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The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-09
RrIdripg the "BIoOdy Chasm.n.

New 1OTk
 North and South are rapidly forget ting the civil war. Let us not be mis- led by the solid Democratic vote be- low Mason and Dixon's line; that is mere habit. quite insignificant in com parison with the spontaneous outbursts of affection at the meeting of Tennes- see and Michigan in a football con- test. When Vanderbilt University sent its gladiators against the strong men of Ann Aroor last week. monster mass meeting" was held by the North erners in honor of the visiting team. Compliments were passed; the Michi- gan coach called the Vanderbilt punt CTS wonderful" and the monster mass applauded the Vanderbilt cap- tain, as he expressed confidence in his eleven.
 The climax came when, on the night before the game, the two squads messed at the same table! There may be a few morbidly suspicious Tennes- seeans who see in this touching well come a perhdious Yankee trick to be- guile their team into cocksureness and oVereatingJ But every Northerner knows better. A Southern gentleman, though, might protest with much req son that a halfback who breaks bread with a foe on the eve of battle cannot decently butt into his host on the grid iron as vigorously as the rules of war allow.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-09
BOOM BRYAN FOR SENATOR.
Nebraska Democrats Likely to Make
 Lender Their Candidate.

Nebraska Democrats Likely to Make
 Leader Their Candidate.
 Lincoln Special to Washington Post. The suggestion to mako Bryan. a Senator from Nebraska is spreading here among the Democrats. and if the leaders have their way about 1t. Bryan will be put forward to oppose Senator Burkett. when he comes up for re- election two years hence. They say they propose to clear the track of any opposition candidates within the party, and so put 1t uI% to MT. Bryan that he cannot refuse to become the party candidate in 1910.
 The only discordant note expected Is from Representative Hitchcock who, as a three-time memper of the lower House, is ambitious to go higher. In Nebraska the plan in vogue is for each party to nominate a candidate for Senator. but this is merely intended for a guide to the Legislature, upon which the result at the polls Is not binding. The Democratic plan now is to adopt the Oregon idea at the coming ses- sion, so that in 1910 Nebraska voters can choose their Senator just as they do their Governor and the Legislature must ratify their choice.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-09
THE asHOw AIEn STATE.

And Some of the Reasons for its Co.,
 ing Republiean. washington Post.
 MT. HadIey's election as Governor should not have been surprtsing to those who knew the dissatisfaction ex- isting among the Democrats of Mis- souri over the Democratic primaries in August" said Arnold Shanklin, for merly of Kansas City. at the Willard. MT, Ball, who ran in opposition to MT. Cowherd at the primary boiled S3,00O votes, and when the charge of frauds in the Fourth Ward at St. Louis followed, MT. Cowherd was the one who opposed Q recount, and, in fact, went so far as to get out an in- function against it.
 Tt was only natural to expect that a percentage of these S3,000 men who had voted for Ball at the primaries would not vote for Cowherd this fall. Then. MT. Hadley's services as States attorney in the Standard oil cases were a big factor in his case. MT. Hadley is only 36 years of age, and is an able, coming man.
 Senator Stone will be returned to the United States Senate" continued MT. shanklin. "GoT ernor Folk is an exploded reformer. His popularity has been waning fast. and the defeat of MT. Cowherd retires him altogether A few years ago Governor Folk had practically the entire State in his grasp, but his popularity and his pow CT have seemed to spoil him. Then, he has made many mistakes of 3udg- ment, among them being his attitude in the contest over the Democratic prL- naries.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-09
This Date in History
Nnveunher a.


 1777-General Howe's army went in- to winter quarters In Philadelphia. 1S13-British repulsed in an attack on Ogdensburg, N. X.
 1S19-Simon Snyder. Governor of Pennsylvania from 1908 to 1877. died; born in Lancaster, November 5. 1759. 1S2a-President Jackson proposed to reduce the number of navy yards in the United States to four-Norfolk, Narragansett, Washington and Charles ton.
 1s41-King Edward VII, of Great Britain, born In Buckingham Palace. London.
 fS54--widow of Alexander Hamilton died in Washington. D. C., aged 9S. 1e65-Gen. Frederick Funston. U. S. A, born in Ohio.
 iS72-Fire broke out in Boston and in two days burned over an area of sixty-fve acres and caused loss of sS0. 900, 900. Hr 1e07-A second son born to the Crown Prince of Germany.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-09

The New York Globe is, or affects to be, sure that Taft will be no proxy President" but will be the whole thing himself so far as Presidential duties are concerned. That is the one hope of the country. The thought of four more years of Teddy, even though Taft be the ostensible helmsmen. has not been pleasant to contemplate. Let us hope that Taft will make the strong and popular executive that we believe he is qualified to be. There is a splen- did field for him to make a record for good, and let us hope he will do it.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-09
court-MnrtiaI Cases.

W lOA EAGEAAu
 The fact that there have been sev- eral courts-martial in the army and navy of officers charged with the habit of drunkenness has called attention in a way which is probably not deserved. to a situation which finds 1t possible for officers of such temperament and practice so long to resist disciplinary proceedings.
 In one case the reviewing authority, Gen. F. D. Grant. made known the fact that the offending officer had been addicted to drink for long time. and in the other eases which have been re- gently or are now the subject of court martial consideration the ac- cused officers have been pretty well known Cor their intemperance. In at least one ;ase it has been stated that the officer was conspicuous on account of the indiscretions which his indulg- ence had caused. With the existing system of periodical examination for promotion 1t might very we'll be asked why these discoveries of unfit ness have not been earlier made in the career of a culprit2
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-09
BUSINESS INSTEAD OF POLITICS.

BUSINESS INSTEAD OF FOLITICS.
 There are some things we don't have enough of in this life. and some that we have too much of. and politics is one of them. Especially is this true of the South as must be apparent to those who will consider the subject carefully. It is well that Presidential elections come but once in four years for that is often enough to almost dis organize everything while 1t lasts. The South has not fully recovered from the effects of the great war which almost made a desert or wilderness of our land, and our people cannot we'll de- vote as much time to politics as some of the Northern ones can. In some places up there they make a trade of politics, but that isn't a good example for us. Ws've now got four years of national peace and quiet we hope. and in that time we can do a lot of build- ing, improving and recuperating. and let the political pot quiet down while we pay more attention to material things.
 We haven't half enough railroads in Alabama for example. There are yet sections of the State that do not know what a railroad is like, or what good things 1t would bring to communities that have no such conveniences. Rail roads are wonderful developers. and there are still regions of our State that are far behind, and that are sadly in need of better communications with the outside world. Whenever rail- way line penetrates any part of the country and the trains begin to run there is at once an awakening of the people and they are not slow to take advantage of the opportunities thus off, fered them. Railroad building pays the builders. pays the people to whom 1t comes and adds to the revenues of the State and the counties. By all means let us build railroads.
 And we need more mills and facto- rles in Alabama, a great many more. We are still clinging too stubbornly to our old habit of sending our raw material out of the State and buying back the finished products from the mills of other States. This is not economy. good policy or even good sense. Building mills now is not the kind of job it was a generation ago, when those who went into such an en- terprlse had either to depend on ex. pensive fuel to develop power or had to build the mill where the water power was, even though 1t might thus be situated inconvenientIy. so far as the raw material was concerned.
 With the discovery and utilization of electricity all this is changed. Now the mill can be built in the most elig- ible and convenient spot and the power brought to it by the electric wires. The cotton mill. or any other industry can be located wherever wanted, and the power supplied as needed. That is one of the advantages of modern discov- cry and improvement. and the South should profit by 1t. In short, less poli- tics and more mills, factories and rail- roads should be the word for the next three or four years.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-09
No COnstabuIary.

Birmingham Ledger.
 All the counties of Alabama are provided with sheriffs and deputy sher- ifs to enforce the laws. They are sworn officers under bond to perform their duties. They really enforce the laws very well, just as we'll as any other set of men would. This Is the most dangerous proposition ever made in Alabama, this plan to have con- stabulary. that is most frequently broken is the law against theft. That Is a moral as well as a statutory crime. As soon as the courts and sheriffs stop theft we may look with some degree of hope to see them stop all the crimes.
 There is an indefinite proposition that is A feeler, to aoeustom the State to the idea of having political ma no new idea, and South Carolina had bioodshed when Tillman's riders searched the homes of political ene- mics with the intention of distressing their families and diSerediting the. men. Any one can accuse man ana the political constables can raid home and search it, 90 often that the people will think the man a criminal. We want none of it in Alabama.
 Our laws are as well enforced as the laws of any State in the Union. and lot of political riders in the country would cause more crime instead Of checking it. The constabulary would not be expected to check crime, but would be used for other purposes.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-09
This Ls Ny 55th B1th6ay
 Charles F, ThwIug.

Dr. Charles F. Thwing, President of Western Reserve University and Adei- Me, November g. 1858. He received his preparatory schooling at Phillips Academy and in 1876 he graduated from Harvard University. The next three years were spent at the Andover The; the ministry he was for some years pastor of a church in Cambridge, Macs. In 18S6 he accepted a call from Ply mouth Church in Minneapolis and he remained there until 1890. In that year he accepted the presidency of Western Reserve University at Cleve- land, Ohio. Dr. Thwing has been an extensive traveller and has written and lectured a great deal particularly on religious and educational topics.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-09
The Bitter Bit.
Savannah News

SaVannah NeWs.
 An interesting instance of the bitter being bitten is shown in the cases of ex-Premier Witte and and ex-Minister Dirnovo of Russia. While they were in office Witte proposed and Dirnovo supported a residence tax. which was finally adopted. But it seems that neither of them has paid the tax. They claim that while they maintain resi- dences in St. Petersburg, they. actual iy live abroad and are therefore not liable for the tax But the Govern ment takes a different view and has issued atts chments against them. To enforce the attachments, 1t has been ordered that neither of them shall have passports to leave Russia until their residence taxes have been settled Witte will be recalled fin this country as Russia's chief envoy at the Ports
 mouth Peace Conference.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-09
Why NeddlnEs are Few in Boston.

Boston the accredited seat of cul- ture and baked beans in this country. Is experiencing a slump in marriages; There have been nearly a thousand less applications for marriage licenses in the Hub" so far this year than there were during the corresponding period of last year. The reasons for been assigned are timidity on the part of the young men and q pauclty of finances among them. Probably the "tlmidIty" reason Is the best one. And young men may be pardoned for being timid of hook Ing up with girls whose table talk consists of dissertations on Sankrit tonnes and other equally obtusa things
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-09
Iadspsns.eat Voting.

Chicago Record-H -HeraId.
 The growth of Independent thinking. Independent voting. and independent press guidance is largely responsible for the improved toue of this years political discussion. The improve ment should continue. will continue. There is no reason why great parties and their accredited representatives should bandy invective and epithets ticket do not question the patriotism, the insincerity. the intelligence of the millions on the other side. Issues can be handled without violence and with out personal bitterness.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-09
MORNING THOUGHT
 BY :. MARVIN NICHOLS.
Shifting sanas.

Shifting The drift of Time
 Sands. has brought with it the shifttnP sands. Rivers some times change their courses Vast ter titories. far removed from seas and oceans, have in their solid deposits that pIzzle of the brain. The Great Gorge Is but the history f Niagara chiseled in the rock. For ages the river has been beating It's silent retreat from dis tant Ontario. The Grand Canyon of the Colorado is but the caprice of water way among the wild and scenic fast, nesses of the Rockies. What we call Time is only that period in eternity necessary to the working out of a tre- mendous destiny. 4Ae river Of Lite moves on In its same stately grandeur Yesterday, a rushing frantic torrent; today. a placid limpiq stream. Tnings do not decay-they only change. Ana yet it's sad! Some child will romp ana sport on my baby's playground. And thus the shifting scenes are set for the part in life's great dra-aa.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-09
win Educate Son 10 America.

New York Evening Herald
 So convinced Is Lady Auckland, wife of the fifth Baron Auckland, of Eng land, of the superiority of American technical schools over those of Eng land that she has decided to educate her son. Frederick Morton Eden. in this country. The youth. who Is now at school in England. will enter the Massachusetts Institute of Technology two years hence.
 Lady Auckland. whose physician or- dered her to travel. was. in retreat un- til few days ago in the Convent of the Sacred Heart tn Mannattanville. After passing a month there she had an audience with Archbishop Farley. and has since been much occupied with her social engagements.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-09
wa.h,ngton-A Residential City

Within the last twenty years new line of expansion and development has manifested itself in Washington which gives the impression to one returning to 1t after an absence of decade or The original plan of the city as con- templateI has been followed. but the entire city has been recast To-day ful residential cities in the world. and If as Mir John W. Hall predicts, the near future sees the plans and inn pr0vements contemplated and in prog ress crystalline into realities. 1t will take It's place as the most attractive city in the world
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-09
nEFLEoTIoNs OF A BACHELOR.

New York Press.
 The reason a man belongs to a po-. litical party is so he can damn every-' thing about all the others.
 The thing that makes a man sure he understands a public question Is mo- body else thinks ne does.
 One of the most enjoyable things about travelling Is how you can say you went to all the places you didn't.
 A woman's notion of an ideal man is the kind that would make his own father rather have him a train robber.
 Sometimes a woman can keep within the allowance her husband gives her If she gan charge everything she buys to his account.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-09

children. To throw all the responsibi- lfty of the care of the chilrden upon the mother is unwise, if not cowardiy as well at the mother, and when they are not performed then, however graci- ous may be the mothers training and Influence the child Is not receiving all it is entitled.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-09
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

Chicago News.
 The joke is usually on the man who buys a joke book.
 To err is human; failure to pront by the error Is ditto.
 Many mans failure has been spoil ed by his Wife's success.
 Other men may be towards, but you are merely discreet.
 A woman seldom knows what she wants or what she can't have.
 If you don't see what you want be philosophical and want what you sec
 woman thinks her husband Is cross if he happens to criticise her cooking.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-09
AIahama Horsea.

It will bring much pleasure to our people around about here who love fast horses. to learn that Ben Hurr in Marengo and Pauline Hal MT. J. B. Taylor's fine pacing mare have won some fine pureses in the circuit over In Mississippi. These two horses have been in fast company. but have sue ceeded in going under the wire ahead of the others. The owners of these nice horses and Mir. Olsen. the dirver. arc to be congra tulated.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-09
@Babys Mckee Dines sBob" Taft. New Haven Dispatch to The New York

World.
 'Bob"t Taft. son of ths yictorious Republican candidate, was the guest of honor at surprise dinner given by Benjamin Harrison Mckee, member of the Yale senior class, who was born in the White House during the admin istratlon of his grandfather. President Harrison, and who was known as Baby Mckee"
 The dinner, which was served in the Yale dining hall, was concededly the most elaborate ever given by stu- dent in the university. The table was decorated with carnations and smilax and for a centerpiece was paper mache White House and an elephant. Young Taft had no intimation of the affair until he returned from New York after assurance of the election of his father
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-09

was not a friend of the people any longer, and execEted him. This story has moral for us in America today. It shows the dangers that come to . the sake of excitement instead of for the sake of Information.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-09
senator Bankhead.

Florence NeWs.
 The people who heard Senator Bank head in his speech in Florence on Fri day evening last on the road amend appreciation of him as a broad minded statesman. He gave life and interest to an ordinary dry question and show that stamped him as a leader among men, Alabama made no mistake in elevating him to the high position he now occupies and which he so ably 6Ils.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-09
An Example of sensntIOnaIIsm. I2rasiaan4 LInAlA.. In XnItthse fanE.

panion.
 In the year 17s9 the whole French peopel was in a state of political ex- citement. They seized eagerly upon nalist named Camille Dssmoulins shar- ed this feeling. and took advantage of 1t. He wrote a series of articles call Paris in which he urged that any body who was not a friend of the peo- pie ought to be taken to the nearest lamp post and hanged. He was not himself a oloodthirsty man. He chose his title chiefly because it sounded so picturesque. After a time he saw that they were executing a great many in- nocent men and women, and began to tell them so. Then they said tbat he
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-09

The Cabinet makers are already busy selecting the men who shall sit around the, board with MT. Taft and run things. We don't know whether they'll find a Southern man to fit one of the places. though it is possible that one may be discovered.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-09

Chairman Frank Hitchcock proved himself a good predicter, at all events, and we suppose his good work will en- title him to place in the next Cabinet. He may not have earned all the credit that is given him, possibly, but no doubt he will get a good fat place at the family table.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-09

When we look over the returns and note how nearly solid the entire North was, 1t rifles us. to say the least of It, to read in some of their papers unfavorable things said about the solid South. They will do well to rid them
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-09
Tariff and Trusts.

Wall Street Summary.
 The tariff is far and away the prob lem of deepest interest to our citi zens; the trust question is it's Siamese twin Wise regulation of the former means a solution of the latter; be- cause the tarif begat the trusts and still nourishes them.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-09
A Smelling Time.


 MT. Will C.. Rhodes. of Rutledge, set a steel trap in his barn for rats. and Up in the day the women folks were out near the garden and found the trap moving around and caught in 1t was a huge pole cat. It is useless to say that the air was stagnant.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-09
selves of their own solidarity before condemning ours.

It wss real mean in the RspuDs to try to hold all of their own States and then try to capture some of ours. That wasn't toting fair.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-09

Did not old "Vox Populi' have some- thing to say a few days ago? He seems to have been very much in evidence on the Republican side.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-09
aWoRN CIRCULATION.

The Montgomery Advertiser guarantees .s ; ita advertisers (and makes 1t a part oL Lne contract when reQuestedl that Its daily sI- culation is larger than that of any morning newspaper printed in Alabamn-aha i tnee fts sunday edition has the largest crcnlA- tion of any edition of anS newspaper print cd in Alabama without exception.
 The figures for September printed Deio" represent the actual net circulation all fs- turns having been deducted.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-09

Now Roosevelt can be getting his guns and game bags ready for that lit- tie jamboree over in Africa.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-09
Don't Dodge Responsibility.

Fayette BanneF.
 However true may be the expression rules the world" 1t Is quite possible for a wrong construction 10 be put upon 1t. This Is so when fathers use 1t as an excuse for neglecting theiE
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-09

There may have been a landslide. as was predicted, but 1t didn't slide the way the Democrats wanted.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-09
His Highest Duty.

New York World.
 "why shouldn't fix the price of coal?" asks President Paer. of the Reading road. Evidently still strong of faith iu his divine commission at the mines
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-09

Net UnII AveFagee, Bepts, IYU8. Lb,13U Net Sunday Average sept.. 1908. ,061 c. Fiuigan, Circulation Manager of The Montgomery Advertiser, being duly sworn. says:
 The foregoing statement of The Adverti- Ber's circulation for the month of Septem- Der. 1908, is true and correct. and compiled after all returns from news boys, news agents. spoiled and leftover copies have have been deducted.
 z. T. FINTGAN,
 Circulation Manager. Sworn to and subscribed before me this eth day of October, 1908.
 RIGA ALEXANDER.
 Notary Public.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-09
Johnson,s Record.

OpeIIka MornIGg Post.
 Governor John A. Johnson. Of Minnc- sota, has advertised his State as no election. He has caused radical re- forms In the State dairy and food de- partments: secured an appropriation of $200.o00 for good roads; secured laws improving the rural schools; se- pulled the State mineral lands from the market thus preventing them fall ing into the hands of the iron trust; forced laws protecting child lahor; limited the hours for railway lenl-' ployes; re-organized the State labor department, and in general has been a strong, able and fearless executive. The country needs more men like him Z