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The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-09-20
DiCkerinq Aspirants Not Wanted.

The next state committee should provide against dickers between two aspirants left over to a second pri- mary. That is to say, the two highest aspirants should not be permitted to settle between themselves the question of nomination; for that is a matter which the members of the party are entitled to a voice in and to a deter imitation thereof.
 Dickers should be prohibited. If second aspirant be unwilling or unable to go again before the party, let it be provided that the third man shall be given an opportunity to run the race over, and so on down the line until two bona fide aspirants are put in the second race.
 Better still perhaps it would be to render a plurality in the first primary decisive. This is and always has been the rule in the election itself. The theory that plurality could lead to an artificial multiplicity of aspirants has nothing in it. All such races would be transparent, and their cost would bar them out. Adopt the plu- rallty rule, and the primary system would be without material fault. A candidate might be selected who did pot have majority of the party be- hind him before nomination, but when the party had notice of what is coming the rank and file could be trusted to do the proper thing to a lot of weak aspirants. The voice of the people is always correct.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-09-20
Alex M. Garber.

''The official count of Mondays primary so far as heard from seems to indicate that Alex M. Garber has been defeated for attorney general by small major :ty" said a well informed politician
 'Nyhile this is a disappointment to his friends who know his worth, yet when the fact Is considered that he is compar atively novice in the field of practical politics, and has not that extended ac- quaintance with the controlling political powers of the several counties of the state, which comes from long public ser vice, they still have reason to feel grati- fed over the splendid showing made by him in both primary elections, and with special pride do they note the hattering support ne received in the larger centers of population, to which he directed most of his work.
 "The impression made on those with whom he came in contact was of such character as to warrant belief that his fellow-cibzens will sooner or later call him to a position of high honor, for Ala bama needs such men as Mir. Garber at the front.
 His friends are rapidly multiplying. and they will take care Of his political future. They confidently believe that this race has not been made In vain. 'Aleck Garber is one of natures noblemen.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-09-20
ReauIatinu the Trusts.

Instead of repeating the duties that permit the trusts to exploit unmerci- fully home consumers; instead of tax ing them as Senator Morgan wisely proposes, the republicans simply pro- pose to pass a publicity bill. Congress- man Littlefeld of Maine is to be it's sponsor.
 The bill provides for statements on the part of the trusts showing the amount of the capital stock, the num- Der of shares into which it is divided. the par value of the same, the amount paid in, and whether payments were in cash or in property. The chief ob- ject of these provisions no doubt is to discriminate water from real invest ments.
 The Littlefield bill further provides that no person shall be prosecuted or subjected to any penalty or forfeiture for or on account of any transaction, matter or thing concerning which he may testify or produce evidence in relation to the trusts This provision will deprive the trust magnates of the excuse that the giving of any testi- mony would incriminate themselves. If the publicity bill becomes law all who arc brought into court must an- swer all questions.
 No doubt the Littlefeld bill will prove valuable in the process of regu- lating the trusts, but it is a mere step towards regulation, and not regulation itself. There are but two effective plans open to congress, namely, the repeal of duties in the cases of trust made goods. and the taxation of all combines as oleomargarine and state banks have been taxed. The two lat ter were taxed out of existence, and so may the trusts be if congress and the republican party so desire. The people will first have to elect a con gress that means business before the trusts are in fact and in truth brought to taw.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-09-20
AcEfIERALDs ELECTION RETURNS.

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The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-09-20
Colleges Prosperous.

''The colleges throughout the south are opening their fall terms with particularly bright prospects, said a prominent ed- ucator last night '@rhis fact is an evi- dence of general prosperity, and it Is an evidence, too, of the increasing interest in learning.
 Many of us under fifty years of age can remember when the farmer and the merchant as rule looked upon collegi- ate education as something incompatible with everyday hard work. It was only good for the professional man, many of them thought. Today there is not an in teIiigent person in the land who does not appreciate the value of a college course for young men. no matter what business or trade they are to follow. And the time is coming when an academic education will be regarded not simply as a luxury, but as almost a necessity"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-09-20
CONCERNING ELMoRE's REsIeNA

IOHl ln0 1tluOPOllS IApiC6Ss
 There has recently been a report going the rounds to the effect that Colonel FL more had resigned the solicitors office. This report Is not correct. The true status of the case is this: Colonel EI- more has two more years to serve. His home affairs and personal business de- mand more of his time than he can possi- bly give to them, and therefore he con cluded that If he could resign and have W. c. Harrison, Jr., his law partner, ap- pointed he would do so. This seems to be a reasonable proposition on his part. He Is certainly entitled to the revenue of the office for two years longer, and if he wishes to voluntarily give 1t up he should have the privilege of saying who shall be his successor for the unexpired term, especially when he will pledge that MT. Harrison will not be a candidate for re- election. It was also reported that Colonel Fillmore resigned on account of having been promised the position of rail- road commissioner. This is not true. He has not been appointed and he has no promise that he will be. It is position that almost any man would be glad to get, but the conditions are such that Colonel Fillmore will not take any active steps to obtain the appointment. If Gov ernor Jelks can see his way clear to ap- point him we have too high a regard for his sanity to imagine that he would not gladly accept, and if this should come to pass, then he would of course. resign the solicitorship absolutely. But unless 1t does, or assurance Is given him that no opposition will be made to MT. Harrison's appointment. he will positively refuse to resign, and he will be right.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-09-20
New Primary Law Needed.

The close and heated contest over the democratic nomination for attorney general should and doubtless will fur nish the legislature with interesting and valuable points in the framing of B new primary election law. The present law is confessedly weak and valueless whenever and wherever any one wishes to break through its pro- visions.
 A law is needed that is fully up to the best provisions in other states, where the primary system has been in operation several years and has been thoroughly tested. The law should guarantee, so far as mere law can, honest dealings within the democratic or any other party, and an election law should do like work as between the two parties of the state.
 The more important bill of the two .N of primaries, because there is practi. cally but one party in this state, and this party will not soon have danger ous rival The primary is therefore the real election or selection, and 1t should be hedged about by all possible safeguards of the law. Law is, how ever, weak unless public sentiment is behind 1t, and our first duty is to sus- tain the present public sentiment which will not countenance dishonesty at or about the ballot box.
 The returns from the second primary in nowise discredit the primary sys- tenn. That 35,O00 voters attended it in the heigth of the cotton-piclxing sea- son is a gratifying fact that renders the system impregnable. It shows that the rank and file want it, and what the rank and file wants must be.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-09-20
Liautenant PearY's Failure

After reaching a point S4.17 degrees north latitude, Lieutenant Peary says "the polar pack" became impractica- He, and he turned back, and is now safe at home. Nansen reached point two degrees nearer the pole.
 Lieutenant Peary went to the frozen roIth four years ago via the channel between Grinnell Land and Greenland, establishing along the way depots of supplies, spending the winters in the extreme inhabited lands of the north, where he cultivated and gained the friendship of the Eshmos. He believed that from Cape Hecla he could make dash on sledges to the North Pole. He still believes the task can be ac-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-09-20
IN HOTEL LoBBIES.
RIrmlnaham Attractive.

Birmingham is a young mans town, and so far as my observ tion goes there is no city in the south where young man or a man with limited capital can make his energy and brains tell as he can here" said a successful business man who is familiar with many of the old and wealthy communities of the coun- try
 In the older cities of the south a man must wait years and years before he gets recognition, but here in Birmingham the young man. if he has any thing in him. receives encouragement at once. His neighbors are glad to give him a friendly hand.
 The business men of this city are not only quick to appreciate the efforts of new corners, but the social life of the place is singular1y charming. which makes residence here delightful from the human point of visw.n
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-09-20

have no difficulty, it is thought in pass Ing the examination. Corporal Goode is a brother of Pete D. Goode. He expects to be in Birmingham in January
 Henry Taylor Staats. who enjoys the reputation of being one of the most thor oughly educated musicians in the country and one of the most successful in- struetors. has returned from New York and resumed his duties as director of the musical department of the Pollock-ste- phens Institute.
 A. T. Hodges of Ashville, Ala, is at the Metropolitan.
 A. B. Sinclair of Chicago is at the Me tropolitan.
 T. G. Harbinson of Blltmore, N. C., is at the Metropolitan.
 R. R. Chorley of San Francisco is at the Morris.
 D. F. Brookes of Philadelphia Is at the Morris.
 N. E. Cox of Gadsden is at the Morris. ". E. Cutllr of Baltimore is at the Morris.
 A. II. Peeler of Lowell, Mass, is at the Morris.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-09-20
DIXIE.

By Albert Pike. Southrons, hear your country call you! Up. lest worse than death befal you! TO armsi To arms! To arms, in Dixie! I,o, all the beacon-fires are lighted Let all hearts be now united To armsl To arms To arms, in Dixiel Advance the flag of Dixie!
 Hurrahi hurrah! For Dixies land we take our stand, And live or die for Dixie!
 To arms, To arms! And conquer peace for Dixie!
 To arms, To arms! And conquer peace for Dixle Hear the northern thunders mutter! Northern flags in south winds fiutter! Send them back your fierce dehance! Stamp upon tn accursed alliance! Fear no dangerl Shun no labor! Lift up rife, pike. and sabre! Shoulder pressing close to shoulder. Let the odds make each heart bolderl How the south's great heart rejoices At your cannon's ringing voices For faith betrayed. and pledges broken Wrongs inflicted, insults spoken. Strong as lions swift as eagles, Back to their kennels hunt these beagles Cut the unequal bonds asunder! Let them hence each other plumber! Swear upon vour counl1y's altar Never to submit or falter, Till the spoilers are defeated, Till the Lords work is completed. Halt not till our Federation Secures among earth's powers its station Then at peace, and crowned with glory Hear your children tell the storyl If the loved onces weep in sadness, Victory soon shall bring them gladness-
 To armsl Exultant pride, soon banish sorrow, Smiles, chase tears away tomorrow. To arms! To arms. To arms, in Dixie! Advance the flag of Dixie!
 Hurrah hurrah. For Dixies land we take our stand, And live or die for Dixie,
 To armsl To arms, And conquer peace for Dixie!
 To arms! To armsi And conquer peace for Dixiei
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-09-20
GOOD EVERYWHERE.

From the Monroe Journal.
 Judge Feagin of the Birmingham police court has adopted a rule which will tend greatly to abate the evil of pistol toting in that city. Hereafter all persons con victed in his court for violations of the law against carrying concealed weapons will be punished to full extent of the law, which means the maximum fine and six months in the chain gang. The appli- cation of a similar rule would exert a wholesome influence in other parts of the state Nowhere is 1t needed more than here in Monroe county.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-09-20
TO ABOLISH TAMMANVs TRIUMvI

N. Y. Letter in Chicago Record-Herald.
 Tammany's triumvirate will be abol- ished at a meeting of the executive com mittee of Tammany Hall, which will be held shortly. and Charles F. Murphy will be formally declared leader of the or ganization. This announcement was made by Alderman Timothy P. Sullivan and Senator George W. Plunkitt, represent ing the CroSer faction in Tammany, which is led by Senator Timothy D. Sul- livan. MT. Murphy is one of the trium- virate and he was proposed for the lead ership by Daniel F. McMahon, another member.
 It was demonstrated at the primaries that the Sullivan faction is In overwhelm- ing control. If John F. Carroll and his following should decide to oppose Mur- phy 1t is not probable that they would be able to muster more than seven of the thirty-six votes in the executive com mittee.
 Charges of misconduct while he held the office of dock commissioner under Mayor Van Wyck were made against MT. Murphy by William Hepburn Rus sell, one of Mayor Lows commissioners of accounts, during the primary cam paign. MT. Russell asserted that Murphy had approved private contracts with the asphalt trust which cost the city $20O,0OO more than it should have been forced to pay and that he rented city piers at low rates to companies in which Daniel Me Mahon, his sponsor for the leadership of Tammany was heavily interested.
 With the election of Murphy the con- test for the control of Tammany will not be ended. It will merely have the result of maintaining the present situation until MT. Crokers return from England. Mir. Murphy will be able to exercise only such powers as his supporters allow him, and he will be far from the dictatorship yielded by MT. Croker and his predeces- sors
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-09-20
THE DEADLY cHUeeERNAur.

From the Chicago Record-Herald.
 When you hear the "chug, chug. chug'' of the chuggernaut and have forgotten to put on your coat of mall with steel bumpers, it will be well to take to the tall timber. The alert and agile pedes- trian may dodge the chuggernaut if his auditory or olfactory nerves are Keen and sensitive. If he can't hear its deadly ''chug, chug. chug' he may be able to catch whiff of gasoline odor in time to get over the fence or climb tree.
 But how about the luckless and help less individuals who are in the chugger- naut and can't get out? No one is fool hardy enough to try to jump out of machine that is going, twenty, forty or fifty miles an hour. They must go down to desth and destruction with the chugger- naut when the chauffeur loses control of the steering apparatus or motor becomes unmanageable.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-09-20
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.
the New York Press.

From the New York Press.
 When friends fall out the devil falls into an easy job.
 The time to control yourself is when some one else will control you if you don't.
 Most people don't think it is near as bad to ride around in Babylon in a cab as to live in it.
 Job didn't have any hand organs grind ing under his window early in the morn ing when he had been out all night and wanted to sleep.
 If women were logical there would be no use having them around to explain to little children the things that men can't explain because of their logic.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-09-20
COST OF LIVING.

From the Portland Oregonian.
 Here is little calculation said to have been made in Commissioner Wrights re- port on the coal strike: "A bill of groceries and provisions which cost $1312 in 1895 could not be bought in 1900 for less than S1596 The Pennsylvania work ingman in 1896 was required to work g 3-10 days to pay this little grocery bill, while in 1900 he had to work 10 5-1O days to pay the same bill" This Is a part of the informal comments" of the report which was suppressed.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-09-20
ABOUT THE SIZE OF IT.

From the Abbeville Times.
 United States District Attorney William Vaughan of Birmingham has been re- moved from office by President Roosevelt on the charge of neglect of duty" The prevailing sentiment among the politi- clans of the state is that he was re- moved because he was not for Roosevelt for President.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-09-20
About Persons.

Corporal J. A. Goode of Birmingham, who served with high credit in the Nine teenth United States infantry in the Philippines. landed with his regiment in San Francisco recently. He has been advised by the officers of the regiment to apply for a second lieutenant's com- mission. He is well educated and would
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-09-20
A Southern Composer.

''The United States has produced many great statesmen, educators, scientists and soldiers, but comparatively few great artists' said a well-educated musician, land of the various departments of art, music has the fewest men of creative genius But as art is slow, one need not be surprised that this young country does not rank in music with European ations, where music in its highest form has been cultivated for a long time
 Tt is encouraging however, to note that composers of real merit are not so rare in this country now as they were twenty years ago. When Groves diction- ary of music and musicians was pub lished in the eighties Mir. Paine was the only American composer mentioned who had created anything classic. Today we have Horatio Parker, Arthur Foote and several others of good reputation. The greatest composer in the world today lives in Brooklyn, but he was born in the musical atmosphere of Bohemia and educated in Vienna, Anton Dvarak
 "Of southern musicians little is heard
 In the way of creative work for no southerner has published any large com position. Reinhardt of Richmond has perhaps accomplished most in compost tion, but his more pretentious works are yet unpublished. He has composed a book of twelve piano studies which Pad erewski, Carreno, Osterohe and Dr. Ma son have read and praised as the best art of that class that has come from the brain of an American. Reinhardt has written a great festival mass, a Te Deum, an anthem, many fine hymns. a synagogue service. an opera and a sym phonic poem. Some of these compost tions will be published within the next year or two.
 Fifty years hence the United States will have produced, feel certain, scores of good composers"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-09-20
Larqest Orchard.

"The largest apple orchard in the world is being planted in Laelede county, Missouri, about 15o miles from St. Louis on the line of the Frisco system" said St. Louis produce merchant stopping at the Metropolitan.
 .'The orchard will comprise 5000 acres of ground. The concern engaged in the enterprise is styled the Frisco Orchard company and is composed of Iowa and Missouri men. The company has a capital stock of $1,oOO,ooo divided into shares of s20O each.
 'The largest orchard up to this time is located in Missouri. and embraces 2S0o acres. Dr. Carroll, one of the officers of the company, says the new orchard will contain about 25o,0O0 trees.
 Estimating that each tree will produce five bushels, which is a very conservative estimate. the total yield per year would be 1.25000O bushels. or 100000 barrels. The bulk of this enormous crop Dr. Carroll expects to export to Europe. Statistics show that over 100000 bushels of apples were shipped to Europe from the United States last year. As soon as the orchard begins to yield, an immense cold-storage plant will be built In St. Louis, and this will be made the main shipping point Dr. Carroll said that the plant to be built in St. Louis would be the largest cold storage plant in the world, having a ca pacity for 10000 barrels. St. Louis will be the main outlet for moving the crop"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-09-20

New York's rapid transit subway is three-ffths done, and the effects of it's completion are already discounted. Thus far it has cost 21,OO0,OOO and 24 lives.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-09-20

The mine operators in the hard coal region are not suffering, neither are the strikers starving, but the con sumers are shiyering.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-09-20
From the Greenville Living Truth

From the Greenville Living Truth
 The Age-Herald's cartoonist should get off a cartoon on the Alabama agent of the book trust using its cudgel of high prices to keep the poor children of Ala bama from the little red school house, unless as has been hinted, etc
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-09-20

Before the republicans elect new speaker they should first capture a new house of representatives. There are democratic hunters afield.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-09-20

The man in the east whose coal bin is empty looks first for news from Wilkesbarre and next for the outgiv- irgs of J. P. Morgan.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-09-20

Attorney General Knox is coming home. He will not recognize the trust issue, it has grown so much.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-09-20

Strange to say, the New York papers have had the courage to hold up the Fish tragedy in the right light.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-09-20

Lieutenant Peary is forced to con fess that he is not bringing the North Pole home in his luggage.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-09-20

If the St. Louis reformers do not cease their efforts they may depopu- late their own city.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-09-20

The Mark Hanna band wagon is now desel ted, with one wheel gone, the resort of vagrant fowls.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-09-20

Amid all the mergers of the period no one suggests merger of the war ring Christian churches.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-09-20

The Hon. Thomas Platt is now com fortably seated in the Roosevelt band wagon.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-09-20

The Rev. Mir. Washburn will here after stick closer to his text, and let politics alone.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-09-20
MoNRoosEvELT DOCTRINE.

From the Chicago Tribune.
 It may be spoken of now as the Mon roosevelt doctrine.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-09-20
From the Mobile Item.

From the Mobile Item.
 It looks just now as though the repub- licans of the state must come together and patch up a harmony in favor of our strenuous President, else the decapita- tion act will be continued among the re- publican office holders.