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The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-04-11
IN A SPECIAL CAR.
Speaker Cannon and Band of Orat,
 to Tour Country.

Speaker Cannon and Bnnd of Orators
 to Tour Country.
 Washington special to New York Mall.
 The Republicans have at last suc- ceeded in finding men who are willing to serve as officers of the national con- gressional campaign committee. These men accepted the responsibility reluc- tantly. They were really drafted by Speaker Cannon after weeks of unsuc- cessful efforts to persuade men with experience in the management of con- gressional campaigns to serve.
 The Republicans in the House are in something of fright over the out next fall. Recently many of them have run home for brief spell, and the news they bring back is not en- couraging.
 tour in a special car that will take the Speaker into all the districts that are regarded as doubtful. A score or more of the ''spellbinders" of the House will be assigned to accompany him in his relays. Representative Watson and the two Landises of Indianapolis are on the list of ..'country savers" made up
 It can be said authoritatively that Republicans who refused to respond to the organization's whip will receive a helping hand If they need 1t. The Speaker is determined that the Demo crats shall not capture the next House; and he will not make any distinction between regulars and insurgents.
 Several manifestations among the people are responsible for the panicky feeling among the Republicans of the House. The growth of the habit of independent voting is worrying the old timers. Members from Various States are receiving advices from trust ed lieutenants to the effect that the people. to greater degree than eyer before are disposed to put party aside and vote for men who will agree to do things the way they believe they should be done.
 lican leaders in the House leads them to believe that organizations of vari- ous kinds which have heretofore not meddled in politics to any great extent
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-04-11
Explaining 1t.

NOrtolk Landmark.
 It has never gone down as an ac- cepted historical fact that John Smith, when he and his comrades settled at Jamestown in 1907, made the first land ing and settlement by Europeans in what Is now the United States.
 These men made the first permanent settlement by Englishmen in North America Other Englishmen had made landings and temporary settlements ana other Europeans-not Englishmen- had made permanent settlements; II is well established that she Spaniards made permanent, settlement In FIor- ida before 1907. But the Jamestown settlement was the one of paramount historical importance. It would nave been a great calamity if North Amerl- ca had fallen into the hands Of spain
 The claim made by the San Fran cisco lawyer. which so impresses our Montgomery friend. has not the re- motest bearing upon the merits Of the Jamestown appropriation bilL The claim is advanced upon misappre- hension thoroughly understood in Con Eress. We are not going to celebrate q the first permanent settlement oy Spaniards. but the first one by, Eng lishmen. 1T we were celebrating the first landing by Europeans. unques- tionably the Northmen would be en- titled to the palm. The evidence that they touched our shores several cen- turtes before Columbus is qulee clear and convincing. With their settlement in Greenland. they could hardly help
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-04-11
AnsrnAcr COMPLAINTS.

We reprint from The Ashville Aegis l an editorial which calls upon critics of the present administration to point out wherein it has been unfaithful to the public trust. That is 1t precisely. The Advertiser has invited those who charge the present administration with
 bad business methods to name the par l ticular item to which they refer. They absolutely refuse to do 1t.
 Is there any compIsint on account of l the schools; they have received an av- craze of s4oo. 100000 for each year of 1 the last five years over the disburse-
 ment for that purpose of any preceding year. Do they complain of the ..,loant l of money paid out to the old soldiers?
 The old soldiers got last year. and win get this year four dollars for every
 one that was disbursed any year that ] preceded the first year of the present
 administration. Do they complain at
 the tax rate? Tho State tax rate Is lower by one mill. or one-sixth of the
 whole, than it was when the present Governor came into once. Do they complain at the interest on the pub lie debt7 It Is already greatly reduced. and after July first will be .s1.ooo.oo less each year than when he came into office; and the principal of the debt it. self will, at that time. be greatly re- duced. Do they complain at the >usr- plus? ! There is three-quarter of a miilton-dollar surplus in the public treasury. Do they complain at the man. agement of the convict department. or as to the health of the wards? The rec- ords will show that the mortality is less than ever known in its history. Do they complain of the income from that department? The State treasury shows that the State is getting about ssoo.- oo0.oo a year net more than it got the year before this administration went into ofiica.
 There are complaints in the abstract. but not one of the critics Is willing to put it's pen right down on the ex- act spot. The Advertiser has invited them to do so, and they have unani- mously avoided accepting the invita- ton.
 The fact Is. the records show that the present administration marks an epoch in this State, and we venture to predict that long after those who se- verely criticiss it. and find no good in it. are dead and forgotten. the men who are responsible for present con- ditions will live in the grateful mem ory of the good people of Alabama
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-04-11

The Portland Oregonian concludes an editorial in favor of tariff revision with this warning to Republicans: If the friends of the tariff honestly intend to relieve it of some of its un- fair and iniquitous features, it might be well for them not to postpone action too long. If they do, they may awake some fine November morning after . smashing defeat at the polls. and find tariff revision an assured fact in the hands of political party which has never been regarded as friendly to the tariff. MT. Payne and other stand patters will do well to get their ears to the ground and listen to the rum blings."
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-04-11

chioness De raiieyrand- -Perigor: of Mrs. Oliver Belmont's unfortunate sis ter, the late Vfcomptesse Frontillat, who, on her deathbed must have regret ted that she ever changed her name from plain Mimi Smith.
 Farther afield than France there is Kay. who married the Prince Colonna Stigliano, scapegrace If ever there was one. Quite recently this lady, when she desired to marry of her daughter, found herself obliged to buy her hus- bands consent to the marriage.
 Count Arrested for EOrgery
 What pleasure, too, it must have girl who married the Spanish adven- furer Count Peneloza to hear after her divorce that the Count had been arr rested on a charge of forgery.
 "There are many other familiar in- stances known which show that as g rule the marriages of cultured and well-bred American women of wealth with continental noblemen do not turn
 Tt is to be noted that these French. Italian, Russian and Spanish noblemen do not marry beautiful Americans without money or American actresses however much they might be inclined to associate themselves with dancers and singers. No. it is to the English nobility that the penniless Anna ROD insons and the Frances Donnellys nave
 "The French and other continentaI noblemen want money and nothing else and but for the money which comes to them in the shape of doweries they would seldom eff ever) go to America for their wives.''
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-04-11
Chanxea Sentiment.

The Chicago Tribune thinks the American people have gone far afield from the ideas of the stormy recon
 of this marked change of sentiment the speech made by Secretary Taft at Tuskegee last Tuesday Continuing; The Tribune says; The attemps of of laws and amendments passed through various stages of terrorism, until 1egel basis for antagonism to the use in changed constitutions which ac- complished the desired object. since that time, except for some faint op- jections, the country has seemed 70
 so far as its effectiveness Is concerned the Fifteenth Amendment has become one of the dead parts of the Constltu- ton. as have also. certain parts or the tory of the latter years of the sos It
 the United States Secretary of War.
 in the heart of the south # fact,iy sns rs gests that the desire of the Southern people to avoid the fraudulent and vlo- lent methods which were wont 10 over law square with the actual conditions indicates a turn for the better. Ap- parently no Republican leader of infiu.
 ence nov cares t. urge the position A of son and Grant administrations
 The present attitude of the nation is this respect Is not so much change
 of sentiment as. 1t Is. a. return to req frenzied partisan feeling.
 The New York Tribune recently spoke of the feeling that produced the
 reconstruction acts as ''the enthusiasm a euphemism. All the sane people q
 any section are now willing to adh.. { that it was great mistake attendant
 with evil results for both the blacks
 and whites in :. the South. It could policy. of fanaticism and sectional hate prevailed.
 But there is no movement of any constitutional provision by the laws of the Southern States which restrict suf- frage. The Tribunes statement that 1 the Fifteenth Amendment Is dead let | ter can be refuted by citations of what Secretary Taft said at Tuskegee. He
 law could be framed that would ,de-
 bar them from the privilege of the bal l lot if they were properly qualified. And that is entirely true. An Alabama
 law which refuses the elective frani iran, aspect from one in Massachusetts that does the same thing. The only differ ence Is that it is aimed at illiterate me-
 groes in Alabama and illiterate for eigners in Massachusetts. The ,intelli- gent property-holding negro can vote in both States. The illiterate blacks
 can vote in neither.
 It was an entirely vicious and ln-
 sane policy that placed the ballot in when the greater number Of whites A the South were disfranchised. North ern RepublicaCa of today read the his-
 tory of the later sos and early '7o's
 in making acknowledgement of the
 complete inequity of reconstruction.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-04-11
A Hypothetical Case.

New York World,
 Judson c. Clements. of the Inter cent address to the National Assoeia-
 But in respect to all these matters. of SR the by tss Tawsg mission, there Is no body of public men responsible to the people of this coun- try who may be intrusted with this subject that will ever under our con- ditions of government become extreme, radical and confiscatory and undertake to destroy properties of railroads.
 Perhaps not; but has MT. Clements carefully considered all the possibili- ties of the situation in which railroad rates were regulated by an appofntiXe liam Randolph Hearst or some other energetic friend of the plain people were President of the United States. ing iSp election were one of great popular discontent and dissatisfaction, like 1896 for example. Suppose that out of the West or out of the East or out there W came a vociferous demand for lower freight rates on the plea that the railroads were confiscating the profits stata sf ndus5g sepOscs na swamped with petitions for lower rates. Does MT Clements think that President Hearst would not be able to apply sufficient pressure upon the commission to have these requests granted?
 What the courts might eventually do with the commision's orders would be a matter that need not be considered. The election would have been held long before final decision could be ob- tained from the courts. Even IT all the rulings were reversed the Adminis- tration would still have the votes that it had won on the issue of lower rates.
 We do not say that anything like this would happen. We merely ask not happen, with an extremely radical President leading a still more radical party
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-04-11

sDemocratic crib;. but consisteney and integrity it seems would dictate diff ferent cOurBe toward the party which cneved thtm refuge in the time of great
 The few Democratic papers. if they can he called such, attacking the ad- mtnistratfon In the attempt to weaken It's prestige in the present campaign. must either have some ax of their own to grind, are Interested in some dis gruutled politician, or actuated by a mercAnary motive. We can see no oth- CT ground for their attitude toward Governor Jelks at this time, whose administration has furnished the Dem- ocratic party record to be proud of, and one that can be held up before the people In the presence of the oppon- ents of the Democracy, with the invi- tatfou to them to look upon 1t, and to point out wherein 1t has been unfaith- full to the public trust, or shirked a
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-04-11
The Tribe of Exposers.

New Y ofk Mali
 The professional exposer, whose name is legion nowadays, appeals to a standing want in human nature. He that goeth about, says Hooker, to persuade a multitude that they are not so well governed as they ought to be shall never lack attentive and favor able hearers" There is one other point peculiar to the exposer wherever you find him. He is the maker of impos- sible myths; he has an ambitious imag- nation. That is how he gets a wide audience His material-polltics and business, or both-is dry enough when treated in a matter -of-fact way; It must be treated in a mater of-fiction way. Recourse must be had to the sub ject matter of historical fiction-the individual as the shaper of events in- aS the weaver of some gigantic web. One always has the sense of reading continuation of The Wandering Jew" with its exhibit of Jesuitical dia- bolism, when he buries his nose in a l0-cent magazine
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-04-11

the mans heat except in one way. It may be that he had his wife with him and knew that she saw the wink. and that h6 only chance to save his hair was to affect to be exceedingly angry at the girl. It was grand stand play no doubt. and the court should have taken the circumstances into consideration and let the poor mar. of.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-04-11
Let the Farmer Have Cheap Alcohol. Maxwell's Talismar.

Maxwelrs Talisman.
 Intensive farming-the getting Of many crops from small acreage--de- pends for it's profitableness on the ex- tent to which the employment of hired labor can be avoided and the land owner do his own work. Every aces sorry which enables him to increase the effectiveness of his own brain and muscle increases likewise the profit to be recorder at the end of the year. Cheap power for the running of the farm and dairy machinery is one of the most important of such accessories, Alcohol, If freed from the internal revenue tax of $2.08 per gallon. would afford such power. Derived from res fuse or surplus grain. potatoes. and other vegetables. for which there is no market, it can be produced at a cost of 5 to 1b cents per gallon; and a gall Ion will. 1t is said. create as much pow- CT as two gallons of gasoline. It is also superior as sproducer of light and warmth. Here Is resource which Congress. 1t would seem, should not deny the farmer by refusing to repeal the duty as is now demanded: provid- ed alcohol to be used In farm and other industries shall be at once denaturized and made impossible of use in bever- age, thus throwing it out of possible competition with the stun so used, and from which the government derives large revenue.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-04-11
Power Behind the Throne.


 Berlin Is today In the midst of a po- litical sensation. His Excellency Herr Won Holstein, the Vortragender Rath in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, has rendered his resignation. It is no- table feature of this period of gossipy publicity and personal interviews that the very name of this man, who mas wielded such extraordinary power, in- cluding the deciding voice in nearly all diplomatic appointments during his lifetime. was hardly ever mentioned was never known to make a public speech during his whole life or attend court functions, and he only met the present Emperor once or twice, and that, 1t is said, by accident in the street. Whatever his idiosyncrasies may be he is a pyramid of self-con- tairied character in a peculiarly expan- sive age. and although his name Is well known in every chancellery in Eu- rope he is not known by sight to fifty persons In the whole of Berlin.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-04-11
STALLION No MATCH FOR BULL.
Horse Worth s1,4e0 Killed in Twen-
 ty-Minute Battle.

Ellxaoeth, N. J.. special 10 Phliaoeipnia
 Record
 In q twenty minute battle bull killed a stallion on the farm of Paul Hoern. near here, yesterday The stall lion belonged to a man named Rheimes, of New York, who had sent Gustave Breem to bring him home. After a chaae Breen caught the animal. and throwing a. red blanket over him start ed for the gate.
 Hoffer's bull was feeding in the pas ture. and just as Breen neared the gate the bull saw the blanket and charged. The stallion accepted the challenge. terked away from the driver and bat- tered the bull with his hoofs. Breen called for help and 8 dozen men re- sponded armed with various weapons and went at the enraged animals, but they continue to fight.
 Finally the bull made a quick charge and caught the horse near the shoul- der, laying open his side, and the horse which was valued at $l,400, died almost immediately. The bull was badly sash-
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-04-11
PAY FOR TITLES.
American Girls Who Wed Frenchmeu
 Warned.

Warned.
 London Cablegram.-"Several ladies whose names have been so unhappfiy mentioned in connection with the Cas- tellane scandal have gone into tempo rary seclusion," says The London World, which. taking that as a text, proceeds to moralize thus:
 Tt is curious how many American women have been unhappy in their ma trimonial experiences with European noblemen. Especially is this the case in France. The contugal misadventure of Countes Boni De Castellane. born more or less unhappy marriages re- gently made by wealthy American girls with French noblemen.
 There is the much to-be commiser- ated Duchess De Valancay, who as Miss Helen Morton was a fine type of the accomplished American heiress and an ornament to any society. Brought up In the most refined manner and with literary attainment. she married the absolute Due De Valancay. fascinated by the glamour of his title.
 Her Family Nearly Ruined.
 She suffered for several years from the indignlties and cruelty of her hus- band. and though she saved her hus- bands family from absolute ruin and his family property from the brokers by paying $100.000 she afterward dis covered not only that the whole of her dowry had become forfeited to the sordid family of her husband but also she had no right to bear the soiled rnud-bespattered title of Duchess De
 There, too, is the miserable example
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-04-11
NO Agreement As To Details.

Detroit Free Press.
 theoretically the promotion of uni versal peace through the medium of international agreements offers an ideal solution of differences arising be- tween nations The practical results have not been such as to arouse any vast degree of enthusiasm, however. At lection to the Transvaal being given a voice in the deliberations was sus- tained The provisions relating to arr hitratlon proved distasteful to several of the powers represented and 1t was only on the broader proposals that the signatures of those present were ob- taIned.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-04-11
oId Fashioned Morals Needed.

WAH 6ITttl JUuTIIeII'
 A number of people are proposing woodrow Wilson, president of Prince ton University, for the Democratic nomination for President of the United States in 1908. Dr. Wilson has already written his platform. It consists of one sentence and yet covers nearly the whole field. It was contained in a re- cent address delivered by the Princeton president It proposed as a, solution for our economic problems the appli- cation "of old-fashioned morals to new fashioned business" That's the whole thing in a nutshell.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-04-11
ROW OVER DEAD MULE.
Panama Commission Raped for Re-
 fusing to Pay Animals Fare.

Washington Special.
 Because long cared Government mule died of seasickness the Comptrol- Ter of the Treasury and the officials of the Panama Canal Commission are in an awful stew Aside from its value as a mule in Panama, the mule was valuable to the Government because Commissioner Bishop. formerly the press agent of the Canal Commission, signed a livestock contract with a steamship company, saying the freight would be considered due whether learned or not earned"
 The mule, attacked ny seasickness, died. He was heaved overheard. When the steamship company put in its bill the Canal Commissioners held out $25, being the first-class fare for one Gov ernment mule.
 The steamship company protested. and Comptroller Tracewell rendered a decision today that if mule starts on trip to Panama and then dies on the way the fare must be paid just the same. He said Commissioner Bishop, though, had nc right to enter into any such contract with the steamship com DanT
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-04-11

In an article in yesterdays issue of The Advertiser the omission of a word did an injustice to Representative Un- derwood. The sentence was printed thus:
 Mir Underwood was courteous en- ough to object to MT. Wiley's reading to the House, the protest of Judges Toulmin and Jones.
 MT. Underwood did not object and the little word not before object" was unintentionally omitted
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-04-11
D RIFT w o 0 D BY PHrL IL ARMSTRONG

A lot of men would be better off if they would stop trying to lead in everything else and lead in pfayes Music hath charms for the performer in most cases, Air castles would be all right if they weren't 70 often hot air castles.
 4 bsrber put phonosraph in his shop the other day and now wondere why there are no customers. A large part of mans life is mads m or being misunderstood
 After the expensive Panamas weru by the men last summer they have no right to kick at their wives Easter
 Going to church isn't always bsins shell to your car is hearing the roar | of the ocean.
 A sn men ms may have both feet bandased kick uD an awful row.
 Satan always finds some work for duire union card.
 Women would consider the Venus Di Milo much more attractive figure if she were clad in princess gown and an Easter hat.
 The vocabulary of the school girl is made up Of two words; cute" ana
 A boarding house is judged by ths boarders It Keeps.
 Its a big operation to cut expenses.
 a
 It would appear. that a man iyn't confronting very large obstacle when he goes against his better judEmsss. "Alas." said the maid. my complexion
 As she looked in the glass when the
 young man did leave And she little knew as the young man He brushed that complexion from on
 his coat sleevs.
 -
 Sometimes a man is so set in his ways he won't stand for woman.
 One doesn't get any real en3oymens wearing false teeth.
 When the Trout Begin to Lesp. When the trout begin to leap Tn the pools so dark and deep so %hen graestuiiyy tss ihii,y Ssafs SsaEon p1 fly i Ought to work but rather not Wn Whsn a2sk the trons sna Sssin as ~s to ss When the trout begin to leap Let Let yonr soul in nature steep Simply fling aside your coat T TS the e. lengthy Eth % timbsrs hike hike you Don't lie around and sleep When the trout begin to lean
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-04-11

It is downright amusing to read the frantic affiliations of some of our Northern contemporaries in their ef- forts to make it appear that Southern Democrats have repudiated the doc urine of States Rights because they ap- prove national quarantine, It is no more an invasion of State rights for the government to defend tine State against an enemy in the form of dis ease than it would to defend 1t against an enemy in ships. Our Republican friends are welcome to all the capital they can make out of the Souths po- sition in this matter.