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The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-07-13
Direct Election of Senators

When the Atlanta Journal says that "the distinctive feature of the Bristow amendment is not that it provides for the election of senators by direct votes of the people, but that it robs the in dividual states of their authority to say in what manner these elections shall be held and what the qualifica- tions for suffrage shall be"-when it says this it goes entirely outside of the facts and the record
 The proposed amendment relates to section of the constitution. It does not touch in any manner section 4 It does not modify or repeal the latter Section stands as it has stood 125 years, and it's first paragraph reads as follows "The times, places and manner of holding elections for sena- tors and representatives shall be pre- scribed in each state by the legislature .hNA WA, bAb NiiC NOiiSlSSo iiit1 stt eilig time by law make or alter such regu- lations, except as to places of choos- ing senators" This paragraph be- came a part of the fundamental law in 1790, and it stands untouched by the proposed amendment concerning the election of senators by the direct vote of the people. That amendment does not refer to section of the con- stitution or any manner whatsoever.
 In order to make this plain The Age-H Herald reproduces below the pro- posed amendment in full as follows:
 "Resolved, by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled two thirds of each House concurring therein). That in lieu of the first paragraph of section three of Article one of the con stitution of the United States, and in lieu
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-07-13
VICE PRESIDENTIAL COMPLICATION

From the New York Herald.
 In vew of the manifest effort to throw the election into the House the vice presidency becomes of unusual inn portance. If the third termers were to
 accept Governor Marshall. the demo- cratic candidate for vice president and
 were able to carry enough states to hold the balance of power, then the canvass of the votes might really elect a vice president, while failing to elect 8 President.
 But, on the other hand, if there be no election for either office, on the face of the electoral returns as opened In the Senate chamber, the election of vice president, according to amendment XII, Is thrown into the Senate where
 the two leading candidates are to be voted for. The Senate will consist of I 96 members, and a majority of the
 whole number" or 49, is necessary to a choice. Now, the Senate is likely 10
 stand A democrats to 52 republicans.
 But the balance of power will be held I by about 10 or l2 'progressives," who
 under no circumstances could be eX-
 pected to vote for MT. Sherman, the
 republican candidate. But perhaps the
 Senate might fail to elect vice presi- dent also. Then where are we?
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of so much of paragraph two of the same section as relates to the filling of yacan- cies, the following be proposed as an amendment to the constitution. which shall be valid to all intents and pur- poses as part of the constitution when ratified by the legislatures of three fourths of the states:
 ''The Senate of the United States shall be composed of two senators from each state, elected by the people thereof, for six years; and each senator shall have one vote. Tho electors fin each state shall have the qualifications requisite for cleo tors of the most numerous branch of the state legislatures.
 When vacancies happen in the rep resentation of any state in the Senate, the executive authority of such state shall
 issue writs of election to fill such va cancies: Provided, That the legislature of any state may empower the executive thereof to make temporary appointments until the people fill rhe vacancies by election as the Legislature may direct.
 This amendment shall not be con- strued as to affect the election or term of any senator chosen before it becomes valid as part of the constitution"
 The Journal further says that when 'this pernicious amendment was pre- sented in Congress, the southern dele gations voted against it almost as a unit" If the southern delegations in the House number less than 40 this may be true; otherwise it is not. The total vote against the amendment in the House was less than 40. The exact number can readily be obtained. A vote of two-thirds in each house was required to pass the resolution.
 If the Georgia legislature desires to cast cold water on the direct election of senators, well and good; but they should not do it under false pretences. They should not do it on the ground that the pending amendment changes in any way the control of Congress over elections for senators and repre- sentatives, for it does not
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From the New York Herald.
 Desperation. led by disappointed am- bition and a desire for personal ven geance, is impelling the enemies of President Taft in their course toward the formation of third term party, their hope being, first, to prevent the reelection of the President by a ma- jority of the electoral college, and, sec- ond, to throw the election into the House of Representatives.
 It is too early to make any estimate, but the chances are that if the third termers should be able to hold enough votes away from MT. Taft and Govern or Wilson to prevent either from hav- they would also be able to prevent an election by the House.
 Should no candidate for President have a majority of the electors when the votes are compiled in the Senate chamber the election would De thrown into the House of Representatives. Un- der amendment XII to the constitution three candidates can be voted for in the House. Instead of each state hav- ing it's numerical representation re- corded each state is entitled to but one vote. New York, with 43 members of the House, would be no more inn portant than Delaware with one. There are 4S states now represented in the House. It would be necessary for the party backing MT. Taft, Governor Will son or the third candidate to have car ried a majority of the congressional representation in 25 states in order to get a certificate of election from the House. The constitution says that "a quorum for this purpose shall consist of a member or members from two thirds of the states, and a majority of all the states shall be necessary to a choice"
 But if the House shall not elect by March following a general election. then the Vice President shall act as President "as in the case of the death or other constitutional disability of the President.
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Presidential CnmpaIgns

T read in one of the papers this week that Woodrow Wilson, the democratic nominee for President, would direct the work of his campaign" said politician of wide experience.
 sOf course, there will be national chairman. but I infer from what I read that Governor Wilson would not only block out the work but would have a good deal to do with the details of the campaign management. That, l think, would be a mistake. Every one recognizes the fine equipment of Woodrow Wilson for speech making. He is q scholarly man and is saturated with political his tory and the science of politics in the broader sense. During the short time he has been in active politics as governor of New Jersey and an asprant for the presidency he has shown uncommon apti- tude for getting at the practical side of things but when it comes to managing st national campaign an experienced politi- clan is needed.
 ''The most successfully managed demo- cratic campaign since the war was that of 1892 when the late William F. Harrity of Philadelphia was chairman of the na- tional committee. He was a lawyer and one of Pennsylvania best politicians. Mr. Cleveland, the democratic standard bearer, notwithstanding his large political experience left the direction of the cam paign almost altogether to MT. Harrity. happened to know MT. Harrity very we'll and I recall that one of the conditions upon which he accepted the chairman ship was that he should have free hand and run the campaign according to his own ideas.
 cleveland was elected by a landslide majority. MT. Harrity could have had a place in the cabinet or one of the best diplomatic missions but he declined of flee and immediately after the campaign resumed his law practice. He managed the democratic campaign purely as a patriotic duty"
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IN HOTEL LOBBIES
\ Good Bu<Iness Yenr

While 1912 may not pass into history as an exceptionally prosperous year from a commercial point of view" said V. Il. MeArdle of Chicago. it Is about the best that I recall in a presidential cleo tion year. with perhaps one exception 1904
 I've have had three or four months of good business, and believe the last half of 1912 will be even better than the first half. There is a general feeling or optimism throughout the middle west, and am told that the same feeling is in evil dence in the east. I have been in busi- ness since 1880. and this is highly pros porous year compared with 1884, 1888, 1892 and 1896"
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A COMMON SENSE IDEA

From Everybody's Magazine
 Speaking of common sense, Mr. Eau ner, head of the Vineland, N. J., h pital, told the following story:
 A mysterious building had been ere ed on the outskirts of a samll town. was shrouded in mystery. All that ' known about it was that it was a che ical laboratory. An old farmer. driV past the place after work had been sta ed. and seeing a man in the doorw called to him:
 What be ye doin' in this place?''
 We are searching for universal z vent, something that will dissolve things" said the chemist.
 What good will thet be-"
 "Imagine, sirl It will dissolve all thin If we want a solution of iron. glass, SC anything, all that we have to do is to d 1t in this solution"
 Fine said the farmer, fine! w be ye goin' to keep il, in?'
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sontnern Development

'oThe splendid statistical showing maoe in the Baltimore Manufacturers Recoro thirtieth anniversary number will nat urally stimulate this section to do even bigger things in the future" said meli- Der of the Chamber of Commerce.
 'The railroads trayersing the soutn have done some good work in exploiting the resources of the states south of the Mason and Dixon line, and in pointing out the golden opportunities that may be seized by energetic men. But they have not done as much in the publicity line, looking back over a period of 10 years, as the western railroads did for the country beyond the Mississippi.
 q am glad to see that all of our south- ern railroads are giving more practical attention to this work of southern up- building. Every dollar that southern railroad spends judicionsly in advertising it's section will yield abundant profit in the course of few years. Thousands of homeseekers are looking to the south, and the next census will no doubt show large increase in this sections population and wealth."
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CONFUSION OF JAGGs

From the Washington Star.
 Senator Bankhead was discussing mis- understanding as to Canadian reciprocity.
 These men were at sea-" he said, They were as much at sea as Jaggs.
 "Jaggs. you know, after an evening at the club. elected to sleep in the tulip bed In his front yard He slept well. and in the morning, when he awoke, he saw his wife regarding him bitterly from the open easement of her bedroom.
 "Jaggs, confused and chilly in the fresh morning air, huddled up among the cold tulips and yelled:
 ".Shut that window, woman, Do you want me to catch my death.
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HE WAS ALL READY
n the Chicago Examiner.

From the Chicago Examiner.
 A banker in central Kentucky was the habit of wearing his hat a good C in business hours, as in summer flies used his bald pate for a par ground, and in winter the cold bree swept over it's polished surface
 A negro workman on the railroad e week presented a check and drew wages. and one day as he put his mo in a greasy wallet the banker sa Look here, Nose. why don't you let SC of that money stay in the bank and k an account with us2"
 The darSy leaned toward him and. V a quizzical look at the derby the banl wore, answered confidentially:
 Boss. Tze jes' afeared. You look you was always ready to start sol where's
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PRETzEL KILLS CAPITOL PETS

From the Washington Post.
 Hermann Zung, a 4-year-old Bavarian, crept into a shady nook of the Capitol grounds yesterday morning to feed the squirrels on Bavarian pretzels, which had come all the way from his native land. Unused to this delicacy, they well comed change from peanuts and every day dishes, and the little boy soon found himself surrounded by several dozen squirrels.
 The pretzels, however, had an unex- pected effect, for the first of the squirrels that had eaten of them began going through the most unusual antics and finally dropped dead. while others came near drowning in an attempt to get
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COncernlng Music

"One of the most beautiful overtures and one of the most popular is Nicolai's Merry Wives of Windsor which I heard Nappis band play last Sunday remarked a music lover.
 When I was a youth this overture was played frequently in symphony concerts, in beer gardens and in thea tres that had first rate orchestras, but I had not heard it in recent years un- til Damrosch put it on Birmingham programme year before last It was played here again by the Minneapolis orchestra in May and it was played. by the way, with rare virtuosity.
 The opening melody is very simple end it is characteristieally German. Ev- cry time I hear it in Birmingham it recalls those halycon days when the late Theodore Thomas conducted a
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-07-13
OPENING OF A BAR
From Norman E. Mack's National
 

From NO1ndn H. Mdth NdliOudl
 Monthly.
 A family on the Northside have sev- eral children, but only one-the oldest lis a boy. The little lad grew used to sisters, but longed for brother. The boy was ? recently, and the house was rather upset in anticipation of something or other. The father was busy and the son had to sift the ashes and care for the furnace. At this june ture nurse appeared on the scene, and two days later she came to the little boy.
 What do you think you've got?" sne asked him.
 "A baby brother" fairly gasped the youngster.
 No, dearie--its a baby sister," re- piled the nurse.
 "Goshr groaned the youngster Must always sift these ashes?"
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What, can the devil speak true!
 --Macbeth.
Whisky in the Lackawanna Accident

Elmira, where the engineer entered the cab of the engine which 15 miles away took over 40 lives, is division al town on the Lackawanna railroad. It is pretty well established that the engineer was drdunk when he entered on his work of driving a belated train. Drink and fog and the lateness of the train and the early morning hour all led up to the tragedy, but it could not have taken place, it is believed, if the engineer was drunk when he entered garded block signals and the flagman sent out by the passenger train into which he dashed, and over 40 innocent lives were lost.
 This engineer still lives, and he should be severely punished. The ob- ject of all legal punishment is to pre- vent more crime, and the punishment of the engineer in question would have a good effect.
 The Lackawanna railroad is a very rich corporation, and when it ex- amines equipment before train is started, why should it not also ex- anime the condition of the human part of the concern, especially the in dividual in the cab? Lives are neces- sarily entrusted to the locomotive en- gineer, and if the one who killed so many people at Corning had been ex- amined before he went into the en- zine cab many lives would not have been sacrificed there.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-07-13
THE CRY OF THE CHILDREN

By Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Do you hear the children weeping, o
 brothers,
 Ere the sorrow comes with. years? They are leaning their young he
 against their mothers, And that cannot stop their tears. The young lambs are bleating in
 meadows,
 The young birds are chirpng in
 nest, The young lawns are playing with
 shadows, . But the young. young children. c]
 brothers.
 They are weeping bitterly! They are weeping in the playtime of
 others.
 In tine country of the free.
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REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR

From the New York Press
 What makes man generous to his wife is for him to tell it.
 A man starts out to catch mosquito as if he were going elephant hunting.
 A man is so smart he always tells more than he knows. and girl is so much smarter she never tells all she knows.
 The first thing for a married man to do when he gets some money is to spend a little of it while he has a chance.
 A disappointing thing about having all the money in the world would be that then there would be nobody's to get away from him.
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summer orchestra at the Highland House beer garden in Cincinnati.
 Carl Otto Ehrenfried Nicolai (pro- nouneed Nee Ko-Lye) was born at Kon- igsberg in 1910, and died in 1S49. He composed a festival mass which was well received, but his most popular work was the comic opera. The Merry Wives of Windsor. described by his biographer as an excellent imaginative composition full of keen humor and delightful romance It was given in Vienna and London with wonderful suc- cess
 We read a great deal about folk lore themes for large musical works plantation melodies and Indian dances as the basis for distinctly American music. There may be something in that idea, but I believe our best music in the years to come will be redolent of our American civilization. We have no folk lore in this country, strictly speaking The Indian is no part of our American life and the so-called negro melodies are written by white men.
 The beautiful Russian music is full of folk song and folk dance themes. German and French music has good deal of folk lore coloring, but not as much, perhaps, as the Russian. The music of all of the old countries, how ever, is distinctly national.
 Anyone who is musically educated or who has heard much music Will know at once that the opening melody of tha ovartura to sThe Merry Wives of Windsor is German. There IS no mistake about Scandinavian music Irish and Scotch are also as distinctly colored as the Swedish and Nor"e- gian."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-07-13
SHOW BUSINESS ON THE ROAD

theatre-his character and his abil Don't jump to the hasty conclusion motion pictures are to blame. though will probably tell you that they
 The blame is much more likely his.
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Brother Charlie's paper the Cincinnati Times-Star, is trying to stir up trouble between Governor Wilson and the bull moose. The wish in this case is father to the thought.
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A FAINT HOPE.

A FAINT HOPE. Sooth. it is weary labor,
 Writing for the press; Hard it is to love ones neighbor, Writing for the press. Oh, the deadly, daily grind, Aching brain, distracted mind. Miles of copy left behind,
 Writing for the press. Comes a day we're far from sunny, Writing for the press: Still we smile to get the money, Writing for the press. Heavy heart and listless hand. Troubles throng to beat the band, Still the printers curt demand, Writing for the press. When we'd fain be somewhere resting, Writing for the press, There's no time for idle questing, Writing for the press. Maybe when this life is OCT, On some other. fairer shore We shall toll as thralls no more, Writing for the press.
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The Senate working in behalf of the four express companies has practically decided to sidetrack once more the par cells post. The people will speak in No- Vemher.
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Tom Taggart has resigned and the esteemed New York Tribune says the democratic national committee will never look so natural and homellke again.
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The republican executive committee and Mir Taft concluded at luncheon pro vided by the latter tnai the time had come to eat, drink and be merry.
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The East Lake orphanage picnic. which will be held at Germania park Thursday. August 8. is an annual event that is always popular.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-07-13

The food trusts have advanced the cost of living until very many are compelled to accept John D's advice to eat less.
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The silly season is here. else the re- port that Taft and Roosevelt are about to withdraw would never have been started
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Governor Stubbs of Kansas has busi- ness at home and he cannot attend the bull moose convention in Chicago.
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VERY EASY MONEY

VERY EASY MONEY.
 An Abilene paper tells how crowd of college boys, seeking work in the harvest fields, were buncoed in that town. The confidence man was a big, fine looking fellow and this was the talk he gave the collegfans: I'm J. J. Jackson. I'm look ing for about 20 high grade harvesters for the Jackson ranch, which my father owns. We have several girls from the east visiting us, and as the women have to be alone a great deal, we don't want to depend on the ordinary class of labor You fellows are college men, and you look all right to me. If you'll let me have a dollar as pledge of good faith, I'll take you along Twenty in one group paid a dollar apiece, and that is the last any one ever saw of MT. Jackson.-Kansas City Star.
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Nine years ago Sir Thomas Upton tried to lift the Americas Cup, and it is reported he will try again to do it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-07-13

Joseph Chamberlain is now 76 years old. He is the grand old man of the repudiated proteetionists in England.
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Charles D. Hilles is a nice looking young man. but he will never look the same after fighting a forlorn Taft bat tie.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-07-13

It is pretty well settled that J. Bruce Ismay will not go as passenger on any more maiden voyages of a ship.
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So long as the south grows plenty of watermelons and Elberta peaches no one will care how solid it remains.
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Great Britain is building more miles of railroad at present than the United States or any other country.
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THE PASSING SHOW

TIE GASSlNC S1OW-
 The call of the Bull Moose falls dreaming ears.
 The seq. waves are no longer sad. 1 bathing girl is there. Many a man would be a patriotic q zen, were it not for taxes and jury duty The mails are swamped with souve post cards. We wonder if postal cleI ever have the heart. to send anybody souvenir post card when they are or vacation trip. According to late reports, hotel-keep are still figuring up the profits at Bss more.
 A searchlight may or may not be nec sary on board an ocean liner, but would seem less out of place there tf squash court.
 Mir. and Mrs. Lillian Russell star their honeymoon rather late, but then must remember that they are not "fd ish young things"
 Mrs. Wilburton Skidmore, who talked spring about going to Europe this s,I mer is spending the "heated term'' wi her father, at Hawkins Station.
 When Vice President Sherman madd known that he was resting the wfI country snorted its unbelief.
 NATURAL HISTORY. Who's ever by an ostrich kicked Will find his person sadly nicked And well may lift up thankful tones. If he can count no broken bones. PAUL COOb
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Congress has selected Washington as it's favorite summer resort.
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When aviators stop flying circus fash ion they will stop dying.
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Tn ebull moose took no interest in the cost of living when he was President what ails him now?
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A buffalo is to decorate one side of the new nickels-not d bull moose.
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so HE WORKS THEM

''Dibble seems to have found an easy lot in life"
 Yes, his friends They're an easy lot.''