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The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-08-07

and that league has thus far had its way about both the treaties and legislation. What does Mir. Cullom propose to do about it? He says if the high protection Republicans in the Senate" will not per init the ratification of the treaties they will sooner or later be compelled to sub init to a general revision" He goes so far as to say that he for one will then feel it his duty ito vote for general re- vision without further delay"
 He adds that the last time he saw President Mckinley they discussed this very matter and the President felt as he did. He says still further that MT. Mc- Kinley intended to make series or speeches on this subject on the same line with that he made at Buffalo, which was his last"
 It is plain enough that there are two wings to the Republican Party on this question, but when 1t comes to action they will be found Tapping together as usual The high tariff wing will control It may possibly yield so far as to con sent to the ratification of the treaties, which it can well afford to do for the reason that they do not amount to much anyway, but whether it makes that con- cession or not there will be no relief from tariff burdens through the action Of the Republican Party, because if it ceases to be the party of tariff monopoly 1t will cease to be the Republican Party.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-08-07
Certain. Probable,

This, my friend claims. is a conserva- tive estimate of a conservative man, and he suggests that the rest of the commit tee would raise it by five certain and sev- en or eight probables. The Democrats are depending upon the beet sugar squab- bles in Michigan and Minnesota. and the factional fight in Wisconsin to give them the gains in those States, and the one certain gain in Illinois is the East St. Louis district, so long represented by Colonel Morrison The gerrymander in North Carolina reduces the Republican majority in the only district that party can hope to carry to less than 800, and the Democrats are confident of their abil- ity to keep half that number of negroes away from the polls. Ever since Utah be- came State the Democrats have elected their candidate until the Roberts agita- tion, when the Republicans got ma jority of only 24l. In New York City the Democrats expect to get solid dele gation of seventeen instead of fourteen as at rIesent. In Pennsylvania they count upon one of the Philadelphia dis tricts and the Meadville district which is now represented by Mir. Sibley, who changed his party two years ago The two Republican districts in Maryland usually give very small majorities, and are now disturbed by factional fights. Last time. and in presidential yeaS. they were carried by only 115 and 606 \lJor- ity. and now that Senator German has returned to leadership. and the silver issue no longer divides the Democrats, the latter are confident of gaining both.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-08-07
EASILY PERSUADED BY PRES
 SURE"

If there is a disposition to doubt Gov ernor Johnstons sincerity when he de- clares that he will not be a candidate for United States Senator he has himself to blame for it. Only few months ago he was vehemently declaring that he would not be a candidate for Governor, and was trying to get some other candidate to enter the list against Governor Jelks. Under the pretence of being forced to come into the race by overwhelming pres ure he is very actively trying to get that which he has repeatedly said he did not want. In a speech at Selma Hon. R. H. Clarke forcibly presented this matter and it fits so we'll that It is worth re- printing and should have wide circulation. He said:
 The ex-Governor had said il his speech that he was not candidate tor Senator serve out his term. He would not dis pute this but would call the peoples at tention to the fact that there would be a Johnston ticket out in nearly every coun- ty, and if Johnston was elected Governor he would also doubtless control tine legis- lature, the legislature would elect Sena- tor, and while the new Constitution says the Governor shall not be elected Senator during the term for which ne IS elected, the Federal Senate would not recognize any such restriction and would seat any, man, Governor or not, vho went to Washington after having !een elected by the Legislature ofs this State. Now, the Governor started out in this campaign as running 10 vindicate himself. In his speech here he said that he was running in deference to the overwhelming call of the masses of the people to run in their interests and that he could rever resist such a call In case a Johnston Legis- lature is elected how long would it be before "an irresistible and overwhelming call' would come from the people for him to accept the office of Senator? Would this man who is so ready to answer such calls and who manages to be called so frequently, be able to resist .uch a call ? It is to be feared that he would not.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-08-07
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Letters to the Editor.
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For Jelks.

Kingston. Ala, August 6. 1902. Editor The Advertiser:
 AS the campaign progresses 1t becomes more clearly understood who are the friends of reform and who are simply posing as such.
 If there is an organized Populite party in the State and a man proposes to act with that party then he should have hon. or enough to not want to participate in the primary. and if he has not, then he should not be allowed to. The Execu- tive Committee laid down the rule for participation in the primary, 1t is fair one could object that intends in good faith to abide by its decision. The only declaration of any Populist meeting that l have seen was held at Clanton and in that meeting they voted down a proposi- tion to allow their members to affiliate with the Democratic party. Would our Johnston friends claim the right of such as these to participate in a Democratic primary?
 Another phase of this campaign while 1t amuses also disgusts any that is the effort to prejudice the old friends of Kolb of 1S90-'92 l was one of those and was as anxious for his success as it was pos sible to be, but I fail to see where I got any more help from Johnston than did from Jelks. where Waller did me any more good than Cunningham.
 l would say in conclusion that the Pop a thing of the past. We have and intend to affiliate with the Democratic party. We intend to vote for Jelks and if John ston Is nominated we intend to vote for him, but it will be bitter crow.
 Hill Billie
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-08-07
Covington County.

Andalusa Peoples Gazette.
 There is no county in the State making safer and more rapid progress than Gov ington. SPeople are moving here from all parts of the world and new industries are springing up all over the county Every town in the county is building up rapidly and substantially. There is hard ly an idle man in the county and yet ev- cry industry is calling for more labor CTS Several of the mills and turpentine farms are using convict labor. This is the county for the man who is looking for home. Lands are cheap and as a farm ing section this can compare favorably with the richest in the world. The man who is contemplating a change of resi- dence cannot do better than to move to COVinRton County.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-08-07
THE DEAcoNEss' MOVEMENT
In the Methodist Episcopal Church
 South.

Mobile Register.
 On Sunday evening Mrs. Mary L. H IT, grove spoke to a large and enthusiastic congregation at the Government Street Methodist Church on the Womans Home Missionary Society. and the deaconcss work as outlined by that society. The missionary society is to do missionary work among the women and children in their home land. It is to look after the sick and poor. to care for the unfortunate and the needy by administering to their bodies and to their souls. The deacon esses are trained Christian workers, wo- men who have made a special study of the Bible. who have been taught to do personal work, and who, as assistants to the pastors, will visit the unfortunate and extend all the help that tender minister ing women can to the helpless.
 Mrs. Hargrove said that these deacon esses would wear a simple dress that would indicate their profession. This would be for economy. protection and recognition. Mrs. Hargroves arguments were unanswerable and the large con- gregation present was in most enthusias- tic sympathy with this speaker. Many of those present felt that the work of the evening means a new era for Mobile Methodism. and it is learned that there is strong probability that the Method ists of the city will very soon build and equip deaconesS home here
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-08-07
Last Tuesdav,s Advertiser was q .hum:
Some Comparisons.
Dothan Home Journal

Dothan Home Journal.
 Governor Jelks is q good man but, like The Reaper. he is a small man. In in tellectuality and generalship, he runs as far behind Joe Johnston as a snail would rabbit. But Governor Jelks is a good all round citizen who is out of his sphere.-Geneva Reaper.
 And so The Reaper also tells bogy tales. but they are of the humorous kind It was Tine stroke of humor for The Reap CT to bring Governor Jelks down to a comparison in general size to equality with itself and it was a delightfully."- funny conceit to place Johnston away above Jelks in 'intellectuality and gener- alship" When 1t Is remembered that Jelks successfully conducted daily news paper in an educated and refined Commu- nity. and the other two never did; and, further, that the same community sent Jelks to the State Senate. which was never done for either of the other two, and that the same community Is proud of him as Governor, also which cannot be said for the other two, the alleged com parisons become uproariously humorous. Alas! for Mark Twain and Bill Nye.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-08-07
CUBAN LOAN MAY BE STOPPED.
United States Likely to Consider
 Oblioations Too Heavy.

From Washington to Chicago Tribune.
 Cubas financial difficulties, referred to in these dispatches last Friday. have forced a bond issue of $S5, 100000. Minis ter Squiers today advised the State De partment that the lower branch of the Cuban Congress had adopted bill au- thorizing a loan of $35, 0O00OO. the mini mum rate of issue being fixed at 20 per cent. the maximum rate of interest to be per cent and the bonds to be redeem able in forty years.
 This action presents the questions as to whether the issue of bonds for this amendments, which provides that said (Cuban) government shall not assume or contract any public obligation to pay the interest upon which. and to make req innate discharge of which the ordinary revenues of the island of Cuba. after de- fraying the current expenses Of the gov ernment shall be inadequate.
 President Roosevelt may be obliged to call the attention of President Palma to this clause of the Platt anne ndment, as the island republic will be dangerously near violating the section relating to con- tracting debts, if the Senate concurs in the action of the House. The interest of this loan at per cent would call for an annual expenditure of $1,750,000. The re- ceipts of the Cuban government at pres ent are only $5,O00 day, or $l,S25,0OO an- nually.
 After paying the interest on the loan there would be only SIS, 900 with which to defray the expenditures of the govern ment, unless there is large increase in receipts
 Cuba will be working on a close mar gin, and Uncle Sam, the guardian of the infant republic, may be forced to give a gentle but firm reminder that the loan is too large. This clause was placed in the Platt amendment so as to prevent the Cuban government from becoming in volved in financial difficulties and paying extraordinary debts which Cuba should not be called upon to pay. Advices re- ceived here indicate the industrial condi-
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-08-07
ALABAMA REPUBLICANS.

The Kansas City Journal discusses the action of the Alabama Republicans in practically cutting loose from the colored contingent, and thinks they will be bet ter able to serve the negroes and the State and the country by constituting themselves a white mans party" The Journal then adds:
 The action of the Alabama Republican committee also shows, better perhaps than anything that has happened recent ly. the drift of Southern sentiment. At first there was strenuous opposition to the disfranchisement measures Now, almost all the white people of that section seem to have yielded to them as necessary and inevitable It is evident that, regard less of theoretical rights, the negro, be- citizenship in the South, must demon strate by intelligence and industry his ability and willingness to perform its duties.
 So far as a desire on the part of Ala bama Republicans to help the negro is concerned The Journal needn't concern it. self. From the time that Party obtained a foothold in Alabama the chief aim of ats members, whether native 1T carpet bagger, was to help themselves ty using khe negro. Any possible benefit which might come to him was a secondary con- sideration ,or, rather, it was rarely con- sidered at all. With the average Re- publican the negro was only looked on hs a means to an end. He was useful 10 swell the representative strength of the Party, and to serve as a foundation on which to base claims for Federal ap- pointment, but any benefits which that Party has conferred on the negro can be expressed by the one word, nit.
 We agree with The Journal, however, ln it's statement that the action of Aa- hama Republicans" shows the drift of Routhern sentiment" The better ond most intelligent class of wnite men in Alabama of all political views, those whc have the best interests of the State al heart are practically united In the belief that the elimination of lhe negro as g rolitical factor was a wise move. Ii any object to it the objection comes from those who used the colored man and voter for their own ends, and now resent his retirement. That class Is small and will v,row smaller as time passes and the white neople. Democrats and Republicans, find themselves freed from the necessity oi appealing to the negro for political ad' Nancement
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-08-07
ABSURD THEORIES

One Professor Barnes of Philadelphia is the very last possibility in the way of an ass that we have heard of. so far as the franchise question is concerned. In a recent interview or statement he said: would. if could, give woman the ballot tomorrow, but I would demand that she use her right. If she did not, 1 would fine her. If she did hot pay her fine, l would imprison her.
 Isn't that the very quintessence of poli- tioal assininity? With just as much pro- priety he might want laws passed to com pei women to attend church every Sun day ,or to do anything else about which free people are presumed to exercise their own will. The right of voting Is an important. almost sacred privilege, but it would be a queer law-making body that would enact laws to carry out Pro- lessor Barnes's theory, and it would re- quire a court and officers q little above human to enforce such a law
 It will be noticed that this reformer only proposes to apply his drastic and revolutionary measures to women. Doeh he have some kind of an idea that women are easier to drive than men are? If he does he doesn't know anything about them. We notice, though, that there is an Ohio statesman, whose name we can- not recall, who wants to make suffrage compulsory especially at primary cleo tions. If these two blockheads think that men and women in this county can be driven to the polls, Hike dumb. driven cattle," and forced to vote they have several more thinks coming to them. Such law would strike at the very root of free government, and practically take away from the citizen all volition. The | theory Is eminently ridiculous
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-08-07
STEEL SHIPS FOR THE LAKES.
Many Orders for These Vessels for
 Next Year.

Duluth Special to N. Y. Times.
 The speed with which shipovners on the lakes are now ordting new steel ves- sels for next year is one of the strongest evidences of national prosperity. So far ships ordered from the American Ship building Company are worth about ST. 500000, and more contracts are pending with this company and other concerns.
 It Is expected that at least $10,O00 900 worth of steel steamships will be built on the American side of the Great Lakes for service in 1903. Twenty-four freight ships are now under contract, and every berth at the lake yards Is filled up for the en- tire winter. No more can be taken to be done before late In the summer of 1903. These ships will consume about 100000 tons of steel. and e~ery one of them will be a steamship, as the lakes appetite for tow barges seems to have been appeased.
 As for two or three years past. the new construction is by individuals, and the iron ore and steel making companies that have large fleets seem to be drifting out of the idea of owning more vessels. It is not considered probable that. so long as the present management continues In the transportation department of the United States Steel Corporation, the com pahy will build any more freighters; con- tenting itself with chartering vessels. It now has the largest fleet in America. and the sixth largest in the world. consisting of 112 ships, capable of 1OOOO,OOO tons in eight months time.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-08-07
WOULD USE PALM OIL.
Manufacturers of oleomargarine Ask
 Necessary Permission.

From Washington to Chicago Record
 Herald.
 Wonderful discoveries are being made in the manufacture of oleomargarine, dairymen claim. The most remarkable nutritive value of palm oil. 1t is charged, has been ascertained within a compara- lively few weeks; that Is since Congress passed the amended Grout bill imposing a tax of 10 cents a pound upon oleo arti- fcially colored in imitation Of butter. MT Outcault of Cincinnati appeared be- Yerkes today and argued at considerable length, as counsel for the oleomargarine manufacturers, to prove that the recent discovery of the nutritive value of palm oil was not directly due to the fact that us use would impart a coloring to the product.
 Dairymen. it is claimed, have used palm oil as coloring, and are now protesting against its use by the oleo-makers on the which imposes tax of only one-fourth cent pound on oleo that is not artifi- cially colored The dairy people insist that the use of palm oil should subject oleo to a tax of 10 cents a pound.
 Charles Knight of Chicago, Secretary of the Dairymen's Association, is in Washington and will appear before Com missioner Yerkes to submit the dairy mems side of the controversy. He says dairy manufacturers have for years fail- ed to recognize any nutritive or other desirable property in palm oil, and now,, after the passage of the oleo act. sud denly find that palm oil. which will give a coloring to their product, is practically indispensable. and must be used to give the people an article of food they demand.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-08-07
Mountain Guides Feat.

A story of a guides strength and pres ence of mind is told by Mir. Horace Walker, an ex-President of the Alpine Club.
 Mir. Walker was with Peter Anderegg somewhere in the Engadine. Roped to- gether they were cutting steps up an ice slope, Peter leading. Thy came to a point where a huge boulder was embed ded in the ice, Imagining 1t to be firmly fixed, Peter trod on it. To his consterna- tion it began to move. It came straight for MT. Walker, who, standing in the the steps cut for him. could not possibly get out of the way. He thought nothing could possibly save him; But Peter fedt met ct strength. In an instant he shifted him self hack into the ice step he had just quilted. Then. with mighty enort ne jerked MT. Walker out of his foothold. and. sustaining his weight by the rope that linked them. swung him out of the way of the rock. The rock thundered down in the very place in which MT Walker had been standing and then MT; Walker swung back again and resumed his foothold safely. There has seldom been a narrower escape in the history ot climbing.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-08-07

When newspapers and stump speakers are compelled to adopt a negative cam paign as is the case with the Jelks con- tingent this time, it shows the lack of anything tangible upon which to base a reasonable claim for their candidate Mobile Item.
 Wouldn't that jar your slats" to use a slang expression. Take the letters of Governor Jelks and ex-Governor Oates, the speeches of Knox, Clarke and others, the editorials in The Advertiser, and many other papers, and if there Is anything negative" in any of them we are unable to see it. The cam paign against Johnston has teen an at tack on his record and his statements from the beginning. The charges against him are as direct and positive as they are unanswerable. To talk about 1t be- ing negative campaign on the Jelks side is a palpable misapplication If terms al well as a perversion of facts.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-08-07
THURSDAY, AUGUST 2, 1902.
DOUBLE GOLDEN SYMBOL.

The American Newspaper Directory uses cer- tain signs to denote the relative standing and merit of the whole field of newspaperdom which comes under its notice and one of these signs is the mystic symbol t0] denotins s.goiden.. which stands for high quality. and 2s thus explained:
 Advertisers value this paper more for the hiass and quality of its circulation than for the mere number of copies printed"
 Such papers are credited with a single sym Dol; but there is a higher grade. according to this standard authority which have BOTH QUALITY AND QUANTITY, and require the DOUBLE GOLDEN SYMBOL 100 to describe adequately their standing.
 The Adertiser has been accorded this double golden symbol Ie0] and is the only paper 50 distinguished in this section of the Eouth.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-08-07
CREAM of the SPECIALS
DEMOCRATS ARE BUSY.
Republican View of Opponents At
 tempt to Control Congress.

William E. Curtis's New York Special to
 Chicago Record Herald.
 tee claims to have heard from accurate and impartial sources in every State of the Union. and directly from nearly all the doubtful Congressional districts, as to the state of public sentiment and the party organization. and, while the results are not as encouraging as 1t would wish, the information justif1es an active and de termined canvass, with a hope of reduc- thirty-nine and plurality of forty-four in the House of Representatives. For a bluff the members of the committee will continue to assert their right to expect the control of the next House, but con- servative politicians do not even hope for so much. They are confident, how ever. of making decided gains in the Northern States, of recovering several dis tricts that were lost by divisions on the silver issue and getting a good ready for the presidential campaign that will follow in 1904. I have seen one of the members of the committee, who is perhaps as clear-headed as any, and he gives me some of the reasons why, as he expresses it, Democratic stock is going up.'
 The membership of the next House un- 1900 is increased from 357 to SS6, thirty nine members. of which the Northern and Western Republican States get nine teen and the Southern and Democratic States get ten. This is a dscouraging handicap to begin with, and of itself should deprive the Democrats of all hope of capturing the next House, but several of the new members will come from the populous cities of the North where the Democrats arc strong among the foreign born voters and the laborng element, and there they hope to offset the gain in the farming States. the villages and the richer and more intelligent communi- ties. A change of twenty-three districts Is necessary to give the Democrats a ma jority. which is admitted to be imposi- ble, but they claim to be certain of twelve and are hopeful of twenty. The expected gains are in the following States:
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