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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-09-20
HUNTSVILLE AFFAIR,
The Reign of the Mob.

From the Charleston Post.
In Huntsville, Ala, the circuit court Is
sitting for the trial Of several men in
dicted for lynching and its sessions are
held under protection of armed troops
of militia. On the border line between
Georgia and Florida a fierce feud is rag
ing between two families and at least
four men have been killed In the con-
fict. The authorities on either side of
the state line remain inactive, each hold
ing that the enforcement of the law be-
longs within the province of the other.
There is a call for the presence of mill
tia upon the scene as the only measure
that will insure order. In Atlanta the
governor of Georgia "a still considering
the consequences of the Statesboro lynch
ing. He has already ordered a courtmar-
tial to try the militia officers charged
with inefficiency in the protection of
the prisoners of the law against the
mob which took them from the very
doors of the court house, and he an
nounces that If the grand jury of Bullock
county will lay indictments against the
leaders of the mob the state authorities
will see that they are vigorously prose-
cuted before the courts.
Here are three cases where the military
power Is invoked in order to give effec-
tiveness to the law of the state and In
one case, it proved absolutely inadequate
to the needs of the situation and In an
other has not yet been actually exercised.
Are we coming to the point of living I'M
der a military form of government and
depending upon force entirely for the
establishment of justice? The record of
recent events makes very dark picture
of life in the south. Sober men are think
ing very deeply and the time must be
near when they will take action to re-
assert the civilization that is being mock
ed and shamed until we are almost plung-
ed into anarchy.
Senator Tillman says the mob spirit
shows that liberty Is alive and he has
also denounced the exploitation that has
been made by the press of lawlessness in
the south in Its efforts TO bring men back
to reason, and Tillman's evil sophistries
are eagerly accepted by those to whom
they are offered as justification of law
less acts. But it is impossible that the
splendid fabric of southern civilization
is to be rent to shreds merely to make
patchwork political coats for demagogues.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-09-20

Mr. Shepard would force the fighting,
and this would materially aid the DEM
focrats in carrying the state.
Judge Parker's personality and pop
ularity among lawyers will be great
factor in the New York campaign, and
altogether the democrats are justified
in saying that the big state will assur-
edly 90 for Parker The New York
Sun, which is supporting Mr.. Roose-
yelt says of the Higgins nomination:
Mr.. Frank Wayland Higgins has Meth
er the character nor the ability to quail
fy him for the governorship Of the state
Of New York. If we were living In the
millennium, Mr.. Higgins might do for
governor If everybody else was busy.
But this is not the millennium. and per-
haps Mr.. Higgins will serve as well as
any one as a figurehead to point the way
to overwheling and deserved disaster
This is very comforting, but 1t
should not be accepted as final. Judge
Parker's candidacy should have the
aid of the best state ticket that can
be named, and today's convention In
Saratoga is expected to do its full
duty to the democrats Of the entire
country.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-09-20

to do their duty at Statesboro. They will
not fail to look with similar appreciation
upon the course taken by Acting Cover
nor Cunningham. Thoughtful people Of
the south realize that the time has come
when their criminal laws must be prop
erly administered and their courts must
be properly protected. In cases of mob
violence they have necessarily to look to
their citizen soldiers to vindicate the
majesty of the law. 1t has been unfortun-
ately the case that on more than one oc-
casion the miltiamen have not met the
expectations Of their lawabiding fellow
citizens, and it is well that militia Of
hcers should be made to understand once
and for all that failure to perform their
duty will not be overlooked or be allowed
to go unpublished. If the courtmartial
which Governor Terrell has ordered should
find Captain Hitch and such of his Of
flcers as were indicted by the court of in
quiry guilty as charged, and should Gov.
ernor Terrell mete out to the men thus
condemned the punishment which their
conduct would merit, a salutary lesson
would be taught which would go a long
way towards insuring entirely satisfactory
results the next time militiamen OF any
southern state are called on to quel a
mob and to protect the laws against vio-
lence
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-09-20
All Eyes on New York.

The Higgins ticket placed before the
voters of New York bears the "Odell
tag" as Senator Plat expressed it, and
Governor Odell is not in favor among
independent voters. His course as
governor has not been above criticism,
and he is now engaged in making HIM
self party boss. He Is organizing a
machine that will make him United
States senator and keep him In power.
He is no worse than Mr.. Plat himself,
but both stand condemned by the In
dependent voters. Mr.. Higgins is a
business man living in a small interior
city. and he will BRING no strength to
the Roosevelt ticket.
The democratic convention meets at
Saratoga today, and it has great op-
portunity before it. If 1t places Edwin
M. Shepard or District Attorney Je-
rome in nomination for governor 1t
will help the party to a sweeping vic
tory. There ere other possible NOM
inees, but Mr.. Sta1nchfeld, who is
David Bennett Hills choice, is not one
O.. them. Mr.. Goodyear of Buffalo is
possibility, although he voted for
Mr.. Mckinley in 1896 and 1900.
Every day makes palmer the fact
that New York is to be great battle
ground. The state will be worked by
both parties from end to end in Octo-
Der, and the democrats need all the
aid they can muster. Let us hope to-
days convention will place in nomina-
ton an attractive candidate to oppose
the country senator who bears 1.-The
Odell tag" An aggressive candidate
like Mr.. Jerome or Judge Gaynor or
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-09-20
BISON is INCREASING ''.-''
BUT PROGRESS is SLOW

the Austin Corbin herd-lG). In Yellow
stone Park there are seventy, part FREQ
and part in an Enclosure We have Thirty
two in Bronx Park. The others re scat
tered far and near in small punches. ID
being in Germany and other foreign coun-
.r;es
Why cLculd not buffaIoss increase in
number now. They are an extremely
valuable property. perfect buffalo robe
is worth SITS; head, mounted. sl00 Fee
male buffaloes are worth from $500 10 $1,000
apiece-males $500 to $500. On many of
the parks and ranges the natural condi-
tons under which the bufralo once throve
are duplicated. The trouble is that some
of them are too we'll taken care of, and
degenerate under panpsring treatment
to such an extent that they cease to
breed.
The stall fed, garden buffalo does not
appeal at all to the romantic fancy.
When the last real wild fellow in the
Canadian northwest has succumbed to
the arctic cold and the destruction of his
pasture grasses, few persons will care a
rap whether the languid and motheaten
specimens which survive IN public parks
become extinct or not. They are like the
hulks of old men-of-war boxed up In
navy yards. 1t would be better to give
them to the "god of war, the lightning
and the gale.'
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-09-20
Port Arthur Then and Now.

Ten years ago on November the
Japanese occupied in the war with the
Chinese the hills about Port Arthur
that they hold today. These hills are
from 300 to GOO feet in height. all
crowned and covered with defensive
works, stretching around the city. On
November 20 the Japanese seized all
these hills. Before daylight on Novem
Der Fl the Japanese began the attack
upon the forts held by the Chinese
and at 4 o'clock in the afternoon Pori
Arthur had fallen. The Chinese fired
their mines too quickly, and they could
not withstand the Japanese artillery
or the desperate charges of their col
umns.
What was done in 1894 in eleven
hours is now a serious and difficult
task. The Russians held Sebastopol
eleven months against the British
French and Turks, and 10000 of the
assailants fell before the fortress was
surrendered and the war ended The
story of Sebastopol may be repeated
at Port Arthur, but if it is it will be
because the task cannot sooner be
accomplished.
If it be true, as reported, that the
stock of powder is exhausted in Port
Arthur, and that the garrison is lin
tied to an inferior article made on the
spot, the end may be near, for inferior
powder cannot hold the Japanese at
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-09-20
IN HOTEL LoBBIES


Professor CompiimchtSu.
-, IT Charles clifton Terrell of the fac
Wy OF the University of Mississippi has
ssne 70 the worlds fair to attend the IN
s.''@eional convention of arts anu
ssssiees' the representatives composlhs
&c body being among the most disth-
suisned literary men in this country ana
- EUROPE. While DR. Terrell ranks as
oHe Oh the foremost university men IN inc
aepartment of Teutonics, he goes to TINS
International meeting on the especial anu
personal invitation Of Professor sauer'
principal of the department of Teutonies
IN the University of Prague, and eonceoeu
% De the leading authority in the worm
On the great Austrian port, Griiiparzs.'
1T Terrell is the premier editor OF driii-
parzer among English speaking people.
sauer knows Terrell by reputation anu
through his writing. Before the Austrian
professor left home he wrote to Or. FER
rell asking him to meet him at st. Louis
as he greatly wished to see him race
to face
OF course this Is a decided compliment
to DR.. Terrell, and marked recognition
OF his work, and his friends In Birmihg-
nam Will thoroughly appreciate 1t.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-09-20

direction. The law In any state. north or
south, should be strong enough to punish
any guilty man adequately for his crimes.
1t is not for men to take the law at any
time into their own hands. Lynch law,
temporarily excused, has grown until it
threatens the law itself 1t is only a few
weeks since at Statesboro, Ga, the mob
stood at the court room coors and took
convicted murderers from the custody Of
the officers and burned them at the
stake and since then has expressed its
open defiance of the law and its officials
At Huntsville the authorities promptly
had indicted the leaders or the mob, ar
rested them and put soldiers about the
Jail to prevent their rescue. In addition.
impeachment proceedings will probably
be instituted against those officials who
have been derelict In maintaining the
law they were sworn to support. 1t is
needless to say that. II pushed home with
v.gor. such action is bound to bring an
end to lynching.
Alabama is to be congratulated on the
stand she has taken.
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bay. The fall of Port Arthur would
be regarded throughout Russia as a
great disaster. The fall Of sebastopol
in 1854 ended the war, and the fall OF
Port Arthur might have a like effect
upon the present war, especially when
we remember that the winter is COM
ing on, when both armies must go into
winter quarters. Beyond all doubt the
fall of Port Arthur would bring Rus
STA to a full realization of the fact that
she cannot whip Japan seven thousand
miles away while she cannot control
the sea. and must depend wholly upon
a single-traek railway of none too good
construction. When Port Arthur falls
Russias hopes of regaining control of
the sea will be ended, and she may
therefore conclude that the time to
end the struggle has come.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-09-20
Alabama Follows suit.

From the Charleston News and Courier.
Acting Governor Cunningham of Ala
bama has followed the admirable ex-
ample set by Governor Terrell in Geor-
gia. He has appointed a military court
of inquiry to investigate the conduct Of
Capt r. L. Hay. and the men under his
command, at the time of the lynching of
a negro named Horace Naples at Hunts
Vile September Z. This court of inquiry
will assemble in Huntsville Immediately,
and upon its report will depend what EUR
Their action will be necessary on Acting
Governor Cunninghams part. 1t is ex-
tremely gratifying to the orderly people
of the south to see the executive officers
of the southern states at last aroused
to a full sense of their duty in cases of
this character. With one accord the news
papers of the country, north as well as
south. are commencing in the most cordial
terms the action taken by Governor Ter
rel against the militia officers who failed
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-09-20
Wisdom Prevails.

In Henry G.. Davis democracy has a
candidate for vice president not less
earnest and determined than Is the
head of the ticket. The grand old
man from West Virginia has taken
hold of his end of the line with COM
mendable vim. He is a leader, an
adviser, a harmonizer. Visiting New
York the other day, he held a confer
ence with Taggart, Sheehan, Belmont
and others, and at once convinced
them that there should be no friction
at headquarters and that the campaign
management should have head. For
this position he suggested Senator
German.
Senator German is a cousin to Can
didate Davis, and he knows his worth
as an organizer and harmonizer. The
democracy of the whole country rec
ognizes in Senator German a man
who knows as much about the game
of practical politics as any living
American, and will be much encour-
aged over SO wise a selection.
Certain it is that your Uncle Henry
G. knows good thing when he sees it.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-09-20
The Silent Chairman.

From the Cincinnati Enquirer
Mr. Cortelyou has been in washington
lately looking after some remnants Of
business there, and talking to some OF
the speakers who are soon to go out as
missionaries for the republican ticket. He
refused to make any statement touching
politics, except a few stock assurances
that New York and the country would go
republican. Mr.. 'raggart is pursuing about
the same course on the democratic side.
Both Of these gentlemen have now much
Importance In the public mind. Thousands
of people are yearning for their inside
information and real impressions in poll
tics. They can only be assuring, though.
1t would not do for either man to give
reasons for the faith that appears to be
IN him. The situation of the campaign
manager is provoking one. He is brought
into great prominence. He is a central
figure IN affairs, and everybody wants 70
hear from him. He is obliged to discourage
his own prominence and to refuse to say
anything that is of consequence till after
the election; and then nobody cares to-
hear from him. Everybody then knows all
about the election.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-09-20
Joke on Salvation Lassie.

"a young girl who is member of the
local Salvation army corps made a mis-
take the other night that cost her $40,
although she did not know it, said
travelling man. THE girl came into
local poolroom and began to pass her
tambourine around for collection. The
nickles, dimes and quarters were soon
forthcoming but when she reached
young fellow who was playing pool he
reached down in his pocket and threw
a handful of pool checks into the tam
BOURNE. There was about $40 worth of
pasteboard.
'"rhe girl evidently thought she was the
victim of a practical joke, for she went
outside and tore up every one of those
checks 1 have since wondered if some
one has told her of her grievous mistake.
Had she followed the directions of the
generous young man and had her checks
cashed before leaving the hall she would
have had very substantial collection"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-09-20
Meridian is Prosperous.

Edwin Memories, president OF the
First National Bank of Meridian MISS
was at the Morris last night enroute Tor
Spartanburg, S. c., accompanying MS
daughter and two other young ladies'
who will inter Converse college. Mr.. NC
Morries said of conditions in Meridian:
Our city Is growing rapidly. Trade has
greatly Increased the past year, ana
many new buildings of handsome proper
lions have been erected-among them
six-story office building and county
court house, costing over 100000. The
railroads have purchased site at cost
of 100000 for a union passenger station,
which Is soon to be built.
I'VE expect the population of Meridian
to reach the 10000 point by the next CEN
sus. Our greatest need just now is an
other railroad, which will make the fourth
and this we expect to have within a
short time
Asked as to crop conditions in his sec
ton Mr.. McMorries said: Our farmers
have made an average crop this year and
are quite cheerful"
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conclusions:

Judge Parker was candidate for
chief judge in 1897, when a heavy
democratic plurality was cast, and in
1898 Mr.. Roosevelt was candidate
for governor. His plurality was light,
but not so light as Governor Odell's
plurality was in 1902, when he ran
against Mr.. Coler, defeating him by a
plurality that was about equivalent to
one of FIVE hundred votes in Alabama.
All conditions seem to run towards
democratic victory in New York in
November, but even the wisest politi-
clans in that state hesitate in express
ing an unqualified opinion as to the
result. Both parties will work un-
ceasingly in October, and the republi-
cans no doubt hope the longest purse
will win out.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-09-20
Governor cunnlnaham.

Governor Cunningham returned to
Montgomery yesterday morning after
spending Sunday at his Ensley home. The
Governor has notified Chairman Mallory
of the state democratic campaign commit
tee of his acceptance OF an invitation to
make some speeches during the forthcom-
ing campaign. but he has been unable to
set definite dates. Governor Cunningham
will go to st. Louis on October 10 for a
brief visit to the big fair. He will be met
there by Mrs. Cunningham. who has been
for some time in California.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-09-20
Chill for Republicans.

From the New York Post.
There is no installing the chill and
CONSERVATION which the Saratoga con-
vention has struck home to the republic
can party in New York. Nor is the effect
confined to this state. Already the news
has flown abroad that the blunders and
quarrels of the the republican leaders in
New York have given the democrats
an excellent chance of winning it's thirty
nine electoral votes. The result is to
cheer democrats and depress republicans
In every doubtful state. Men are often
swayed by what they can sense" in the
political atmosphere; and doubt and ap-
prehension have been diffused through
out 1t by the spite and rancor of the re-
publican bosses. They have, in fact al
most laughably exhibited the same inca
paeity for which they have been railing
at the democrats. Just as republicans
were waxing highly complacent over the
democratic talent for laundering, over
democratic fractional disputesA and ina
bility to pull together or be decent, they
see their own party falling into a very
pit of folly, rent by angry dissensions
and their whole campaign imperilled.
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From the New York Mail.

From the New York Mall
the year 1900 Mr.. Mark Sullivan of
Boston took very thorough and I'M
doubtedly accurate census of that
supposedly fast disappearing and 'al
most extinct" animal, the buffalo, or
American bison. He wrote to everybody
who was known to possess any buffaloes
or who had any knowledge of their
whereabouts. He found that there were
living at that time at least as many
as 1924 buffaloes. Most OF them were in
the west OF course. A considerable group
was fourishing in the Austin Corbin
park. in New Hampshire. A small wild
herd was getting a precarious living on
the plains west of the Great Slave lake,
in the far Canadian northwest.
Now, after four years, Mr.. Sullivan,
speak, with his buffaloes, has taken an
other census. and the Boston Transcript
publishes the results. There are now, ac-
cording to. this statement, 1888 bison in
the world. The noble OK of the plains ard
prairies is therefore getting further away
from extinction instead or approaching it,
The biggest herd is the half-breed Pablo
Allard's ''bunch,' on the F1athead Indian
reservation in Montana-sS) In number.
Next comes the wild Great Slave lake
herd, which Is suppos ed to number 200,
and which Is not increasing Then comes
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-09-20
81 HILE there is such widespread

W discussion Of ''' the '''' vsslosa
W hogs" that afhict society why
not give the "elbow hog his just due?
The send-seat hog Is provoking enough
to make an angel swear and the ''eleva-
tor-hog'' is equally exasperating but
what is more conducive to an un-Chris-
tan frame of mind than the calculating
villain who makes his way through a
crowd by digging his elbows into the
stomachs of inofensive individuals? If
there is one thing that will make a law
abiding citizen want to fight it is to be
assaulted by one of these "elbow hogs
when there is something exciting going
on just in front. For instance you will
De craning your neck to witness the
best dog fight you have enjoyed in years.
You are so placed that you can get a
Iair view of the contest lust over the
head of short man In a straw hat: a
smile Is on your face and In your soul
huge delight when suddenly there is
stir behind you. 1t is the "elbow hog.
and he is coming rapidly. Unceremoni.
ously hustling his victims to right and
left, he reaches you In his progress.
Placing his right elbow in the pit of
your stomach and his left in the same
part Of your neighbors anatomy he
gives decisive nudge, passes through
and plants himself directly in your range
OF vision. Then the most pious man who
ever lived could not be blamed for clench-
Ing his fists and muttering soft nothinrs.
Eureka! 1t is announced that science
has again discovered the missing link
and this time he resides in Java. There
are several of them, both male and fe-
male, but they too are rapidly decreasing
In numbers under the blight of race sui
| clde. The question of who or what is
the missing link in the human chain of
monkey to man is one that has furnished
more harmless amusement to sayants
than any other subject ever made the
object Of scientific research Would-be
humorists have been heartless enough
to hint that Mr.. Roosevelt might pos
sioly be the missing link, while "Dick"
Croker Is said to bear a resemblance to
the mysterious animal but of course all
such theories have been knocked into a
cooked hat by scientists after an inves
tigation As matter of fact, 1t is very
easy o see how a man can make a
monkey out of himself in short order.
but how monkey can become a man is
another question entirely.
me cry for an American hrmorist has
gone forth In spite of the fact that Mark
Twain has just written waggish Tail of
a Dog" M. Quad is grinding out some
thing like page of humor every week,
Newton NewIirk never takes a day off.
George AIDE has made enough money to
call on the President and Mr.. Dooley talks
himself hoarse on topics of the day. Such
a complaint is unseemly and pessimistic,
Ihe papers of the country are larded
with the output of a multitude of Joke
smiths. Hundreds of comedians are earn
ing their daily bread by saying something
funny, scores of bright fellows off the