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The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-07-10
NOT A coon LnsEn.

There is fresh proof that the brag- gart Conner campaign managers ars getting very much alarmed over ths change that has been so rapidly devel- oping in the situation. They are bit ing and snuriing in every direction The Birmingham News, their mouth. piece, Is a safe weather-vane indicat- ing their state of mind.
 The News of Saturday was fairly bristling All it's quiils were sticking up. 4 large part of It's editorial space was devoted to attempts at boosting the waning Conner campaign. There were leaders and there were para graphs. The literary bureau of the braggart campaign was working under pressure.
 It Is not surprising that The News in this straining effort should have showed It's teeth at The Advertiser. MT. Conner himself never fails to roast The Advertiser on every stump from which he speaks, just like Kolb and Johnston did in years gone by. He has not yet found out that his intolerance of the criticisms of The Advertiser and other Alabama newspapers has been one of the causes of his undoing. In show ing his spleen at the press. he has un- consciously made a revelation of his own smalIness and bitterness. which has disgusted many of his hearers.
 The News in following Mir. Corners example Is making great biunder It is not doing this paper any harm. for the people of this State know The Ad- vertiser to be an honest newspaper, conducted on high lines, possessing convictions and always having the courage to express them at the proper time and in the proper way. Nor Is The News doing Mir. Conner, Judge weakiey or any one of its favorite can- didates any good with its sudden and unwarrante1 development of temper. It is simply exhibiting its own lack of brains and self-control.
 Now Tho Advertiser is not going to bandy words, or to thresh over old straw, with its mad contemporary. That won't do the cause of Cunning ham any good. But we seriously ad- wise The News to keep cool and to learn to be good loser. Everybody knows that 1t ieapess into the Conner band wagon months ago. when 1t thought all 1t had to do was to look handsome aud to ride Into easy vic- tory. as the chief bugier. The Demo- crats of Alabama understand and ap- rreciate that The News has had many disappointments in this campaign. from the distoyai State Committee on down to this bitter >hour. But even if 1t does not have an opportunity of claiming that 1t elected Mir. Conner. and fails to get some handsome recog- milton for its unsslfish, patriotic devo- tion to the interest of the dear people. let it content it's soul in patience. Maybe 1t will have better luck next time,
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-07-10
SEEING THEIR DEFEAT,
 THEY HAVE GROWN DESPERATE

for his party or the people os Alabamaf The only answer that can honestly be made is. that he has accumulated money from the sweat of small chil.. dren and built up big cotton mill business, from which he has grown rich; that he was never heard of until he wanted something; that he made. a. lot Of promises he failed to keep; that he has drawn about $16 per day of the peoples money and openly proc1aims that he has done nothing to earn 1t: and he promises, if greater honors are
 heaped upon him. that he will do sone- thing. s Comer's whole record is made up of promises and inaction, yet he is hailed
 as a savior by those who hope to benz
 eft by any honors that may come to him.
 pr. Cunningham, on the other hand, has a record for services performed
 both to his party and the people. The
 only thing urged against niin
 Is brought by Mr Conner. V io
 proclaims that Dr. Cunninghanl's plat
 form is good, but that his environment
 is against him. This is worse than false, as Mir. Conner is the owner ot.
 several corporations and Dr. Cunning
 ham lost the only job he ever held with
 a corporation by voting against the in.
 terests of his employers while meme
 Der of the Legislature.
 Conner Is beaten and desperation is written In every issue of his organ The Birmingham News. % seHasa
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-07-10
A Good Law.

Charlotte (N C.) Observer.
 The Montgomery Advertiser quotes a citizen as favoring the making of burglary a capital offence Nothing would help more to decrease burglaries than to let 1t bc known that any burg lar caught and convicted will be continues: "In North Carolina, burg lary IS a capital crime and there have been a number of burglars hanged in that State. People can go away from their houses open without any fear of them being robbed. A great many peo- pie sleep with their doors unlocked" It is true that burglary in the first de- State--a fact which has caused much unjust criticism, thet law by some be. ing termed barbarous. It assumes that one who will enter by force the sleeping apartment of another In the night time Is prepared to kill. and in numerous instances this fact has been only too well established. It is o'ly in the most fragrant eases, however, that a man Is executed for the crime of burglary. The law defines burglary in the first degree as the breaking into q dwelling house during the hours of darkness. One may brsdk into a dwell Ing while 1t is not dark and ne would not be guilty of crime punishable by death; or if he went fin during the night through an unfastened door he would also escape conviction of a cap ital crime. Therefore 1t Is difficult to convict of burglary in the first degree unless some attempt Is made to injure the inmates of the house entered. The Montgomery citizen Is probably little off in regard to the good effects of the law, as 1t Is not the custom by any means to leave houses open. But the law which makes burglary capital offence is good one, and IL IS ques. tionable whether the Legislature did not weaken 1t too much by providing degrees of the crime.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-07-10
Peculiar Position.

DtTUUpUIIN IILUF ..,,,,t . A
 For a man who poses as purist in politics and a reformer and econo- mist President Bragg Conner or the culiar position He has secured le- gal opinion which he Is announcing far and wide to the effect that the commission Is Illegal, and yet beliey- acts are null and void still holds his position draws his salary of five thou sand dollars per annum, rides in tram deluxe and makes speeches and tres their votes for him for Governor of this great State Really such thing barely escapes being criminal
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-07-10

ural and logical results of Independ- once Day. In fact. the boy who had most burns and other injuries about him was looked on as the hero of the day. and liniments and piasters were considered the highest evidence of patriotism.
 It is not so now, as the reports from all sections prove. The slightest in- jury from an explosive now is danger ous. A slight wound from a bursting shell. a scratch from a piece of cart ridge, even powder burns are source of peril. We read few days ago of a boy who died from blood poisoning caused by only one grain of powder being imbedded in his flesh. and the papers have numerous reports of fatal results from powder burns and stains which in former days would not have been looked on as of any consequence.
 Why there are so many fatal resuits from apparently trihing injuries Is matter that is attracting attention, and the only reasonable explanation We have seen is that poisonous ingredients are used in the manufacture of explo- sives. If shell explodes and a fraE ment of it buries itself in the flesh, or even if 1t merely tears the flesh slight. ly, 1t carries with 1t some of the poison of the material of which 1t Is made. If a premature explosion drives some grains of powder into the skin there is real danger. In all such cases blood poisoning may, set in and death ensue. Many such instances are brought to light of late years.
 The fault can only be in the mate- rial used in the manufacture of all modern explosives of the cheaper kinds. It Is not reasonable to sup pose that people, and especially chill dren, are more susceptible now than formerly, or that a slight injury should be more likely to produce fatal results than 1t would years ago. There Is something in the material used, or in the manner of making explosives that renders them dangerous, and there has been serious talk of investigation and correction, if possible. Perhaps the pure-food law can be stretched to cov- CT the case of fireworks.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-07-10
DRIF W o o D
BIT F HIL IL ARM Mo N es

Broken Reflections. The ear-marks of genius often neea washing.
 %%@ The, only recreation some reopie seem to care for is climbing mountains before they get to them, aIabaster neck. and marble heart must be about the hardest proposition ever. It is quite natural that in cultivat- Iine. your voice the instructor should get rake of.
 There is no monument so tall to q man as a high opinion.
 6 % # Honeysd words can't stitch together broken promises. You can't win a good reputation by gambling. Ss E Ss Men are a good deal liza egEs--you can't judge the inner worth by looking at the exterior.
 Ideals. You say they are an ideal coupler "Yes; she is still looking for her ideal and so Is hs."
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 In the Shade of tlae 'rRecm. MT. Bore-fIow nice found you all Miss cutting-very remarkable dis- play of intelligence on your part to dc
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 HiR." Jiggs-what did you think of Tores' BiggsMwas struck with 1t on firss sight. E * #
 Wafchius. Watchin' dat big wstah- melon Goodness, how he's growa Gracious no--dat ain't no tellln' What he weight--LoFd knows. Ans had ma eyes on him so steady Ma mouf An has to stop en wipe Mistah melon An Is done ready When you gwine to get good rinsT
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 The EE0ney-Suclk1e Porch. The honey-suckle porch--- / How often I would sit s1y Upon the old red bunch i; And watch the moments flts. Drinking in the brenth Of perfume ever raFA Waited by the breeze ..l Upon the langurous atr. The honey-suckle porch As children there we played Laughter ringing free Young hearts undismayed The only world we knew Was on Its broad plank floor We heard the sparrow's chirp And sighed for nothing mora The honey-suckle porch Today has fallen in. No more the stiffness their :" Is broken by our din For we've long since gone away-s Soothened here and there And the honey-suckle,s breath Is waisted on the airl
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 Moonlight and Mandolin Moonlight and mandolin Hammocks and girl The best combination To set you a Whirl Oh the sweet silver tinkle The soft Southern words Is 1t music of angels Or music of birds9 Moonlight and mandolin Sweetheart Jennett- The spell you have woven-~ I'll never forget. Do you know that my heart You are teasing within While you're teasing the strings Of your sweet mandolinr
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-07-10
BANKHEAD,s SPEAKING DATES

Hon. J, Fl. Bankhead, candidate for Alternate Senator, will address the vOt- CTS in the interest of his candidacy as RolIONSg
 MOntgOmery-COurt House, Tuesday, July 10, s D. m.
 Hartford, Wednesday, July II, p. m. Dothan, Wednesday, July II, s p. m. Hendland. Thursday, July IF, 10 a. m. Enterprise, Thursday, July IF, ?. m. Ozark, Friday, July l3, 10 a. Brundidge, Friday, July 1S, a. m. Troy, Saturday, July -4. II a. m. Union Springs, Monday, July 16, II Q. ERA.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-07-10
TUESDAY, JULY 10, 1905.
SPEAKING PLAINLY.

8mld the multiplicity Of hystericat outbreaks in which certain Northern people and newspapers have induIged over the alleged mistreatment of the negro Ransom, of Boston. and she many fierce aiatribes launched against the Southern people for the marty.- dom of "a high-minded Christian gem tleman." as they delight in pictm ing him, 1t Is encouraging and somewhat surprising to find some plain talk from q newspaper of his own color. The New York Age Is negro organ. and it begins an editorial on the Ransom case as follows:
 We note with astonished disgust the deal of mRudiin sympathy which sew eral Of our contemporaries are wasting on Rev. Bevefdy Cassius Ransom-a phenomenon due mostly. we suppose, to the unprinctpled enterprise of The Bos- ton Guardian: How justly did that on the Niagara Movement. of which pr. Ransom is the Bourke Cochran. by it's leaders depraved adventures in the Southi With frantic and interruptions zeal The Guardian hurriedly flooded the country with several series of lies, in- tended to exculpate Rev. Rarsom by shifting his guilt to the shoulders of
 
 of Normal. Ala
 The Age. 1t is true. gives some cre- dence to Ransom's statement that he was '-mistreated by white rufIians" on the train, but if there was any rough treatment it was doubtless because the negro was drunk, troublesome and in the wrong place. There were three reasons why a negro might be treated roughly on train in this section. Passing that by, however, The Age concludes its comments with these stinEing words:
 untaught by this humiliation. he per sisted on his homeward trip in his de- votions to the bottle: and@we are ashamed to write it-labored to induce several young students, his fellow travellers. to join in his revels. Worse rival :n Boston to the consciousness of his frightful predicament and the urg- ency of evading it, he did not scruple to who had treated him with A generosity much beyond his deserts, and to asperse his benefactor with the most injurious calumnies. Bv the sophistry of charity all of Rev. Ransom's other offenses might be palliated; but this last exhi- bition of baseness and cowardiee admits of no excuse
 Those Northern people who had at tacks of acute mysteries over the all legged wrongs of another poor man and brother should read and profit by the plain language of colored editor but we predict that they will do nothing of the kind. What they should do is to put a bell or a muzzle on Ransom, or have him locked up.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-07-10
Two Positions.

Selma JournaL I-
 MT. Corners followers have been strenuously denying for some time that there was such a thing as the Gun ninEham wave" They seem to be changing their assertions a little now and are saying that the Cunningham tide" has reached it's flood and Is eb- ping We can not reconcile the two positions but suppose ,Le versatile genius and unfettered imagination of the ghost finder of The Birmingham News has no difficulty in harmonizing them.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-07-10
CUNNINGHAM DATES.

Lieutenant Governor Cunningham will address the people at the follow ing times and placesi
 Geneva, Tuesday morning, July 10. sIOcum Tuesday evening, July 10.
 Columbia and Ashford, Wednesday, July II. Four appointments fin Coffee county July 12 asd IS.
 Troy, Saturday morning, July 14. Brundidge, Saturday evening, July
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-07-10
Montgomery Must Have It.

The one important outlet for Mont
 gomery is a steam or electric railroad to the north and northeast, by which the Capital City could control the trade of a wonderful territory of diversified interests Coming on up the Talla- poosa river the new line would come in touch with fine timber belts and rich farming lands, besides 1t would reach the great power plants already con- structed and those to be constructed, which when completed VIII be the
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-07-10

Up in the embryo State of Oklahoma there is much political and personal activity with regard to the offices to be filled, the first being the delegates to the constitutional convention. The people will make a great mistake If they allow partisan or personal bias to control them and thus send unfit men to perform that duty. A proper con- stitution Is the most important begin ming they can make. and 1t requires good and competent men to frame 1t.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-07-10
Attacking the Supreme Court

was nhs not ed''1e Very y' friendly to MT; Bryan
 he a5N did manage to Ahold his nose" ;ao, and d fs stren1e thai he should be attacking the tf stsapTS supreme t court of Alabama at this time-doing the same thing for which G Bryan was so bitterly condemned when ,l of the Supreme Court of the United states in the famous Income tax cases,
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-07-10

No better evidence that the base ball fever is catching is needed than this from the staid Mobile Register: "The Mobile team Is climbing toward the tor of the Cotton States League list. Hur- rah for our side!" This was actually In the editorial columns.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-07-10

The story that J. P Morgan snubbed MT. Bryan Is not hard to believe. The millionaire magnate Is one of the class of men whom Mir. Bryan so often and so sercely denounces.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-07-10

We are indebted to The Washington Times for the information that "the peek-a-boo waist is here to stay" For the bsneflt of The Portsmouth Star and some other benighted contemporaries The Times should explain what the aforesaid waist is.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-07-10

The latest protection against sun stroke for laborers and others who are exposed to the direct rays of the sun Is heavy woolen underwear. Is not the remedy almost as bad as the danger?
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-07-10

Whenever a legislative body, na- tionai or State, adjourns, there are many expressions of .Iet the country give thinks etc. Yet what would tr, condition of affairs be. If there was no legIslation. Russia points the answer.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-07-10

"why don't you learn to spell?" su- perciIiously demands The Norfolk Landmark. Why don't you it yourself to teach us7
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-07-10

Well, it is some satisfaction to timid people to reflect that 1t is about & year to the next Fourth of July. However. Christmas will come along to fill up the gap
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-07-10

The spartanburg Herald intimates that something like a San Francisco earthquake is needed to give the police force of that city "a thorough shaking upss
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-07-10

Whatever they may do to Shoot in the future he has the satisfaction of knowing that he can continue to rake in his salary as usual
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-07-10

Must we take to the woodsT' asks The Portsmouth Star. Well. 1t depends on how near your pursuers are getting.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-07-10
strikes Friend and Foe.

Selma Journal.
 The editorials which are now ap- bearing in The Birmingham News in reference to Justice Tyson and the charges that are being made directly and by implication that he Is being supported by the railroad oligarchy and cannot be trusted by the people go further than ans charges that we have ever read against any man where not one scintilla of evidence was pro duced to give a sefnblance of truth to them. As matter of fact. many of the men who are most ardent sup porters of MT Conner are equally as earnest in their support of Justice Tyson. In it's wholesale condemna- tions Tho News has ptaced itself in a position.
 ''where friends and foes were shad-
 ows in the mist,
 And friend slew friend. not knowing
 whom he slew"
 For instance, The Selma Times, the newspaper which opened the campaign for Mir Conner, and which was fighting for him long before The News came to the 1ino of hattie, supported Jus tice Tyson for the appointment for chief justice and has stated that 1t is supporting him in his fight for that office before the people.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-07-10

greatest distributors of power in the country-this to be followed by the es- tablishment of varied manufactories; the line will then reach Alexander City, busy hub of commercial and indus trial activity. and destined to be an im- portant manufacturing center, and here the new line would come in close proximity to the new and growing gold mining interests of this section now being rapidly developed. Surely Mont gomery will heed this opportunity. We are ready to cooperate with her in this rnavAmant nt any lime
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-07-10
The Post indulges in the following editorial comments:

It was not a great offense the pho. tographer committed and we should say the punishment was hardly fin keep ing. The snt sping of the camera shut prohibita It was simply an imperti- hence. Commenting on this matter editorial.y The Post says:
 The Declaration of July {, IT'S. and town in October, 17s1,, were in. vain if a peaceful citizen Is to be knocked down for trying to make picture of the President of the United States, Curiosity exacts tribute of greatness, and did when Moses led the children of Israel out of captivity.
 The King of England may not un- bidden enter the cot of his humblest ernment ever made; and shall we in free America allow to go unrebuked an outrage on the person of a citizen which ough. to be more sacred than the domicile of a subject?
 The culprit is an officer of the law set about the President to protect him from personal injury; It is his duty to try. not a jury to convict. nor ar executioner to punish but he made himself all these. and in the doing of t he became a malefactor. It is said the injured citizen was "dis5uaded from lodging complaint with the local justice." @-...
 Ine act or the secret SerNlCe NndH was an outrage, neither more nor less. If the camera man had smashed his in strument over the ruffian's head he would at once have been arrested and punished. but he would have served his assailant right. We admit that the photographer may have been imperti- nent or obtrusive. but he was violat- ing no law. The place he was occupy ing was not forbidden ground. neither is the person of the President sacred The oficIous secret service man, like the rufflanly Barnes, thought he would earn high favor by playing the bully as he did. Perhaps. still having the example of Barnes before him. he hopes to get a good office as q result of his act The unpleasant incident" was a dissraceful example. of oficiousness on the part of a man dressed in a little
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-07-10

dispatch to The Washington Post:
 An unpleasant incident slightly marred the first minute of the Presi- dents return home. Just as he was him, a camera man snapped his shut ter. One of the secret service men bounced on the photographer and struck him a stinging blow on the woman's arms, in drawing back his elbow. The baby set up 1usty howl ing. The secret service man justified his somewhat vigorous action by say was an old offender. who had often given trouble by taking snapshots at ill., timed moments. The camera man plaint with the local justice, and he went back to New York with his plate intact, but badly damaged cheek and optic
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-07-10

Eet Sunday Average for May .... .td.ssI 
 r. & No .. Circulation Manager of The The foregoing statement os The Adverti- gsrs ejaculation for the month Of Nay. 1sess ts true and cesrsct. and comptled ef- ter all ret ms from news boys. news agents. spoileq and isft-over copies have been de- ducted. E. s. NOBLE.
 Circulation ManaEef. .sworn to and subscribed before me this
 F V. JACKSON.
 Notary Public.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-07-10
ANOTHER EXAMPLE.

4 forcefui reminder of the Mrs. Mor- ris outrage is found in the following dispatch to The Washington Post:
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-07-10
fI- ef gc It Will Do Good.

Some day the Supreme Court of Ala bama will affirm the conviction Of white murderer from Covingh non Coun ,n,, will attach the death penalty. some day there will be wholesome respeGt for the law in Covington County; Co,y,t It It nrdsr tof ohtain this respect, but the time is coming up the hill rapidly
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-07-10
% '1t T Easily Duped.

Columbia Breeze.
 We heard on the streets the otner poor to take his home paper. but all the same he read a notice in one of our county papers telling how to prevent n6 for receipt: when the $1.50 worth of information came, 1t said reach vour horse to spit.