The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-06-14

/ tumn | can say advisedly that in so
far as 1t is in his power he does not in
tend that democrats shall be asked to
vote for men not wholly worthy of their
support Cookers yellow dog-ean-win-
tickets" are relegated to the past II
this be true there is every reason to be-
lieve that Boss Murphy will be sustained
in power. Men of the Devery stamp are
amusing and picturesque, they are the
clowns to make faces in political rings.
They belong to an era in municipal poll
tics which is fast dying out. Such men
make movements of the fusion kind ne
eessary. Devery is responsible for Low.
This smugfaced mayor is not to the liking
of the. citizens of this municipality. He
does right but his way of doing it smacks
too much of bourgeois virtue. Even
good men can become intolerable Ger
tainly Low is not magnetic.
President Roosevelt has hard work be-
fore him his summer, and 1t will begin
just as soon as he gets to Oyster Bay
The political lines in the state and city
are in a pretty bad tangle and he Will
have to unrave1 them or run the risk of
losing New York in the next national
campaign. The first thing to be done is
to help out Mayor Low in his uphill task
of winning a denomination and re-elec-
ton. His success would keep down to
some extent the democratic vote in the
city in the presidential year, but above ali
it would keep the democratic campaign
chest empty. or nearly so. during the long
weeks and months while the fight is on.
Low Is not popular with the local repub-
lican machine. He has practically ig-
nor ed 1t, and unless the president and
himself can get the boys i'll good humor
they are just as likely to get their knives
out for both of them. One thing Is GER
tain both the President and Mr.. Low
will have to put their pledges in black
and white this time.
Senator Kean. the senior senator from
New Jersey, said to- me the other day.
Il sometimes laugh to myself when 1
see some of my friends in the party make
a sly attempt to catch President Roose-
welt asleep. I know he will get back at
them in his own time and in his own way.
Did you hear how the President got back
at Governor Crane, of Massachusetts?
MOI Well, shortly after the trolley acct
dent at Pitsfeld a circus company was
going through the place and the animals
broke loose, among them were a couple
of lions. Governor Crane thought he saw
his opportunity and he wired the presi-
uenI- BflnS your TlNei lions iOOSe. III
the afternoon the reply came Leave
them alone, the trolley will kill theml' .
Senator Kean has the greatest faith in
Theodore Roosevelt and is confident of
his nomination and election.
1t is strange to note that while some
of the great shipyards find it difficult to
manage their affairs so as to escape hos
tile criticism. the Newport News Ship
indicate marvellous prosperity. For some
good and valid reason, no doubt, the
German government has selected this
yard in which to repair vessels of war on
this side Of the Atlantic. The 'Gazelle'
is still in drydock and in a few days the
German gunboat Panther" which has
Just arrived from the West Indies will
be docked. The Panther is the vessel
that made history few months ago off
Venezuela. This recognition by foreign
government like that of the German en-
pire is very significant. Besides the
award of new battleshlp, and the work
on hand, Mr.. circuit, the president, re-
ports contracts for two new ocean-going
steamers Truly, Coils P Huntington
planned well when he founded this great
shipyard.
see Thomas F. Ryans son has started
a Wall street firm with a son of the late
John Kelly, to be called Ryan & Kelly
Good luck to the young man. Just across
the street from the office of the new firm
twenty years ago, was the office of c. B.
Hoffman & Co. The company" was
Thomas F. Ryan He was then a tall
lank big eyed young man. He had a
stock exchange membership, a name for
energy, quickness and ability. He was
scarcely known. Opportunity developed
and his qualities brought him forward
Today he is many times a millionaire
and enjoys a national reputation as a
financier. Having seen many promising
young men embark on the troubled seas
of finance during the past thirty years.
some to win fortune and some to go to
the bottom, | can only wish these two
/ young men, sons of successful fathers.
a hearty bon voyage.
Inventor Tesla has been spending most
Of his time during the last year in a
| mournful looking tower of his own con-
struction on a desolate part of Long Is
land. What he was doing in 1t was
mystery, the secret of which is at last
reyealed-wireless telegraphy experiments.
Marconi. he declares. will not be in It
with his machine, which will be in oper-
alton at some period in the future. Re-
ports of Tesla discoveries and inventions
are received with scepticism In this lati-
tude. Not many moons ago he announced
that he could send communications to
| Mars, that he had done so. and received
signals back. Tesla, for few weeks had
all the notoriety he desired and that was
! the end of the Mars story Tom Edison,
by the way, is striving to put the Mar
conf instrument or instruments into prac-
teal shape, so that there will be some
money in 1t. That is his great forte.
1t is not true that the Hon. Oliver II.
| p. Belmont has had a surfeit of political
life or that he has lost interest in the
| democracy. The fact is Mr.. Belmont be-
| lieves that there Is time for disappear
| ing and time for bobbing up serenely
| from below. Life has its delights for
this simple Jeffersonian. At present he
| finds 1t in $4,000 automobile and in
matter of map alteration at Newport. In
| due season he will face the great-eh,
| let me see, the great-free and able
| bodied electors of a congressional dis
| trict and show them how the republican
/ party is as responsible for the floods In
! the Missouri and Mississippi rivers
| they are for the increased wheat area
! of the northwest. Belmont is a very Gym
| ical parsonage when he wishes to hurl
| his shafts He is also talented indi-
/ vidual, and IL he only had less money to
| chain him down, or chain him up. he
would be one of the master minds of this
| prosaic age.
In the financial district many uncornpli-
| mentary comments are heard upon the
| washington administration since the
| Ohio state convention. Mark Hanna has