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The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1903-02-22

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The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1903-02-22

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The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1903-02-22

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The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-05-12
Cleveland for President.

Editor The Advertiser:
 There is at this time very imprudent agitation to get MT. Cleveland nominated for the fourth time by the Democratic party. and to serve the third time as Pres ident of the United States.
 Whilst we have the most exalted opin- ion of Cleveland's ability as a statesman; that he was tho best President we have had for over sixty years, and that we, of the South, can never forget the debt of gratitude we owe him for the work he did In making us equal in the Union with the other States, we do not think it necessary to show him further honor at the injury of the Democr" tic party.
 There is an unwritten law with the peo- pie of the United States, which is, vir- tually. as binding with them as a con serve as President for more than two [ terms. This law was born of the example of George Washington, and Is, therefore, not to bc broken. The party that dares to violate this law will certainly be de- feated by the people.
 The talk of nominating Cleveland is in turing the Democratic party, and may cause the defeat of the man who may be nominated next year. We remember how
 tho Grant third term agitation injured the Republican party in 1876 and was one of the causes which defeated Hayes by Til den.
 The success of the Democrats next year depends upon the union of the different factions into which they are divided. This can not be done without a conserv- ative disposition on the part of leading politicians. No harsh epithets should be used against any faction. We must not abuse free silver men for what we think was an error in the last two campaigns. By a conservative course we can get them to unite with the sound money Demo- crats, and then success will be sure. If we cannot get a perfect agreement on the financial question we can afford to let the free silver part rest where it is, as We have many more important questions on camnai"p can agaigst the ~ Renub,inans Ie snch ne as the trust. protective tariff, ship sub sidy, the Philippine question and govern mental extravaganza. We might add to
 these the annexation of Cuba as the Re publicans will oppose this because it
 would destroy the protection on beet su- gar. c. E. Crenshaw.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-05-12
Can Be Elected.
richmond Times-Dispatch.

Richmond TimeS-DiSpatCh.
 Referring to the late demonstration at St. Louis. The Petersburg Index-Appeal says that MT. Cleveland is the coming man. and expresses the firm belief that if nominated by the Democratic party he will be elected.
 MT. Cleveland can be elected beyond doubt if all Democrats will support him. Nominate Cleveland and a good old ia sh- toned platform, and he will get the enthu- siastic support of hosts of business men outside the party who have implicit faith in his honesty and good judgment, and who are afraid of Roosevelt as they are afraid of dynamite. These men cannot nominate Cleveland, but they could help the Democrats to elect him. and they would do so gladly.
 The situation is in the hands of the Democrats themselves. All that they have to do to regain their control of the gov ernment Is to nominate Grover Cleveland on a platform that he would be willing to stand upon. The country Is ripe for such movement. We mean that the great body of true Democrats are tired of Re publican rule and want change. The Republican party Is not the party of the people. It is not a popular party. It is In power today through the blunders of the Democratic party, and not by virtue of its own hold upon the American public If Democrats will only get together and put up the right sort of man, they can whip the Republicans out of their boots In 1904 But, of course, they cannot Whiu the enemy while fighting among them selves.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-05-12
Pretty Tolerably Clear.

Portsmouth (Va.) Star.
 To most people the meaning of MT. Clevelands reception at St. Louis is pretty tolerably'' clear. -Four years more of Grover seems to be the inter- pretation thereof. No other explanation or prognostication can be made. of the spontaneous. universal and voclferous boosting and booming of MT. Cleveland by the people. What a terrible enigma this man must be to the politicians. Twice made President in spite of the political leaders and wire pullers, after a season of retirement he emerges to receive the plaudits of his fellow countrymen and knock into cooked hat all slates. plat forms and schemes political. Probably nc popular with the masses as Mir. Cleve- land. Unless the signs of the times are misread, the people have made up their minds to make him President for the third time.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-05-12
SOME SENSIBLE TALK.

MT. Robert w. DeForrest, who is head of tne Tenement House Department in New York city made a speech before the Charities Conference in Atlanta, in which he stated that the tenement prob lem in New York is very much like the race problem in the South. To under stand this allusion 1t is necessary to re- member that there are in New York large tenement houses in which are crowded hundreds of families, without proper ventilation, sanitation or other necessities of healthful living. In these overcrowded tenements an epidemic of infectious or contagious disease is liable to break out at any time and endanger the safety of the entire neighborhood. This. as MT. DeForest argues, is com parable to the race question in the South. There are sections here where the me- groes are largely in excess of the whites. | Ordinarily, they are quiet and well bc~ haved, but who knows when there may be an eruption? Let one bad negro com- | init a brutal crime, and then there is trouble between the races and the trouble Is both infectious and contagious. It not only affects the immediate vicinity, but may spread and do infinite harm in more remote places, just as smallpox, measles or other disease may break out in one of those tenement houses in New York
 But the important point in the address of Mir DeForrest was his remark that the people of New York can no more set tic our race troubles than we can settle their tenement house problem, and he in- timated that it IS just as impertinent for Northern people to interfere with our problem as 1t would be for us 10 tell the people of New York how to manage their tenement population. This, we re- peat, is really the most important DOT tion of the address, to us, because it in- dictates a correct conception of the con- ditions in both cases and ot the neces- sity of leaving the settlement of these conditions to those best acquainted with them and most competent to deal with them. We in Alabama cannot lay down rules and laws for the settlement of New York's congested population problem any more than they can tell us the best way of dealing with the colored population of the South. In short, hands off is A good motto for both sides
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-05-12
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Editor The Advertiser:
 am In search of information concern ing the following members of the Ala bama Constitutional Convention of 1S19. or of their. relatives or descendants Isaac Brown and John Brown, from Blount County that part which later became Jefferson County); Littlepage Sims, from Cahaba (now Bibb) County; Samuel Cook, from Conecuh County; Melkijah Vaughn and Thomas D. Craob, from Cotaco (now Morgan) County; Richard Ellis and Will liam Metcalf. from Franklin County; Daniel Wright. from Lawrence County; Beverly Hughes. from Limestone Coufi- ty; John l.. Townes, Samuel Mead, Henry Minor and John M. Taylor. all from Madison County; Washington Thompson, from Marengo County; John D. Terrell, from Marion County; Thomas Wiggins, from Monroe County; James w.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-05-12
Distribution of Agricultural Litera-
 ture.
Montgomery, May 9. 1908.

Montgomery, May 9. 1903.
 Editor The Advertiser:
 see a communication in The Adver- tiser today signed Clodhopper, comment ing upon letters written by MT. Dillard upon the virtues of alfalfa as a forage plant and land restorer. I agree with him and MT. billiard in the letter writ ten by both of them that alfalfa is the very best forage plant that can be grown by the farmers of Alabama; 1t is suited to almost every locality of the State and Is particularly adapted to all of our prai- rife or black lime land. More than one year ago an article appeared in The Ad- vertiser. written by Mir. D. w. McIver, telling of the wonderful yields of al- falfa grown by Capt. John c. Webb of Demopolis. I thought so highly of this letter than I had cuts made from the picture printed by MT. McIver and had booklet printed telling of the remark able things cone by Captain Webb and distributed them to visitors from all over the world at the Exposition at the Ex- position at Buffalo.
 The first letter that have ever seen in an Alabama paper on alfalfa growing was the letter written by MT. McIver to The Advertiser. I was SO much pleased with 1t that ever since I have been Com missioner that I have purchased quanti- ties of these seed every year and dis tributed them among our farmers, urging them to plant them. For the information of Clodhopper, I will state that only a few weeks ago published in The Mont 8Omery AuVGrtlSer and The Journal that I would send to any one bulletins on any subject pertaining to agriculture, if they would send their names and the number of bulletin desired The bulle- tin that l had on alfalfa was so popular that I am now on my third supply sent me from the Department at Washington through Secretary Wilson.
 I agree with your correspondent that there is no necessity for the Commer- cial and Industrial Association to dis tribute any literature on the subject of agriculture, as all any farmer has to do IS to send me his name and he will get any bulletin he wants on any subject ab- solutely free of charge. Clodhopper is right in regard to receipts from this de- partment; we have collected in this de- partnent from the sale of tags in the neighborhood of s100,U00 a year; or, to be definite, will say that collections up to first day of April last for last year were $97, ,S22. Ii. All of this money Is paid into the Treasury as all other funds are. The nine district agricultural schools, located in different parts of the State get an appropriation from the Agricul- tural Department of $2,500 each and these schools are teaching from 2.500 to 5000 white children to become useful citizens ard enable many of them to get an education that they could not get otherwise Each one of these schools is an experiment station where scientific and progressive agriculture is taught; they issue annual bulletins descriptive of their work and experiment, and Clod- hopper can get bulletins describing their work at any time he will write for them, R. R, Poole
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-05-12
Letters to the Editor.
Mt. Meigs School Law.

Mt. Meigs School Law. Editor The Advertiser:
 Will you please publish the law creat- ing the Mt. Meigs school district ana method of electing the teacher? By so doing you will oblige Patron. Mt Meigs. Ala, May g. s. 372 An Act to create separate school district in Montgomery County tn be known as the Mount Meigs Schooi District.
 Section 1. Be it enacted by the Gen. eral Assembly of Alabama that the fol- lowing described territory, in the county or Montgomery, lying north. south east and west of the village of Mt. Meigs, to wit: extending north to the Tallapoosa River and about three miles southeast and west from said village, composed of one-half of Township Is and Range lS, and one-half of Township 16 and Range r and Range 1s and Township r and Range 20 in said county, shall be and constitute separate school district to be known as the Mount Meigs School District, said territory being in Sections 30, s1. s2, B. in Township Is. Range 20; P. g. "A $. m. 2t. S. s, ss. in Township i6. Range 19, and fractional Sections 26, 27, 2S 34, 35 and 36, in Township r and Range 19, south of the Tallapoosa River.
 Sec. 2 Be it further enacted, That said school district shall receive its pro- portionate share of the school funds due said district, and the poll tax collected from the persons living in the said dis trict.
 Sec. 3. Be it further enacted, That said district shall be under the supervision of the three trustees. who shall be elected by the qualified voters of said district, whose term of office shall be two years, from March 1. 1899. and their successors shall be elected every two years there- after.
 Sec. f. Be 1t further enacted, That the Superintendent of Education shall ap- point three trustees for said school dis trict, who shall call and hold an election of district trustees at q time and place in saidsaistrict to be designated by them.
 Sec. 5. Be it further enacted. That said school district shall be governed and con- trollee in all other respects, except as herein provided by the general laws of the State.
 Be 1t further enacted. That all laws and parts of laws in conflict with the pro- visions of this act, be, and the same are hereby, repealed
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-05-12

Armstrong, from Montgomery County; David Conner, from St. Clair County; and George Phillips and Thomas A. Rogers. from Shelby County. Na f This information Is wanted for histori- cal purposes. and if any of your readers can suggest references or clues, they will be highly valued
 Thomas M. Owen. Director, Department of Archives and History. Montgomery, Ala, May G.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-05-12
War on the Mosquito.

Editor The Advertiser:
 Scientists and physicians seem now to be agreed as to the unhandsome custom malarial germs and infections. They agree also that it is not difficult to destroy the young swarms Of unfceling and vilely vocal disease-bearers. Is it not proper time to ask our sanitary authorities to take up this subject and apply scientific methods to its treatmente
 A successful treatment would advertise Montgomery and would add immensely to the comfort and health of all citizens.
 Let us have war upon the mosquitoes. Let us huri them hip and thigh. Few wars could be so just and humane
 This Is just war of self-defense.
 Citizen.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-05-12
Raging of Pension Hunters.

New York Evening Post.
 When MT. Ware was appointed pension com missioner we said that the conclusive test of his honesty and efficiency in office would be the hostility of the pension-hungry veterans. This he has now happily secured and we con graduate him. MT. Mckinley delled the pen sion hunters and President Roosevelt. having listened to them once, must not think of sur renedring a second commissioner to them. He ought rather. to hail their ragings as a proof that he had made no mistake in his man and that Mir. Ware should be retained as well as loved for the enemies he has made.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-05-12

A railroad from Aberdeen, Miss, to Demopolis, Ala, is among the probabili ties of the near future. according to an editorial in The Sumter Sun. It will be about 1lO miles long. and will open up some of the richest country in Alabama. Coming down on the west side of the Tombigbee River. 1t will traverse more than half the length of Sumter County. where are to be found some of the rich est farming lands in the State, and it will also open new and rich territory for Demopolls. It is fine opening for a railroad and we hope it will be built.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-05-12

General Baden Powell says our caval- rymen should take a salt-sea bath every morning before breakfast. Of course, and they might also step out and scoop a few fresh oysters from their beds each morning for their breakfasts. It would be as easy as the sea bathing.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-05-12

. The Advertiser yields to none in it's deference to women or its admiration for their qualities. but 1t doesn't think they should claim too much. There is the woman in Wichita. Kan, for example. who declares that if men will askend to their own affairs outside the home, the to the children question" Now, is that really possible?
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-05-12
Dogs Are Expensiye.

Ge )rgiana Enterprise.
 Yes. dogs are expensive and it is a fact the poorer some people are the more dogs they have. It is also fact that Western corn will be bought as we'll as meat as long as two or three old dogs are kept and fed by the farmers. Dogs, fishing poles, shotguns. mortgages and politics have well nigh ruined the farmers in this country. As long as worthless dogs are kept the others just mentioned will re- main also.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-05-12

Washington and Mrs. Custis '.after the Revolutionary War was over" As a matter of fact. Washington and the Widow Custis were married sixteen years before the battle of Lexington was fought. This is one way thar people are mistaught history.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-05-12

The New Haven Register argues that the President would set much better example if, instead of preaching in the West about good government. he would return to Washington and do a little practice in connection with the Postoffice scandals. That may be true, but he wouldn't get half as much fun out of 1t.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-05-12
The Advertisers Circulation Tn
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The guaranteed net paid circulation of the Daily and Sunday Advertiser continues to s.ow: Ths sworn detailed figures for the month of April. just passed, emphasize The Advertiser's ott-r,peated statement that it's guaranteed net paid circulation is greater than the actual issue of any other two Ala bama morning newspapers combined. Taking this Tact in connection with the high class or tho papers readers, into consideration. it is no wonder Tho Advertiser prints larger volume of advertising, local and foreign. day by day, than eithet of its State morning con- tcmporartas. and at higher rate per inch.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-05-12
When They Get Enough.

Gadsden JOurnaI.
 When the lily white contingent get enough of Teddy and the negro, they might make application for membership in the Democratic Party.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-05-12

Bryan's endorsement of Jim Williams as suitable Presidential candidate would be of some consequence, perhaps, if some one would kindly tell us who Jim is.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-05-12

The Kansas City Journal uses nearly a column of its editorial space showing why MT. Cleveland cannot be elected if nominated. We don't care to analyze it's arguments, but beg to remind 1t that we heard much of that kind of talk in 1891 or whereabouts. Sometimes we can't al- ways tell what will happen.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-05-12
History does repeat itself. no matte

History does repeat itself. no matter what may be said to the contrary. A man named William Patterson was re- gently murdered at Muncie, Ind. and they can't find out who did it. So, ''who struck Billy Patterson" is again up to us.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-05-12

With all meat products at present high prices what consolation is it to the farmer to read that cotton is worth ten cents per pound when he has none?
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-05-12
Nor to Montgomery.

Mobile Herald.
 It is very evident the writer who says in The Washington Post that the pret- tiest girls in the world are to be found in Washington has never been in Mobile.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-05-12
Courtship in the wiregrass.

AbDeViIIe NeWs.
 lady who was being made love to sud- denly and without previous warning. planted her fist squarely between the eyes of her wooer, which proved to be a knockdown and knockout blow. It hap pened in Abbeville just a few days ago.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-05-12
A Hard Job.

Dale County News.
 Just as well to try to chisel the marble with a sunbeam as to try to get good old time Democratic ideas into the head of Bryan. The cyclone that struck the party did not teach him anything.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-05-12

A scientist who declares that this old world of ours will be uninhabited two thousand years from now isn't worrying us half as much as the price of food is.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-05-12
What Will They Dop

Eutaw whig and Observer.
 What are the people going to do that have babies. cats and dogs and various other things named after Teddy, when Theodore Roosevelt goes out of style. They cannot be cast aside like old clothes.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-05-12
A Little More Time.

Ashland Standard.
 Talladega County has come to the front with reported fabulously rich gold mine find. Just give us a little more time over here in Clay and we will outclass it two to one.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-05-12

Boom up with his dress suit when he Started to Europe.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-05-12
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Up to Them.

Cherokee Harmonizer.
 It Is now up to Hanna and Roosevelt as to which one of them can oEswill give dear Cuffle" forty acres and mule" for his support.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-05-12

The carelessness of some would be leaders of thought is well illustrated in a selected" article of some length which we find going the rounds of the papers. Tke article gives with some de- tail the c8drtship and marriage of George
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-05-12
It Was Surprised.
Fort Gaines Recorder.

Fort Gaines Recorder.
 The Athens Banner boiled the "classic" city the other day. as to its choice for the Democratic leader in the next cam paign and was surprised to find flfty-seVen out of the hundred unhesitatingly declared for-Bryan? No, not one. For Grover Cleveland? Yes. This may have been a surprise to The Banner, but not to the more than 57 per cent would so declare.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-05-12

Some of us should be mighty careful about laughing at others for being ugly.