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The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-08-20
LIVING OUT or TOWN.

In another column on this page win be found an article copied from The Leavenworth Post which we consider worth reading. both for the informa- ton 1t contained and for the sugges- tions conveyed It is applicable here fin Montgomery just as 1t Is in Kansas City or Leavenworth. Montgomery is not yet suffering from such 8 conges- ton of population as is the case with the larger cities of the Union. but for all that he plans being pursued in the cities named in the article we have copied will be found to work well here when one need is supplied that seem ingly does not exist up there.
 That need is a system of suburban trolley lines extending into the sur rounding country, say for at least ten miles, with schedules arranged so that men whose business or occupation keeps them in the city can get to or from their homes with certainty and
 
 their hours of labor or business in the city. Laboring men in the city must have certain fixed hours to begin and quit work and most business and pro- fessional. men, as well as clerks and other employees. must begin and quit at specified and regulated hours. The regular railroads running into this city cannot afford to make and keep up schedules to accommodate the work hours of the people who would like to live outside the city; besides. these roads are not sufficiently numerous. and do not penetrate all the regions which would be desirable homes for people who would like to live outside the city.
 We are not arguing for or against the acre tract plan of the Kansas City people or elsewhere. That Is a matter for each suburbanite to settle for him. self as best suits him. We are speak ing generally of the good which in our judgment would come to many city dwellers If they could have pleasant and profitable homes in the country without giving up their city work. No injury would result to the city proper. as we view the matter, but even if there should be some loss fin the way of taxes and otherwise the good that would come to many people would more than balance any loss that might result from a system of trolley lines penetrating the surrounding country in all desirable directions.
 It is not g difficult or an expensive innovation we are advocating compared with the building and equipping of the steam railroad the construction. equip- ment and operation of the electric road Is very easy and inexpensive. They can be built as arms reaching out from the city, or in the form of belts ex- tending out and taking in a large ex- tent of country on a single line. Elec- trie power can be obtained in practi- cally unlimited quantities and the schedules could be so arranged that "ths business and professional man, the Ia boring man and the clerks could enjoy something of country life without loss of time and at great saving of mon- ey. The article we have copied Is well worth reading and pondering.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-08-20
rAMsrANY IS PLANNING
To Break Up Hearst's League h New
 York.

To Break Up Hearses League h New York.
 New York Special to New Orleans Pic.
 rarnmany has planned to break up the Independence League. as a legally recognized political party with the right to nominate by conventions. The Tammapy leaders are confident that they can prevent the nomination of io- cal candidates by the League, or at off the official ballot;
 The Independence League qualified as a political party in 1906 by polling more than 10000 votes for Hearst for Governor under Its own emblem. The last year and the enrolled members of the party are entitled to vote at the primary to be held on the second Tues- day of September.
 In the election of 1906 the League fused with Tammany on local candi. dates and the League emblem did not county. For that reason there is no record. official or otherwise, of the number of votes boiled in the county by the members of the League. It ie on this point that Tammany expects to keep the local League ticket of the the Leagues nominating convention are to be elected upon basis of the vote cast for Hearst two yaars ago. Tam many will contend that as there is no record in this county of votes cast for Hearst under any emblem save the . political party and can nominate only by petition. Protest against plac- ing the League ticket on the oficial ballot will be made to the Board Of Elections, and If necessary the matter will be taken into the courts-
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-08-20

Because one of The Advertisers 8 force referred a few days ago to an inundation of gnats in Dothan the es- teemed Eagle of that live town stands up and says things about the alleged attempt to discredit it's burg. It tacit- ly admits that gnats were there, but de- clares they were harmless ones It bases its denial on the fact of having personally inspected the SITS we killed while in the act of crawling in our eyes and shutting tho door behind them. and out of the whole number not one tried to bite us" If that proves anything it Is that the Dothan brand of gnats are endowed with discretion enough not to try to bite The Eagles editor.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-08-20
DENIAL Br UNION LEApER.
Mir. Lewis, of Bieston, Says That H

Mir. Lewis, of Blocton, Says That He
 Was Afisquoted.
 Tne following statement made Miners Union at Blocton has been re- ceived by The Advertiser:
 The statement mAue by Mir. Bruce Kennedy in The Advertiser when he says that deputy sheriffs snot up the train. Is not true, and made no such statement; also the statement which he said made in reference to arresting the officers for searching houses for firearms, is not true. and no such state ment was made by me to him.
 statement made by The Advertiser that I said the Sheriff and deputies I did say that I had heard such a re- port but did not state 1t as a fact.
 The above statement is made by Mir. Lewis to set himself right before the public and to do the officers of Bibb
 The report of The Advertiser of the disorder in reference to my statement is incorrect and not true"
 Mir. Kennedy, the stan correspondent of The Advertiser. who wrote a series of articles from the strike district, said last nightS that he had quoted Mir. Lewis accurately.
 T sat with Mir. Lewis on a train from Bloeton to Birmingham" said MT. Kennedy, "and he talked with me fully and freely of the strike and the uiSOTuGIS. IAe AHeW l1dI were for the purpose of gaining news paper information. Without equivoca- tion he authorized me to publish what he told me and to use his name as an officer of the United Mine Workers of America.
 'In the most positive terms Mfr Lew. Is charged the deputy sheriffs with shooting into the train near Blocton and gave me the most minute details as to how and why 1t was done, as he said he had gathered from reports he had received. With bitterness he said emphaticaliy that the men who search ed houses would be prosecuted. Mir. Lewis declared that the confessions had been wrung from the union miners by the most cruel treatment of deputy ifs who had whipped the prisoners, For obvious reasons these names were not published.
 "Mr. Lewis told me that these things had come to him as reports. He con- veyed the impression that. as an officer of the uniVn, he was Investigating the Biocton incident and that the informa- tion he gave me had reached him through hIs agents.
 ''I have no controversy with Mfr. Lew Is, but I am surprised that he should charge me with dealing unfairly with him when he expressly requested me me to use it as coming from him as at Blocton."
 As vice president of the Blocton local of the miners Mir. Lewis is in charge of the strike in that section. Robert Hayes, President of the Blocton local. Is In jail at Centervtllc
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-08-20
oelshrntInr Rlrthdaxa.
 Birmingham Ledger.


 We mean Birmingham's birthday is coming We mean its 50th. It is a long way off yet. When we get to 1t Birmingham with 100000 people. will give such a celebration as such an
 Montgomery is talking about cele- brating her tooth birthday. Away back in the early days of the last century a man built a cabin on the banks of the Alabama. There was a iood of 1mmi- grants coming to the territory and every trail had its wagons and people. As good land was found the people stopped and took 1t. Another man and his family stopped beside the cabin on the river and then others, and then Andrew Dexter bought a lot of land near them and aS others came and stopped it became a settlement, then a village. then Montgomery. It Is still about six years till they come to the tooth anniversary of the building of that first cabin on the Alabama at Montgomery. It Is time to get a start towards getting ready to celebrate. That first cabin was the beginning, not any later day. The start was the be- ginning.
 It was fifty-seven years after that cabin when Birmingham was founded . Montgomery was the foster mother of Birmingham, that is why we connect Vhem in speaking of their history. ft is thirteen years till Birmingham will celebrate.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-08-20
This Is My 7Ist Birthday
Benjamin Y. Wright,

Beniamin Franklin Wright who Is known as the father of the prohibitory amendmert to the Iowa constitution. was born in Vernon. Ohio. August 70, 1887. In early life he settled in Charles City. Iowa. and for nearly forty years he has edited newspapers in that city. He served as postmaster of Charles City for thirteen years receiving his commission from President Grant in 1889. But 1t Is in the work of prohioi- ton that Mir. Wright has achieved his greatnest fame. In 1880. chiefly through his efforts. the Iowa legisla- ture submitted the prohibitory amend ment to the people In spite of the strong opposition of the liquor inter ests It was carried by 30,000 majori- ty. Mir. Wright was one of, the most fearless speakers during that strug- gle. and on several occasions he was threatened with mob violence. After the adoption of the amendment Mir Wright returned to his newspaper work which he has only recently giv
 en up on account of failing health
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-08-20
This Date in History
August 20.

1s72-John De Witt. the illustrious Dutch statesman who controlled the policy of the United Netherlands Tor twenty years murdered at The Hague. Born In 1925.
 17o7-second siege of Port Royal be- gan
 17lO-Philip V. defeated by the Arch duke Charles at battle of Saragossa.
 i745-FrancIs Asbury the first Meth odist bishop in America. born in Eng land. Died in Richmond, Va. March 31 1916.
 1795-Comodore Robert F. stockton, distineuished American naval officer. born In Princeton. N. J. Died there October '. 1865.
 1s2s-Russians captured the city of Adrianople.
 1S33--Benjamin Harrison, twenty third President of the United States. born. Died March 13 1901.
 1s65-Final proclamation of the ces- sation of hostilities in the Civil War,
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-08-20

When the ground becomes very dry it takes considerable rain to wet it. and that seems to be the case with Georgia. The Jacksonville (FIa) Times Union states that Florida ships s25,- 900 worth of whiskey per day into Georgia. Then comes The Albany (Ga.) ) Herald with the statement that Mont gomery and Chattanooga each sends in as much liquor a day as Florida does Then, if the statements are> correct and figures stand for anything, that means something like twenty-three mill lion dollars worth of whiskey and oth- CT intoxicants per year from Florida, Chattanooga and Montgomery alone, and we don't know how much goes in from other sources. At that rate noth ing but an alcoholic flood will wet Georgia thoroughly.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-08-20
Want to Save oId sA-ns.

Washington Telegram to New York Times.
 Efforts are being made to preserve for north entrance of the ancient sixth Street railroad station. which is now being demol- ished.
 The steps have been trod by every Pres ident of the United States. and before being placed at the entrance to the station they were in service at the Indian Queen Tavern A fRyorfte haunt of Washington and states- men of his time They wera the last steps climbed by President Garfield before he was shot. and they have felt the tread of thousands of the great men of the world.
 There are funds available for their purchase, but 1t is believed the Foite vvt, bo preserved to the unitsd States "'''
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-08-20

The Columbus Enquirer-sun denies the soft impeachment of The Adver- tiser that Columbus is greedy because 1t wants to shoot trolley lines or othe rail roads into Alabama some what promiscuously. It declares that 1t is Not greedy. just progressive" We'll. progressiveness is fine asset. when properly directed. even If 1t should en- tice some of Alabama's trade across the chattahoochee. But there would be one good feature about a direct road from that city to this: It would give Co., lumbus people better chance to come across and enjoy themselves.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-08-20

As The Kansas City Journal looks at 1t the serious investigation proposed by Mir. Roosevelt of the condition of the farmers is rather amusing" We sometimes wonder if the man is really trying to be funny when he so often meddles with affairs that do not con- cern him. It may be that he can't bear to be idle and we have the assu- rance of the poet that
 Satan finds some mischief stili
 For idle hands to do.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-08-20
NEW WORKERS
Slow to Give Money for Any Party
 in the Campaign.

Slow to Give Money for Any Party
 in the Campaign.
 New York World.
 Not one dollar of real money has been collected yet in New York City for po- iitical campaign funds--National, State or local, Democratic or Republican.
 Not one dollar in real money has been wagered on the result by men who make up a practice of betting.
 Up to today the entire political con- test has been run on credit and talk. By the first of September there will have to be a showdown of money-Ihe actual cash--or there must ensue rad teal change of front.
 George R. Sheldon, the new Treas urer of the Republican National Com mittee, has not solicited a single sub. scription. The preliminary sounding out of financiers brought such discour- aging results that it was decided to wait a while before trying 10 collect money.
 Tine Republican Committee has sSS.- 900 left over from the campaign fund of 1904. but more than half of this has been expended in current expenses dur ing the intervening four years. Tn acc fual cash there was handed over to
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-08-20
POLITICAL POINTERS
Incidents and Opinions Throwing Light on the
 National Contest.

Mir. Sheldon, when he assumed ofice . few weeks ago, not much moro than $25,0o0.
 The Democratic National Committee is as yet homeless. It has no head quarters in New York. although thcre has been considerable talk about a floor of nineteen rooms in the Hoffman House.
 At Republican national headquarters In the Metropolitan tower card index cabinets and filing cases are being add- ofiice furniture. Applicants for jobs have been plentiful but not man with money to give up has been sighted in the marble corridors.
 From the way things are starting of, 1t begins to look as though candi- dates and hoiders ~bf honorary cam paIgn positions win have to dig deep Into their own pockets for money this year.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-08-20
A Look Backward.

Phfladelphia Record.
 With the approaching end of the Roose- be 112 years since the close of the wash ington Administration. At the ending of that AdmlnistEation there arose 2 distinct Republic into two opposing political parties which has continued without essential by Thomas Jefferson, though ocoasionaiiy torn by faction. has remained practically intact since its formation and has been in- for flfty-six years. The Anti-Democratic party, under name and another. will years at the end of the Roosevelt term; but the party has had the misfortune to find itself baffled. if not defeated, in the exec utive direction of national policies by the death of five of It's elected Presidents. Har- rison and Taylor died from natural causes; Lincoln, Garfield and Mckinley were assas- the contrary, have all outlived their terms.
 The students of history, looking back. ward for li2 s.I; years vii readily perceive national greatness has been laid upon Dem ocratic foundations The forty years of later Republican rule have been forty years of fortuitous wandering In the wilderness, resultant at the outstart upon the accident of internal war for the extermination of as the embers of sectional conflict have burned themselves out, to the great issues upon which parties had previously divided. Meantime the Government has pushed far in the direction of imperialism and central lZation. Power has drifted into the hands of wealthy aggreRations of men. who. riched by party favoritlsnl. have been ena- blsd to gain control of the party organiza- tion and dictate government policies.
 Is 1t not time for the people of the Unit ed States to put on their thinking caps and call a halt? Have we not gone far enough in the exaltation of the few at the expense of the many? Would it not be weel to re- store the Government to the hands of the party that laid the secure foundation of our national prosperity before 1t is further per- verted to destructive and disinfegrating admitted by statesmen of both parties. Is 1t more wise to intrust the correction of these evils to the party responsible for their ed to the methods of which they are the direct resuit7
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-08-20
AdlaI E. Stevenson
NOt New But in a New Plaos.

VIZ ' tN1IIUVEd ILLUS.
 Savannah and Birmingham are Riy- ing Portland and Bath, Me, cards and spades and then winning in a walk in the particular method each of the four cities has in not observing the prohf- bition law. In the Maine cities the facts have long since ceased to inter- est the people and the Georgiang and Alabamians are excited about 1t only because of its newness. People get used to the laws violation and come to take 1t as a matter of course, and therein lies one of the serious defects in the prohibitionist creed.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-08-20

corruption fund for party purposes. That is not the Den1ocr tie plan of pro- viding for succsss, we are glad to know. and we prefer it's plan to that of the Republicans. Is m. our prefer once endorsed by a large majority of the honest voters of the country?
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-08-20

The Memphis commercial-Appeal pre- diets that the little book bearing the title. Every man his own barkeeper'' will prove one of the best sellers in Georgia. Possibly so, unless some one who knows will set out one called How to Get It."
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-08-20

In one township in Kansas they had primary election recently at which eleven votes were cast. and seven of these were thrown out as Illegal. That left four actual votes, and the expense of the primary was fifty dollars. which was $12.5o for each vote. Pretty high price, we should say.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-08-20

"It's all very extraordinary" remarks The Hartford Courant, referring to the race troubles at Springfield. To some of our Northern friends the extraordi- nary part of 1t Is that such things should happen outside the South.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-08-20

A man was hauled up in police court in Topeka the other day on the charge of throwing over-ripe eggs at anoth- CT. and was fined cents. Amusement is cheap In Topeka.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-08-20
THURSDAY, AUGUST 20, 1908.
HELP THE CAUSE.

The Advertiser will gladly receive any contributions for the Democratic National campaign fund. and make acknowledgement for the same. .. &aeretotore, reeeiVed .,...........Sb % Received yestrday from M B.
 HOughtOn .,.... ........... 10 %
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-08-20

Referring to MT. Taft The Montgom- cry Advertiser ays;"Perhaps. however he may feel himself under obligations to the man who made him what he Is and will not assert his own indepen- dence." It Is hardly fair to Mir. Taft to say that Mir. Roosevelt made him. ' On reflection our Alabama contempo- rary will observe that Mir. Taft since he has been connected officially with the administration has had no little to do with making Roosevelt. If Mir Taft should relinquish his independence he would do something he has never done yet.-Chattanooga Times.
 When we said that Roosevelt made him what he is," we were referring to Taft. the candidate. and if Roosevelt didn't make him the nominee of the party we have not properly kept up with the course of events. Had Roose- welt been less bumptious and bull headed than he is we think 1t highly probable that with the advice and counsel of Taft he might have made a better President than he has shown himself to be.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-08-20
The Lincoln Star Republican paper of the stand-pa type, says:

of the standpat type, says:
 We fail to see where the Democrats aSN in a position to say anything about the tariff tniquittes" of the Repubii- can party. Every time the Democrat ic party has attempted to tinker with the tariff something frightfully tnidui- tous has been the result
 At the time the Republicans came in to power in 1860. the country was an exceedingly prosperous country. The most prosperous and contented period in our country's history. was during the continuance of the Walker low tar if era. It was called the golden era and no such conditions have prevailed under Republican high protective laws. as then blessed the people of every sec ton of this Union.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-08-20
sWORN CIRCULATION,

The Montgomery Advertiser guarantees It's advertisers (end makos 1t a part of the contract when requested) that it's daily cir- tcuiakton is larger than that of any morn Ing nesspaper printed in Alabama--and 1he&siks Sunday edition has the largest cir rniation Of any edition of any newspaper printed in Alabama without exception
 The figures for July printed below repre- sent the actual net circulation. all returns having been deducted
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-08-20

The hottest weather always comes just before It turns cooler. doesn't IL? Looking at it in that way we can en- dure 1t a little longer.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-08-20

One alleged authority estimates that there are three hundred billions of bees in this country, but he can't make us believe that he has ever counted them.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-08-20
A Great Honor to the Croft.

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 II is said that the union printers home in Colorado Springs, Col Is the only benevolent institution built and maintained solely by the menbership of a labor organization in the whole world.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-08-20

Proof is inexhaustible that Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound carries women safely through the Change of Life.
 Read the letter Mrs. E. Hanson, BOA k. Long St., Columbus, Ohio. writes to Mrs. Pinkhani:
 "I was passing through the Change of Life, and suffered from nervous ness, headaches, and other annoying symptoms. My doctor told me that LySEs E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com pound was good for me, and since talk ing it feel 50 much better, and can again do my own work. I never forget to tell my friends what Lydia E. Pink hams Vegetable Compound did for me during this trying period"
 FACTS FOR SICK WOMEN.
 For thirty years Lydia E. Pink hams Vegetable Compound, made from roots and herbs, bas been the standard remedy for female ills, and has positively cured thousands of women who have been troubled with displacements, inflammation, ulcera- tion, fibroid tumors, irregularities, periodic pains, backache, that bear ing-down feeling, fiatulency, indiges. tion, dizziness or nervous prostration. Why don't you try it?
 Mrs. Pinkham invites all sick women to write her for advice. She has guided thousands to health. Address, Lynn, Mass.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-08-20

Muzzling stray dogs is doubtless a good thing but we would like for somebody to put a muzzle. on the dog days.