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The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-11-08

lished throughout the country. We are going to elect men to Congress, we are going to elect senators and governors, and whether we do this or not we are going to continue the progressive party and the principles which it stands for"
 The editor of the Globe-Democrat should either disperse the meeting of December 10, or else he should go to Chicago prepared to convert the entire lot to standpat methods and doctrines, the steam roller included. He should nip progressiyeism in the bud, so to speak, if he really expects to carry out his plan for reorganizing the standpat party.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-11-08
coward Is worse than cup oi sack with lime in it.
 -1 King Henry ".
Alahama,s Part in Public Affairs


 Alabama will indeed play an impor- tant part in the conduct of pubic al fairs in the coming democratic admin istration. What our own Oscar Un- tlerwood will not do as majority leader, Chairman Clayton of the important judiciary committee and Chairman Burnett of the committee on immlgra- tion and Chairman Richardson of the pensions committee will do. Captain Hobson of the committee on naval. af- fairs may, too, be heard from.
 The House of the Sixty-third Con- gress will be strongly democratic, and Alabama is well entrenched in that body. Scarcely measure will be adopted that will not bear the lm- press of the Alabama delegation. No important bill will be passed that does not first pass through Oscar Under woods experienced hands. There is no more careful student in Congress than he. He knows the law as it stands and better still he knows the American people. The entire Alabama delega- tion, including MT. Abercrombie, a new recruit, is in touch with the peo- ple. and the administration of Presi- dent-elect Wilson will find in them, as we'll as in our two senators, loyal sup port and intelligent cooperation.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-11-08
Looking southw.rd

Every southern state has shown a large growth in population during the past 80 years, but I think the rate of increase will be much more rapid within the next few years said W. s. Meyer of Cincinnati.
 Every we'll informed person has known that the south was particu- larly inviting field for industrial do velopment, but it is only within the recent years that the cotton states have attracted truck farmers. The old iGea was that in the cotton belt only cotton could be produced on a profitable scale. But men interested in agricul- ture know better now.
 'The south has been well advertised of late as a truck farming section and while I am not farmer myself have heard many persons in touch with the small farm industry say that Alabama was an exceptionally good state for the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-11-08
TRAITORS TOWER
rom the Christlan Herald.


 In Boroea we saw a huge tower in re- cent ruin. Great blocks of stone lie around in confusion, and piles of broken brick, mortar and masonry, declaring what mighty structure must have once existed there.
 The intelligent and wealthy Greek gent tleman who kindly served as our guide told us that this tower. which had been sealed up by the Turks in the twelfth cen tury,' had lately been destroyed by the Young Turks, and that for a curious req son. It seems that in the eleventh and twelfth centuries Boroea was in the height of its power. IL was a city larger and more important than Salonlki even. but it was betrayed to the Turks by recreant Christian, and the punishment of the traitor, according to tradition, was that he must wander around the tower night after night through all the centuries until the Christians came again and he should give the keys of the city back to their former owners This tradition, with the hope of future Christian domination, so rervaded the city that the Young Turks. it is said destroyed the traitors tower which contained & great library. in order that the force of the superstition might be broken.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-11-08
Helping the Partx

Instead of being criticised adverse ly for his lavish contributions to dem ocratic campaign funds Thomas r. Ryan should be held in grateful re nembrance." said member of Bir- mingham's Virginia colony.
 Eight years ago when he knew that the nominee, Judge Parker was head ed for defeat he contributed several hundred thousand dollars simply to keep the party afloat. Most of the null ti-millionaires have affiliated with the republicans. Tom Ryan was one of the few democrats able to give who do- mated princely sums and who asked nothing in return. The republican party with all its wealth had no indi- vidual contributor this year such as Mir. Ryan was in the campaign of 1904"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-11-08
nr. Wiley and Canned Goods

No appointment to Presldent-elect Wilson's cabinet would be more satis- factory to consumers of canned goods and prepared foods-to 90 per cent of the people in other words-than would be the calling of Dr. Wiley to the head of the department of agriculture. He struggled for many years against the combined manufacturers aided by the administration to secure to the people pure food, and he was at last com pelled to succumb to the pressure. He had been rendered powerless by a combine which necessarily had the support of the Taft administration. The Roosevelt administration was equally subservient to the Benzoic acid crowd, and benzoic acid was but one of many preservatives harmful to the human stomach that was indorsed by both the Taft and the Roosevelt administrations.
 The Remsen board lent a hand to these schemes by naming the maxi mum amount of benzoic acid and the like that could be used, when it knew that any license to use such preserva- tives could not from the nature of the case be confined in all shipments to , any maximum. Once grant manufac- turer the right to use poison in his food preparations, no one could say just how far he would go in shipments to the tropics or to Alaska, to say nothing of shipments to distant parts of the mainland.
 Dr. Wiley warmly supported MT. Wilson in the recent campaign, and his appointment would be an assur- ance that the coming administration would not be used as two previous ad- ministrations had been to flood the country with canned goods and pre- pared foods filled with preservatives that are at war with sensitive stomachs. The President could in this way carry relief and freedom from doubt to millions of humble homes in this broad country.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-11-08
Alabama True to Democracy

The voters of Alabama stood firmly up to their convictions. The vote of the state approximately was: Wilson 83,- 900, Roosevelt 17900, Taft 7700-- total 108,600. Enough votes were cast for Debs and Chafin to carry the grand total to some figure above 110,- 900. This is the largest vote the state has cast since 1901 when constitu- ton was adopted that has resulted in disqualifying 100000 white men of voting age.
 Jefferson county also did well, for it gave Wilson $500 out of total vote that may go to 10,500. The total vote of this county in 1918 was 10,3S0.
 The voters, too, in the entire state put by great majority an amendment into the constitution of I901, the first one in eleven years. The ice has been broken and surely that constitution will not be permitted to stand unmodi- fled eleven years longer. It needs many changes. In Oregon and in Louisiana amendments were submitted by the dozen, and Ohio voted to put through 40 amendments in one election. If Ala bama desires to avoid an avalanche she will begin to bring her constitution up to date without much more delay. The cumulative poll tax condition of vot- ing, now unlimited, needs attention at an early day.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-11-08
TOMS FIGHT WITH THE SOCCER

i on his face amid terrific cheers from
 the school house boys.
 After another round the slogger, too.
 seems to see that he can't go in and win right off, and has met his match
 or thereabouts So he. too, begins to
 use his head and tries to make Tom lose
 patience and come in before his time.
 And so the fight sways on, now one. and now the other getting trifling pull.
 Toms face begins to look very one
 sided-there are~queer little bumps on his forehead, and his mouth is bleeding.
 but East keeps the wet sponge going so scientifically that he comes up looking as fresh and bright as ever. Williams is only slightly marked in the face but by the nervous movements of his elbows you can see that Toms body blows are telling. In fact half the vice of the sloggers hitting is neutralized, for he
 daren't lunge out freely for fear of ex- posing his sides. It is too interesting by this time for much shouting, and the
 whole ring Is very quiet It is grim earnest now, and no mis- take. Both boys feel this, and summonS' every power of head, hand and eye to their aid. A piece of luck on either side, a foot slipping. a blow getting well home, or another fall may decide it. |, Tom works slowly round for an open ling He has all the legs and can choose his own time; the slogger waits for the
 attack. and hopes to finish it by some heavy right-handed blow As they quar- 
 sun comes out from behind a cloud and falls full on Williams face. Tom starts in the heavy right hand is delivered
 but only grazes his head A short rally
 at close quarters and they close in; in
 another moment the slogger Is thrown again heavily for the third time. Just at this stage of the proceedings
 the door of the turret which leads to the doctors library suddenly opens, and he steps into the close, and makes
 straight for the ring, in which Brown
 and the slogger are both seated on their seconds knees for the last time. 1 The doctorl The doctorr shouts
 some small boy who catches sight of
 him, and the ring melts away in a few
 seconds, the small boys tearing off, Tom collaring his jacket and waistcoat and slipping through the little gate by the
 chapel. and round the corner to Harro-
 wells with his packers as lively as
 need be; Williams and his packers mak-
 ing off not quite so fast across the
 close; Grovoe, Rattle and the other big
 ger fellows trying to combine dignity
 and prudence in a comical manner. and
 walking off fast enough, they hope, not
 to be recognized, and not fast enough to look like running
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-11-08
Day-Dreaming Again

..The republican party" says the St.
 Louis Globe Democrat, twill make a
 new stirde forward in the congression-
 al campaign of 1914, and in 1916 it will
 be decidedly and emphatically at the front with it's old-time vigor." This is all right as party affairs go, and the editor of the Globe Democrat las a call to missionary work close at hand.
 On December 10 next all national committeeman, state chairmen and candidates for governor of the pro- gressive party have been summoned to meet at Chicago. Here is what Colonel Roosevelt says about that meeting: q would say most emphati- cally that the progressive party is go- ing to continue after election day, no matter what the result of the election may be. The movement is firmly estab-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-11-08
win Have Good Advisers

Everybody Is speaking well of Woodrow Wilson, the President and many are predicting that he will have a notably successful administra- tion." said a man who formerly took an active part in politics MT. Will son Is unouestlonabiy one of the most brilliant scholars that this country has produced He shows an aptitude for political work, too. He has been q forceful political leader in New Jer- sey since he first entered the arena as candidate for governor.
 "The thing for him to do as Pres ident is to have able advisers and ] doubt not he will be glad to listen to the counsel of experienced states men. It may be assumed that In his cabinet will be two or three strong men of the business world. Unless am very much mistaken in him, Will son will profit by the mistakes of his predecessors of both parties. He is committed to one term and when he retires from the White House on March 4, 1917. he will have covered himself with glory, as the saying goes"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-11-08
Religious Connection of Presidents


 "The winning ticket-Wilson and Marshall-is strongly Presbyterian, and
 the historic church in Washington of which pr. Sunderland was for many
 years pastor will probably have the
 President or the Vice President as a regular worshipper-possibly both, - said a former resident of the national capital
 Tt is an interesting coincidence that the only successful tickets on which both men were members of the same religious connection were democratic and were t-bellum-Cleveland and Adali E. Stevenson and Wilson and Marshall. President Cleveland was not a member of the church although his father was a Presbyterian minister. I was thrown quite intimately with him for number of years and 1 remember his telling me that he had memorized the shorter catechism but that he had never been 6 communicant. During his first administration he attended pr. Sunderland's church regularly. During his second administration he went to church only occasionally, but was rep resented in the presidential pew by
 Mrs. Cleveland, who was a very active church member. Give President Steven
 son, who is still living, has been a
 Presbyterian since youth and, if I am not mistaken, is an office bearer in the church member. Vice President Steven
 land, he is put down in the books as a Presbyterian and it may be that he
 was received into the church privately at his home in Princeton when he was nearing his end.
 According to a standard reference
 book under the head of Religious Con-
 nections of the Presidents of the United States it is seen that Washington Is set down as an Episcopalian; John Adams and John Quincy Adams as Congrega-
 tionalists, and Thomas Jefferson as a liberal. One of Jeffersons biographers says that he was a believer In Chris tianity, although not a sectarian. The tradition in Virginia was that he was a free thinker-what would be called today an agnostic. Madison Monroe, General Harrison, Tyler, General Fay Tor, Pierce and Chester A. Arthur were Episoopalians. Andrew Jackson, Polk, Buchanan, Lincoln, Cleveland and Ben jamin Harrison are set down as Pres byterians. Van Buren and Roosevelt are credited to the Reformed Dutch. Fillmore and Taft are credited to the Unitarian denomination. John Ad-
 ans and John Quincy Adams although adherents of the Congregational church were supposed to have held Unitarian views The Methodist Presidents were Johnson, Grant, Hayes and Mckinley. Johnson was never a member of the church, but his wife was, and he con sidered himself Christian and mem Der of the Methodist family. Garfield | is credited to the Disciples. He was
 at one time preacher in the Disciples
 church, in some sections of the country known as Christians. The Baptist is
 the only very large English speaking Protestant body that has never had
 a President. but the Baptists. as a class,
 are known the country over not only
 as patriots but as men of marked intel | lligence, and in view if their promi-
 hence it is remarkable that none of | their persuasion ever occupied the ex-
 ecutive office It is reasonable to pre-
 dict that Baptist's turn will come be-
 fore many years.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-11-08
INoUlslTyn pERCIvAL

From the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
 A tall woman holding tightly to the hand of very small boy passed in the lobby of the Prospect theatre Saturday Sfter- roon, during the Thurston engagement, and looked down at her diminutive charge.
 "Percival." she said in shrill tones, you must understand one thing right here and now. I positively will not take you into this performance If you insist upon asking me how every trick is done, Do you understand?'
 ..Yes'm. piped puny Percival, and they swept in.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-11-08
THE LOST OCCASION

By Robert Louis Stevenson. Farewell, fair day and fading light. The clay born here, with westward sigh' Marks the huge sun now downward soai Farewell We twain shall meet no more Farewell I watch with bursting sigh My late condemned occasion die. finger useless in my tent Farewell, fair day. so foully spent. Farewell, fair day. If any God At all consider this poor clod. He who the fair occasion sent
 Prepared and placed the impeachment. Give me to sleep. give me to wake
 Girded and shod and bid me play The hero in the coming day!
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-11-08
HENCE THEIR wEEDINESs
rom the Washington Star

From the Washington Star.
 A London literary critic was praising Philadelphia at the Franklin Inn.
 q am particularly impressed" he said with the beauty of Philadelphias chill dren. This beauty is due, I suppose. to the fact that you specially favor love matches here. Love matches alone give beautiful children.
 If there were more love matches among the English aristocraey'' he concluded with sigh, the English aristocracy wouldn't be so weedy.
 Your typical English aristocrat you know, holds that love may be an excuse for marriage, but money alone is jus tification for it''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-11-08
TIP ABOUT THE WIND

From the Popular Magazine.
 Percy Heath, who is Henry w. Savage s crack press agent, does not like cold weather. Whenever chilly blast strikes his Apollolike and upstanding form he shudders with pain and hunts radiator or an open fire. On one occasion he was waiting for q train at railroad station in Cheyenne, and a windstorm gave him great discomfort.
 Say" ventured Heath, docs the wind blow this way all the timer
 No, sir replied the native to whom the question had been addressed, some times it turns around and blows the other way"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-11-08
MONEY WELL SPENT
Popular Magazine.

FIUIH tIIe T UpuldI7 MdSd1lIe-
 Arthur Blanchard, who spends much of his time travelling over the country for the government, was seated behind a bride and groom in Pullman car one afternoon when the train went through long tunnel. As 1t emerged into the light of day the bride was grabbing desperately at her hat and fighting three fast rounds with one or two hatpins which had become loosened.
 inject some harmless conversation into the sap, Blanchard remarked:
 This tunnel cost sl2000. coo. We'll said the bride judiciaiis. ''ii was worth it.''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-11-08
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR

From the New York. Press.
 girl with fiery red hair can be mighty ,roud of her white teeth.
 often smoking Is the best way to keep a girl from liking 1t.
 girl can't help feeling it's deceitful to fool man more than dozen times in one day.
 man marries a girl to fret about her relatives, and she marries him to worry aoout his children.
 What makes a woman suspicious about the wayRthe bank figures interest on her account is when she checks it out.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-11-08
industrious man of experience in truck

industrious man of experience in truck ing.
 T am told that two or three coun- ties in Alabama are steadily filling up with truck farmers. Within the next five years thousands of truckers will buy farms in Alabama. This state Is not only one of the great cotton states but understand that corn and hay are easily cultivated here and when 1t comes to small farming the Alabama trucker can make and save more money on 20-acre place than he could on 10 acres in the northwest"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-11-08

Trading was active and prices firm in the New York stock exchange on wednes- day, The Southern railroad stock was marked up with an eye to heavy passen- ger receipts after March 1.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-11-08
FINE WAY TO PAY DEB,

FINE WAY TO PAY DEBTS. When newspaper man of New Orleans was preparing to leave that city in order to take a position in New York. tailor named Eisenstein overwhelmed him with offers of new suits Of clothes at unus 1aIly low prices. The writer finally took the clothes, put them on, and set out for New York. carefully neglecting to pay Mir. Eisenstein any money at all. few months later he received this communication from the tailor: Dear Sir: On looking over my books I find that you are indebted to me in the sum of fifty dollars. Kindly remit same at your earliest convenience. Very truly yours. SAMUEL E1SENSTEIN. Hurling himself upon his trusty type writer, the newspaper man wrote the fol- lowing gem:
 Dear MT. Eisenstein: Inclosed find my check for one hundred dollars. If you can get 1t cashed, kindly remit the other fifty dollars"-The Popular Magazine.
 NO EARTH TREMORS.
 Seismographs
 Have failed to show
 The passing out
 Of Uncle Joe"
 TOO SOON FOR THAT. "Bloster is one of the most impatient men have ever known" What has Bloster been doing now?' "Why, as soon as he heard that Wilson had been elected he went scurrying around to see if the cost of living had been reduced"
 MERCENARY.
 Her hair was gold.
 Her eyes were blue,
 She had. they say,
 A million, too
 Some swains cared not.
 If truth be told,
 If her hair was blue
 And her eyes were gold.
 PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-11-08

Managing Director Freeman and the Alabama Interstate Power company are going ahead 10 spread water bred power over Alabama regardless of election re- sults There is no politics in Lock 12 of the Coosa.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-11-08

The Romans kept the doors of the tenn pie of Janus open when war was going on, and paddock is kept on the doors of the peace palace at The Hague because peace is not going on
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-11-08

The ins will soon be out. and the outs win soon be in and the latter are saving money for their railroad ticket to Wash ington.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-11-08

Uncle Joe Cannon was buried under a small avalanche of hundreds of excess votes. His successor in the Sixty-third Congress will be Frank J. O'IIair and he is. of course. a true and inhexible demo- crat. Long may he wave
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-11-08

The St. Louis Globe Democrat is re- spectfully notified that "Prof'gis misfit when applied to Woodrow Wilson. He is now the President-elect regardless of the electoral college.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-11-08

Nine-tenths of the voters in Chicago turned up their noses at the voting ma cbines. and took paper ballots instead. A lifetime habit cannot be overcome in a dn,.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-11-08
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES
snRn1n Mor1ur

4 SORDID MOTIVE. A poet sang of wild regret And how true love demeans, But all the time his heart was set Upon a dish of beans.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-11-08

It is now asserted that Hiram Johnson made more speeches and said less than any candidate in the history of the coun- try
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-11-08

Abdul Hamid is on the Asiatic side of the Bosphorus. which is much the health- fest side to Moslems at present
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-11-08

Slowly but surely democratic sena- torial majority begins to appear in the returns. They need further sitting and authenticating. however.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-11-08

The powers hesitate to put their hands again in the grab bag because there are four fierce allies in 1t already.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-11-08

Orders for steel rails come right along and the Ensley mill begins to feel the pressure of democratic prosperity.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-11-08

statue of Nathan Hale by Bella l.. Pratt is to be set up on the Yale campus.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-11-08

No one wants to be running mate to a standard bearer who could poll but 12 electoral votes.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-11-08

The wood block question will come up today. and it will be well settled, for it will be settled right. No concerted as- phalt need apply.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-11-08

Just as soon as President Taft can get that Thanksgiving proclamation off his miLd he will be all right.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-11-08

The republican officeholders are as panic stricken as the unspeakable Turk.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-11-08

Those silent voters-well. they just sim ply pumped for Woodrow Wilson
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-11-08

This is said to be the last year that New York city's expenditures can be kept below the s2Oo0oO,ooo mark.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-11-08
NAPOLEON III IN AMERICA

Brother Charlie is standing now in Tom my Ryan's shoes of 1904.