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The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-03-11
SECRETARY ROOT ANGRY.
Three Cabinet Officers Against the
 Presidents Cuban Policy.

Washington Special to New York World.
 some time ago Secretary Root was in- structed by Congressional resolution to g1ve to Congress certain information as 10 Cuban sugar. He did not answer the resolution.
 The refusal of Root taken in connection With his objection to the Agricultural De- partment giving information concerning the oeet sugar industry has caused more than little resentment in Congress. Ten days ago in Cabinet meeting Secretary Root pointedly asked if it were true that an employe of the Department of Agri- culture was furnishing assistance to those who were trying to defeat Cuban reciprocity. Looking at Secretary Wilson across the table. he coldiy continued that he meant H. W. Wiley. Chief of the Di- vision of Chemistry of the Department of Agriculture. Mr. Wilson replied. with for all the acts of MT. Wiley, and if there was any criticism or censure com- ing 1t was due him and not his subordi- nate.
 Later Secretary Root told the President he thought it high time that Minister who refused to work in harmony with the administration policy should be emphat- ically informed that 1t would not be tol- erated. The President consulted with Postmaster General Payne about MT. Will sons insubordination. and MT. Roosevelt was informed by MT. Payne that secre- tary Wilson was probably in closer touch with the political sympathies of the West than MT. Root. Later the President got this same information from Secretary Shaw.
 This was his first knowledge that three members of his Cabinet were in reality against him and his Cuban policy.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-03-11
A WARNING FOR DEMOCRATS.

We herewith give entire an editorial in the last issue of The Birmingham Times:
 It is incumbent on the Republicans of Alabama to nominate good and strong State, county and congressional tickets this year to be voted for next Novem- Der, and in order to dispel the insinua- tions and intimations of some of the Democrats as we'll as Republicans that a deal had been made by some Republicans with an element of Democrats to continue some Democrats in office. Such tickets should be nominated from among the best and most active men we have; men
 whose veracity is unimpeachable and whose integrity cannot be questioned Such nominees would not be mere dum- mics as some have proven to be in the past but they would prove to the Demo- crats and country the Republican Party had made no deals to retain Demomrats in office.
 The facts are that for several years Republican nominations as a rule in Ala bama have been mere farces and the nominees mere dummies, but the time has come, under the operations of the new constitution, for all these farcical performances to cease and for every man
 who is really a Republican to pull his coat off and roll up his sleeves and ap- point NlIHSelL d COHlHllllec OI one ana BO to work to secure the nominations of good and true men and exert himself until the polls close next November in securing their election. When this is done we will guarantee there will no longer be charges made by Democrats or | others that the Republicans are dealing with Democrats with q view to retain Democrats in office
 This deliverance is interesting, both for
 what it says and for, what it may teach the Democrats of Alabama. We agree thoroughly with The Times that for the most part the nominees or candidates put forth by the Republicans heretofore have been of little force and of no credit to the party. If not in all cases mere dunn mies' they have been largely of men
 who could not command the support of the best clements of the Party. and who If elected. would have added nothing to Republican responsibility.
 But if the sound advice of The Times is followed 1t will be a direct challenge
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-03-11

to the Democrats to put mp their best and strongest men as candidates for the vart- ous offices In many sections of Ala 'bama there is a growing sentiment tn favor of better politics. and in favor of higher standard of officiai require ments. It is a patent fact that our party has not, to say the least. always put its best men in office and the better citizenship of the State is become restive under a system that will put men into responsible positions without regard to either fitness or capacity. That way Of managing our public affairs is becoming distasteful to the best people of Alabama,
 It is patent to all observing men that Party ties are not as strong as they once were in this State, and men have ceased to consider it a religious duty to vote for the candidate selected by the Party managers. Between thoroughly respec- table and we'll qualified Republican. and a Democrat who is neither. many Demo- crats will look to the credit of the State and the good of the public service when they go to the polls, and will vote Tor the man who, in their opinion Is best nt- ted by character and qualifications for the office to be filled. This is why we con sider the statement of The Times im- portant. Under the new constitution controlling suffrage the Republicans can no longer look to the negro vote for suc- cess. If they hope to win they must do it by putting out good men, and th's is just what we might expect. It Demo- crats desire to ret lin control of our local and State Government they must oppose good men with others equally entitled 10 confidence and support, aside rom the fact that they have been selected by me Party. We are free to admit that the prospect foreshadowed by The Times Is cause for
 both apprehension and encouragement. It means on the one hand defeat for Democrats unless they heed the possibili- ties foreshadowed, and it encourages the hope that more attention will be paid to fitness and less to other claims It means that we stand a chance to be de- feated or that we are to have offices filled by our best men.
 If the Republicans will follow the ad- vice of The Times. and the Democrats will accept the challenge thrown down. the little coterie of disgruntled office seekers who are trying to divide that they may rule will find themselves dis credited by both parties and will not be able to command any strength or support in their schemes.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-03-11
vA1r THREAT.

Judge Doster Of the supreme Sourt of Kansas was elected by the Popuiists, and. as a contemporary puts 1t, he is about "the last of the Mohicans' in the sense that there are hardly any oficals left anywhere who were elected by that once strong party. The Judge. in the dreamy routine of official life has ap- parently failed to look about him and see what has been going on and what has gone. He has allowed himself inter- viewed lately and the gist of his deliver ance ts that his, party will obliterate the Democratic Party unless the latter sub scribes to Populism.
 We might reply to the Judge by re- minding him that too much subscribing to Populism is what's the matter with the Democratic Party now, and why 1t is eating crusts out in the cold and cruel world. We might also remind him that Democrats, at least, have had as much of that sort of subscribing as they have any appetite for. and are not likely to pass their plates for another helping. Even Democrats sometimes know when they've got enough.
 But laying all that aside. we are curious to know just how Judge Doster proposes to make good his threat. He is doubtless accustomed to deal with the abstruse problems of law and evidence but here is one that will jar him. So far as we are now informed Kansas is the only State in which the Populists have even the scmblance of organized strength. They may control the Democrats in his own State, but that will be nothing new, and is not matter of much consequence but when he threatens that the Populists will down the Democrats in the country at large he becomes ridiculous. He had better get back in his judicial armchair and finish his nap.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-03-11
AND NEGRO MIN
 STREIS.

Shedding of the decadence of negro minstrelsy The Chicago Chronicle says:
 Negro minstrelsy Is passing away with its father. the plantation negro The colored man" of today has little in com mon with the shouting. dancing. oanoo- drumming, delirious and devout type or genuine African minstrelsy. Even his physiognomy is undergoing a change so gradual as scarcely to attract attention. The burnt cork makeup" of huge pro- truding red lips, crinkled, woolly hair massed like the full-bottomed wig Of a lord chancellor, the Tapping heels and slouchy gait which Emerson and Rice made transtorily typical, are no longer seen in the north and are fast disappear ing in the South.
 The Chronicle is correct. The old time minstrels. like the old circus, is obsoles- cent and almost obsolete. The old-time circus was a continuous exhibition Of marvellous eouitation, remarkable gym nastics and really funny clowns. The riding of Stone. McCollum. the Robinsons and others of fifty years ago was worth going to see if there had been nothing else. The ground and lofty tumbling, the somersaulting. the balancing and lea ping of those old timers wa sa con- tinuous source of wonder. and. withal. the clowns had real humor and new jokes.
 That is all practically gone, except in the pitiful substitution of the Dog and Pony shows" which catch the stray dimes of the youngec generation. In place of the genuine circus we have enormous trayeling menageries, circuses with two or three rings to distract the attention. and a minimum of riding to keep up a semblance of the circus. With this is mixed some good feats of balancing and gymnastics and great deal of cheap vaudeville. And to accentuate the change they will put on half dozen clowns with hardly a new joke among them. The circus of the old days is gone.
 So it is with negro minstrelsy. The old time minstrels who could really imi- tate a negro are little better than a memory. The elders among us remem- Der them as they were when the business was in its youth. They made up to re- sembe the negro and they sung, talked
 and acted like the negro. They were negro minstrels from start to finsh and they were enjoyable. But they are gone and in their place we have large aggre- cations of people who initiate the negro little and do a great deal of something else. They sing songs that the old style negroes never heard of, and to music that he couldn't comprehend. With little of this imitation they mingie a great deal which has no more relation to negro minstrelsy than it has to politics. They are really vaudeville performers and not negro minstrels There are no negro minstrels. They departed with the
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-03-11

The Boston Traveller has some notions which are as old-fashloned as they are commendable. Speaking of the recent Senatorial spat 1t says:
 We would rather see the whole Senate sllled with fighting Tillmans, who are honest and uncorruptible, than to have one Senator sit in that body who owes his admission to the profigate use of money and the debauchery of the legis- sators who elected.
 We do not know what Senator or Sena- tors The Traveller was striking at, but st hit some of them between the eyes. A corrupt Senator who is stickler for the proprieties is much worse than an Asnest one who uses his fists,
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-03-11
PRESIDENT IS IMPATIENT.
Leaders Seek Plan to Compromise
 Their Differences.


 Washington Special to Chicago Tribune. ,
 All the leaders of the Republican party In both the Senate and House are busiiy engaged endeavoring to agree upon some basis of compromise on the Cuban ques- ton. The members of the beet sugar contingent are nominally standing firm, but N is well understood they are peat ing their tomtoms in a frantic endeayor to keep up their courage.
 If the issue weer brought directly before the House there is scarcely and doubt that the Ways and Means proposition TOT an honest reciprocity with Cuba could be passed readily. Enough Democratic voWs undoubtedly would be given for Cuban reciprocity to offset the loss or the peet sugar contingent.
 This latter faction is not In itself large one. There are not twenty mem, bers of the House in whose districts beet sugar is really an important industry, dust, majority of the party vote merely be- cause they have gathered in many other Republicans who are opposed to the gen eral principle of reciprocity because they fear 1t may he used as an attack upon
 On record vote there are not twenty Republicans who would dare to place themselves in opposition to the last speech of William Mckinley and to the first message of Theodore Roosevelt. Ev- cry one knows who understands the sit uation that President Mckinley himself assured the Cuban delegates that if they accepted the rather stringent restrictions of the Platt amendment he would per sonally urge the granting of special con sessions to Cuba by the United States.
 In view of this well known fact it is not believed that the beet sugar men could muster score of votes in open opposition to the administration. The difficulty Is that a special rule Is neces- sary or Is deemed necessary. and to se- cure this the solid Republican strength Ia requisite. The Democrats who would vote for reciprocity will never vote for a
 The beet sugar men are taking advan- tage of the necessities of the party, for they know only too we'll that if they per- mltted the adoption of a special rule cut ting off all amendments Cuban reciproc- ity would be passed by the House in spite of all they could do to prevent 1t.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-03-11
Letters to The Editor.
GERMANY.
Sets a Good Example in Many Mat
 terS.

lSASs
 Editor The Advertiser:
 Your intelligent and patriotic interest in popular education Justifies me in ask ing space for this letter. Besides the sound conviction which an. enlightened press must have as to the necessity and benefits of free schools for all the peo- pie, there is the selfish dependence for circulation, and profits upon general in telligence. Some things may prosper in an ignorant community, never news paper.
 When a young Representative in the Alabama Legislature. l always sustained the University, public schools geolog- ical survey, development of our mineral resources, railway connection DetWlxt North Alabama and South Alabama, then not existing, and age and observation and wider acquaintance with affairs have confirmed the judgment Of earlier years.
 The visit of Prince Henry, the brother of the Emperor, to this country, has con tributed, among other causes, to the awakening of fresh and keener interest in Germany as an Empire and her pro- gress in commerce and what is vaguely called civilization. Acquaintance with foreign peoples and governments is much needed for the enlightment of popular sentiment and the correction Of narrow and absurd notions entertained boaStlngly by some of our law-makers. 4th or July enthusiasm and exaggerated national pride and self-glorificaton have caused many persons to over-estimate our great ness and to attribute to some of our democratic maxims and principles results which are neither their logical nor neces- sary consequence. The French philosoph- CTS of the Revolution made their politi- cal doctrines of universal application to be propagated: if need be- by force: Some of our American politicians, forgetting that the science of government is an e1perlmental science delnde thsmTelyes have attained perfection. that safety or property. liberty, equality and. and fTater Ta Se attained and enjoyed, and that no more truth remains to be discovered by us; It by no means follows that an empire or monarchy means tyranny or general political inequality. or repression of pop uiar liberty, or great inferiority to what we rightly boast of as achievements in our representative republic. Germany. as is shown by Dr. Shaw in the March number of Review of Reviews, is in no whit inferior to our Federal Government. or the best of our commonwealths, in the application of the principles of sanitary science to public administration, In car rying thrift and good business manage
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-03-11
CHAIRMAN TOSS
Opposed b Government Building
 Ships.


 Brooklyn Eagle.
 The attitude of Chairman Foss of the house Committee on Naval Affairs to- ward the proposition to build warships at the government navy yard is now known. Mir. Foss is decidedly hostile, to IT, and even goes so far as to oppose the suggestion that a single vessel be built at q navy yard in order to secure a com pafieon between the relative cost and rapidity of work in the private plants and the navy yards
 Chairman Foss has maintained silence up to this time in regard to what he thought of the we'll organized movement 70 force Congress to construct ships at the navy yards. He does not care to be quoted even now, but 1t is learned that he will fight this proposition when 1t comes up on the floor of the House. MT. Foss has given deep study to the subject. and believes that the fact that it will cost more for the government to build its ships than it will if done by contract is sufhcient to outweigh all arguments in favor of the schemes that have been advanced. At one time he thought of putting his views into a magazine article, put later decided to reserve them for his speech on the floor of the House. MT. Foss holds that the experience of every nation that has tried this policy has been to prove that 1t Is far from satisfac- tory, and Is very expensive in addition.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-03-11
AN INCIDENT
Tn the Life of Edward c. Bullocl

In the Life of Edward c. Bullock.
 Montgomery Ala. March 10. 1902. Editor The Advertiser:
 The reference in your Sunday morning s issue to the gifted Bullock of Barbour County. vividly recalls to my mind a sceen which occurred on the 1lth day of April, 1861, in which he conspieuously fig ured number of gentlemen were sit ting in the rotunda of the Exchange Ho- tel on the night in question. ldiscussing the stirring events which were then be- ing enacted. All of a sudden some one entered the group and announced that Secretary of War Walker had just or dered Fort Sumter to be fired upon. As if by magic Bullock arose to his feet, his face aglow> with an inspiration, and with dramatic Effect recited those lines of Shakespeare:
 May the native hue of his resolution Not be sicklied OCT by the pale cast of
 thought
 Theswriter never knew a more polished or brilliant man, and treasures in his storehouse of memory the speech he was so fortunate as to hear at West Point, Ga. when he welcomed the. illustrious Davis to the soil of Alabama. The only survivors of this remarkable occasion that can remember are Senator Morgan and myself. w. D. B.
 The total number of medical practitioners in Great Britain and Ireland is 36, 7S8, in-
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-03-11

The papers are making all sorts of jokes because Bob Fitzsimmons bit a dog-or maybe the dog bit him. It was one or the other. but we notice that the canine Is getting all the sympathy. and that his symptoms are being closely watched. If he develops rabies all the blame will fall on Bob,
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-03-11

A dispatch from Washington says: "The Democrats of the Senate Philippines Committee propose to demand that Aguin- aldo be summoned from the Philippines as a witness The Democrats want to get at the bottom facts touching the Philippine insurrection. The Republi- cans will hardly consent to have Aguin- aldo summoned" If this be true there is evident and pressing need for the fool killer to make his appearance among the Democratic members of that commit tee. Are we to take the word of Aguin- aldo in preference to that of the dead Lawton, and of Wheeler. Chaffee. Taft and many other reputable Americans. Verify many fool things are proposed in this day in the name of Democracy.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-03-11

'It is a great pity that we have to wait two or three days very often to find out whether an item of news is really true or not" complains The Chat tanooga Times. The Times shore is'' short on patience. We not infrequently have to wait two or three weeks before findng out-and then do not.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-03-11

The President has one newspaper which endorses his decision in the Schley case,, that paper being The Blocton Messenger which declares that King Solomon with all his wisdom could not have rendered a more just decision" That's hard on Solomon. but he isn't here to suffer by the comparison. But we really think he could have done better.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-03-11

A Kansas man who would swear like trooper in the daytime and hold family prayer at night was recently hoored by his little son who suggested that the father should cut out either the preyars or the swearing, and he didn't care which. Sometimes the little ones do cor ner the larger folks.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-03-11
IuNuRuuuununaunBnI nI
r.hrr.rv r,irculation Record.

A detailed statement of the Daily and Sun Bay circulation of The Advertiser for the month of February. 1902, presents figures int prove conclusively that The Advertisers ruarar1teed net paid circulation is greater than 5ae claimed circulation of all other morning nevspapers published in the State Of Ala hsrna cornbined as evidenced by the figures furnished by the latest edition of the American Newspaper Directory.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-03-11

The dispatches stated some days ago that the President had decided that his daughter could not attend Edwards coronation, and gave more or less plausi- ble reasons for the decision. A recent letter from London to The Liverpool Post makes this queer statement:
 The case of Miss Roosevelt Is causing perturbation in the Lord Chamberlain S office. She is the delightful daughter of the American President, and having invited herself to be the guest of MT. Choate for the coronation. she has calmly written that she wants place among the peeresses. Precedence for the daughter of a republican President in itself seems topsy-turvy, and in this case there Is no precedent for her precedence. The Gordian knot will probably be cut by the King granting her ambassadorial rank.
 There are some features of this state. ment which are singular and some un- reasonable. We do not believe that Miss Roosevelt invited herself" nor do we be- lieve that she wanted "a place among the peeresses" Neither of these statements is in accord with what we have been reading of the lady, and we are of the opinion that the correspondent drew largely on a fertile imagination.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-03-11

W A Scott. Circulation Manager of the Montsomery Advertiser. being Auly sworn says: The foregoing statement Of The Ad- vertiser's circulation for the month of Febru- ary, Ieo2, is true and correct, and compiled after all returns from news boys news agents and left over copies have been deducted
 W. A. SCOTT.
 Circulation Manager Sworn to and subscribed before me this 4th
 F. w. JACKSON. gSeal1 N P, Ex-O. ]. P.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-03-11

The Memphis Commercial Appeal in- sists that notice should be given of the magazine selected by Miss Stone for her story so that all who wish may avoid that special publication.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-03-11
TUESDAY, MARCH II, 1902.

Dealing in egg futures is one of the nrnusements in New York. though we Tail to see any future for them but ex- function.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-03-11

One expert says the Philippines will be nuiet in two years and another declares that it will require thirty years. You gan take either, or split the difference.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-03-11
MISS RoosEvELT,s TRIP
To the Coronation Blocked b,
 Politics.

Washington Special to New York World.
 President Roosevelt, fof the first time in his life probably. has refused to talk he talks to all corners, but when the visit of Miss Alice Roosevelt to the corona ton has been preached he has refrained from saying anything from the day the story was first published in The World until this morning, when the denial that she was going was published.
 Mrs. Roosevelt thought well of the plan.