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The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-09-08
Wisconsin a Problem.

The democratic nominee for gov ernor of Wisconsin is George w. Peck. He has twice been elected governor in a state that normally goes republican by heavy pluralities, and his popular ity still holds good. He is the author of "Peck's Bad Boy" a book full of humor and human nature, and his geniality has becl help to him in his political campaigns. = more popular nominee could not have been selected, nor one more widely or favorably known in Wisconsin.
 1. Ordinarily democratic nominee 2 would have no chance at all, but this is an exceptional year in Wisconsin. The republican party has been split into two bitter factions. How evenly they are divided remains to be seen. One laction backed by tho two United States senators and most If not all of the republican congressman, Is called tLe "Stalwaris," and that factions nominee for governor Is ex-Congress- man Cook. The other faction is led by Governor LaFollette, who is fighter, who dc .ies the Spooner-Quarles ma chine, who controls the election ma chlnery in the counties, and who Is running for third term. The two factions haze gone into court, both fghting for regularity when the off cial ballot Is made up. The subject is before the supreme court of the state, and if 1t holds that the LaFollette ticket Is regular" 1t Is understood that the ssalwart ticket will be with drawn. If the court uphold the stal. wart ticket, LaFollette will not with draw. He is not quitter, and he will remain a candidate until the close of the polls n Wisconsin.
 Both factions have agreed upon common electoral ticket, but it can be placed on the official ticket but once. 1t mus appear as a part of the Cook or lll LaFollette ticket, and the two tacticns are so embittered that thousands of republicans will not vote the Roosevelt electoral ticket if it be printed as a part O.. the faction they Mse.
 ,. short, if the Cook party be de- cfared by t.e stf.ta supreme court the legal and regular republican party. there are good grounds for the hope tEas Georse w. Peck will again be. come governor of the state, and that the dsmocratie electoral ticket will secure ,.'ulality. The intensity and bitterness of the factional strife in Wisconsin is extreme, and the out come may change the result of the presidential contest. Wisconsin casts thirteen electoral votes.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-09-08
Doqs Are MissInu.

T am glad to note that the band of dogs which formerly terrorlzed Fifth ave- nue and vicinity during the early morn Ing hours has at last been dispersed remarked a citizen. For several weeks l have not been annoyed by these CUTS and l am in hopes that the nuisance has been permanently abated. do not know what has become of all these canines but l think the police department might be able to throw some light on the sub ject
 When the dogs were running at large t was rather dangerous to be abroad at night without arms, as one could never tell when he would be attacked by a ferocious brute and forced to leap fence In order to escape"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-09-08
Republicans Are Interested.

''The republicans of Alabama are look ing forward with unusual interest to the state convention which meets in the Jeff ferson theatre September 15,' said poli- ticlan yesterday. Congressman Littlefeld and number of other prominent men will speak. I understand that suburban delegations have secured special cars to bring them into to town while local re- publcans are bnsily engaged in making ready to entertain visitors,
 The republican party in Alabama is not dead by any means and I predict some lively times when the forces con vene here, All the leading republicans in Alabama will be present and the sessions promise to be very interesting"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-09-08
Cotton Receipts.

While it is tco eerly to estimate the amount of cotton that will come to the Birmingham market this year, blink 1t safe to say that tho receipts will be greater than they were during the year just ended" said ", D. sSesbitt, repre- senting Inman & Co.
 Birmingham cotton rc-stpts sor the year ending September ], 1904, were be- tween 5O,OOO and G, ,OOO bllns. I think the receipts this year will aggregate 75000 bales, which will be our normal share of the crop Cotton Is bringing good prices now and I think good prices will con tinue.
 Birmingham will begin io receive large shipments about the 18th of Sep tember."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-09-08
What War Means in the Far East,

The present war in the Far East Is historic and far-reaching It concerns nearly half of the population of the world. It means that populous China, led by plucky Japan, is to set up a new Monroe Doctrine in the Far East. and that all the rest of the world must respect it. England will look after the Tibet end of the Celestial Kingdom, while Japan and China will see that infringements upon the soy ereignty of the sea end are speedily : terminated.
 Japan has surprised the world alike in her dash and military skill and in her staying powers. Her service is adapted to tne most prolonged and ex- haus;ive struggle. She can fight, a week, and be ready then to fight an other one. She is, too, on the spot. She has forty millions of fighting peo- piO eo uie oPoh' ahu nV western na1e tion can fight such force at its own home-not one.
 The result will be that hereafter the sign hung up in China, Hands off," will be respected. This will be he chief and most important result of le war into which Russia blundered ring to her excessive belief in her
 strength. She is strong, but that
 sngth is too tar away. It cannot be
 sported to the Far East over a e-tracK railway in quantities 10
 the Japanese.
 the present war is ended Ja-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-09-08
Why Is This Thus2
rom the Boston Herald

From the Boston Herald.
 Why is 1t that Senator Knox is not called-upon to play more important part in the republican campaign? Can 1t be possible that he has been side tracked? According to Philadelphia dispatch, the senator Is to make only two speeches in the campaign, one in Pennsylvania and the other at a point not yet determined. Of all the mem bers of the administration, Knox was the one most closely allied to the move ment against the trusts It was under his guidance that the government pro- ceeded successfully against the North ern Securities company. Since then he has gone out of the cabinet and been given a position in the senate with the help of the business interests" of Penn sylvania. Possibly a truce has been de- clared between the president and the trusts, and in those circumstances Phi lander c. Knox, the 'trustbuster," cam not be permitted to play too important a part In the fall campaign.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-09-08
Close of the Cotton Year.

MT. Hester's annual report relates to short-crop year, and losses In many directions. The Alabama crop fell to a million of bales, loss of 50,000 bales, but the average commercial value of each bale was $61 .6S, or about one-half more than the bale value of the previous year. Alabamas crop, short as it was, was worth nearly sixty-two million dollars, or over tnirty-two dollars per capita, more than the per capita circulation through out the country. The high range of values lasted throughout the season of marketing from the farm, whereas pre- vious rises had generally been brought on after the Warmer had sold his prod uct.
 The number oI spindles in the south is steadily but not rapidly increasing Including the new mills begun but not completed 7,094 spindles were added in the last cotton year in the south, bringing the total number up to S. 615,36% Alabama's mills consumed in the year just ended PIP, 1898 bales, some thing better than one-fifth of the crop grown. The consumption in this state was slightly increased, 594 bales, over that of the previous year, whereas in all the ether southern states there were decreases, Virginia alone ex cepted MT. Hester puts the total con, sumption of southern mills in the last cotton year at 1,919,252 bales; the consumption of northern mills at l. 95O,O00 bales.
 The southern mills did not have a prosperous year. partly on account of the high price of cotton, and partly on account of the unsatisfactory condi- tions of the cotton goods trade. Cot ton clothS exports are, however, in creasing, especially to China. Tn July that country too4- over seventeen mil lion yards, thus bringing the trade up to the best figures of previous years. Cuba is taking nearly eight times as much as s, e did in the corresponding months os last year. The prices of goods must meet the prices of raw maA terial, and the adjustment will doubt less proceed rapidly in the present year.
 MT. IPester supplies many interesting
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-09-08
NATIONAL POLITICS.
Facts In the Case.

Facfs ID the Case.
 From the Brooklyn Eagle.
 The Eagle is in position to affirm and 10 maintain by proof these facts:
 That Alton. Brooks Parker wrote the famous gold standard dispatch to Will liam F. sheehan. then in St. Louis, on Saturday morning, July g. at Il o'clock and sent the same from the Esopus tele- graph station.
 That the dispatch was so written and so sent on Judge Parker's own initia-. tive, without consultation or communica- tion with a single soul
 That the dispatch was not written and sent in pursuance of a pre-arrangement and that those who advocated and ad- vanced his cause in St. Louis had no foreknowledge of it.
 That Judge Parker reached his deter mination to send the dispatch after he had been informed by the New York papers of Saturday morning, and by that means alone, and had comprehended in its entirety the situation as to the plat form in St. Louis,
 That Judge Parker did not anticipate or foresee the final action of the com mittee in it's sixteen hours session; that he did not have aud could not have had knowledge of the events as they devel- oped on Friday and kriday night at St. Louis, until o'clock Saturday morning; that during the thirty hours preceding the sending of the dispatch he had no communication whatsoever with any any leader in the convention. or with any person of that convention or with any person in the east on any matter which could be construed as political.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-09-08
ALABAMA PRESS.

Selma Times Candidate Tom Watson charges the democrats with wanting the offices. Of course they do What are you after Tommy? If Parker Is elected the way we are going to go after, those offices will be caution. There will be about ten applicants for every job. We wonder if Tommy ever heard that '.to the Vlctors belongs the spoils." If Tom should be elected would not the pops want all the fat places?
 Eufaula Times: Many wagons from the country are seen on the street before sun up each Monday morning after cotton pickers Some of them comes from A distance of several miles and must start during Sunday night. Hands are very scarce through the country and cotton pickers are in great demand.
 Gadsden Journal: The noisy vests of MT Tim Woodruff will not overcome the dignity of the democratic campaign in the metropolis.
 Greenville Advocate: Kurok has de- monstrated to the world that he is no slouch as a military general and that is no joki.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-09-08
A LoNe-FELT WANT.

From the Boston Globe.
 The Allegheny Carnegie free library has started very commendable innova- tion in the pursuit of knowledge.
 Readers of newspapers and magazines are allowed to enjoy a cigar by stepping into the apartments reserved for smok- CTS.
 It is argued that this device will at otherwise be found at worse places. The smoking room is isolated from the ether reading rooms and the same rules of good order are enforced as in the other rooms, except smoking. The plan works we'll
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-09-08
No Kick comlnq.

From the Memphis Morning News.
 It was stated that MT. Hill in the course of his speech denounced MT. Roosevelt as a fraud The republican press made a great deal of fuss about the epithets which the sage of Woolferts Roost is d. legged to have hurled at MT. Roosevelt. But now it is alleged that Mir Hill did not say the things attributed to him. But if he had what right would the friends of Roosevelt have to complain? Ordina- rily respect for the office which he holds shields the President from bitter person. al excoriation. But what respect has Mr. Roosevelt shown for the Presidents of the United States from Washington to Lincoln whom he Las So violently as- sailed?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-09-08
The Real Question.

From the Columbia ts. O State
 In a speech to poptilists in Atlanta the other day Tom Watson propounded a number of questions Tor Judge Parker to answer. They dealt with Parker's posi- tion on the race question, as to social equality, etc. Now the south Is pretty well satisfied as to Judge Parker's views, He has already expressed deep sympathy and admiration for the southerner. What we really would like to know is how much the national republican committee is contributing towards Tom Watson s campaign.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-09-08
Rescue Home.

Jut now there is nothing special ae- curing in the matter of getting q home for wayward girls located in Birmlng- ham. A prominent citizen sfnterested IL the movement to have a Florence Crit tenden home here has written to dr. efit- tenden asking when he cou.d come to Birmingham. and he Is waiting a reply from him.
 The Salvation Army is nlso anxious to locate a home here, and it's representa- tives will probably appear before the ministers union at the next meeting and see if the support of that body cannot be obtained.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-09-08
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR,

From the New York Press.
 The more money a man saves the deeper he gets into debt investing it.
 Under the right influence most any, body can reform man In politics.
 When the inexperienced go travelling they take along a guide book; the ex- perienced a check book.
 It's mighty funny how woman's hair can begin to turn red about the time you think 1t is ready to turn gray.
 A good way to learn lot of new swear words by pure inspiration is to show the hired man how to pile kindlins wood so it won't fall down.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-09-08
vacatinq Tenants.

There is complaint among rental agents that many tenan.s who varate houses leave them in oad condition" said a landlord. "There IS no excuse for vacated stores or tenemsnts being heaped with rubbish. In other elites ya- eating tenants take some rride in the condition in which they leave houses, and it should be so here.''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-09-08
WHO ARE THE CRACKERS
 IN THE SOUTHERN STATES

Carolina, Tennessee and Kentucky is greatly the superior of the Florida and Georgia sand hitler in everything that makes for manhood. They have their feuds-bitter and cruel as can be found in any chronicle of scotland-but they are bold and self-reliant men. respecting women with chivalrous vigilance, hospi- table, loyal. brave to heroism It may please outsiders to call them ''cracKers." Such however, Is not our idea of pro- prietry.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-09-08

figures in relation to the last crop. He slows that Houston was the great and undisputed leader of interior towns. followed in order by Memphis, St. Louis, Augusta, Shreveport, Montgom- cry, and Little Rock Montgomery's receipts were 169,O24 bales.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-09-08

Candidate Fairbanks Is. desolating strips of the country from the rear platform. As speaker he Is described as slow and painful" The audience gets the pains.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-09-08

Jacob A. Riis of New York has just had an opportunity of comparing his friend, MT Roosevelt, with King Chris tian of Denmark. His conclusions have not yet been made public.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-09-08

A genuine Kentucky belle will take the stump in the western states for Parker and Davis She has good looks enough to make the west go solid for democracy.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-09-08

J. Pierpont Morgan does not style himself Warwick. but he has the sat isfaction of knowing that his money bags are very effective when he goes journeying down to Oyster Bay
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-09-08

King Edward Is occupying very little space in the newspapers just now and the public would like to know what has become of his double-creased trousers
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-09-08

The doctors and nurses at Manassas are treating this week imaginary wounds. An imaginary dead man will not, however, be buried on the spot.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-09-08

Pennypacker of .Pennsylyania is not sought as a spellbinder in the present campaign. He is expected to keep as still as 8 mouse until November.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-09-08

Monday last was a legal holiday in every state and territory except Ari- zona, Mississippi, Nevada and North Dakota
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-09-08

Rainbows are about the only thing in this country that have not been Dingleyized, and both parties can chase them at bottom prices.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-09-08

Candidate Tom Watson should di- vide his attentions between his lead ing opponents. At present his attacks are confined to Judge Parker.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-09-08

A lover out in Denver pursued his lady love with a, pistol. If all affairs of the heart were conducted that way there would be fewer young men tilted.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-09-08

It will not be long before there will be strong odor of moth balls in the air, as the populace goes down In the box after winter underwear
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-09-08

Southern California is reported to be suffering from a plague of water melons that are now growing wild as a result of irrigation. Several train loads of southern darkies should be sent for at once
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-09-08

In 61 days Alton Brooks Parker will be President-elect of these United States. Banzai!!
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-09-08

The Coal Barons' flag still waves in tile first division, and the ragged Fish ermen cannot haul it down.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-09-08

The third stomachless man has been turned out of the hospital by the surgeons, anu Jol.l D. Is not one of them.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-09-08

Manager Fisher Is disciplining Nash vile to the seconI division and low priced players,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-09-08

Booker Washington Is getting to be such social lion in the east that there is serious danger of his contract ing the bridge whist habit
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-09-08

Miss Ida Tarbell and MT. Lawson are trying to drive the frenzied finan- ciers of the Standard Oil company out Of business. They do not know the thickness of their hides, however.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-09-08

A New York ma. has landed in jail for whistling Annie Laurie" If hs had whistled ''Bedelia" he would prob- ably have been hanged.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-09-08

An Americanized Chinaman has just been baptised and assumed the name of Theodore, fore what reason is not known.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-09-08

TEey are calling in straw hats in the banana belt along the Canadian border.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-09-08

Kuropatkin is going out of the di- rect way to TolSio. His maps have not been broughe up to date.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-09-08

Grand Duke Boris and his crowded parlor car is an issue in autocratic Russia, where burning questions can not be suppressed.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-09-08

Vermont will not be heard from again until its bogus maple sugar cror is ready for market
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-09-08

Everybody is so engrossed in dis cussing the cotton crop that the coun- try has forgotten all about the per simmon crop.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-09-08

The Japanese are too civilized and too humane to use a dumdum or ex- banding bullet.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-09-08

The straw Lat cannot under the un- written law be called in in September in Alabama.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-09-08

Cartoonist Davenport thinks that because the farmers smoke good ei-. gars out in Kansas they will vote for Roosevelt. The republicans did not make the crops or the cigars. either.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-09-08

Summer is simply trying to fatten its average in theco short September days.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-09-08

The map of Manchuria needs recon struction. It has been almost wholly dispelled.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-09-08

The pay of a Japanese soldier is glory, rice, and forty-five cents a day.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-09-08

After all, the sacred city of LHassa is not such wonderful place.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-09-08

The oyster is beginning to attend banquets and to keep late hours.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-09-08

Manassas is the mimic article. while is the real thing.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-09-08

The time will soon be at hand when baseball heroes will silently steal away,
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