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The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-07-20
of every duty except the duty to vote tha Republican ticket.

the tn Republican ticket.
 The mission of the Republican Party @ at the South is to noid ia otheewsh fe watch stiilhouse. In Louiisana it is to get 2 job in the custom house: In Missis- wis sippi 1t is to be a ps postmsaseer' o ,ba III navy Southern States are violently opposed to eonferring ofice on the ,mao,,tie man an@ They think it is disreputabie,, In their philosophy 1t is the right of the south. ern white Republican to be appointed to office. and it is t1,e, the duty tS vote 9I the the
 There have been numerous lilly white movements at the soutn, aa Ts of the Republican creed. It IS pro claimed from the Potomac to the Rio Grande that If they. were only rid or could Break up the Solid South; In Louisiana they say the sugar industry would give them the State. If they were not incumb cred with the negro he elemsT,, i.i,iy whites" first appeared. There was a similar movement in nearly every other Southern State. S,,o
 party of the South is really no stronger than 1t was twenty years ago; It IS true that Kentucky went Republican Tn 1896, but the Goid Democras s penuh. p,u lican in. 1904. but the Silver Democrats did it. And when Maryland voted for Mckinley 1t was because the Gold Dem. ocrats of that State would not support Bryan. There never has been a real Renublican Party at the South, for to have a real political party you must have an organization that extorts the tions, partakes of the thought. and even succumbs to the prejudices of people-tho real people; the virtue. the hirth. if you please. and the genius, Of the State. The Republican Party has never sought to do that at the o, south: south if IT is out of whack with that peo- pie. .n.
 would change things if he could. He has not changed them yet. and he must get on another track If he ever suceeds in changing them.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-07-20
Standing Rnnm onlx.

Mark Twain in his featuring days reached a small Eastern town one af- ternoon, and went, before dinner, to a barber's to be shaved.
 You are a stranger in the town, sir?" the barber asked.
 Yes, I'm a stranger here," was the reply.
 Were having a good lecture here to- night, sir" said the barber. "A Mark Twain lecture. Are you going to it::'
 Yes, I think I will" said MT. Clem- ems.
 Have you got your ticket yet?" the barber asked.
 'No, not yet" said the other.
 Then, sir, you'll have to stand"
 Dear, mel" Mir. Clemens exclaimed it seems as if I always do have to stand when I hear that man Twain lecture.s
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-07-20
THE COURTS DEMANDS.
Mere Evidence of the Unjust Capitol
 Plans.

Mere Evidence of the Unjust Capitol
 Plans.
 Editor The Advertiser:
 Will you allow me to contribute a line to the present discussion Of the question of an addition to the Capitol; The plans which received the first and second prizes both cover too much a much larger ground plan. the latter calling for 10,200 square feet on one floor. The original Capitol building covered. before the present suPreEmoee me g square feet. The new wing deter sset iess than an s3oo 3 square feet of being of the main structure! Even the Smith plans cover far. too much ground in my opinion. l do not eom,pi,ain ,npn,a t.M.. at Mr, they were drawn to fit an order from the Supreme Court and the Smith plans. while covering far less ground drawn with the view to dimensions demanded by the Supreme Court. which I suspect will be. equal to the demands of the state; state TOT aVS years, ia 5 two story or three story building. is perhaps one-third larger than there Is any occasion for.
 The excuse, however, for large floor plan. such as appears in the Lockwood drawings, grows out of the insistence of the court that the library and the reading room should be on the the same floor with the court room a speaking tube and book lift. in the courts opinion, not overcoming the great inconvenience of Iawyers. who are waiting for their cases to be heard, or who might need a book when ap- bearing before the tribunal one ,e that cases were being heard orally all the while, when I am told that fair estimate is an average of less than one case argued orally in the week!
 The whole State to be inconven- fenced. the commission to be incon incon- venienced, in order that a half hun dred lawyers in a whole year may not be required, waiting in the library to near their cases. to walk up one flight of stairs or down one flight of stairs. or as the case may be. the plans pro- vide one to ride in an elevator one floor between!
 Speaking in a large way. there would be no great inconvenience if the li- brary were on one side of the capitol square and the court room on the oth- CT; and yet the demanded connection on one floor of the two roms has the
 Citizen
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-07-20
Norwegian in Montgomery.

An interesting visitor to the city yes sen of Christiania. Norway. who. with his wife. Is looking over Alabama's at fractions for immigrants and settlers. He has been pretty much over all North Alabama, and came to Montgomery from Troy, where he was the guest of H. D. Boyd. Jr.
 MT. Swensen was taken in charge by officers of the Commercial and Indus trial Association, and with his fellow countryman, A. Holm, driven over the city and out into the farming section of the county. He was delighted with the farms, their fertility and appear, ance, and particularly with the good roads and the rural free mail delivery.
 He says he shall strongly recommend this last institution to the Postmaster General upon his return to Norway next month
 He expects to deliver some lectures upon his return there. and will cor dially press the attractions and advant- ages of Alabama upon the attention of his people. He left last night for Bir- minRham.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-07-20
Military Discipline.

T dare say that few. if any. people outside of the National Guard under stand the difficulty of an officer in mak- Ing his men behave themselves when they are in camp away from home. said military officer yesterday. Most of the members of the guard are very young men and the percentage of wild ness Is as large among them as 1t Is among other young men. It seems to be human nature among young men to have a little fling when they get away from home. But when the older men are considering this, they should re- member. too how the middle-aged man unbends his dignity and does unconven- tional things when he goes to politf- cal gathering or some convention.
 The officers use stringent methods to keep their men straight. know of one officer who, after he had warned his men as to their department while away from home. used drastic methods with one man. Like come other cap tains, he told his men that he would dishonorably discharge any man who got drunk tn camp. He discovered as the train pulled out of the home station that one of his men was, even then drunk and disorderly.. He immediately stripped the uniform from the man: At the next station he put the man on the train in his underclothing The un- fortunate soldier, drunk as he was, had to send back four miles for clothing while he waited in the freight room or the station in retirement"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-07-20
Received With Lethnrgy.

Boston Herald.
 It must be confessed that the an- nouncement that the cotton report scandal Is to be probed to the bottom has been received by the public at large with some degree of lethargy or indif- ference It is sadly to be confessed that not much is expected from 1t. It is still more sadly to be stated that 1t Is the common belief that If one of MT. Roosevelts nearest and dearest friends Is uncovered by the evidence of the guilty character of the conduct against which the whole country Is ex- claiming may cease to affect the Pres ident's mind and may blunt the Presi- dents purpose. This Is doubtless un- just to MT. Roosevelt, and this state of the public mind is to be regretted and deplored, but MT. Roosevelt's action in the Morton and Loomis cases Is dis tinctly the cause of the publics belief that an investigation like that whicn has been undertaken in the Agricultur- al Department will amount to more or to less according to the relations be- tween the exposed participants in the offence and the President
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-07-20
Elevator in CnnffoI.

Tt Is certainly to be hoped that out of the few thousand dollars to be de- voted to the improvement of the old Capitol. the Building Commission will decide to specify an elevator" said a prominent citizen yesterday. T know that the most pressing business up to the Commission at present is the erec- tion of the south wing, the plans for popularly condemned. They will have plenty of trouble, I believe. in settling the problem Of whether they will listen to the rumble of disapproval of these plans and at last decide to build a three-story instead of a two-story wing.
 "Still, for the benefit of the attaches of the Capitol and all visitors in the future, I am certain that an elevator In the present structure would be. the most welcome improvement the Com missioners could decide upon. Some may think that because 1t Is extremely warm now I am too ardent in this matter. This cannot be true, because the complaint of daily climbing the steps of the Capitol has become too general to become confined to the whims of a single person. After the elevator Is. installed. there would be ample funds left for the further im> proyement of the interior.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-07-20
THEY BEGIN TO FEEL.

Whenever the pocket nerve is touched the victim Is pretty apt to saueai. and this Chinese boycott. founded on our ilAberai treatment of the better classes of those people. has had an effect that few expected. In no part of the Union has there been such an insistent demand for rigid exclusion of Chinese as on our Pacific coast, especially in California. The people there were almost rabid in their opposition to the importation of cool tes. and in their demands that all such should be excluded from the country. Cheap Chinese labor" was their cry, and 1t was largely through the in- fuence of that section of the country that such drastic laws and regulations have been enforced.
 But now, as we are informed, these same people are aroused by the pros pect of their lost trade" Of course they are. That is the sort of argument they can all understand. Tell them of the injustice of treating educated and high class Chinese men and wo- men like they were lepers or felons and they will laugh at the argument. but bring them face up against the problem of Host trade" and their com prehension is wonderfully quickened. They can see that a dog-in- the man. ger policy may act both ways, and that those who are so rabid in their efforts to close the doors may have to pay for their exclusiveness
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-07-20

discssdit to him or his vessel. The court which was called to try him failed on all the charges. though he was suspended from the naval service To our way of thinking the only rep- rehensible act of Commander Barron in connection with the matter is that he afterwards killed Commander De- catur in duel. but that was strictly in accordance with tho spirit of the times.
 But the Chesapeake was afterwards defeated and captured by a British vessel, these newly-fired conservators of . nations honor have discovered. and that ends 1t. It Is true that the Chesapeaks's fight under Lawrence was one of the most stubborn and desperate battlAs of the war. IL is true that the Chesapeake's commander was mor- tally wounded. and that his final words to his officers Don't give up the ship." spoken as hs was being carried be- low. have become a classic. It is true that the ship was not surrendered un. til nearly every oficer was killed or wounded. and 1t Is also true that Law rence's bravery and his defense have given deathlsss fame to himself and the vessel he commanded. AS The New York Times puts 1t:
 Suppose tho victory did go to the Captain of the Shannon; only the deep CT students of history know las name o1fs, 1oday, while tnat of LaTrenGs is in as possible from being that of disgrace Americans speak as proudly. of the Chesapeake as they do of Bunker Hill. soundly beaten by thC British. "sev- compared with chesapeake" 1t Is i'm d sdo. S aas ar nSS Sosen soGa s in the United States--be what 1t may. and "Chesapeake" Is a name of exactly the sort that cannot be too well represented In our nomenclature.
 Yet in spite of all these historic and undisputed facts the administration. in a sudden spasm of patriotic virtue. endeavors. as far as lies in its power. to bring shame on the old ship and her commanders and to lead the Amer ican people to believe that 1t is a dis grace to an officer or cadet of our navy to train or serve on a vessel bearing the name of Chesapeake. The Mttleness of the act is almost incon- ceivable. but there will be found plen- ty of fawning friends of the adminis- tration who will commend 1t and point to this latest evidence of soltcitude for the honor and reputation of the Amer ican navy. There are some things wholly beyond moderate criticism.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-07-20
Must Commit.

Charlotte Observer.
 Not long ago The Durham Herald said: "We are not so certain that Mir. Butler will be able to fool nobody. |" The Montgomery Advertiser doubted if this is a properly constructed sentence and called for expression of opinion. Thereupon the oracular Landmark, of Norfolk, looked wise, cleared It's throat and delivered itself:
 Tt all depends upon what The Dur ham Herald means. Some one may have suggested that Mir. Butler would be able to fool nooody. and The Herald may have intended to throw doubt on that suggestion. The context Is neces- sary in this case If intelligent judgment is to be passed"
 Context nothing! Every sentence In Herald Is a complete editorial in itself text, context and all. Commit your self, squarely, without lodging!
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-07-20

The Boston Post intimates that it isn't fair to criticise Depew. since he was only one of many who milked the Equitable" That company seems to have given down milk right freely, and the fortunate milkmaids who were drawing the lacteai fluid were having a good time till some fly bit the COW |. But is 1t good policy to refrain from condemning one man because others were equally guilty? If Depew was only "one of many" that is no reason why he should not be criticised. He at least must have known what he was doing even if all the others did not. and certainly knew that some of his transactions with. the company were of a decidedly shady character, and that he received benefits for which he rendered no corresponding service. There is a goodiy array of milkers.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-07-20
Make a Horse Laugh. New York P0at

New YOrk POst.
 The commission of Special Junior Ambassador Loomis ito make an in vestigation of the business methods Of the various diplomatic posts or the Roosevelt has done. Is enough 10 make a Rough Riders horse laugh. Loomis own business methods have been only partly Investigated, but enough was un- covered to make men hold their noses. Apparently, however, the President has not the faintest idea of the disgust with patton of Loonnis He showers honors upon him as if his character were as white as the driven snow when all that the people can see is the driven white wash. It is said that the State Depart ment wishes to devise means of keep ing our representatives abroad better
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-07-20
sidewalk PeneiIinaS
The Militant MiIitf..

o. they took us from the office and the
 store,
 And they told us they'd dress us up SO
 neat They would teach us how to drill-and
 more They'd give us something really good
 to eat. 1t didn't matter whether we could shoot Or whether with bay'net we were
 game, Far a. uniform we're filling and lager
 beer we're swiling. We are cit soldier boys just the same. Oh, it's militant militia You can hold tender hand. You can make queer eyes at fair
 ones,
 Throughout our whole broad land. With a rife you're ferocious In your uniform of blue. Here's to you, Sirs militia, For we think that you will do.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-07-20
THURsDAY, JULY ae. 1905.
A JUST JUDGE.

All honor to Judge Berry. of Ken- lucky for the stand he took to pro- tect a witness in his court She was the mother of large family and was an important witness in a case in his court. and. as we learn through the Macon Telegraph. attorneys sought to disclose to the jury some fact of her early life which might have prejudiced the jury against her as witness. The judge maintained that as the woman had established herself as in every way worthy. and as her testimony in the particular case was marked by absolute honesty. 1t was the duty of the court to protect her from insinua- tions and admissions wholly irrelevant. He declared it to be his policy that every person subpoenaed as a witness could come before him absolutely confi- dent that they would not be abused. In this way he hoped to administer justice and to prevent its perversion."
 Because Judge Berry had thus pro- tected a witness from what we cannot designate otherwise than as a disrep' utable attempt to discredit and humil- fate her, and thus weaken the force of her testimony the attorneys filed a motion for a new trial and the judge denied it. If the woman herself had been on trial she could not have been forced to smirch her own character. and we think no fair-minded person will contend that she should testify against herself when she was a witness against another; yet this was what the attorneys tried to make her do.
 This judge did just what all judges should do under like circumstances. There are unfortunately some attor- neys whose only object Is to win, and to do this they will resort to any meana to confuse and discredit a wit ness. Some judges, we are sorry to say, never interfere to protect the wit ness, and we have known of cases where the latter were shamefully treated without a word from the bench in disapprobation or reproof. That there is Jess of this badgering of wit nesses now than formerly is q credit to, the bench and bar of the country, but the case above cited shows that 1t has not entirely disappeared.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-07-20
ITALIAN wORKMEN.

Their Praises Sounded by One Who Em-
 ploys Them. From New York Herald. To the Editor of The Herald: Just a word to say how delighted am with my Italian workmen and their splendid. upright and faithful character generally.
 There is not a class of immigrants in the country fit to hold a candle to them. All my friends who employ foreign labor have discharged every other na- tionality to the exclusion of these hard working, right living, sober and (when
 John W. Ross. New York. July 15, 1905.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-07-20

"Go to the bottom." said Roosevelt to Wilson. and the order Is all right, provided the Secretary begins at the top of the rotten departments and works his way to the bottom. dealing out justice all the way down. If, how ever. he reverses things and begins at the bottom. which is to be feared, he will never reach the top. and the leading sinners will all go free. It is not the habit of the administration to punish any of the big fish but the lit- tie ones will do we'll to look out.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-07-20
Euxland,s Young Nobility.

The titles of nobility won by English men on battlefelds and by council table are Haunted today in a disauietingly large number of cases by pallid weak linEs, skirt-dancing men and poor slaves of skirt-dancing women. Tho fortunes wrested from the seas by sturdy pirates or won by nanufactur- ing enterprises are being dissipated in hundreds of cases by futile fellows without wit enough to justify their Meaning.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-07-20

The Portland oregonian hands to MT. Depew these left-handed compli- ments:
 For the world cannot frown at Mir. Depew; 1t cannot take even his sins seriously. There is some thing gently ludicrous about his graft of $25,000 a year upon the forlorn Equitable Life which disarms the critic. It Is very much as If some cherub had been caught safecraeking. We read his confession of getting a swindling joan from the Equitable of quarter of a million upon property worth, only half as much. and try hard to burn with righteous indignation. It is vain. No one can burn with indignation against Mir. Depew. He Is a sort of fabby moral prism which dissolyes the hot .est wrath into smiles. He Is a pro- montory of spiritual mush and molas- ses from which the lofttest ethical pillows return in sweetened fwavelets It Is not credible that Yale Is half as angry at him as she pretends. Can it be possible that she is making a scapegoat of her venerable son7
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-07-20
Value of n Good Newspaper.

ChattAnOOBA IImes.
 Alabama authorities are still making a speciality of suppressing peonage, and 1t gives us pleasure to say that the fact Is due very largely to the manly the creation of a sound and healthy public sentiment on the subject, made by The Montgomery Advertiser. The value of such a newspaper which mod which stands above and beyond per sonai or political considerations in the presence of popular rights and the gem eral welfare, can hardly be estimated. entiment in the radius of it's Influence, for good morals and sound politics.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-07-20
once HoIdin. its Mission.

The Virginia Republicans are think ing of turning lily white" if credence Is to be put in the dispatches from the Old Dominion, and not only do the man. agers intend that it shall be a white mans party. but they intend that the man and brother shall not even look on announced that the thing Is to be done at Roanoke, where few negores reside and where there will be no interrup- tion of the process of eliminating the colored contingent and relieving thern
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-07-20
One of Her own.

Birmingham Ledger.
 If Norway is determined to have a King. why not elect one of her own people? The talk of huntingNup a Bo- naparte only makes Norway ridiculous. The Bonapartes are not of royal blood, not fit to hold any kind of office as a rule. Norway has fit men and patriotic sons who could and would rule royalty.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-07-20
A Curious Fact.
Mobile Register.

It Is a curious fact that the first pa per to print that Elihu Root was to re- turn to President Roosevelt's Cabinet was The Panama Journal. It got the news from Washington under date of July and "scooped" even the Wash ington dailies.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-07-20
GEO. J. KENNEDY,

Practical Hydraulic, Pneumaue' nS Mechan ana teal and Steam EngiT ger. sih ana ma. SIS ts nave % Your Factory or Works piped with my my system of piping to heat the same a wPn 1rns .ns returning the condensation or hot water back into the boiler. guarantee smaa loss by evaporation and no back pressure.
 win make examination. and furnish plans and superintendence.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-07-20
Is The Men.
Gadsden Journal

GauSueN JOufHdI,
 We don't believe in the theory of tainted money anyway. It's the men who are unclean, and not the money. Whenever it Is put to an honest use in the cause of bettering mankind the money will be clean enough no matter from -what source it comes.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-07-20
Now and Then,

Birmingham Age-Herald.
 A lot of foolish people envy Peary because he is going to hunt the North Pole. Next winter they will be shout ing murder every time the janitor lets the steam go down.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-07-20
Sunday and the Military.

Editor The Advertiser:
 Advertiser: Why this wholesale desc cration of the Sabbath by the State troops? Could they not have found some day other than last Sunday to in authority required to keep the law as well as a private in the rear ranks Where was the Adjutant General that my solemn protest against such H.
 Your truly,
 W. s. Street, Pastor M. E. Church, 8.