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The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-02-14
sfr. Eaton Returns.
The Roo.evelt-FouIke Letter.

EI8ELNOE0 AtuiGb
 h his efforts to convert the Repub-
 lican Party into party of progress"
 Coward socialism, under his perma-
 nent direction. and to dictate the
 hUlse piatform. m the he Prssidsnt finds M 1t neces- @
 sary to issue many explanations.
 There was one Monday which fills more
 than two columns in the morning papers.
 For some months past the country has seen Federal officeholders working with all their might to secure dele gates to the coming national conven- ton in the interest of the candidate South these Federal agents. have set out to control whole delegations from
 nearly all the States. while in the North they are busily engaged in split essary for the Presidents purposes. as 1t is in New York. to prevent the State organization from being committed to a candidate who Is favored by the vot- CTS. but not by the Federal admins
 If the President has anything to say by way of reply to the criticisms of his campaign to control the Chicago convention, he should have dealth with charges by leading newspapers of his party. denouncing his course as 'an. ti-Republican," and "anti-American," But he avoids the main charge entire ly. and issues a long "deh,' in which ne
 
 from such independent newspapers as The Boston Herald and New York Eve ming Post, and loudly asserts that he has not made appointments for the purpose of influencing the choice of na- tional delegates. At the end he adds: Nor has single officohoIder been re- moved or threatened with removal CT coerced in any way to secure his sup. port of any Presidential candidate." This is made public two days after Mir. Roosevelt according to undenied rec ports, sent for the First Assistant Postmaster General and commanded him to retire from that officc. in order to become the manager" of Mir. Tafts in the South. he being more largely acquainted with the post and other Federal office- holders than any other man in the gov ernment service. Nobody knows better than the President that the appoint ments recently made are not the "gist off the matter" As usual. MT. Roose- welt will be praised by his adherents for playing. politics in a skillful man. ner, by writing the Foulke letter. But Intelligent men will not be deceived
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-02-14
couRT sauARE FoUNTAIN.

BEr. Ragland Says His Company Has Nothing to Do With Agitation. Editor The Advertiser:
 Your editorial in this mornings pa- per under heading. "The Court Square Fountain" might create the impression that the Traction Company is inter ested in she question. Shall the Foun- tain be moved?"
 Will you kindly say for us that no one connected with this company is in any way responsible for this agita- tion and the company itself feels no interest whatever in the matter.
 Montgomery Traction Co.,,
 By W. H. Ragland.
 General ManaRr,
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-02-14
NOT ALL CONVINCED.

President Roosevelt's recent long and very much of being convincing docu-
 ment- Tn his usual overbearing and
 often offensive manner he virtually
 gives the lie to all who have said or
 intimated that he has used Federal
 patronage in the interest of Taft's can didacy, but he fails to be convincing.
 If all the charges of misuse of his official power had come. from irrespon-
 sible stump speakers, or from obscure and uninfiuential newspapers. his de-
 nials and denunciations would have
 had more effect, but such was not the
 case. Many of the exposures have come from newspapers and writers who
 stand much higher before the country
 for accuracy of assertion than Theo-
 dore Roosevelt does, and some of those
 who have accused .and criticised him
 cannot be discredited, before the coun-
 try by all the deniaIs and denuncia-
 tions he can send out in a decade.
 In short. he has many critics who will
 not be looked on as liars and slan-
 derers unless there is some better ev-
 idence than the Presidents word.
 Of course there are thick-and- thin
 worshippers of his in the Republican
 ranks who tell us that the letter to
 Foulke was a thorough and complete
 vindication of Roosevelt and declare
 that he comes out without even a taint
 of partisan favoritism on his garments,
 but not all of them are such easy marks. The Kansas City Journal, for example, as good a Republican as any of them, Is not at all convinced. How ever. 1t remarks, ''the criticisms are un- doubtedly justilable as to the object to be accomplished if not as to the manner of it's accomplishment. It is not necessary for President Roosevelt to issue orders to his vast army of appolntees to support MT. Taft. In such a case wink is as good as nod. The mere intlmation of the Pres idents wishes in the matter is amply sufficient. Else why do we find that all the Federal ofiiceholders. as we'll as every would-be piebiter. are work ing frantically for Secretary Taft? Does any sane man imagine that such unanimity would exist, that they would be jumping like puppets pulled by a string. unless some extraordinary in- iuence controlled their actions? It is manifestly absurd to suppose that all the postmatsers. Federal prosecutors. marshals and other functionaries com posing the grand army of nearly 2Oo.- 900 Federal officeholders. would be of one mind in their support of a Presi- dentiaI candidate if they were free to exercise an untrammeled choice on the subject. Somebody Is pulling the i string. Who can 1t be?'
 Here is a very plain intimation that the string which controls the move- ments of Republican of1ceholders Is being pulled in the interest of Taft's | candidacy. and that the President | knows all about 1t. If the string is | not being pulled by hls own hands it Is done with his knowledge and under nls manipulation. Else why, as The Journal asks. are all the Republican ficeholders. present and prospective. so franticaIly for Taft?" If they do not hope to be rewarded for concur renee. or punished for non-concurrence. how Is 1t that they are 30 anxious to get on the big secrstaFy's band wagon? ]
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-02-14

Speaking of the way the Boston peo- pie treat the negro Ray stannard Ba- ker declares that the Bostonians ''have cast the bantling on the rocks" and we suspest he states it correctly. To the people of that city an ignorant and vicious negro in their midst has a very different appearance from one in Alabama. Here he is an object of long distance philanthropy, but there he is a nuisance to be avoided and neglected. "'Twas ever thus" with many of the good Yankee brethren.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-02-14
FRIDAY. FEBRUARY I4 1908.

The Richmond News-Leader. refer ring to our charge that endorsement of Rooseveltism Is not Democracy. and that it would require strong glasses to discover Democracy in that sort of thing. says:
 That, we fear, Is because our es- feemed contemporary's glasses are clouded with a smear of narrow par tlsan political prejudice. If. however. as to enable it to take a broad, un- biased judicial minded view, we are satisfied it will discover that MT. Roosevelt's politics and methods to which we alluded are democratic measure up to the highest demands Of true democracy which aims to confer the greatest good on the greatest num- Der.
 Let's keep the record straight. if you please. The News-Leader did not spec fly any policies or methods of the Pres ident, but stated, as we quoted 1t. that 1t "consistently endorsed the policies and methods of President Roosevelt. That was an assertion without reserva- tion. and we still insist that 1t is not Democratic doctrine. And our glasses are clear enough to see Roosevelt as he is. which some Democrats seem un- able to do.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-02-14
ComparIsoh and Contrast.

Norfolk Virgtnian-Pi Pilot
 Bryan says Roosevelt is brave" and Roosevelt says Bryan is "broadening.'' Wa shouldn't wonder if these two would become very good friends next year when they are both private citi- zens with no political axes to grind. They are as much alike as two peas in a pod except that Roosevelt has q tal- ent for intrigue which Bryan lacks, while Bryan has an innate honesty in which Roosevelt is deficient.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-02-14
A Fal.eAeoa That T. Dolnr Harm.

Hartford Times.
 less. for The New York World to publish as authentic an interview with J. P, Morgan written by a French newspaper editor named Ular. in .whiah the eminent banker was made to de- clare; "Strikel They (the workingmens have got no jobs now. There are nc stocks on hand, you know. We do nos want to take up work again now. So what can they do? They will have to submit or they will starve. The dues- ton is 10 ba settled. They are to learn that they cannot control indus try. We want wages that will make honest and profitable business possi- ington, says: T never said or believed anything of the kind attributed to me in that article" In spite of his de- nial we may expect to see the misrep- resentation accepted as a correct re- port by the socialistic agitators all over the country.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-02-14
DRIFT " OOD BY PHIL n. ARMsTRaNG.
what has become of the Shaw bsom

what has become of the Shaw bsoms ohs Pshawi You should emulate the noble roie- starts in life with hardly a scent, but just look at him later on. Did you ever see woman who was pleased with her photograph or a man who was satis5ed with his salary Its q Decr rsub that won't work both ways.
 "If . girl didn't have but s1.aB in the world. shed give . dollar of 1t 10 a fortune teller just to hear her say; there's dark man coming into your When you tell girl a girl she is all the world to you, remember young man. the world Is supposed to 60 One facetious exchange alludss to II as the Presidents massage" This gives you q feeling of comfort and rest.
 Valentine. 4 No knife could cut our love in two. So take this box of candy, sweetheart tSome other guy I know win eat-part.) "As sure as the vine grows round the I realize that I'm chump. Upon Loves brow I'll lay a wreath (oh. I hope that guy will ruin his
 teeth.l
 I'm pittshuFg, The steel kings in his counting house Counting out his money. The chorus-girl is taking 1t And calling of him hOuOv.
 They All Are.
 Boy, is this hotel run on the Amer ican or the European plan?" ''Why--er--well - you're a-payin'-- that's It."
 No Change. that death over on Blank Street? Cub Reporter-twith bit of Irish city Editor--well. what cid you Cub Reporter--sure. he's still dead.
 Fairy Tales. Man has a love for fairy tales (Though he'll not always own it.) But the stories that he tells his wife Prove he has not out-grown 1t.
 +
 Neveg.
 Oh. no. Archie. the dancer doesn't learn the steps from fcot-noses-
 Hush. Altho' 1t keeps on raining, And the streets are full of siush The sun will soon be shining
 Hush. Atlho' the storm clouds gather And you see the troubles rush There's q brighter day coming
 So Altho' your sweet heart walks upon Your heart as soft as fiush Cheer up-ths world Is ful of girls
 s0 HusA. The way you're growth all the times Enough to make you blush-- Springs comin' cross the hills z HuaAi ''The Atlanta Georgien says The at any moment what is the feminine of paragrahper. Now you've stirred up a regular hornets nest for The Nor folk Landmark. rlx."--dontgomery Adver- It's ridiculously easy. The feminine of paragrapher Is paragrapher.--Nor- folk Landmark.
 "A Philadelphia musical director bears the appropriate name of pr. Thunder,~ says The Montgomery Ad- vertiser. We suppose he affects the wagnerian school exclusiyely--Was ingtou Herald.
 "The next time you start to borrow trouble, why not borrow happiness in- stead ?" asks The Montgomery Advertls> CT. Possibly because. when 1t comes to a show down, no one has any of tho latter to spare.-Richmond News-Lead. CT.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-02-14
A DIME TO A DOLLAR.
The James R. Rapaan Memorial Fu

Retieence to offer its mite to wor- thy and desired result, often holds back the hand that fears competition with one better fitted.
 He who gives his dime to good ob- .tect is doing his share with him wno gives his dollars
 Therefore. this paper will receive any and all contributions of from Ten Cents up to One Dollar, and VIII list the same (with or without namesl in this place for the James R. Randall Me- morial Fund.
 No subscription of over $1 will be listed here. Any one desiring to give more ean write directly to the editor or to 1T. c. DeLeon. Mobile.
 If any newspaper desires to aid this worthy and much-needed testtmonial. it can do so by keeping this paragraph standing at it's column head and re- beating this note.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-02-14
Remarkable Growth.

Andalusia NeWN.
 Covington County has enjoyed a won- derful growth during the past ten years. Just ten years ago the as- sessed valuation of personal property in Covington County was $24Ie74. The assessment of 1907 fixes the value of personal property at S2,92s,405. Ten S1187225. In 1907 tL was S4,3lS,497. Ten years ago the total assessment was $1,434, S99. Today the assessment Is S7241902J Ten years ago the State and county tax rate was $1.65. Today the State and county rate is S1.30. Ten years ago there was collected in Cow ington County for State and county Ing the year 1907 there was collected, or will be collected, the sum of S9l,- 1f4.72. Perhaps the best exhibit is that of personal property sS soS whleh 6na shows
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-02-14

The Journal somewhat sarcasticaIiy in- quires who can 1t be7" who is pull ing the string for Taft. but 1t knows full well that the chief manipulator of the string which causes the ..pup- pets" to dance has his abode in the White House at Washington. all his vehement explanations to the contrary notwithstanding.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-02-14

That is an unusual condition of af- fairs that Is reported from Marshall. Texas. The City Council. so 1t is claimed, passed an ordinance increas- ing the salary of their Mayor from slOO to SIPS a year, and his honor promptly vetoed 1t. on the ground that the office was not worth so much and the city not able to afford It. Now suppose that had been Houston-but why suppose impossible things?
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-02-14
A piaeordant Note.

Good Democrats are wondering how much longer Bryan is to be permitted to hoodoo or hobo the Democratic Par ty. Men talk silly when they say that Bryan Is the logical candidate. Logi- cal, nothing. A logical anything has some show of success. Bryan can no more be elected President than he can sit astraddle of Mara What sense is there in nominating a man who has two overwhelming defeats 10 bis eFedit7 Bryan'S egotism ts becoming insuRer- shlA.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-02-14

Congressman Littleton. The Houston Post says. regrets that he was not born in Texas. whereby he means that then he would not be to blame for being a Texan.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-02-14

We believe it was Oliver wendail Holmes who said he never dared to be as funny as he could. ana New York
 man of whom we have just heard should lay the remark to heart. His wife disiocated her jaw laughing at one of his funny stories. and he should be careful in future not to do his best.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-02-14

The Wall Street Journal asserts that the administration of Roosevelt will be longest remembered for the moral uplift it has given to the business in- terests of the country" Bet your boots: It has upliftsd many of them higher than a kite
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-02-14

According to The New Bedford Standard there are now 700 inmates in the iunatic asylum at Matteawan, N. r.. and of these 100 are men who had committed murder. If that is correct Thaw has plenty of company.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-02-14

Quite number of the newspapers of the North are continually discussing the problem of cheaper gas. and some means of getting it. Why don't they pipe it from the Capitol at washing ton?
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-02-14

The term of every county treasurer begins on the first Monday after the second Tuesday in January next after his election. As the next election of county treasurers takes place in No- vember, on the first Tuesday after the first Monday, according to Section 27, page 450 of the general election laws of 1903, the next county treasurers will begin to serve on the first Monday af- ter the second Tuesday ia January,
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-02-14

The Leavenworth Post wonders if the Thaws have not enough money left to buy that asylum. Perhaps they have. but some of the inmates might object to the trade.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-02-14
Terms of County 'rreasurera.

Editor The Advertiser: VIII you tell us in your valuable pa per when the terms of the county treasurers expire.
 Yours truly.
 c. K. Morris,
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-02-14
sw0RN fTRCuLATTON

xhs Montgomery Advsrtissr guarantees s<s advertisers tand makes ik Q part of tns contract when requested) that it's daily cir- cuiakion is larger than that of any mornlng nawspaper printed in Alabame--aud that us sunday edition has the largest circulation of any news paper printed in Aiabasza- without exception.
 Tie figures for December printed below represent the actual net circulation, @u rs- fnrna having bean deducted.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-02-14

while in the business not only pros pered materially, but gained for nm self the friendship and the respect or the people of Montgomery. His de- parture is generally regretted, and from everyone who knew him. who admired him for his charity and his honesty, there goes the hearty wish of good luck that men say most soulfuily to their good friends.
 Sfr. Eaton Returns.
 Mr. Ira T. Eaton. manager of Eaton q Co. of Chicago. who make school books. came back to Montgomery yes- terday. With him was Mrs. Eaton.
 Mir. Eaton was in Montgomery some days ago and departed hence to Texas. On the way he paused several times 10 have a glimpse of different parts of the South. San Aatonio was his uI- tinate objective point He and Mrs. Eaton got there. spent c delightful va- cation and came back. They stopped in New Orleans and other principal cities. They liked 1t all and say that the South Is very delightful and admirable place, and that It's people is equally de- iightful and admirable.
 Mr. and Mrs. Eaton departed last night to their home in Chicago. MT. Eaton will return to Montgomery in a fortnight.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-02-14
STr. GaIatas Moves.

MT. Albert Galatas. during many years as popular a citizen as Mont gomery had. has removed his residence from the city and will henceforth con- duct a business in New Orleans. Mir. Galatas, who for some time had con- sidered the advisability of departing from Montgomery. two days ago per- fected arrangements, and has gone. Members of his family will continue to live here for the present.
 MT. Galatas was for a number of years a successful resteratsuF. and
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-02-14
Montgomery Ice and Cold
 Storage Co.

CAR LOAD SHIPMENTS A SPECIALITY.
 ALL ORDERS WILL HAVE PROMPT INTENTION. OFFICE COR. MADISON AVE. and N. PERRY ST. PHONE eT. FACTORY PHONE, s50.
 T. H MOORE. D. BURNETT;
 Prasidant. Vice-President.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1908-10-22

her past twelve years of marvellous
development"
In the eyes of the Intelligeneer Il
was all wrong for the negro voters
TO be used as a club TO beat tae fac.
ton OF the Republican party TO which
IL professed TO belong. but Il is now
all right for II TO be used as a club TO
beat the decent white people of the
state.
What fragrant fraud the Intelli-
gencer Is, 20 be sure. And how n
was curried by the stalwart Republi.
can papers that had the courage OF
their convictions.
Dominated by political renegade
with the feeble assistance OF a moral
idiot. the lntelligencer has mmbled
from the high estate Il once occupied
10 position In the very gutter OF
public esteem.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1908-10-22
PERFIDY NEVER PAWS

The Messrs. William Scott and
IOvett and w. f. Hite. along with
their various and sundry underlingB
in the county of Cabell, have learned
dear lesson of the poor reward OF
perfidy
These gentlemen were understood
for months TO be at the head of the
Scherr campaign In Cabell county.
They were likewise potential with
the local political organization, and.
being backed strongly by local senti.
ment in that regard could have turned
Cabell county TO Mr.. Scherr, with the
greatest OF ease.
Not until couple OF days before
the Cabell convention was II dIscoy-
cred that a system OF double-cross
was being worked. and for the pur.
pose OF securing the nomination OF a
candidate for the state senate who
would support Isaac Mann against
Scott for United States senator.
However. according TO press re-
ports. all Of their plans have come to
naught. as plans based upon perfidy
usually do. Lincoln and Putnam
counties refused to play in the game.
but instead erected I'm the corner a
row OF stools OF repentance from
whose heights will dangle for some
time a small group Of notably treach-
erous legs"
The above is from the Parkesburg
Dispatch-News, and is printed here
to show that the Dispatch-News ex-
pressed some decent views for a time.
That was before II was roped, thrown
and hog-tied by Steve Elkins and the
gang.
But didn't II talk pretty" while Il
was at IL?
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1908-10-22
"JIM GROWING THEM

The Republican state headquarters
at Clarksburg have a Jim Grow" de-
partment where colored voters are re.
ceived.
When Congressman Stprgis spoke
at Charles Town the negro voters
were told 10 stand back and let the
white people have the seats. Were
Jim CTowed" i'm other words.
When Glasscock spoke in Hnuting-
ton the colored marchers paraded
one street. while the whites marched
along another. and in the hall where
the speaking took place Jim Grow"
divisions were obserVed--whites on
one side, colored on the other
Congressman Hughes was charged
with employing a colored private sec
rotary, and fastened TO declare that
he had Jim Crowed" the race and
had only employed whites i'm that ca.
pacity.
But not one of the gang will de-
clare himself either for or against the
Jim Grow" car law.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1908-10-22
STEPHEN 3. ElklNs. BOSS.

TWO Republicans were talking the
other day about the candidacy OF
Glasscock. Said one of them:
"Glasscock is not the personal
choice OF Elkins. I have heard a
man who knows say that he told his
friends he wanted somebody else"
"Of course he said he wanted some
body else said the other. ut Is
one Of the most striking OF the Elkins
schemes to be able to say he wants
one man and at the same time have
his henchmen know he wants anoth.
er The man who would attempt to
represent Elkins on the basis of truth
would find himself thrown into the
discard the first deal"
Swisher was the candidate of the
bosses. Glasscock Is the candidate
OF the boss OF the bosses For when
you come right down TO brass tacks
there Is but one real boss In West
Virginia, and his name Is Elkins.