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The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-08-02
Our globular contemporary. The Ne

Our globular contemporary The New York Globe. a whooper-up, of the Roosevelt-Taft combination, begins an editorial notice of MT. Taft's accept ance speech with the words: ''Mr. Taft played politics in his home State yesterday, and no one will deny that he showed no inconsiderable proficiency in the game. To talk of a candidate for the Presidency playing politics Is not what we should consider com. pliment to him. however it may have been intended.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-08-02
An echo from the Standard oil de- eiaion is this from The Philadelphia
MT. RooseveIt Presumes Unduly.

New York Sun.
 We do not approve of MT; Roosevelt's 2 ssinS sinSkt that Sa NIT. aa: Roossvslts character qualifies him to criticiss the courts in
 We do not think that the public Is this State, to listen with patience to abuse of the courts by corrupt and dis honest politicians.
 In the campaign of 1904 MT. Rooses welt obtained quarter of a million dollars from corporations represented by Mir. E. H. Hartman. for the pur- post of corrupting the voters in this his
 There never was a Krosser instancs of political corruption in our history. It Is pleaded in extenuation of Mir. Roosevelt's act that he never meant to Sarsy 5syssY out hIs o, PSst Of the Sssygal, come some to the the fnii force and efrect of nat plea tn mitigation.
 We beileve unressrvedly in criticism of the courts. That such criticism ta natural and wholesome no sensibis man ever disputed. But 1t must come from men who have clean hands. Mr. Roosevelt is not a it person to pass Judgment upon the laws administra-
 Mr.. Roosevelt will do well to reflect that his circumstances are changed and that however. blind and deaf to his been heretofore. is Is now wide awake and keenly sensitive to matters that touch upon It's own honor.
 Granting without hesitatlon that it is true that Mir. Roosevelt has aroused public sentiment in respect to integrity In affairs and that he has. quieken the public conscience in regard to civic morals, he is SSeevously mistaken if he tnfers that In doing so he has eetab- lished any right to immunity for him. self.
 So great Is the present lueidity Of the public mind that it is apparent that had MT. Roosevelt been nominated at Chicago his election would have pres ently been seen to be hopeless. Far more hopeless than the election of Mr. Bryan now appears to dispassionate and competent observers. We are not altogether sure that Mir. Roosevelt himself shares this opinion; and yet, at the same time, we should not be sur prised to learn that it is an opinion which he formed before we formed 1t. and even long before 1t dawned upon any one else. Far be 1t from us to lnn- peach MT. Roosevelt's instincts as a politician
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-08-02
Was Called By the Dead,
Oakland City, Ind, Dispatch to Ne
 York World

OakIand Clty, Ind, Dispatch to New
 York World.
 Fifty days ago. while coming to this city rom Clnton' Ina" where he had Charles J. Whitten, one of the pio- neers of Gibson county, said to his son Mother (his wife. who died several asked her if she wanted me to go with her now, and she said she would come to take me in fifty days" The son tried to dissuade his father from placing any belief in his dream, but he refused to be shaken in the thought that he would die in fifty days. Yes ter day, the hftieth day after the dream, Mir. Whitten fell dead at his
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-08-02
Whasrs ysa Thlrd Party. Votes Come From

EAlldQGlDnlA EteCQIQs
 Republicans have been watching the organization of the Independence Par ty with satisfaction that betrays deep ignorance of election statistics. They from Mr. Bryan and give Mir. Taft a better chance.
 Why should not the reverse be the ease? Why should not the vote for Hisgen and Graves come out of the Republican party? Mir. Bryan is the 1c- knowledged .eader of the more radical clements in the Democratic party. these elements viii not support him. and of course the more conservative elements, which have been thought iukewarm toward the candidate, would other hand. the Chicago platform. has been disappointment to the progres- sive Republicans of Wisconsin. Iowa. What would be more natural, then, than for many of the radical Repub- lieans to support Hisgen and Graves? Twentytfour .I years ago Ben Butler the field and kept there by the Repub- lican managers in order to draw votes away from Cleveland. Especially in CTS boom Butler. The results was htat he got 17.002 votes in New York. and Blaine lost the State by l047 votes. The Candidacy gave Cleveland the State and the election.
 Take a more recent and a more strilk- ing case. In 1892 the Democratic can didate was MT. Cleveland, who was not admired by the radical elements in the party. the Democrats who leaned strongly toward Populism. Tn order to detach them from Cleveland the Repub- licans financed the Populist campaign of General Weaver. He was aston. ishingIy successful He boiled 1,041, 467 votes He carried Colorado, Idaho, Kansas and Nevada. and got one cleo, Oregon, total of twenty-two. But they didn't come from the Democratic party. Cleveland got 277 electoral votes including all but one from Cali fornia, the votes of Connecticut. Illi- nois, indiana, five from Michigan, one from Ohio. one from North Dakota, ten from New Jersey, thirty-six from New York, six from West Virginia and twelve from Wisconsin.
 Evidently the Populist vote came from the Republican party. and now with MT. Bryan as the Democratic ocrats should turn from him to His gen. It is William Howard Taft who is menaced by the nomination of Thomas Hisgen.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-08-02
Putting Boise Penrose of Pennsyi-

Putting Boise Penrose of Pennsyl- vania on the Republican campaign com mittee is about as fine an example of the eternal fitness of things as We have noticed. If there is more expert col lector and distributor of corruption funds than Penrose we have yet to hear of him, and he ought to have been first on the committee. If he fails to get the dough" there's no need for others to try.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-08-02
The New Haven Register calls atten.

The New Haven Register calls atten- ton to a serious lack of completeness on the part of the correspondents who reported the Hearst convention at Chi cago. Not one of them, so far as we have noticed, tells how many minutes the convention cheered Hearst when he got up to open the proceedings. Such negligence is not creditable to the newspaper guild.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-08-02

Mir. Taft made an earnest appeal in his speech of acceptance for enforce n1snt of the Thirteenth. Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments. This is no doubt his way of currying favor with the negro voters of the country.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-08-02
Correct View.

I UuIH OUIIpdLIOH.
 Labor unions. whatever their other duties may be, owe 1t to the public to improve not only labor conditions but labor results. that Is. to stand for good workmanship. Three carpenters unions in Massachusetts have recognized this obligation to themselves and to the public interest by requiring Snew menl- bers to pass a stiff practical examina- tion for admission to the brotherhood of skilled workmen.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-08-02
ALMOST FUNNY.

The esteemed Washington Times is actually trying to be solemnly funny. Tn the current Issue Is an article on Rooseveit's proposed visit to Africa. in which 1t assures all who care to know that when the hunter of things re- turns from Africa "he will be recog- nized as one of the worlds specialists in affairs relating to that immense, mysterious and still largely unknown continent" Then it concludes the arr ticle thus:
 What more natural. then. it is being pointed out, than that Theodore Roose- big game, should turn to the vastly greater problem of civilizing the sec ond greatest continent. and presently, subject. be called to give the world and the new continent--yes, and the cause of International peace--his ser- vices as head of an international board, commission or court having some grant of power from the great nations7 That something of the kind willvou time come about is widely believed. That such man as Theodore Roosevelt might naturally point the way, is the thought In many minds. apfopos of the fact that he ia soon to go to Africa and spend a long peried in dts interior.
 Now, 1t really seems to us that the esteemed contemporary is proposing to put whole lot of unnecessary red tape into this matter. Why not, if Taft is President, commission Teddy to go over and explore and survey every foot of the dark continent, then return home, draw up plans and specifications. and divide the land among the great na- tions of the earth? or course it will be understood that Uncle Sam is to have the largest slice, which we sug- gest shall be named Rooseveltania, with Theodore as Governor and Big sticker. Those who look on Roosevelt as just 8 few degrees above human certainly do not doubt his ability to do the job in year or two without help and without making any mistakes of judgment or decision. Is not the whole thing ridiculous?
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-08-02
A Real Democratle Dark Horse.

hennebeC JOuInaI.
 Speaking of dark horses at National conventions, probably Franklin Pierce, who was nominated by the Democrats on the forty-ninth ballot at Baltimore in 1852. was the darkest horse that were captured a presidential nomination. The New Hampshire man did not re- ceiVe single vote until the thirty second ballot. and then he received ori- ly one, which he lost on the thirty third ballot
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-08-02

We give The Norfolk Landmark credit for new word-'1inotypogra- phy''-at least it is new to us. and it ia all right. referring. We take 1t, to the Iinotypes unfortunate habit of mis- sDellinS words
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-08-02
smnRN cIRrrLATInN.

The Montgomery Advertiser guarantees It's advertisers (and makes 1t a part of the contract when requested) that its daily cir cuiaeion is larger than that of any morn ing newspaper printed in Alabamar-and that it's Sunday edition has the largest eir- culation of any edition of any newspaper printed in Alabama without exception.
 The figures for June printed below repre- sent the actual net circulation. all returns having been deducted-y
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-08-02

Republicans are worried" says a dispatch from Washington. Well isn't that what the Democrats are here for ito worry 'em2
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-08-02
A Centre shot.

PhiIadeIphia Record.
 John Temple Graves, of Georgia and New York, Is an orator of such enor- nous capacity of utterances that he has no time to think. Last year he was proposing that the Democratic party should nominate MT. Roosevelt for third term.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-08-02

Making Roosevelt President of the Peace League is about the biggest joke of the season.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-08-02
poIltirnI Commenf.

MT. Tafts speech of acceptance Is the principal political topic of the day. and on the whole. the sentiment in regard to it seems to be that the speech is good one. even if a trife prolix. The New York Post believes however. that the speech will not do much to aid the cause It says:
 Tn fine, Mir. Taft's speech seems likely to alienate still further the la hor element and the hot radicals of his own party, especially those of the West They already look upon the Chicago platform as too reactionary. MT. Taft is even less inclined to cut loose and run amuck. By this atti- tude he will be strengthened among the conservatives of the East and the large business centers of the West, and among those who. while anxious for reform. dread Mir Bryan's pro- pensity for flighty and ill-considered inovations.
 The New York Globe finds that some of Mir Bryan's political chickens are coming home to roost. It says;
 Especially galling to MT. Bryan must it be to recall with what con Vincing arguments he recently proved that he and Mir. Hearst had a common aim and would be found fighting to- gether for it side by side, Today they are at swords points and for every
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-08-02
0uiek Enough.

amendnent th a letter Io The Mont gomery Advertiser says that 1t win take fifty years for the convict labor or hire to provide 800 droads for the that 1t could dofit so quick. If convict labor gives us good roads in the next fifty years that will be more than all other efforts have done in the past fifty towards getting roads But the beauty about the Overton amendment and convict labor is that the convict labor will be supplemented by all sorts of help. so that the roads will come much sooner than fifty years.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-08-02

bid that MT. Bryan has made for rad ical support Mir. Hearst can go him one better. Truly Mr. Bryan has united party behind him. Forsaken nrsk py the gold Democrats, then by the Pop ulists, he is now abandoned by the Hearstites. What remains is at least compact and homogeneous"
 The PIttsburg Dispatch thus sums up the auallficafions of the man select ed as chairman of the Democratic Na-
 'aNornsn U. Mack, editor and pro- prietor of The Buffalo Times. chosen as chairman Of the Democratic Nation al colnplttee, is strong man, eo1ditions' so1eGae He has been A Q supporter of Bryan at all times, though not agreeing with him in principles which Bryan hlnaseif-has since cast aside on age was but temporary convulsion. a sort of epiieptic it, and that the party must be hsrs intact as Tar - as The Bursio editor is handsome, gen fal, attractive. ciean-handed, rich by reason of keen. telescoptc nnanciering. but never of the frenzied sort; aud in that could be desired. even by the Ai- most priggish Bryan.
 M. E. Ingaiis that he I proposss to sup port Mr. Bryan this year. The Spring held Republican says:
 ''It is In the line of eooG sense and of such confidence in the wisdom and good sense of the American people as we all ought to cherish. Grover Cleveland upset the old Republican the country. so far as the occupant of is thoroughly unpatriotic for any man sonnsp so soatssd o ,hst sasaf sahanfs Hesa n as would mean ruin to business. IT .ilis were true. then the business of the country rests upon a most unstable basis. The great mass of business men in the country are sensibly attending to business. and worrying little about politics. More than eyer before in our the one that will best assure the fu- ture. Even the partisan hotheads are more composed than they used to be-
 An echo from the standard oil de- siaion is this from The Philadelphia
 Judge Landis looked to the real owner of the Standard oil Company of Indiana. The court that reversed him looks to the legal corporation; A dif- carried to Ahe court of last resort: Railroad rates must be uniform. If existing laws still leave 1t possible for actual concessions to be legally se- cured 1t Is clear that the law shou!d be changed. This can be known only when the Supreme Court finally passes on a case like this and settles oncA for all the boundaries of a shippers re- spensibility."
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-08-02
:. gntsl the aIeaey Gives Out.

2 WIt Y " IlW UWUI tI1ts
 Mir. Hearst has launched his new party on, the country with very little noise of trunnpets or shouting of cap tains.. The frail bark is not likely to withstand many gales or make an ex- tenslve voyage. It may travel after a fashion as long as the promoters mon ey is used as motive power, but It is not apt to make much of a figure on the political sea. What is hoped to be gained by the movement Is so far a secret to all but the Initiated, and 1t may probably be q secret to them. The country at least is not likely to take it seriously.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-08-02
Two paIIora 2 wOra FOr TeIIIaE Aboul
ColnmhIana sentine.

Columbiana sentinel
 Give Roosevelt the wilds of Africa where blood can flow like the current of the Congo and the world will bs none the wiser!
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-08-02
AIherfvIlIn In nrnrinr Fnrrrn!

Alherfville Banner.
 Bountiful crops on Big Sandy are as- sufed our people this year. Sand Mountain. the garden spot of the world Prosperity during the coming fall Light Is breaking In the east and the dawn of a new era Of prosperity is up- op our people. The stricken city has risen from the wreck and ruin of a great calamity and is pressing onward in It's march toward bigger and better things. Keep your eye trained on AL bertvilie.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-08-02
4.n,.,o. sAs. A Faneral Party.

AnnIbton Etar.
 The course of the Independence par. ty having led 1t to the open Graves the party will undoubtedly land in the DO. lttical cemetery in November. In this connection should be noted that tht Independence Leagues Graves is al. ways open and usually blowing natural gas. Hearst will furnish the money foi the Organization, his .'yaller' Journals will do the screaming and Graves will do the talking for the combination.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-08-02
Huas It On sAe Fence.

Oxafk Staf,
 The Samson Ledger, of which our old time friend. Ed. Johnson, is the edi- tor in a recent issue took all the hide of of Governor Conner and hung 1t on the Fair Ground fence at Samson to one of the strongest editorial writers In the state and has been a consistent anti- -Conar man.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-08-02

HuntBVIlle Mercury.
 The political straddiing that Judge Taft has commenced this early will, II continued. get him all out of shape be. fore the close of the campaign. The judge should take Q few days off and review and blue pencil that tarif speech he delivered In Boston last year He will need a revised version of it Il 1t Is to De used for canpaign material
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-08-02
WirlnE on the state.

Berminshafn Ledger.
 The. way the people of Birmingham elected men at will instead of by vot- ing any slate ds good. Thei . is too much of this slate business. IL is well to have counter cheeks In the city hall. All one way, Is not. good.
 \. Henry County Must Get Above This. Abbevilla Newe
 A car load of meat arrived here Mon- day and was all gone in couple of days. All the merchants were out of this much needed article for a few days. and when ft arrived 1t went to the consumer in hurry.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-08-02
What the State Papers
 Are Saying and Doing
The crop Of willl.m..

Goodwater Enterprise. It seems to be dennlteIy settled that next four years will be named Will liam, no matter who Is elected.
 
 Same Here. Dothan Eagle
 Those who go of for thsir health and return, most of them return. don't look like it's any healthier away from Dothan than 1t Ia here.
 Tem watson For Instance. Opelika Poet.
 It is fortunate for some disgruntled politicians that are not honored by the party ot shEtr chGsee that they can find some nther one to join and be given more recognition
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1908-01-29

suburban development continue.
Charles s. Mellen president Of the
New York, New Haven and Hartford
Railroad, is the pioneer in this new
era OF intensive railroading" in the
opinion of Mr. Mayo who describes
the various new plans OF operation
which Mr. Mellen is putting into ef-
feet to bring the railway closer to
the people.
The two mechanical factors of pri-
mary Importance in eifecting the
changes referred to are given as el-
ectricity and the rail The import
ance OF the former comes from the
fact that cars can run either singly or
in trains so that much more frequent
operation over more varied routes be-
came possible. With the demonstra-
ton that Trails can be laid in city
strets without interfering with the
use of the roadway by wagons, it
becomes possible to operate the same
cars in public thoroughfares and,
where high speed is necessary. over
private rights of way The combinat-
ion of the two makes it certain that
in the future the surburbanite will
be able to take car near his home
in the country town that convey him
without change to point convent
ent to his Office inthe city, reduc-
ing very considerably the time of the
journey as made at present and also
lessening the expense,
In thinly inhabited districts, the Ap-
pletons art Gle points out, where
steam roads would find it Improbable
to operate, the railway will be taken
to the people through the medium Of
electric feeders such as the elabor-
ate system Of lines proposed by Mr.
Melen in western Massachusetts at a
cost OF $l0000,000. Such lines can be
run profitably only as part of COM
prehensiive and strong transportation
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1908-01-29
THE TRACkLEss TROLLEY.

NEW YORK, Jan. 20. - Most
people do not canceivc Of The much
discussed "tracklesS troily" as o yehi.
Gle which will also run on tracks. But
there's a new idea abroad. Vehi.
clcs that rim through streets of any
town, gathering in passengers from
their homes and offices, and then dash
away at express sped over the tracks
Of the railway TO the next city on the
line, there 10 resume the course Of the
familiar street ear, thus taking, people
direct from their homes to business
destinations without delay Or the
trouble Of transferring from trolly 10
steam train and back again, are an in
noyation predicted in the develop
mcnt of American railroading in The
near future This, however, IL only
one Of the many interesting changes
in railway operation that are to oc-
cur soon, according TO Earl Mayo,
who writes about number Of The
more important IN an article which
appears in Appleton's Magazine for
February
Taking the railway 70 the people Z
u really the phrase to describe the
expansion Of transportation facilit-
les IN the next half ccninary. accord.
ing 10 Mir Mayo. The process Is al
ready well advanced in New England
which as the most thiekly populated
SECTION ot the country naturally leads
The way. Il will spread TO other parts
oi the country as the growth in
density Of population, the increase Of
cities and towns in close proximity 10
one another, and the expansion oi
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1908-01-29

system where they will benefit TIL
system as whole by the growth 0
traffic they create
Another interesting project OF III,
future will be the operation Of IAN In.
tcrchangablc steam and electric serv.
ice over the same tracks, the electric
trains taking care of local business
while steam continues to handle thu
through or long-haul traffic, Mr.. Mayo
does not agree with those who expect
10 see steam iocotiycs becomes az
extinct as the dodo within the next
few years lie holds that the perfect.
ing process In the application Of the
newer form Of power must continue
oyer a long period before the su.
pcriority Of electricity where sustain.
I'd speed u required for long distances
is conclusiyely attained.
~ the field of freight handling the
same process Of taking transportation
facilities direct to the people II to
occur. Electric freight expresses will
take the place of way freight trains
operated by steam, which are not only
inefficient in meeting the demands Of
present day trade for prompt commu-
nication, but also intcrefcr with op-
Grafton Of fast through frcights, result
ing in the congestion OF traffic which
has been 50 much complained Of by
shippers and railway men alike.
"AIl over southern New England
says Mr. Mayo. the trolly express
Is being introduced 10 take the place
of the numbering way freight and Of
the wagon express which was able to
compete with 1t, but is now being
abandoned before the competition OF
electricity. There are several oi
these trolley express lines operating
from New Haven, One OF them
runs over loop which extends north