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The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-02
Incidents and Opinions Throwing Light on
 The National Contest

ence. The mass of Eastern voters is not disposed to let the party managers cat will Jump. They want as much consideration of the situation as nos sible before they cast their ballots on
 Cleveland Democrats.
 The fate of MT. Bryan so far as the East Is concerned hinges upon two classes of voters, the conservatiye can not hope to succeed without the united support of the former and the votes of most of the latter. There Is no question that more conseryatIve Democrats are in line for Mir. Bryan this year than ever before. He has grown much In the eyes of many. The opinion is also expressed by those In vative Democrats constitute an over wh elming majority of the class.
 But the important question upon which the fate of Mir. Bryan largely extent. of the strength of these con- servattve Dem ocrats who have adhered to the old-time prejudice against him Taft. The Republican managers at tho outset of the campaign counted on the support of the entire Cleveland wing. They have been compelled to that Is being played by the former Cabinet officers and friends of the late ax-President has undoubtedly brougnt many CISVeldnu aQneTerS Tn the East over to. the standard of MT. Bryal The fact should also be noted that so far as New York. New Jersey and Connecticut are concerned, not a sim tige has boltei the nominee of the lIenver Convention.
 Republican Hopes.
 Republican leaders. however urge there are many Democrats in the East who will not support Bryan and are working for Taft. They are to be found in the business sections of the large cities of the three States. "To them." one Republican leader puts It, "Bryanism means hard times" There IS little doubt that the Republican leader Is right, There Is some Demo- strength. it H Is 9ST not pISbably Isas mors 1rs than 10 or IS per cent; of the total the defeat of Mir. Bryan. o For ot the 'gan ina dependent and labor vote enters large ly Into the result as an important factor. There Is no denying that the great deal 10 MT. Bryan. It is not seriously contended. of course. that the head of the American Federation of workingman in his pocket. but that he influences a great majority of 1t Is beyond all question. What Is more the vote of organized labor plays n ddominant part in many sections of cut
 Another great factor in the result here will be the Independence League. That organization is bound to poll from 150.000 to 100000 votes in the State of New York alone and heavy vote in New Jersey and Connecticut. It Is strong to-day among a certain elemen. of voters. Its strength being due to the present depression which has created an army of unemployed. the exposure of the relations existing between the Standard oil Company and certain judges and Senators by Mir. Hearst and the influence of The American and Journal, the circulation of both being enormous, especially in the factory towns Whatever party of course, the League draws the bulk of Its support from must suffer defeat In the East.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-02
GENERAL LEWIS CAss.
Mir. MOrrissette Writes of Great Civil
 Crisis.
 NaWharn Oct al 1One

Mir. MOrrissette Writes of a Great Civil
 Crisis.
 Newborn. Oct. 31, 1908. Editor The Advertiser:
 don't think you do justice to Gen. Lewis Cass in your article, "A Poor Prophet" His opinion of the effect of the compromise of 1850, the last great and patriotic deed of the immortal Henry Clay, -as shared by all the great men of both Democratic and Whig Parties, and by the whole coun- try. Lewis Cass could not foresee that stephen A. Douglass, Chairman of the Committee on Territories, ambitious of the Presidency, would introduce the Kansas and Nebraska bill, repeating the great compromise, and that President Pierce would adopt 1t as an admins. tration measure, thus causing its pass age by Congress. As a proof of It's mischievous effect, we cite that. where. as Franklin Pierce, in 1852, two years after the compromise, and two years before it's repeal, carried every State in the Union except four (Massachu- setts. Vermont, Tennessee and Ken. tucky.) Yet, two years after it's re- peal in 1856, General Fremont, the candidate for President of the won- derfully revived Free Soil Party. came very near election. c9rrying New York, and Pennsylvania voting For Buchanan, preventing Fremonts election. And In 1860 the Freesoil Party elected it's You note that I say Freesoil Party. The platform upon which Abraham Lincoln was elected, and his own speeches. denied all desire and purpose to abolish slavery in the slave States. but only to prevent its further eXten- sion to new States
 General Cass, wise and patriotic statesman, was not an inspired proph- ct That same Divinity that shapes our ends rough hew them how we will" controls the destlnies of na- tions as well.
 Yours truly,
 F. s. Morrissette.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-02

It is difficult to form any conception of the quantity of rice grown and con- sumed in the world, but one item may help towards it. Statistics just com piled show that the rice crop of Korea this year will amount to something over one million tons-tons. remember
 not pounds Now, the little Kingdom lof Korea has about the same area as our Territory of Utah, or the State of Idaho and when we remember that China, Japan and other Eastern coun- tries are largely devoted to rice cul- ture. and when we also remember that enormous quantities are grown In the United States and other countries, we can have a faint conception of what the rice product of the world must be. Doubtless the entire output would be counted by billions of tons, and we may thus get some understanding of the vast number of people in the world
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-02
This Date iv1 History
November 2.

t502-Columbus entered the harbor which he called Porto Bello.
 l767-Duke of Kent, father of Queen Victoria. horn. Died 1920.
 i795-James K. Polk, eleventh Presi- dent of the United States. born in North Carolina. Died In Nashville, Tenn, fs37SLord Farrar Hercheu. English statesman. born. Died March l, l899. l852-Fire destroyed a large section of the city of Sacramento, Cal
 1861-General Hunter superseded John c. Fremont In command of the Western department of the army,
 fS60-James A. Garfield of Ohio elect ed President of the United States.
 t893-Steamer City Alexandria. from Havana for New York burned at Sea thirty lives lost.
 io0S-New Irish land act went into nperation.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-02
This b Ny 56th Birthday
Albert R. LedOux.

Albert Reid Ledoux. a noted mining engineer and metallurgist and a former president of the American Institute of Mining Engineers was born Nov 9. 1852 In Newport. Ky. After graduating studied for several years In Berlin and at the University of Gottingen. In 1876 he returned to the United States and became State chemist and member or the State board of health of North Carolina. Since 1880 he has been el- gagged in practice as a consulting engi- neer and metallurgist and has figured as an expert In many noted cases in years he was employed In an advisory capacity by the New York electrical subway commission.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-02
TORfOIsEs IN ENGLAND.
They are Imported by the Thousands
 for Guardianship of Gardens.

Nhey are Imported by the Thousands
 for Guardianship of Gardens. London Field.
 Few persons have any conception of the vast number of tortoises which are imported every year to be dispersed over the country. To say that from 30,o00 to 10000. according to climatic conditions. arrive here annually is by no means an exaggeration. Allowing 5000 for death and re-exportation, we get an average of 31,000 which remain fin the country during the year; in oth- CT worlds, one tortoise to every thirty nine-square miles of the British islands, one person in every 1,4oO possessing a tortoise.
 "A cartload of monkeys" has long been a standing ejst, but a "cart of tortoises" Is a reality. Packed in bar rels, boxes and crates. they are sent over here in consIgnments of from 1000 to 5000 at time. and, extraor- dinary as 1t may seem. the death rate is only about 1 per cent. If in barrels and 1 in 300 in cases In size they vary from youngsters two inches long and weighing hardly an ounce to pa- triachs nine inches long and weigh ing more than five pounds. Two ex- tra large specimens imported recently were eleven inches long and eight and seven and a half inches across the broadest part of the plastron. and weighed respectively seven pounds and two ounces and five pounds fourteen ounces.
 Ever since Gilbert White immortal ized his pet tortoise these animals have been kept by many people as destroy CTS of beetles and slugs and as guar dians of the kitchen garden" a false idea that no amount of repudiation has been able to eliminate. Though they will eat snnils with. much more relish they greatly prefer their own. ers' choicest garden produce. Never theIess, a tortoise Is the most popular of reptiles and people will continue to keep them (so long as they do not make their escape--and I have known onesto surmount a foot wall with only creepers for foothold.) In this case there is no fear that the enormous demand will decrease, though whether the supply will ever give out and the price of tortoise go up Is question difficult to answer.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-02
A coon DECISION

The Supreme Judicial Court of Mas sachusetts has just delivered an opin- ion on the question of labor unions that is very much to the point. The court holds that the law does not permit a labor union to fine or threaten to fine it's members for disobedience to a strike order, and that an employer who is not a member of union, injured or menaced with injury in his business by such &C., ton on the part of the union is en- titled to an injunction. The following is the principal feature of the courts opinion:
 In many ways the labor unions have succeeded in bettering the condition of the laborer; and so far as their ul- timate intentions and the means used in accomplishing them are legal they are entitled to protection to the ex- treme limit of the law. But their to encrcach upon the rights of others It is clear that if the power to intimi- date by fine be regarded as one of the powers which labor unions may right fully exercise, then the right to free market for labor-nay even the right of the laborer to be free-is seriously tnterfered with, to the injury of both the public and the employer as well as the laborer.
 We are unstable to see that any wrong or hardship is done to unions or union labor by this decision. It simply es- tablishes the principle, which ought to be universally admitted and accepted, that those who do not belong to unions shall be protected in their right to work as they choose and for whom they choose without interference or threats of violence; and 1t also establishes and maintains the principle that an em- ployer of labor has the right to give employment to union or non-union men just as he sees fit, without being threat ened, dictated to or injured in his per son or business by strikers and their sympathizers.
 It is iptimated that this case may be carried up to the Supreme Court of the United States for final adjudication, and 1t will be well if that is done so that the questions involved may be set tied for good. We do not think that fair-minded union men can have any ! reason to complain at a decision that simply does equal and exact justice to workers and employers, whether they belong to organized unions or not.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-02

consumption of 1t by those who only use it incidentally or in connection with some other foodstuffs. Probably no other article of food Is consumed so extensively or by So many nationallties as this, and 1t is a boon to many mill lions of people that they can grow 1t easily and plentifuIly.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-02
Hnt Content for 1912.

our Atlanta dispatches of yesterday hold out the promise of a hot ana ln- teresting campaign in 1912 for the se- lection of an Atlanta candidate for President of the United states; to be waged between the Tappites Cshouldnt II be Tappists9 and the Doc bangs by the Hon. Jack Smith. not unknown to fame, who ought certainly to De able to muster large and intiuen- n tial family connection as a nucleus for A party. Colonel Graves. if we mis- take not. proclaimed a day or two age that he stood ready to leave the In. dependence Party in the event that II thing more to his liking. Is 1t possi> ble that the Doc Dangs are trying to rope in Colonel Graves to run against Colonel Tapp next time3
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-02

The Abbeville Times gets it's figures badly balled when it says that "coun- ties of between 5000 and 5000 square miles are large enough and small enough They would certainly be large enough. but we don't think they would be small enough.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-02

It is real cruel of the wicked news papers to be firing questions at Colonel Sid Tapp. He doesn't mean any harm by calling himself a candidate for President. and is not likely to do any harm to the other gentlemen who imagine they are cutting a figure in the melee. Let the Colonel indulge in his sweet dreams a few hours longer and then he vii know more than he does now.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-02
A Cabinet Under Orders.

New York Evening Post.
 Pity the poor Cabinet! Here Is Mir, Root quoted as saying in Cincinnati: T did not intend 70 come here. but told him? Not President Roosevelt. surely It must have been MT. Hitch cock or MT. Taft or Charles Taft--or was it Charles j. Bo- naparte, who by virtue of his po- Rftlon as public prosecutor forced Mir. Root to leave the State Department? Whatever the truth may be the coun- try may talk q heart in the thought that after next Wednesday the Cabinet will return to Washington to resume the duties for which 1t draws salaries. It will be braln-fagged, of course, and weary; but its pernicious political ac- tivity, as Mir. Bryan would term 1t, for which minor office-holders are pun ished or removed, will cease. and the conduct of the governmental business will no longer be entrusted to subor- dinates MT. Root has plainly been out of touch with the world. He re- marked plaintively in Cincinnati: "I have no prepared speech for tonight. The one shall deliver will be an inc depreciation of the one I am to make next Saturday night" What inno- cence! What detachment from cur- rent events! Doesn't Mir. Root know that no candidate now uses a prepared speech, and that the Jew Ideas anybody had at the beginning of the campaign have done duty 300 times apieceT Thoughts are out of date; words alone count.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-02
A MORNING THOUGHT
 BY J. MARVIN NICHOLS.
VII.
VII.
 One cIoudless sum-
On the Tower.

On One cIoudless sum
 the Tower. mer day l chanced to stand on Observation Tower. It is steal structure three hundred feet high. and stands on the RiVerway Just out side Prospect Park. Looking north- ward, the beautiful Niagara Gorge and the lower rIver are in full view. Reach ing out from the base of the tower the buildings of the city stretch in an un- broken mass In the distance great steel bridges swing in mid air across the aW- ful chasm One breathes the att mosphere of the upper zones. Looking southward is the quiet lake whose wal ters so soon break in wild fury and leap over the Falls. Away off in the haZy distance Buffalo looms above the horizon. Far beyond on the borders of the upper river. the Tonawandas come within the range of vision At your loves Nature. at once observes that all the moans and signs of fretted waters, the thunderous grooming of the Falls the rush of the city's commerce - at that height they all come to you in har- mouy of a note-soft and sweet. You no longer hear the sullen roar but 1t Is now rich sweet tone. And thero came to me the thought-why could this not always be so? Why am con tent to dwell always amidst the dis cords of life? Why need I listen al- ways to it's signs and moans? Why need I feel the terrible pang as l stand and watch the worried How of life'S great river? Why always breathe the poisoned misama of the low damp grounds? There are higher heights for you-for me There are attitudes that lift us far above our environ ments. There are high places where the dtscords of a troubled humanity are transformed into one indescribable harmony There are gardens within vour breast to which you may with draw and breathe the air that is freighted with the breath of flowers.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-02
MiIIIe,. NIintaI,e.

Opelika Daily News.
 If Willie Randolph Hearst had not started his side show on the political road this year. and Debs was not out rounding up the extremists among the laboring classes MT. Bryan would have had a walk-over in this campaign. Even with these handicaps the outlook is good for a big Democratic victory
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-02
Letters to The Editsr
FOR JUDGE ;. M. CARmloHAEL.
Memorial Service In His Honor to Be
 Held at Ozark.

Held at Ozark.
 ozark, Oct. 31 Editor The Advertiser
 The long. useful and distinguished life of the late Judge Jesse Malcom Carmichael deserves more than a pass Ing funeral occasion, and a memorial service has been appointed to take place at the Methodist CAurch in this city at II o'clock on Sunday, the Sth day of November The occasion is to afford an opportunity to those who nave known, loved and followed ms leadership in affalrs of church and state Tor many years, to expre ss their appreciation of these services and to pay fitting tribute to the memory of man who mas left as a precious heri- take to his family and country, a stain less record of right living for more than half century.
 IL Is expected that any and all of his old associates and friends throughout the State who may find time and lncli- nation lo do so, will be present on tIiIs occasion. Very truly, M l.. Andrews
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-02
aWoRN CIRCULATION.

The Montgomery Advertiser BuaFAntySos fits advertisers (and makes 1t part Of the contract when requested) that Its daily CIT culation is larger than that of any morning newspaper printed in Alabama-ano tnae it's Sunday edition has the largest circula- 4fon of any edition of any newspaper print ed in Alabama without exception.
 The figures for September printed below represent the actual net circulation. all fe- turns having been deducted.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-02
A Good NegrO's Dollar. Wtlcox proRressive Era

Among the list of contributors to the Bryan and Kern national campaign fund is the name of Hal Packer, wno subscribed one dollar. He had prevI- ously given dollar Hal is an honest and industrious negro man who Is given a good name by the white people Of the Bellview community where he lives. He says he is a Democrat for the reason that it Is a white mans party and he knows the white man is the negro's best friend. He has been voting the Democratic ticket for years. His contribution of two dollars appears a very generous one when compared with that of many white contribute to the peoples cause.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-02

Anyhow. if Roosevelt becomes one of Che editors of The Outlook hen be likely to raise the devil" with the operators and proof-readers.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-02

"Thackery was a fool" says George Bernard Shaw. If the old Engllshman were living he might retort by calling George two fools.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-02
-MARENGo PLEADS FOR RELIEF.
strong Appeal Made for Chance to Inn prove Condition.

strong Appeal Made for Chance to Inn
 prove Condition.
 Editor Montgomery Advertiser;
 The merits of the proposed new counties amendment are not to be judged by the results which its adop- tion would bring about in Jefferson County. Birmingham Is great city and we are all justly proud of her wonderful development. But with all her greatness she is only part, and a small part, of the great State of Ala bama And we do not think that her commercial interests should be consd- cred before the larger interests of the people of the whole State. The fact that the opposition to this amendment originated in a commercial body and that the motive behind 1t Is commer- cialism. pure and simple. should make every one very suspicious of every ar- gument which comes from that guar ter. for they seek not to know what will be for the pest interests Of the State as a whole but what will put more dollars into their pockets. GAS we understand it. this latter Is the prime object of a commercial associ- ation) The rest of the State Is no doubt gratifed at the tremendous m terest which the above association has so suddenly manifested in our wei vel fare. We have considered caretully the scare headlines the prophecies or dire calamity. of dismemberment ana civil strife, to which they point as a
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-02

"wn the negro bolt?" asks a con Temporary. Well. perhaps that de- bends on which side has most and sattest chickens.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-02
MOntEomery's Successful Fair.

Last week was the most successful fair Montgomery ever had. It was successful both as an exhibition and financially. the latter the first time in it's history of fairs-one to the great business ability and enterprise of the president of the association Maj. A. G. Forbes, whose name in connection
 with large business interests Is synonym for achievement.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-02
More PerniciOua Activity.

AHUIbIUH LNUII4IIb DtUt'
 The pernicious activity of Republi- can office holders Is more fragrant and glaring than 1t has been before in many years, yet no rebuke comes from the White House. The President has made such a spectacle of himself in this campaign that he cannot afford to call down any other person. In fact there Is no indication that he desires to do so, as it seems that he thorough ly approves of the course of the pie eaters of his administration.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-02
Mobile Weather.

The weather at Mobile these days Is something that the. boosters of the good old town would like to bottle samples of if that were possible. If our northrn friends in the north could realize what the average Mobile winter day is there would be standing room only in this city after frost falls.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-02
Our Ranid Pace.


 The Rev. c. F. Aked, in Appleton's
 It is the pace that kills. We live faster than menS have ever lived in the history of mankind. We live more than twenty-four hours in the day. more than seven days in the week. We burn the candle at both ends, and for fear the other man should get ahead of us, light 1t In the middle, too. The world is shrinking under our enter prise. We shake hands across the At iantic; we have nodding acduaint- nerve and brain. We live intensely. We live all the time: We live with every heart throb. The very breezes as they play about us make music, or 1t may be discord, on our nerves. Of no people on earth is this So true as of the American people-and In this respect New York is more American than America. To tho present writer 1t has sometimes seemed that after the process of evolution had reached a certain stage. Mother Nature paused a while to survey her handiwork; and, looking at the finished product in the old. world. said My Englishman Is, up to the present moment. the best thing I have produced; but I am go- ing to try to improve on the work So she proceeded to tighten the struc- ture omewhat-whether with loss of stability remains yet to be seen. She less solid and stolid. She poured into the composition a few extra drops or nervous fluid. and sent the American forth upon his career of world-con- ouest. with an intellect as strudy as that of the modern Scot and as sup ple as that of the ancient Greek--a new person upon the face of the earth
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-02
AIabana's Triple Loss.

OpeIika EYenlnB FOsI.
 During the last few days Alabama has lost three distinguished citizens by death, Judge J. M. Carmichael dropped dead at Ozark. Major E. M. Robinson suicided at Mobile. and Dr. Shirley Bragg ended his life at Mont gomery. If prominent men in the state continue to die at such rate. 1t will be indeed unfortunate.