The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-05-31

What the State Papers
 Are Saying and Doing
 4 Fly RemoveR. National Magazine for June.
 Flies will soon leave if you saturate cloths with oil of sassafras and lay them near windows and doora.
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 Interesting Reading. samson Ledger.
 Elba has developed a successor to Munchausen, who "sees things" in the local graveyard and tells The Clipper about them. His recent story of an apparition makes good reading.
 Prohibition For Horses. Sheffield Standard.
 As the Legislature is to be called in extra session to-. revamp the prohibit Carmichael to the fact that all the various makes of horse linament have alcohol in them.
 4 Passenger station, Please. Opelika Morning Post.
 The people of Opelika bave always felt very kindly toward the railroads and they would like to see the roads erect a handsome passenger station. A handsomer station would be a credit to the town, and people wouldn't mind a wait of a few hours here If they had new depot.
 A Late Repentance. Nashville American.
 Governor Conner shows some inciina- tion to meet the Alabama railroads proper spirit. Had the Governor been as we'll disposed two years ago the L AaEA ,Np o orA A would the railroads
 HoIke smiths Coming Retirement. New York Sun.
 In July GoyesnoF Fa,tS Br9wn Tiil .t,s. De ino 'o the companionship of his fellow-an- archists. and new era may dawn up. on long distressed Georgia. To that ing better happens in the interin-we transfer our best and brightest hopes.
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 4 Big Oat Crop.
 W. H. Adams and sons, living on Yellow river, last week cut 050 bundles of oats from less than one-half acre of lsnd This is a fair ,s:,, s:H,mple pproac Of wnas and still some of our farmers take cotton money with which to buy oats. This crop of oats was grown without ferti- lizer.
 4 L0ns JOh. Gadsden Times-News.
 1t is a little dificuit to realize that Uncle sam has been digging at the five years this month. Up to the hrst of the current year the expenditures amounted to more than ninety three this was spent in purchasing material. in experiments and in making the zone healthy. If the Gatun dam holds, It may be that the Prsseanh1 ahs ssnssnaiOh' s;stsuS
 Mir. HarOld's Work. Marion Standard.
 MT. Charles L. Harold, special stan vertiser. attended the Judson com mencement this week to report the commencement exercises for his paper. Mr Harold has recently ,a traveIed t,n3sef 0sef relative to the workings of the new prohibition law. His letters attracted no little attention, and although 1t was charged they were in the interest or the liquor men. they proved quite boost for prohibition. When the train ed reporter goes after news these days he hunts for the facts, ana ms priae his job before he would bias his re- ports or knowingly misrepresent tns facts,
 The Primary Plans. Sheffield Standard.
 The Standard was among those pa pers that advocated the adoption or the primary election plan In lieu or didates for State and county offices. We believed that the. primary would come nearer representing. the will of the tpd Trading am and triciery that had made the convention system odfous to a ma jority of the voters.
 with the change, however. came an evil unlocked for at the time and one that must he overcome. We refer to the expense attached to a State canvass. Until Governor Conner first aioner the lavish use of money in a State campaign was unheard of In Alabama. Then came Henry B Gray In the race for Lieutenant Governor, DPoSaSS wHG spendinE mInsy M SSST o ns Conner and Gray are both wealthy and can afford such extravagance, oHt there are few others whose means Will permit the lavish use of money to aa- cure a nomination for office. Again. inen of fine sense of honor are not in- cllned. even though they could afford M sG fhsS rssad ss Ss' it or as Of aue rionabls propriety. It Is difficult to view such action in any other light than an attempt to debauch the else- inc precedents established by Messrs. Conner and Gray no man. unless he be a millionaire, need aspire to the oov- srnorship.
 something must be done to counter act this money influence. which vir- tually stiHes the brains and character of the State, otherwise the primary. ike the convention, must inevitably fall into popular disfavor. It is with the self-respecting-p patriotic press or Alabama to go to work for the much needed reform of our election meth ods whereby the use of money, cor ruptly or otherwise. may no longer dominate the suffrage of Alabama