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The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-09-21
Letters to The Editor.

The Advertiser yesterday received the following letter which recounts an in- cident illustrative of the abiding aHectlon of tho ante -beluln negro for his own white people.
 Editor The Advertiser:
 Among the many arrivals in the city yesterday was an old colored man who had taken advantage of the convention rates to visit his childhood home here. lie bade his travelling companions good. bye at the depot and immediately set out to find his old masters children not to seek help. for he is financially independent-but just to look once more into the faces of his own white folks, before the silent summons comes for hm to leave his Texas home and bow at the feet of his eternal Sovereign.
 Finding the home of his young master. William H. Rives, he eagerly scanned the faces of each child to find some resemblance to either old masser" or misses" and then in husky tones he asked one of the little boys to go with him to the cemetery that he might see the graves of those who had cared for him in his childhood days. There is much that is pathetic in his longing for even the faintest reminders of the days before the war and in the affectionate reverence with which he speaks of the early religious training that his mistress gave her many slaves. AS he Wanders about the old plantation, h" rcCounts many a story of the past regime. It is a pity that time has not left many ot the Alabama darkies to tell the tale ot kindness and love which existed between master and slave in the Old South, for in them we find a simple history of the age, enriched with many circumstances unknown in books.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-09-21
Kansas Draws the Line.

Secretary Wilson, who is weak on ge- ography and hair-trgger of speech, has secured an appropriation of $l00OO fro n Congress for the purpose of making ex- periments in the raising of silk worrls and the production of raw silk, says The Wichita Eagle.
 Kansas experience with the silk worm proved several things. Among others that the silk worm would pass a mulberry tree by to eat himself cross eyed on Osage orange leaves; that he. was as a Poland Chna hog in cholera times, ard that he demand ed IS much attention as a teething baby in summer.
 At first there were visions Of fortunes in every township. and ideas of forcing France into bankruptcy became general throughout Kansas But by the time eight thousand individual kansans had crawled out of bed at midnight to roll French worm over on his back ar l feel of his pulse. the anti-silk worm movement in Kansas grew quite vigorous and the silk worm propaganda, so far as this State was concerned, Curled up like a caterpillar and died.
 This isn't saying the silk indul'try couldn't he made to succeed in kansrS. It is saying that the Kansan isn't built on the French peasant model. We are not the worm kind. Our style is more in tine line of a good, substantial Poland China hog. jammed full of corn from the "semi-arid regions" that his fat has shut his eyes and his kinky tail has disap- peared in a dimnle
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-09-21

About eight hundred delegates have been in attendance at the Alabama Re publican State Convention this week, and not a negro among them. That's a new and strange sght tor Alabama. M Js. of the professional negro politicians turned down by events and the State Commit. are d mighty good riddance; but the State has some black citizens whose presence as delegates would have been an honor to the convention. Tuske- gee and Booker Washington are in Ala Dama.-Hartford Courant.
 The number of delegates to the recent Republican Convention in Birmingham was about one-thlrd that stated above. for Republicanism of the white kind is not so extensive in Alabama as to draw together so large d delegate convention. A great many Democrats attended the sessions drawn by curiosity and to sec how A Republican Convention would look minus the negro element. That the ne- gro was used on all occasions by the white Republican bosses up to the last and but little faith is placed in the sud- den conversion of these bosses from eX- treme negro suffrage advocacy to the white supremacy idea. They used them where they could to defeat the new Con- stitution. So far as Booker Washingt on is concerned he has always had the good sense to keep out of political conven- tions.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-09-21
HE IS TANGLED.

The Pensacola Press has managed to get itself all mixel up. Referring to something we said the other day about the drinks of that ancient burg. it thus wobbles:
 The water Is getting to he all right here now We cannot compare 1t in excellence to the beer here, since we do not drink any-that is, we do not drink any be 1T. and hence whether 1t is better than wat 1T which we do not drink-that is beer. we are not a competent judge as to the merits of either. Well. we do not exactly mean this either, but we have got the whole thing tangled up SO, that we had | better let it alone.
 This leaves one very gravely in doubt | whether it is the water or the beer that has tangled our neighbor in such intr!-
 cate style, and we kindly suggest that
 he come up to Montgomery where he can
 get pure water and beer in separate
 glasses Then he would know which he
 was drinking. We assure him in advance | that if he will drink Montgomery water
 as a regular drink. with little beer
 on the side occasionally. he will no long, CT be in the condition of not knowing | where he is at.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-09-21
Race Prejudice in the North.

Baltimore Sun.
 Race hatred and prejudice seem to he getting so bitter in the North that hru- nette girls may be compelled to use com pleXion powders. It is only necessary to be suspected of relationship with the ne gro race to he subjected to all kind of indignities The other day in Boston the door of a trades union was closed upon all black faces. Then in Chicago. at the Northwestern University, the headquar- ters of liberty, young colored woman who had entered the school was turned out into the street. As soon as it was discovered that she had negro blood she was expelled. But the most traordi- nary thing happened at Evansville Ind. girl with dark complexion entered at one of the public schools. and at once all the other children left and the teach CT was confronted with empty benches Truant officers were sent after the chill dren. but their parents said they should not attend school with the dark-faced girl, whom they suspected of being a ne gro The Board of Education took the matter up and after an investigation dis covered that the girl has no negro blood She is simpl va brunette, and her parents are French. 1t will be well hereafte for brunette girls. when they enter the pub lie schools in the North, to use some kind of complexion powders. It is really painful to note the existence of such prejudces in the minds of our Northern brethren.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-09-21
PROSECUTE ALL THE OFFEND
 FRS

The Sacramento Bee, in the course of Some discussion on the St. Louis boodls ease, has this sensible comment:
 It is a good time to emphasize the fact that the men who bribed these fal se servants of the people to betray their trust are no b .t.er tran the men who sold themselves. Every bribe-giver should be indicted, convicted and made to wear a convict suit. The millionaire who buy $ a franchise by the corruption of d Ci.y Government is no less villain and q < public enemy than the creature base enough to take a bribe. This Is on the same principle that the receiver is as b., l as a thief. The people should eYeCrate no less the rich Giver of poodle than ahe boodlers themselves. The same shame rests upon them all.
 In most of the discussions we have seen of this and of other cases of like na ture which have occurred in other cities. very little time or space is devoted to those who should be regarded as the pri- mary criminals and offenders. As we have before said in speaking of the St Louis affair, those councilmen did not begin the dirty work by publicly an nouncirg themselves for sale to the high est bidder. There had to be tentative aA- vances made by those who wanted some lining done and were willing to pay for 1t, and we look on them as the real criminals. It is true that those nineteen councilmen were venal, but they wee not the ones to initiate the dirty busi- ness.
 A strong and apparently earnest and honest effort is being made to arraign and convict the nineteen boodlers wh3 received the money but we have not yet noticed any movement looking to the punishment of those who supplied the funds. That may come later, and it may not come at all. Corporations which are willing to go into the bribery business are very apt to cover up their tracks, or to so fortify themselves that there will be nothing to lay hold of. If those who gave and those who took the bribes eould be sent to the penitentary in company it would be an altogether brilliant object lesson.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-09-21

of imperialism too prominent pact. Or the whole, 1t is likely Chat but few sin gle events could have resulted in giving the Democrats so much satisfaction as the withdrawal of the Speaker.
 Assuming again. for the sake of discus sion, that the Republicans will ~efnain in control of the House, the question of Hcnderson's successor becomes an inter- esting one. So far Littlefield of Maine, Burton of Ohio, Dalzell of Pennsylvan mia. Sherman of New York and Cannon of IIIipois have been talked of more than any others. Of these five, Cannon and LittIefield are perhaps the strongest. If the President backed the latter. he would probably win. He has already expressed his willingness to be a candidate TOT the place. while Cannon. on the other hand, has said, Let's elect a Republican House before we elect a Republican Speaker. Burton. sherman and Dalzell would prob- ably find considerable amount of Sena- torial influence arrayed against them as the first would undoubtedly be opposed by Hanna the second by Platt ot NC" York and the third by Quay.
 As showing how some of the Republi- can papers view the situation. the follow ing editorial from The Washington Star will be of interest:
 .If the adoption of a free Western phrase Is in order. the joke Is on Generai Henderson. He will have to issue sup pIement to his explanation. explaining ms letter of withdrawal. The explanation does not explain The country does not understand it at all. He has mystlf1ed hts constituents no more than ne mas the people in remote Maine, Texas ana California. Why he should decline 10 stand for reelection when he endorses his party's platform and knows the choice for him is between that and the platform of his ancient enemy. it is beyond the ken of the average individual. His po- sition Is a most embarrassing one for man of his pride and record. It is too personal to be associated to his credit with political leadership. He could not reasonably have hoped to write the Iowa State platform Nor was 1t unfair to ask him to stand alongside of Allison, Deliver Cummins, Wilson and Shaw. He had stood with them last year on the same platform. Then why not have stood with them again this year?'
 This shows what is apparent to every body in Washington-that the Republi- cans are furiously angry with Henderson and that his action will result in bring ing about all sorts of party rows.
 On the whole, the chances for Demo- cratic success were never so bright as at this moment.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-09-21

The appalling less of life at the negro Baptist convention Friday night in Bir- mingham shows how easily a vast crowd can be stampeded and all reason be lost The idea of fire in a crowded house when 1t once takes possession of the minds of men or women for the time being makes them irresponsible and aD- solutely helpless. The few who were cool headed and knew there was no danger could no more stop the wild rush tn IT would a straw stay the course of the Nls- sissippi No such loss of life has eve; occurred on a similar occasion in Ala bama.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-09-21
Swearing by Telephone.

New York Sun.
 A few week sago a St. Louis Justice ruled that swearing through a telephone was aggressive profanity Justice Dool- ey of Chicago now holds that swearing into a transmtter is disorderly conduct. The swearer thus rebuked pleaded in vail that he was hungry. wanted to telephone for his dinner and had found the ear of Central" deaf. The man who consults the telephone must be urbane and long suffering. Does he pray to no purpose at the shrine of that powerful divinity. "Central?" Is he cut off imperiously in his talk? Never mind. Let us he pa tient and not wear out our tissues with impotent anger. Count from l to 800 or say the multiplication table Be greater than he that taketh city. There is no joy but calm. And when you sprinkle magical numbers upon the heat of your temper don't be rash and sudden like that hot spirit, who. when angered. would count 100 thus: "One, two, ninety-one, hundred, damn!'
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-09-21
SUNDAY, SEPT. 21, 1902.
DOUBLE GOLDEN SYMBOL.

The American Newspaper Directory uses cer- lain signs to denote the relative standing and merit of the whole field of newspaperdom which comes under its notice. and one of thes, signs is the mystic symbol t0l denotins s.golden," which stands for high quality. and ss thus explained:
 Advertisers value this paper more for th, eiass and quality of its circulation than for ths mere number of copies printed"
 Such papers are credited with single sym Dol: but there is a higher grade. according te this standard authority. which have BOTH QUALITY AND QUANTITY, and require tho DOUBLE GOLDEN SYMBOL 00l to describ, adequately their standing.
 The Advertiser has been accorded thin double golden symbol 1901 and is the onlS paper so distinguished in this section of thu Enlth.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-09-21
LETTING THE CAT OUT

If The Geneva Reaper isn't careful 1t will give itself dead away In making some comments on the vote In the pri- mary it uses this language:
 Take from this half of Johnstons vot,. and give 1t to MT. Jelks-(this is a req ;. oDable estimate, because there are thol.s- they are bound to support the nominee on this account.)
 The Reaper's method of putting 1t is no; meaning is that thousands who voted for Johnston do not feel themselves und ,r any obligation to vote the ticket nomi ., mated at the primary. All who kept n2 with Alabama journalism during the cam paign know that whenever any Jelks pa per even ilfnted that Johnston or any of his supporters would not abide by the result of the primary that paper was at once assailed and denounced by the Johnston papers without limit. It was accused of mud slinging. and misrepr"- sentation, and of trying to drive off Democrats, and much more of the same character.
 Every issue of The Alabamian has beer. fairly loaded down with attacks on the primary and with labored efforts to dig credit Jelks's nomination and to crea.s discomfort. It has said, too, that thous anJs of Democrats in Alabama would not vote in the primary at all because they were determined not to put them selves in position where they might feel it duty to vote for Jelks.
 The Johnston papers in Alabama have almost without exception come out squarely for the ticket and are giving it their honest support. The Reaper itself is one of these. but it should be mo;e careful about the language it uses. .or it is leaving the impression that the papers which expressed doubt of the sin ce-ity of Johnston's followers were not entirely without excuse. Our own opinion is that not per cent of those who supported Johnston in the primaries will fan to support the nominees in Novem Der.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-09-21
A Voyage Upon the Sea of Hope.

Mobile Register.
 The Republicans have launched out
 upon the sea of Alabama politics: have
 eliminated the negro element, and have
 nominated a respectable white ticket.
 What next?
 They talk of electing their ticket. but
 they are surely not in earnest. They
 may, as a party poll a considerable vote
 for President. when national issues con
 trol but in a State campaign they will
 make but poor showing The material
 for them to work upon is lacking.
 Nearly 9o.0OO votes were cast in the re-
 this is 80 per cent or the usual per cent
 age of the number of the partys regis
 tered voters. there are 12,5O0 Democrats in the State. The total registration is
 1S0.000 That leaves 67,5O0 for all other parties. If we say that one-half this
 number are Populists. the Republicans are not left 40,0OO voters in the whole | State.
 Yes; but the Republicans will have ac- sessions from the Popuist and from the | Democratic ranks. We take the liberty | of doubting this. The PopulistS are more | likely to come over to the Democrats with whom they were formerly affiliated | There is nothing in the Republican pro- gram that will appeal to them. The glo- rfication of the high protective tariff ap- pears even with less force to Populist | than 1t does to a Democrat. The party | of the trusts, now organized in Alabama, will have the effect of persuading the Populists back into the Democratic party. Admitting that there may be some ac- | sessions from the Democratic party, the | number will not be large, especially in a State campaign where national issues
 have been left untouched by the Demo- crats; but whatever the detection, it will he overbalanced by the coming over of Populists into the Democratic party. The truth is that the Vaughan party is
 built upon hope-a hope that 1t may be good for something at some future time. flee save perhaps that a victorious na- | tional party may reward the leaders of | this movement by appointing them to | Federal office. At any rate. Democracy | organization just now effected in Bir- mingham.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-09-21

A few of our contemporaries are con 'tinually intimating that if a man like Bryan or Tom Johnson should be nom mated on a free silver platform certain Alabama newspapers would bolt. Do these editors l-now what such charges indicate? "Of the ab .ndaRce of the heart the mouth speaketh,'' the Bible assures ms. and those who are so ready to charge others with bolting intentions must be sudRing from what they themselves wou|l do IT. case sound mercy man should he nominated on a gold standard plat Rcrm. They charge others with intend ing to do what they have in their own hearts.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-09-21

When a man with ten thousand ply rality to his credit turns down a con gressionaI nomination with dead sure speakership attachment. there is some thing doing. MT. Henderson's declination means great deal that has not been yet xplained.-Richmond Times.
 Oh, but there's the rub. Was that speakership such a 'dead sure" thing as you seem to think? May it not yet develop that grave doubts on that point were haunting the Henderson mind and that such doubts were at the bottom of his declination?
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-09-21

his father the late William H. Smith He also inherited his politics for the family were Wings before the war and went into the Republican Party wh sn nearly all the Wings of Alabama went into the Democratic Party.
 That, is news to those who best knew the ex-Governor. 1.e was elected to the Legislature from Randolph County two or three times as a Democrat, and was an elector on the Douglas ticket in lsc9. If he was ever whig it was before he entered public life
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-09-21
Waited Too Long.

Dothan Siftings.
 The RepuplIcans are going to have a lily white party. Soon isn't in it any more and is to be dropped as a needless incumbrance. The Republicans hope to secure disaffected Democrats by placing the party on lily white platform but the only effect of the lily white will he to unite Democrats more closely, heal all differences and they will march shoulder to shoulder under the white mans banner. The Democratic party has all along been the white mans party and the Republicans shall not be allowed at this late day to assrne the name of the white mans party.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-09-21

Old John Adams, in one of his sour moments, intimated that if Washington had not married the rich widow Custis he would never have reached the high positions he occupied. Even the great tirely free from prejudice. and possibly of malice
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-09-21

"The negro in the South does not have his rights as a man." say the Northern Republicans with beautiful and harmoni- ous unanimity. Well, possibly not, but we are compelled to turn the controversy over to your brethren in Alabama.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-09-21
August Circulation Facts.

Witn newspapers. as with all other lines of trade, August is regarded the duliest or the dull Summer months In face of this fact The Advertisers circulation for the month oi Aukusf, just passed, not only maintained all previous high water marks, but made gratify- Ing gains. Each month of the past year has eeen a substanti increase in The Adver- fiser,s subscription output and all indications point to the 2. 900 mark for the daily and l6, 900 for the Sunday by January, iSoS'
 Here are the August figures:
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-09-21

The Nashville American thinks we have too many kinds of Democrats. That doesn't worry us half as much as does the knowledge that we haven't enough of the right kind.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-09-21

The Tampa Tribune wants to know what use they have for water in Pensa cola. anyhow? Well, we suppose they want to water their ducks occasionally.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-09-21

Few men ever received more abuse than Boss" Sheppard, yet now they talk of erecting a monument to him in Wash sngton. Time is a wonderful harm0nizer.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-09-21

The Birmingham Ledger, speaking of Winston Smith. the Republican candidate for Governor, says:
 MT. Smith has inherited the talents of
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-09-21

"Fine words butter no parsnips," says the old adage. No, they do not even supply the salt.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-09-21

Talk about tanning the automobile" Is all bosh. What is needed is tame drivers.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-09-21

W. A. Scott, Circulation Manager of the Montgomery Advertiser. being duly sworn, says: The foregoing statement of The A6Ner- tiser's daily circulation for the month of Au- gust 1902, is true and correct. and compiled after all returns from newsboys, news agents and left over copies have been deducted.
 w. A. SCOTT. Circulation Mgr. Eworn to and subscribed before me this Eth
 day of September. 1902.
 YSEAI.1 N. P. Ex-O. J. P.