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vestigated many and varied cases OF
both. the working men and the set
tier that came south, and the great
preponderance of proofs are on my
side. Some of them I will cite here
Commissioner Watson of South Caro-
lima collected SEQ, 900 from his state for
immigration purposes. He rushed over
to Europe and returned in a short time
with two ship loads of men, mostly
single men, which was mistake to be-
gin with Nevertheless all these men
did not stay long in South Carolina, not
because there were no open saloons IN
the state. but because most of them
were rowing, unsettled men; carpen-
ters, tailors, clerks, farm hands, etc,
who could not be expected to work in
the cotton mills of South Carolina for
so cents a day. Had Mr.. Watson tried
to bring weavers with their families,
or practical farmers with families, he
might have succeeded to help both the
cotton mills and the agricultural popu-
lation.
Here in our state two Chicago companies
have started several colonies in Bald
win county They bought lands there
for about 50 per acre, and are selling It
now for S25 per acre. Nevertheless, and
in the face of the coming statewide pro-
hibition, they have succeeded, as stated
once before to attract more than hun
bred of as nice families down there as
any state wants to have, and they are
still coming They are mostly Germans
who have been in this country for long
time and accumulated few hundred or
a few thousand dollars, by thrift and
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1864 He told me a curious fact-that Ne
vada was admitted to the Senate on a
telegraphic message bearing tidings of the
ratification of the state constitution That
was during the big war, when necessity
was the constitution Of the United States.
Worthington is the last survivor of the
pallbearers at the funeral of Abraham
Lincoln and subsequently he was the
American minister to Uruguay and the
Argentine republic, by appointment of
President johnson. Southern born, he
was an anti-slavery man and a republic
can, and adhered to that party in Con-
gress. He escaped the Senate by single
vote in joint session Of the legislature.
I opine that he would have been senator
later on if he had not sided with John
son in the quarrel with Congress.
On December II of this year Mr.. Worth
ington had a stroke of apopleXy on the
floor of the House of Representatives;
but the following day he was strong
enough to leave the hospital and return to
his home. His many friends at the capt.
tai and in every state in the union wish
him complete restoration to health and
strength, and pray that he may long be
spared to the scenes where he has so long
played a part.
The inimitable Ed Marshall was Worth
ington's law partner In California until
he was elected a member of the Thirty
second Congress. He was one of the
most brilliant men the country ever pro-
duced, a nephew of the great chief JUS
tice and a brother Of the famous orator.
Thomas F. Marshall, to whom he was
little, if any inferior, before a jury or on
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McDufhe and Evans. By the way, Stanley
and Bourke Cochran are the only men
in Congress who can digest Adam Smith.
II William ]. Bryan had been gifted with
that order of mind, what different ca
reer might have been democracy's since
1894.
John Sharp Williams, with a self-abne-
cation rare these days, voluntarily sur
rendered the leadership of the minority.
Indeed, 1 can recall, on the instant, no
precedent for the action. The ablest. tho
most accomplished, and the most brilliant
man in the House, he ceases to be captain
to turn private He will be missed in the
extra session, for he would be an inval-
liable aid to Champ Clark when the
vision bill is considered under the FIVE
minute rule, II the republicans will al
lew it, something they promised to the
ear and broke to the hope when they
made the Dingley law.
Champ Clark is a stout soldier in such
combat. His is a powerful mind that can
grasp the general proposition, but no
one man can carry in his memory all the
details of the tariff, and 1t is imperative
that Clark shall apportion the schedules
among his assistants, reserving the lions
among his assistants, reserving the lions
details of some of the schedules thor
oughly. Henry Clayton is more of a law
yer than an economist. but If intrusted
with schedule he will give a good ac-
count of himself, and SO will Ollie James.
The Dingley law was made In the Sem
ate as was the Wilson bill. VIII the
Sixty-first Congress abdicate its preroga-
tive? Certainly 1t will.
Washington December IL, 1908
Copyright, 1908, by e. w. Newman)
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est blows.
OF his personal appearance here is
slight sketch:
Leake was the most cadaverous man
that have ever seen in good health. His
cheek-bones were so prominent and MS
face was so thin that he always had the
appearance of a man in the last stages
of consumption When the Sandwich Is
landers were just emerging from canni-
balisn, and a democratic president was
thinking of sending a diplomatic fepre-
sentative to treat with them, John M.
Daniel of the Richmond Examiner SAID
Ieake was the very man, because he
was not only man of ability enough to
do credit to our government, but he had
the inestimable advantage of being so
lean that any cannibal could see that
there was not a meal on him, and so he
would be entirely safe!
I have sometimes wished that our the
illogical controversies, if we must nave
them we're always conducted with the
kindly and courteous spirit that l have
invariably seen to prevail in the stump
contests between the old time wings and
democrats in Virginia. Here are two IN
stances which have often impressed me;
In the Cass-Taylor campaign of 1913
James Barbour of Culpeper, met William
c. Rives at Orange Courthouse, and some
uncommonly hard blows were struck;
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Nor nearly two score years a man
of medium height slender build,
i and erect carriage was almost a
daily attendant on the sittings of the
House of Representatives. He had a fine,
big, black eye that glowed with intelli-
gence, and when he fell into Renaissance
he delighted and instructed large circle
of friends. A former member of Con-
gress, he had admission to the floor,
where for so sessions he was a welcome
visitor 1 had seen him about the capitol
for many years, but it was not until some
seven years ago that I formed his ac-
quaintance and found him a most agreea-
BILE companion. He knew more about the
Pacific coast, its politics and its politi-
clans, than any other man I ever met,
and his discussions of them were the
freest from envy and prejudice. He was
of the Argonauts, those adventurous and
hardy pioneers of 1s49, who sought fortune
In California, and there formed strange
ly unique community, such as only the
Anglo-Saxon could fashion, and founded
on order and Justice.
This was Henry g. Worthington, a ma
tive of Cumberland, Md, born four score
years ago He was young lawyer in
Tuolumne county, California, and an in
innate acquaintance of Gwinn, Broderick
Baker, Weller, Fremont, Latham Nc
Dougall, Denver. McKibbin, David Terry
and other of that order. Later Worthng-
ton became citizen of Nevada, a dele
gate from that territory in Congress and
the first representative of that state in
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but though Mr.. Rives was evidently sur
prlsed. and not a little nettled at the in
cisive ad hominem hits of his youthful
antagonist, it was easy to see that eour-
tesy was the law of his ufe. What eul-
tured gentleman we lost when William
c. Rives died
And in the Pleree-Seott campaign OF
1852 Alexander Rfves and John Goode met
on the stump at Orange Courthouse-and
truly it was Greek meet Greek. Two
keen. finely tempered blades. handled
with marvellous dexterity, flashed for
hours before the delighted spectators;
but the contestants were both honora-
BILE, heightened. cultivated Virginia gem
tlemen, who were not there to quarrel
like fools, but to argue like men, and
nothing could have given a finer exam
pie of the suaviter in modo and the for
liter in re than did that memorable de-
bate.
Stump speaking is sometimes lightly
spoken of by wiseacres. as If 1t were
low order of intellectual exercise. but no
man Of sense could fail to be informed
and benefited by such stump speaking as
was frequently heard In those days. And
among all the able men who, during my
early days, did thus inform and benefit
me. I can conscientiously say that I can
not name the superior of Shelton F.
Leake.
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tyr, and rs per cent of the American
public will swear for you that he was
deliberately assassinated. 1t was not
more fateful-the fam of Dickinson be-
fore Jackson's pistol than the death of
Frederick at the hands of Terry.
Henry S, Worthington was acquainted
with all the facts relating to the Brod-
erick-Terry duel and he was the one
republican I ever met who discussed 1t
with the absolute partially of
Judge on the bench. But the duel made
a pariah of Terry as it would of Brod-
erick had he slain Terry, and from one
of the most. loveable men, kind, gentle,
sedate, amiable, Terry grew to be fierce
and implacable character his hand
against every other mans hand. Had
he never left Kentucky, his native state.
it is altogether likely that Dave Terry
would have risen to be one of the Illus
trious men of his generation. His BROTH
err Frank Terry, commanded what was
perhaps the finest regiment of calvary
that participated in the big war of 1S6l-60,
and was killed in the first action, a slight
skirmish, in which he participated.
Tn some of the large hotels of Washing
ton there assemble in conclave citizens
and residents of this town to take or
der as to affairs of state. The sessions
are held when Congress is in vacation,
and generally begin at noon and hold till
midnight. All sorts of doctrine and dog
ma are advanced. and the argument is
sometimes fast and always emphatic.
These assemblages are called Patch
work clubs" though a scurrilous news
paper man was impolite enough to name
them "Babbling clubs
Worthngton for many years delighted
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the stump. Born in Kentucky, Ed Mar
shall found in the Thirty-second Con-
gress his kinsman Humphrey Mar
shall and John C. Breckenridge, MEM
bers from his native state. Though
Pierce had been President but two years,
the day the Thirty-second Congress was
called into being there was President
making on foot, and these three en-
gagged in a spirited debate on the presi-
dental succession. Humphrey was the
greatest intellect of the trio, Breckenridge
the highest character, and Ed the most
eloquent orator, Humphrey cham
poined Fillmore, whom Scott had beaten
for the nomination in 1852. Breckenridge
was for William o. Butler of Kentucky
and Ed was for Stephen A. Douglas
Young America" was abroad in those
days and the Little Giant was Its
idol. Ed Marshall was of that coterie
that had for members William e. Cory
and George N. Sanders Don Piatt would
have been with them had he been little
more of a Democrat, or considerably
less of an aboltionist. 1t was the
mission of young America to lick
England, annex Canada and Cuba inn
mediately, and Mexico remotely. Incl
dentally it was to put the abolition party
into the pentenitiary The debate be-
tween these three brilliant Kentuckians
in the Thirty-second Congress is worth
reading to this day.
William o. Butler, if I may steal a
metaphor from Thackeray, was not a
tulip of a man to obtrude upon the public
eye, but rather violet, shrinking and re-
firing. He was of that noble elass-ob
scure great men. His defeat for governor
in 1S43, in a close race, with Henry Clay
was yet the soul of the Wing party,
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doubtless cost him the Presidency the
next year; but when Scott and Worth got
into that bitter quarrel in Mexico, Secre-
tary Marcy chose Butler to supersede
both of them, and made him commander
in-chief of all the forces down there. In
1913 he was the Democratic candidate
for Vice President and defeated by Fill
more. Americans of this generation who
would know the order of man he was
may gain an accurate knowledge of him
by a study of Simon Bolivar Buckner,
the grandest of living Kentuckians and
cast in the very mold of Butler.
Worthington knew and admired David
Broderick, and he also knew and re-
spected David Terry. Broderick was a
turbulent mana swashbuckler-and he
would have died a violent death in such
q community as California then was, il
Terry had never lived and if there had
been no slavery question. The duel with
Terry was of his seeking, and he was the
best pistol shot on the Pacific coast. AS
naughty as Corolanus, he could not brook
opposition, much less a rival. He was the
boss of California, and never was there
a more tyrannical chief of faction.
Broderick expected to kill Terry, and
Terry expected to be killed by him, and
it was the sheer dispensation of fate that
he did not kill Terry. In going to the
battle ground the Broderick party lost
their way, and wandered about for hours
in cold and dark night, and, though
man of approved physical bravery, Brod-
ericlk was nervous from cold when he
faced his adversary, and that is how it
came that he fell and Terry escaped. But
Broderick dead was infinitely more for
nidable to Terry and Terry's party than
he ever was living. He was now mar
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open saloons, but the first and foremost
question with him is the question of MAX
ing money, of living comfortably, and tho
prospect of gaining nice home, just as
it is with every right kind of man of any
nationality, whether he is working man,
farmer, business or professional man.
could mention many like cases of men,
miners and others, who came to our dis
trct, and are still hero and doing well.
In conclusion I will repeat what have
so often stated before. There is no part
of this country more able to offer such
e eat opportunities to the right kind of
Working men and farmers with their fam
lilies as our Alabama and the Birmingham
district.
The Birmingham district, with It's
surrounding territory, st. Clair, Shelby,
Bibb, Tuscaloosa, Walker and Blount
counties has Doth the industries and
the land. For real and lasting develop
ment. district must have new people,
working men and farmers, as well as
new industries and business enterprises.
Let us see what we can do In that di-
rection and let us not be retarded by
arguments, either for or against prohibit
ton. That factor will take care of it
self and the people will decide, in the
course of time, what is best for their
moral and social development. The law
prohibiting the sale and manufacture of
liquors may affect certain Ines OF busi-
ness, either one way or the other; but
have nothing to do with that phase. I
have only endeavored to show that 1t is
not a factor in the movement I spoke
of; that it can not retard or further 1t.
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his magnificent religious dramas is in
the conception of woman.
Millions Eve is an excellent house
keeper but she has none of the attri-
butes which God gave to woman, and
his ideal woman is summed up in the
words by which he characterized her,
"He for God she for God in man.
Nowadays when it has come to be q
question in a great many womens minds
whether she does not occupy an exclus-
i've position. let alone sharing it even
with man, a change has certainly come
over the worlds conception of the relation
of the sexes.
But Protestant Puritanism was always
characterized by this minmising Of
woman, and after all it is of little Won
der for Christianity which deliberately
refused to contemplate the share that
woman had in its central act must neces-
sarily minimize and ignore the share that
woman has in the work and worth of
the world. Nevertheless perhaps it would
be we'll if Milton could return for a
while in order to do battle with the mill
tant suffragette.
l do not know whether that austere
face, standing upon a platform and de-
manding silence, would succeed better
than the kindly and genial presence of
the chancellor of the exchequer on the
platform of the Albert Hall the other day.
No scene has ever taken place in my
time which as a woman has so Inundated
me, nor do l believe that anything has
ever occurred that has put back the suf-
fragist movement in Englash so many
years.
For the first time in the history OF our
country the chancellor of the exchequer
was announced to speak at a great gath
ering of women In the Albert Hall in ia
vor of woman suffrage. Conceive the sit
uaton. If the President of the United
States had volunteered to support woman
suffrage at suffrage meeting in America
what would have been the feeling of those
who had toiled for half a century to OBJ
tain a hearing?
Tho Womens Liberal association in
cludes some of the foremost women in
England and the meeting was among the
most important political events of the
year. A fear had already been aroused
before 1t was summoned, that disturb
ance might be brought about by the
presence of some of the suffragette party.
and a well-signed appeal was issued by
women to petition that a hearing might
be given to Mr.. Lloyd George, and that
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URING the Grant-Greeley cam
paign of 1872, heard some stump
- speaking in Virginia, and found
it weary, STALE fiat and Improbable"
The democratic speakers had too heavy
a load to carry. Old Greeley had been
fighting them all his life. and there was
not democratic bone in the skin of him.
All the speaking that I heard was from
democratic speakers; for. as the republic
can speakers were all carpet-baggers or
scalawags. few respectable people fire.
quented their meetings. I would as soon
have been caught at a circus, at a race
course, or at a scent theatre.
But politics, like misery, makes strange
bed-fellows. In explaining the state of
things which obtained in Virginia, under
the reign of Little Billy Mahone," Tom
Wallace told the following aneedote: A
gentleman was riding along the road by
deep river, where he saw two boys fish
ing. One of them lost his balance, fell
in, and was drowning. The other prompt
ly "shueked" his jacket, leaped in, and
after herculean efforts succeeded in land
ing his companion, half-drowned upon
the bank. Struck with admiration for
the youthful hero, the gentleman asked;
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OF MLTON-By Lady Henry Somerset
Somerset

no militant demonstrations might take
place. But all efforts were useless. The
great Albert Hall was packed with wom-
EN-. Lady McLaren, in a brilliant and
witty little speech. appealed to the courte-
sy of the suffragette ladies to hear their
friends. Then the chancellor of the ex-
chequer began to speak, but after the
first opening words tall, handsome
young woman rose in an upper box,
wildly gesticulating. The hall in a moment
was in turmoil No one could be
heard. The stewards rushed to the box
in order to capture the interrupter, but
the moment their hands were on her she
dashed out with dog whip, and it was
then found that she had chained herself
to her chair. Miss Ogsten, for that was
the name of the lady, fought like an
amazon. Then more women shouted, and
more, and more. Mr.. Lloyd George made
a brave stand. endeavoring from time to
time to get in a sentence, but every
word provoked disorder.
MY poor rhetoric is unable to cope
with lunacy and hysteria." he said, L
have not a voice which will sound down
tunnel" The organ.st endeavored to
drown the noise by playing, "Oh Dear,
What Can the Matter Be-" and on every
side women were removed shrieking from
the hall, and the scene more narrowly
resembled the elections made after a
drunken row in a public house than any
project in an orderly public meeting.
Finally however, when the noise was
quelled, woman in prison dress rose in
the stalls, ard in tone almost of en-
treaty, said Please, please, give me a
message"
There was such a sincere note in the
entreaty that Mr.. Lloyd George inter-
rupted his speech, which he had just
recommended, and said: 81 cannot re-
sst that plea. The real difficulty is that
no party Is committed as whole TO wo-
man suffrage. You have a majority in the
liberal party, you have, l believe, ma
jority in the conservative party. But
there is very powerful minority in both
houses of influential, responsible men.
with whom neither party would risk a
quarrel, for We have both suffered disas-
trously from splits. The real signifi-
canoe of Mr.. Asquith's declaration made
last May is that for the FIST time in his
tory prime minister declared this to be
an open question, not merely for the
party but for the cabinet as well. From
that declaration Mr.. Asquith has no de-
sire to recede.
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woods with the dog in full pursuit The
settlers mounted and followed. The ami
mails were soon out of sight and hearing;
but, seeing a man chopping in the woods
the horsemen asked anxiousy: Did you
see wolf come by here?' Yes, said the
chopper, passed a bit ago Did you see
a dog. too? Yes How were they run
ning?' Pretty nigh neck and neck said
the woodsman hut the dog he was
leetle ahead L was needless to apply
this story-it app cd itself.
Though Mr. Leake was an ardent and
consistent democrat and was by no means
sparing in his attacks upon the wings, he
still managed to preserve not only the
respect but the good will of his oppo-
nents. Some of the kindest things that
I ever heard said of him were said by
prominent wings The truth is, they
knew him to be a kind-heartedi neigh
borly, affectionate man, who loved his
kind. and who was singularly free from
personal bitterness which is too often en-
rendered by party strife. Besides men
of real ability and large intelligence learn
to appreciate one anothers views though
they may differ widely. / never knew
Mr.. Leake to become angry with his an
tagonist on the stump, or at the bar. lie
was kindly and courteous to his oppo-
nent, even while he was hitting his hard
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Leaked I "never saw it on this fashion"
before or since.
Mr.. Leake's stump speaking was not
like that of any other speaker l ever
heard. 1t was singularly free from decla-
nation. In satire and invictive he was
very powerful, though he was not the
equal of Wise. In skillfuly constructed
and highly oratorical periods he fell be-
low Wise and Tucker But in solid argu-
ment he was inferior to no speaker I ever
heard. Goggn may have been his match
at an anecdote, but when it came to an
argument Goggin was nowhere. Goggin
was, indeed, the prince of story-tellers,
but then Leake so managed his anecdotes
as to give them the force of argument.
Here is a story which I heard him tell
as an ad hominem hit at an antagonist,
who was abusing the democrats for doing
what he himself had done to greater
extent:
"Once upon a time" said Leake, there
was a backwoodsman who had a dog
which he had trained to fight wolves. On
one occasion this man gave notice to the
whole settlement that on a certain day
there would be a big fight between this
dog and wolf that had been caught
alive They assembled from far and near
to see the fight. The wolf was turned
loose, and after a few rounds between
him and the dog the wolf took to the