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The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-07-16

Judxs Alton B. Parksr, himself can- dldatc four years ago. and another strong opposition leader, has congratu- lated Mir Bryan upon the outcome or iniiuenrs toward the success of the ticket.
 Other leaders of similar prominence in the opposition ranks have, similar : iy. buried their antagonistic views and allied themselves with the platform and the nominees.
 Present Indications therefore. point to the fact that the national democ- presenting a united front and deter. mined If pnssibie. to win.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-07-16

To an esteemed North Carolina con- temporary who will understand the allusion: When you want a good edi- toriai in your paper copy 1t bodily from The Advertiser without intimat- ing the source you get 1t from.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-07-16

It would be just too bad if some of those who have almost dislocated their diaphragms shouting for Bryan for months past should now find them selves scroughed out of the front seat by some of the late passengers on the band wagon. It would make the eSer- faithful feel almost disgusted.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-07-16

"oklahoma has had entirely too much of the advanced Bryan ideas" protests The Guthrie State Capital. Well. does 1t want some more of ad- vanced Roosevelt ideas7
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-07-16

The New York Globe aIiudes to "that nonstriferous regiment of women.' p but we decline to say what it's inten- tions are.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-07-16

Chicago seems about to make bet ter record than it has been laboring under in the past. We are as- sured that there are more marriages than divorces and more births tha deaths in that city now. Is Chicago trying to be good
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-07-16
eWoBN CIRCULATION.

The Montgomery Advertiser gusfentssess ~ 2 &s advertisers (and makes 1t paxs ot kne coafract when requested3 that It's daily clr- culation Is larger than that ot any morn, ing newspaper printed h Alsnsinar- . that its Sunday edition has the iafkeet Sal- culation of any edition v, any newspsRes printed in Alabama without exception
 The figures for May printed below repts- sent the actual net circulation. all returns having been deducted.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-07-16
surely the Editor Was Never n Boy Marion County NeMa.

Basabaii playing is a curse to every one who engages in 1t. The danger In the game IS the least harm. The minds of our boys are so full of the game that there Is no room in their heads for anything else, and this being the ease 1t Is a great Injury to them. Stop your boy from playing baseball and you will have done him a great favor as well as your duty. and in after years he will thank you for 1t. More anon.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-07-16

Just wait till Hearst gets his Inde- pendence League going if you want to see some rattling times in politics.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-07-16

seandalous as was the 1898 threat to pack the United States Supreme Court, the fact remains that that court had twice up- held the constitutionality of an income tax. one without dissenting voice. The decision which overturned the last income tax was rendered by a majority of one. and that one was Justice who had previously held the tax valid. No man Is competent to say that the present court would inyalidate a prop erly drawn income-tax act.
 Campaign Fund Publicity.
 In striking contrast with this capitula- tion to seudo-eonservatism is the stronE. ringing declaration of the Denver Conven- tion in favor not only of campaign fund publicity but of a corrupt-practices law. Not only is the Democratic party at last unreservedIy pledged to this great reform. hut. in spite of the action of the Chicago Convention in voting down the La Toilette pYank. MT. Taft has committed himself and his party to full publicity of campaign con 1vibutions and expenditures.
 On the Philippine question the party i' stiIi sound, as H was in 1900, when The world supported the ticket on the issue oS imperialism. alone.
 The Denver arraisnment of Roosevelt ex. travaEaRee would have been better had it been stronger. The Democratic party ip this respect can certainly afford to so as
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-07-16

We believe that in 90 far as the needs of commerce require an emergency curren- cy such currency should be iBsusd. con- trolled by the Fetie- eFaI Government and loaned on adequate security to national and state banks. We pledge ourselves to legislation under which the national banks shall be re- quired to establish a guarantee fund for the prompt payment of the depoRitors of any lnsoivent nation al bank under an equitable system which shall be ayaiie able to all State banking institutions wishing to use 1t.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-07-16
1898.

We demand the free and unlimited coinage of both gold and silver at the present legal ratio of sixteen to one, without waiting for the aid or consent of any other nation. We demand that the standard silver dollar shall be a full legal tender. equally with gold, for all debts, public and private, and ws favor such leEiala- ton as will prevent for the future the demonetlzatlon of any kind of legal tender money by private contract. =
 Congress alone has the power to coin and issue mon eI, and President Jackson declared that the power could not be dele gated to corpora lions or individuals. We therefore de- mand that the pow CT to issue notes to circulate as money be taken from the national banks. and that all paper mon ey shall be Issued d. rectly by the Treas ury Department, be redeemable in coin, and receivable for all debts, public and private.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-07-16

While both favor limiting the writ of in junction and indorse the bill passed by the Senate in isss providing for jury trials In certain contempt eases where the offense Is not committed in the presence of the Court, the Denver plank puts the Democratic par ty. souarely on record in defense of the in- teerity of the courts while the Chicago plank was . sweeping attack upon the Fed erai judiciary.
 Money.
 Look at the 1908 money plank and then at the Isss money plank:
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-07-16

The courts of jus ttee are the bull wark of our liberties, aud we yield to none in our purpose to maintain theft digni- ty. our party has given to the bench a long line of 1Is- tinguished Judges, who have added to the respect and com ffdence in which this department must be jeaiously maintained We resent the at tempt of the Repub- iican party to raise false Issues respect. ing the judiciary. Js Is an unjust reflec- ton upon . grees body of our citizens to assume that they lack respect for the courts.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-07-16

Men may or may not believe in guarantee ing bank deposits; but what a vast differ ence between free silver at lS to along with unlimited greenbacks. and an emer- Sencys currency to be issued by the Federal Government and loaned to the banks on ad- sqnate security
 Another measure of the distance travel led by the Democratic party since 1898 is to be found in the two blanks respecting cIvil-service reform;
 1908. 1906.
 The laws pertain We are opposed to ing to the civil ser- life tenure in the vice should be hon public service. We estly and rigidiy en- favor appointments forced, to the end based upon merit, that merit and abil- fixed terms of of- ity shall be the flee and such an ad- standard of appoint ninistration of the ment and promotion. eivil-service laws as rather than services will afford equal rendered to a politi- opportunities to au cal party. citixsns of aseertaip-
 ed fitness.
 Where the party dozen years ago was vigorously denouneing life tenure of office' 1t is now insisting on a rigid and honest en- forcement of the eivil-service laws.
 The Income Tax;
 There is such thing, however. as too much compromise. and the Denver declare. ton in favor of an Income tax Is plain. unqualified surrender:
 1908. 1e06.
 We favor an in- There would be no come tax as part of deficit in the rev our revenue Byatenls enue but for the an- and we urge the sub nulment by the Su. mission of a constt- pFeme Court of a tukional amendment law passed by g specifically authoriz- Democratic Con~ ing Congress to levy gTess in strict pur- and collect a tax up. suance of the uni on individual and form decisions of corporate incomes, ts that court for near the end that wealth ly one hundred may bear It's propor~ years that court tionate share of the having sustained burdens of the Fed constitutional obJeo- eral Government tlons to its enact
 ment which had
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-07-16
1HQa.

We denounce arhi- trxry interference by Federal author titles in local affair." as . violation of the Constitution of the United states and a crime against free institutions, and we especially object to government by in- junction as a new and highly danger our form of oppres- sion by which Fed. eraI Judges, In con- tempt of the laws of the states and rights of citisens. become at once tSe isiators, judges and exeeutioners, and we approve the bill passed at the last session of the Unit ed states Senate and now pending in the House relative to contempts In Fed eral courts and pro viding for trials by jury In certain cases AZ rAmtaVea af
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-07-16
rHE DEMocaA1lo rLATFonM.
4 Great Inaprsvsmsns on Tboss of isse and
 la0a.

New York World. a Whatever objections may be urged against the platform sdopted at Denver, 1t Is unauestionably . great improvement over the Chicago platform of tsss and the Kansas city platform Of 1900, particularly in respect to the tons and temper in whien the issues are defined.
 The Courts,
 Compare the spirit of the 1908 injunction plank with the spirit of the isse inJuncsios plank:
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-07-16

Peary is man very much to be en- vied these days.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-07-16

If 1t were not for the fact that Mir. Roosevelt has been a spectacular ana popular president there would be no more interest In his forthcoming visit to Africa than in the pilgrimage of
New-York tribune., 1908-02-02
BaPD TINES AND SOFT JOBS.

The phrase hard times is highly ambS
nous. as most economic terms are It's most
general least chalieDgeable meaning Is an MS
torical period when 1.-The time Is out OF Jolht :;
but be it observed, the significance OF this del
inition turns unayoidably upon what constitutes
djslocation When may the time be described
as properly articulated: over this question doc
tors and patients disagree and not mildly. Inc
exnerience which Detroit has just had with its
vast army of the unemployed dlscloses lam
entable disharmony among economists on this
topic of the hour.
Some days ago huge parade OF working
men was organized in Detroit for the purpose
of convincing the authorities that hard times
had really and truly smitten the fair CITY OF
the Straits twenty-five hundred amateur econ
omists had faith enough in this diagnosis TO
/ ioin the ranks which marched upon the cry
Hall demanding aid from the aldermen. As the
Detroiters have no Tammany, neither the budget
nor the debt limit worries them; hence the
netitioners found the city fathers in benevolent
mood No sooner had the clamor for help been
raised outside the windows of the council cham
her than the municipal purse strings were loos
eued 4 resolution was passed to have a new
canal dug in the citys large island park nj
once: hardware stores were straightway
stripped Of their supply of picks and shoVeis
for the toilers-to-be, and the army of the un-
e,nploved' was invited 10 step into the Park
cunerjntendent's office to have their names i'll
scribed upon the emergency payroll. There
upon saith the chronicer ten men stepped for
! ward: the other 2430 scurried up the neghbor-
ing alleys. And when the ten faithful learned
tho nature Of their jobs great were their
grief and wrath. In the words of the Park
Superintendent:
Every one of the ten wanted to be boss.
hut drew the line at handling pick or shovel
/ 1-hev an insisted on having work provided for
then of their particular selection. When
fold them of the prospect of digging canal they
/ wjltef away They didn't want plain. every
/ dsv work When / couldn't satisfy them they
insisted that ] give them transportation back u
/ their homes in Canada, and when | turned them
New-York tribune., 1908-02-02
IN WASHINGTON SOCIETY.
JE,rom The Tribune Bureau


Washington, Feb Count Dionys Szechenyi
the elder brother of Count Laszlo Szechenyi, who
married Miss Vanderbilt. and Countess Szechenyi
will arrive in Washington tomorrow, a suite hav-
ing been engaged for them at the 'Snoreham oy
Baron Ambrozy, counsellor of the Austro-Hun-
garian Embassy. Mr. and Mrs George W. Van
der biIt will give dinner and large reception TOT
them on Tuesday. Wednesday they Will attend the
ball TO be given by Mrs. Richard H. townsend
and the Ambassador and Baroness Hengeimu1ier
will also entertain for them.
Senator and Mrs. Burrows entertained at dinner
tonight the Minister from Bolivia and Sonora de
Calderon Senator Ganger, Representative ana
Mrs Dalzeu the Third Assistant Secretary or
State and Mrs Huntington Wilson. Mr. and Mrs
William r. Merriam, Justice and Mrs Anderson
and Mrs F. B. Moran.
Lieutenant Colonel and Mrs Thomas ". Syrons
entertained at dinner tonight complimentary 10
Miss Wright of Portland. Me. the house guest
of Miss Symons. To meet her were Miss JARVIS.
Miss Griffith, Miss Terry, Captain Cosoy, captain
Gilmore, Lieutenant Butler and John barrett
There were a number of large dinner parties to-
night among the hosts being Mr. and MIS- wal
Iach, Mr.. and Mrs. Weightman. Mrs Julian James
and General and Mrs. Charles l.. Fftzhugh BriSa-
dier General and Mrs. Clarence r. Edwards and
Mr.. and Mrs Pierre Iorillard will entertain dinner
parties tomorrow. Mr. and Mrs. Larz Anderson
followed their dinner of tonight with dance
DR. and Mrs Duncan McKim have engaged All
Kul Kahn a noted Persian scholar. to lecture be-
fore a large group of their friends ON Monday az
ternoon on Social Customs in Persia
Commander and Mrs. F. A AbercrombIe Miller
announce the engagement OF their daughter, Miss
Alice Miller. to Frederick Ashton de register. OF
New York
New-York tribune., 1908-02-02

dalous n condition. Their disposition to go TO
tho bottom of the maladmnstration should
lave the support of public opinion, SO that their
eomplete investigation will be as drastic an
overhaulinc of the Fire Department as was
their ransacking of the Borough Presidents OF
flee That investigation. in the light it threw
,,pon the causes IF inefficient city administra-
.ion. was a real contribution to the cause OF
good government The public must know what
has gone on under the surface in the Fire De
nartnent which has turned il in the last few
wears from an efficient organization into de-
moralized one The Mayor owes Ii to his repu-
tation 10 let the complete investigation be as
thorough as was the inquest into Ahearns ad-
ministration No patching up of the present
scandal hy the purchase of new hose and the
annointment of respectable commissioner VIII
serve The system that has resulted in delnor-
alizafion needs TO be exposed and cured Inc
Commissioners of Accounts have the disposition
in GET at the facts and the capacity TO make
valuable suggestions for Il more efficient al
ministratiou and need only the support OF the
administration to which they are responsible.
No recent revelation OF administrative inca
pacity has moved the public more profoundly
than the evidence that the Fire Department has
been for several years trusting TO luck TO pro-
feet the city against confiagration like Balu-
more 's-this Fire Department which has peeh
New York's pride and boast
New-York tribune., 1908-02-02
THE DIPLOMATIC CORPS.
rI-ro,, The rrrihrpe Bureau

IFror The Tribune BureauI
Washington Feb 1.-The Austro- Hungarian All
bassador who intended to go direct TO the "es'
Indies from New York, where he went TO attend I"e
wedding of Count and Countess Szechehyi' Ids
changed his plans and will accompany BaronesS
HengeImuIler to Washington Tomorrow lie VIII
remain here for a short time before WISHING the
West Indies.
The British Ambassador and Mrs Bryce were
among the diplomatic dinner hosts of this evening
entertaining the Danish Minister the Greek Nin1s-
ter Justice and Mrs. Harlan. Senator ana Mrs-
CulIom Senator Frye, Senator and Mrs Beverlose'
the American Minister to China and Mrs '" W.
RockhiIi the Assistant Secretary of War and hfs'
Oliver Representative and Mrs Longworth. Mrs
e. H Warder. Miss Eean, Miss Cameron, MISS
Foraker Miss Upham Thomas Nelson Page more
ton Frewen. OF London the counsellor or the en-
baesy and Lady Isabella Howard, the second sec
retary and Mrs George Young, H. BeresfoFd Hope
ana Mrs. Charteris, ali Of the British Embassy
staff
The Belgian Minister and Baroness Moncheur hau
dining with them tonight Justice and Mrs. Holmes
the Spanish Minister. Senator Brandegee Mr. and
Mrs. George W. Vanderbilt. Mr. and Mrs William
F. Draper Mr.. and Mrs. c. C.. Glover Mrs. came
ron Mrs. Hope Slater, Miss Gwynn and NJ de
Cartier, the counsellor of the Belgian Legation
New-York tribune., 1908-02-02
LET IN THE full LIGHT.

The report OF the Commissioners Of Accounts
regarding the Fire Department scandal is only
preliminary. IL hardly covers more than the
reasons for the departments failure 10 handle
effectively the Parker Building fire, but so far
as it goes it is thorough. No one is white
washed or spared. The ineffciency of the pres
ant Fire Commissioner is clearly Indicated, in
that be knew the scandalous condition of the
hose from The beginning Of his incumbency and
made no real effort TO remedy il. The failure
of The deputy chiefs in charge of the fire 10
make the best use Of such apparatus they
had is shown 10 account in part for the de-
sirI,crion OF lives and property. Six engines,
for instance pumped on one water main 90
small that its supply was adequate for only one
engine. And there was no intelligent disposi-
tor of the engines at the outset so there was no
Encouragement OF them to obtain better water
surnIv when they were found not 10 be obtain
Ing sufficient pressure. Ia the hurry and con-
fusion OF a fire mistakes will be made. but no
one in charge seems 10 have known anything
about the disposition Of the mains The COM
missioners make sensible suggestions about
Keeping the company maps Up 10 date in regard
la hydrants and VERY practical one tnat all
city hysIraIns be so marked as 10 indicate the
size of the mains To which they are attached.
I: is recommended that the Fire Commissioner
keen comprehensive record Of statistical In
formation regarding his department, especially
concerning the condition Of its apparatus and
bose The prompt buying Of new hose is ad-
gisesl.
With regard 10 the responsibility for the CON
diiion Of lile ciys hose are glad TO observe
that ihe commissioners say
The responsibility for the present shortage and
condition Of hose rests in part upon all recent
administrations of the Fire Department. but also
anon Board of Aldermen and the Board Of
Estimate ia what respective proportions our
examination has not gone far enough as yet TO
.np bic us determine
The commissioners lend no countenanee 10 the
efforts of the politicians 10 make two or
three presen, in,1lnbents of office scapegoats
and SUR over the responsibilities Of their prede-
.essors thus protecting the system by which
the department WAS allowed TO get into scan-
New-York tribune., 1908-02-02
At all events, the weather man Is not iiiAeo
up in the Mcclellan Murphy quarrel, Wnlch mas
been delaying the removal of snow

The defeat of the British government cahoi-
date in the Ross division Of Herefordshire, 1oi-
lowing closely upon the bolt from the oiue III
Mid-Devon, will further encourage the tariff re-
formers and cause more heart searchngs among
the Cobdenites, since the campaign was roughI
distinctly on the tariff issue and has resulted
in a decided victory for the protect1onists' Inc
significance of the incident is not, however,
cornparable with that Of the MidDevon cleo
ton since in winning the Unfonists have merely
reeained ground which they narrowly lost Tor
the first time at the last election. For ABOUT
twenty years that constituency was one OF the
safest OF Unionist strongholds. Indeed. in l3oo
the Liberals did not consider 1t worth while 10
contest it. but let it go by default In 1906. how
ever the tremendous tidal wave of Liberalism
overfowed 1t and the Liberal candidate was
elected by the narrow majority of 312- Now the
constituency goes back to Unionsm by a vote or
4946 to 1928, about an average majority of the
old days Three or four more by-elections are
now pending and their results may be more sig
ni6Cant.
New-York tribune., 1908-02-02
AT THE WHITE HOUSE.
From Tho Tribune Bureau.l

Washington Feb THE President receiven many
congratulations to-day from Senators. fsepie
tiyes and social callers on the speclai iiesS"ee
sent to Congress yesterday.
Representatives Webb and Finley. OF North a,i'
South Carolina respectively, called at the "iiia0
House to invite the President to attend the ui'e"-
ing of a monument the site or the oatue o'
Kings Mountain North Carolina. on Octopef =
Tho President will send his regrets to those VINO
are planning the affair.
Mother callers at the White House included seer
taries Taft and Straus, Senators Lodge I'iu7'
Warner Clark, Gamble, Carter, hean' BOURNE
ReveriGge Ellsins and Taylor. Representatives Al
axander Iandis Overstreet Hill and Wilson and
Governor Curry of New Mexico.
New-York tribune., 1908-02-02
A WEDDING IN LONDON.

London Feb. There was a brilliant "ea'A'
at st. Margarets. Westminster. this ditsrho''
when Miss Florence PadeIford daughter OF AiN
Ernest Cunard. married 20 Robert WV"
Grosvenor. eldest son OF Lord Ebu-y. Tie g2i's- ,
ing in the church was a notable one and iHS'D-.
many persons prominent in English soeisS %
the best known members of the American ec~a =
The bridesmaids were Miss GrOsvr1o- MISS ma.
Miss Hope-Vere and Lady Rosemary cairns "a -
nephews of the bridegroom sons OF ivor I"D'''
Guest, acted as pages
The marriage ceremony was followed os -
ception at the home OF the brides moths'
presents included many jewels.
Miss PadeIford was born in Baltluors.
New-York tribune., 1908-02-02
EARL oePIoREs sTEoMAN's osArs.

The secretary OF the American Conml''es = :.
Keats Shelley Memorial Association mas JUS
ceived the following letter from the Earl OF "
As chairman OF the British COMMUNE "a a.
keatS-Shelley Memorial Association des...ss wssf
sure YOU OF the regret and ~ mrdtlN w. w. Az E
We have received the news OF the teata. ul
g StedIuan. chairman Of the American isf,srs
Mr.. Stedmans eulneuCe IN the WO- ~ ~ ssr,srs
as author and critic. must cause Us an N.IsI " b.
his loss on general grounds But the 80 - ~
terest which he took IN joint prOJeet s..r-tn-
degree In which his energy and tunNeiNS .ss-s %
uted 10 its successful issue enable Us 20 s-ssrD
a particular extent in the sorrow felt ~ -
on your side OF the Atlantic az the sad efe"
New-York tribune., 1908-02-02

over to the Poor Commission they acted as If
they were insuted.
Hard times" we thus see. mean to the
masses an epoch when soft jobs are scarce.
When an honest loafer from over the Canadian
border cannot get S. day sinecure from the
first Yankee politician he meets the wolf is at
the front door showing all his fangs.
New-York tribune., 1908-02-02
YALE PROFESSOR FOR WESLEYAN HEA"
TBy Telegraph 20 Tne Tr

by Telegraph 20 The Trioune.l ~.o.
Middletown. Conn. Feb. There u fno -
on foot among the younger alumni OF n.
University 20 induce the trustees 10 ih'i' s,,,,
vacant presidency of the institution pi' s.s.es
Hubbard Judd. Wesleyan. at. WI" s P' oo~
OF psychology at Yale. He IL thoush' " .sr,s
posed 20 co-edueation. which the yoaasS. -.,,,us
OF the alumni body ccnteud is seriously n
the healthy growth Of the college