The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-08-16

greSSlVeS cast 39O,UOU VOTES, there ts
so much disaffection among them that
it is doubtful if 10000 will vote for
Hughes. Many thousands will remain
independent, but large contingent
is believed to have made up its mind
to vote the democratic ticket.
A reunited republican party was
only dream. If the G. o. P. was a
bad party in 1912 it is certainly no
better now. 1t would take stronger
man than Mr.. Hughes to unite the
opposing elements.
A N imaginative contemporary
n paints sad picture of Mr..
Bryan, former Secretary of State,
thrice a presidential nominee and
erstwhile idol of the masses, obscurely
footing it to
Mr.. Bryan Still trains, sitting
Finds Life Pleasant on a stool in a
railroad lunch
room to MUNICH a sandwich and fol-
lowing the varying fortunes of chau-
tauqua star.
If Mr. Bryan saw that affecting
piece, he no doubt smiled over the hu-
NOR of it, but did not feel disposed to
shed any tears. While it is true that
fortune has not dealt kindly with the
Commoner in a political way, she has
smiled on him in other ways and he
has prospered nightly.
If he no longer causes congestion
of traffic when he ventures out on the
street, he is at least star of the first
magnitude on the chautauqua circuit
and destined to remain so as long as
he lives, or sticks to the lecture plat
form.
Also, it should be said in justice to
Mr.. Bryan that no matter what his
political status may be, and regard
less of the waning of that public af-
lection shown for him by millions of
voters, he has chung to his ideals.
Looking back on life, there is comfort
in that thought to any man who is
worth while.
Two wife beaters were handcuffed to-
gether and forced to sweep streets in
Kansas City The object was not so
much to get a good job of street clean
ing done as to humilate the wife beat
ers.
The young man who broke off his en-
gagement because his fiancee persisted in
earring summer furs is a level headed
person and will doubtless be heard from
again some day.
Wall street has been given to under
stand that the allies will need some more
American money before the war is over.
Wall street probably expected they
would
The automobile manufacturer who
ed the Ringland circus to entertain
his employees for three days is philan-
thropist of the first water.
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Harold Bell Wright the author. may
not stand we'll with the high proved
critics of literature, but his books sell by
the million and he should worry.
There are probably enough girls along
the border to furnish a sweetheart for
situation might be worse.
The heroism of American aviators at
the front has more than repaid France
for the gift of the Statue of Liberty,
if not other favors.
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no time in getting before the camera.
His face is not yet as we'll known in this
country as that of Charles E. Hughes
Surprising as it may seem, there are
still a great many tourists in this coun-
try who haven't discovered America yet
man who smoked for more than 40
years rejoices because he has conquered
the habit. 1t may have kept him alive.
1t may be impossible for women to buy
any more summer clothes this year, but
mems straw hats are going cheap.
Captain Koenig is presumably beating
back" with the odds in his favor.
The infantile paralysis epidemic has
done a great deal to lessen public con-
fieerce in the germ experts.
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him smoking cigarette Queen Mary
lets him do that, anyhow.
1t is probably not true that Girard has
liquor everywhere and not a drop tc
drink. III
SING SING CULTURE
Fl ON the New York Herald.