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The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-03-09

character is by reason of his long judicial career somewhat uncertain. On ,ne e theory that New York will present nis names. Judge Parker is viewed with mucn Lavor in all parts of the country. lie is comparatively unknown. If New fork should actually present the name or Srover Cleveland of New jersey, whom everybody knows, would Its suggesuon pc accepted and would MT. Cleveland make the race?
 There is not much use in speculating on Inese things, but it is to be rememDereo that New York Is necessary to Democratic success and that when New York agrees upon 1t man the Democrats or the country are disposed to let It have its
 rurthermore, 1t is to be said that mo- oooy ever declined a Presidential nomi- nation at the hands of one of the great parties: Nominations for the Vice Presi- oency have been declined by John Lang oon. silas Wright and Benlamin Fitz- patrick. the two first named for personal reasons and the latter because he was not In sympathy with the Douglas democracy, which conferred the honor When party interest and party honor Ie m the same direction the wish of New hork State expressed with harmony and enthusiasm ought to have great weight.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-03-09
A BIG ELECTRIC PLANT.

Another instance of the advance in elec- trical development comes from The Port land Oregonian of last Sunday, which gives some interesting details of the projected work. At a place on the Clack- amas River, forty-three miles from Port land, a company known as The Oregon Water Power and Railway Company will build an imne dam and erect machin- cry sufficient to generate electric energy of at least I6.OOO horse power. This is to be used not only for lighting purposes but will drive all the street cars in Port land and furnish power for many me. chanical industries besides In addition to these uses, however, these works will furnish the motive power for all the pas senger and freight cars over the forty three miles of railroad between the two points.
 The promoters of this work estimate the total cost at one million dollars, and work has already begun which will be pushed to completion as rapidly as pos- sible. This, 1t Is stated. will be the larg- est and most complete electrical plant in the entire Northwest, and as one evil dence of the efficiency of the work 1t is stated that throughout the summer months they will run trains every hour and make the round trip in two hours. It is one more move in the direction of substituting electricity for steam.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-03-09
TT MAY BE SINCERE.

The York Pa.) Dispatch, a thorough Republican organ, says:
 It is not Democrats alone who regret to note that Mir. Hearst by mere force of money Is able to assume such power as he is evidently gaining in his party. the absurdity of their leaders position. Mir. Hearst while shouting death to trusts Is giving one of the most shameful exhi- hitions of money power this country has riously is one of the mysteries of the day.
 Assuming that o'he Dispatch Is sincere in deprecating the candidacy of a man who Is proving one of the most powerful assets the Republican party could have. we can assure it that good Democrats all over the country feel the humiliation of the Hearst candidacy and are alive to its dangers. It Is not that we think his nomination within the bounds of possi- bility, for we do not, but the fact that such a man, by such methods. should as- pire to the highest office must injure the Democratic party. There Is no avoiding this conclusion, for any political party must to a certain extent be judged by the character of those who aspire to its high est honors, and If Hearst is seriously re- garded as even a Presidential possibility 1t will lower the party in the estimation of the world.
 There are but two ways to deal with this unnatural fever One Is to allow 1t to burn itself out, endangering the health as we'll as the reputation of the Demo- cratic party, and the other Is to adopt heroic measures to counteract and sub due it. We favor the latter, and all good men and good Democrats should join in utterly crushing it out before it does more harm. If Democrats can be fully awakened to the fact that both disgrace and defeat will inevitably result from his nomination they will no longer look on the possibility of it with indifference.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-03-09
Decline of Yanulism.

chicago chronicle.
 A fusion in politics, like a partnership in business, ought to promise some de- clded advantage to all the parties to 1t. No man Is admitted to a business partner ship who cannot contribute something valuable either in capital. good will, expe- rienee or services. No political party Is worthy of serious consideration by an- other in the matter of fusion unless 1t can be reasonably expected to add sub- stantial strength to the combination.
 The bribe which the Populists offered to the Democrats in 1896 was an allur- ing one to mere expediency men and demagogues. It was based upon the popu- lar vote of 1892, in which year, although the Democrats were successful. the Popu- lists appeared to hold the balance of pow CT. Their votes added to the Republican vote would have made the contest ex- ceedingly close. Added to the Democratic vote they would have made the Demo- cratic majority overwhelming
 In round numbers tho vote boiled that year by the three parties in the States which the Populists professed an ability to control by fusion was as follows:
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-03-09
Haarst,s Camnaipn.
ngham Ape-TJerald

Birmingham Age-Herald.
 MT. Hearst Is a young man who ln- herited large fortune which he has as- siduously employed in conducting news papers that have secured more circula- tion than respect or confidence from men. He is a man who desires to keep in the limelight at all times. He pines away when he falls out of it. He is, too, member of Congress.
 But what has he done to justify Presi- dential aspirations? His name Is com nected with no great measure pushed by him either in or out of Congress. He is serving his first term in Congress, and is almost without experience in public life. He is but 40 years old. Can any one point to a thing he has done that authorizes him to demand promation be- yond such veterans of the party as Cor man, Olney. COc';rell and scores of other trusted and distinguished leaders?
 And yet the Hearst boomers. well sup piled with the sinews of war. are picking up delegates here and there, and It IS conceded that the total number or Hearst delegates in the St. Louis convention may rise to 100, The winner at St. Lotus must have 6O0 votes. and 1t is simply ln credible that MT. Hearst can commanu lch q vote It follows therefore that the Hearst delegates, gathered Tn ah unique manner, are to be traded away, and the wonder at present relates " the spot they will bring up al.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-03-09

Even up in cultured and educational Connecticut there seems to be the same neglect of solid education that there Is elsewhere. In The New Haven Register we find this complaint from a disgusted parent, and he may rest assured that he is not alone:
 So much valuable time is wasted here, (with fads of all kinds such as burnt wood and leather work, carving. element ary science and a score of other things not available Tn helping the average young person to earn their livelihood), that such studies as arithmetic, spelling, grammar, history and geography can not have the necessary time devoted to them.
 Furthermore. the handwriting learned would not be accepted in any we'll regu- lated office or bank
 If one was not familiar with the school system here they would be surprised at the ignorance of messenger and other boys who are compelled to leave school early.
 Any bright pupil in the grammar schools will talk glibly of elementary science, art, or botany, but ask a simple question in arithmetic or geography and the questioner will usually be informed that the time is too short to learn nll those things.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-03-09

Instead of gaining any doubtful East ern and Middle States the fusion lost them all and in addition lost Delaware, Maryland. West Virginia and Kentucky, which had previously been sure Demo cratic States
 It will be seen that fusion based upon mere figures was a delusion. It cost the Democrats a great deal more than 1t gained for them. Yet all things consid- cred. the Populists came nearer carrying out their part of the contract than the Democrats did.
 Four years later when the same ar- rangement was entered into between the two parties the Democrats did a little better in that they managed to carry Ken lucky. but the Populists failed utterly to make good the claims upon which the fusion was based. They lost all of the former Republican States which they had carried in 1896 except Colorado, Idaho. Montana and Nevada. These States had thirteen electoral votes, one less than th a combined vote of Maryland and West Virginia. both lost by reason of fusion.
 It Is this bankrupt Peoples Party which Is now insisting upon another fusion with the Democrats, What fis 1t to offer? What Is its capital? What are Its asssts ,
 In Democratic States It's One-tIme votcTs nave returned to their DemocratIc afIIi,- tons; Tn most of the Republican Stats Whlch It once controlled It's Vo.ers hara become Republicans again PrOhahly ore more Presidential election would flnd f. unable 10 carry even the remnant of inc si1ver MS states which adhered to 1t in 1900
 There are the weightiest reasons. tSe,e. fore. why Democrats who care notSin- for principle as well as Democrats wbee value principle should perceive that fnis fusion must be terminated Ii has ben'' terminated, in fact, by events, Thor" q. nothing now with which Democrats co's Is tuse. All that Is left of the PopulIst narl " IS Few professional candidates an.I lecturers, who naturally dislike to insa their Jobs. and a bad memory. 'ose
 A fusion now will mean the admiss,ov to senio0 . partnership in a big firm of . nor friends. S~PitaI
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-03-09
Pvthians Are Activa.

c. G. Miles, Grand Keeper of Records and Seal. Knights of Pythias of Ala bama. will go to Opp Thursday aft.I- noon and institute a new lodge thc-e Thursday night. He will be accompanicd d to Opp by J. L. Halloway, W. D. s. Simmons, P. 4. Titus B. H. Taylor and other Montgomery Pythians
 The Montgomery Knights will be join .d at Opp by Rev. J. M. Dannelly. of Troy. Grand Master of Exchequer, and by del- egations from Florala and Andalusia.
 'The three Pythian lodges in Montgom- cry are doing much good work" said MT. Miles. We are organizing a nura- Der of lodges in towns adjacent to Mont gomery and interest in the order is grow ing :"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-03-09
WEDNESDAY, MARCH g, 1904.
THE FRENCH AND DaEYFUs.

It is nearly ten years since Alfred Dreyfus first came before the public on charge Of having betrayed military se- crets to a foreign power. Since that time, at intervals, the world outside of France has had to rub it's eyes as it look ed on the various changes in judicial pro- cedure through which the question of the guilt or innocence of Dreyfus progressed. It has been especially hard for people brought up under and accustomed to the common law, as Americans and English men have been. to understand the prodi- gious popular excitement in Paris and the hide and seek game the authorities played during the clamor.
 Dreyfus seems to have been pitched on originally for the conspirators as a vic- tim. because he was an able and ambi- tious officer of repulsive manners and a Jew. That the information al- leged to have been sold, went to Ger many was sufficient to alarm and infu- riate the common rabble of the boule- wards and not since the foundation of the present republic has it seemed to be in such danger of overthrow as when the Dreyfus agitation was at it's height. Bou- langer had given the authorities a fright, but at a critical moment proved to be a mere figure stuffed with saw dust and the government escaped In the case of Dreyfus, two causes conspired to foment restlessness and disorder. One was the deep and hardly slumbering hatred of Germany. The forged bordereau reused this hatred. The other was the deep and never slumbering hatred of the Jew that distinguishes nearly the whole of conti- mental Europe. Marshalled behind these two forces were all the Legitimists, eith- CT Bourbons or Bonapartes together with the political malcontents who had no banner of their own. It was a sign of the improved respect of the world for the Republic of France, that in the years of agitation over the Dreyfus affair, the republic has had the sympathy of thoughtful observers everywhere. These did not understand and could not under stand all the intricacies, the ins and outs of French politics and French legal pro- ceedure. They wished. heartily, for the peace and safety of a country that has done so much good and added so much to the pleasure of mankind. It Is more than likely that what seems now assured. the complete exoneration of Dreyfus, will be found due to the great activity of his CO.,
 religionists throughout Europe. The Jews are loyal to one another. On the conti- nent they hold the purse and largely con trol the best newspapers. The wrong to Dreyfus they considered as being a wrong to him largely because he was a Jew and so, a wrong to the race. They have fought on in his behalf and looking through a glass darkly, as one must look when attempting to forecast the result of legal proceedings in French court of law, Dreyfus will in no great while be set before us as an honorable and gross ly maligned officer and man. The Paris public have wrung all the amusement and excitement possible out of the case during ten years and are now looking idly on as belated justice coues into its eEo.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-03-09
New YOrk's RespOnsibility.

NHlCdBO CnfOnlCIe.
 If New York shall agree upon con servative Democrat and present his name tii to the convention 1t is highly prooADI,e that he will be nominated. New VOTE might be able to force the nomination. ol a radical of some character, but prooa- bly, not
 The only New Yorker worthy of son 3t.- sideration as a Presidential possi <. who has been mentioned thus IaE Judge Parker, who is known to ps s able and just judge, but whose pon''e~i
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-03-09

we are fighting men; if he has got any thing to tell us we win hear it, but we didn't come here to be amused. we came to be made drunk, and to get some blan- kets and tobacco"
 Have we not here the true Indian of this day7
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-03-09
Has Its Own.
TaIladNDa

Talladega Eews-Reporter.
 Just at this season the young are turn ing to the thoughts of love; the geese are mating, the lambs are bIeating, tie birds are prating: and budding spring clushes as she furnishes a new covering to the bare limbs of the winters blasts Darn the spring poet-we furnish our own!
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-03-09
More and More.
Selma Miro

S5IIhd MIrrOr.
 Every day. 1t looks more and more like MT Cleveland will be the nominee of the Democratic Party. He would be winner, throw our hat high in the air; and when he Is elected we will throw it away and hollow oursel. hoarse. Hurrah for Cleve- land anyway
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-03-09
Do More Work.
Huntsville Herald

HuntSvf1Ie Herald.
 The kind and corsiderate old hens have decided to do more work. for less pay, which fact should be duly appreciated by the public since everything else has gone so high in the way of meat and bread. But it will have to be eggs with out the ham,
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-03-09
Would Be Sorry.

Florence Times.
 Hon. William Randolph Hearst, owacr of three or four great newspapers and several barrels of money is looming up strongly for the Democratic nomination for the Presidency. We would be sorry to see him nominated. We believe him to be one of the broadest gauged dena- gogues of the times.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-03-09
Where He Found IL.


 We heard a young man try to call to memory some true saying. but could not remember in whose writings it was found. An older man reminded him that 1t was in McGuffles Third Reader.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-03-09
Would Be no Wiser.

SheHeId Reaper.
 The names of those fellows who are nghtinK over in the Orient can only be successfully articuated by a sackful of two cats in vigorous scrimmage, and then no one would be any wiser as 70 their value or meaning.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-03-09

The New York Board of Health is get ting decidedly esthetic when 1t threatens to close some of the jails because they are not nicely kept.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-03-09

Indications are that the show in the Far East has not really begun. We have had a prelude, an overture, as it were. but when the two nations actually get down to business there are likely to be warm times. We are not hearing any bets on the result.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-03-09

That "a MT. Scott" who tried to fasten a disgraceful episode on Mir. Cleveland should get out in the sunshine and look at his shadow-if it is visible.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-03-09

If you can can, can." advises The Norfolk Landmark. That's just what we can, and if we can can. then we should can. Can you doubt It?
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-03-09

Five cents per pound Is the stated price for cabbage-heads in Topeka-we mean the vegetable kind. The others are not on the price list.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-03-09
Daily average for Janusry. II 1o
 Sunday average for January. ny

P. J. Kelly Circulation Manager of The 'sn'nfry Advertiser. being duly sworn says: The foregoing statement of The AdVer. tiser's daily circulation for the month or January. 1904. Is true and correct and com piled after all returns from news boys. news agents and leftover copies have been de- ducted. P. J. KELLY.
 Circulation Manager. Sworn to and subscribed before me this 18th day of February. 1904
 F. ". JACKSON. iSeal1 N. P. Ex-O. J. P.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-03-09

The Athens (Ga) Banner calls to mind that it was a Georgian who put Bryan in nomination at Chicago, and that all the delegates from our sister State voted for him, but it adds that "the Democrats of the State this year propose to redeem their error of 1896 as far as possible"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-03-09

Birmingham Ledger.
 The negroes who are not registered will not pay any poll tax. That means two tnings-that they feel no interest in the scncois and do not intend to fit them selves to become voters.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-03-09

The North Georgia Citizen believes that Mr. Cleveland could sweep that State in the ratio of 90 to over Mir. Bryan or anybody else
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-03-09
Men Who Come and Go.

MT E. Hall Clanton, a citizen of En- his, Texas, is in Montgomery after an absence of twenty-eight years. He is a brother of the late General Clanton and the youngest member of that distinguish ed family.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-03-09

Dr. John Massey of Tuskegee, Presi- dent of the Alabama Conference College is Tn Montgomery.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-03-09

pr. John Massey or TuSkegee, Pre5i- dent of the Alabama Conference College, is Tn Montgomery.
 Hon. Tipton Mullins of Clanton, mem ber of the State Democratic Committee, Is n Montgomery.
 MT. H. G. Eenners of Greensboro, Ed itor of The Greensboro Beacon, Is in the city.
 Mir. J. 0. Thompson of Tuskegee, IT, terral Revenue Collector. is in the city. MT. A. M. Cope has returned home ai- ter short visit to Moss Point, Miss. MT. Joseph c. Manning, postmaster at Alexander City, is in Montgomery.
 Mir. G. K. Townsend of Letohatchie, is In Montgomery.
 Mir. George W. Roberts of Letohatchic. is in the city.
 Hon. Frank s. Moody of Tuscaloosa, Is in the city.
 Hon. Thomas C. Mcclellan of Athens, is in the city
 MT. E. Farrier of Letohatchie, is in Montgomery.
 MT. J. $. Sanders Of Athens, Is in Montgomery
 MT. F. P. brennan of Birmingham, Is in the city.
 MT. E. r. Roberts of Birmingham, Is in the city
 MT. 0. w. Miller of Birmingham, IS in town.
 Mir. J. H. Laird of Opp, Is in MoGt- gomery.
 My. W. A. Battle Of Birmingham. Is Tn town.
 MT. T. R. Ward of Greensboro, Is III town.
 Mir. John P. Selman of Troy. is in the city.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-03-09
Fruit Crop and Weather.

"1he fruit crop has not been hurt as yet" remarked a visitor to Montgomery yesterday. The prospect for a good fruit crop this year is excellent" ne continued. "The danger to the fruit is yet Tn the future as soon as the pr ss- ent blooms fail off and the young frait is left exposed and the first freeze that comes they Will be killed very easily.
 Just at this time there Is very little danger to fruit, and if we could ha ye cold weather long enough to keep the blooms from falling off until the severe spells were passed. then a full crop would be assured. The blooms protect the fruit and 1t is hard to kill it while the blooms are on, but once let them fall and then comes the danger to the truat.
 Tt looks like 1t is almost impossible to have fruit in this climate on account of the usual warm spell that we have Tn February and March and then the severe cold afterwards which kills all the young fruit that has formed and is left ex- posed. This applies to peaches particu- larly which are rather forward and come out the first warm season in the early spring. Apples and pears are not so for ward and but for the blight pears espc- cially would do well here.'
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-03-09
Gossip cf men
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Candidates Using Stamps.

Uncle Sam is reapiEg a harvest from his Montgomery postoffice, resulting from the number of spirited contests for State officers now being waged.
 If the price of one cent stamps varied with the demand, paradoxical as 1t may seem, 1 cent stamps would be selling for cents In Montgomery.
 You can't appreciate the writing that the candidates are doing," said Postmas- ter C. W. Buckley yesterday. until yoI look at the record of our 1-cent stamp sales.
 ''l never in my long experience as postmaster, saw anything like the way the applicants for office are using the mails. They can get list of every qual- filed elector Tn the State, and they are letting every one of them hear of their candidacies.' .''-
 In the month of January H,Ss4 1-cenr stamps were sold from the Montgomery office. During February, the candidates used the mails more promiscuously, ,and 111,614 1-cent stamps were sold. The month of March has not yet reached its half way journey and already 5000 1-ccnt stamps have been sold from the Moih- gomery window.
 During January 1000 1-cent stamped envelopes were sold and during February 1850 were bought.
 The candidates do not seem to be Js- ing 2-cent stamps to any great extent. the sales of these being only slightly Tn excess of the normal months.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-03-09

Street Fair at Jasper.
 Jasper, March S,-(Special. )-Jasper is to have a street fair from March 14 to 1s. inclusive. The E. G. Barkout Car nival Company has been engaged. ana the merchants are looking forward to a good weeks business. Street fairs usu- ally bring large crowds of shoppers. and always proves quite stimulus to trace generally.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-03-09

Hon. Tipton Mullins of Clanton, mem Der of the State Democratic Committee, Is in Montgomery.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-03-09

All of these States, some of them natu- rally Democratic, but most of them na- turally Republican. the Populists claim ed that they would be able to carry for the party which would adopt the free sil- yer issue. The bait was seriously consid- cred by many Republicans. but they at length rejected it. The Democrats ac- cepted it and made the campaign, which
 for thera resulted in an unprecedented disaster. The only States which may be said to have been delivered by the flu sionists. with their electoral votes were
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-03-09

MT. H. G. Eenners of Greensboro, Ed itor of The Greensboro Beacon, Is in the