory.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-12-05

Old John SkeltOn, who wrote poetry ana other things about four centuries ago, says, in the quaint English of his day:
 Old proverbe says,
 That byrd ys not honest
 That fyleth hys owre nest,
 and John Haywood, century later wrote that Tt is a foule byrd that fyleth his own nest," and so the proverb has come down to us as applicable to the man who goes back" on his home or his home people. Of this class Is John &. Wise of Virginia, whose efforts to dis credit and nullify the new Constitution of his State have won for him the un- qualified contempt and ill-will of the best people of that State. In a recent inter view he said to a Washington reporter:
 I guess am the only friend the negro has in the world. I don't know of any other white man who is fighting for the cause of the disfrancfhsed negroes in Virginia. It is strange that an ex-Con- federate and a former slave owner should espouse their cause, but my sym pathy is with the negroes. After they have been allowed freedom and have en- joyed citizenship for more than thirty years I cannot bear to see them reduced by the means resorted to in Virginia
 If MT. Wise had even been content with acting only as the attorney of tN e who are trying to destroy Virgin.as organic law reverse the action of her best peo- pipe, and plunge the State into confusion and trouble, 1t would not be reprehensi- ble, for lawyers are not always expected to be in sympathy with their clients, but this does not satisfy him. He carries hls bitterness and unfilial hatred to the news papers and tells what he has done and proposes to do, and then goes to the Con gress to try to invalidate the elections held under the new Constitution. He has so far failed in this, as he failed before the United States Court in Virginia, and as he will probably fail wherever he car res his scheme.
 And with all his slush about fighting for the cause of the disfranchised ne- groes," he has plainly shown the true cause of his proceedings by virtually ad- hitting that he will give up their cause when they cease to pass around the hat. in plain words, he is advocating the claims of the negroes, not only in the courts as an attorney has a right to do but before Congress and in the newspa- per press of the country for money only He is making himself par mobile frat rum" with the colered people of Nir- ginia trying to bring a reproach on his State and his people and all for the money the negroes can make up for him What is more, he is proving himself an unworthy son of one of Virginia s bravest and truest citizens. a man who was as true to his State. his section and his people as the son is proving otherwise His gush about his sympathy and what he cannot bear to see is the usual style of a man who tries to find some excuse for betraying his native land and his own people,
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-12-05
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1902.
nounrE GOLDEN SYMBOL.

The American Newspaper Directory uses eer- tain signs to denote the relative standing and merit of the whole field of nswspaperdom which comes under its notice. and one of these signs is the mystic symbol tC1 denoting 'goidsn.' which stands for high quality. and is thus explained:
 "Adyertissrs value this paper moro for the e,ass and quality of its circulation than for the mere number of copies printed"
 Such papers are credited with single sym hol; but there is a higher grade. according to this standard authority. which have BOTH QUALITY AND QUANTITY. and require ths DOUBLE GOLDEN SYMBOL col to describe adequately their standing.
 The Advertiser has been accorded thi1 double golden symbol 00l and Is the only paper 60 distinguished in this section of ths South.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-12-05
WASHINGTON SUFFRAGE.

The honest newspapers of the United 1 States, that is to say, those journals that are neither yellow nor purchasable l but which are clean to the extent that | any time hurtful suggestions to pure | minded youth or maidens pure of heart
 and unspotted from the world"-such | newspapers, for example, fin the prov | inces, as The Montgomery Advertiser. and in the metropolis, as The New York Tribune in the capital as The Washing ton Post-owe 1t to the public to imre- diately and vigorously protest against the
 Gallinger of New Hampshire. providing for an amendment to the constitution whereby the curse of practical politics shall be visited upon the District of CO | lumbia, to the extent that the District may by direct popular vote elect Sena-
 tors and Representatives in the Con- gress.
 All respectable daily newspapers retain
 in Washington respectable representa- | tives, charged with the paramount duty | of reporting facts. There is not one of | these representatives. knowing his duty and discharging it without regard to fear | or favor who is not aware that the grant
 ing of political franchise to the people of | the District of Columbia would carry
 with it appalling local conditions.
 | Next to Memphis, Washington is pro-
 portionately the first of negro cities. | Given the franchise. the national capita l WOulu DeCOHie al OllCc tIt iiiOSt pOllttIdil | corrupt city in America, Philadelphia | alone excepted.
 Apart from the great negro vote, loca | conditions incident to national govern | ment would make Washington foul poo | of political corruption.
 | Senator Gallinger's proposition make: l for manhood suffrage; that Is, that every l man in the District not a former convict 1 would have the right to vote.
 l This would be that universal suffrage. l which Thomas Carlyle declared fifty year: | ago meant universal damnation." Tho 1 truth of Carlyle's dictum we of Alabama l and the South know too well, too bitterly : and the provision against universal suf l frage" in the new Alabama Constitu'
 tion is admittedly the blessedest feature
 of that wise instrument of organic law. i In Yankee slang, Senator Gallinger is / of his nut" He has a long autobiog ! raphy, written by himself" as Ton i Ochiltree said, and covering a half-pagt { in that unique publication, the Congress
 sional Directory. One of his names is l Jake and the other Horace, and he al ! leges that though he was born in Can 1 ada, sixty-flye years ago. his mother 1 was of American stock" What that 1 means is not clear. But he says he was
 a doctor-not a horse doctor nor a corr 1 doctor, but just a doctor-and that ht
 had a practice that extended beyond l the limits of his State" So also he Is 8 i ''generar'-one of the seventeen million i paper generals in our brave country : Moreover he is silly.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-12-05
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We Will Refund the Price of
 Vin0l if It Fails.

The worst part of sickness, frequent ly, is getting over it.
 The patients strength is depleted, his system is generally demoralized, relapses are continually feared, and naturally.
 The one thing to aid recovery is to give the patient that which will enable him to get strong, and at the same time give strength direct to the different organs of the body.
 Nothing will do this like Vinol. It acts directly on the stomach, cre- ates a healthy appetite, and enables the digestive organs to obtain the nec- essary clements to increase the weight of the patient and to make new healthy flesh and muscle tissue and pure, rich, red blood.
 The following is a letter showing where Vinol was taken and did good after 8 case of sickness. It reads as follows:
 "I wish to certify to the very great benefit which has been derived from the use of Vinol in my family. My wife was very sick with the grippe and afterward was wholly run down. One bottle of Vinol places her on her feet in better condition than she had been before in six months. I heartily rec ommend and endorse it."-HENRY F. STURrEvANT, s1 Huntington St., Brock ton, Mass.
 Everything that is in Vinol is plainly printed on the label of each package.
 We know Vinol is a splendid preparation, and in many cases we have been able to see for our-S selves the wonderful results if brings about.
 Remember that we guarantee Vinol and refund the purchase money if you are not satisfied.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-12-05
Fingers and Thumbs.

A geolOgist has found in Pennsylvania the fossiized tracks of a giant lizard, the fore feet of which contained not only fingers but thums. w will it be argued from this that the lizard, as well as the monkey, is in the line of descent of man ? -Anniston Hot Blast
 Well. if We came up from an original atom why may we not have passed through the lizard stage as well as an other? If We accept the evolution theory We don't know what forms we had on
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-12-05
Not 8 Fair Estimate.

The Advertiser says 15.OOO turkeys were eaten in Montgomery on Thanksgiving Day. That was a half turkey for each inhabitant, from the infant to the aged. What eaters those Montgomery folks must be.-Bullock County Breeze.
 That isn't fair calculation, for there are many more than 5000 people belong ing to Montgomery's city and suburban population. And then you surely don't think that each person ate the half tur- key at one meal. Think of the after fixens,
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-12-05
Not For Either.

The Journal is not for Cleveland nor for what he represents. The Journal is not for Bryan nor for what he represents. It is for the Democracy that was good enough for Andrew Jackson and Thomas Jefferson. It is good enough for us.- Selma Journal.
 Our contemporary is not for anybody or anything. judging by the above. Or pos sbly, it is for anybody and anything. If 1t is not for the policies represented by either Cleveland or Bryan it would evil dently favor a sort of split-th e-dfference man and platform which would try to please all sides and be satisfactory to none
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-12-05
GREAT ROOSEVELT.

This apparently incidental or accidental; but actually premeditated. method of presenting the news of the momentous movement towar dMr. Cleveland serves the purpose of instant interest regarding MT. Roosevelt, who next to MT. Cleve- land. is the greatest American personal itv of our time
 Even the most liberal of all of us who are fighting partisans, and that's what all of us are when we come to a show down, cannot always agree with MT Roosevelt cannot always accord him even a sympathetic interest Many of us whose business it is to explain the news we report in plain words to the world feel bound sometimes by common sincerity to give the President some very sharp, though respectful, raps. We southerners in particular dissent from
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-12-05
Phrases Mean Nothing.

When the Republican leaders discuss u,birh on analysis are found to mean nothing. What Mir Roosevelt may say in his message on the subject is. matter of present curiosity. but nobody expects him to propose anything radical He sets inc nace on no such public question: but conforms to the opinions of those he thinks can do him the most good in the next Rpullblican convention.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-12-05
Looking for Greater Profits.

TTIIFIT. TVITS =,
 Our esteemed frenls of Massachusetts ar,. mak king a hot fight for free hides We wish thpm all success, for the duty on hides is absurd But we wonder whether our friends wouTd consent to free boots and shoes; free woolen and cotton goods, or to the serious reduction in the duties n many of in eproducts which they manu- facture. To leave these other duties as they stand now and to remove the duty n hides would be to give just so much more protection to the industries using hides as raw materials.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-12-05
A Birthday Present.

A woman in Denver gave her husband corkscrew and a Bible for a birth day present. She probably thought he would need the former to open the latter. Birmingham News.
 It depends very much on the construc- ton of the book. We have heard of Bi- bles and hymn-books which opened at the end and the contents required a cork screw to get to them. This present may have been one of these combinations.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-12-05
Chambers County Cotton Crop,

EIitOr Inc AdNtrtlstT.
 The much talked of top crop of cotton by the bear forces, is no longer boom to depress inc price as the late freeze fol- lowed by the continuous and extreme wet season has softened and about ruined ali late holIs. which will result in very short crop So the boys might as will blu ,1p on the price as they have the crop about all in. And Chambrs County will hardly make one half of crop.
 Chambers Planter.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-12-05
JudiciallY Decided.

It has been judicially decided in Califor- nit that 1t is not cruel for a ma nto lie in bed, making his wife get up and light the fire. After the long and heroic strug- gle for woman's rights, has it come to this?-Mobile Register.
 Yes, it has been judicially decided. both in England and the United States. that a man has the right to whip his wife, but such legal deliverances do not affect the moral right or wrong of the ques- tion, except among brutes.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-12-05
SOME COMMENTS IN PASSING
On Both Sides.

President Eliot of Harvard has now been on both sides of the labor question, and the more he talks about it the less his ideas are understood.-Birmingha Ledger.
 And like most men who try to carry water on both shoulders he is sure to spill some of it, and will be all the time trying to explain his position.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-12-05
Growing Cost of Living.

Rochester IN. VI HeraId.
 Owing to the greed of great combi- nations of capital the cost of living has baaithI competition have given place to u monopoly. The poor man finds himself confronted hy constantly increasing prices for the necessarie of life. Millions upon millions are taken annually from the
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-12-05
BONDS TAKEN BY TREASURY.
State and City Securities to the Amount of $2O, ,5o5, 800 Accepted.

ID to the close of business last night,
 the Treasury had accepted State and city
 bonds to the amount of $2o oo2' ooo as se cnrity for the deposit of Government
 money no ne, in national banks under the recent order of the Secretary of the Treasury. The bonds that have been accepted Wlth thn nnnr1nts are aS follows:
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-12-05

Senator Hale voices the Republican idea of tariff reform when he declares that 1t ''is an excellent thing in theory but per nicious in practice Congress will look at it that way.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-12-05

The Minneapolis Journal puts back
 its sectionalism long enough to admit
 that the reconstruction period was a dark shadow upon our history.'It wasn't a shadow-it was a blot
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-12-05
Was It Cause and ERectp

Boston GIODt.
 President Roosevelt's remarks to the British labor leaders that more and more as our modern industrial progress goes on there is a tendency to work in federation or combination, both among em- ployers and among employees. in corpora lions and in unions" was followed promptly by the announcement of the formation of a potato peelers' union in Chicago .
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-12-05
Gets What It Deserves.

Indianapolis News.
 administration of it's affairs that 1t wishes and deserves. The decent honest, hard working people are always in the ma iority. If they will pull together they can turn the rascals out and keep them t1t
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-12-05

MT. Bryan's contention that the daily newspapers are losing their influence and being supplanted by the weeklies is based on the fact that his paper is not a daily
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-12-05

Poets sometimes write with precious little sense. Here was one writing just before Thanksgiving about the high price If turkeys but added that We should feel thankful for having good appetites Now where's the sense of that combination?
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-12-05
Stems of an Honest Man.

Brooklyn Life. in the new cashier?
 President-He drinks, smokes. goes fish ing on Sundays and never lived in the st1blrbS
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-12-05

The Manchester (N. H) Union and The New York Times discussing the Crum matter both argue that the President, by appointing colored men to offices in communities where the appointments ex- cite only indignation and bitteress sim ply blocks the colored mans path of prog ress." which is putting it mildly and truthfuly
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-12-05

The newspapers may as well let your uncle Mark Hanna alone. He says hell be - something-or-other'd if he'll re- sign anything. but will hold all he has. That is the genuine Ohio idea, anyhow.