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The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-03-22
Today In History

1512-Juan Ponce de Leon landed in Florida and claimed the honor of the discovery, although Sebastian Cabot sailed along the coast in 1497. He was led to undertake the expedition by the Indian tradition in Cuba that in the interior of the country was a spring which made those who drank of 1t young and perpetuated their youth. At & great loss of his men in the swamps and marshes, he penetrat- ed into the interior, but was driven back by the Indians without discover ing the miraculous fountain. at the entrance of Boston harbor ac- cidentaliy destroyed by fire. It was constructed of timber; since replaced by, a new one of stone ,,,u, Franklin, Dean and Lee. publicly re- ceived at the French court.
 17SS-A fire occurred at New Orleans by which seven -eighths of the city was
 1SO4-The House of Representatives passed a bill providing for the pro- lection of American seamen and ships by armed forces from the attacks of the
 IS05-Napoleon declared the mar riage of his brother, Jerome, to Eliz- abeth Patterson of Baltimore annulled.
 1S55-A .rfieworks manufactory at Bergen Point. N. J., exploded, Killing
 is6sEBattle of Somerset, Ky.
 lS64-Nevada admitted as the thirty sixth State.
 1s65-vote was taken in Congress on proposition of Representative Harding of Kentucky forbidding the use of any part of the army appropriation to pay negro troops.
 iS75-Governor Tilden of New York sent a message to the Legislature de- claring the State canals to be mis- managed and the funds footed by con-
 IsS5-Bands of settlers. rendezvous at Coffeyville, Kas., made a start for the Oklahoma homestead lands.
 19O4-Free trade with Philippin es urged by Secretary of War Taft before committee of Congress.
 1904-House Committee on Judiciary s. Judge for the district of Florida, and charges go to Senate
 19O5-Fifty- bodies recovered from Brockton, Mass, shoe factory debris.
 1906-President Roosevelt made plain, blunt reply to list of grievances pre- scented by American Federation of La bor
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The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-03-22
INACCURATE srATYsTIos

MT. William E. Curtis is one of the best travelling newspaper men in the country, and is generally regarded as accurate in his statements. but 1t seems plain that he slipped up in a recent article about Southern cotton mills. Take the following as sam pie.
 Nearly all the operatives in the Southern mills belong to the class known as "poor whites" and small factories are scattered throughout those Sct sections of the fs5nS statss rS Georgia as an illustration, you will find mostly small country mills; in 1905 the average value of the prod ucts of all the factories in the State establishments in 1905, with an aver age output of less than $1OO, ,00O; while only ten factories out of the entire S.229 had an output of more than S1.000. .000Q.
 The same Is true in South Carolina. Out of total of 1899 factories only 220 are in cities and centers of popu- lation. while 1,179 are in the rural diSs tricts. The same proportion appears in North Carolina.
 The figures "3,229" evidently were intended for the entire Southern States, but we should be pleased to know where he gets his figures. For example, speaking from its better in- formation, The Columbia State re- marks that fin the everlasting rush to grind out so much readable matter every day, 1t is impossible to study conditions. but any South Caroliniar that reads the South Carolina papers attentively could have posted MT. mixed. Georgia has not five per cent. of the cotton factories given her. |. Nor has South Carolina, all told, as many as he attributes to the cities. Neither is his argument that the tre- mendous preponderance of factories built in the country, where they can get labor correct. Factories to be run by water power are built where power is developed. Most of the fac toris operated by other power are in the suburbs of cities and towns"
 What The State says of South Caro- lima and Georgia will apply to the other Southern States. we have no doubt. We are sure that Alabama has not her per cent. of the large number of cotton mills set down. and some of the other Southern States have a much smaller percentage than Alabama has. MT. Curtis evidently did not spend enough time in the South to gather accurate data and some of his figures are plainly misleading.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-03-22
DRIFT WOOD
CORN PLANTING.
BY PMIL H. ARlHsTRONQ.

CORN PLANTING. shall not pass this way again, May Wisdom guide my tongue and pen; And love be mine that so I may Plant roses all along the way: Why not not plant potatoes. Clarence? You're thinking about down in Geor- gia where acording to MT. stanton. they
 Higher. When Charley called on Maud last His breast with love on fire, And he asked. that he might kiss her She told him to look higher.
 stop It. Stop your growlin' Stop your fussin' Stop your frowniu' Stop your cussin' Stop your knockin' Stop your cuttin' Stop your grumblin' Stop your buttin Stop your meanness Stop your swearin Stop your fumin' Stop your rearin'
 Stop 1t.
 Evidently NOt. "Whad maiks yo' fink Nose Jackson
 
 ''Kase he carries a safety razah."
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 A Revision. Hark, hark. the dogs do bark, It's just an onery way they have When to sleep ysu gre lying down.
 BROKEN REFLECTIONS. Jas. J. Corbet wants the country to forget that he ever was a pugilist and remember him only as an actor. Jim as you are very good at both, we can't forget either.
 It is predicted that there will be more weddings between April first and July first, than in any preceding length of equal time in. the country's the old adage sttlI applies of 'Fools rush in" etc.
 To be rich you must avoid cough trouble-that is. the kind that makes you cough up dsilarS' 1T @ Hope is the thing that a man is fill ed with when he opens an egg this time of the year.-Peoria Hera1d-rran- script And if its a bad egg what is "' '''''O " % % % Dowie. proved to be q prophet with cut much honor in his own country or any where else:
  Sometimes a fellow trembles when he proposes and sometimes he shakes" afterward.
 % M & Its about time for Harry Thaw to question the sanity of the lawyers now.
 E & & Isn't 1t glorious to see the Southern towns abollshing whiskey7 The spirit of progress doesn't come in jugs
 H % g In the street car strike the pedes- trains are keeping steps with the walk ing delegates in Louisville.
 e $ a At Santa Cruz. Cal, in the St. George Hotel, is a tank containing fifty trout so tame that they take meat offered to them from a mans hand and rub their sides against the hand of the one that feeds them. That isn't a circumstance to the way the fish in Alabama will act. since the game law passed.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-03-22
CLEVELAND As PRESIDENT.
Rise Of Party Differences That Led T
 Political Esfrangement.

Rise Of Party Differences That Led To
 Political Esfrangement.
 Woodrow Wilson in Philadelphia Pub
 lic-Ledger.
 MT. Clevelands two terms of office as President, separated by, MT. liar. rison's single term, fell within a period of singular doubts and mutations in our politics (1Ss5-1s97), when the defi- mite lines which had separated our par ties in the days of the civil war and in the troubled years of reconstruction which followed were breaking away and becoming obscure. and both par ties were shifting their accustomed ces and new problems Economic questions were uppermost; the material development of the country which has reached such astounding proportions In the last decade, was making apace. Questions of capital and labor and or currency, which were old enough in essence, were assuming new forms and new dimensions under the influ- ence of the rapid development of man. ufacturers and of the mining indus tries, and rapid changes in the supply were manoeuvring for advantageous position in the struggle for votes, rath- CT than for any consistent or intellf- gent Interpretation of the principles for which their respective parties had been thought to stand. In the midst of the shifting scene MT. Cleveland presently came to seem the only fixed point. He alone stood firm and gave definite ut terance to principles inteiligible to ali
 It was said that he insisted in his own views without tact. that he ruth lessly wounded the sensibilities of his fellow Democrats in the House and Senate, at one time trying to manage them and at another refusing to barley with them at all. But such charges and irritations were but symptoms of the deep differences within the Demo- cratic ranks, which his unpliant firm ness brought to sharp revelation. The same ferment and disorder. as of dis Fuption, were becoming evident in the Republican party as well as in the Democratic. It was one of the almost chance happenings of politics that as the Presidential campaign of 1896 ap- preached the Republican party did not espouse the cause of the free coinage of silver instead of the Democrats; 1t was hard1ys more than the inborn instinct of opposition between the two parties that prevented both of them from espousing it. The one was as willing as the other to play to the supposed popular wish in the matter, regardless of well grounded principles of finance, and only its long practiced discipline and habit of union, the disci- pline and habit of party trained to the exercise of power, prevented the Re- publican party from falling to pieces in factions MT. Cleveland consented to be left by a party which had shifted from the immemorial ground of~Dem- ocratic principle and practice in mat ters of finance.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-03-22
THINKS Tr WILL Bn TEDDY.


 The New York Mail is not at all sure that Roosevelt will not be the presidential candidate of his party in 1908, notwithstanding his positive as- sertion that he would not be. It says, however, that without regard to what decision he may reach on the subject. it Is unalterably fixed that the Re- publican platform and candidate will be representative of his policies, and will be such as the party can certify to MT. Roosevelt. and he can accept without qualification, as enforcing and completing them. The party can prove its loyalty In no better way than by naming a candidate who win walk in the path he has blazed. It has a number of men equal to the task. two of them, at least, in the cabinet--Mr. Corteiyou and Mir. Taft"
 That, we suppose. may be taken as formal and official notice served on the party and Its leaders as to the course they must pursue No reac- tionary must be nominated. No Con- stitutionalist need apply for the job. Those Repubiicans--and there are still some left-who believe in con- stitutional and republican form of government for the United States must remain in the background and hide their diminished heads as it were, while the faithful select and nomi- nate a man who will follow the Roose- welt idea of government and walk in the path he has blazed."
 This is the ultimatum and the law :. It matters not what may be the char acter. qualifications or fitness of the candidate, or how unfit he may be to i'll the great office of president of the United States. These are non-essen- tials, as The Mail views the matter. It is not essential that he shall be honest, patriotic or even loyal Amer acan, the essential. dominating condi- tion precedent is that he shall be a man who is acceptable to Roosevelt and who can be depended on to fol- low the blazed trail of Rooseveltism without question or hesitation.
 The Mall makes all this plain when it names Cortelyou as one of the proper men for the party to select. We are a little surprised that it failed to mention some of the other Repub- iican statesmen whose only virtue is that they are blind followers of Roosevelt Cortelyou is not the only Republican who has followed Roose- welt along crooked trails but possibly he is the most plastic of all whom The Mail had in mind at the time, and one who can be most certainly depended on to follow the path. And we may add that in our judgment The Mall firmly believes that Roosevelt ought to be nominated and that he will ac- cept, We also believe that he will accept the nomination if 1t is offered him. and signs indicate that the of- fer will be made
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-03-22
WoMANKIND (THAT's ALL.)

utive mansion. To those more tranquil days, and particularly on this anni- versary occasion when the peoples thoushd5 the o, dr hsc wh wit ne ae rsrest we imagine.
 Personal glory never allursd Mir. Cleveland. His contentment in the indifference to adultation and the splendor of power left him at all times free to follow the honest convictions in 1887 that his tariff reform message would defeat him in the. coming cleo tion.. He might. politicianwise. have osvEst PSSY Sopar tha fanoy But hs conviction that -Four present tariff laws, the vicious. inequitable, and illogical source of unnecessary taxation, ought remained unshaken and he was in- capable of the moral cowardiee of de- sorting that issue: There were trusts have assailed the combinations formed to maintain the price of commodities at tine tariff point, and so have ad- vanced triumphantlyNto a second inau- He regarded these combinations simply as one more reason why the tariff pol icy that made them should be changed again. He was content to retire.
 Power used unselfishly. may be laid aside without regret MT. Cleveland
  only a servant. The renomination in 1892 came through no scheming of his own, and was controlled by no ambition on his part. The loyalty and patriotism of leading men of his party made him the candidate. The of division and peril. He was every where held to be the wise and safe man of the hour. The office vertically sought the man.
 That virtue of humility which has a calmness of spirit and a world of other blessings attending upon 1t" set it's stamp upon his statesmanship and upon his public record. He professed no mastery over the views and acts of his countrymen. He was of them with them. In the Presidential office he was the embodiment of the spirit of the American people, just, straight forward, calm, efficient. And in his retirement that virtue of humility the antithesis of the arrogant spirit un- failingly attends him. It is notable in that sum of qualities that have given him so high place in the respect and affection of the nation.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-03-22
~cOuain Hoks" and "Couain Mary"

The Washington Herald Is responsi- ble for the story that the Hon. Hoke smith is cousin or Hrs sci.n Mary sakeT; ssM of him: MT. Smith is of Northern ex- traction. His father was a Vermonter who migrated to , Georgia in the years years in the Cooler State, but he has kept folks. While 1t Is not known that he kinswomans doctrine, he has met her frequently, and they call each other Cousin Mary and Cousin Hoke.'"
 The Charleston News and Courier, with that ever-present desire for per feet accuracy and scrupulously exact records that is so characteristic of some of our South Caroline contemporaries, corrects this story in the following
 "TRat is very good story. but it is full of holeS %ii h the Hrs first place there ar ing the period noted. Cousin Hoke may be or may not be kin to Cousin Mary but with all his faults he was of the great State of North Carolina. He has made his money in Georgia, any of the railroad managers in that State he has grown into his present political distinction. For The Washington Her ald to say that it is not known that he has 'ever embraced his distinguished kinswoman's doctrines shows how lit- tie it really knows about him and his theological tendencies. Everybody ought to know that MT, Smith is a Presbyterian and one of the most ef- ficient Sunday school teachers In the Central Church of Atlanta, in which could not have been elected Governor of Georgia but for the fact that all these matters are foredained. under which rule the most unexpected and in applicable things come to pass. Cousin Hoke' may be Christian Scientist, on the side, but even in that case he couldn't help it, and probably doesn't know it, because as we have been told; there is nothing real after all"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-03-22
FRIDAY, MARCH 2a, 1907.

According to The Washington Her ala it is believed that Missouri has more living ex-Governors than any other state There are five of them .' But The Herald is mistaken, for Mis- souri doesn't hold the pennant in this matter. According to our best in formation Connecticut has six of them, and we know that Alabama has i've. They are Rufus W. Cobb. elected in 1878 and 1880; Thomas e. Jones, cleo ted in 1890 and 1892; William c. Oates. elected in 1894; Joseph F. John ston. elected in 1896 and 1898, and William D. Jelks, who succeeded to the office on the death of William F. Sanford and was elected to a full term in 1902. So it will be seen that we have as many as Missouri, any how, and we hope the present survi- vors will live to be joined by several others as time passes.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-03-22
CREDIT ovER-ExPANDED.
Some of the Real Reasons for the Wal
 Street Collapse.

SNFeGM CODHRDCs
 New York Journal of Commerce.
 The situation on the Stock Exchange has its causes outside of railroad agi- mented by the public or by the rail- road magnate, but 1t may be aggra- vated by those who desire to produce alarm to serve their own purpose. For a long time the level of prices in the stock market was artificially high, made so by speculative manipulatOrs who were trying to fleece the public. It is their legitimate level yet. There has been an over-expansion or credit and relative restriction of the volume of money, not making it actually in- sufficient, but inadequate for the bur den of credit operations that 1t was forced to carry.
 The money market situation has not but 1t Is the main cause of the preca- rious condition of the stock market, making it easily subject to violent disturbances. And there are men with vast speculative interests and objects and large control of banking credit who are able to produce these dIs- turbances and who are thereby helping of their purposes just now seems to be to produce scare or counter agita- ton on the railroad regulation Ques- tton. It appears to be having some ef- feet at sensitive points, but the country generally is evidently not losing It's equanimity, and those having direction of Government policy will do well not to lose their heads.
 Wall Street and the stock exchange as a barometer of general conditions lose much of their significance under the hand of the modern maniDulator.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-03-22
The NormaI schooIn.

The last Legislature made consider able increase in appropriations to Nor nal schools and in this acted wisely. In replying to criticism of a local pa per, Senator Reynolds well stated the case as follows:
 The conditions are about these: The common schools will. after october 1st be receiving probably some $400,OOO increased appropriations The increase in the amount for normal schools is only S20.000, which is per cent of the increase for common schools. It seems to me that 1t is entirely reason able that we should increase our factli- ties for turning out trained teachers for all this money goes at last to the teachers and 1t would probably be un- wise to continue to make this immense increase In the common school fund without providing corresponding in crease of teachers as R rule from the normal schools. Our own county or Bibb has sent many of our brightest boys and girls to the normal schools and they have given us back some fine material. It is true that the amount spent per head on the pupils In the normal schools is considerably above that for children in the public schools, but that is always necessarily the case with higher education. As I view it, adding to the efficacy and capacity or the normal schools Is simply another way of getting the very best results for the money spent for the benefit Of the common schools.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-03-22
NIr. cIeveland At seventy.

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 By native endowment MT. Cleveland possessed a just mind. clear vision, manly courage, and a humble spirit. These qualities. chiefly made him one 9roti5s Of the wiseSt and Erea5te;st Of sgdr our citizen, honored, respected, and trusted by his fellow countrymen, who upon this seyentieth birthday sincerely wish
 MT. Cleveland had a sound and true understanding of the nature of the government of the United States, of the Presidential office. of the character of the American people, of himself.
 The government he accepted as the work of wise men, approved by the people, and suited to their needs. It broken down mechanism, imperfectly VitaliZed by outworn doctrines. His observation of its working did not con- need of overhauling and reconstruction at hls hands, or at anybody's hands.
 He conceived 1t to be the duty of the President to administer the statute law Congress new laws demanded by the interests of the people and none other. National policies he formulated and advocated with vigor; 1t never occurred to him as fitting that he should have a personal policy.
 He conceived of his fellow citizens sa as an adult capable ea ser fgf fgfNyeTnihhg hg guarded against pitfalls and posts, nor yet as children to be led by the hand and necessarily piled with parental counsel.
 In the office of President MT Cleve- land felt that he was one of the Amer lean people whom the others had charged with the duty of looking out for their public business. It was by custom and prescription part of that duty to consider needed additions and betterments to the nations es- tate. That he did, but soberly with little Reclamation. It was not essen the people should be continually fixed upon him. For weeks and months at Q time he would permit them to at- disturbed By the activities of the exec
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-03-22

plainly impossible for them to produce facts as to the future he would have them on the hip. They could not possibly tell what will happen in such positive terms as would be convinc- ing to him, and unless that 1t done he cannot be brought to admit that his course towards the railroads will inture his party. Plainly, then, the only way for the railroad representa- tives to get Roosevelt to let up on them is to convince him that unless he lets up on them his party will go to the bowwows next year. Therein he has the best of them.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-03-22
". H. CounciIl Critically Ill.

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 Prof, w. IT. Councill, President of the A and M College for negroes, at Nor mal. a few miles from here, is seri, ousfy i'll at his home on the school campus, so much that his physicians have forbidden any callers at all. Pro- lessor Councill Is one of the best ne gro educators in the world, and Is re- pie here His friends are hoping that lie will recover soon and spend many more years of usefulness to his race A Couucill student is conspicuous Dy, ms they always tip their hats in re, spectful manner. Professor Council takes great pains to teach the negro his place and knows more about the race question perhaps than any other negro,