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The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-01-15
SOLID co1oRED DELEGATION.
Buffalo Enquirer.

Buffalo Enquirer.
 President Roosevelt will, if he continues, by the end of bis first term. undoubtedly succeed in re6pening and widening the tho white people of the South and the Re- publican party. The appointment of a negro to be Collector of the port of Charleston, the trouble at Indianola, Miss. over 8 colored postmistress, the difficulties in Alabama over the lily white movement. which resulted in the resigna- ton of Bingham as Collector of Internal Revenues in Alabama. have all had ten dency to arouse the white people, without regard to political affilia ions, against the President and his policy.
 The scandal of every Republican con vAntion up to 1896 was the negro delegate. who represented in the main no vote al home. but whose vote in a Republican NationR. Convention counted as much in determining the result as did that of the most distinguished representative from a Northern State. John Sherman's memoirs nSenly charge the purchase of colored delegates in the Chicago Convention of 1888 by one of his opponents, now Uni ted States Senator. Now that Roosevelt IS fixing his fences for the next Naiona Republican Convention he has apparently taken the advice of a past master III tn. political art. Henry c. Payne. Postmaste' General. and Is after the solid cUlored delegation.
 There is no need for strong language It Is perfectly plain to anyone not blind ed to the events cf the past few year. that there is to be no negro domtnattoI in the South. The State and local proh- lem has very generally been solved bS the enactment of constitutional amend ments and laws which. while not seemtns to discriminate against any race UT colo! cut of the negro from ofiice-holding This condition has been supported b, hoth white Republicans and Democrats and from the former grew up the lilI white movement. which has been retuset recognition by the President It was tn, only possible plan by which the Republl can party could ever hope to break int the stronghold of the Democracy In th' South.
 Now the President has added fuel [, the fire by his colored appointments ant support of SouthErn negro oface-holders whose only service can be to sld mn when he wants to be renominateo 10 th'
 Right or wrong. justified or untustifed the negro will never be acceptable t" th' Southern white as an official. From tn day the Republican party swept the ne gro into citizenship as a political meas ure to carry Southern States, and fol lowed the act with carnival of carpet bag corruption, this result has been Tn evitable.
 It is a pity that Roosevelt has not ha' the strenuous nerve to grasp the problem fairly and build up a white Republican party in the South. 1t would be best fol eyerybotsy As 1t is he has only contrib uted to passing history few episodes which acoentuate the actual conditions and which, though he appoint negroes tt every Southern office, will irritate rathel than solve the problem.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-01-15
Democratic Chances in 1904.

Leslie weekly.
 The thirteen States composing the solid South of recent years will have l51 votes n the Electoral College of 1904 This caves out Delaware, Maryland and West 'irginia, which have been carried by the Republicans in most of the recent can asses. A majority of the Electoral Col ege of 1904 will be 2S9, the entire col ege, with the existing number of States, comprising 476 members. With New Tork,s thirty-nine electoral votes-and the larrowness of the Republican margin in New York in 1902 gives the Democrats | hope Of winning that State in the com ing election-they have l90 votes, or only ,orty-nine short of the number required 0 choose President. New Jersey, Con- lecticut and Indiana usually go with lew York. Maryland Is very far from 1eing sure for the Republicans. The anti \ddicks Republicans made Delaware Iemocratic In 1902 and the unfortunate actional fight is not finished. The Demo. rats led in the voting in Rhode Island 1902. Nevada is likely to remain with he South a few years longer. Thest States with New York and the soliC South, would give .he Democrats A votes in the Electoral Co1leke, or three more than enough 10 elect, so that they ould lose either Delaware or Nevada, i hey carried all the others. and still win
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-01-15

Washington, Jan. A-(SpeciaD--On Fri uay we are to witness what may be called the second stage n the proposed anti
 trust legislation, and if some of us whose business 1t IS to study the legislative and governmental situations day by day be inclined to look upon ,he whole thing as inherently farce we may be pardoned aLter the ffflal roll call in the morning of !, On Friday then, be 1t said, a trust bill IS to be reported from the House Judi cary Committee, and we are further promised that the said bill shall pass the hJlse next week. Good. Now we shall see what we may see. There need not be any ooubt In any direction that the ma yority or those composing the House com Mlttee. republicans and Democrats alike, are entirely sincere and very much in earnest in their dealing with this alI- aDsorDing question. But whatever they may % Tn the House, 1t is the Senate that IS to be reckoned with, and there is no iaW requiring any of us to believe that tnis congress will enact antitrust legis- ialon, and some of us who are paid to ma out facts without regard to pipe ureams or other dreams of Presidents or others will not, with present lights Defore us, entertain any such belief, un- tii the bill shall have been signed by the strong right hand. of the strong-handed President
 At any rate, it can do no harm to bide
 wee before we accept the thing prom iseu as a thing revealed. You may build crow nest in the dome of the Capitol Tn Montgomery if this Congress hurts the trusts.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-01-15
THE NEGROES NOT TO BLAME Remarks The Richmond Times:

If the negroes after freedom had con- tinued to be as good In manners and rnor- als as they were under slavery there had been no occasion for lynchings and there the races. In short. while we do not hold the negro race responsible for the condi- ton we do hold the bad negroes respoflsi- ble for the lawlessness which they have provoked
 But The Times should not hold the ne- groes primarily responsible for the con- duct of their race after emancipation. There were few-and very few-in every community who were ripe for devilment. and who might have caused trouble if they could have had their own way. but they were so hopeiessly in the minority that they would have been kept quiet. whether or no. and would have given very little annoyance. The bulk of them were really attached to the whites, and would have settled down quietly to the new or- der of things and would have become the best and most reliable labor that any country ever had. That was the natural tendency of the negro character.
 All the trouble which has arisen be- tween ths races in the South must be traced back to uncalled-for. unwise and impertinent interference from the North. The long-haired missionaries of both sexes. the Freedman's Bureaus, the '.for- ty acres and mule'' evangefsts the un- scrupulous and designing carpet-basger-- these are the causes and the influences which made trouble not only possible but certain. The enfranchisement of a race totally unfit for such a privilege was bad enough, in policy and effect, but the dew ilish and persistent teachings of those who were really worse enemies to the negro than to the Southern white people, much as they hated the latter, were worse. The negroes were persistently regaled with the idea that the only difference be- tween them and their former masters was a mere accident of color. They were told that they were as good as the whites, po- litically. socially and in every other way, and were made to Believe that they were entitled to share, not only the ofices but the property of the Southern people.
 These are some of the causes of all the trouble in the South, and the negro is far less to blame than are those who mis- led and corrupted him. They made of- fice-holding the object of negro ambition and they made racial equality the dream of colored visionariez. To the misguided men and women of the North, and to the ill-advised acts of those who controlled the government and public sentiment is primarily due all the trouble that has arisen between the races in the South. Let us do the negroes justice and admit that the devilment fin them was put there by Northern fanatics and fanaticism.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-01-15
HEWITT AND HERBERT.

Speaking of Colonel Herbert and his great service in Congress, it is pleasing to recall that one of his earliest and most admiring friends in the House was Abram & Hewitt, whose death is ;momen- tarily expected, and who In the essentials of true greatness of citizenship Is the first citizen of New York when death comes to ease his long and illustrious life.
 For many years before his death, Peter Cooper, MT. Hewitt's famous father-in- law, was reverently referred to by the newspapers and the people of the metrop- olis as Our First Citizen." Certainly MT. Hewitt was not a Peter Cooper; there has never been but one Peter Cooper, and 1t is improbable that we shall ever see another man worthy to be placed beside him in that great goodness which in well- doing seeks not the shrill. Bhrieks of the applauding gallery. Yet MT. Hewitt was a pre-eminently worthy follower of that mo- blest of citizens, the one, too, who gave to him the wife who will survive in hal- lowed sorrow.
 MT. Hehdtt, like Peter Cooper, was great in goodness of heart. in that wider charity which does not Haunt itself after the vulgar latter-day methods, and he was great in stateSmanship. great in that
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-01-15

sion. It would take very little of this kind of administration to light the flames oi a race war in which the principal suffer CTS could only be the negroes. Public sentiment in fact, Is stronger than ideal tstic theorizing, and is usually embittered and made more obstinate by opposition. The great colonizing powers of the world Rome, England. Holiand-have all shown that they realized this truth by concilia- ting the peoples under their rule with a respect for their customs, creeds and even prejudices. The attitude of Southerners toward the colored race-whether 1t be due to custom, creed or prejddice-is a very uncompromising one, and the situa- uon is one that calls for great carcum- spection in its treatment
 Every friend of President Roosevelt therefore, must deplore his all-advised attempt to row against such a tremen- ious current of public opinion-that is to set his personal views. be they never so respectable, against those of the vast majority of his fellow countrymen.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-01-15
CUBA PROSPEROUS.

Less than a year ago 1t was said that Cuba was starving and only heroic ac- tion could save the island from disas- ter. Even revolution and revolt against tho friendly offices of the United States were freely predicted. Then MT. Bab- cocks Western Republican rebels de- nied the island all expressions of prac- tcal sympathy, Today. according to this same MT. Babcock, Cuba is prosperous and, therefore, the United States must hasten to it's aid by immediately enter ing into a treaty of reciprocity with the government of the island.
 Cuba starving should be accorded no concessions from the mighty republic of the north, while Cuba rolling in plenty shall have whatever 1t may ask for. This Is the noble logic of the hours whim of Mir. Babcock himself took last session in denying justice to Cuba" his immedi- ate beet sugar colleagues went far to en- rage the American people, and he the doctrine of tariff revisioni Now list to this eleventh, hour convert, fresh from Havana:
 Cuba is prosperous. She has a big sugar crop and she will get 100 per cent more for 1t than last year. Her people show this change in their faces. the cities show it in improved sanitary conditions, | the country shows 1t in well-kep?t places. It Is not starving Cuba any longer. The financial condition of the government is good, and there is money enough to do
 business.
 "All of this Is the strongest argument for the ratification of the Cuban treaty.
 There is great market in Cuba for American goods"
 1 Verify the Western Republican is of such stuff as dreams are made of, If | what Mir. Babcock says be true then | why should there be such a hurry to ratify the reciprocity treaty? Is it noi | because the big sugar trust has acquired
 the beet sugar trust, or, in other words squared" things?
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-01-15


 We believe modesty Is not considered an important adjunct of the editorial pro- fession, and 1t is pretty generally admit ted that if an editor falls to give his own horn an occasional toot 1t runs the risk of going untooted. That seems to be the idea of the Charleston (S. C.) Messenger, whose editor belongs to the colored per- suasion. He says of his paper;
 It is the only newspaper in the State published in the interest of the race that not only has large circulation in every State in the Union, but is read in Canada and Europe and by the greatest statesmen and philanthroptsts, who recognize in 1t a stanaArd of excellence seldom attained by any other weekly newspaper in the civ ilized world The Charleston Messenger Is the only newspaper in the State whose editorial policy is recognized as the opin- ion of the race. When The Messenger speaks the world listens.
 It may safely be taken for granted that The Messenger is not going to lose any thing through lack of sounding its own pI discs.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-01-15

and otherwise made common cause in the daily newspaper business. This Is . good move and we havs'ne doubt that they win find 1t a profitable one They are both good newspaper men. and while the Druid City would hardly support two daiiies as they should be supported there should be no doubt about the success of one. Here's to prosperous days for the new paper.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-01-15
SORE NECK

Take Scott's Emulsion fol scrofula. Children often have sores on the neck that won't heal up. The sores may come and go. Parents may not know what's the matter nor what to do. Scrofula is the trouble and Scott's Emu. sion is the medicine.
 Scott's Emulsion heals the sores. But that is not all Scrofula leads to consumr ton. This is the real dangel
 Scott's Emulsion is the ounce of prevention " that keeps off consumption.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-01-15
CHILD LABOR IN vrRorNrA

The leading papers of Virginia have taken the position that the passage of child labor legislation will be wise at this time and will have good effect on the best interests of the State. The Adver- tiseri has alreadya had occasion to quote from The Richnondk Times. The Rich mond Dispatch speaks as follows:
 The movement in the General Assembly to prevent the working of children of tender age in our mills and factories, and thus not only conserve their health. but turn them into the school houses is meet State contemporaries. The Fredericks- burg Star declares that the House of Delegates acted wisely on Tuesday when 1t passed the bill forbidding the working of children under 12 years of age in fac tories or mills. Children of that age, it adds, should be in school. So also de- clares The Norfolk Landmark.
 The Newport News Press .says it is pleasant to note that the House passed
 bill by an overwhelming majority and then remarks that such laws sho iid not be necessary fin an enlightened land, but, unfortunately, they are. as daily revela- tions prove.
 It is clear from these expressions in fla vor of tho movement and from similar tnes we have found in other State papers, that the Virginia press and the Virginia public, for whom the press speaks, have awakened to a realization of the evils of child labor in the mills and demand that there be an end of 1t.
 Virginia has not so much of cotton manufacturing as the CaroIinas, but she has more than Alabama The wisest rep resentatlves of her business interests have seen that a reasonable child labor law will protect the younger children, will avert agitation, will inJure no serious in- terest of the mills and will advance both the welfare and the good name of the State.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-01-15
Must ConciliAte.
. York Herald.

New OrK HeraId.
 Now the President annot shut his eyes to the fact that the white population Of the Southern States has strongly devel- oped and very tenacious prejudiees with regard 10 the negro question. There Is no necessity to discuss the justice of those pjrejudices. Their existence and strength cannot be denied. When, there fore, the President takes an initiative that is protested against by a majority of the population. he not only commits a grave ppolitieaf blunder, but also exceeds his moral authority.
 The possible consequences or such a step as the nomination which has arous- ed a storm of indignation In the South cannot be considered without apprehen-
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-01-15
GOOD WATER.

Referring to our proposition that the Birininghamers should send to this city when they want drink of good water The Selma Journal adds:
 But if they want a chaser, clear and sparkling, coming from the bosom of mother earth, invlgoraung and thirst ouenching. one that will clean the teeth, curl the hair, erase stains from the char acter. and hilliousness from the system, come to Selma and quaff a draught of aqua puTa from our ninety-seven arte- sian wells more celebrated than the seven hills of ancient Rome and one of the natural wonders of the world.
 Well. a man can get @ decent drink of water, or almost anything else, in Selma, 1t Is SO near Montgomery that 1t would he a wonder if the water should not be at least fairly good, but the human being who wants to taste the pure nectar pro- vided by Nature for mans delight and healing must come to Montgomery and evet that which comes sparkling and beam ing from the dark regions of earth, every drop of which is a blessing and every sir brings delight to the thirsty tongue. Fol those cities which have not pure water we feel deep commiseration, and though 1t is not possible for all the people tC live in or even visit Montgomery those who can do so should not lose the oppor tunity. The water is here, not quite al free as air but almost so. and richly worth It's small cost. Have one with us
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-01-15
salving His Conscience .

btPay btOrles.
 Photographer-Was that Miss Antique
 Assistant--Yes.
 Photographer-Well look through the old negatives for the photographs we took for her fifteen years ago. wen add this and make composite portrait of them
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-01-15

A South Carolina editor is suing for a divorce from his wife and has suspended the publication of his paper till the case is decided. We confess that we are not able to follow his reasoning unless it is that the divorce suit and the editorial du- ties are more than he can attend to at the same time. Either e enough for an ordinary man, we imagine.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-01-15

The Washington Star. which is a sort of semi-Presidential organ, virtually argues that inasmuch as Roosevelt can expect no electoral votes from the South he is un- der no obligations to please the Southern people. If this is a correct explanation of the Presidents attitude there is oer- tainiy nothing in 1t for him to feel proud Of, and in addition he may find that he win need some Southern delegates when the National Convention assembles.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-01-15

The Butte (Mont) Mountain, speaking of the message of the Governor of that State, says that in one portion of 1t he drops into poetry with all the grace and ease that characteriEes a sea-cow de- scending to her bath" Wonder if the Governor feels complimented.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-01-15
HANCOCK BAcKPEDALs.

Not the least amusing thing in these laughter-moving times is the sudden Babcock of Wisconsin. erstwhile beet sugar hero and stout reviser of Dingley- ism, who has but now returned from Cuba, hastening with all speed to revise what he said and did last session. MT. Babcock Is a fat per son with chin whis- kers His fatness Is not his fault. but he might for fifteen cents remedy the whiskers evil in fifteen minutes or less.
 But be that as 1t may, MT. Babcock found 1t convenient to run away from ed Cubians,' who begged for 'ree-cer- prowcity," and who a few brief months ago were denied by the said Babcock and his allies on the Republican side of the House. Mr. Babcock comes back howl ing for "ree-cerprowcity." instead of preaching anew the plan of salvation agreed upon by the beet sugar trust more than year ago and steadily adhered to until the other week.
 What has brought about this extraor- dinary change in the beet sugar dreams of the fat one from Wisconsin and his fellow Red Indians" of the immortal forty who defined MT. Roosevelt and de- feated Cuban reciprocity last session? MT. Babcock can't take this question un- kindly, since he was but the other month the colossus that did bestride the world of Republican tariff revisionism and anti reciprocity as to Cuba
 It looks very much like MT. Babcock went to Cuba merely to fashion the sem biance of an excuse for his flop, and so gracefully. or disgracefully. as you take 1t, fall in line with the mandate of the big sugar trust which has absorbed the beet sugar trust. In other words, 1t looks like the fat one has been called across. and the hole he Is ordered to enter Is not quite large enough to hide him-what a world of humbug we live in! Like Fall staff, this man set out to slay many, yet he Is brough back in Dame Quicixly's clothes packet of peculiar linen. Lord, Lord, what a world of vile ill-favored faults looks handsome on a Congress- mans salary.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-01-15

what can Congress do to relivs the coal famine?" is a question that is being frequently asked in the East, where much hard coal is used. Well. neither 1t nor the government can practically conhscate the coal mines and take control of them as some political dreamers have advised, nor do we see how Congress can do any thing to regulate the price of coal except 10 remove the tariff. True. that tarih is only e7 cents ton, and that amount talk en from the price now charged for hard coal would not be of great benefit to the consumer, but if the duty was removed 1t might so stimulate importation as to ma- terially reduce the price. That Is about all that Congress can do. as we view it.
 and there is little probability of it's doing that except as a temporary expedient The coal interests are very strong.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-01-15

Vol. l, No. of The Tuscaloosa Times Gazette is before us. Messrs. Garner and Little having joined forces. pooled Issues
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-01-15
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The Advsrtiser,s Circulation Grows.

The circulation of The Advertiser during the last Inonth of last year was iaxger than m any previous month in its history. It steadhy m, creases it's lead in circulation in, and its nola on the good will of the people of, Alapama
 Here are the sworn .dgures for December
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-01-15
News ano Gossip @ Washington
BY LucnN JULIEN wALKER

sturdy manhood which ever, refuses to bend it's knee to false gods or hearken to self-elected leaders staggering in their blind leadership of the blind. He was a man, not a mere time-servef trimming
 his sails to catch the favoring breeze of every heretical poliacal ism of an hour of unrighteousness as others have done.
 Mir. Hewitt and Colonel Herbert served together on the Ways and Means Com
 mittee of the House, and while MT. Hewitt
 vas fifteen years the older man. the two
 were the warmest of friends, MT. Hewitt
 ever displaying a cordial admiration Of
 Colonel Herberts broad statesmanship.