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The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-10-21
POLITICAL POINTERS
Two Views as to Nebraska.

S' .. nenry Omaha Sepcial 10 fnila" Nebraska Is doubtful state. with rIsa rhe ffnanses fnr @ n tav9r ot its being car; ear, here as an Insult almost to their candi- date on the national ticket It will be Indignantly denied by MT. Bryan's poll- tical captains, who are like ewlse posi- tive that he will carry the state. There are no doubling Thomases among Ne- braska republican leaders.
 The labor vote. which is not very south omaha. where there are about l6.0O0 working men organized and un- organized. Debs. the socalist candidate has a big following.
 Helps the Democrats.
 Parkensburg West Virginia Special to
 Washington Herald.
 When. to tthe anazement of party teaders. the Democratic State conven- ton last July adopted the jim crow" ear plank and the plank calling for the disfranchisement of the negroes, sefton s man ceores wae Is Byrns gs egd 9 as author. editor. and politician. and one of the best stump speakers in the State without the aid of a single leader, won views. after a bitter fight and succeed ed In making the West Virginia Demo- cracy accept hIs views and make the race question one of the live issues of
 It was not Mir. Byrne's first attempt to push the race question to the front Eour years ago he fought the same bat ivehtion. He would have won then had not some of the leaders persuaded him that the idea would lose the party votes This year Mir. Byrne did not wait for the approbatlon of leaders. He went ahead, persuaded the committee 9n resolutions of the Charleston con- gentlon to recommend the blanks. and sh sheh Iougnt Tor them on the floor of
 But should the Democracy win and gain control of the legislature. only aecfaot 1 5SyFnss w1ra will have been likely be passed. with the support of who han from the, "Blaek its BeitSs in aHtss the negroes far .outnumber the whites.
 Rocky Path for Disframehiaement.
 But the hisement program for the submission to the peopie of a constitutional disfranch isen1ent amend ment must first pc passed by the legi- iature by two-thirds vote. After must be submitted to the people and carried by a three -fifths vote.
 50, even should the fight be won at many pGs satt,es sns fl fall ha tHepe yet remain nght of Mir. Byrne is really won. I, Of the subject. MT. Byrne has foi- towing 10 say:
 The race issue. as presented in the two blanks of the Democratic plat form. demanding the disfranchisefnen and the enactment of a seperate coach law, Is most potent for the Democrats n this contest. From every section of the State come reports of additions to our voting strength because of the feeling the people have that these two propositions should be made part of the law of the State.
 T have returned recently from the southern tier of counties. penetrated by the Norfolk and Western Railroad. and ind the sentiment among the white people of that section almost unanimous for the Democratic State and county tickets because of that is-
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-10-21
Incidents and Opinions Throwing Light on
 The National Contest

Hon ". E. Giasscock, Republican nominee for governor, has just finished q tour of those counties. and I see by drawn into an expression of his views upon the jim crow plank. though he was asked the direct question a num- franchising plank. but keeps quite about the other.
 The fact is the conditions in that part of the State are almost intoierable Respectable white women do not dare to travel on the trains for even the shortest distances without paying extra Frequent lights and constant friction between the races make travel un- pleasant for all and the people demand that relief be afforded them"
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 Pamphlet Attacks sherman. slmultaneously with the return to tour James $. Sherman. Republican Vice Presidential nominee. was con fronted with q pamphlet of twenty in the career of James $. sherman" In which the candidate is viciously
 The pamphlet says It's purpose is to ance with Mir. Sherman and enfarges upon the importance of having q good m man manned for Vice President because plunges into what purports to be a history of Mir. Sherman's public career. roasting him freely. o. Stealeye Omaha Special to Louls-
 -ville Courier Journal.
 I shall begin this letter with the mr Sroas srSsS Sns Snnp emphatic at that If the union 4fter ti1is hp' ststement f s'f'e eroa @ pose to give the reasons for making penetrate. the stronger I find Bryan sentiment The people with whom I have talked. republicans as well as
 T find here. as elsewhere, the labor vote about go percent in favor of demo- cracy. A gentleman highly connected me that Mir. Bryan wili carry the shop. getting about S5 -er cent of fhe votes. And in addition. to that. there is a, of MT. Bryan from republicans m % sni democrats both. Added to this. the farmers like his arguments. and are convinced by them.
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 New York Times.
 There may be lukewarmness In the apathy in the Democratic ranks. But there is enthusiasm buoyant and bubbIs ing oyer among the. Socaliasts on the the election of Morris Hiilqnite itAs to co1r p1r gress and of J. G. Phelps Stokes and 6ooert Hunter to the State Assembly,
 As a result of these conditions, Nos sic Hiliquit. speaking with a Times reporter yesterday. predicted with a great deal of assurance tAat he would pc elected and take his seat as the nrst representative of the Socialist Party in Congress. The Republican and Democratic leaders on the lower east side. while not willing to concede this just yet, are not overlooking the fact that there is 8 good deal of jus tinaction for the prediction. They ad- mt that the Socialists in this particu- lar section of the city are making heavy lhfoaos among their followers and that very large propotion of the first vot- CTS on the east side below Fourteenth street enroll under the em blem of the hammer or the uplifted torch.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-10-21

Tn the old days of ballooning the ad- venturer always carried some bags of sand as ballast. If he found himself descending he would open one or more sR the bags and empty out the con- tents to relieve the weight. The sand would descend in a fine shower and do no harm to those below, even if some of it fell on them. It was different with the two men who sustained the long fall near Berlin recently. Having no time to open the sand bags they tum- bled them overheard entire. one of them striking a baby carriage but we believe it missed the occupant. Pound ing the earth and its inhabitants in that way is likely to be somewhat em- barrassing.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-10-21
This Date i,a History
Ocfoher M.


 1692-The British Government took away William Penn's proprietary rights in Pennsylvania.
 1774--The Provincial Congress of Massachusetts determined to enlist men for the defense of the province for the first time. under the name of Minute Men.
 17s7--The famous frigate "Constitu. tion" launched at Boston.
 1S05-Lord Nelson killed in the na- val battle off Cape Trafalgar. 1s21-Jenny Lind. famous singer. born: died NovembGr 2. 1887. 1S54-Remains of Sir John Frank ltn's exploring party discovered near Great Fish River Buck. in the Arctic Ocean.
 Iss1-Confederates victorious at bat tie of Balls Bluff.
 lS6S-Statun of General Sedgwick unveiled at West Point. 1Ss0-Contract signed for the con- struction of the Canadian Pacific Rail- way.
 lsO7-start of International balloon race from St. Louis.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-10-21
What hope can there be for the pres

What hope can there be for the pres ervation of the independence of the judiciary with such man as Theodore Roosevelt in the Presidential office. with power to appoint all Federal judges. In 1906 he rendered the posi- tion of Associate Justice of the su- preme Court to Judge Taft. in success sion to Justice Brown. In a letter to Judge Taft at that time he criticized ''the judges" for the unfortunate pos session of meticulous minds" That is a new word. or rather one not often used, but the Twentieth Century Die tionary gives It's meaning as lover cautious" Now what is to be thought of the highest official in the land ob- jecting to the possession of such quality as cautiousness by those who compose the court of last resort in this country.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-10-21
A Ennhion PIcture.

Ohio State Journal.
 It is said that the women can glance at one of the pictures. In a newspaper intended to show the fashion of dress and understand all about It. They can detect every plait and ruffie and seam and gore and every little change in sleeve and blouse and drapepy. and every point of taste or style from the neck to the last hem in the skirt. To tn em it is a revelation. an illumination, fascination. They can read the wh ole panorama of delight with one swoop of the eye, and the next day they can tell about it-where every button and stripe and insertion IS placed where cut straight and where bias and just where every tuck. fold. convolutIon and distraction is located. and they can tell 1t all to another woman in about sixteen words and make the picture as plain as a snowy summit against an azure sky.
 4 man would look at the picture and think it was the same old fashion nlate he had been looking at for years and years-same old girdles and fiounces and panniers and passementerie in all their mysterious beauty. just as they appeared in the days of his love and married glory. Fiminine fashion with man Is changeless joy. It is what it always was. is now and ever shall be, world without end So these pictures radiating with lovely ideas and sug- gestions of beauty to the woman. are to the men like the grim and eternal sph ink on the sands of Sahara.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-10-21
Vindication of

of the Standard oil Company seems certain, from the fact that the SIbiey IetLers were also obtained. The inf. nauou that the Standard Oil Con,paYv. l.seif, gave out the letters is a laIlgsr.. gus ruse on the part of the thieves to SStxert attention from thernseives. ous game. S VI
 Tne exposure came by wire to Hearst et Columbus To receive the matter nade 1t necessary for him, to postpone ms speech for two hours. He savs ila knew nothing of it in advance of it's recept at Columbus. 'sS
 n view. of all this 1t is evident That 2. welllai9 trap was set to .Isxtra,, Eoraker This will surely engendeI. tIn tn tne constituents of Foraker q more bit- IS inevitable that they will. to a man Knife hitn at the polls. The State will go 10 Bryan and Harmon. and it Is not pIseyond Isy the possibilities that a Repuh- IcSn Legislature, friendly to Foraker will be elected.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-10-21
uNJusT CRITIcIsal.

It is not often that any complaint can be lodged against The Hartford Times of unfairness. but 1t renders it. self justly liable to the charge. in the following:
 We must express some astonishment that the rich States of the South which may be said to have impeeed the nona- nation of William J. Bryan three times on the democratic party are such small contributors to his campaign fund--on- ly SS,525 in all, with no sum as lars. as $I00 from the great states of Vir- ginia and Mississippi. We can only conclude tkat our southern friends are not really desirous of seeing MT Bryan elected to the office of presiden. of the United States. In view of their share in forcing the nomination of Mir. Bryan and of the great wealth and prosperity of that part of the country we should suppose they would have contributed at least half million dot- lars for the purpose of electing him.
 The total amount of receipts &C., knewledged by the Democratic Com mittee up to the 18th inst. was less than s25o.eoo. Of this amount an im- mense proportion was in small sums. names of contributors not published. showing that the people at. large were contributing and not rich trust men or favored corporations. We know. for instance. that fully si.5e0 have gone from this city and vicinity and not a contributor gave as much as st0o and very few over s1. The same can be said of Mobile. Birmingham. Selma and other points in the State. We venture that the total contributions from Ala bama will equal the amount contrib uted from most of the states whether in the East or West. The Memphis Commercial-AppeaI has forwarded s10.O0o of small contributions to the committee from citizens of Tennes- see and other States nearby Memphis. The New Orleans States has forwarded $7.s00 from that city and Louisiana, and so on. The contributions are not as great in amount as they should be, but certainly tine Southern people are no more behind in that respect than other localities.
 Again. The Times is unjust in charg- ing that the Southern States forced MT. Bryan's nomination. The votes from Southern States in the National Convention do not foot up one-half the total, so that on the majority basis they could not force any mans nom. ination. When it is remembered that a two-thirds vote is required the injus- tice of The Times criticism is at once seen. As a matter of fact. and The Times knows 1t, Mir. Bryan's nomIns- ton was the result of a demand from the Democrats in every portion of the Union. That he was the choice of an overwhelming majority of the Demo- erats, outside the Southern States, was demqnstrated long before the delegates assembled in Denver. A considerable number of Southern delegates were op- posed to his nomination, but opposition was useless. MT. Bryan was nomin- ated because the Democrats of the country wanted him to be their candi- date.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-10-21

 credness in the presence of which progress must halt? VIII the state ever grow enough for a new county to be established7
 There are counties in Alabama big ger than the State of Rhode Island. There are counties in Alabama in which many farmers have to travel fifty miles to pay taxes or to serve upon a jury.
 In the big county of Jefferson the court dockets are continually congest- ed. So great Is the business of the courts with the extensive territory and large population. The County of Jef- ferson. has no less than ten judges of circuit judge Jurisdiction. The Birm- ingham News says of conditions in Jefferson "rhe hope and expectation of the pest. that many additional judges in the court house would make the administration of justice more prompt and speedy relieving the needs of the people who have to have litiga- ton. have proven illusory. Long de- layed adjustments of business differ ences amount to a denial of Justice. It now takes months and years to settie q law suit brought in the courts of this county. \ smaller county would expedite the clearing of docKets. Uu- der the fec system. the revenues os some of the offices of Jefferson coun- ty invite too large an expenditure Of which has a demoralizing effect upon local politics. and debauches some of our people. Purer politics and bet ter government would be the result of smaller county. There would be bet ter reads, wider and stronger bridges and other improved utilities for the benefit and pleasure of the people. if there were more counties in Alabama Georgia the Empire State of the South with more than double the number of counties of Alabama, is an obj bject les. son. Other advantages would accrue: the people would mingle more ire. ,auently and intimately with each other: they would more generally take an interest in public and political af- fairs; more of them would hold of. fees, at no additional expense to the people. under the fee system. Public schools would be multiplied and im- proved. Progress along every line would be stimulated" This alone should be sufficient reason to win the support of the great mass of voters of Alabama who have no personal in. terest in the issue one way or the other.
 The Alabama Constitution provides that no county shall contain less than 500 square miles. The proposed amend. ment is safeguarded with other re- strictions which should satisfy the most conservative. Under all these rs- strictions it is possible to create only five more counties in Alabama.
 The amendment endangers no gov ernmental institution or privilege. It menaces nothing. It is demand oe progress which must be met. The question will not down. If by any chance the amendment should be de- feated. and that Is so improbable as to be almost impossible. the question would survive 1t.
 Let us settle it now and remove it from our politics for all time. r
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-10-21
Dangers of Living.

Toronto Star.
 A reporter of The Record Herald. who was passenger in one of the balloons in the recent long-distanee races from Chicago, says that he and his companions had the misfortune to drop their megaphone when sailing along some thousands of feet above Michigan, Some people on the land below had shortly before refused to answer questions by the balloonists as to the name of the section over which the balloon was then passing and the reporter comforts himself with the re- nection that If the megaphon hit any of these 1t would form a fitting dunce can for some shallow pate.
 This is all very well from the stand point of the man In the air. But how about those on the ground over which a balloon Is passing? If a mesaphone Is allowed to drop today another in- strument. a bag of sand, or a life pre- server may drop tomorrow. Even the airship itself may become a cause of danger. In the particular case under discussion the balloon. just before land- ing, broke four strands of a barb wire fence with the drag rope and the cam smashed into one or two trees. be- sides dragging the length of an oat field. If 1t had caught the side of a house. the building would certainly have been damaged and the occupants probably injured
 Every new invention appears to carry with # some new danger Scarce has
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-10-21
A Picture of Debs.

Boston Herald.
 Whatever may have been his native equipment for work on the stump it Is beyond question that experience in three Presidential campaigns and in party propaganda for twelve or more years has given Debs power and skill. The tall, sinewY, large-molded figure with large extremities and a hinge like waist the arms and hands that resemble Lincoln's in the length and boniness and gyrating power. the head that is capacious, comparatively hair less and fronted with face out of which two small eyes burn, from which a forceful nose projects and out of aphoristic words and glowing sen, sen tences of description and objurEa ton, go to make up speaker of power removed. from Edward Everett's and Webster's as are RoseveIts He is as likely to close climax of fervid polemio with hls body doubled up each kneecap as he is to point 1t to high heaven. He does not below as Joseph Cook often did. He does not rant or indulge in rhetoric. or waste any time in the conventionalities of eloquence either in fattering the pre- siding officer or the audience. When his eye on the far-away home stretch, and the batter of his lnVectiVe sen tences keeps up steadily save when the audience crosses the track with
 judged by his personality, by his passion for human betteFment, by his candor in saying almost all that he thinks, by his hatred of injustice and by his mastery of the art of firing crowd through speech. Debs Is a figure in American life more notable than the conservative business and academic worlds have realized. He leads a that has to be reckoned with. But he is revolutionist. not an eyolutlonist; a preacher of class ha- tred a man so ignorant of economics as to assert and reiterate that labor produces all wealth. and an enthusiast na~in@ a statasnnan-.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-10-21
curbinx the speakers Power.

NeW Orleans Picayune
 If the Sixty-first Congress. which will come into, existence with the next cratic. with a good working majority, 1t will be possible by the enactment of new rules to dethrone the Speaker from his autocratic position but 1t Is a question whether the Democrats will do it. It is true the national platform demands such a change. but 1t Is a great temptation, when a party which succeed to the scepter of power. to want to exercise that power to the ut most in order to visit on ones foes the humiliation that has been suffered and endured at the hands of the now de- feated enemy. The temptation Is great.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-10-21
This Is My 63rd Birthday
Will Carleton.

Will Carlaton, the noted poet and lecturer. was born October q. lS45, in Hudson Bucb. He received his ed ueation in .Hillsdale College and after his graduation from that institution in 1869, he did newspaper work in De- troit and Chicago. A few years later his ballads began to attract attention and in the early sos New York society became interested in the poet and for time his .Ee readings were ,t the rage years he appeared with much success upon the lecture platform throughout the United States. Great Britain and continental Europe, In recent years he has been employed chiefly as a magazine editor. Of the many poems MT. Carleton naz written by far the best known are Betsy and I Are Our" and lover the Hill to the Poorhouse. |"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-10-21
PoIItldans' Paradise.
cadsden JournaL

TddSutn JOuTndI
 We of Alabama hardly realize what real campaign is like. Brass bands. spectacular parades. flaming banners, torch light processions and distin- g1ished speakers are not part of the that shows no uncertainty in its elec- tion returns. but in States like In- diana. Ohio. and New York. all with big electoral vote that may be cast for either party things are strenuous indeed. These are the politicians pars adise and in the last days of a national ment.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-10-21

The Leavenworth Post endorses A certain man for reelection to the Legislature because. as 1t says The gets results" Sometimes it happens that law-maker gets results and puts them in his own pockets.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-10-21

It is not surprising that some Re- publicans scor at the statement that the Democratic campaign fund Is only just about quarter of a million dol lars. To their minds it requires sev- eral millions for them4if they hope to win.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-10-21

the ordinary pedestrian accustomed himself to dodging street cars and au- tomobiles than he Is warned to be on the lookout for rain of missiles from airships racing above the clouds, Les islators who have not yet recovered from the task of perfecting measures for protection against surface dangers, are now called upon to look upwards and devise measures for protection from aboye,
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-10-21
Where Doe. the Consumer Come Ins

Where Does the Consumer Come Int New York World.
 When MT. Taft repeats his custom ary promises of Republican prosper ity he should remember that for twelve months hundreds of thousands of work4 ingmen have been studying the Ding lye tariff through the bottom of an empty dinner-pail. They do not want to be assured. as Mir Taft assured them in speech out West, that the tariff-revision measure offered h- tn Republicans next year is to be mot too greatly in the interest of the con- sumer."
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-10-21

One of the most perplexing questions now vexing party leaders is as to how the silent vote" will be cast. There's entirely too much silence for either side.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-10-21

So far MT. Tafl has had a horse, a railway train and chair to break un-. der him. Wonder if his campaign band wagon will be the next smash.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-10-21

Two weeks more and then some body will he ready to do the shouting. but-Whieh side will it be?
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-10-21
Rack 1t Drift

"One Florida man killed another for $S. Life seems to be cneap down that way" says Drift Armstrong. And money very scarce .-Atlanta Geors.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-10-21
swnRN CIRCULATION.

The Montgomery Advertiser guarantees its advertisers (and makes it a part of the contract when requested) that its daily eir- culation is larger than that of any morning newspaper printed in Alabama--and that its sunday edition has the largest circuia- fion of any edition of any newspaper print ed in Alabama without exception.
 The figures for September printed below represent the actual net circulation all re- aurns having been deducted.