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The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-03-17
The Negro Convention.

Kansas City Journal.
 t,an for the pIrpose of discussing the ne gro question, Booker T. WashlHe ton makes a mistake and for once Tn an m portant matter fails to snow tnat con con servatism and good Judgment WllICn .t na W w, 7 characterized his career as an educator and leader of his people. The ae!eSdteS and attendants will in all proDaplnty oe drawn from the ranks of the pesuLeroG,s black preachers office holders ana pon, ttcians of the Gs.uth. and the cluos ana societies of dilceSTnte sociolog1sts or the North, whose inCendtary utterahces' nam by-pamby sympathy and mlsapPHeu zeal do more harm than good 10 the cause which they espouse. Besides nearing a lot of futile talk and adopting some fool resolutions there is nothing the cohNeh- ton can be expected to accomplish. eN- cept, perhaps. to excite further Fr4lduol and antagonism between the t"o l9eeS throughout the land . .
 The negro in America is very well of as he is. He Is barred from no vocatiohs, he Is suffered to hold office bnd IS allowed to vote even in the most unrecohsruCled State in the South provided he has the required education and property qualiti- tions The best friends of the Afro American are those who adVocate the application of the doctrine or lalsser-talre to his case.
 It is a fact that no inferior race has ever been treated with more consldera- ton and kindliness than is accorded to the blacks by the people of the United States, generally speaking. The great hordes of black laborers ever ready and willing to work for a pittance might be regarded as a constant menace to the welfare and independence of white work ingmen; yet labor unions have never placed themselves officially on record against them, hut in many instances have welcomed them into their membership. Quite different is the lot of the Jews in Roumania, the Films in Russia, the Ar may ata no nVaA 44..s~a fWa a Poles in Germany, Austria and Hungary, and the Kaftirs and other black races of
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-03-17

Africa. They have been treated with such cruel intolerance and barbarity as to CT parts of the civilized world. The subju- gation and oppression of the weaker by the stronger races Is unjust, but history shows that it has often occurred, and in many cases has seemed inevitable be- cause of severe competition for the means Of subsistence. The Anglo-Saxons have usually displayed a greater willingness than any other people to grant voluntarily to all people over whom they exercised rule whatever liberties and privileges justice and equity dictate should be grant, ed but they have never gracefully yield ed to threats and force. The salvation not the enmity. of his white brother; and loud complaints and displays of militant aggressiveness are not the best means to resort to if this friendship is to be se- cured and retained.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-03-17
FAIRBANKS A CANDIDATE.
will Make Formal Announcement
 in a Few Days.

Richmond Va.) Special.
 A prominent Republican just back from Washington claims that Senator Fair banks will announce his candidacy fol the Presidency in a few days and pro. ceed to capture the Southern delegations
 c. M. Bernard, a Republican of in fiuence in North Carolina, has returned to work for Fairbanks against Roosevelt Colonel J. Browning. one of the strongest Republicans of Southwest Virginia, has been in conference with Senator Fair. banks in Washington and comes home to start his boom in Virginia.
 Senator Fairbanks will depend largely on newspapers for his boom, and where they do not exist they will be establish ed. The Elizabeth City Carolinian has been purchased and will be established al Raleigh as a Fairbanks organ; one is to be established at Greenville, Tenn, and also one at Birmingham, Ala.
 MT. Roscoe Mitchell. whose vigorous editorial against Roosevelt has already irritated the President, will, it is said conduct the papers at Greenville and Birmingham.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-03-17
TUESDAY, MARCH 17 1903.
DOUBLE GOLDEN SYMBOL.

Tha American Newspaper Directory uses cer- cain signs to denote the relative standing and merit of the whole neld of newspaperdom which comes under it's notice. and oAs of these signs is the mystic symbol denoting .'Kolden," which stands for high quality. and ss thus explained;
 ''Advertisers value this paper more for tns class aAd quality of its circulation than for ths mere number of copies printed"
 Such papers are credited with a single Sym' bol; but there is a higher grade, according tC this standard authority. which have BOTH QUALITY AND QUANTITY. and require ths DOUBLE GOLDEN SYMBOL OG to describe adequately their standing.
 The Advertiser has been accorded thu. double golden symbol L00l and Is the o=ls paper so distinguished in this section Of the South.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-03-17
Wanted lightweight Electoral
 Votes.
Washington Post.

" dSiiTlBtOn 1OSJ.
 If political parties were accustomed to advertise their wants, the Democratic party would naturally be arranging with some advertising agency for the insertion In all the prominent newspapers outside of the solid South of a little ''ad" reading thus; "Wanted-Eighty- eight electoral votes in November, 1904" That Is the number that will be required in excess of the 15l in the section whose vote Is as sured for the nominee of the Democratic national convention. For reasons that need not be discussed here and now the South is solidly Democratic, and there is no probability of an early change A majority of the electoral vote of 1904, the first election to be held under the new apportionment. will be 23s. Adding SS to the South's 151 would make up that ma jority.
 It may be set down as practically im- possible for the Democrats to gain any votes in the North-any State outside of the solid section--If it makes another ex- pertinent with Bryanism. No matter who may be the candidate-whether Bryan or the Moses of whom he has made vague mention on several occasions-deteat will be certain if the party accepts the dicta- uon of Bryan and holds on to the dead wood of 1896 and 1900. Outside of the solid South, Is there a single State-with the exception of Nevada. with its three electoral votes-which could be carried by q repetition of the old combine on platform redolent of currency debasement and other Popuistic nostrums? We know of no such State. If there is any one thing which the almost solid North would accomplish with more cheerful alacrity than any other. 1t would be the third and most crushing defeat of Bryanism.
 Such being the case, it is not easy to understand the motives of Democrats in such anti-Democratic States as Michigan and Iowa in furnishing opportunities for the peerless though twice defeated leader to stir up strife. His venomous filings at the only Democrat who has been installed in the Presidential office since the inauguration of James Buchanan, March {. 1851, are the chief obstacle to paciiicauon of the factions and the crea- ton of conditions under which the Democracy might enter the campa ign with some chance of victory. for the win ming Of those eighty eight electoral votes would be very far from impossible if the party would cut loose from Populism-- from the man who offered to stump Vir- giniR for the Populist Gubernatorial can didate against the regular nominee of the Democracy and from all that he repre- sents in the public mind. No other plan holds out gleam of hope that the party in 1904 can call a halt in its long series of disasters. And the Democrats In Re publican States are not pursuing a wise or fair course in increasing the diff faculties of the situation.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-03-17
DESERVED TO SUCCEED.

The Richmond Times Dispatch is not yet fully reconstructed. if we may take this expression as evidence:
 So. we reiterate, that a cause so right | eous and just as ours deserved to sue ceed, and TOT our part, while we are now loyal to the Union and take pride in the greatness of the nation, We shall never concede, for We do not believe 1t in our heart, that 1t was best for the South that her cause failed.
 Beyond doubt there are thousands of old Confederates who agree with the above. They are as true now to the Union as they ever were to the Confed- eracy. but there is in their hearts a lin- gering regret that all their heroism and patriotic sufferings for righteous cause failed to succeed. It is no disloyalty to the government that is at the bottom of this feeling. The people of the South have in every way proven that they are true and loyal to the Union, but when they recall the glorious efforts they made to establish separate and independent government 1t is not surprising that they refuse to admit that they are glad. They would scarcely be human if they rejoiced at their own failure.
 It is beyond the power of the wisest statesman to say what would have been the result if the Confederate government had succeeded. We have read many opin- ions which were not at all optimistic on the subject of a Southern Republic. Some say that the slavery issue would have eventually been the downfall of such government. Some contend that there would have been constant friction between the South and the North on the sub ject of slavery and the rendition of fugi- tive slaves. There are those who contend that two governments with such long and intangible boundary could never have lived in peace with each other.
 All these and other opinions of like na- ture are speculative. We know not what would have been the result. A Southern Confederacy might have been failure. There might have come time when mis- understandings would have caused an- ether war with all its direful conse- quences. Our Confederacy might have gone down before a stronger power and become conquered province at the mercy of the victor. Such result might have entailed worse and more intolerable re- suits than those which followed our de- feat.
 All this is speculation. There are many "might have beens" in life. We might have been great and glorious Confed- eracy of prosperous States or we might have repeated the history of Ireland. We all know what did happen but no one knows what might have happened, but beyond doubt there are many who regret that we failed. And they are not disloyal to the government. for all that.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-03-17
IT IS NOT TRUE.
In a recent issue of The Worlds Work there occurs the following assertion:

III u EGCtIlI iSSut Ol He W UTlQ s W oTk
 there occurs the following assertion: The dominant Northern opinion ye, holds firmly to the doctrine that no po- | litical discrimination should be made against the negro simply because of his color or race; that he shall have the door open to him for all the privileges of cit | izenship; and that when he proves per sonally fit he shall not be excluded sim ply because he is negro.'
 That may be ''the dominant Northern | opinion' in theory, but the author of the quotation knows that it is not true in
 practice. The negroes receive less con- | sideration in the North today than they do in the South. Up there they may en- joy some social privileges not accorded them here but they are far less free in-
 dustrially. The negroes of the South | have practically equal rights with tho l whites in all lines of labor and self-sup-
 port, and in everything except political
 and social equality they are as free and
 unrestrained as We are.
 And when it comes to office holding the
 in any Northern State than he does in Alabama. They refuse to elect him to
 office, and they refuse because he is a
 negro. There are in all the Northern
 States negroes who are qualified and com
 petent to fill office. at least minor posi-
 tions. but they rarely get them. and they do not get them because of their color
 It is absurd to read such assertions as
 those above quoted, when we know there
 Is no truth in them. If the practice of
 our Northern brethren corresponded with
 their preaching we would have some pa-
 tience with their criticisms. As 1t is, we
 have none. Their hypocrisy in this re-
 spect is equalled only by their cheek
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-03-17
INDUSTRIAL PROGRESS.
The Tradesman's Weekly Report of
 New Southern Industries.

NeW SOuLueru 4uQuStTleS. Chattanooga. Tenn, March 16.-The progress in southern development for the week just closed as reported by The Tradesman, includes the following new organizations as among the most import ant:
 Alabama. Huntsville-s1o,o 600 furniture factory; s1O,- 000 canning factory. Marion-Ice factory. Battelle-Furnace. Opelika-$10,0O 900 oil and refinery mill. Union Springs-Ice factory oil mill. Moble-Sl0.000 export company. Birmingham-$i0.0 GOO packing house. Russellville-$250,0 900 mining company.
 Arkansas. Archillion-s5OOO 900 plantation company. Newport-$50,0 900 realty company. Germania-Mining company. Malvern-Broom factory; fiouring mill S25, 600 ice factory Fort smith-s50,OOO Hat factory. Wideners-$1o.000 Cotton gin. Searcy-$50, 600 cotton oil mill. Pine Bluff-$50.0O0 hardware mill. Clarksville-$4000 900 coal comapny. Mammoth Sprinss-$150,0 900 cotton mills
 Florida. Chipley-Telephone system. Monticello-$25 -$25oOOO elctric light. ice and cold storage plant. Gainesville-Electric light plant.
 Georgia. Buford-$150, 900 tannage company. Cleveland-Woolen mill; brake company Leo-Woolen mill. ColumbuS-Telephone company. Coldwater-Oil mill. Macon-Candy factory. Nidalia-$12,5O 500 cotton gin factory.
 Kentucky. Stephensport-$5O GOO cement plant. Henderson-$25,0 ,000 tobacco factory. Louisville-$30 900 brick works. Boston-Chair factory. Covington-$5.00O mining company.
 Louisiana. Lake Charles-$250,0 900 investment com pany
 Crowley-$1OO, 900 electric light plant. New Orleans-Lumber company; planta- ton company. Breaux Bridge-Brick works
 Mississippi. Ocean Springs-Ice and electric plant Greenwood-$5O,o0 900 wagon and buggy company. Indianola-$500 GOO improvement company; $10.000 real estate and loan company. Cedars-$3O,o00 cotton oil company.
 North Carolina. Murphy-Light and power company; lime burning plant. Teacheys-$5.000 telephone company. Fayetteville-Si00,0 GOO cooperage and ve- neer company; $l25,OOO construction com pany.
 Portsmouth-Lumber company. Wilmington-$2O,0O 900 bag factory. DallaS-Cotton mill.
 South Carolina. Camden-$5O00 supply works. Greenville-$25.0 .000 land company.
 Tennessee. Ripley-S10.000 Touring mill. Sparta-$100, coo woolen mill. KnoXville-$10.O0 900 textile company; $15,- 000 lumber company. Tellico Junction S25, 900 saw mill. Lebanon-Flour spar mill. Chattanooga-$l0,000 brick works. Memphis-$20, 900 lumber company; $135,- GOO cotton company. Waverly-Stove mill Dyer-Canning factory. Tullahoma-S50,00 GOO lumber company.
 Texas. Celina-$3O, 600 mill and elevator com pany.
 Houston-s5O,oCo water company; s2O.OOC lumber company. Beaumont-Elect light plant. Jasper-$5,000 bottling works. Orange-Carriage and implement com pany.
 Virginia. Bedford City-Flouring mill. Berkley-$250O0 box factory. Prices Forks-Mining company. Portsmouth-Sand and gravel company
 West Virginia. Wheeling-$5O00 900 metal ceiling plant. Charleston-$1, 100000 water and light
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-03-17
Has He a Secondp
Harff0rd Tip

IIHTtIOTu IImeS.
 We move that the editor of The Mont gomery Advertiser and Grover Cleveland move on adjoining :arms in Virginia and patronize Billy Bryan, who runs a grist mill just across the spring branch and the editor of The Virginian- Pilot who runs the blacksmith shop at the end of the lanc
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-03-17

That chaplain in the Kansas Legisla- ture who put up a special prayer for the Democratic members was not far wrong. He probably felt that Democrats who were forced to associate with Kansas Re- publicans were sadly and continually in need of prayers.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-03-17
Go to Wisconsin.
Ro.nnn,nr urnrl.n

bt5StIleT WOrKman.
 If any negro Tn the South is looking for social equality with the white race, 1t would be sensible thing for him to go to Wisconsin and test the genuineness of the sympathy and interest expressed by those people.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-03-17

put a sting in its compliments, as when it remarks that MT. Cleveland can still reel off words with his oldtime verbos- ity, larded with more than the average amount of common sense." There may be some verboslty in his public talks but the good. hard sense is always there.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-03-17
A Case of Sour Grapes.
Mobile Herald.


 MT. Bryan's attacks on MT Cleveland come In exceedingly poor taste. and it is strange that a man of the Nebraskan's s reputed brilliant Intellectually cannot see it. Mir. Cleveland Is a success-the only man ever thrice nominated and twice elected to the Presidency. MT Bryan is failure, which fact is. or should be, as evident to him as 1t is to the public in general. Therefore 1t looks very much like case of the proverbial sour grapes
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-03-17

There is Political Equality Club" in Chicago which gives out the opinion that when the women can vote that city will be made "a perfectly beautiful city, Then why not let them have try at it accounts they can't make matters any worse.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-03-17
Whats in a Namep

Montevallo Sentinel. The Roosevelt Invincibes" is the name of a political organization recently effect ed by negroes jn4 New York. But, then whats in name? skunk would stink no less by any oAher name.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-03-17

W. E. Sharon wants to take Stewart s place as Senator from Nevada. and he has one of the qualifications which are considered as essential in his section-a pile of money.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-03-17

Will The Advertiser or Virginia Pilot please inform us If the expression '"The nights are growing shorter" is correct nglish?-Hartford (Ala) Times.
 It is not correct English. though in very common use. Now listen for The V.-P. to swear that 1t is the very model of correct and grammatical English.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-03-17

The Greene County Democrat argues that the stubbornDess of the mule Is what keeps him from pulling his fool self to death" We thought he was made that way so he would 1t the negro.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-03-17
A New York skvscraper.

A twenty-five story building is to be erected in New York, 100 feet square and on land worth 500 square foot, or Sl,- coo for 100 square feet. The building, 325 feet high, will cost only $l, 400, ,0O0, only 40 pier cent more than the land. Offices are expected to rent for g square foot 800 for room twenty feet square.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-03-17
If Dogs We're Hogs.

Hogs have been selling for $7.1O gross in Nashville stock yards. If Alabama s CTS more than last years cotton yield but dogs are not convertible into currency.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-03-17
After the Lily Whites.
Rasseu1er He,

BeSSemer Herald
 Somebody seems to be after some of the Alabama lily whites. If the assassination racket starts there will be whole coun- ties that will be shouler to shoulder with the lily whites.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-03-17

One pr. Marage of Paris claims that he can make plaster heads that can speak. hr+ we can't say that there's any thing strange about it. They are always doing it.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-03-17

The Milwaukee Free Press is of sthe opinion that Payne, Clarkson. spooner and Hanna are all schemIng for negro support. to say nothing of Roosevelt. Whether they are working for the Presi-
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-03-17
Not to Nominate,
Russell Register.

Russell Register.
 We are sorry to note that our Mont gomery friends are wasting their time org anizing HearE: clubs Hearst Is a good men-not to nominate for the Presidency.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-03-17

The York (Pa.) Dispatch informs us that, whatever scientists may decide about the centre of the universe beans are still popular in Boston," Even so, with cod-fish as a side dish.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-03-17
4 \ Y \ % \ % 4 % < 4 % % % Q WHAT THE STATE PAPERS < ARE SAYING. <
The Other Way,

FIOTdIA NeWe.
 Some young ladies would look beautiful If they didn't make Q practice of looking the other way.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-03-17

That Escambia County man mentioned by The Pine Belt News as having corn, potatoes, meats, syrup. cows and hogs to sell is not only a rara avis but an ob- ject lesson.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-03-17
Previous Records Smashed.

By referring to the following circulation statement for the month of February, 1905. IL will be noted that the Daily and Sunday out put ts gradually increasing in spite cs the mid-winter season being one of the duliest or in point of daily average circulation of THE ADVERTISER.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-03-17

''WiH the North let us alone?" asks The Russell Register. Not until it is @AaAe over and on different pattern.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-03-17

dent or in their own interests is not fully apparent. but the fact remains that all of them are trying to make themselves solid with Sambo.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-03-17
Virginia

Bedford City-Flouring mill. Berkley-s25,0 900 box factory. Prices Forks-Mining company. Portsmouth-Sand and gravel company
 West Virginia. Wheeling-S5O0 900 metal ceiling plant Charleston-$1,00 100000 water and light company.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-03-17

progress in southern development for the week just closed as reported by The Tradesman, includes the following new organizations as among the most import ant:
The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1900-192?, 1903-09-18

1888 people. Hubert Harmon has
been appointed as carrier for route
No. |; c. H. Marantette for route
No. ,: Oscar A. Parsons for route No.
). and c. X. Gregg for route No 4.
at a salary of 5000 per year.
Ranchers living along the rural
routes, to secure the benefits of the
service. must first secure suitable
mail boxes TO ~. placed along the
road side. The boxes must be If
kind approved by the postotiice de-
partment Of which several dozen de-
signs can be So II at the Kalisncll
poStotiice. The carriers will rot
bring the mail to the house ani. in
fact, is not obliged to get out of his
wagon. 1t makes no difference
whether tha residence Of the farmer
is fifty yards or two miles from the
road a mail box must bit placed in
position just the same. Many Fl the
regulations of the postoffice iakard
ing the placing of mail in the boxes
must be regarded the same as II the
city pOstofiice. Not more than Ole
family can use box. although any
employees or visitors at the ranch can
have their mail deposited in the box
The carriers may sell stamps. postal
cards and take applications for
money orders, and in effect bring the
pOstoffice to the ranch door. The
boxes cannot be placed on the fence,
unless it is possible for the carrier
to drive close enough to the box to
enable him to place the mail in the
same without getting out of his
wagon. At a cross road the boxes
must all be placed on one side of the
road. and not on each corner.
The establishment of the rural free
delivery system in this county has
been anXiously awaited and the
ranchers and others interested are
jubilant OVar the result.
The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1900-192?, 1903-09-18
KILLED By THE CARS.
Unknown Man Crushed by No. 1
Last Niuht.

A young man supposed to be Calvin
Meyer was run over and instantly
killed by westbound passenger train
No. ! last night at the east end of the
depot platform in this city He had
been riding the rods underneath the
baggage car. and it is supposed he
was attempting to get off when killed.
At the time no one noticed anything
wrong but his body was found badly
mangled and crushed. Coroner Will
loughby was notified and the body
was taken to the mOrgue where an
inquest will be held later.
He carried pocketbook with the
inscription, This is the property of
Calvin Meyer. West Reading, Pa
written thereon. and on the next
page We're the words. "Son of Robert
Moyer." Among other papers was a
Great Northern Express Co. receipt
dated at Cut Bank. and made out to
John Ebert. as we'll as other papers
made out in the same name. 1t is
thought. however, that the mans real
name is Calvin Meyer. and that he
assumed the name of Ebert. The in
quest will probably be held tomorrow