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to breaking down the barriers of partzanship and
teaching the people the obligations of citizenship
The Senate is what the people have made 1t except
that being once removed from the people it has
yielded to the debauching and demorahZlng ten
dency of the age much less rapidly and markedly
than the House has The House has time and
again shown its lack of equipoise and self-control
1t i1npeached Andrew Johnson, and lacked only
vote of successfully carrying out the program of
that band of consplrators headed by Thaddeus
Stevens which had marked the South for destruc-
ton. The patriotism and wisdom of the Senate
saved from that greatest danger which the coun-
try has ever passed through just as this same Sen
ate refused the Force Bill after it had been
driven through the House under the whip and spur
of bitter partiZanship.
Call the roll of great Americans, great in every
sense of the word, and leave off the list those who
have been members of the American Senate and see
how the nations greatness will shrink see how its
history will lose in brightness and glory. Let me
name some of these a reminder to the shallow
thinkers and babblers who going up and
down the land abusing and maligning this great
body of American statesmen. Let us call the roll
and see the shades of the dead who have honored
the Senate and been honOred by it march IN pro-
cession: Clay, Webster Calhoun, Hayne, Benton,
Trumbull, Cass, Thurman, Seward, Sumner, Blaine,
Ben Hill, Zeb Vance, Hoar Lamar Hunter, Mason,
Chase, Breckenridge Bayard Benjamin, Hendricks,
Toombs, Conkling, Matthews, Voorhees,, Sherman.
The Question of Precedence
RUT why add to the long and llustrious list 1t
~ would be easy to double and treble it with names
llustrious in history, and these have been re-
mind of anyone to try to write history of this
great Republic without mentioning the name OF
United States Senator, the inevitable result would
be most ptlabe carlcature, a most anne and I'M
potent conclusion.
There are several men who are still in the Senate
whose names will inevitably be added to this list
of our great dead when they themselves cross over
the river" For obvious reasons none of these liv-
ing Senators can be mentioned in this connection.
Their records made and are making, and their
countrymen will in due time render verdict on
their worthness.
The Senate will remain as it was intended to be,
the balance-wheel of our governmental machinery.
Those who criticize and abuse it will find their abors
vain in the effort undermine and destroy its
funess or IN any serious degree lessen the respect
and admiration which the American people feel for
this great and grand department OF our Government
The swarm of detractors will vanish by and by like
the gnats of sumner-ti time and just in proportion
as the people shall realize their responsibilities and
rise their duty in participating in and controlling
public affairs just far will the Senate continue to
make history of which the nation will be proud
The shadows murmur, but the deeps are dumb "
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than any seeking OF Wild
flowers, " fresh with the dew
of dawning spring"
Yet Maia's day is full as
venerable as Allhallowe'en,
or the feast of good Bishop
Valentine, or New-Year' S
Day itself. 1t is far more
ancient than Christmas. Be
side it a Fourth of July or
even a Thanksgiving are as
very infants by a graybeard.
England's church may have
attempted to take it over, by
then generating Saints Philip
and James the Less; but the
festival goes back to prehis-
toric India, to years when
the Druids built May bonfires
on what is now Onslow
Heath, to Calends when the
Romans recalled the Goddess
Flora in flower -decked pro-
ceSsiOnS.
What's not devoured by Times
destroying hand'
Where's Troy and where's the
May-pole in the Strand2
Practical America, for all
her general neglect of Flora
and her fetes, yet may an
swer old Bramston's final
query. The May-pole OF the
Strand-that sixteenth CEN
fury center of springtide
revels, beribboned by the
cavaliers and beshrewn by
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Senator Hoar's Indictment

COMINs1 down to our own day, at least to
~ period within the memory of men now living,
George Hoar the great Senator from Massachusetts,
now a1as gone from midst), while member of
the House of Representatives of the managers
in the Belknap impeachment trial in 1860, made
this startling and impressive statement:
Ny public life has been very brief and insignificant
extending little beyond the duration of single term
OF senatorial office but in that brief period have
five judges O. high court Of the United States driven from
Office by til. of impeachment for corruption alad
rlnistration have heard the taunt, from frendlest
lips that when the United States presented herself the
East take part with the civilized world in generous
competition the arts of life, the only product her
institutions which she surpassed all others beyond que
ton her corruption
have the State in the Union foremost power
and wealth four judges of her mpeached for
rupton and the political administration OF her chief city
become disgrace and byword throughout the world.
have the chairman of the Committee Military
Affairs in the House distinguished member OF this
court his place and demand the expulsion of four
of his associates for making sale of their official privilege
of selecting the youths be educated at great military
school When the greatest railroad in the world binding
together the continent and uniting the which
wash shores finished | have national
triumph and exultaton turned bitterness and shame
by the unanimous reports of three committees of Con-
gress-two of the House and here-that every
step OF that mighty enterprise had been taken IN fraud
have heard in highest places the shameless doctrine
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to hold their high places and while these instances
OF turpitude in no fair sort OF way be sad to
reflect in any justice upon their colleagues, there
is still in the public mind feeling OF distrust which
causes every mans actions and record to be closely
scrutinzed The country is really watching with
expectancy, and the question in many minds IS,
Which Senator will be caught next? 1t is IN
such trying times as this and under this cloud
of ob1oquy that the student of history turns to
the record of other parliamentary bodies to make
comparison, and also to compare the Senate OF
to-day with other transactions in Our legislative
history.
In the British House of Commons, Disraeli said
that long after the close of the American war,
and within the memory of men who heard him, a
member of the Government stood below the gang
way at the final adjournment of Parliament and
gave five hundred-pound note to every member
who had supported the administration. In the
earlier part of the last century it common and
necessary method of getting a seat IN the English
House of Commons to bride the constituency, and
in the days of George H. Walpole used bribery so
brazenly and unblushingly and so successfully that
he laid down the maxim that every man has his
price" Yet English liberty and English consti-
tutional government have not proved failure
but in every way the England of to-day is the shin
ing example of the progress which great people
inherently virtuous and does make toward
higher things.
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SUNDAY MAGAZINE FOR APRIL 70. 1906

avowed by grown old in public Office that the true
way by which power should be gained in the Republic
bride people with the offices created for their service
the end for which should be used when gained
the promotion of selfish ambition and the qualification
personal revenge have heard that suspicion haunts
the footsteps of the trusted companions of the Pres
dent.
These things have passed into history. The Hallam
Tacitus the Sisond the Macauay who writes the
annals of time will record them with his nexorabe PEN
The comparison which is thus drawn between the
Senate of to-day and the corruption which threat
ened to overwhem the country thirty-flve years
ago can but rebound to the benefit of the Senate.
The demoralizing forces at work produce no
such examples of debauchery and corruption as
Senator Hoar depicted. Things are bad but they
have been worse and if we seek a remedy for
the evils which now apparent, it is easy to find
and also easy to apply
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THE times have changed since Milton sang.
Modern America knows not the gentle glories
of May day. The courier of the fifth month means
a moving OF household goods and chattels rather
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listening groups in the quads and narrow streets,
is remarkably sweet and solemn; but, with the
first clash of the first strokes from the belfry,
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Dangers of Direct Election

THERE is a widespread clamor for the cleo
L ton of Senators by the direct vote of the
people, and in a measure this system of electing
for this exalted position already obtains in the
South in the party primaries.
1t works well there; but it is doubtful if the same
results would be obtained in the other portions OF
the country The Southern people are far
homogeneous than those of any other part OF the
Union. They more American IN their lineage
and in all of their ideals than the people OF any
other section and the fact that there practically
only one party and that partizan politics have small
sway in the South makes it possible to have men OF
the highest character and attanments chosen IN the
primaries. If we should attempt to choose Senators
in this way at the North the selection of candidates
would necessarily be in party conventions, and 1t is
not at all certain that the same influences which
have debauched Legislatures and often sent TN
worthy men to the Senate, men who were the repre-
sentatVes of special interests or corporations, would
not be Just powerful n party conventions as they
are in the Legislatures. When it is considered that
these same conventions would also nominate can
didates for Governor, it is readily how danger
for Governor and candidate for Senator, which in
most instances would be irresistible.
After all, however, the publication If it comes at
ALL be obtained by the publication OF the cleo
torate. No stream rise higher than its source;
and if the people are ignorant and debased the
elected to govern them will be of like character.
There is nothing truer in government than that the
representative represents and only patriotic and
intelligent citizenship watchfu of public affairs,
compel the election of none but pure men to the
Senate.
Those persons who are eXpendlng their energies
and exhausting the vocabulary of abuse, trying to
destroy the respect of the people for the Senate,
could much better devote their time and attention
, 1906-06-06
AVALON BOOMING!

You may not know that since most of the ground on Seven Mile
Beach at Avalon, New Jersey, has been purchased by a syndicate of
Atlantic City capitalists, among whom are John l.. Young, x-Judge
Joseph Thompson, George and James Bew, and many others of Allan
tic City, extensive improvements are being made. Contracts have
been awarded for a mile and a half of new graveed streets and ave-
nues, and the work is now progressing. Also contracts for 3 miles of
cement concrete curbing have been made, and as soon as the weather
permits, three miles of cement sidewalks will be constructed. More
than 1000 feet of water pipes have been laid this winter. The Bor-
ough Council is now having plans and specifications drawn for an ell
ectrc light plant, and at least six good cottages are being built this
Spring.
Remember that Avalon is Municipal Borough that is practically
out of debt, its waterworks being worth as much as its bonded debt.
Avalon has no floating debt, and has a cash balance in the treasury.
Taxes are lower at Avalon than ata any other seaside resort in Cape
May County.
a new company to be known as Avalon Summit improvement Com
pany, for the purchase of a section of Seven Mile Beach, which is the
highest ground on any of the island beaches in Cape May County.
Sand hills on this tract are IS feet above the level of high water. Long
Reach Thorofare runs within 100 yards of these sand hills. All along
this thorofare boathouse lots have been laid out. The fact that any,
one can take a boat a few hundred feet from the highest and best lots
will always be a leading attraction to this tract of ground.
While this is the very best piece of seashore property ever offered
to investors, we are offering it "a a price that would have been cheap
20 years ago, when the other beach resorts in Cape May County were
just starting,
If you have missed all the opportunities of the past to invest in
seashore property, do no. fail to embrace this one.
, 1906-06-06

II loUe you, and / aUdnt Uou t h,ns'. 30 "
ed to the door just in time to see a vast
balloon shaped cloud of smoke rise ma
%jestically above the mist, bullying into
the blue sky above.
"Now they've done it!' he called in a
c%uriously reflective one that was al
most comic.
"What was that?' asked Ann.
tro BE Continued
, 1906-06-06

the beginning of my third year."
He FASTENED on. you mustn't judge
me hastily. 1t came on my return aft
err furlough. That's the time when the
routine and discipline pinch hardest
on the men. After two years of grind
that | hated | had a visit home-a de-
licious free time-and to get back into
school, back into those cold, gray bar
racks, vas like going into Il strait
jacket. The first few weeks after the
vacation are times of disorder, Il period
of boyish deviltry, and | took my share
in it. My breach of discipline was
nothing more than Il boys frolic. |
should have beer punished for it, and
that would have ended it, but | hated
one of the officers, the disciplinarian,
and when he rounded me up he rasped
me till / lost my head. Being Il quick
tempered youth, | answered him. He
abused me shamefully, and | struck
him in the face, and that ended my
stay at West Point"
"Oh, how foolish! How wrong,'
mo, it was not wrong. | would do
1t again. The small sneak used Il tone
in addressing me which no man has a
right to use to another. You wouldn't
suppose a tone could hurt, but it did.
1t cut like Il lash. Well, that ended
my career as n soldier. My home was
on the Ohio river, not far from Cincin-
natl, and my family still lives there.
Our whole country is rich in traditions
Of General Grant, and my father had
aa1aatnJ mo out ~ all b;, .an, b. 10
the soldier of his family. You know
how some men try to map their sons
careers. Don't you see. l couldn't go
home?"
Yes, | can see 1t was hard for your
father. Was your mother living?"
yes, she's living yet. l write her
every week. but not one word has
passed between my father and me
since my dismissal. Naturally enough,
l drifted west and into cattle ranchiug.
l liked the excitement of it, and I'd
been trained to ride and to shoot. l
gradually became cow boss and fore
man, and SO you found me, with a few
thousand dollars saved up. Your COM
ing changed every current in my life.
| became ambitious to do something,
to be rich. | came here, | bought this
mine, and there shines my gold" He
held it toward her again. Now l can
go home. My court martial becomes a
joke. Don't you see? My father is
human. He would not receive me poor
and disgraced. With a big mine behind
me the case will be different"
"Are we all p%urchasable with gold?'
she asked.
His high mood sank a little. Don't
misiudge me. It's not so clear in my
mind as when | met you at the door.
Money does help-you know it does.
1t extends a mans owe it makes
, 1906-06-06

ROl II. Anu IL IL INV, AeOpb
I want you to keep it for U.S."
Eyes" said Kelly, "Tve been Of use
to you in finding it; now do you be of
use to me in keeping it."
Il will, Matt!' said Raymond, and
the two men shook hands on a new
compact. Both Matt and Nora were
too engrossed with their new found
riches to observe the deep sadness of
Raymond's face.
"Now." said Kelly, watch out for
Curran. He'll bate us out of it if he
can. | depend on you to stand off the
lawyers and the gamblers"
'"The mist is rising" called Ann
from the doorway.
AS she spoke Il tremendous report
arose from the obscurity where the fog
still chung.
Now, what was that?" queried Matt,
and all stood transfXed with surprise
and vague apprehension.
Another and duller report followed
one that shook the ground. Kelly rush
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1906-07-06
The Legislature.

The next session OF the Legislature
will be the most important to the
northern counties of the State of any
that has assembled since the civil
war. This becomes evident when the
motive behind the great clamor that
has set up for a constitutional con
vention, TO modify the organic laws
of the State, has been discerned.
White supremacy, intelligent govern
msnt and prosperity are some Of the
blessings that have accrued under the
present constitution, and how a
change could promote the interests
of the State is not apparent.
But there is always an element that
is not willing to let we'll enough alone
and engages in d vain effort to i'm
prove any condition however auspi-
cious In this instance that element
represents the southern counties of
the State, where the population is al
most entirely white, and where the
complex problems that confront the
people Of this section do not exist. In
the last decade or so, South Missls-
sippi has grown populOus and rich,
made SO by the transformation Of its
timbers into wealth, under che oper-
alton of the present excellent State
constitution. Now these people claim
that the constitution does not give to
them a fair tote in the distribution of
the public school fund nor in the ap-
portionment of representation in the
legislature, and would change it for
another more to their advantage. 1t
would seem that what has "toted''
them to wealth and population would
be good for them to9ive under longer.
But alas, it is not so.
The purpose Of this article, hoWev-
er, is not disclose their designs, but
to reveal the danger that threatens
the interests of this section. If more
of the school fund is distributed to
the south counties less Of it will come
here, and if the representation of that
section is increased, the representa-
ton of this will be diminished.
These are self-evident truths that are
pfeSehIeu 10 prove bIlS liiloi"' 7u"'O
ment of this article, that the next ses-
sion of the Legislature viii be the most
important to the north counties of
Mississippi of any that has assembled
in years.
Then The Weekly reiterates its
statement of four years ago, that we
need statesmen in the legislature
men who have the influence, mental
power and nerve to guard well the
interests of this section of the State.
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1906-07-06
A fearful railroad wreck occurred

A fearful railroad wreck occurred
near London Sunday morning, q
fast train full of passengers Jump
ing the track while speeding at a
high rate. Twenty-seven passen-
gers We're killed and many wounded,
most of whom were Americans who
had just landed from a steamship
and were concluding their journey
to the English capital 1t was a
terrible casualty and the suffering
and loss of life were probably great
er than ever before occurred in the
United Kingdom. Casualties Of
that kind in America have often
been the subject Of various degrees
of criticism in the way of censure,
sympathy and advice, from our
English cousins, and the expires
sion of their public sentiment in re
gard to this late tragedy viii be Of
interest.
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1906-07-06
Rural Route From Prairie.

The following explains itself:
EDITOR OF WEEKLY, Aberdeen, Mis-
issippi,
DEAR SlR:-I am in receipt OF a
letter this morning from the Post
Office Department stating that pc
titions for rural delivery, numbers
$3.50, sent to me by W. J. Goode,
Jr. of Aberdeen, Mississippi, and
8952O, sent to me by w. E. Eikner,
of Prairie, Mississippi, both Of
which ask for the services to start
from Prairie, Monroe County, Mis-
sissippi, have been granted, and
that these two routes viii 60 into
effect on August 10Th, next. VIII
you kindly make mention Of this
fact in your columns for the bcne-
fit Of the people directly interested
in the establishment Of the servicc2
Thanking you in advance, | ann,
Truly
+. s. Chandler Jr,
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1906-07-06
In reply to questions in regard to

In reply to questions in regard to
the grand reception that is in pre-
paration for Col w. J. Bryan upon
his return to this country in August
that statesman has informed the
committee of invitation and arrange
ments that he does not desire the
participation of representatives OF
the trusts, of whatever party or af-
filiation, declaring that he viii not
have the trust brand placed upon
him for any consideration. This
declaration was made with the
knowledge that several we'll known
financiers and trust promoters were
on the reception committee and
Mr.. Bryan did not hesitate to say
that they were not acceptable to
him. Mr.. Bryan grows larger every
day and stronger in the confidence
and admiration of the American
people.
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1906-07-06

Candidates for State offices are
conducting their campaigns in a
way that is appreciated by the voters.
Deputy State auditor E. J Smith,
who is a candidate for Auditor, is
sending out a statement of the ap-
propriations made by the last legis-
lature, together with carefully COM
piled bank statistics. While State
Treasurer W. j. Miller, who is a
candidate for Insurance Commits
sioner, is sending out a statement
of Mississippi's financial condition,
covering a period from Oct. 1899 to
1905. The Weekly extends thanks
to both gentleman for the appreciat-
ed favors.
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1906-07-06

The Republicans are very dubious
about the outcome Of the fall Con-
gressional elections They will make
their fight mainly upon the issue Of
vindicaUng the Roosevelt admins
tration which is about their strong
est card, Notwithstanding the Pres
ident's administration during this
term has been chiefly 4 voicing of
Democratic policies, at least that
portion Of it which has been enact
ed into law or been the subject of
heated controversy in the recent
session of Congress. The President
and three members of the cabinet
are scheduled to take an active
part in the campaign, which Of it
self emphasizes their solicitude and
indicates their fear that the Demo-
Gratis will capture the next House of
Representatives.
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1906-07-06
+. s. Chandler Jr.

A hundred years ago the best ply
sician would give you a medicine for
your heart without stopping to con
slider what effect it might have on the
liver. Even to this good day cough
and cold medicines invariably bind the
bowels. This is wrong. Bees LaXa-
tive Cough Syrup with Honey and
Tar acts on the drives out
the cold-clears the head, relieves all
coughs, cleanses and strengthens the
mucous membranes of the throat
chest, lungs and bronchial tubes.
Sold by j. a Gay.
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1906-07-06
While the inspection of packing

While the inspection of packing
houses, hotels and bakeries is going
on, would it not be well for Uncle
Sam to look into the compounding
Of the numerous kinds of patent
nostrums and proprietary medicines
that are being gulped down by a
credulous public? If there is some
thing rotten in our meats, there
may be something dangerous in our
medicines.