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The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-01-30
A LAST APPEAL.

When next Monday has passed, there will be many good men In Alabama who will not be actual citizens of the State. They will reside here, pay their prop erty taxes, serve on the juries, enjoy ail the protection and benefits of our laws. but will have no more power to elect an official than if they were newly-arrived Chinamen. They will have their children educated by the State and will not pay the pitiful sum of $1.5O a year, each. to provide for that education. They will have no legal right to vote and will have no moral right to say who shall be voted for. Politically, they will have placed themselves with the women and minors of the country, and on the same plane with the illlterate negroes of Alabama, for they can only be spectators while otI- CT citizens are exercising one of the most sacred privileges of freemen, and arc casting their ballots for the men who shall make and execute the laws under which all of us must live, and to which all of us must look for protection of liie. liberty and property.
 And the pitifully humiliating feature of to blame. The State has provided a way which any man can follow. It has left an open door through which any gouu citizen may easily pass. The requIre- ments are easy. The sum required of each is small, and it goes towards lit ing the shackles of illiteracy from the citizenship of Alabama. It goes to pro- vide fund by which our children and our grandchildren may become useful men and women. Yet even this sacred object is not powerful enough to lead many otherwise excellent citizens to dc d plain, simple duty.
 When we say good citizens in this con
 nection We fully mean it, In all the other
 relations of life they are good men and good citizens, and mean well. They are
 neglectful of one thing they ought to do.
 Is there no argument that will appeal to
 them? Is there nothing that will over
 come their indifference? Apparently all
 that can be said has already been sad.
 yet they maintain their apathetic attitude and neglect their duty. The time is shcrt. but there Is enough time for all who are physically able to do so to pay their poll taxes and put themselves on the list of freemen. Will they not do 1t? The blood of the white race appeals to them, the credit of Alabama appeals to them and the little children inutely beg them to
 come up to the full measure of their duty Will they do 1t while the opportunity is
 open?
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-01-30
A Pitiful Wreck.

Richmond (Na.) News Leader.
 Colonel William Jennings Bryan poses in New York as the One Good Man. He stands against the masses of the Demo- cratic party of the country to represent the question lis it r.ght?" as against the question will 1t pay?" He is justice in- carnate. purity personificd, the sum and summit and concentration of wisdom. All others are spurious. See that the name is blown in the bottle and that the sigma ble, final standard of right from whom there is no apeal. He will oppose and if he can. defeat the reorganization of the Democratic party because it declines to reorganize under his leadership, to ac- cept his doctrines, twice rejected by the try to bring about the defeat of the party because it will not accept him as it's model and master and his teachings as it's only guide. He has issued for himself a bull declaring his own infallibility and accommodating all who refuse to ac- knowledge it. He has made himself d virtue trust monopolzing all the coun- trys honesty. Who made this man supreme keeper of all our consciences and sole judge of good and bad, right and wrong?
 He is not Samson and he will not tear down the temple of Democracy. He is poor. vain, disappointed, beaten and re- into political insanity. He plays the king as idly as any lunatic wearing paper crown, waving a tin Sceptre in a padded cell, Some of the people will laugh at him and some will be sorry as the procession sweeps by, but he will be left, mouthlng and ranting. shrieking his proclamations of his own righteousness weakness of all who decline to finger with him.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-01-30

told they would. That result occurred not because of Phillips, but In spite or him. Still, errorist as he was, Phillips was cast In the gigantic mold of the propositions and of the passions amid which he moved.
 On the other hand, Bryan. the contem. Money just as Phillips assailed human bondage. He advocates freedom for the violent, just as Phillips advocated free. dom for the slave. He attacks the settle ments of civilization. the truths of his- tory, the doctrines of monetary science and the foundations of solvency and con tent as furiously as Phillips attacked the error of property in man and as luridly as Phil ips slandered and libeled the con cry. ative statesmen of his time, who brought about the triumph of Union and the end ing of slavery without his aid. The evil under which Phillips suffered and because of which he fell into contempt was that sate passion for platform effects. That Is the evil under which Bryan also suf- fers. It is not necessary for him to think. 1t is necessary for him to talk. It Is nos necessary for him to be right. It Is nec- essary to him to be heard. r]is requisite is not truth. It Is an audience. His field Is not that in which the needs of the na- ernment find room and duty. He must explore graves. He must disinter errors which the people decently and solemnly buried and would willingly forget. Them he must set up again. Them he must again trig out. Them he must again p e. scribe. He must ard, or he will die. He was heard. last night under circum- those who take no pleasure in the tragedy of ability and in the lunacy of superla- tive egotism carried to the extreme of clotted nonsense.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-01-30

want to know what you are getting to enter upon 6 course of pilIaKe."
 In other words, Mir. Bryan says to all such Democrats. T have no faith in your professions. do not trust you. do protestations. I do not believe that you care anything for true Democracy, or for the rights of the people, I believe that you are willing to sacrifice principle to success. I believe that you desire success above all things. and that you desire success in order that you may get control of the of1ce and put your selves in position to pillags the people,
 This Is either the praying of a political madman or it Is a deliberate insult to the great body of Democrats throughout the land. In either view, 1t is enough to destroy forever whatever of influence Mir. Bryan may have had in the party councils.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-01-30
HOW TO GET FACTORIES.
We Must Prove Our Faith by Our
 Works.
Manufacturcrs' Record

ManufacCurcrS Record.
 At the annual meeting of the Business Mems Club of San Antonio. Texas. MT. N. M. Aubrey, chairman of the Manu- featuring Committee of the club, in com menting on the failure of the committee to show results of it's efforts for the es- the best and practically the only way to get them was for the citizens to build them themselves. He said that San An tonic was the distributor in very large area of manufactured goods manufac- tured elsewhere. though they should. under every economic law. be manufae- tured there; that San Antonio was at no disadvantage in regard to the manufact- ure of glass. for instance, as to raw ma- terial. and that it's slight disadvantage as to fuel had been nullifled by oil dis coveries. and yet the factories supplying glass to the city were thousands of miles away: He insisted that the wealth of the city, while publicly believing that manufacturing would pay there, privately wanted someone else to prove the proposi- tion. It was not accustomed to invest ing in manufacturing. Local wealth he urged. must be taught to take a dit- farent view. else there might be . de- cided change for tho worse in the present rate of the city's development. On the same line was an argument of O. F. Bowser in a recent issue of The Dallas tion to ride taken on January by the manufacturers and business men of Evansville, Ind, to inspect the twenty three new factories that had been built there during 1908, and he added:
 "The people of Indiana and other North ern and Eastern States plant factories as We Texans plant corn and cotton. know ing that they will bring returns an hum dredfold.''
 The men of the Texan cities and of other Southern communities hardly have to look beyond their own borders for material for self-help arguments and for self-advertisement. Elba, Ala, illus trates, for instance. Its belief in the doc urine that Providence helps them who help themselves by having recently ex- pended its money in the development of a 2.5OO water-power for electrical trans mission for the express purpose of draw ing industrial enterprises to that town. As stated in an advertisement, this plant is owned by the local people, who an nounce that ''the power will be sold at very low prices, perhaps the lowest in the world. The first large factory will get especially low prices and favorable terms" A community which displays it's own energy and faith in its future by investing its own capital in the develop ment of such an undertaking, not so mucn with view to making money directly out of the investment as by the develop ment of the town through the drawing oL industrial enterprises to that point, proves
 itself to be a community well worthy or careful investigation by all contemplatins the establishment of manufacturlng ln- terests. There are hundreds Of places throughout the South where this splrlt IS needed.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-01-30

Commenting on some of MT. Bryan's re- cent utterances, The Philadelphia Record is of the opinion that, putting aside his puerile islander as hardly even worthy of this refutation, the man who is capable of warming up the free silver fallacies of lSS6 and of condemning the Democratic Administration of Cleveland for maintain ing the sound standard of money. and with it the public credit, cannot without gross flattery be called a clever politi- clan. much less a statesman to guide the councils of the Democratic Party" That Is putting it tersely and fairly, and all good Democrats endorse it.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-01-30
YES. LET IT COME.

The Nashville News whips out its snlck' crsnee. buckles on It's life-preserver ant vaults into the arena screaming for gore and scaips. It forosees a war between the "only Democrats"-meaning the Bry' anpaonists, and ''the interlopers, disturb CTS and meddlers." by whom it refers to the slre-enough Democrats who are try ing to lead the Party back into the pleas ant pastures tf surc-enough Democracy. Let 1t be fought to a finish" whoops Tpe News, with Hudibrastic defiance. and VIC can almost smell the smoke of abattle and see the fire fly as our contemporary brandishes .ts irenchant blade and shouts: "charge; Chester. charge! On. Stanley while red gore ensanguines the earth and the blue empyrean is obscurcd by powder and smoke.
 "Ths Democrats of Tennessee and the entire South." 1t declares, have been re- psatcdiy told that for exped!ency and for the sake of harmony they should have crammed down their throats an offensive candidate and sn offensive platform An brother. that they have, and 1t was done, mind you. Tn ls,O the actual Dem ocrats of the entirs land were held by the napes of their necks. squeezed till their mouths opened. and then ''an offen- sive candidate and an offensive platform" was rammed down rncir guliets and they were forced to take the nauseating dose and try to look pleasant. Dost not re- member it. Sir Gallahad?
 There are yet some millions of the best Democrats the country ever saw who re- tain a vivid recollection of an impossible platform forced on them by an off-color delegate from Hawaii, and of'a still more impossible candidate unloaded on them, because that candidate in the arrogance of his pride and ambition, forced the con- vention to believe that it must take him and his platform or accept the alterna- tive of divided party. There were mii- platform and that candidate because there seemed nothing else to do. They accept ed 1t as child accepts nauseous physic. and they went to the polls 'as lamb to the slaughter" dumbly and mournfully offering themselves on the altar of party regularity. Oh, yes, we remember that experience, that sacrifice and that hide ous necessity.
 And The News, in it's impotence to see the hair fly and the gore hof. wants the fight to begin at once and noe to wait for St. Louis. We cordially join 1t in that demand, for there is no need to walt. We want to know whether Democrats are to control the Party or whether it is again to bow before a self-constituted dlc- tator and worship at the feet of an arro- gant political Bourbon. Let the discred- ited candidate and his few blinded fol- lowers, begin the fight whenever they are ready.
 Then welcome be Cumberlands steed to
 the shock
 and welcome be the beginning of con- test which shall purge Democracy of the ills brought on 1t by Bryan and Bryan ism and again place before the country a Democratic Party in fact as we'll as Tn name. The decision cannot be made too soon. and Democrats all over the land should rejoice at an opportunity to give Dictator Bryan such a set back that ne will never again undertake to hide him. self under a political Hons skin.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-01-30

erally in favor of it.. and the very sig niacant reason for proposing t at thls tune is that a national election is com ing on." The soldier vote is an import. ant asset for the Republican Party and the c. A. R. influence is not to be of- tended under any consideration. Those arc two strong arguments for the pro- posed legislation.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-01-30
Dead in Virginia.

PORTSMOUTH DIAT.
 Bryanism is dead in Virginia It is as dead as the proverbial door nail, or as a coffin nail. if that can be any deader.
 When he returned from Europe he was expected to talk with at least d gleam of common sense, even granting that he were so befuddled with malice for the old leaders of the Democratic party, and so puffed with esteem for himself as to be incapable of logical reasoning
 But he returned to spout the same gall and to repeat the same parrotty absurdi. ties about re-enacting the discredited platforms of a defeated candidate. He said with mock heroics that he was will ing to be defeated again, He has dis gusted his friends.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-01-30

The Mobile Item argues that 'it would be good thing if both Cleveland and Bryan could keep their mouths closed, etc. The absurdity of this comparison ought to be plain to The Item. MT. Cleveland is giving no advice and has nothing to say when he can avoid it, but Mir. Bryan's mouth is always in eruption, and he rarely says the right thing.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-01-30
1cEsFRGs ON GREAT LAKES.
Navigation Fits Crews for Dash to
 the Pole.

Chicago. Jan. 29.-Lake navigation this uinter 6as fietted the crews of the steam- ers sin in service for "a dash for the pole; SaS ,t T combines all the experience of arctic navigation. Lake Michisan has at last frozen over. At many points along the went shore the ice is piled up solid until if reaches from the bottom, forty feet deep, to an equal distance anove the ai@e and how they came to be formed Is raSarded as a mystery. since the thicker chunks of ice arc not over IS or 20 inches through.
 The average temperature for December was eight degrees below normal, and thus far in January it has been four degrees, This average has been excelled but once, during the winter of 1876.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-01-30
MRS. KRAMER IS ACQUITTED.
Was Accused of Murder of Her First
 Husband,

Kansas City, Jan. 29.-Mrs. Lulu Prince Kennedy Kramer, on trial second time for the murder in January. 1901, of her first husband Phil H. Kennedy, was found not guilty by a jury here today. At her first trial she was convicted and sentenced to ten years in the penitentlary
 The case was reversed, and during her release on bond last February she mar ried John Kramer an attorney, who had defended her brother. Will Prince. who later was convicted on a charge of con- spring with the defendant to kill Ken- nedy. Mrs. Remedy killed Kennedy. wlio was local agent for the Merchants Dis. patch Transportation, month after they had been married. He had refused to live with her. bringing suit to have the marriage annulled on the ground that he had been forced into it.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-01-30
Tha Porte,s Nightmare.

Constantinople. Jan. 29.-The Porte has notified the Austrian and Russian em- bassies that the Macedonian committees have arranged with the Albanians for liberal rewards to have them kill every foreign officer sent into the provinces in connection with the reorganization of the gendarmie under the reform scheme of the powers. The Porte. therefore, ob. jects to the officers wearing foreign uni. forms as their lives are thereby endan. sarad.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-01-30

The Union Springs Herald has it that "The Advertiser bucked up against d stiff proposition when it kicked against the Montgomery mules, but 1t kicked them off the streets" Our contemporary is mistaken. The mules still have possession of the streets and use them at their own sweet will without let or hindrance. It is always a stiff proposition to buck against mule. either two-legged or four-legged but we are not giving it up just yet.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-01-30
Gossip Of men
 and matters
Stiil CoqnpIain of Mules.


 Let Us hope" said resident of lief. Ierson Street, ''that the City Council al Us meeting Monday. night will pass an oroinance prohibiting the driving of loose mules through our crowded downtown sueets. Montgomerians have suffered lonS rom this nuisance and the Alder. relief.
 I understand that the dealers in mules ueclare that loose mule will not inture any one, but I've no doubt these sams aeaiers would flee from the streets If they saw drove of mules bearing down upon them. don't suppose the dealers Woud undertake to say that this reckless driving of mules does not frighten horses aetached to vehicles, thereby endangeitnS the lives of women and children. the mule nnsrkets of the so1,tb, this is i most excellent reason fof the Council tu require the dealers to maintain yards outside of the business and residence dis trcts. The streets belong to the peopie and not to the mule dealers.'S
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-01-30

A contemporary says there is no place in the world where a man can get along with less money than in New York;" and it might have added that there are few places where one can get divorced from it easier.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-01-30
Got it Mixed.
Chattanooga Times.

chattanooga Times. .,... 4L,ao
 Chemists have discovered tlat .HI e5 e5 would would Kill xii a a Woh!e house full of people MT Bryan's cyanide of talkadyi IS eX- pected to kill off the whole clan or Demo, h, cratic harmonizers; but he mas s, son1Tno| oTi1eI 1eutralizer that the fumes are now quite ha ru1less
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-01-30

Those who are accustomed to jeer and sheer at MT. Cleveland's long sentences certainly cannot find fault with his curt dismissal of MT. Bryan: Hes got the stage; let him go it." is as concise and
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-01-30
Knock Him Down.
Anniston Hot Blal

4AnnlStOn f1OL BIast.
 When q man playfully points a pistol or gun at you, knock him down don't stop to inquire whether it is loaded or not; knock him down. Don't be par ticular what you hit him with, only see that it Is properly done. If coroner's inquest is held, let 1t be on the other fel- low--he won't be missed.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-01-30

Every time Hanna declares that he will not be a candidate, and Roosevelt begins to breathe easy, along comes some news paper or politician and declares that his State is for the Ohio man. It Is very
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-01-30
Q 3 H e & e 9 3 te N se H e g se 6 c e WHAT THE STATE PAPERS 6
 @ ARE SAYING. . c e c & N S H c R c z C e c 6. ,

Looks Two Ways. Birmingham Age-Herald. When Mir. Bryan says no man who voted for Palmer and Buckner can be nominated he first looks towards Prince ton, and then towards Albany.
 Same Here. Mobile Herald. Many a good man in Mobile County will be knot on log politically unless he pays his poll tax within the next four days.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-01-30
Resumntion is Foracasted.

Pueblo, Col, Jan. 2S.-Circulars received here from the general sales department of the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company indicate the early resumption of all de- down two months ago, because of the coal strike
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-01-30
Democratic Doctrine.
Mountain Eagl'

| e
 The Republicans of Iowa still hold to what is known as the Iowa idea," and that Is, that the present tariff is too dog gone high to suit plain people. It is all right for the few whose incomes are thus legislated to them out of the pockets of the many. The Iowa idea" Is Demo- cratic doctrine.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-01-30

If the money power controlled the last Democratic administration as MT. Bryan says. he needn't kick, as he is in no way responsible. for he didn't vote for MT. Cleveland, the nominee of the Party.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-01-30

The Japanese army can subsist indefin- Itely on a dish of rice and dried fish, and do as much marching and fighting as other soldiers who have full rations. This will give the Japs a great advantage over their enemies. in the way df feeding their elnas@~
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-01-30
Death of N. G. Taylor.

Knoxville. Tenn. Jan. 2s.-N. G. Fay Tor. aged 50 years. brother of ex-Governor R. L. Taylor and Hon. A. A. Taylor, died this morning at Robins Roost,'' the Taylor home, near Johnson City, Ten.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-01-30
It is Cruel.

Birmingham Ledger.
 Senator Hanna has been considered a kindly man in the past, but the way he is having fun with Mir. Roosevelt is the cruelest thing in American history.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-01-30

No man who voted for Palmer and Buckner can be nominated for President. says Dictator Bryan. Some who didn't vote for them have a poor show, we can teU him
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-01-30

The indictment of Senator Burton, so soon after that of Senator Dietrich. and for the same offense. is likely to have a depressing effect on Western Senators.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-01-30

We suspect that The Philadelphia Re-
 cord is just about correct when it says that "the only obvious reason for grant ing a service pension is that members of the Grand Army of the Rennhlic are gem
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-01-30
Where He Belongs.

Bryan bobs up every now and then and shoots off his bazoo, but if the Demo- cratic party will do its duty at the St. Louis convention he'll cease to proclaim where he belongs in the Popuiist ranks.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-01-30
A Laughing Stock

Georgiana Enterprise.
 The citizens of town who are divided and the factions eternally wrangling with each other will never amount to any, thing but the laughing stock of the pros porous united citizens of other towns. Selma Mirror.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-01-30
Turns a psaf Ear.

Richmond Times-Dispatch.
 But MT. Bryan turns a deaf ear to the entreaties of those who talk of getting together" to those who talk of harmony and party unity, and saYa sn
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-01-30

The Republican Party has another claim to superiority. It furnishes the only two Senators who have been indicted for brib- av,r
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-01-30

The Cincinnati commercial-Tribune says ohio's proper place is at the head of the column. And his name is Hanna.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-01-30
He Would Appeal.

Gadsden Journal
 A London grafter fell dead when con- victed and sentenced to seven years. It is not known what an American grafter would do if convicted.