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The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-05-06

is waiting to hear from Charles Emory Smith and the others to whom he wrote on Friday for an explanation of Tul- iochs charges. and Tulloch sits serenely at his home in Forest Glen and insists he can prove everything he says, and more, too.
 Postmaster-General Payne has been trying to keep the public knowledge of the scandals within bounds. His at- tempts resemble those of man fighting prairie fire. As soon as he gets one srot smothered the first breaks out some where else.
 From the moment that Perry Heath became First Assistant Postmaster-Gen- eral in 1897, to the present time, every investigation of any note that has been started anywhere in the Postoffice De- partment has been promptly stopped by orders from officials "higher up." There postofhce conceals scandals similar to those in the Washington Postofnce, but when an investigation was started there t was promptly stopped by orders from washington. From time to time investi- cations have been held behind closed doors. but the results have always been whitewashed.
 The men who do the actual investiga- ton. the experts. are skilled. conscien- tious men. They are all in the civil ser vice and they have nothing to fear. How ever. when they begin to find out things they are promptly called off and they can do nothing but obey. $ Although no findings have been an- nounced there is not the slightest doubt that the great machinery of the Post- office Department has been used un- scrupulously to repay political obligations and to favor needy politicians. It has been a grab-bag with plums for all who had the proper standing. and the men who have held the bag have seen to 1t that they secured some of the choicest plums for themselves. ~
 The present indica ations are that A. W. Machen. the Superintendent of the Di- vision of Free Deliveries. will be re- moved or allowed to resign. Now that Tulloch has made his charges public, the affairs of John T. Merritt postmaster for Washington. will also be investi- gated. The postmastership at Washing ton is a bit of political patronage that does not go to the District of Columbia. Merritt is from Lockport. N. Y. He IS supporter of Repres antative James w. Wadsworth of Genesee.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-05-06
WEDNESDAY, MAY 6, 1908.
A FAMOUS rxp1oRER pEAp.

Many readers will regret to learn Of the recent death in St. Petersburg, at the age of 6S, of Paul Belloni Du Chaillu, the great African explorer. lecturer. writer and ethnologist. whose books were the delight of d generation ago. More than fifty years ago. when but a boy. he began his explorations round his father 8 home at Gabun, in West Africa, and 1t has heen more than forty yeas since his first book was given to the world.
 A newspaper article that we have seen says that Du Chaillu was born in New Orleans. in 1898. but this is evidently an error The Century Dictionary states that he was born at Paris in 1885, and that his father, who was a French trader, set tied at Gabun, where Paul grew up to manhood and where he got his first taste as an explorer. He came to America in 1855. and it was under the auspices of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Phila- delphia that he began and conducted those explorations and investigations which have made his name famous. As an American by adoption. if not by birth and owing most of his success to the as- sistance and patronage of an American Society, his discoveries and reputation are more American than foreign.
 It was in 1861 that he published his Explorations and Adventures in Equa- torial Africa which first attracted at tenthon to himself and his work. It is proper to note here that his accounts of the gorillas and dwarfs were disputed by eminent naturalists of those days, but later discoveries have sustained him in all important particulars. Other books of his are, "A Journey to Ashango Land" published in 1867; My Apingi Kingdom" in 1870; ''The Country of the Dwarfs,' in 1872. All of these and some others of his books were devoted to his explorations and discoveries in Africa. He wrote numerous other books and stories all in- terestng. but it was chiefly to his books about Africa that he owes his fame and his popularity. Some of his reported discoveries were so wonderful that they were disputed by scientists as well as by ordinary readers and there were critics who placed his earlier books in the same class with those of Sir John Vaudeville or even with the tales of Munchausen himself. but he has been so largely justified by later travellers and explorers that his reputation is practically secure He was really pioneer in his field. and much credit is due him for his work.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-05-06
Labor Union Held Legally Respon. sible.
Mobile Register.

ldODiIe heElSIer.
 Some days ago The Register said:
 Senator Morgan is the only public man who has had the courage to call atten- tion to the fact that the remedy for any action by organized labor that is con- trary to the general welfare is obtainable by State legislation. At the same time he does not tell us how to get politicians to introduce any legislation of the sort"
 The Senator's idea was that if labor unions were chartered yr incorporated the members being thus made liable in- dividually and collectively to suit for all damages done by order or consent of the union, much that is now done in the name of the union would be refrained from: but. said he. it Is not necessary to incorporate the union; all that needs be done is to enact a State law holding the individual to responsibility in all eases where he. in company with others pany or organization, does act contrary to the general welfare. He pointed out that the remedy for existing encroach- ments of business trusts and corporations on the one hand and labor trusts and combinations 0n the other is obtainable of the State and that it is not necessary to rely upon Federal intervention.
 We answered in effect that. although the location of the remedy was pointed out the Senator did not explain how the politicians were to be induced to hand it down to the people for use.
 Now We learn. however. that the courts are making law to reach the hitherto un- reachable.
 In the Superior Court of Indiana at Evansville on Monday, Judge J. H. Eos ter in sustaining a demurrer of the larg- est furniture company to the furniture workers plea in abatement, held that union. even in its unincorporated condf- tion. may be sued when the suit pertains to questions affecting the attitude of union members to public safety and or der. The furniture workers in their plea l. this the manufacturers demurred, and Judge Foster, in admitting the demurrer said unincorporated unions were in the same status as unincorporated lodges and churches. and could not be sued. This is common sense. It will probably he held good law.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-05-06
A LAME DEFENSE.

A great newspaper must be hard UT for argument in defence of the admins. tration when it prints such doctrine as this, which is the conclusion of an editorial criticism of General Miles which we find in The Portland Oregonlan:
 An enemy whose military code includes all the weapons of uncivlized warfare that grants no quarter to unarmed men, deserves to be scourged into submission with redhot iron. The logic of the whole matter is that those who murder unarmed men in cold blood. who torture prisoners to death, cannot expect mercy they never grant
 In plain words, when we are fighting savages, we should follow savage methods. We must be as brutal as they are and show no mercy or humanity be- cause they show none. It matters not that ours is claimed to be both a civilized and Christian people. or that we pride ourselves in our observance of humanity and of the rules of civilized warfare; that is to govern us only when We are en- gagged in war with other civilized people. When we fight savages, We must equal or surpass them in barbarity and fiendish cruelty. In short, we must lay aside the habits and traditions of our race, light the devil with fire' and. generally, prove ourselves as savage as the Tagalogs and other barbarians.
 The administration must be held up for defence, if 1t welcomes such as this, and if it approves such defence, 1t win only make its case worse. The charge that all who condemn unnecessary cruelty are slandering the army is an absurdity. No one wants to discredit our army, and it is not doing so to condemn the actual and proven cruelties practised by some of the officers and men in the Philippines. If the administration had promptly punish ed the guilty and let the world know why they were punished, it would have been much more to it's credit and would have abated the evil in short order; but instead of doing this 1t has endeavored to cover up everything, and about the only reply made to those who were trying to get at the truth has been to call them 'antis,' and to charge them with hostlli- ty to the army. These charges of cruelty were made months ago. and some of them with such definiteness of detail that it is almost impossible to understand how they could be passed uninvestigated, or how the government could refuse to make in- quiry and publication. Really the admin istration should ask to be delivered from such defence as that quoted.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-05-06
SCANDALS IN 1904.
Presidents Friends Greatly Worried by Revelations in Postoffice
 nenartment

Washington Special to N. Y. World
 Many of President Roosevelts close friends in the Senate and House are wor- ried about tn epostoffice scandals. They fear they will be a serious handicap to MT. Roosevelt in 1904 unless they are vigorously and quickly dealt with. Sem ator Lodge who is here now. is one of these When Senators Aldrich, Spooner Allison and Platt of Connecticut, get to- gether at Virginia Hot Springs next Tuesday, ostensibly to discuss a new financial measure. they will also talk over the pos.office scandals and Sena- ton, Lodge is going down there to tell them what he knows.
 Meanwhile Postmaster-General Payno
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-05-06
THE CLEVELAND PROPOSITION
Its Effect on the Opinion of the Country.

Brooklyn Eagle.
 The Eagle today finds room for part of CT Cleveland for President has elicited from the thought of the country. It is uncommonly good matter.
 The proposition has stimulated thought. ed political discussion It creates the re- actionary dissent which itself in recoil creates the reasons for the movement. It impeis to the effort needful to success. The enmity it stirs is desirable. The support 1t commands Is admirable. The reception of The Eagles suggestion of Grover Cleveland makes the suggestion itself of epochal importance. When the Cleveland for President is discussed. the lesser attractions of lesser Democrat. fail to appeal to the minds of the people. The idea hourly grows. The installments of press comment and of correspondents letters on it are interesting, important and significant reading.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-05-06
An Omission.

MObiIe Register.
 Iberville and Bienville, who played the leading roles in the founding of the col ony of Louisiana. came in for almost as few lines at the Louisiana Purchase ded- ication as did Mobile. the first capital of Louisiana. They got one line and Mobile got none; and the distinguished elder Le Moyne had his names spelled "d Hor- vile" in the dispatches. Bienville how ever. managed to escape mutilation. and received special mention as the founder of New Orleans"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-05-06
Only Await a Leader.

Guntersville Democrat.
 In this end of the State we have erred and sinned and come far short of the glory of unity. We wanted the fatted calf sent to us or placed in conspicuous po- sition before we would return to the fold But we have outlived our shortsighted policy We only await 8 leader to lead us on to victory to unity and a solidlded democracy.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-05-06
To Punish Murder.
Baldwin Times.

Let us inculcate from the bench. from the pulpit, from the musings, from the press room from the family altar and the school room. from all God-fearinz and peace-loving human lips, that mur- der shall be punished with and that no homicide shall go unwhipped of jus uce. for on such verdicts in our courts of justice must depend our own and the safety of the little ones prattlng around us today and who will in time take our places and i've or die under laws we are daily formulating for their veal or woe.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-05-06
With One Exception.
AsnIanl Standard,


 To read the references recently made concerning Grover Cleveland by the news papers of the State one would naturally conclude that a bran new set of editors have been put in charge of every paper in Alabama, with the possible exception of The Montgomery Advertiser.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-05-06
The Advertisers Circulation Il

The guaranteed net paid circulation of the Baily and Sunday Advertiser continues to nrow. The sworn detailed ngures for the month of April, just passed emphasize The Advertisers oft-r .peated statement that it's Euarsnteed net paid circulation is greater Than the actual issue of any other two Ala ba1na morning newspapers combined. Taking this fact in connection with the high class of the papers, readers. into consideration 1, ts no wonder The Advertiser prints larger volume of advertising, local and foreign, oay by day than either of It's State morning con fenpuraries, and at a higher rate per inch.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-05-06
Cau Do No Better.

NtIIUII OUUIItT.
 The Democratic Party can do no better than to nominate MT. Cleveland for Pres ident next year. This seems to be a growing sentiment, which not long ago was thought to be that of few admirers and political friends Let MT Cleveland lead the ticket and Democratic success is more nearly assured than with any man before the public at this time
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-05-06
A Good Town.
Brundidge News

J
 In 1890, when the railroad was opened for traffic, Brundlge was little thought of as place of commercial importance With several years of the worst financial panic this country has ever known in terVening, thirteen years of energy and enterprise have made 1t grow from a stragghng village Of one or two hundred at most to thriving city of nearly a thousand people. A continuation of push in much shorter period will make it one of the leading towns between Montgon- cry and Bainbridge.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-05-06

The Columbus Enquirer-Sun argues that l1 the Boston doctor has really found the smallpox germ, he should vaccinatc t at once. Perhaps lie intends to yacci- aate his patients with it
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-05-06
Dogs are Expensive.
Sheffield Reaper.

ShefneId Reaper.
 The lack of hogs is made more manifest by the great humber of dogs In Alabama. Dogs are an expensive luxury that most people "hanker a'ter." and the poorer some people are the more of the luxury they seem to have. Dogs are expensive.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-05-06
A Lively Demand.

TuScumbla Dispatch.
 Will some one inform a long-suffering community whether or not the hide and fur of dog has any value in the com mercial realm? If there be any use .they can be put 10, can't start lively demand for them.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-05-06

New York woman who was robbed of quite a large sum of money offered to give the thieves one-third of the money, if they would return the balance. There's a business head for you.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-05-06
The Strongest.
Mobile Item.

MODllc Item.
 The Cleveland Presidential boom has opened in the East. and Mir Cleveland is helping it along in the West. However unpleasant to some the realization the indications on the surface now are that Cleveland is the strongest man the De mocracy could select to pit against Roose- welt. because he Is the only man who can make heavy inroads into the ranks of Re- publican voters. Clevelands Democracy may be questioned, but his Seneralship in politics cannot.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-05-06
The Only Question.

Talladega Reporter.
 Nobody asks MT. Carnegie where he got It? The only questions seems to be. How can we get some of it?" He is do- ing great good, with it anyway.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-05-06
Should Brush Their Teeth.

WODIIe F1eraId.
 If MT. Cleveland is nominated by the next Democratic convention, Colonels Watterson and Bryan should brush their teeth each night imediately before retir- ing. Dentists say that doing so will in- duce comfortable repose.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-05-06

The Eufaula Indian Journal thinks that ! presidential ticket composed of Roose- welt and Beveridge would be so full of wind that it wouldn't stay on the earth. It would go up like a. balloon, and per- haps burst in mid-air
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-05-06

The Portsmouth Star is pleased to think that the colored patriots and their white coadjutors, who have been raising funds to defeat the suffrage clause of the Vir- ginia constitution, will now find them selves out of business. It is an industry that has been largely overworked botu in Virginia and Alabama. but the decision In the Giles case ought to end 1t.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-05-06

The New Bedford Standard goes back to the starting place and argues that there couldn't be negro question with out negro" That's sound logic, at all events .s
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-05-06

The republic still lives. so far as heard from, notwithstanding the fact that one Grover Cleveland was enthusiastically received in the West.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-05-06
What It Leads To.

BIrmingham News. '
 The Hon. Tom Johnson has commits stoned. so it is said, the Hon. James Hamilton Lewis as advance agent of his presidential boom. This shows what cam paigning by the automobile and circus tent method will lead to when unrestrict- ed.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-05-06

The Minneapolis Journal. anent the Giles case, says that nobody wishes to reopen the old wounds of sectional strife" and, further. 'In the North which fought to free the negro there is not the least concern. Well, well. "aint We gettin' good?" There's a national e.ec- ton at hand
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-05-06

According to The Minneapolis Journal the President in St. Louis had to get along with a cold sandwich won in a free-for-all struggle for the lunch counter. That ought to have been easy for Teddy.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-05-06

The Atlanta Journal insinuates that the President ought to have his teeth pulled before kissing the babies. He might wear a mask, though.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-05-06
Panan1aS
 $6.5o and SIo.oo.

THE GENUINE ARTICLE---Fine Handwov- en Braids. A shipment just in by express. Decidedly the best values ever offered to the trade. Neggee Styles that can be shaped to suit the wearer's fancy. Come in early be- fore the choices ones are sold.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-05-06
The Careful Emperor,

Selma Times.
 When Emperor William goes to Rome he will ship his own horses ahead of him. Emperor Bill has no idea of being thrown from a strange Italian pony and killed
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-05-06

Judging from an item in The Randolph Star, the little town of Wedowee has the all-aroundest man--if that is allowable English-of any community in this broad
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-05-06

The Nashville American says it looks very much like Gorman," but doesn't tell us what fit" is
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-05-06

It will require about 'leven months for the newspapers of the country to find out that Tom Barsh is still dead.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-05-06
Is Happy at Home-But-.
A FRIENDS VIEW.
Believes MT. Cleveland Would Ac- cept Unanimous Call.

Walter Wellmans Washington Special
 to Chicago Record.
 New that there Is so much talk of the possible nomination of former President Cleveland as the Democratic standard bearer next year, the views of MT. Cleveland himself on that subject are in- teresting One of the former President s most intimate. friends, who recently vis- ited MT. and Mrs. Cleveland at Prince ton. says he talked with Mir. Cleveland about 1904 and found that gentleman sin cerely reluctant if not positively unwi1l- ing to reappear in the political arena
 "I feel sure,'' said this friend, that MT. Cleveland Is not seeking another term in the White House, and that he would not turn his hand over to get the nomination. l feel equally sure that if the Democracy were to ask him to run and were to nominate him with some- thing like d show of unanimity he would consent as a matter of duty What he would do in case he were nom- mated after a bitter struggle and with evident signs that his leadership was going to disrupt the party again. I do not pretend to Know. But my belief. from the way he talked to me. is that under such circumstances he would not consent to run"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-05-06

The same friend of Mir. Cleveland brings from Princeton the interesting in- formation that Mrs, Cleveland Is very much opposed to her husbands reappear- ance in public life. She expressed her self emphatically on this point saving that MT. Cleveland could add nothing to his fame even If reelected. that an- other campaign would mean infinite an noyance. that they were enjoying life so much in their quiet way that she would never consent to go back to the strenu- ous ways of public service. and that MT Cleveland was getting along in years and needed rest and repose. After Mrs Cleveland had had her say, MT. Cleve- land turned to his friend with smile and said: Now, you see why it is that l can't even thin kof returning to a politi- cal career. l have my orders
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-05-06

The dog that bit General Corbin" will probably be one of the sights at the St. Louis midway.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-05-06
To Come to Their Rescue.

Admission Hot Blast.
 If Northern States continue their wan ton cruelty towards the negroes, the South will be forced to come to the res- cue of the children of Dixie.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-05-06
He Can't Help It.

Birmingham Ledger.
 MT. Bryan has reached that point in his oratory where he offends number of Democrats whenever he makes q speech.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-05-06
land. He is the town baum. and The
 Star adds:

-. .aH...' o"o ne Star adds:
 He has barber's chair in his office, and does all our shaving. He also has there complete set of shoe makers tools, and does our shoe mending. He also does tinkering of all sorts. mends guns. pistols. clocks, watches and in fact Is our. 'jack of all trades and good at every one of them.
 Talk about your Jack-of-all-trades, this man comes near to being the whole menagerie. If he'd set up a tailoring establishment, there would be little need of anybody else. and his example might not be. a bad one for other small towns where there IS lack of special trades people, and where there is not enough work of any one kind to occupy all the time of an industrious man.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-05-06
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What Will Happen. Fo-t Deposit Reflector. IT a man says he is in politics, and admits he is from Missouri he is liable to be quarantined and fumigated.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-05-06

City Subscriptions should be paid to the fol- lowing authorized collectors only: J. II. But ton. City Circulator; T. ]. Hiegs. Collector; c. L Eason. Collector. Fillmore Cohen. and at the Counting Room
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-05-06

Mail Orders
 filled promptly"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-05-06

A great newspaper must be hard up for argument in defence of the admnis- tration when it prints such doctrine as this, which is the conclusion of an editorial criticism of General Miles which we find in The Portland Oregonian: