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The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1904-06-19
ONLY SEVEN DELEGATES
From Illinois Favor Hearst.

Springfield Special to New York Herald.
The vote for Hearst does not repre-
sent the actual sentiment toward the
representatives. candidacy. He is said
to be the choice of only seven of the
81 delegates.
Instruction for Hearst is interpreted
merely as harmony sop to the minor
ity, which took such vigorous excep-
tions to the arbitrary conduct of the
convention by the Hopkins contingent.
The latter had entrenched itself firm
ly In control of the party machinery of
the State. Further than that, it has
no special ambition to aggrandize tt
self or to humiliate the vanQuished.
Study of the personnel of the Illinois
delegation shows plainly that Hearst
illustrates the anomaly of having the
votes without having the moral sup
port of the men who will be recorded
for him at the st. Louis convention.
John p Hopkins who Will be Chair
man OF the delegation, is certainly at
heart not for Hearst. James H. Eckels.
another delegate. was comptroller of
the currency under President Cleve-
stanchest admirers of Mr.. Cleveland.
1t is safe to say he would vote for any
body else short of William j Bryan in
preference to Hearst. All his utter
ances have indicated as much.
Other delegates who have never
shown any love for the Hearst candl-
dacy are Ben T. Cable, National Com
mitteeman during President Cleve-
idnu lHSt NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS., InOmaS
Gahan, present National Committee
man; Alderman Thomas Carey. Chair
man of the Cook County Central Com
mittee; William Loeffier, formerly CITY
Clerk of Chicago, and Roger G.. SullI-
van. head of the Ogden Gas Co. against
which the Hearst papers have made
bitter fights.
OF the delegates at large Lawrence
is the only one who has positively
aligned himself with Hearst at any
time.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1904-06-19
MONUMENT IN HONOR
OF the FIRST Confederate Soldier Who
Fell.

Fell.
Washington Special to N. Y. Herald.
There was unveiled at Fairfax Court
House Virginia on June ! q monumae ZEN,
to Captain John Quincy Mari the nrsi
Confederate soldier to. fall in actuai
combat In the civil war. The GATE %
Captain Mars death was June /, 1901
few yards from the Court House green.
upon which the monument has peeh
Captain MARI was a virginIan of his
toric lineage His pater1nsa d,,.s grea at
Colonel George Washington, and w9S
one of the few survivors of the Brad
dock defeat. His grandfather fought
IN the Revolutionary War and his Ia
great grandfather, Captain James scott.
raised and equipped company at ms
own expense. to aid the Revolution ana
died Of exposure on the field.
Captain Marrf was born in May, 1872,
at Warrenton, va, He was graduated
from the Military Institute, in Lexins
ton. Va, with honors, and was appoint
ed assistant professor of mathematics
and tactics in, his alma mater. Called
home upon the death of hts father in
1S4S, he was appointed to fill the lat
ter's Office of Commissioner in Chan
Gerry. He afterward held various higf
Offices of public trust, among them be
ing presiding judge of the country
court. He was also captain of the
Warrenten Riiemen, which company
he organized in 1850.
II was as captain of the Warrenton
Rif1emen that he entered the Confedei :
was ordered to Fairfax Court House
post of honor and danger-to
strengthen its somewhat meagre de-
fence, on May 81 1861. About o'clock
next morning the rifiemen were arous-
ed by the news of the approach of the
enemy's cavalry. They formed at once
and their captain led them to a COM
handing position near the Court House.
body of cavalry rushed upon them
and firing begun. 1t was pitch dark
and no one saw their leader fall, but
his Halt" was the last word ne was
ever heard to utter. In the meantime
the riflemen were reinforced by Col.
r. s. Ewell, who was commandant of
the post. Led by him the riflemen
thrice rapulsed the enemy and finally
drove them off. leaving two prisoners
behind them. When daylight dawned
Captain MARI was the only Confederate
missing, and he was discovered lying
In the long grass with bullet through
his heart. The Federal loss was esti-
mated at thirty.
The rifemen that day carried the
body of their leader to his home at
Warrenton, and on that first Sunday in
June throng too great to be contained
in any building in the town assembled
on the court green to honor the first
man who had died for their cause. He
was laid to rest beside his father in
the churchyard of his home.
Shaft of Gray Granite.
The monument which the Virginians
of Fairfax County will unveil on their
historic green on the anniversary OF
Captain Marr's death is a rough hewn
shaft of Richmond gray granite, weigh
ing six tons, nine feet high and four
feet wide at its base. On the square
space polished upon its front surface is
the following inscription:
This marks the scene OF the
1875. In 1t John Quincy Mari,
captain of the Warrenton Rifles.
who was the first Confederate SOL
der killed in action, fell June /,
1861.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1904-06-19
DISAPPOINTED IN RUSSIA.

Is it possible that the world has been
mistaken in It's estimate of Russia as
a great power? 1T has an immense
population, and has been supposed to
possess almost unlimited resources. 1t
has also been understood that the Rus
slams were good fighters. if not from
patriotism, then from their habits of
logged obedience to those over them.
Yet, from the beginning of the
present war the Japanese have almost
invariably had the advantage. On
land or water, In battle or skirmish.
the little brown men have proven
superior to their burly antagonists.
When the relative numbers of the two
nations is considered 1t was thought
that powerful Russia would speedily
sweep little Japan from the face of the
earth. but much to the surprise of the
world Japan has not only refused to be
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1904-06-19
Time Set. All Things Ever.

Memphis COmmercial-Appea
When Henry NJ. Turner of Georgia
voluntarily retired from Congress in
1895 because he could not support the
Chicago platform, he quietly remarked:
I know / am right; time will show it,"
He spoke in the dispassionate tones Of
a seer, and before death checked him
off the roll of the living he saw a par
tial fulhllment of his prophecy. In
eight years there has been a complete
revolution within the Democratic party
and the people have come to see that
Turner and those whok thought with
him saw far ahead. The Bourke Cock
rams who left the party in 1896 have
been received into the fold and put for
ward as champions of the faith. To
the one and only Bourke Cochran the
Democracy paid an unparalleled COM
pliment when it held open a committee
appointment for him, that committee
being the most important in the House
Eight years ago the Turner's were
nGunced as traitors. Today Georgia
mourns the loss of Henry M Turner
whose death removed san honest, cour-
ageous, patriotic statesman from earth.
Georgia TOO late came to know that he
was justified but before he closed his
eyes for the last long sleep he saw him
self indicated by the State which re-
jected his views In only one State in
the South. kentucky, have the Turner's
failed to return to the party They
were driven from her borders, but their
voices are once again potential in the
councils of the party. Turner said he
was right and the st. Louis Convention
VIII prove it.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1904-06-19
SUNDAY, JUNE 10, 1904.
EDWARD NJ SHEPARD.

IN. the lamentable division that has
grown up within the ranks of the New
York Democracy, some talk is gather
ing round the name of Edward NJ.
Shepard Mr.. Shepard is distinctly
Presidential timber, but he has not
made the impression as a national
figure that would warrant his friends
in bringing him forward at this time.
III he had beaten Seth Low for the
mAyoralty of New York city and had
given the metropolis the clean and able
administration there was every assur-
ance he could and would have given,
he would undoubtedly at this time be
among the foremost of debatable can
didates. This may be said the more
absolutely, because of his uncommon
ability and his high character. He
is a. man of unstained reputation in
private life. a lawyer. who stands with
the ablest, at the New York bar, and
a student of, and actor in, public af-
fairs without his superior in the United
States. He is an honor to the Demo-
cratic Party and to the country.
we speak of him here with no idle
intention of inviting discussion of him
as. candidate. He must recognize as
well as another man that the currents
are running in quite other directions
than toward him He is notable, how
ever as type of man for whom the
prineiples of the Democratic Party
have always had a sympathetic and
powerful attraction. He is gifted with
a rare command of language and the
principles he has upheld have never
found better defender since the days
of Tilden. AS the biographer of Van
Buren, ne had occasion to go deeply
into the history of the party and his
narrative with the reflections II in
cludes. constitute manual of party
doctrines set forth in an incompara-
BILE way
That the Democracy continues to win
and hold in its ranks men like Shepard,
goes to show that in caring for the
interests of the many rather than the
few it makes an irresistible appeal to
the best intelligences. the most
thoughtful characters of the Republic
The Republicans might be challenged
10 name a single individual in their
number who approaches in nobility OF
temper in breadth and lucidity of
thinking, Edward NJ. Shepard, of New
York. Their creed and practice is so
Fundamentally selfish. that It benumbs
the better parts OF their natures and
makes their thoughtful men smile at
each other like rogues detected in VII
Iainy and DESTROYS to conceal it.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1904-06-19
TWO SENATOR'S TO BE ELECTED.

The Memphis Commercial Appeal
says: General Pettus was reelected
in 1901 for a term of six years, and
we do, not understand how 1t is that
he comes up in 1905 for another cleo
ton" Senator Morgan was elected by
the Legislature of 19O0-1so1 to succeed
himself in the Senate. his new term
commencing March 4th 1901. His
present term, therefore. will expire
March 4th, 1907. Senator Pettus was
elected by the Legislature which met
in January 1903 to succeed himself,
his new term commencing March 4.
1903. His present term. therefore, will
end March 4th, 1909.
Under the federal law United States
Senators must be elected by the Legis-
lature which meets next preceding the
beginning of the term of service. The
Alabama Legislature will not meet
until January 1907 and both Senators
will have to be elected by that body
for the reason that the term Of one
expires March 4. 1907. and the term of
the other expires March A, 1903. nearly
two years before another Legislature
will meet. The Alabama Constitution
provides for quadrennial sessions of
the Legislature.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1904-06-19
SCHOOL. TAX.

There Is a great awakening all over
the State on the subject of education
in addition to what is being done by
the State. and most of the larger
towns. there is a decided disposition
manifested favorable to local taxation,
for raising additional sums, in many OF
the counties. There was an election
in Talladega County few days ago,
Mr.. ]. c. Williams. editor OF The Tai
1adega Mountain Home is Superinten-
dent of Education for the county and
he Is TO be congratulated on the SPLEEN
did result that came from his labors,
and those who engaged In the good
cause with him. Out of 80 votes cast
only 1872 were cast against the PROPOSE
zion showing so per cent of voters who
were favorable.
In walker County there has recently
been a local taxation election and those
who favored it were successful by an
ammenee majority. The time is com
ing when there viii be a good public
school house in every township in Ala
bama ana schools taught nine months
tn the year.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1904-06-19
Anglers Are All Honest Men.

Philadelphia Record
To be an angler is to be rated as an hon.
est man, according to a Market street deal
er in sporting goods. Said he Il trust
anglers in money matters more than any
other class of sportsmen. That man who
Just went out kicking about a bill for
fishing tackle that he claimed to have paid
had no record of the payment, but from
long experience 1 have never found a man
cheat me on fishing goods, and 1 removed
the charge at once. l will send rods and
tackle anywhere on approval, and l invaria-
bly, get my money or have the goods back.
1t is not the same with other classes of
sportsmen, they are more like the average
man. and I am wary of giving. too much
credit. l have no end of bad accounts for
guns and ammunition hut there is not a
bad bill on my list for fishing tackle. And
that is why l always take a fisherman's
word in money matters Just as 1 never take
1t when fish is concerned"
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1904-06-19
stand for the Good.

Coosa County Democrat.
Every man in Goodwater should line
ND with the Democrat. Without going
into detail every man in our town
knows what the Democrat has done
for our people since we began our
fight for better conditions. We know
what the conditions were two years
ago and eIxnow now that it Is hun
dred percent better, and too. every
body knows it is largely due to our
efforts. How can any man with pride
in his family and respect for himself
and city fail to feel deep sense of
pride in the improved conditions? Why
then sould not every citizen OF or,r
town line up with the Democrat? Sure
ly no man would object to the condem~
nation of wrong, and we challenge any
one to show any other reason for not
lining up with the Democrat In our
effort for better citizenship. Line up
with the Democrat. and Goodwater
will take front rank with the better
towns of middle Alabama. We not on
" have to back us our confidence in
the power of a right position but the
fruit of our efforts is patent to all and
is most gratifying to our pride.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1904-06-19
STRONG CLEVELAND SENTIMENT.
Prominent New York Man Says He WAL
Be Nominated and Elected.


I'm more deeply interested in try
ing TO make a living in New York than
in politics, but I don't mind telling you
that there is an enormous amount of
Democratic sentiment in New York
which is favorable to the nomination
Of Grover Cleveland" said Mr.. Hugh
II. Garden, at the New willard. Mr..
Garden Is one of the most prominent
members of the Southern element in
the metropolis. A native South Caro-
linian and a Virginian by adoption, he
migrated to Gotham some eighteen
years ago, and has had a very success
full career. Continuing his first state
ment Mr.. Garden said: Grover Cleve-
land is the only man in the Democratic
party who is absolutely sure of defeat
ing Theodore Roosevelt. Indeed, 1
think that such a result with any 9TH
er candidate is impossible, The talk
OF third term being an obstacle is a
bugaboo. He is the man of the hour.
and when the delegates to the St. Louis
convention come to talk over the mat
ter calmly and with a sole purpose of
picking a winner. they will agree that
nobody but Cleveland will do. Then he
will be nominated amid the widest
cheering that ever was heard in Amer
tea, and in November he will be elected
President"
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1904-06-19
TT rs rNGRArrruDE.

The Buffalo News refers to the
popularity of Mr.. Cleveland In the
South and says 1t is due ito the care
he took Of that section when he was
in power The News intended this
as a reflection on Mr.. Cleveland, but
no Southern man should look at 1t that
way, for Il is truth which many in
this section have forgotten, much to
their discredit, we are bound to say. 1t
matters not how strong is the convic-
ton in favor of another man, or how
sincere the belief that 1T would be bad
policy to nominate Mr.. Cleveland no
Southern man should be guilty of the
ingratitude of forgetting what he did
for the South. Let us nominate Par
ker, IL Democrats can unite on him, or
take some other good Democrat, IL
that Is best, but in the name of South
ern fairness, chivalry and honesty let
us not forget all that Cleveland did for
our section and people.
We can understand why Democrats.
Southern as well as all others, may
consider 1t bad policy to nominate Mr..
Cleveland. We can understand why
the followers of Mr.. Bryan. as well as
all other believers in free coinage,
should feel that they have cause OF
complaint because of Mr.. Clevelands
opposition to their man and his
theories. All this is natural. and we
may admit the honesty and sincerity of
those who oppose him. but that Is all.
We cannot excuse the ingratitude
which leads to forgetfulness of favors
received.
Not only was Mr.. Cleveland the only
President since the war to completely
ignore sectional lines, but we may go
further and affirm that no President
ever treated the South with more con-
sideration than he did. He not only
disregarded sectional lines, but the fact
that a man was a Confederate soldier
was no bar to his appointment to
good position. He was President of
the whole country and we should be
the last to forget it. We can all be
earnestly in favor of the nomination of
another Democrat, IL we like, but that
is no ground for abuse of one who was
always a true friend to the South. If
we can get President who will dupli-
cate his record in that respect we will
have much to be thankful for.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1904-06-19

purview of a chair of English as neces-
sary both to full comprehension and
to exact appreciation; but not all alike,
If the professor of English is not to
arrogate to himself professorship Of
things in general, he must depend
largely for the first two aspects on
men who should. at any rate. view.
them more widely and wisely than he.
Men who should know better have gone
on doing out biography and summarize
ing society in the bad old fashion dis
carded by the teaching to which these
matters in the first instance belong. To
call this the teaching of literature has
the sole advantage OF evading judy
ment upon 1T as the teaching of history
or sociology.
Such teachring is even further astray
in that it lays false emphasis. Its
faults Is not only in teaching these ac-
cessories to the study of literature
badly, but in teaching them too much,
as singly sufficient. For the title as
serted by English is proved by prima-
ry consideration of literary expression,
of artistic product, of form. Its proper
approach is from this side. Consider
ing both poem and poet, both drama
and dramatist. it properly seeks the
man through his work And in effect,
II 1t reverse this natural process, 1t
may--it often. does-fai1 to emerge
upon its own field. For dwelling so
long on the ARTIST ana MS time III may
hardly reach the art at all. In gem
eral we learn from the writing that
about the writer not only which he
wished US to know, but which alone is
for the study of literature worth know
ing. His eminence is that he express
ed himself. His expression Is the
proper matter of literary study. That
he was an unfaithful husband, or threw
his cook out of window, or found an
archy or handicraft a solution for the
problems of society-sueh facts may
have some Importance as contributory;
but in so far as a college chair of Eng
lish deals in them as staple 1t COM
petes. on the one hand, with other de-
partments better equipped for extract
ing their significance, and, on the other
hand, with the popular lecture. Far
from teaching literature as literature,
it is hardly teaching literature at all.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1904-06-19
What is Expected of Leaders.


An observation made by "Savoyard,"
the well known Washington newspa
per correspondent, to the effect that
1T is time for the leaders who put the
democratic party in the hole in 1896
and 1900 to cultivate a little modesty
get on the back seat" is naturally
ought not to have. The fact is .ne
What is wanted of the leaders who
as "Savoyard' says, Is that they i'm
prove the opportunities they have had
for acquiring wisdom and see to it that
they do not do this same thing again.
We speak of the great majority of the
leaders who have been doing all they
can for the past few months to undo
the injury done the party in the cam
paigns mentioned. and these are to be
relied upon to hold the party hard to
a sane and sound policy and in posi-
ton to resist the opportunities and as
saults to be made upon harmony and a
united party by Mr.. Bryan and his few
irreconcilable followers who will at
tend the st Louis Convention. AS we
understand 1t nobody wants to retire
any of the leaders who have Joined
hands to save the party from future
folly and without their help at St.
Louis the organization would be in
trouble sure enough. While we con-
denim and oppose radicalism on the one
side. let us not forget that it would be
dangerous to become radical on the
other side. In other words, the idea
seems to be this year to get the ex-
tremeS to meet.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1904-06-19
Teachers Vacations.
Ideal Facilities, With Every Homo
Comfort, for Both Teachers and
Students, at the Worlds Fair

School teachers ana scholars who are
DESTROYS of utilizing. to the full. the
educational benefits to be derived from
the Worlds Fair OF st. Louis, cannot
do better than make their headquarters
at the Inside Inn.
Situated, as il is. right inside the
grounds, in the midst of a magnificent
forest of giant oaks, and being fully
equipped with every possible modern
convenience it forms an ideal place in
which to sojourn.
The time. money and annoyance saved
by doing away with all tiresome jour
neys in crowded street cars and subur-
ban trains TO and from the grounds
each day. cannot be over-estimated.
The rooms. 2,2j7 in number, are large
and light and many of them have pri l.
vate baths attached. The rates range
from $3.50 to $3.50 per day on the Eu-
ropean plan and from $500 to $500 per
day on the American plan.
Reservations can be made up to De
cember asst. and an interesting booklet,
giving full details. may be obtained by
addressing a postal to the Inside Inn,
Worlds Fair Grounds. st. Louis.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1904-06-19

1t is perhaps not generally known
that the earliest practical information
as to Daguerre's process of catching
and holding the figure of his camera
obscure came to America through Pro-
lessor s. F. b. Morse. In letter to
a friend in America, to be quoted in
Abraham Bogardus's THE Lost Art OF
Daguerreotype" In the May Century
Professor Morse tells of constructing
the first daguerrotype apparatus made
In the United States from drawings fur
nished by Daguerre. My first effort,
Professor Morse writes, was on small
plate of silvered copper procured at a
hardware store, and, defective as the
plate was, l obtained a good represent
alton of the Church of the Messiah
then on Broadway, from a back win
dow of the New York City University
This 1 believe to have been the first
daguerrotype made in America.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1904-06-19
Spain Since the War.

Cincinnati Enquirer.
Spain is financially better off than
when she was loaded down with colo
mics, which she had for generations ad-
ministered feebly and corruptIy, and
which she had become incapable of ad-
ministertng at all. Not only that. but
they had forced her to keep a useless
navy and to waste in them capital and
energy which were needed at home. If
Spain will now establish genuine free
government under whatever form, cut
OFT the horde of privileged officeholders
who sap her life blood, reduce her
reduce her innumerable holidays to a
reasonable basis and turn her attention
to the development of her own rich and
neglected domain and untouched re-
sources she may enter upon a new and
lasting era of greatness.