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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-09-29
II Is Up to Chairman Hitchcock

The New York Times bought from
an irresponsible person the alleged
Grover Cleveland letter favoring the
candidacy of Mr.. Taft. and it published
it posthumously. After a month of
silence it admits that the letter was a
forgery. This letter extolling Taft and
denouncing Bryan had in the mean
while been sent broadcast over the
country by the republican national
committee. 1t was even sent into the
southern states, although Mr.. Cleve-
land is made in it to score southern
men for voting consistently the demo-
cratic ticket. The south had supported
Mr.. Cleveland whenever he needed its
support, and yet the forger had the
hardihood to make the sage Of Prince
ton a critic of the south.
The Times will find difficulties in
the way when it attempts to regain
lost ground. 1t had without caution
misled the people, and it simply cannot
win back their confidence and respect.
But what of the Hitchcock machine
which had circulated a confessed for
gerry? What will it do to undo a stu
pendous blunder? This blunder was
inexcusable, for every paragraph in the
article condemned its genuineness On
its face it was forgery, and the con-
fession of the New York Times is sim
ply redundant proof What will Frank
Hitchcock do about it? He has put a
falsehood upon the country. He did
this in the name of the republican
party, and the people await his and its
retraction.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-09-29
Bryan's Popularity.

ut is generally conceded that Mr..
Bryan is now stronger with the people
than he has ever BEEN" said R. b. Rear
don of Louisville, land that his chances
for election are improving every day. At
the beginning of the campaign many DEM
ocrats seemed to think 1t hardly worth
while to make fight 1t seemed to be
taken for granted in some quarters that
Taft had a walk over. Nobody thinks
that way now.
Bryan is gaining in both New York
and Ohio and it need not be a sur
prise if the democrats carry those states.
The loss of Ohio to the democrats would
be a staggering blow to the republican
ticket and if New York. too, goes demo-
cratic, it would indicate landslide for
Bryan 1t begins to look that way
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-09-29
Bryan With a Landslide.

u have just returned from New York
city, where I met number of bankers
and brokers On business" said Ectore H.
Smith, who has been connected with the
banking business for some time in Mem
phis.
Il had an interview with a party of
five bankers and one broker and when
politics was discussed 1 was greatly sur
prised when they told me that the recent
Developments in connection with the
Hearst expose had aroused the political
spirit to a remarkable degree, and that
the moneyed interests of New York
were talking Bryan and predicting a land
slide. Three of the bankers stated that
9hey, for personal and political reasons,
would vote for Mr.. Taft, but that they
did not regard him now as even a posi-
bility. They stated that the most pow
erful financial interests were leaning to-
ward Bryan, having become satisfied that
although it might be graft scheme
either way, by the election of Mr.. Bryan
the country would be for four years re-
lieved of agitation and that there could
be no radical legislation, because the Sem
ate is republican.
lone of the bankers stated that he was
for some years a resident of Cincinnati
and knew Judge Taft intimately; that
while Taft himself was personally man
of the highest character. he is handicap
ped on the one side by his brother Char
ley, who made his millions as boodler,
and also by Boss Cox, the notorious graft
er and ward politician of Cincinnati, ana
on the other hand by the autocratic and
domineering personality of Roosevelt. l
met other business men, and gathered
that the net result of Hearsts attack was
an uprising among the business people
of New York which had in view the
elimination of Hearst from politics as an
Individual, and it seemed to shape itself
toward Bryan as a proposition of con-
serva tsm."
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-09-29
Colonel Tomlinson Returns.

Col. John w Tomlinson, chairman OIL
the organization bureau Of the nation
al democratic committee, returned home
yesterday from the north and Will
probably be in Birmingham until the
middle of October.
1--WE have our department well or
ganized and working smoothly now
said Col Tomlinson, land unless there
are important developments my pres
ence at headquarters will not be re-
quired for a couple of weeks. We are
in touch with the precinct committee
men of about II states and I believe
the democrats have the most thorough
organization they have ever had.
1.-THE democratic outlook is fine. The
Presidents Examinations are undoubted-
ly helping Bryan every day, and other
developments of the campaign have
seemed to help our party. The situa
ton in New York is peculiar because of
the Hearst activity, but our advices in
dicate that we will get 60 per cent of
the labor vote this year. If we get
so per cent of the labor vote We are
safe. This labor vote combined with
the increased cost of living in the past
few years, and the army of unemployed
in New York are going to have de-
cided effect against the republican can
didates and in favor of Mr.. Bryan.
1.-THE Presidents treatment of Sena-
tor Foraker has undoubtedly given us
Ohio for the senator's friends who arc
MANY will naturally resent the brutal
treatment accorded the senator by the
President. Taken altogether I am more
hopeful than l have ever been, and I
believe our chances for success in No
ven1ber are bright indeed"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-09-29
JUST A LITTLE LAUGH.

From the New York Press.
Three awfully pretty girls were at sta
ton in the Catskills. Three awfully saucy
men were at the same station. The bag
gage man broke a trunk all to pieces and
out of 1t fell the daintiest lot of lingerie
YOU ever saw. The girls went into parox-
ysms of laughter, attracting the at
tention of a crowd of so people. Sud
denly the face of one of the young wom-
en- dropped as the saying goes. There
was a whisper There was a shrek. Then
tears. One of the girls had discovered
that the broken trunk was her own.
Then the men laughed
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-09-29
A HORRIBLE DISEASE.
he Philadelphia Inquirer.

From the Pnlladelpnla Inquirer.
It seems, from official sources, that Col
onel Stewart. who is somewhere near
Tombstone. Ariz., in state of solitude
and psychological completely which must
make him pause, has failed TO get his
star He cannot be a brigadier because
he is forbidden to ride. At least the doc
tors won't let him ride for the very I'M
portant reason that he is suffering from
cardiac hypertrophy dilation and mitral
insuffciency."
This is terrible. We do not see how
the man can be alive. No wonder he
cannot ride a hundred miles, in spite of
the fact that he holds himself ready to
lick his weight in wildcats. No wonder
he considers himself able to lead bri-
gade into action after surviving such
disease as the doctors have passed upon
him. He says he has never felt better in
his life and must have been suffering
from this complication from about the
time he was weaned
Really, there is something pathetic
about the way in which the army is try
ing to get rid of this man. Under our
system we must give everyone fair
chance. Colonel Stewart. if the author
tiles are to be believed, is the most ag-
gravating individual in the whole world.
He doesn't quite break any laws, but he
seems to bruise lot of them He APP
pears to be the most dsagreeable man
in the army, but that isn't crime. All
persons have their moments of being tenn
permentally disagreeable. 1t is fortunate
that so few are in that condition all the
time which seems to be the case with
Colonel Stewart.
All of which goes to show that IL you
haven't a good temperament you ought
to cultivate one. Here is man who is
advertised as nuisance, drawback to
the army a pest and an expense, yet
the law lets him work his way up and
the--worst of 1t all is that he seems to
be laughing in his sleeve. Imagine Ma
poleon putting up with an officer whom
he did not like! When it comes down to
dots we suppose that he will be just ugly
enough to prove that he isn't possessed
of any of those terrible diseases-not, at
least so that you could notice them.
Then he will continue to draw salary and
demand promotion to the disgust of a lot
of officers who have intelligence, ability
and fine personal qualities Colonel Stew
art seems to be the American Thersites.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-09-29
A Great Record.

Not even Seattle, which Is getting
ready for great exposition in 1909, and
noted for its rapid growth, will equal Biz
mingham in the matter of new office
buildings this year" said a real estate
agent.
-Four skyscrapers are assured-the
Brown-Marx addition "a mammoth I'M
dertaking), the Farley building. to be
erected at Third avenue and Twentieth
street; the Empire, to be erected at First
avenue and Twentieth street, and lastly,
the Chamber of Commerce. And 1t is a
noteworthy fact that all the building
operations referred to were not only put
in shape this year, but each one of them
was financed this year. A great record
for any year, especially a year that start
ed with hard tmes!'
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-09-29
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.

From the New York Press
The only good husband is when he has
a widow
When man likes to eat hash he can
lie about other things, too
The most successful love letter is the
one that means the same thing over and
over again.
A woman. can never understand how
wearing some of the babys hair in his
watch chain locket doesn't keep her hus-
band from catching cold.
man who smokes doesn't realize that
when he kisses girl about all she gets
out of it is taste like the stump of a
cigar. :
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-09-29
Hotels All Crowded.

The hotels of Birmingham are doing
better business right at this time thar
they have experienced during any ordi-
nary week for several months. The town
is being visited by drummers in droves
and people on their way to Florida and
the south are stopping over to look at the
city.
Every hotel in the city last night had
a full register This is an optimistic
sign which probably points to better bust
ness, and means that the fall season has
actually opened up.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-09-29
Business Recovery

"Notwith standing last October's panic
and the Industrial depression of this
year Birmin CHAM is apparently buster
and more prosperous than it was IL
months ago" said M. w. Poole of st.
Louis Il was here in February and
Birmingham looked quite dull then, but
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-09-29
AM BiTIoN.

By Holmes, 1.-The Chambered Nautilus"
Build thee more stately mansions, oh,
my soul!
AS the swift seasons roll!
Leave thy low-vaulted past.
Let each new temple, nobler than the
last
Shut thee from heaven with dome moro
vast,
Till thou at length art free,
Leaving thine outgrown shell by lfe'a
unresting sea-"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-09-29
A sORDID= QUEST.

"Love-o Money" was his title,
Money was his only love.
And he sought it, sought it blindly
Where the masses push and shove.
When he'd piled up dazzling millions,
When he'd STEPPED his soul i'm pride
Death drew near with moclIing laugh
ter,
And he died.
'Love-o -Money'-poor. deluded
Fool he was to think that all
In this life worth mans endeavor
Is of gold the glitt'ring thrall.
Happiness he knew 1t never,
Nor the light of tender eyes;
He who studies sweet contentment
Is more wise.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-09-29
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES
ULTIMATE REWARD.

ULTIMATE REWARD.
"Oh, what's the use?"
A toiler cries.
Pain In his heart,
Tears in his eyes;
And so he fails,
And SO he dies.
"Oh, let me win!"
Another cries,
But all in vain
He tries and tries,
And like the first,
Defeated dies.
But listen, ye-
That one who vies
With cruel fate
And earthly signs,
Though whipt, shall dwell
Beyond the skiesi
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-09-29

The change in the weather stimu
lates the retail trade, ana all mer
chants in Birmingham are busy.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-09-29

Massachusetts has a fine lot of DC
togenarians in Julia Ward Howe, Ed
ward Everett Hale, Colonel Higginson
and J. T. Trowbridge.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-09-29

Birmingham proposes to make State
Fair week the chief period of the year
in all this section of the country.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-09-29

President Diaz is trying to secure d
chance to lay off, but he has no inten-
ton of boarding the African lions IN
their lairs.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-09-29

Candidate Sherman continues to be
pent-up in Utica to the delight Of the
republican managers.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-09-29

On the pay-as-you-enter cars the rev.
enue is increased s per cent, and there
are no end hogs.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-09-29

When aeroplane3 become common
how can the baseball box office be pro-
tected in all its rights?
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-09-29

Mr. Hisgen is actually candidate,
although his backer-in-chief gets all OF
the applause.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-09-29

The republicans of New Hampshire
retain their old ante-war grudge
against President Franklin Pierce and
will not let the state erect a monument
to the memory of the only president
the state ever furnished.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-09-29

John Dustin Archbold must be
amazed at his sudden fame and even
popularity.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-09-29

The plan OF national conservation
does not include some United States
senators,
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-09-29

The election is only five weeks off
today and there is no danger of Gen.
eral Apathy returning betwixt now and
then.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-09-29

John W. Gates is at home again, but
up to the hour of going to press he aau
not bet million on any presidential
candidate.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-09-29

In the pay-as-you-enter cars dogs and
3O-cent perfumery are excluded.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-09-29

The de mortuis rule is applicable to
poor Foraker now.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-09-29

The drought is saving to the bare
footed boys bridge tolls in Cincinnati.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-09-29

The lady on the new twenty-doflar
gold coins wears, alas a sheath gown.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-09-29

The front porch is outclassed now
by the rear platform.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-09-29

Foraker is as dead as julius Caesar
or Joe Cannon.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-09-29

Those who said this was quiet cam
paign desire to retract.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-09-29
REVERSAL.

'MeGuff, the heavy-hitting right
fielder is married now"
7 presume you are going to say that
he beats his wife,"
Not much; she beats him.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-09-29

Yesterday was red-letter day with
the hat dealers.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-09-29
POLITICAL SIDELIGHTS

(The Age Herald reprints in this column
Age-I
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-09-29

Socialism does not cut much ice
down in Maine
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-09-29
RIPPLEs.

RIPPLES.
boy never forgets the first cigar he
ever smoked and the first kiss he ever
stole.
A man running for office is like man
running an aeroplane. He never knows
how he is going to land.
1t is easy enough for hat to spoil a
woman's appetite when another woman is
wearing it.
Oil on political waters has anything but
a soothing effect.
The Charleston News and Courier tries
to make fun of Greater Birmingham"
Umph Charleston went to sleep before
the Civil War and has never walked up.
1t is difficult to imagine a girl named
Gwendoyn being able to make good bat
tercakes.
Maxine Elliott is to do Salome dance
in her new play. ut 1t will be interrupted
by preacher-a stage preacher, of
course-before the audience begins to go
wild.
UNAFRAID.
A farewell word-across the bourne
Into the dark we CO.
And none comes back to tell the tale
waiting world would know
Perhaps It's best-we cannot solve
The scheme of things profound,
Yet may We keep a steadfast heart
Till silence wraps us round.
PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-09-29

Speaker Cannon is learning French,
for he says he hopes to establish al
entente eordiale, whatever that may
be, with the Methodist brethren before
election day. The Methodists do not
appear to be anxious or even willing.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-09-29

IN be darned if 1 see what makes
that mare so Slow"
Il can't account for it either she was
| named after an actress who has been
married nine tines.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-09-29

FRIENDS NO MORE.
What came between themT
A small loan"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-09-29

Washington Bureau Age-Herald. 1927
c street, N. W.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-09-29
HEAVENS MGH

Piercing a world of doubt
And blindness,
Beams a ray wondrous soft
IT'S kindness.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-09-29
CHEAPER.

Lend me car fare
All right. How much do you want?'
"Oh, ten-spot will do"
'Umph; you'd better let me lend you
a cari'
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-09-29

No communication Will be published
without its authors name. Rejected
manuscript will not be returned unless
stamps are enclosed for that purpose.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-09-29

A RECIPE.
To comfort your sad heart
In each reverse
Say, Though tits bad enough,
1t might be worse
NO SYMPTOMS.
THAT woman by the piano doesn't seem
to have savoir-vivre''
mo, she doesn't" assented Mrs. Come
lately. Il knew a lady who had it once
and it made her complexion mighty bad"
NOTHING ON.
Reggie is wrapped in his thoughts"
Shocking EXPOSURE
POLITICAL DECEASE
Pick him up tenderly
Lay him aside;
Gee, it was stormy when
Foraker died!
CHOICE OF ONES FINISH.
1T looks bad to resign under fire"
"Qute true; but it is better to resign
under fire than to wait and be kicked
ont Under nrotest -
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-09-29

L. II. Russ and z. E. Morgan are the
only authorized travelling representa-
tives of The Age-Herald in its circula-
tion department.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-09-29

Entered at the Birmingham, Ala,
postofflce as second-class matter under
act of Congress March 3, 1879.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1908-07-31
FERGUSON'S BEAT
Copyright, by shortstory Pub. Coz
By F. D. BENNETT

had time to reach the office and write
it for the last edition of the paper"
did any of the jurymen tell you
what had transpired in their room?"
mo- your honor"
did you contrive to overhear their
deliberations and arguments?"
THAT would have been impossible
through an ante-room and three doors.
/ did not learn it in that way"
Did any of the bailiffs give you In
formation?"
mo. SIR
Did you tamper with the envel,
ope?"
Il did not
who told you, then?"
"No one"
The judge was perplexed. He knew
that Ferguson told the truth, and that
he was endeavoring to keep the source
of his information a secret. Suddenly
an inspiration came to him and he
smiled because he had not thought of
it before.
did somebody write you the infor-
mation?" The court was sure that
this would bring the desired result.
NO one wrote it for me-" replied
Ferguson, "and no human being gave
me the information"
A stir went through the courtroom
at this announcement and the judge
seemed completely baffled.
Would you so state under oath?"
Under oath, yes, sir" echoed Fergu'
son. mo one knew those details at
that hour but the jurymen and myself,
and I may add that 1 have not ex.
changed word, letter or signal with
any of these IL gentlemen"
The foreman of the jury was called
before the bar.
'Mr. Tillotson," said the judge, point
ing at Ferguson, Have you seen this
man before?"
Yes, your honor, during the trial"
Did you speak or communicate with
on or sealed?"
Il did not, and / can safely vouch
for my colleagues, also"
We'll, then, Mr Ferguson" said the
Judge, turning to the reporter, will
you kindly explain how you came into
possession of this information"
Il could refuse to answer on con-
stitutional grounds-on the plea that
! might incriminate myself" replied
Ferguson. II will not do that, but 1
have a favor to ask. May put to the
janitor of the courthouse three ques-
tions?"
Certainly" assented the astonished
Judge, and he called the janitor before
him.
When did you clean out the jury
room?" asked Ferguson.
LAS soon as the jury left it-about
2:20 this morning" was the response.
Where did you empty the waste
basket containing the jury's ballot
slips?"
I'm the alley, sir" The janitor
looked apprehensiye, as if he feared
that he was about TO get into trouble.
Did you see a man out there?"
u did"
What did ne look like?"
Very much like you, sir"
That's ALL replied Ferguson, tri-
umphantly
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1908-07-31
Proof Positive,

There is usually some convincing ar
gument TO question of doubt, If one
Is only bright enough to think of it at
the time of controversy. The farmer
was able to produce the indisputable
without delay of circumlocution. a
number of people were gathered
round the bulletin board of the Read
ing Eagle, on which was announced
Death of Frank Miller"
Two farmers from the extreme
backwoods were gazing at the various
items of news, when one of them
spied the lugubrious statement, and
pointing 1t out to his rustic comrade,
remarked innocently:
1T says on that board: Death of
Frank Miller Is that you?"
mo-" replied the other, in all seri-
BUSINESS. my name is John"