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has ceased to All in the broadcast
sense.
Mr.. MoElderry admits that he Is q
republican. and he declines TO seek of
fee as democrat when he is re.
publican. He says in so many words,
T am at heart a republican" So he
is. He advocates an imperial policy, a
Dingley tariff, and all the trusts that
any one may care to organize. This
makes him a republican in full and
regular standing, and he very proper
" and very honorably declines to mas
querade as a democrat, and to seek
Office as a democrat He prefers to
sail under his own colors. He pre-.
fers to deal frankly with his neigh
bors.
Not so in the other case. Senator
McLaurin was elected by democrats,
to represent in the senate democrats
of the sound democratic state of
South Carolina He went over to the
republicans, supporting even the
Hanna ship subsidy bill, something
that Mr.. McElderry has not swallowed
SO far as his recent letter shows. II
Mr. MeElderry had been in his shoes
he would have at once resigned, SIM
ply because he had ceased to be rep
resentatiye when by his own acts he
has ceased to hold the views of those
who made him a senator. And yet
he does cling to his senatorial seat,
thus doing to the democrats of his
state a grievous wrong. His term will
expire next March, and then he will
slip into the oblivion that awaits him
and perhaps into some fst berth that
the administration will provide for
him. His recent refusal of judge
ship is very mysterious, but it will not
be strange If it turns out that he wants
something better.
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Elegantly Entertained.

"Of all the attentions which the Ala
bama Press Association received on its
recent trip east not one Will be remen-
bered more pleasantly than the hospit-
able treatment Of the Seaboard Air Line
at Portsmouth, Va said Secretary j.
A. Rountree.
THE Seaboard not only carried the as
ISOLATION from Atlanta to Portsmouth in
a special train with dining car at
tached but when our party reached
Portsmouth 1t was entertained by the
company at an elegant dinner, where
champagne flowed freely, and where high
officials of the road acted as kind hosts.
Assistant General Passenger agent w. e..
Christian had charge of our train from
Atlanta, and General Passenger Agent
c. B. Ryan had charge of the banquet
THE Alabama Press Association has
had many delightful excursions, but the
one this summer surpassed them ALL"
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Mr.. HIPS AIIison's Wells Letter.

Mr. David Bennett Hill sent letter
instead of himself to the rally at ALI
sons Wells over in Mississippi, and
the letter is the more noteworthy for
what it does not contain than for what
it does contain. For example, Mr.. Hill
says all trust-made articles should be
put on the free list. AS things are
going this would greatly enlarge the
free list. for there are trusts in all, or
nearly all, our industries. If the free
list is thus enlarged, as it should be,
how is the deficiency in revenue to be
made good? On this point Mr. Hill
is-very STILL
One democratic convention after an
other has demanded an income tax
Such a tax would be largely levied
upon accumulated wealth, upon bene,
ticiaries of the trusts, and such a tax,
the most easily borne and the most
just of all taxes, would make good any
deficiencies through the repeal of
duties ON trust-made goods. But Mr..
Hill did not mention an income tax in
his Allison's Wells letter He cannot
well say there is disagreement over the
subject, for all democrats favor direct
taxation in principle. and an income
tax in particular.
Mr. Hill should redefine his views
on this question. If he is still opposed
to an income tax, the democrats of
Mississippi should know it. The demo-
Gratis of that state are well grounded
in that respect. They desire an in
come tax, and they will accept no
nominee that is opposed to such a
tax.
The 4-to-5 decision of the supreme
court cannot be pleaded. The country
recognized an income tax throughout
an hundred years, and the supreme
court had upheld it. All at once an
adverse decision was procured by a
majority of one in that court, but when
it was rendered Justice Harlan, though
a republican, did not hesitate to char
acterize the decision in plain and I'M
mistakable terms. Such decision
should not be permitted to stand, and
the next democrat in the White House
will see that it is reversed, and the
policy of the government for a hum
bred years restored. Mr.. Hill will not
be that democrat.
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from the 11mee-Demoerat
London, July liking Edward would
have found It hard to please the British
public more through the bestowai Of a
knighthood than he did by giving
Francis Cowley Burnand. editor Of
Punch the RICH to put sir before his
name. It was foregone conclusion that
the joyous Frank" as he is known in
London Bohemian circles, would get
some sort of recognition sooner or later
for the poet. playwright and punster has
been for a long time one of King Ed
wards intimate friends, and, when the
sovereign was Prince of Wales. the hu-
morist was one of the jolly little coterie
who dined with him regularly at MARI
borough house. The elevation of the ed
itor Of Punch to knighthood was the
Kings own Idea. too, and not as usual
a suggestion of his ministers. Several
days before the "Honors List" was pub
lished, and just previous to his majes-
tvs breaking down, the King. who had
expressed his willingness to receive from
the writer's own hands copy Of the
coronation number of Punch, notified
Burnand that he intended TO confer
knighthood upon him. and added that 1t
gave him particular pleasure to 40 so.
In the ordinary course Of things. "Sir
Frank" would have been honored in
some way long ago, for he is a familiar
figure in London life and his paper is
of course, an established institution
throughout the kingdom. But Queen
Victoria had a marked preference for the
fossil type as subjects for knightly hon.
ors, and SO the editor Of the popular hui
NOR weekly had lacked, until now, the
distinction that was conferred on his
associate. Sir John Tenniel, the car
toonist.
For, in Great Britain, Punch is popular.
1t is voted dull IN the United States, but
that is because much of its matter is so
topical. Most Americans who have lived
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SAMPLE OF FASHIONABLE TALK.

From a Newport Letter.
I took the trouble yesterday to jot
down a snatch of fashionable talk ex-
actly as it was delivered. Here it is:
You DON'T mean to tell me that
SWEET, DEAR Mrs Jones is not COM
ing-How CAN she be so CRUEL. so
ABSURDLY nconsiderate-who? Yes.
so I heard but you never CAN tell,
everybody is so PROVOKINGLY absurd
But l know the most DELICIOUS-Oh.
you DID! ISN'T IT QUANTITIES., in
deed, we were very, VERY much there
And it WAS so hot-SIZZLING-I do
ASSURE you 1 NEVER saw the like
in ALL my-POSITIvELY the most IN
FINITELY. WRETCHEDLY, ABSURD
time OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES At
ROCIOUS-you never, NEVER : would
DREAM of the POSSIBILITY Oh!
there's DEAR Constance Wentworth
ISN'T she just WICKEDLY sweet-my
love. where EVER DID you learn to be
so BEWITCHINGLY, PREPOSTER-
OUSLY, ODIOUSLY PRETTY.
OF course there are charming and men,
tally alert women here, and during the
course of the season some of the BRAIN
lest men in the world come here.
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Of the handsomest portraits in the gal
lery Of the department Of history at the
capitol is that of the late Governor r. f..
Ldgon, received today. It is presented by
his son. Col R. F. Lyon. and was paint
ed by Hoffman It Is a perfect likeness,
and is by odds the best mounted picture
in the gallery. Governor Lyon was cap
tain in the Mexican war and was a meni-
Der Of the legislature before the late war,
and from 1851 to 1865 was a state senator.
He was elected lieutenant governor with
Houston, when the democrats redeemed
the state in 1874 and was the last one
to fill that office, which was abolished by
the convention of 1915. Governor Lyon
was a lawyer. a planter, and a man Of
wealth at the time of his death in this
city last year. He came here from Ma
con county, where he had always lived,
and spent his last days In the enjoyment
of a peaceful old age.
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Rinu Ruled Louisiana.

The democratic state central COM
mittee of Louisiana met last Tuesday
in order to make preparations for the
approaching election in that state, and
when former Lieutenant Governor
Snyder arose to present the primary
plan, he was not seen at all, and mo-
ton to adjourn was put and carried
with undue haste.
Herein We have the machine at its
best in effectiveness and it's worst in
disregard of popular rights. The sub
ject had been freely discussed in the
state, and the demand for state was
fully as well sustained and as nearly
unanimous as it was in Alabama be-
fore the meeting of our executive COM
mittee, and yet in Louisiana the cen
tral committee would not permit the
subject to be even mentioned at its
meeting.
Only congressman are elected this
year in Louisiana, and if action look
ing to a state primary is not adopted
next year there will be music in the
air, for the Louisiana democrats are
fully aroused. The machine in that
state is very autocratic, and politics Is
correspondingly corrupt, and never
more so than at the present time. The
manner in which the subject was
handled by the central committee will
serve to deepen the interest, and next
year it will not be prudent in a chair
man to hastily put motion to adjourn
and declare it carried, and then to
grab his hat and make for the steps,"
The case goes to the people of
Louisiana on appeal, and when it
comes up next year it will gain hear
ing. and the machine will lose some at
least of its authority. A large and
bitter fight is ahead, said one good
democrat, a leader in the last Louis
fana legislature. The fact that dis
cussion of the subject was cut off in
the central committee will render the
contest all the more intense, and
Louisiana may as well get ready for a
long and bitter fight.
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WANTS 1T AMENDED.
From the Elba Clipper.

From the ElDa Clipper.
Governor Johnston was bitterly oppos-
ed to the ratification of the new constitu-
ton He prophesied that many white men
would be disfranchised, that many dire
ills would come upon the State if the new
constitution should be adopted. Some of
those who opposed the ratification of the
new constitution admitted that there was
much good in it-but Johnston said that
it was nearly all bad.
So 1t is natural that in his speech an
nouncing his candidacy he should declare
that he thought the constitution should
be amended His words showed that he
favors its amendment, and of one thing
we may be sure, that is, that should he
be governor he would move heaven and
earth in his attempt to have another
constitutional convention and a constitu-
ton which he could have a finger in
framing.
If he manifests the same opposition
to the constitution that he has manifested
toward everything else of which he was
not the author, he will favor a change
of all the new provisions of the consti-
tuition. He evidently intends to bring
upon the state a bitter contest over an
other constitutional convention.
Thousands of good people opposed call
ing the constitutional convention and
later opposed the ratification of the new
constitution; practically all of those peo-
pie now like the new constitution and
would bitterly oppose holding a conven-
ton to frame a new constitution and
will show their opposition to Governor
Johnston's specious scheme to be COVER
nor a third term.
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A. Salisbury Anecdote.

'Since his recent resignation, anecdotes
of Lord Salisbury naturally abound in the
Ell glish rress," said an admirer of the
great statesman. among the more strilS-
ing appropriations is the following on his
cor stitutional aversion to society:
''IIe has the detachment of hermit.
He has attended the house OF lords many
hundreds of times, and it is quite easy for
a peer to slip across the Hobbies after
their adjournment and watch some of the
great figures in the house of commons. 1t
is a favorite diversion with Lord Rose
berry, and the King was very fond of the
seat over the clock when he was Prince
of Wales. But Lord Salisbury, though an
old member of the house of commons,
and forced as premier, to keep a close
eye on the balance of power in the lower
house. has never been seen in the peers
gallery of the house of commons.
HE konws few of the members of the
house of commons, outside his own fam
lily, by sight. He once startled the politi-
cal world by admitting, in an aside, that
he had never set eyes on Mr.. Parnell.
Every one knows how, on receiving a
gracious salute from Mr.. Walter Long
one of his own ministers, he asked a
neghbor, Who is that?' 1t may be doubt
ed, indeed. whether he knew by sight the
whole of the enormous cabinet with which
he surrounded himself. lie disliked new
faces, and shrank from introductions. The
story goes that when he found himself
once travelling to Hatfield in the same
carriage with Ouida, and a common
friend suggested an introduction Lord
Salisbury shrank back into his corner
and hid himself behind a newspaper"
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AuF WIEDERSEHEN!

By James Russell Lowell
The little gate was reached at last.
Half hid in lilacs down the lane:
She pushed 1t wide and as she past,
A wistful look she backward cast.
And said,-"Auf wiedersehen"
With hand on latch, vision white
fingered reluctant. and again
Half doubling If she did Alright,
Soft as the dews that fell that night.
She said,-"Auf wiedersehenl"
The lamps clear CLEAN fits up the STARR
l linger in delicious pain;
All, in that chamber, whose rich air
To breathe in thought 1 scarcely dare.
Thinks she,-"Auf wiederseheni'
tbs thirteen years; once more 1 preAs
The turf that silences the lane:
hear the rustic Of her Dress
I smell the lilacs, and-ah, yes.
I hear,-"Auf wiedersehen"
Sweet piece of bashful maiden arti
The English words had seemed too fain.
But these-they drew us heart to heart
Yet held us tenderly apart;
She saids-"Auf wiedersehenr'
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Unique Record Of Gen. Smith
Washington Dispatch to the Chicago Rec
ord-Herald

Washington Dispatch to the Chicago Rec
ord-Herald
The spectacular ferocity which moved
his seyerest critics to bestow on General
Smith the somewhat Understanding title
of Hell-Roaring Jake" did not develop
until he was sent to his command in the
far-away Pacific islands, and even then
his many friends in this country were
loath to believe that he could so suddenly
flare up into an antique hero thirsting for
the blood of the enemy with unsuitable
DESIRE
Gen Smith, by those who know him in
timately, Is said to be a better soldier
of the old school, who conceives that kill
ing the enemy is his trade. His first
smack of fighting was gotten in the Civil
War, when he entered the Volunteers of
Kentucky, although he was born and
bred in Ohio. From the start he fought
hard and well, was promoted rapidly and
was disciplinarian from his spurs up to
his army hat
In six months he had won a captaincy,
and at Shiloh he fought like a daredevil
and was made a major for his bravery.
He loved the army. he loved fighting, he
WAS happy when giving or obeying or
ders and after he was mustered out he
straightway joined the regular service,
with the rank of captain.
In 1869 Capt. Smith became a major
with the post of judge advocate, but the
appointment was soon revoked by the
president. Then. as captain, he was as
signed to the Seventeenth Infantry, and
it was not until twenty-four years there
after that he was promoted a major. The
war with Spain came along and lifted
Major Smith on the tide of promotion to
a lieutenant eolonelcy, then to a colon
elcy. and finally in 1900 to the rank of
brigadier general, after he went to the
Philippines to pacify the natives and to
make q solitude. out of Samar.
Gen. Smiths record in the Philippines
was a notable one-from the fighting
point of view. He built q big corral in
the sun end would fill it with rebels I'M
til their skin was plistered. He became
so unpopular with the natives that
they arrengad a plot to kill him. The
deed was to be done at grand 'ball"
given in his honor. But the willy old
warrior. after killing number of the
conspirators, arrested the others ana
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souTHERNERs IN CANADA.

From the New York Times.
Mrs. Jefferson Davis, widow of the
President of the Confederacy. the Buffalo
Express says. is spending the summer as
the guest of southern friends at a charm
ing resort close to Buffalo. Mrs. Davis
is staying at the Thunderstorm Club, near
Port Colborne, Ontario summer col
ony where several distinguished southern
is being entertained for the months of
July and August by Mrs. J. C. Nicely OF
Memphis, at her beautiful new cottage
in Solid Comfort Grove.
Although She is rs years old, years more
than ordinarily eventful, Mrs. Davis is
bright and active. with the cordial south
crn manner and an unusual gift of con-
vel satioD, with fine intellectual face.
She takes an active interest 1T current
affairs.
II am delighted" she said, ito be with
so many of my old southern friends up
here in this be sutiful pine grove Of the
north. 1t was really very kind of them
to ask me, and I know I shall bring
away with me many pleasant associa-
tons ofs.theirs graciousness and hospital
lily. find the grove u delightful SPOT,
and ny friends are indeed lucky in hav-
ing such an ideal place TO escape from
the oppressive heat Of our summer ell
mate
The Thunderstorm Club, where Mrs.
Davis is tay1ng, is situated In pine
grove on the Canadian shore half way
between Fort Colborne and Sugar Loaf
HILL Its origin has a rather romantic
history The colony was founded Is years
ego by Peter c. Mcintyre, a cotton plant
err from Memphis, who was obliged to
stop over at Port Colborne on his travels
north or account of the illness Of his
young daughter. A physician said that
the only salvation for the little one would
be the pure air near the lake preezes.
She was taken out to tho site where the
club now stands and swung In ham,
neck between two tall pines. The little
gffl recovered, and her father was so
delighted that he bought the grove. built
a summer home. and has since induced
some twenty CT thirty families of has
southern friends to make the spot their
summer home.
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Editor of Punch a Knight

IN England for a while, find amusement
in the aalIies of Burnand and his stnff
of testers, and learn to tolerate some
of the most hopeless puns that were ever
identified as numor by 'ha, ha' IN
type. The jovial knight had distin-
guished sponsor on commencing literary
work. for he was introduced to the edi-
tor OF the now long derunct Once =
Week by George Meredith. That was af-
ter young Burnand had both studied for
the church and read for the bar and fin
ally decided to let both caiiings go and
be a serlbbler instead. Finally he Joined
the staff of Punch then edited by Mark
Lemon, because Fun, for which he had
written for year, turned down an idea
which Bhrnand thought particularly
felicitous and of which Punch made use.
Long afterward he succeeded to the
editorship already held by Lemon, Shir-
ley Brooks and Tom Taylor, and took
the presiding place at the famous Punch
table. Around this historic board, the
members of the staff OF Punch have
gathered for years at a weekly dinner,
at which the principal cartoon of the
week is discussed. Here sat Douglas Jer-
rold and, later, Du Maurier, and here
now sit Phil May, Linley Sambourne and
Bernard Partridge
Success has greeted the work of the
editor of Punch, no matter in what form
1t has appeared. His books, THE New
Sanford and Merton" 'erhe Ride to
Khiva," etc.. have sold well and he has
written over hundred plays, the best
known of them being his burlesque OF
''Black-Eyed Susan" which ran for over
800 nights at the Royalty Theatre. Au-
eustin DAILY produced in New York sew
eral of his adaptations of German farces.
notably THE Lady from Ostend." Burn
and wrote two operas IN collaboration
with Sir Arthur Sullivan, as we'll as a
musical burlesque called "Cox and Box :
which was a famous nit.
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Flatterlna Enhancement.

Miss Edna Gockel, Birmingham's piano
virtuoso, has been engaged as the soloist
for one Of the symphony concerts in Gin
einnatl next season under the conductor
ship OF Van der stueken. This is indeed
a notable compliment to the young artist
as Mr.. Van der stuchen's orchestra ranks
as one Of the greatest symphony organi-
cations In the United States.
Miss Gockel is not only a thoroughly
educated musicians but she applies her
self faithfully to practice, which is the
only way, of course, that a soloist can
keep up technique. 1t is only question
of time when Miss Goekel will win ma
tional reputation, for combined with her
talents, she has great pluck and ambi-
ton. There are many successful pianists
on the stage today who are not half so
high up in the .yirtuoso scale as Miss
Edna GOckel
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Army Tallorlnn.

Some Of the army officers in Wash
ington are in a state of mind over the
number OF changes in uniform which
have been imposed upon them during the
last few years." remarked a well in
formed military man.
Few will escape short of 500 or $50
expenses for the latest notifications.
This is a large block to take out of a
salary which is not excessive at best.
1.-THE bulk of the army tailoring is done
by two concerns in Washington. The
head Of ore of these is a thrifty soul,
who realizes the difficulty a young Of
flcer often has in making both ends meet,
and the uselessness of trying to collect
bills for military clothing by suits at
law, especially II the debtor is some
where on the opposite side of the globe.
He he's In his safe now promissory notes
for more than $4,000 owing him by lieu
tenants who have had to mortgage six
months salary to get them a proper
outfit.
This tailor has adopted a shrewd device
Of securing his debts by insurance poll
cies. An officer opens an account and
then takes out life policy for $1,000, pay
able to his own estate, and pledges it
with the tailor as collateral security. The
tailor iakes his note for the balarce due
from time to time, charges 6 per cent.
interest. and let's the thing run. If the
officer inherits a legacy from his aunt,
or marries q rich wife, he pays, as a
rule, as promptly as possible; but If he
is killed in action or dies of cholera, the
creditor does not have to lie awake nights
wondering where his money is coming
from. Meanwhile, his investment in the
officer is bringing him a cumulative in
come The only person who suffers by
this arrangements is the widow"
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IN SOMEWHAT OF A HURRY.
,rom the Philadelphia Times.

From the Philadelphia Times.
Harry Furniss tells of testy but
popular Scotch lecturer who, on a
tour of the Lowlands, met with a
chairman SO impressed with the i'm
pcrtance of his Office that, in intro
ducing the visitor, he actually talked
to the audience for an hour The gath
ering, large one, bore 1t all patiently.
This was the chairman's peroration:
ut is unnecessary for me to say
more; so, call upon the distinguished
gentleman who has come so far to give
us his address tonight"
The gentleman who had come so far
arose, stepped forward, bowed, pulled
out and looked at his watch, and then
said:
"You want my address. 1t is 1922
Rob Roy Crescent, Edinburg. A letter
will find me there. Goodnight"
Saying which he left the stage and
the hall before anybody could inter-
pose.