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The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-04-04
"THE PRESENT goUTH..
A Work That will Attract Wide At.
 tention.

The MacMillan Company, publishers. New York and London. have just issued a work of the above title by Edgar Gard Iner Murphy. In their announcement they say
 MT. Edgar Gardner Murphy's book "Problems of the Present South: A Dis- cussion of Certain of the Educational.
 Industrial and Political Issues in the Southern States''-discusses such ques- tons as negro education and negro suff- rage. the industrial revival and child labor. the significance of nliteracy, the development of the common schools, the function of the university in the South |ern States. the striking progress of the South within the past twenty years. in the light of their bearing upon the de- velopment of Democratic conditions, The author writes with passionate attach- ment to the interests of the South. and yet from the broad standpoint of a cit- izen of the nation. The frankness and hopefulness of his book are not less marked than its poise, its sense of jus- tice. it's moral earnestness, It's deep hold upon fundamental principles. It Is an interpretation. in noble and vigorous English, of the hopeful and progressive tendencies in the present South. MT. Murphy has something to say. and he says 1t with insight and power. While the book deals with Southern issues 1t will bring to the North new and brcad- er appreciation, of the South. Three qualities especially-its transparent sim cerity. it's timeliness, and Its essential statesmanship-will give it national inl- portance."
 The Advertiser hopes to present res view of this work at an early date The price is $,5O net.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-04-04

News is .he boss Hearst boomer in that State. but 1t Is reinforced by 2 number o. the smaller fry. who have no valid aI gument to adduce against Parker, ex- ccpt that he has knocked the nose of Hearst out of joint. They are apparently of the opinion that nothing is needed to nominate their candidate except to drive Democrats away from Parker. and tho way to accomplish that Is to create the impression that all who are for him are privately for Mir. Cleveland. and are therefore not to be trusted. This is both tiresome and silly. As The Macon Tel egraph says:
 The effort to scare people away from Parker by crying "Clevelandites" Is too SHY to create ripple Those who be- ncve now that Parker is the best and most available man for the Democrats to nominate-in Georgia es in New York -are not restricted by any means to any particular former party alignment. For instance. there are ten Congressman and two Senators from Georgia for Parker. No one of them has been branded as a Cleveiandfte." On the other hand, most or the former ''Clevelandites," so called, so Tar as we know. are also for Parker.
 
 nine-tenths of the Democrats of Georgia. The effort will fail in other States just as 1t will fall in Georgia. Such a silly substitute for argument will have no weight The men who are for Parker comprise some of the very best Dem. ocrats in the land. They are falling into line for him because they believe he will make a strong candidate upon whom all can unite. And we don't mind saying to these seoffers> that if ttey think a Dem ocratic Presideft can be elected without the aid of the Cleveland men. they are sadly mistaken. The latter will not be driven from their convictions by such gibes and sneers. but some of them may be disgusted.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-04-04

that Hearst controls the labor vote. wban as matter of fact, the only portion of ,t that is even distantly interested in h,s candidacy Is comprised of psofessionaI agitators, who are bound to him by the worthless Democratic politicians who are promoting his cause.
 The forthcoming Democratic State Con- vention in New York will aid materiaIIv n clarifying the party atmosphere. Judge Parker will be unanimously indorsed for President. and for the first tine .irc. he has been under consideration as a can didate for the office of Chief Execnfive he will have an opportunity to present needs. His inability to do so in inc na st has been serious handicap to Democrsts Tn sections where Hearst has been can- paigning through paid agents
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-04-04
Kindly and Appreciative.

buIdWIn IImeS. gorr cry Advertiser $ a great paper. Ty- geographically 1t is a gem and it's news service is of the first order. While we do not always agree with the conclusions of its brilliant editor 1t is always a pleas ure, to read what he writes, and we bear cheerful testimony to the patent fact that Tho Advertisers editorial page, seven days in every week, Is full of food for serious thought. And woe is the rainbow chaser or political trimmer whose vul- ftrsble record the gifted editor assays to lay bare to public gaze. He is caustfc when that is necessary. but generally he is graceful, persuasive and forceful and Advertiser regularly without being the gainer thereby
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-04-04
JUDGE swAyNE's rMPEAcH-

z
 The country will not take much stock
 in the latest effort to impeach Federal
 juege. Judge swayne has small cir
 cult in Northern Florida and 1t is not
 to be supposed that the inhabitants or
 California or Maine will become excited
 even If the whole machinery of Govern
 ment is set in. operation to oust this oo-
 sclre man from office, We shall not pre-
 tend affirmatively to pass on the charges
 against Swayne as framed by the Judi
 ciary Committee of the House. If half
 of them are true, the Judge is unit for
 the place he holds and 1t seems pity
 that 1t requires so mountainous a pro-
 ceeding as an impeachment by the United
 States House of Representatives before
 the Senate of the United States in order
 to get at and strike @ small judicial
 gopher in Florida. Such Is the law, how
 ever. The cumberousness of an impeach- ment may probably serve to protect Judge SwayEe and he and his friends doubtless stand ready to make many pretty promises of reform if he is not iLthhOA aiSNGA0C0. fohtfSCs HOWSNths tAS law is as 1t Is and though 1t does in- volve in its enforcement great bother to many men who would gladly busy themselves about affairs more nearly con- corning themselves, we hope Congress will act the manly part and give this Florida carpetbagger a good healthy shaking up. Enough is undisputed in his case to show he has been treating the Florida people with gross disregard of all the judicial proprieties. In the South we were long habituated to the overbearing tyranny of Federal Judges imposed upon us to fa- vor Northern Republican henchmen. The odious Busteed Is still well remembered by many in this State. and he was an example. a little worse. perhaps. of number of carpetbag judges scattered throughout the South. These men knew they were despised by all respectable cit- izens and their only object seems to have been to reap harvest against the time when they would be compelled to retreat Northward.
 Judge Swayne, if the House Commit- tee Is to be relied on, has been conduct ing himself in way that shows him wholly unmindfui of his duty. He spends much of his time in Delaware, and when h, reluctantly returns to Florida it is to clap ntigants in jail for interfering with his own property rights as he deems them and further to enter into engagements with his appointees that savor deeply Of corruption, if not in fact corrupt.
 Whatever the outcome of this particu- lar affair, 1t must tone up certain of our Southern judges, North erp men by birth, who have manifested at times too slight regard for decen- cies of opinion amongst us. Happily in Alabama we now have native Federal judges, men of proved ability and high character who administer justice fear lcssly and impartially. Men like these ought to hold these great offices every where at the South. The South should cease to be the dumping ground for ques- tionable characters like swayne of Del aware.
 We notice ex-Senator Chandler of New stands up in praise of Swayne. Chandler is the man who conceived ara engineered the Hayes swindle in 1876.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-04-04
MONDAY, APRIL 4, 1904.
Al MIsERABLE ExAMpLE.

No better example Of the evil emectS of machine politics, and of the action of ccrporation-controlled Legislatures could be desired than is found in. connection with the case of Senator Burton of Kan sas. Doubtless many who have read of his conviction on the charges of bribery have thought that he was a victim of circumstances. or that he yielded to the demands of sudden need of money, but this would be a great mistake. saFhe crime for which he was convicted was merely part of his training. or the result of that training. To think or speak of him as a good man suddenly gone wrong Is absurd, though his latest crime was the most inexcusable of any because he had attained the highest office his State could give him, and If there had been nothing else to restrain him the dignity Of his position should have kept him hon. sst. The excuse made by him that he accepted bribes because he needed the money is an exceedingly weak one. Of him and his habits William Allan White says:
 Burton's career has been well known in Kansas for twenty years, and in the Sen- ate. while he has not been known so long, he has been summed by the de- cent element there for two years, and his name has been written among the tmpossibles.
 For a dozen years before he went to Washington as a Senator from Kansas he was professional candidate for Sem atorial honors. He had served term or two in the lower house of the State Legislature, where he openly solicited bribes and was charged dozens of times in the newspapers of the State with be- ing a boodler without the slightest re- sentiment upon Burtons part. Time and again perfectly reputable and financially responsible newspapers have charged Burton with violating every obligation of nfe. social, moral, political and financial and he made no attempt to bring these newspapers to the bar of justice.
 This is a severe indictment, and 1t may be too highly colored. but as MT. White is a Kansas writer of repute. who is ev- idently sure of his ground and familiar with all the facts. We may safely take it for granted that he has not slandered the Senator. In his grating schemes as Senator he was only carrying out in larger field what he had been doing on a smaller scale. He had played at the game fso long in a small way that he couldn't stop when he reached higher plane.
 After all, 1t Is not Senator Burton who is so much to blame for the discredit brought on the Senate. It is on the State and the people who sent him there that most of the opproslum should rest , His character and habits were too well known at home for the Legislature which elected hiEl to plead ignorance One of three things is apparent: the members who elected him were ignorant beyond belief, or they cared nothing for the character and reputation of the man they sent to Washington. or they were bough, up. Either supposition is a reflection on the Legislature and one is about as bad as another. Burton is undeniably a bad lo.. and those who sent him to the Sen ate deserve all the censure that falls or them.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-04-04
Cetters tc tbe Gdftcr
JUDGE PARKER.
A Man of Great Judicial and Execu-
 tive Capacity.

tive Capacity.
 Troy. Ala. April ?. Editor The Adveraiser:N
 have read with interest an article Tn Fridays Advertiser sent by your ape Washington correspondent, MT. K. H. Watkins, much of which was a reproduc- ton from an article that appeared in The New York Evening Post written on Judge Alton B. Parker.
 While The Post article was intended to be complimentary to Judge Parker yet l beiive 1t has done him an intuctice by drawing comparisons between him and MT. Hearst. The article stated that the drift of Democratic sentiment went to Judge Parker for no other reason than the American people eoud ts not pres'anncy s.ana and that so far as the ability of Judge Parker was concerned there was nothing much to recommend him beyond the fact that his character was unimpeachable. and therefore he was much the better man than MT. Hearst.
 It seems obvious that the writer in The Evening Post Is not acquainted with Judge Parker. I beg to say there IS no more popular man in the rural districts of New York State, which as you know arc intensely Republican, than Judge Parker. In person he is of commanding appearance, and though he be unassun- ing in manners, people are easily attract ed toward him, and when once introduc-
  charm of his quiet magnetism. Those who have dealings with him recognize his high integrity.
 He possesses fine business qualifications. President of the Ulster County Savings Institution a bank having deposits of about three million. The impression he makes upon any one meeting him for the first time, is that he Is a man of great mentality of boise and of reserve force. d q nn nf4 d nf HliD1nF and among friends he is looked upon as a most delightful companion. His home life Is an ideal and beautiful one; he Is a member of the Episcopal Church Episcopal minister He is fond of rural life and, of the exercise of horseback riding, and probably some of the weighti- est of his decisions were formed when he was taking some of his horse back rides. the. very antithesis of the present incum- bent There will be nothing nasty in the decisions of Judge Parker. As great lawyer the question of constitu- tionality will to him likely be the fore most thing that would sway his decisions. But resolve once formed is likely 10 be enacted with force and the world will recognize the justice and sagactousness of his actions.
 The pressure that was brought to bear upon Judge Parker to get him to run for Governor two years ago and the spon- taneous uprising in his favor again this year. shows that he is not creature Of accident, but that the States have recos- nized in him a man of great ability, worthy to be trusted and worthy to be endowed with the highest office within the gift of the American people. Indeed Judge Parker is in every sense a perfect type of a fine American gentleman. which Is recognized the world over as the highest specimen of human excel fence. Very truly,
 Walter c. Black.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-04-04
RossED PULP WOOD FREE.
Board of Appraisers Declares That
 It is Paper Stock. .e

New York Times.
 In decision written by Judge Hender- son M. Somerville the Board of United States General Appraisers yesterday de- cided that rossed pulp wood is free of duty as paper stock. This case has in- volved more labor than any other that has come before the board for long time, on account of the bitter fight made by the paper manufacturing companies which have rossink plants in the United States to keep out the Canadian rcssed wood.
 Rossed pulp wood is spruce or poplar. cut into logs about two feet long, and with the bark and roughnesses removed by a mechanical process called rossing. This is done in Canada for economy in transportation, and the logs in this con- dition are ready to go direct into the grinders.
 Acting under the direction of the Secre- tary of the Treasury the customs officials have been classifying the wood as blocks or sticks, rough hewn," at 20 per cent. The importer whose protest was decided yesterday was c. w. Peirce of Newport Vt. It is expected that the Treasury De- partment will order an appeal from the Boards decision.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-04-04
pismembered Chicaeo.

PhfIadeIphia Press.
 Heard a new one the other day said man. and in my modest opinion. it' s the rounds. Here it is: What Is three sevenths of chicken. two-thirds of cal. and one-half of goat?
 Of course you give it mp. three-sevenths of chicken: ca is two thirds of cat, and go is one-half of goat. Pretty good, isn't it?''
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-04-04
A Name for the New Hotel.

Editor of The Advertiser:
 All Alabama and others having busi- ness in Montgomery are interested in your new hotel. and the name to be given it. The names of Alabama" and SDixie" have been suggested, and they are both good ones. The splendid new hotel at Anniston, however, is called fThe Alabama" and that would seem to eliminate that name. In place of Dixie I suggest the name of 'The Cavalier" " As Is well known, the two great strains of English blood which settled this coun- try were the Puritans and the Caya- Hers. The Puritans settled in New Eng land. and the name has been. honored river boats called "rhe Puritan" "The Pilgrim and "The Priscilla" The Cav alters having settled in Virginia and ' 'e South, and lhls strain of blood .permeat- ing the whole South, the name 1fof ''The Cavalier would be quite appropriate for the new hotel. The name is more com prehensive than. Alabama or even than Dixie. for 1t includes Alabama and Dixie and goes back to Merry England.
 II \
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-04-04
All Reactionaries.
Chattanooga Times


 Mir. Bryan now calls Judre par1or N5, Oiney, Senator German and ex-Pres;da,,; Iai Cleveiand 'reactionaries." He basn't elassiied MT: Hearst. but 1t is presumed that that the millionaire candidate isn't % troU- snnasrE any on that account. "Reactionarirs' s. sppeaIs 10 be an excellent word in this connection. et and comes pretty nearly 'iio tir. tlns tne entire list of leaders who have recently been heard from. If Parker is a ttssaft''onary' tsat ' so Is Senator Carmack, and th .na' would seem to run the bamut alI tne way to Grover Cleveland. excentin,5 ohly Hearst and George sFred Williams.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-04-04
This Beats Ann.
Ienry (Ill.) Republican.

Henry (II.I Republican.
 Five men. A. B. c, D, and E. meet, each of whom owed the other s They only had $1 apiece.
 "A, who was Napoleon of Finance.a after some thought, said he could fix it all right, so he told each of the four to give him his dollar. He put them in with the one he had, and handed the $5 to B, and took his receipt eanceling the debt, B paid c, and took his receipt, who then paid D. and D paid E, who then handed the $5 to A. taking his receipt.
 Does it not appear that each man Is S4 a head in the game except A, who has not oly paid his $5 debt with q, but has the 6 in cash?
 ''sWho, if any one. is the loser in this transaction?"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-04-04

that followed the Presidents service pen sion order Mr. Ware was discussing the pleasant features of his job, and, being a poet, he dropped into poetry with this result:
 The President put me here;
 It's improper to repine;
 It's disloyal for me to die;
 InsuboI dinate to resign.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-04-04
Name it "The Stonewall" !"

EdltOr The AdVertlSer: wall" which would at once recall the heroics, perpetuate the valor and devo- tion of the Southern Confederacy and honor the memory of the great warrior who was baptized amid blood and car mage with the deathless name of ''Stone- wall. Jackson" and whose unrivalled deeds will go down on the accommodating tide of glory to succeeding generations. even unto the last recorded syllable of time.
 "rhe stonewall' sounds all right.
 StoneWall
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-04-04
On a Mule.
Rirm,rzhan Nons w "

BlrminZham News
 General Miles is telling the public all about patriotism. Patriotism includes seIf-sacrifice. and the general had his fiji or that when he explored Porto Rico on a mule, But now that he cannot offi cially loom up in a varied assortment .. oa |. atlnse ana feathers he will hardly at- tract much attention in the Presidential boom line. '''''''
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-04-04
Plenty of Them.

AiullSbOH SL3f.
 The Democrats of the country are be- gnning to talk about Southern Presiden- uai umoer, and it is predicted that a man strictly Southern, will be in the race four years hence. The South has plenty or men big enough for the place ana IS ready and willing to furnish tbs material at any tire. "'sn Ihe
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-04-04
Taka Down. His sign.

Edwardsville Standard News.
 Willie Hearst might as well take his sign down for the Democratic Party is too wise to accept such young sperdthrlft as its standard bearer.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-04-04
No one Race Responsible.

bUsNOh IfdHSCTIpL.
 Mir. Lincoln stenens admits that be- fore he began to look Into The Shame of Cities he accepted an honest New York CTS view that the Irish were rez-onsibIa For all municipal corruption; but when he had looked into German St Louis Scan- dinavian Minneapolis. Scotch Presbyte- rian Pittshurg. and-worst of all-native American Philadelphia. he began to see that 1t is no one race but the spirit of the age that Is out Hf joint
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-04-04

There is no reason to doubt that the Republicans are afraid of Parker. They cal find as many reasons why he should not be nominated as they found in the case of Mir. Cleveland. They know that if the party unites on Parker there will be no electoral votes for Roosevelt in New York.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-04-04
FLORIDA LOST TO HEARST.
Bryan's Cousin Out Against Him
 Parker the Man There.

TaIIahaese DISpatch.
 The w. R. Hearst boom in Florida has busted" George Jennings, who is Bry. ans own cousin, is fighting for the United States Senatorsfip. and all his papers are openly opposing Hearst. Sober mind- ed Democrats everywhere are for Chist Judge Alton B. Parker, and there is not a shadow of a chance for Hearst to caps tire the Florida deleg ation.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-04-04
'Gene Ware,s Predicament

washington Cod. New York World
 men Eugene Ware was offered hi, prns5 Rptaeg as commissioner of Pensions by thC pesiident president he said: !" don't want 1t, MT F.sSSlueht. .S l don't like the place
 70, that's all right" the President rs pil~o po reassuringly, and the longer VOL nave the place the less you will like it
 A uay or two after the strenuous time,
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-04-04
Poetic senaor Pettus.

WashIngton Post 7 .
 There Is poetry in the soul of Senator Pettus. It crops out occasionally when he seems to be speaking prose. A How is everything down In. Ala bama?' one asked the Senator in the lear lobby just after he had returned from 2 journey to that State.
 On, said he. jauntfly, -the peas have in blOoua.' ~AS
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-04-04
Sees Through Him,

MUDIIt TNtBIbLtT.
 MT. Eugene Debs sees through Mir. to ride Into popularity by appealing fo popular prejudice. He is inclined to re- gard the young editors coquetting with Democracy as a huge joke.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-04-04

The Republicans are having hard time trying to find a suitable man to take sec ond place on their ticket. We suspect some of the hesitancy arises from the fact that the man who occupies the po- sitIon of yice-Presldent will be consid- cred very small potatoes on Roosevelts ticket
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-04-04
PARKER BUTTONS IN CONGRESS
Representative Fitzgerald Wears One
 and Supplies Fellow

ana ouppIIes EeIIOW-UemOCratS. Washington dispatch.
 The Parker Presidential boom is the first to be supported in Congress by campaign button. Representative Fitz- gerald of New York appeared in the House today wearing in the lapel of his coat a handsome button, on which was photographed the likeness of Judge Par ker and an inscription declaring his car- didacy for the Presidency.
 MT. Fitzgerald was besiegned by many of his Democratic colleagues for buttons, and supplied their wants to limited number.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-04-04

The Manchester Union suggests as a solution of the difficulty that Roosevelt himself take the position of Chairman of the National Republican Committee. Well. why not? It would suit him nice ly
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-04-04
That is True.
Roanoke LH

Roanoke Leader.
 The man who doesn't so into the Dem- ocrauc primary has as little to do with naming the officers who are to serve his country as a disfranchised negro.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-04-04

friends have succeeded in differentiating the Hearst microbe. but some of them ought to give us a scientific name for the tt'nR
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-04-04
Trouble Enough.

Birmingham Ledger.
 The Democratic Party has had trouble enough with tricks and tricksters. There Is no longer any need for them, and there is precious little patience with them.