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The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-07-15
SUNDAY. JULY ls, 1908.
BETTER CUT TT OUT.

z When the present campaign In Geor- gia Is over and the accounts closed the proper thing for The Atlanta Journal and The Constitution to do. will be to have their files bound and buried. or afewed away in dark cellar where no one will be likely to see them. We don't think the managers of the pa- pers will have any stomach to read any of the issues dealing with the campaign. and we feel pretty sure that nobody else will have a desire to read them.
 With nc desire to be unduly criti- cal or hypercritical we feel bound to say that the way these two papers have been conducted of lcte is dis- creditabie to Southern journalism as well as to the papers themselves. In- stead of a dignified contest for prin- cipies the contention between them has degenerated into volumes of per- sonai abuse, vitupvration and recrim- inatton, each trying to outdo the oth- CT in the quantity, quality and bitter ness of its editorials and the volume VI tes cAAoo0 NSPOAtS' AueES mas gotten to be an almost total absence of fairness. dignity or journalistic cour- tesy in their editorials, the main ob- Ject of each apparently being to crush the other by mere weight of bras and invective.
 What good does 1t dor Does either of our contemporaries think it is mak- ing converts for its candidate. ad- vancing his interests or injuring his opponent by such manner of condueG- ing the contest? If so, it Is very bad ly mistaken, in our judgment. Such continuous volumes of personalities will be more likely to have the oppo- site effect and drive the disgusted readers away from the candidate thus advocated. To contend for one's prin- ciples is right, and to advocate the claims of a candidate is equally so, but when each issue of each paper contains from one to three columns of bitter denunciation 1t is not the right or the Southern way. There are eer- tain newspapers in the North and East that are filled with this sort of mat. ter but 1t is out of place down here. Can they not see that 1t is not good politics nor creditable journalism.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-07-15
A NEW DANeEn.


 A German University Professor comes across with an entirely new one. He recently lectured in Middle town. Conn. and among other things he told his hearers that the bite of a pretty girl is more dangerous than the bite of serpent As reported. he added:
 Professor Miller, who has made a special study. of the bacteria of the mouth. satd that only short time ago Germany and found that an arrow dipped in saliva from her mouth would send Its victim in death throes more terrible than one dipped. in the venom of the most deadly snake.
 Truly people never know what dam ger they are In, and from sources least expected. The Professors assertion Is one on the pretty girls and warn ing to the reckless young men who will do well to bear 1t in mind and heed it. We do not know that the pretty girls have q habit of biting. but one can never tell. and to the young man we say, beware. When you see her eyes Hash, her nostrils dilate and her upper lip curl. be warned in time and make break for tall tirn- Der. She means mischief. and the next you know she may snap you on the jaw and then it's you fer the doctor or the whiskey. Whatever else the pretty girl may do don't let her take . bite of you.
 It is true that if the young man en- tertains any doubt of the poisonous quality of the girls bite he might get her to try it on the dog. but likely shed object to that. IL she Is obIising she might draw a hat-pin through her mouth and jab the canine with that. and If no unpleasant results followed her fellow could consider himself safe.
 But the one thing that perplexes us. and that the Professor failed to ex- plain. so far ss we are informed. is why the bite of pretty girls only is dangerous We have heard the poets maundering about the danger from a woman's eyes, but that the pretty girls teeth may be deadly while the bite of the ugly one is harmless is one of the mysteries we can't solve. It may be that the Professor with an extensive knowledge of human nature. knows that beautiful girl will have q better chance than an ugly one to bite moon-struck young man. and hence. he thought it best to issue special warning to young men to be- ware of the pretty ones. At all events, Professor Miller has given new sub ject for the scholars to discuss and to. experiment on.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-07-15
D RI FIT w o O D BY PHIL IL ARMsTR Q No

Broken Reflections. It Is about as unpleasant 60 sit through comedy h at the e,dd theatre ,ss. with to be with one who never cracks a smile.
 A good neighbor is rather to be chosen than great riches. Any woman is welcome to keep her One of the symtoms of being. in love Is to part. your hair the. way she likes it. Love is the real variety progenitor.
 &&.& When a. girl wears one waist until young man in a thougStless moment has told her he likes her in 1t. Taking grain of quinine, with most children. goes very much against the grain,
 Rubbering after. a pretty" form Is sometimes stretch of the imagination. . It's expensive to be good fellow" but almost every man is anxious to @&% It isn't what the wild waves are saying. but how much your money . talks that goes at the seaside.
 Se < % If man didn't quarrel with his wife sometimes, she would declare him cold and indifferent.
 # SE as You won't think talk is cheap If you employ lawyer tS @ S So it. At the rate some women give a piece they have any left when they get old. , |, A os when the old man and the dog both form combine against you. If a young man never received any does from the girl who is in lovo with him. life would be Q kindergarten 2 If we could only take good advice like we can the measles
 When the Heart is Young. When the heart Is young And hopes are high When there's not a cloud In the blue. blue sky. A When every bird sings Songs of joy And you are either
 A girl or boy. oh @ its just To each note that's sungl When the heart is young.
 II When the heart is young The world doth seem A playground where Joy retgns supreme. Where the saucy sauirrel In the tree. Seems but to challenge Come play with mel Oh its just t'.t "Hello'- Where the vines are hung When the heart Is young
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 At the Play, tasa ,,, She says Jack is the, light or h@ 'Ts that the reason he goes out be- tween the actse'
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 Import ant. t9y8 Jlggs-She has neat figure. Biggs-Shape-or bank accountf
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 How Few! ''Elarriage is a lottery" "Yes.-and how few of us ever get . cash priEel
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-07-15
Foreign Labor and the Negro.

New 1Ork, Juty lO, lSVo'
 What effect will the movement or white foreign labor to the South have upon the southern negro?
 This Is a. much discussed question, not only in the South. but in the North, not only among whites but among blacks.
 In the North some fear has been ex- pressed that 1t will drive the negro from the field of useful labor. ana throw him upon the charities or the East and West
 The other day the writer was ask ed by a Rhode Island man of wealth and philanthropist of note: If you succeed in your effort what will be- come of the poor negroY
 am going to let two intelligent men of the negro race in the South and Tn the North make answer to tnls lh- Guiry.
 Booker T. Washington of ruskegee is now in New York, and Is glVing free expression to his views on the subject of white foreign immigration to the South. To this writer he sald: The views which you entertain are wholly in accordance with my own. l have said more than once that the coming of the white laDoring class
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-07-15

Dadeville Courier.
 Comer's defeat is in the air. It Is felt and talked everywhere and the tone of the Conner papers add to the impression. Argument. reason and hope have left their columns and giv- en place to abuse and all sorts of accu- sations, want of faith in all Cunning ham papers and followers as if they were traitors and enemies of the State. Why, they even go so far as to predict ballot box frauds. etc All this has. meaning. Wrong is not inspired by hope and ever carries with 1t the idea that everything else is crooked. Co., mer first went over the State talking. rate reform, vehementiy and denounc- ling everybody and everything not in line with him. calling people. papers and officers, servants and hirelings Of the railroads. attributing all honesty and sincerity to .Comeg but pr Gun sincere and trying to deceive the peo- rle. The second sober thought of the people revealed the fact that they had been mocked and treated like peasants and not as intelligent thinking people, and the resentment Is as wide and long as the State of Alabar1a.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-07-15
On the Race for Governor.

Editor The Advertiser:
 Let us reason together" Whom shall we. elect Governor?
 There is one sensible answer Dr. Russell M Cunningham.
 Why elect him?
 CD Because of his previous service covering a period of thirty years of acceptable and untarnished public life.
 (2) Because his public record and private life are above repreach, maS- ing him a fit example to our young men; Honor to whom honor Is due"
 G1 Because he has always fulfill ca the obligations and promises made to % the people, without respect to the office. He has accomplished something Tn each office before asking for eleva- ton to a higher trust.
 (49 Because he stands for all the people want in railroad regulation and offers the quickest way of getting re- lief; The people know that it will be easier easier. 10 elect two commissioners, who mission that it will be to elect whole or a majority Legislature to agree win tIle. a radical Governor.
 Flfth-Because he has no personal or corporate ends to serve through public office. He is dominated by no vested interest. not even a cotton mill interest He Is backed by no In dlVtduai or combination of capital. He Is free to do the will of the whole peo- pie.
 sixth-Because he favors adequate cnllu ldDor laws. To de1eat mm would set back such legislation four to five years and make the enactment of anti child labor laws more difficult as fac tories increase.
 sevea-kecause he IS in principal and political record d friend to labor and labor knows it
 Eighth-Because he feels the burdens or the people in that they press upon his heart and not upon his pocket book.
 Ninth-Because he is a statesman. This is proven fact. Ills record on educational, social, industrial and moral questions has sought the highest pos sible good to the greatest possible num- Der.
 Alabama needs better freight rates and some other things, as for instance local option" as advocated by the Anti-Saloon League, better 'child la- bor law etc A statesman has more than one idea, cal see all of these things and execute them.
 Then there is no sufficient reason
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-07-15
COMER LOSING GROUND
Reaction Set in Against Him.

Then, too. Dr. Cunningham went bs~ fore the people in a dignified way and pitched his campaign on high plane and turned the light of logic and req son on Corners tactics and as matter of course the manly intelligence of the people all over the State resents the insult, and lower appeals to passion and prejudice. It is too late in Ala hana to blindly lead the State by the cry of fraud and corruption and an appeal to the people that all rights of freedom and liberty are gone unless any one man Is selected as their Moses. It sounds a little like the negro's red stick, mule and forty acres of land In Tallapoosa as everywhere else the peo- pie feel as safe to trust Cunningham with the rate matter as any man In the State and know full we'll that as to education. State revenues. convict sys- lem, lmmi grafton. good roads. the de- veIopment Of our resources and the up- building of our State generally that Cunningham is far superior to Conner. The warmest admirers of Conner will not deny this to be true. Give the peo- pie time to think and oui1 out the truth and their verdict will be right,
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-07-15

Nothins more thoroughly illustrates the low and morbid curiosity which dominates certain classes In the large cities than does the report printed in Saturdays papers showing the way Mrs Thaw is annoyed by idle loafers Men and women crowd about the doors of the Tomhs building at the time sho Is expected to make her daily visits and push and surge around the en- france until it is almost an impossI- blity for her to get in or out the door. The police and guards make some efforts to clear the way and pro- tect the woman, but their success Is not very marked. If the hose were turned on these morbid crowds 1t would doubtless disperse them, and if the water were thoroughly muddy it would be all the better.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-07-15

would help in many ways. The ract IS there are three jobs in Alabama looking for every one man, and this him. making him Independent and up- reliable in his work"
 Another highly intelligent negro ject is Charles w. Anderson. Presi- dent Roosevelt's appointee to the im> portant position of Collector ot Rev. enue of the End district of New xorK. man of marked intelligence, ana whose appointment, by the way, shocks the sensibilities of many of our North ern friends.
 Collector Anderson stated to the writer that he was in entire sympathy with the work of turning the tide of foreign white labor to the South, that 1t meant stimulus to the negro Ia- lief of the congested oonditions in the East, and supplying of the demand for the industrial development of the
 T do not believe" said he '.that the worthy negro will be injured in any way by an inflow of white laborers to the South Cotton is now and aL- ways will be your money producer The cotton field Is the negro's native element, and he will not be suppiant- ed there. Yet, your public works ana millions of acres of uncultfvated lands. mountains of iron, beds Of coal ana forests of timber seem to extend an inviting hand to white and black labor from foreign lands"
 There is one point, however" said the negro official, ito which 1 will call your attention, and that is gem eral influx of white foreigners to the South is going to alter the political complexion of that section. in that when naturalization is acquired, pol litical representation will be demand ed, and your State laws do not include the educated white laborer from the field of political action"
 The above are the expressions of two of the real leaders of the negro CT from the North. These are the ex- pressions of the negro from the stand point of both sections. No reasonable, thoughtful Southern white man can question the fact that the elimination from the field of labor in the South of the negro would prove a calamity. He is a wealth producer, maker of our staple crop; and 1t is unjust to deny full credit for his usefulness. It Is the exceptions to the rule that we wish to stimulate. and falling in this, to eliminate him from our section.
 ws way tbs be Stta Te 19r the neg negrS cas as to be informed that not less than three thousand (3.000) white foreign laborers have entered the State of Alabama since January 1st of this year, and that the number will increase in mathematical progression under the efforts of the railroad system and oth- CT agencies determined to keep apace with. the. developing tendency of the day in all parts of our country.
 As Speaker Cannon remarked: This country of ours. is great success" problem of continued success" The politician can not do this, but the la borer and developer can, whether his skin be; white or black.
 To the laboring man is confided the destiny of the nation.
 Frank V. Evans.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-07-15

At length, after many pro and con opinions, science, in the person of Dr. Wiley. of the national Department of
 Agriculture. has come out emphati- cally in defence of sirup as 8 diet Whether cane or maple is not impor- tant, provided 1t Is pure. The minds of all the older readers will so back to the delicious sirup of former days, before the art of adulteration was learned. and when waffles, fritters and pancakes, liberally coated with slrup. were the very acme of good eating. We have frequently seen it stated that this article is not wholesome. and pos- sibly that may be true of some of the limitations forced on us in these lat ter days. but pr. Wiley is sure that good and pure sirup is not only whole some but strengthening. Bring us another hapjaek!
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-07-15
Captain Luck walnright.

Mobile Register
 The last of the old. Noble Register before the war steamboat captains who made history for Alabama waters, Is dead. Captain Luck Wainright de- parted this life at Jackson, Alabama, Tuesday morning last, full of years his day the best known man in all these parts. He was capable as a man and officer. and genial as friend and, associate. In the days when steam means of travel. the river trade here was very large and owners and mas ters of boats most important people. Wainright was the peer of any. There is many an old friend who will be sorry to learn that he is no more.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-07-15

for not electing Dr. Cunningham Gov ernor. He is in natural line for the promotion to the Governorship. And there being nothing against his record, it is the best Democratic usage to ac- cord him a promotion.
 AS he offers everything the State most needs, as a matter of swift right to the man, to the party and the state Dr. Cunningham should and doubtless will be made Governor, nor can preJu- Legion"
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The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-07-15
We clip the following somewhat mix ed dish from The Hartford Times:


 Secretary Taft asked in his Greens boro speech whether a President (Mr. Rooseveit) who has shown his adher- ence to the principles of equal. protec- tion of the laws to all u. Is to be rebuked and thwarted in his high pur- poses by the return to Congress of a majority of the opposition" The New Y9rh rs WsrS S. sgsa p in Fspy that ss ths M Roosevelt had first borrowed the 'op- positions policies and precepts. had next used its congressional forces in his support until he no longer needed them. and is in many States more like Iy to find Democratic than Republican frissndiy s0rny his future nlus ss not be denied" It is not an admis- sion that political issues have ceased to exist if the voters are asked 10 elect Democrats to Congress- for the purpose of supporting the policies of Theodore Roosevelt3
 The World here alludes to what was rather notorious during the late ses- sion of Congress. MT. Roosevelt did use Democratic Congressmen as long as saey could serve his purposes, and ne did throw them aside when they could no longer be useful to him. And the closing words of The Times are also suggestive. Why should Demo- crats be asked or expected to elect men to Congress if they are to fall in with Roosevelt and assist him in furthering his own ends and carrying out his own policiess
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-07-15

The Philadelphia Record is not op- posed to railroad regulation, nor to meat inspection, nor to pure food laws, but it Is opposed to all such legislation from Congress. It wants State regulation, and 1t does not want the Federal government to interfere. The tendency seems so far in the di- rection of Federal control of everything that 1t is doubtful If The Records de- sire for State regulation will be grat- fled. On the contrary 1t is more than likely that in a few years State Rail- roadCommissions wial allbe abolished. Under Federal law the Interstate Com mission will fix prices and rates on seventy five per cent. of all business.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-07-15

wrong practices, in all candor can we afford to go with the enemies of movement like this for relief
 The Press. like a good many other Conner supporters, makes statements which cannot be proven. The Ad- vertiser did not "hound' or abuse" MT. Conner two years ago and it is not doing so now. The Advertiser took very little part in the campaign two years ago and The Press can find noth- ing coming from this paper, which will justify It's statement above printed.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-07-15

The present House of Representa- lives is composed of 252 Republicans and 13s Democrats, giving a Republi- can majority of 114, The Democrats. in order to capture the next House. which begins its legislative life March |. 1907, will be compelled to capture fifty eight seats and not lose a single one they now hold. This is a pretty hard job, but 1t Is no harder than the Democrats have heretofore suocessful- lv encountered
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-07-15
Governor oate. Was Independent.

Editor The Advertiser:
 It has been stated in the press that MT Conner, candidate for Governor at Tuscaloosa or some other point in the campaign. charged that every Cover nor which Alabama has had within the last twenty years had been dominated and controlled by the railroads of thS State. 1 do not know whether he said It or not I am not taking any part in the contest between Messrs. Conner and Cunningham-I have enough to do to to say for myself. and In vindication of my own record, that when the so- called octopus bilP' was passed in the the A. G. S. Railroad from Chattanoo- ga to Meridian some 300 miles long, I vetoed the bill, although all the rail- tion was used to make me as Governor approve the bill. I did my duty as ] saw 1t regardless of the wishes of any one class. W. c. Oates.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-07-15

The editor of The Jones Valley Times published in Birmingham evidently counts on being elected Senator from Jefferson county. He makes announce ment that he will be a candidate for President pro tenn of the Senate and doesn't use the qualifying words If elected". How will he manage to be candidate for the latter place in case he Is not elected?
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-07-15

Why will the brethren so badly mis- quote the poets? The Knoxville Sem tinel tells us that 1t was Whittier who truly said: The saddest words of tongue or pen Are these sad words-'It might have
 beenH
 what Whittier did say was: For of all sad words of tongue or pen, The saddest are these: Tt might have
 beenP
 Quite a difference of expression, and Whittler's is the best.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-07-15

Is, or are, this, or these, the dog days? We find such differences of opinion among our contemporaries on the subject that we don't know wheth- CT we've got em or not.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-07-15

So far as we have observed neither candidate for Governor of Georgia has been charged with horse-stealing. Per haps the reason of the failure lies in the fact that such charge might cause libel suits. It may come later. though, if The Constitution and The Journal run short of other ammuni- tton
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-07-15
Why Governor JOhBsOn3 ifnp The AdvaFfiaar.


 Only few years ago when he was Governor, the Legislature passed an act to call a Constitutional Convention, with a view to getting. rid of the tg- norant vote-mnlnly the negroes of course. Nominations were made and among them were many the Governor did not like He then set to work to have 1t undone. called the Legislature together at a cost of more than twen- ty thousand dollars. and got the Con- vention law repealed He made this the entering wedge to his race against Senator Morgan, and was ingloriously defeated
 The people were determined to have a convention and would not submit to Johnston's dictation, and the Leg islature elected two years thereafter. passed another convention act under which the convention was called and held. The constitution it framed was submitted to the people for ratification Governor Johnston took the stump against it and tried to defeat it, not withstanding it disfranchised a large bulk of the negro voters. He told white men that it would disfranchise them and induced a number to vote against it, but 1t did no such thing. Now, how can Democrats who were in favor of the convention and the new constitution. vote for Governor Johnston for prospective United States SenatorP VIII somebody please an- swerf
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