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The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-03-17
Al Rus1NEse WoA;AN.

Those who imagine that the noted, mo- table and notorious last farewell tour of Madame Patti has been a kind of blank verse proposition have still another think due them. There has been so much m the papers about small audiences, empty boxes and the like, that some have been disposed to pity the superannuated diva, under the impression that she has played losing game, but such sympathy is a waste of material. She isn't that kind of proposition. s,. .. ,--. .r,-~
 It is true that Patti has not raked in fully as much as she anticipated, but the principal loss she has sustained Is in tenn per and self-esteem. She allowed herself to believe that Americans, without re- gard to race, color or condition, were longing and pining for her, and that her name on the bill-boards of any American city would be the signal for general emptying of stockings and withdrawal of bank deposits in order that the jingling coin might roll at her feet. or fall about her in shower of gold as the god Zeus visited Danae.-
 However, the shower was not quite as heavy as she expected, but she Is not crossing the ocean in the capacity of storage passenger, for all that. Her tour of few months will net her nearly $2OO,- 900, and that is not by any means trihing interest or profit on a small capi- tai Her manager, Maurice Grau, was under contract to pay. her 5000 every time she sang, whether the house was full or practically empty. Not only did she receive that amount without regard to the total gate receipts, but If. at any concert the gross receipts amounted to more than $7,5OO, she was to get half of all the excess above that sum.
 Thus 1t is seen that she could not lose anything. provided she sang, be the audi ence large or small, but she stood to get good rake-off whenever there was an unusually large sale of tickets. What ever may be said of her as a star singer, there is no doubt about her business qualifications. She left few of her dates unified, but her bank account has been greatly expanded. Age hasn't dulled her practical senses, or deprived her of the capacity for making a good bargain, and she certainly drove hard one with Grau, who will do well if he comes out even from the venture, if reports be true Patti loses little, at least in money, and If her vanity has suffered she can sa1ve it with increased bank account, and con- sole herself with the reflection that she hasn't made a bad speculation.
 After all, Patti is not wholly to blame. It is no doubt hard for a woman who has for so many years occupied such a prom inent place in the public eye to realize that she is to take her place among the has-beens. She remembered how people went crazy about her in the long-ago and thought she had but to announce her self to create the enthusiasm that once greeted her appearance. She has been undeceived-cruelly so, perhaps-and will hardly make another attempt.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-03-17
HERE'S A PROPHET.


 If there's anything in a name, then a man bearing that iof Bible ought to pc reliable, one would think. but one of that name has been getting himself inter- viewed in Memphis who doesn't impress us as being exactly proper man for the title. Among other things he said:
 Mir. Hearst is the man for the Demo- crats to put in the field; he is the strong- est and ablest man we have in the ranks The West will be solid for Hearst, and he will be as strong in the East and South as any Democrat who could be put In the field.
 Isn't that a jolter coming from a man bearing a good name? One would think that he has interviewed all the men in the South, and is able to tell just how each one will vote. The truth is, how ever, that though Mir. Bible was born in Tennessee and lived some years in Geor- gia he has been living in Michigan twelve years and is now on a business trip down South. and knows about as much, or as little, about Southern Democratic senti- ment as some of our own people do and that isn't saying much. To speak of MT. Hearst as the ablest man We have in the ranks Is almost as amusing as the further claim that the West will be solid for him. His services as a Hearst boom- CT ought to command a good sum.
 We can imagine but one explanation of Mir. Bibles statements. Physically he is said to be almost exactly like Bryan.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-03-17
BISHOP SCORES THE UNIONS.
Irresponsible Agitators are Bringing Them to Brink of Destruction.


 Them to Brink of Destruction. Trenton CN. J.) Special
 Blshop McFaul of the Catholic Diocese of Trenton today scored labor unions as they are being conducted. He also de clared that the capitalists after they had satisfied their appetites by squeezing the life-blood out of their workmen, could not make restitution in their later days by building libraries, endowing universi- lies or donating organs. It was the duty or the capitalists under God to give their workmen a living wage instead of grind ing workmen down and then hoarding wealth which was really not theirs. As to labor unions. the Bishop main tained that irresponsible agitators were bringing unionism to the brink of de- struction.
 The great American public" said the Bishop. will not submit to tyranny on the part of the capitalists or to mob rule on the part of the labor unions Because Of unreasonable treatment the Rishop de- clared there were some Catholics becom- ing affiliated with socialism, and he d., clared socialism has for its object the equal distribution of wealth, a condition that VIII never be realized.''
 The Bishop declared that he v6s not opposed to unionlsm but believed 1t his duty as Catholic Bishop to deprecate the tendency toward tyranny upon inc part of the unions.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-03-17
THURSDAY, MARCH IT, 1904.
INSANITY AMONG NEGROES.

Some days ago The Advertiser had something to say, very briefly, however, about the increase of insanity among the colored people. In that article We barely alluded to the fact that we attribute this tions following the abolition of slavery. That this is true there seems no reason to doubt. In the days of slavery the me- groes were to a large degree, forced to observe and maintain regular habits. Their work was mostly in the open air. and when their work was over they could only rest and sleep. or engage in such harmless amusements as were really help full. The saloons and gambling dens were practically unknown to them. nor were they allowed to spend their nights in ex- cesses and dissipation.
 Another thing in connection with their lives as slaves was that they had simple and healthful food at regular hours, and their physical condition was looked after by their owners. It was to the interest of the masters that their slaves should be and remain healthy and strong, and this end was assured by the conditions under which they grew up and remained during life.
 All this was changed when the re- straints of slavery were removed. If, as some complain, there was too much re- straint during slavery, it is beyond ques- tlon that there has in some respects been too little since slavery was abolished. With nothing to consult except their own AnciroS nd ;& Tor them to go to the other extreme and Indulge in all manner of excesses, espe. clally in the cities. Both in eating and drinking they have become reckless, and are governed entirely by their means and desires. In food and drink, in sports and pleasures, in sleeping and waking, they take little thought of either their men tai or physical health. That the result is unfortunate Is not to be wondered at, and especially that insanity should be one of the penalties paid for freedom. Nor Is this confined 10 Alabama, for it appears to prevail throughout the South The Chattanooga Times says:
 We have not the figures at hand show ing the increase of insanity among ne groes in Tennessee, but We are informed
  condition. the increase for the past five or ten years being very large. In addi- tion to the causes assigned by The Ad- vertiser, and winch also apply in this State, the frightful spread of the drug habit and especially the use of cocain has had much to do with the rate of in. crease In recent years. The subject is one of importance and comments itself with great force to the State health authori- tles.
 What The Times says about the drug habit in Tennessee is doubtless true of Alabama and elsewhere. With their slight knowledge of the qualities of drugs and of the dangers attending their use. 1t is not surprising that frightful results follow the indiscriminate use of cocaine and other preparations of like chara- ter. That this indulgence should be followed by increased insanity is not strange, nor that the colored people should be the greatest sufferers. As The Times says, 1t Is matter that deserves attention.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-03-17
CONNECTICUT DEMOCRATS.
Hearst Boomers Receive Little En-
 couragement.

New Haven Special to N. Y. Herald.
 The Democratic State Central Commit tee met here this afternoon and selected Hartford and May 5 and 6 as the place delegates to the National Convention. Representatives of William Rsndolph Hearst who were in the corridors of tire Tontine Hotel. found little encourag cement. and after the meeting committee members said that SO far as there Is any sentiment It is for Judge Alton B. Parker of New York.
 Chairman J. J. Walsh, National Com. mftteeman. said that Connecticut Is for harmony and for any candidate that will unite the party and attract the independ- ent voters"
 Although the committee members were -committal. it was learned that about a dozen are for Judge Parker two or three lukewarm for Hearst and the others undecided and anxious to follow any one "who can harmonize
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-03-17

danger. not an army in battle array. nor age, not the anguish of disease, could impair in the least degree the vigor of his steadfast mind. The heroes of antiquity would have contemplated with awe the unmatched hardihood of his character, and Napoleon, had he pDs- sessed his disinterested will, could never have been vanduished
 Jackson never was vanquished. He was always fortunate. He conquered the wilderness: he conquered the savage; he conquered the pravest veterans trained on the battle-fields cS Europe; he con quered everywhere in statesmanship, and when death came to get the mastery over him he turned the last enemy aside as tranquilly as he had done the feeblest of his adversaries, and passed from earth in the triumphant consciousness of immortality.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-03-17
FOR ROOSEVELT.
Many of the Money Magnates Will
 Contribute to the Fund.

Washington Special New York World.
 President Roosevelt has been informed that the Rockefellers and the financial magnates associated with them will not oppose his election. Indeed. they are confidently expected to contribute in q fitting manner to his campaign fund.
 As long ago as last fall the Rockefei. lers H. H. Rogers, James Stillman and others in that clique. after looking ing s0e over cIusion that the best thing for their in terests was to be for Roosevelt. They .a, like him now, but. they could not see that anybody proposed by the I. Demo, n !. good many whom they took to be much worse. .sIt r:
 It is a cold -bloodej arrangement all around. The Stapdard Oil and National City Bank interests were furiously angry when the President a year ago gave out the famous Rockefeller telegrsm sent to nine Republican Senators protesting But the Rockefellers have decided that Roosevelt has the best chance of oelns the next President, and they intend to be with the winner if they can. .l.r,- r,.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-03-17
MIR. SMITH EXPLAINS.
Tells President He Was Not Nomi.
 hating Cannon This Yaar

Tells President He Was Not Nomi- t hating Cannon This Year.
 Washington Special to N. Y. World Representative William Alden Smith, who nominated Speaker Cannon for Pras- .ident during. the melee in the House last Friday. called at the White House today, by appointment. to explain things.
 He told Mfr. Roosevelt that he meant no hostility to him in the remarks that set the House wild with enthusiasm. and that he was looking ahead several years when he spoke of Mfr. Cannon and the Presidential nomination
 On departing, he said: T stand by everything I,said in the House concern Ing the Bristow report and I don't want anybody. to press me to fire the other oarrel."
 While Mir. Smith, was nominating Speaker Cannon for the Presidentcv. Mir. Cannon's county convention was indors- ing President Roosevelt enthusiastically. When, the news reached the Speaker to- day he immediately forwarded it to the White House with his compliments and this Tnemorandum: '- .
 'If I was so soon. to be done for what WIS ever begun for?"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-03-17
Frost in Tuskegee.

T USktBtb VIAId.J NVW5.
 Hearst money and Hearst enthusiasm are being distributed in the South and there is some evidence of the presence of both in Alabama, but if both are being received with the frost extended here, there must be little encouragement in- deed to the boom elsewhere in the coun- try. About the only effort being made In this State to secure the delegation for any candidate Is being made for Hearst and his strikers are circulating through out the State. The News does not want an instructed delegation to the National Convention. but one that Is free and un- trammelcd to look over the field quietly and dispassionately and select the win ner.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-03-17
A COMBINATION MAN
And Good in Any Place in a News
 paper.

NeWS.
 Bruce Kennedy, City Editor of The Montgomery Advertiser was in Birming- nam Sunday night enroute to Tuscaloosa to report the joint debate between Con- gressman Bankhead and Capt. Richmond Pearson Hobson for his paper. Mir. Kennedy Is one of the active newspaper men of the State as well as a cracker jack telegraph operator. His movements are being watched by the press dis patchers, for he always sends volumin- ous accounts by wire to his paper. It Is related in telegraph circles that MT. Kennedy might be found some day drop ping into country telegraph office and sending his own story over the wire, and when he does so he is going to make 1t warm for the operator who receives it. Bruce Kennedy took Associated Press several years in Mobile and has done other work on the wire requiring some fast work. He will follow Congressman Bankhead and Captain Hobson on their tour and 1t may be necessary for him to do some of the telegraphing before he gets through, as there are several small places to be visited by the speakers.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-03-17
Not the First Tima
spartanburg (s. CC Herald.

Spartanburg IS. C.) Herald.
 It turns out that President Roosevelt's 8 authorization ukase for the prevention of free speech. except of a character cal culated to make the Russian bear show his teeth by way of smlIe." was aimed principally at General Joo Wheeler. of the retired army list, who has engaged to write a series of magazine articies on the Eastern war. This is not the first time Joe Wheeler's activity has caused uneasiness in Washington. Some thirty odd years ago the authorities there were press him "
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-03-17
Andrew Jaekson Day.
Tribute by Historian Bancroft.

Irlbute by HlstoTlan baHcTuII.
 No man in private life SO possessed the hearts of all around him; no public man of this country ever returned to private life with such an abiding mastery over the affections of the people. No man with truer instincts received American ideas; no man expressed them so com pletely, or so boldly, or so sincerely. Up to the last he dared to do anything that was right to do. He united personal courage and moral courage beyond any man of whom history keeps record. Not
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-03-17
Will There Be Any Canalp

HtInphIS commercial Appeal
 somebody wants to call it the Hanna canal, but The Boston Globe very perti- nently remarks: If anybody is to he nonored rornnS q. in connection with the big ditch across the isthmus, Senator Morgan is the man" That Is literally true He Ia was for another route, to be sun. bnt 1t is hardly too much to say that hut for senator Morgan there never would have been a canal. 'F
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-03-17
Has No Claimed Qualification.

Atlanta Journal
 Ordinarily The Journal, like other Democratic newspapers, pfefefs not to be AGAINST any Democrat, butt the req sons why MT. Hearst should not be nom mated seem to us so overwhelming tEat We would be false to our own c ncep- tlons of duty if we did not lay them be- fore our readers.
 In the first place, Mr. Hearst Is abso- lutely an unknown man. People Who claim to know him we'll differ widely as to the manner of man he Is. As one Democratic editor of influence puts IT, We do not know whether he can walk, talk, read, write or do anything except
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-03-17
Hearst's Nomination Would Be Fatal
 . Blow.

Birmingham News.
 The Democratic members of Congress, who have an excellent opportunity to know, are almost unit in opposition to his candidacy. In New York. where he Is known better perhaps than any where else, no man of recognized poliu cal standing has espoused his cause. There must be some sound reason why propnquity to Hearst reduces the esti- mate of him.
 The News has not vituperated Hearst nor has 1t given currency to the scan dalous stories in circulation concerning him. They may or may not be true. But Hearst's nomination would be fatal to the Democratic party in either event. In fact, 1t would invite ridicule if it did not compel odium. Candidates for the Presidency must be higher class than Hearst has given any suspicion of being. It would take twenty years at least for the party to. recover from the egregious blunder of his nomination. and Demo- crats who really care for the standing of tho party in the nation might as well determine to face Hcarst's candidacy and by opposing end It.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-03-17
c1EvELAND's CANDIDACY.
W Would Make Landslide in New York Sentiment for Uninstructed
 Delegation.

Washington Special to Memphis Com
 mercial-Appeal. D,
 One of the most prominent of New York Democrats, who was in town today. said he thought the sentiment is growing for an uninstructed delegation to the convention from the Empire State.
 ..This is the course we have nearly al- ways pursued" said he. "Only twice in its history has New York instructed, anu both times its favorite son was defeated ao1, I refer to Tilden in 1880 and Hill Tn iss5, Ey narsonal choice for President Is Cleve- land. He would carry the State by such a majority as would insure the election or
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-03-17
FIGHT. ON FoRAKER.
Attack on Senator Dick Brings on
 Complications.

Cleveland Special to N. o. Times-Demo-
 crat
 Az result of the attack by Senator Foraker on Senator Dick, 1t is said that former Hanna following. under the lead ership of Senator Dick and Governor Her rick. will contest with the Forakerites for the national delegates in every. Con eressional District Foraker himself may be denied the privilege of going to the Chicago Convention as delegate al large
 Foraker tried his utmost to have some one other than Dick chosen Senator to succeed Hanna, but Dick, in his speeci, accepting the Senatorship. said he hoped along amicabIy In return. Dicks friends say Foraker took advantage of his ab sence from Washington to gobble ir three Ohio postoffice appointments, and followed that with his bitter statement o' Saturday.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-03-17

A woman who had the good fortune to he twins-that is, she was one twin-we mean to say that she and her sister were twins. escaped conviction on a serious charge in New York the other day be- cause the policeman who arrested one of them couldn't tell which it was when the pair were brought before the Judge. The cop knew he had arrested one of them, but there his knowledge ended. That is the advantage of being doublets
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-03-17

Hearst and Watson Is the combination proposed by a contemporary. All right, or reverse it. One way would be as good as the other. It was Bryan and Watson for the Populsts in '96 and although it is continually asserted that Bryan received lS1,22S votes in Alabama.it is due to the truth of history to say that Bryan and Sewall, the nominees of the party at Chi cago, received only 1C6,137 votes the oth- CT 25,CS9 being cast for the Populite nom- inees, Bryan and Watson. In 1892 Mir. Cleveland received i3S,13S Democratic votes as against 1O6,1S7 cast for Bryan four years later. The men who talk about bolters would like no doubt to shut out the 5000 Democrats who couldn't stand Bryan.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-03-17
He Wouldn't.

1t is rumored that General Nelson A. for president on the prohibition ticket we We suppose not. Miles has never yet been known to refuse anything offered him. especially if 1t gave him the op,, portunity to play to the galleries. tieneral Mics is just about the smallest thing that ever happene> to have made the noise in the world that has been credittd to him.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-03-17
Can't Stand It

NtIIEItL UJ UTNdI.
 The statement is made that Hugh Me EIdery of Talladega who joined the Re punucans few years ago and J. W. A lican have announced their jnten1ior of lonlng the Democrats, having given up nope or forming respectable Repub,ican party In Alabama -eeF lO1l
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-03-17
Good Morning and Good Day. Sir.

Charleston (S e Post
 We have received with the "comp!i ments of the Bryan Club" of Charleston, n nice lot of William Randolph Hearst literature. We are glad to be remembered by our old friends and to be introduced to their new and young demi-god or dem agogue or whatever he may be- Mir. Hearst, good morning and good day, sir.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-03-17
POLITICAL POINTS

our State ticket and a Democratic r.av,x. Iature. The way would then be open to correct the outrageous Republican rerrv. mander which now exists in the State Tt would take a landslide to create this cors dition. but 1 believe Cleveland coi,id g,,,a
 us this kind of majority.,'' ~eA'0 S'Ne
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-03-17
THE MERGER CASE.
Reasons Which Influenced Minority
 of the Court.

Washington Special to Louisville Courier
 Journal.
 Practically all interest In legislation at the Capital was absorbed today by the Supreme Courts decision In the merger case. Little surprise was manifested on the nature of the decision. The division in the court was due to a difference of opinion as to the right of federal control of State corporations. The majority opinion proceeded on the theory that Con gress has a right. under the Constitution, to control interstate commerce, no mat ter by whom conducted, while the ninori- ty or dissenting opinion, was based on the theory that in the present case the effort Is to regulate the ownership of rail- road stocks by State corporations and that such ownership Is not interstate traffic.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-03-17
lust So.

Edwardsville' Standard-News.
 We admire The Montgomery Advert- ser's pluck in advocating the nomination. of the Princeton sage for President. If he can command more votes than any other candidate he is the man; other wise he Is not.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-03-17
Neck and Neck.

Dothan Siftings.
 1t is neck-and-necls with Ohio and In should he civilized! What would they do, pray, if they had more negro pop ulation to contend with? The South should enter quick and posting protest.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-03-17

Mobile Herald. .. o new nolfcy. It's high time. If she will take advice kindly, we suggest that she fry a marine insurance policy.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-03-17
DECLARE FOR PARKER.

Indiana Democrats Lined Up for the
 Judge for President. Washington Special.
 Representative Myers of the Second Indiana District says: Indiana Demo crats are for Parker fe. President There Is decided sentiment for Parker. hear no talk whatever of Hearst and little of German"
 Judge Myers represents district which was Bryans stronghold in Indiana in 1896 and in 1900