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The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-09-05
Letters to The Editor
oxsrsoekins Bixser Evils.

ONtIf1BAlMk oAkkNE Gtttss Editor The Advertiser:
 While not admitting by any means the necessity nor the justice of the Po- lice Departments present plan of rid ding the city of the so-called undesir- able members of the canine tribe, I must confess that it is much more hu- mane than the plan in vogue during the early summer months when scores 5f harmless pet dogs were cruelty pois- sned nightly in an effort to rid the town of few worthless scurries. At this time when the dog days have long since passed and cooler weather pre- vails and no apparent necessity what ever exists. 1t is certainly foolish and unjust for city officials to raise a howl about mad dogs and muzzles. If it is for lack ot something es1e to do that the police undertake this job they might look up the speed maniacs. arfs- tocratIc gamblers and official pistol "toters" with better results to the city's depleted treasury. It is indeed the height of folly and deserving of the severest criticism for the so-called guardians of the peace, when there are So many other things that they could more properly devote their attention to. to wage an unjust and equally fool- ish war on the best friend of man ' All sane and just citizens will await with impatience the time when the dog maniscs finish their foolish and unjust work and can attack with equal vigor something more harmful to so- ciety than a few young puppies and superannuated dogs.
 Dog Admirer.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-09-05
FINE IssUE.

The history. the growth and the advantages of Selma are excellently presented in the Trade and Industrial Edition of The Selma Times. issued on September 1. More than anything else, however, 1t indicates the new era into which Selma has come.
 Selma has reached the "skyscraper' stage. The first building of that class for Selma Is presented In the excel lent edition of The Times. notable feature of the paper Is the general article on Selma. which was done by Editor R. E. L. Neil and which pre- sents the claims of the city In splen- did style.
 Nor has the historical interest. in which Selma Is so rich been ignored. The men and incidents which made Selma unique among Alabama towns are written off and the story of the old days of river trade. when the steamboat was such an important ad- junct to Alabama's prosperity is told.
 The edition Is notable too. in its presentation of the great things that Selma Is doing for education. The city. 1t would appear, is spending more than its share for good schools
 The modest claim of 10000 inhabi- tants Is made by The Times for Selma and the census will no doubt establish this claim at the proper time. Incl dentally, It Is noted that The Times is sharing Selma's general prosperity.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-09-05
WANT DIAz TO RUN AGAIN.
Certain Mexicans Plan to .inruA
 EIghth Term on Him.

Certain .Mexicans Plan to Thrust
 Eighth Term on Kim.
 Mexico City. Dispatch.
 From the State of San Luis Potosl comes the first boom of the candidacy of Gen. Diaz for another term as President Che is serving hls seventh), in the form of a manifesto calling on the States to send their delegates to this city to urge upon Dlaz the claims of the Mexi- can people upon his service. He has served thirty years and has said he would not be a candidate again.
 "The Presidential question before the public just now. although 1t may seem premature" says the proclamation, as the election does not take place until 1910, interests the inhabitants of the Republic profoundly. Tins Is not be- cause they are hesitatlng about who should be President. but because they feel certain that no other candidate, no matter how popular, would ever reach to the degree of estimation of that of the eminent President Diaz.
 He Is a unique figure in history as a Chief of State, who has remained in power through long years, and. far from losing ground in the public esti- nation, as has happened with the ma jority has risen in public affection and respect"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-09-05
naA,a. nnh PoIIfIcn.

From The Cleveland Plain Dealer.
 The babies aren't consulted. They can't help themselves. Some one ought to write book on babies, rights and make It clear that It is taking advant- ages of some one smaller than nan your an exhibit at a political picnic. Baby shows per s are i not b dePl9PSSe 6s6,sa 5q5 96 be passed upon, patted-nay, some- times even kisssdSy Kiss e1ndidates nD Id msks s,eec% ei,d imat es iiSeIv as not he win be called upon to judge the rela- tive merits of variously unhappy when the distinguished guest comes along the really prettiest baby may be equalling, and thus the prize may go to the wrong place for. no. one will award a prize to a squaller. And anyway. is a candidate or a Congress. man necessarily an expert on bahiesi For bench show of this kind |! Serve more appropriately. It's cruelty to candidateB to make them serve.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-09-05
THE PROHIBITION VOTE.
General Impression 1t VIII Show
 Strength Thfa Year.

Strength This Year.
 Boston Globe.
 In American politics none of the mi nor parties has enojyed so long a life as the Prohibition Party. For more than thirty-five years a Prohibition Na- tional ticket has been in the field at every Presidential election.
 Although in 1872 the Prohibition can- didate for President boiled only about $500 votes, the party made It's nomina- tions again four years later, and It's candidate received in round numbers $500 votes. In 1880, however. even Neal Dow, celebrated leader in the suc- cessful prohibition movement in his own State of Maine. obtained as the candidate for President only 1o,305 votes
 Nothing daunted by this apparent want of progress in a period of four years, the Prohibitionists in 1884 put forward ex-Governor John P. St. John of Kansas. Prohibition State. as their standard bearer. who boiled the aston ishing vote of 15LS09. Four years later the Prohibition candidate receiv- cd nearly 25O,000 votes, but the vote of 1892 showed only the slight increase represented by total of 264.133.
 In 1S96 the vote showed falling off of almost exactly one-half, and 1t has not since reached the figures of sixteen years ago.
 There has been an impression that the Prohibition vote in the national election this year will show surpris- ing strength. The leaders of the party appear to be confident that the Prohi- bition candidate will draw large num- bers of votes from both of the major parties because of the unsettled state of partisan lines.
 The Prohibition Party made its first great gain in 1884. when party lines were considerably broken. and suffered it's most notable loss in 1898, when the Presidential contest was the hercest between the Republican and Democrat ic candidates
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-09-05
KANSAS CORN roo BIG.
Farmers Complain of Tall stalks (
 Haa~w Heada,

Farmers Complain of Tall stalks and
 Heavy Heads.
 Sanna, Kan, husking this year will be more troublesome than usual be- cause of the rank growth of the corn. The stalks are higher than ever this year. averag ging twelve to fifteen feet in most of the fields. and the tarm CTS as the ears are usually above the half way line on the stalks, The ears are of great weight and will tend to pull the stalk down.
 For the first time in years the ears protrude through the husks, and the grain is well filled entirely to the end of the cob. It Is the most wonderful corn year Central Kansas has seen Tn many years.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-09-05
A dispatch from Milwaukee says:

The Democrats went into the Repub. lican primaries and voted for the Re. publican Senatorial candidates. h many sections these Democratic vote. went to Stephenson, but the Marlnette lumberman had no monopoly of sup. port from the opposition party Mo. Govern. Cook, and Hatton sharing IT. the Democratic votes.
 The primaries for both parties were held in Wisconsin last Tuesday. and as the Democrats had candidates oi their own to vote for, they had no call to interfere in the fights of the opposition. The primary law must bt very lax. If such things can be done. Where will the Democrats who partici- pate fin Republican primaries stand on regular election day?
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-09-05
This Ls My Sand Birthday
THOMAS F. WATSON.

Thomas E. Watson, the candidate of the Peoples Party for President of the United States, was born In Columbia County, Ga, September 5, 1858. After A course in the district schools he spent two years in study at Mercer Col lege. After leaving college he taught school for several years and at the same time studied law. He was admit ted to the bar in 1875 and in 1882 was elected to the Georgia Legislature. In 1891 he was elected to Congress on the Populist ticket. While in Congress he secured the first appropriation for free delivery of mails in rural districts that Congress ever passed. In 1896, at the Populist National Convention In St. Louis. MT Watson was nominated for Vice President on the ticket with Will liam J. Bryan. In 1904 he was the choice of the Peoples Party for Presi- dent, and at the convention in St. Louis last April he was again accord- ed the same honor. In recent years MT. Watson has abandoned the practice of law and has devoted much of his time to literary work.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-09-05
SPEED AT SEA.
Not Away. So Fa.. as Figure. show.

Not Always So Fast as Figures show. From The Boston Transcript.
 Ds wns we sas ssdRns ss tRss sstes a ss s liners CT war ships of the Indomitable type, we sbould bear in mind that the nautical day is not invariably varying with oceans ana courses, There is a distinction between the in twenty four. hours which landsmen makers or breakers never forget. For instance we were recently told that the Louisiana logged the mighty to. tai af $50 knots in twenty-four hours from Sunday noon to Monday noon. The explanation Is that the Louisiana and the sun could not overtake her m -Four MGeaas hsnfss @ from Srs sanday snan noon hsd thirty knots farther before the sun sWSSsht her ,stn and made s eght belf tss faster she. gees the longer the day. the sun. and the. day" Is shorter pondent commenting on this subject writes:
 since near the poles the meridians come closer together than at our lat hear the pole were open. the Louis- jana might, by steaming round on the same parallel at about one hum dred miles from the pole, keep the sun due south of her as long as she pleased, prolonging her days run for many days or even weeks, until her supply of fuel was exhausted It would be a run of many times twenty four hours, but it would be all within one day.
 The moral is: Be careful how you wager on what a ship can do in "a day" American trains regularly ad- vertise their running time westward; 1t sounds two hours better, even be- tween this meridian and that of the Mississippi than would the east bound time
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-09-05
This Date i,, History
SrPTEMHER K.


 l752-First play performed in Amer lea by a regular company of players. at Williamsburg. Va.
 17s3-Indian battle at Bloody Ridge. Mich.
 l765-The subject of medicine first taught in American at the College of Philadelphia.
 ifT4-First Continental Congress as- sembled in Caruenter's Hall. Phila- delphia.
 Isi2-United States troops repulsed the Indians in battle at Fort Harrison. lsSsForfs Wagasr ana bW nsIs, rgg nsn es more.
 Isss-"No Popery" riots in Manches- Isso~Malta captured by the British 1s05-The Hon. Walter Scott ap- pointed President of the Council. Com missioner of Public Works and Rail- way Commissioner at Saskatchewan 19O6-Senator Hepburn attacked the forestry policy of President Roosevelt in the irrigation Congress at Boise Idaho.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-09-05
The Rureaucrntic Taft.

Philadelphia Record.
 Association at Seattle Jacob M. Dick enson, of Chicago. its president. wildly depicted the growth of bureaucracy in this country. He said: Our in- creasing commissions for almost ev- cry department of public affairs are making our government, State and na- tional, the most comprehensive of bu- reaucracy ever known" But how is this abuse which insidiously attacks the foundations of popular government of President one of the most inveter- ate of bureaucrats in William H. Taft In that as in everything else he is a mere understudy of Theodore hoose-
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-09-05
Too Many Laws.

Pittsburg Dispatch.
 We suffer from too much law and from tool title enforcement. Every man with a grievance wants law passed for its redress. And every man with an itching palm trumps up a grievance to be cured by legislative enactment unless Ae Is bought off. Every evil has bill1 aimed against 1t, and when the bill is passed the who matter is forgotten. Enforcement is left to some commission. or bureau, or minion. The public is too busy de- manding new laws to observe whether the old is being enforced impartially, or used as lever for extracting blackmail.
 There is such multiplicity of stat utes that skillful attorneys can find one somewhere for almost every pur- pose while courts are confused. Technicalities that balk justice are found in the myriad of tllconstructed laws. Excuse for delay turks in the very number of conflicting acts. The remedy lies with the people, When they awaken to individual respon- sibility for enforcement of the laws we have there will be less demand for more. We may learn something England in this matter. The English man gives more individual attention to the rights he has.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-09-05
paper daily

If Foraker and Taft spoke truly at Toledo. they have always been willing to fall on each others necks and weep. Tn order to prove that this is correct the managers of the Ohio campaign ought to invite Senator Foraker to speak at the opening of the Republi- can campaign at Youngstown to-day. They sent over to New York for Gov ernor Hughes. but neglected their own distinguished Senator. That don't look as if the managers trusted very greatly to the love of Foraker for the presidential nominee.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-09-05
Incidents and Opinions
 Throwing Light on
 The National Contest

comment In West Virginia in years. and many leaders say that 1t will have great effect toward changing the pc prominent Repubiicans are said to bs race against Scott for the senatorship. dasiss S,adns1ihs opponen sss5 Ss wGaid It pfGsd ssd friends and supporters of Robert Has- lett who has been spoken of as the ssa,. Of sSot Tb T Sassrsss Ssfsnfs among among Rs tSeir r~H friends, whose Re inauenes h the Republiean ranks Is great ana are smiling among themselves.
 Since the placing of two Republican tickets in the field in the state, Scott smith has been supporter of Sch err, both through personal influence and newspapers.
 Boston Transcript.
 For the first time in our history. q Speaker of the House telected by that body l,self is virtually ysln,a running 59r less so than the President himself wh Q Is to be chosen by an electoral college. No other plank in the Democratic plat fS is wnnns se mush @ at whidR criticises MT Cannon. Vice Presidential Candidate Kern shrswdly sensed pub lie opinion In making 1t the main top-
  in New England candidates for the House are already talking of what they would do in case their constitu- ents required pledge, for or against. ton has thus become one of the high " serious aspects of the campaign. washington special to New York
 Globe.
 According to reliable advices here the oh oice of Senator Ike" stephen son for Senator in the Wisconsin Re. publican primaries is likely to make the Legislature Democratic. It does not appear that 1t will affect Tafts changes of carrying the State. .soss, ssna, with Senator La Toilette. though he was his financial backer for years. II Is the "stalwart' vote on which Ste phcnson now -elies mainly, and the La Toilette supporters are threatening making the Legislature Democratic. They have been openly vowins they would take this course for weeks If Stephenson carried the primaries Milwaukee Special to New Orleans
 The enormous expenses of the three millionaire candidates for United states Senator prior to yesterdays primary election may result in an investiga- of the failure of his candidate to be elected and the Investigation is pro- posed in order to circwnvent Isaac Steph enson with whom La Toilette broke and who won according to the
 The amount expended by the csndi- dates is said to have been from s4oo,- 900 to ss5o.06o. There Is no charge of criminality.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-09-05
china,n Spirit Tablets.

New York Tribune.
 All houses in China have spirit tablets These tablets are oblons pieces of wood. about six inches in length and two and and a half in width The names of the dead are inscribed on them, and their spirits are supposed to reside in them. Foods of various kinds are offered to the spirits on different occasions but the real eaters are the men who make the offer ings. large building in each town or village. called the Hall of Ancestors" kept in 1t. for to them is given the great est honors. These are worshiped in the spring and fall by all members of the clan. The hall where the ceremonies are performed is capable of holding 500 or TOO persons, and the festival days are notable days. At this time the clan will assemble to worship the spirits that are supposed to hold the honor and prosperity of every member in their keeping. Mem bers wear their best clothes and appear gay at these festivals.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-09-05
POLITICAL POINTERS

Toledo Special.
 ty-fve delegates attended the State convention of the Ohio Independence Party today the movement Is looked upon by local politicians as a huge Brand Whitiock delivered an address of welcome to just thirteen delegates from various parts of the state l., When the bunch reassempied tinns at,es and the platform brought in. q report which embodied all of the ideas ad- vocated in the national platform, twenty-three blanks In all The cut and dried typewritten list of candi- dates for the State ticket was then of- fered by the committee on nominations ehT Tbs seeeRF,eda oeRFy aiscussion Ss srose Over suggestion made by one of the dele fill vacancies. here and there on the Democratic and Republican tickets. This met with vigorous protests from several of those present. and the up- s"Hs was Killed oh se By By being Wfa s tabled.
 New York Times.
 An effort will be made by. the Demo to sound ex-Judge Alton B. Parker as to his willingness to accept the Dem . ocratic nomination for Governor this Ihtl, IT was leATueu ldst hiBhe. A n ' The New York Times Is in close touch with what is going on In the inner circles in favor of Judge Parkers nom ination.' Said this Democrat. Judge Parker has made host of friends not only among the Democrats of the state but throughout the country since the Denver convention. It is my opin- Ion. shared by many men of promi- hence and influence in the party, that he would make an admirable candidate. Judge Parker would be willing to &C., cept the nomination or not
 State Chairman Corners still insists that Lieut.-Gov. Lewis Stuyvesant the belief of many that Mir. Chanler's name is being used only to cloak some candidate already selected by the lead CTS.
 It was learned yesterday, that as a ing from on MT. Bryan. a conciiiiatory policy will be pursued towards the "Honle Rule" Democrats who won out over the Murph y-Conners forces in some upstate primaries and thSt this if he should win in Brooklyn. Noth- ing will be left undone, to avert con- tests at the Rochester convention, It was said.
 Washington Herald.
 friends fearing that the shock VIII seriously Impair his health, unised States Senator N. B. Scott is conhned Springs s Hotel, at woodlawn. sub urb, as a result of his fisticum yester- day with S, c. smith. Republican political leader.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-09-05

Mir Taft's recent expression of fear that the election Of MT Bryan would mean the expansion and growth of so- cialism is about one of the weake est arguments yet advanced against Dem ocracy. If there is anything in com mon between Democracy and Socialism We have not discovered 1t. and if the election of a Democrat to the Presi- dency will tend to build up the so- ciaIistic spirit we wait to he shown just how it is to come about. Mir Taft should be above thus resorting to the arts of the denagogue
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-09-05
Milwaukee Special to New oriea Times Democrat.
DRIFTWooD


 If there were no temptations to re- assert his strength. Let the world stand as 1t Is.
 Practice what you preach--unless you happen to contemplate a sermon on music in which case the other in- mates of the flat may object. the. children. tell them about the prom ised tarift revision by MT. Taft The reason there is no home for the ancient and decrepit joke is be- cause the vaudeville performers will continue to carry him around even af- ter he is too weak to stand alone. It must be feeling of delicacy that prompts so many men not to take advantage of opportunity. Yes. and the hand that rocks the cradle likes to adjust the merry widow sometimes.
 The paramount idea in conducting a yellow journal today is big capital behind 1t and big capitals on the first page.
 In union there is strength---in mum bers there is safety, Mebbs this is the way the strikers look at it. fair How did you come out?" Riggs. Through the rear window otherwise I'd have had to walk home" Nature is not supposed to waste any thing, but when a beautiful mint bed would seem seq 'A that her efforts ts arc at st least unappreciated.
 Job was a fine example of patience, but honest to goodness, he never had to ride ten miles in a crowded suburb screen under his arm poking the breath out of him all the way
 Of course it's but natural that stunning" girl should shock" these old fossils who can't see any good in anything.
 The pessimist eats the apples wSa; Says Ut US t,t,,ss, r4rnen1-want DO more-- Is contented with the core! + .. There's one consolation-the Repub- iicans are "skeered stif" this time and that's no joke.
 We get t from good authority this This busts up the old theory that "a prophet is not without honor," etc. | + + new hlack-hand society has been discovered in Delaware. We repeat the Is to shake it.
 Simple Simon went a fishing 1 For to catch a whale Rut the fear of nature -faking
 Made him quiver and turn pale. 1 -t + l That young millionaire who has just killed man seems to be having q "Oh--no-he's merely feigning in- sanfty-thats the prerogative of the rich these days. don't you know?" . There are b2,5Oo ways of dying ac- cording to an authority, so why will love sick couples persist in plungins more consideration for the newspaper reporter, who has to get the story for Enter the oysterl
 To the first paid-up subscriber who nnas sonp %eii SfS give s him heaPty y ecnsraPi @ f' ulation Buffalo has nominated an undertak- CT for. Congress. This ought to be Q dead cinch
 An Indiana man killed himself in 2 erature no doubt.-Birmingham Age, Herald
 Certainly not-disappointed in St Louis hotel. +
 Seven tons of stale eggs have beer found in Chicago Too Dad, too bad What would Mother Eve have done at the sight of a modern rat?
 A Seaside Tragedy.
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 The summer mans back at the of1ce
 Qn two weeks he's right on deck. He managed to capture some tan or
 his face
 Also his hands and neck.
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 The summer girls also returned tt | town;
 oh she's tanned through an'
 through
 And she looks like a leopard 50 al
 the girls say Under her peek-a-boo.
 PHIL H. ARMSTRONG.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-09-05

The coming and going of the kids of the Roosevelt and Taft families and occasionally of the Bryan household are given to the press quite too fre- quentIy. Baby Mckee" came to be a source of rldicule for the Harrison family and 1t looks as if some of the young ones of the present day may bring on the same condition. Keep up with the movements of the candidates in their campaign, but not in purely private and personal affairs and give Kermit" and Charlie" and the rest wide berth.