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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. FRIDAY, MAY 10, 1*T. THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN (AND NEWS) JOHN TEMPLE GRAVES, Editor. F. L. SEELY, President. Published Every Afternoon, (Except Sunday) By tHE GEORGIAN COMPANY. At 25 Writ Alabama St. Atlanta. Ga. "ne ipar SI* Month* f-55 Thffe Month** 1.25 By Carrier, Per Week W Telephone* connecting nil depart- nent*. Long distance terminals. flee Potter Building circulation department nod have It promptly remedied. Telephone*: nelMWTmaln^XtlantatWE^^^^ It la deatrnble that all eonJmonlca- tlons Intended for publication In TUB GEORGIAN AND NEWS be limited to KM words In length. It Is Imperative that they be signed, os an evidence of good faith. Rejected manuscript* wtu not be returned unless stamps are tent for the purpose. TUB GEORGIAN AND NEW8 prints no unclean or objectionable ad- vertfsing. Neither Joea it print whisky or any liquor ads. ODR~PLATFORM: The Georgian and New* stands for Atlanta’s owning Its own gas and electric light plenty j* It now owns *ts water works. Ollier cities do this and get gan as low cents, with a profit to “ should be don** at once, * Ni the city. Ttala . „ - The Georgian lewe believes that If street rail way* can be operate successfully bv European cities, as they nro, there Is no good reason why they can not bn so operated hero But we do not believe this can be done now, and It may bo tome years before we are ready for so big an undertaking. Still Atlanta section of the olty which is particular ly inhabited by negroes. “The only object of this congress Is to benefit humanity, and it Is proposed to do this not only by making clear the Tuberculosis In Milk and In the Negro. Dr. George Brown, president of tho American Anti-Tuberculosis League, today made the preliminary announce ment of the plans for the meeting of the League to.be held at Atlantic City, Juno 1 to 4. The sessions, which will bring to gether some of the moat famous ex perts on the prevention of consump tion, will be devoted largely to the sub ject now uppermost Id the minds of all civilized people, the communication of tho great white plague to man from cows through milk. Another subject that will attract considerable attention will be the thor ough study of tuberculosli In the negro race, with a view to bringing out more clearly the peril to the entire popula tion of the prevalence of thlB dlseaso In the negro and bis peculiar suscepti bility to Infection. “Tho relation of tho milk supply to the spread of tuberculosis," said Dr. Brown today, "has been made Inevita bly tbo most important quoatlon for consideration, by the thorough demon stratlon for such transmission of con sumption tbat was made In the recent report of tho British Royal Commis sion. “America, though, was first In dem onstrating that this peril Is a real one. The work of the dairy division of our own federal department of agriculture, antedating as It does tho conclusions of tho royal commission, put America first In the field. It should bo remem bered that Dr. D. E. Salmon, then chief of the dairy division of tbo department of agriculture, and Dr. E. 0. Schroo- der, superintendent of the government experiment station at Bethcsda, Md., proved conclusively that tho tubercle bacilli, communicated to tho milk by the cow,' are a froquint cause of viru lent tuberculosis In man. "It It for this purpose that the American Antl-Tubercnloala League Baettad to devote the sessions of Juno 4th to tho particular subject of Tuberculosis In Milk, In order to'brlng out clearly both the demonstrated sci entific facts and the practical methods of combating tbo spread of this dant gerous and usually fatal• dleoaao through -milk from untested cows. "This meeting will be presided over "by Hon. Nathan Straus, tbo philan thropist of New York, who has dono more for humanity than any man In the United States, by teaching tho world the practical efficacy of destroy ing the tubercle, bacilli by pasteuriz ing the milk supply and who Is always foremost In his efforts to aid human ity. "Papers In this section will be read by t>r. Francis O'Donohue, of Syra cuse, N. Y.;. Dr. Ernst J. Lederlo, for mer commissioner of health of Now York City; Dr. E. C. 8chroeder, the government expert; Dr. C. W. Saleeby, the famous British scientist; Dr. George F. McCleary, the father of the Xngllali Infart Milk IVi-iti,; I>r. Si mon Baruch, authority on Infant hy giene; Mr. Nathan Straus, the found er of the pasteurized milk charity In New York, and other famous special ist. In tho work of preventing the tu bercle bacilli reaching humankind through Infected milk. "The section on tuberculosis In the negro race Is of utmost Importance, es pecially to people of the South, but It also bat urgent significance for the people of the great cities. For exam- In New York city there Is a dls- ||MUnct tuberculosis belt, and it is that perils of the great white plague, but also by pointing out clearly the prac- 1 tlcal methods of protection from In- 1 fectlon and prevention of tho spread of the disease." SOME DEMOCRATIC AFTER VIEWS REVIVAL OF PRIDE AND INTEREST IN TEMPLAR MASONRY. Among other things, the Masonic parade of yesterday was a rein- traduction of Templar Masonry to the respect and admiration of the state. It also marka a most wholesome revival of enthusiasm for this groat and shining degree of Masonry. It la doubtful if Atlanta ever saw a more Imposing parade among a single organization than the Knights Templars made on yesterday. . , Of course, the Blue Ldge Masons, solid and enduring, as always, made b strong and effective showing, but never In Its history has Atlanta seen a real Templar demonstration before, and the two long lines which stretch ed from the Fourth National Bank building to the Piedmont Hotel In dou ble order, with their whlto plumes and flashing uniforms, made as shin ing and spectacular a parade as Atlanta has over seen. - Tho whole day of yesterday was from first to lasf a conspicuous suc cess, which even the pouring ralu could not dampen or chill. The exercises at the Temple Asylum In tbo morning were of the most Inspiring order. The hall was one brilliant mass of waving plumes and handsome uni forms and glowing, cordial, applauding fraternity. The.guests were the most distinguished Masons that have been In Atlanta within the dccadd, and the spirit of cordiality In tho air was the best of all because It pulsed and glowed with fraternity and humanity and helpfulness and heartiness nnd hope. Most Eminent Grand Master Moulton, and Very Eminent Grand Stand ard Bearer Norris have won goldon opinions by their remarks from all ranks of Georgia Masons. Their splendid spirit and fellowship and fine personal appearance and gifts and graces of mind and manner have won them an enduring place In the affection and admiration of the craft In this city. And we are quite confident .tljat the results of yesterday, both public and private, have left on the mlnils and hearts of tho people of Atlanta an enlarged opinion of the numbers, the power, the Influence and tho beneficence of Masonry. HERE'S TO GREATER ATLANTA. The Georgian Ib just os hearty as the heartiest In Its advocacy of the movement looking toward a Greater Atlanta. > There Is scarcely a city In_fhe country that is not moving along the same line. The Idea Is universal. Birmingham has a movement like it. Jacksonville, Fla., has a movement like it. Richmond, Va., Charlotte, N. C„ and every city of life and promise In the South has a movement for a greater city to be made by. an enlargement of corporate lines and the an nexation of suburban towns. And so why should not Atlanta adopt the common Idea and join heartily In tho movement which will give us a greater population with all the benefits which come to us from numbers? There Is nothing In The Georgian's composition that would halt our enthusiasm because Tho Atlanta Journal happened to be the first to sug gest that Atlanta should fall Into tbo general movement of enlargement going on throughout the country. The Georgian Is not built that way. The Georgian Is not the organ of any man’s private spites or personal an tagonisms or small Jealousies. Any man or any newspaper that voices a a movement for the benefit of Atlanta can command tbo co-operation of these columns first, last, and all the time. And so without regard to who suggested Atlanta's falling info lino with tho enlargement movement, and with a frank statement that Tho Atlanta Journal did first suggest it, wo announce ourselves heartily and cordially in cooperation with the plan. This method of onla.rglng population by the annexation, of Suburban territory Is tho tactics by which Chicago has como to rank ns the second city of the country. y This Is tho method by which New Yp'rk thwarted the ambition of Chicago to becomo tho first city In population by tho wholesale scheme of annexation which mado Greater New York the second city tn the world. This Is the method by which Memphis has presumed to lncreaso Its population to the point of Successful competition with Atlanta. • This Is tho method by which Birmingham ovon now. !| looking .for ward ambitiously to such additions to its population as to claim' an oquBlity with Atlanta by tbo next cohsus. This Is tho plan which is in tho mind of every city in the South of approximate population to Atlanta by which it hopes to attain an equality wlth this 20th contury city in the coming census of 1910. And so with tho municipal knives of our. rivals whotted for our nu merical scalp, and with the example of the greater cities of the'country to indorse the plan, it is high time that Atlanta and all the people who live In and about it should fall heartily and enthusiastically Into Hue to make Atlanta assume Its proper rank next to Louisville and Now Orleans as the metropolis of tho South. The Georgian Is not unmindful In this connection of the rights and in terests of our suburban neighbors. Their opinions and their wishes are entitled to tho profoundest re' •poet. Wo aro not In favor of any rough riding over these towns for our own glory. A man has no right to marry a wofnan against her will, and a greater city ought to hnvo'no right to swallow a smaller city against lta will. But tbo thing to do In this matter Is to send out agents and repre sentatives of our Greater Atlanta plan to confer with the suburbs to per suade them of the advantages which will come to them from this en largement of our territory nntj this Increase of our numbers and to In duce them willingly, cordially and happily to becomo a part of our munici pal household. w This Is not only tho better, tho largor, and the nobler way, but It Is alio the most successful way. Wo aro thoroughly convinced tbat with tho case properly presented there Is uot a suburb of Atlanta that would not bo glad tp bo Incorporated In Its limits. • And so with the sweet oil of persuasion and the perseverance of earnestness, let us accomplish tho purpose which arbitrary action and dic tatorial direction might cully thwart. Wo trust tho committee having this movement In charge will at its first meeting appoint committees to tako up this matter In a cordial friendly conference with the suburban towns and proceed with their full aud hearty cooperation to success. "Skinning ■ Dead Donkey." Watson's Jeffersonian (InOj. Ae to skinning a dead donkey—read John Temple Graves' editorial on Pen dleton, of the Phonograph. You will find It elsewhere in this issue, under the caption of "The Milk In the Pen dleton Cocoanut." "The Author of the 8pooch/' Birmingham Ledger (Dem.). Hon. John Temple Graves,-editor of The Atlanta Georgian, who has recent ly sprung Into tho political limelight as a national- figure by his suggestion that Bryan nominate Roosevelt for the presidency, recelved'hla academlc'edu- catlon at Tuskegce. It Is also a re markable coincident that Mr. Graves Is a direct descendant of John C. Cal houn, the eloquent South Carolina statesman, the greatest debater per haps that the country has over known. Colonel Graves Is below the average In stature, as well as the fatal gift of physical beauty. He is endowed with a head that would establish his right to be called the "eloquent and brainy" Georgian. Short on Presidents. al(on Citizen (Dem.). John Temple Graves say* the Dem ocratic party has always been light, hut short on presidents. Very true, IndeerL and we see no Immediate Indi cations of malting up the shortage, either. Better file a claim and let It go at that From a Glass House. Buffalo Times (Dem.). The Chlcngo Chronicle Is pained be cause President Roosevelt ha* been 'greatly humiliated” by the compli ments paid him by certain Democrats, notably John Temple Graves nnd Wil liam J. Bryan. It says: "President Roosevelt has not deserved the humili ation." John R. Walsh, who has been In dieted on many counts for fraudulent transactions nnd has boldly defended Illegal contributions of policy holders' money to political campaign funds by officials of Insurance companies. Is continually paying the president com pliments through his Chicago Chron- cle# If the president Is not humili ated by these he will certainly not feel humiliated by compliments paid him by Mr. Graves and Mr. Bryan, who have clean records. Mr. Walsh Is not properly housed for stone throwing. To “Jumping Jacks and Politicians." Dalton Citizen (Dem.). John Temple Graves' Idea that Bry an should put Roosevelt In nomination for the presidency may seem reaction ary to party Jumping Jacks and politi cians. but a careful analysis will re veal much wisdom. In the suggestion. Bryan Has No Ooubt. Waynesboro Citizen (Dem.). If any one dqubts. Colonel Graves' high regard for William J. Bryan, the Great Commoner, let him read Colonel Graves' Editorial of recent date In The Atlanta Georgian with the ct "Borne political Reflections." “Sound Doctrine.” K,noxvllle Tribune (Dem.).' John Temple Graves insists that We should be great enough to forget the Individual and the dogma, "for the sake of real and vital relief." That this Is sound doctrine will hardly be denied, not by men who.care more for the whole people than for any indi vidual. . . a » ; “Larger and Noblsr Victories.” Waynesboro Citizen (DemJ. “It Is the very crisis of popular and economic liberty," says John Temple Graves., "which moves men to rise above the partisan to look for the larg. cr and nobler victories without regard to party." And that is true. “And Why Not?" Lexington (Ga.) Echo (Dem.). Much has been said here bf late In regard to the proposition made by Hon. John Tempto Graves that Mr. Bryan put tho name of President Roosevelt In nomination ns the Democratic stan dard-bearer for the office of president. The proposition has brought forth a groat deal of comment from the pres* nnd the people of the country, pro and con, but the greater part of the talk In the press has been on the con side. While It Is true Mr. Roosevelt Is a Republican, and In former utterances made public through book and periodi cal, It would seem he was' a staunch member of the Republican party. While many of his former utterances do not seem to carry with them Democratic notions, great Issues have presented themselves to the president for solution and he has grappled with them In a great measure successfully and with the end In view of settling them In the Interest of the masses. He has shown himself In many particulars to be the friend of the people against the greed of monopoly. In many respects he has made a good Democratic president. He Is a strong man, with conviction and back-bone, and because of experience and the fact that he has well In hand the reins of government, would be a greater force In the furthering of legis lation and changes already begun than possibly any other man In the country. If he would accept the Democratic nom ination and stand for the principles for which Democracy stands, why would It not be a proper thing? A Sound Georgia Democrat. Bylvanla Telephone (Dem.). Nothing that has happened recently has created so much comment In the country as the suggestion made by, Hon. John Temple Graves at the Chat tanooga banquet. As a matter of fact Mr. Roosevelt Is. by far the strongest man before the American people today—stronger now than be has ever been—and should lie i for the presidency again and stands his guns ss he has In the past, no other man of any party would stand any chance of beating him. It Is Just as well to recognize thte fact In the outset. Personally, Mr. Roosevelt Is the most popular piftaldeat the Ameri can people have ever hod, and when It comes to the great and burning Is sues that now agitate the public mind, arid that must be settled In the near future, no -man has taken more, ad vanced ground than he. Even Mr. Bry- vn himself, great and good Democrat that he Is. can not claim any greater zeal for the cause of the people against the plutocrats than Mr. Roosevelt. We hare all heard about tariff re form, centralization and such things as these, from time Immemorial; they.do very well, perhaps, to shout In a na tional campaign, but there are real Is sues now that press for settlement and before which these others must-retire, until there Is nothing else to talk about. The adjustment at the relations between the railroads of this country and the people, and the control of the power of corporate wealth In Us career of greed and avarice—these are the live anil burning questions In which the people have a vital Interest. , As we see It, their settlement Is more Important than the selection of any one man or the triumph of any party. Let tho best and the strongest man rnako the fight. If Mr. Roosevelt Is that man, then well and good. If It should be Mr. Bryan, then so much the better. Mr. Bryan himself had the true courage to say. In reply to Mr. Graves, that If, aft er mature consideration nnd reflection, and the presentation of the arguments In the cose, he should be convinced that his duty lay In that direction, he would present Mr. Roosevelt's name. It It should prove the last act of his life. Thnt was manly talk, and shows Mr. Bryan Is all right. UNIFORM RANK K. P. TO GIVE CONCERT uniform The Sordid Goorein . roglnicnt. uniform rank. Knights of thins. in planning n vnndevllle ontortnlninont wblcn_ will be in, vnndevlll* entertainment iron in the auditorium in the Kiser build ing on Friday night. May 10. *>*The entertainment will be given for the benefit of the local companies whirb will attend the grand lodge convention In Balnhrldge Mny 21 om Quite a Number of Ladies who constantly shop on Whitehall, find it very convenient to carry an account at this bank, and we invite others to avail themselves of the opportunity. A bank account is often a great advantage to women, and, what is tpore, it familiar izes them with business and banking methods which at some future time may prove to be a very useful and valuable experience. MADDOX-RUCKER BANKING CO. Alabama and Broad Streets. TAFT AND FORAKER MAY JOIN HANDS IN OHIO Cincinnati. Ohio, May I.—"In my Judgment the time has come for tho good of the Republican party In Ohio that something should be done,” said George B. Cox, former leader In Hamil ton county, in an Interview yesterday afternoon on the Ohio situation. "Wo are on the eve of next fall's elections,'' ho continued, “and nothing should br- doile to endanger party suc cess. If you will recall two years ago we had factional differences In the par ty and our ticket went down In defeat. This should not occur again. "Our watchword should be ‘success for the Republican party,' and to achieve <thls, we should support Hon. W. A. Taft, for president, Hon. J. R Foraker, for United States senator, ami Hon. A. L. Harris, for governor. "There may have been some political differences, but they are things of the past, and will not be permitted to stanj In the way of party success." Senator Foraker said no one would support Secretary Taft more cordially than he If It met with the approval .if the Republicans of hls state, when hi, attention was called to the Interview. 10,000 LONGSHOREMEN TIE UP OCEAN LINERS; 600 MEN IN BIG RIOT New York, May 9.—Ten thousand striking longshoremen and th«f big trans-Atlantic companies were lined up today for a determined finish fight over the demands of the men for an Increase In wages. Freight Is piled up on the steamship piers In west and south Brooklyn and Hoboken. , Steamships are tied up at their docks and sailings have been delayed from five hours to several days. Already the strike Is regarded as the largest New York has ever had. Efforts to fill the places of the men with strike-breakers have done little besides precipitating riots, some ot which havo resulted seriously. Fifty men were Injured In a riot In Williamsburg between 800 strike-break, ers and as many union sympathizers. The riot was fierce, and the police had a hard fight to quell It. Strike-breakers are etlll being used In Brooklyn and other sections In an Ineffectual effort to break the tie-up of freight. “NO EARTHLY POWER CAN ALTER POPE'S DECISION' —THOMAS W. LAWSON. ANOTHER FARMER FAVORS IMMIGRATION, To the Editor of Tho Georgian; A reply to (Rate Lecturer ti. M. Davis, of the Karmen' union, on Immigration: I read In the Msturdny'e leeue of The Oeorglsn the objection, Mr. litrl, giro why the Farmer*' nnlon opposed immigra tion, v|«.: !'»« object to the elnra Af people which will emigrate from Europe, and feel that they wo«M not lw desirable rllliena" The Parmen' nnlon I, a large and f lag secret organisation of the form, a farmer and fruit grow and al >. and Tower, and lee man and alway, a . - , —,—j-—. wnjort. Th« Farmer* anion I, organized for Ihe purpose, an I understand lta object, to Improve tbo condi tion of the agricultural and laboring classes on the farm. Mr. Darla' ataertlon that "we feel that Immigrant, from Europe would not l« de- amble rltlien," I, not supported by fneta I, It not a fact that America w„ Brat rattled |,y in.migrant, from Europe) I dare oar Mr. Darla can trace hie ueopl* to England, Scotland or {found. f do not think he, le Dutch, ae ale name doe* not eon ml "Batchy" bat he would be none the lea, a good man If ba era, from the grand German empire. I want to ray. we bare aoma aa mean and nndratraHtv citizen, that are entire. horn Georgian and nail re-born Talbot comi ty rlttiene eo nr* to be found anywhere, some here been bung, nomo are In tbo (ang and uthert are untried and un- Ft of. tbat Ire * disgrace to drills*- tlon. and they are to be found In eeary county la the Unite! State*. We want good, houeat working people, and I am aore the Immigrant, from Ger many. Boot land, Ireland Thj enrat. parti condemn hare w- boo cat Scotchman, i - . a * dig mother earth op and naahe ,**r- the ool is. orchards and held* yield to the fallot as he of me good things, end around their home* mis erldence of thrift and derelop. meat, and I would like to swap lire no- grnce for oan of theta good people. My maternal grandfather waa a Scotch man. end hie wife, orer one hundred year* ago wee an Iriih lanle. and they rallied In Alabama, and their eons. p. end tl. T.l Dodd, were noted In Atlentn'a develop ment. My father's people were English, and they made a record In the Confeder ate army. I am n native l>oru Alabaman, and married a native barn Georgia girl, and we live alone In a Mg country home In tho county of Tallxtt. and J’Rj^whr^^^ ho?Vho la 1 of the surroundings. i dearer to me than, Ufa became - good, honest Immigrants around me, nld feel secure and peace and plenty alt whrra now then la disorder end . MU. My firm la imtlllcd and night oftan made hideous by 'drunken negroes. If I had I rani, grant! ... stagnation. Oar only ehlld. * ion grown, like many another I know In Georgia, has been ann ealed. and holds t railway position In tha city of Atlanta. We bars a nr.e farm, a beautiful country home, but labor Is lacking aud he hae gone Into other Held, of human endeavor, bat wa hope yet to bring peo ple enaind ue tbat will change conditions for good. Mr. Davis Says wt also oppose Immigra tion for I hr reason an Influx of foreign workmen Into the vltlet would result la forcing the present workmen and their fam ilies Into the roeutry. I dare ary. there are thousand, of farmers, union men Ineladed, In the state of Georgia who would like to are workmen from tha rltlra forced Into the cooatry — -- need them wherever | have have traveled the Mat* over from lta eouthrru to It* northara border, and from the Chattahoochee to tho 8ave*- everywhere ta the cry for more decrease In price. I thought the union held, as the facta do prove, thnt there la no overproduction of coltou. bat an underproduction of price, earned mainly by the Ibrary, he rmeoni on. being oo illanatrniialy curried out by the tbeli ... ... ._ 6 migrant farmers, which wa need ao re In Ihe good old state of Georgia. And Ihe Immigrant will raise something to eat. ami he will not atop anybody from planting cottoa, ■ only liy showing them there Is money In meat. corn, hay, nata and cattle and truck crop, fruit Included, and the S od part will lie that the cotton grower n get It nearer houir without high Heights and merchants' profits, aa moat of the cotton grower, now have to pay. Mr. Darts, yon are hunting an Imaginary rvll, ami the truth la your theories arc ex- ploded and turn Into a boomerang when reason la applied and they are analyzed properly. Of the union. I hope the state officers, who are to meet in Atlanta May 16 will not be ao foolish as to oppose Immigra tion. an the order deserves better advice, and It ran not afford to go on record now aa opposing uioro good workmen Into our atate from any country. I nm n mem- x . — - — •- *—— Association. ss men nou- Jordnn. lfoke ber of tha Georgia Immigration Al nnd 1 know that organization has In Europe like Hon. Gnnby Smith, who are aralstlng ott . Eogllahmrn. German and Scotchmen and Irishmen to select good people from those goootrles to locate In Georgia, and I have an application In for live families, snd hope soon to have my farm rnn like It should be. Instead of lying mostly Idle, and that which la cultivated only paying taxes and a hard living, with the fgnorant. crlmlnally- inetlnod nano, woo only tetn to aamfOy, We ran rontrol the negro only by white majority, even In hla labor, tor It.you mane a negro Independent he la worthleaa ta a laborer, and II per day makes him ~ half tha tiara, tad ' ..... iMMa by Sirs. Mnngln F. Smith, pianist, aud Mr. William Harwell, electrician. A mom: the will be Mr. Ellotte’a latest success. "A Dream of Dixie:" Joseph It. Willis, noval sketch ar tist: the famous Symphony Quartette. T. O. House, the clever gymnast: Professor Solon I irukonmlller. the favorite tenor, and other* of nhlllty. "THE PRESIDENTIAL TRIALOGY." Waahlngton Poat Some shrewd politico! apeculatora think the presidential tickets of 1B08 will be/headed by Roosevelt, Republi can: Bryan. Democrat, nnd Hearst, In dependence League. It would make a pretty race, and be a melee rather tlmn a tourney. Roosevelt would be the fa vorite In the book*, but political raring I* not an exact science when the ballot a free and the count fair—that I*, there'* no telling who'* governor till the vote I* counted." Mr. John Templo Grave* ha* read Preahlent Roosevelt out of the Republi can party. Mr. Hearat ha* read hlmaelf out of the Democratic party. Mr. Bry an has read tho Democratic party out of hla camp. The country would ■warm with the disgruntled, and roll- tic* would moke more strange bedfel low* than It ever did before. One thing I* manifest and that 1* this: The electorate that choose* dele gates to Republican national conven tion* will not take President Roose velt's declaration on the night of elec tion 1B04 for an answer, nnd If Mr. Roosevelt doe* not Intend to head hls party's ticket In 1908, It I* none too soon for him to stamp out thl* "second electoral term" fire that I* sweeping over the country from ocean to ocean. The Republican situation la this, sim ply this: Will Roosevelt suffer himself to be drafted? Mr. Bryan can get the Democratic nomination without contest If he wants It. and he can do with It what It Is likely Mr. Roosevelt can not do with the Republican nomination—he can give Rome, May 9.—I have had an In terview with hla holiness. Pope Plus X, and my meeting at the Vatican was, I may truly gay. the most Interesting experience of my life. At first I was struck by the pope's extreme simplicity amid magnificent surroundings. Pope Plus Is that rarity, a perfectly natural man. After seeing him I can understand why the cardi nals elected him: He Is transparently honest and one of the most remarkable and touching things about him Is that hi* tenderness and gentleness are al most more motherly than fatherly. Bui. back of all 'this, I recognized a force and solidity of character that aro extraordinary. It was borne In on me that when Pope Plus makes hls de cision* no earthly power can move him. It the French government thlnka the Pope will yield In the present struggle between the Vatican and the elyeee, it is mistaken. Perhaps I can best convey the Im pression of the man's overwhelming atmosphere of power when I say that when I entered hls presence I thought myself six feet Call, when I left It I felt that I was leas'than two feet high; I always knew- that the Catholic church was an Immense force In -the world and that It Is especially a force In America, but that quiet, kindly, white robed flg- ure ln the Vatican, with 250,000,009 hu man souls behind him, brought the truth graphically, .personally home t' me. It to Tom. Dick or Harry, If It does not suit him to take It himself. Mr. Bryan had thelworld In a basket the night he stepped on the stage of Madison Square Garden Inst August. Not so the next day, but the world, especially the polltl cal world. Is a fickle, a capricious, i vacillating world, like the winds o April, and Mr. Bryan may have tho luck to again get It In hls basket next year. With the three ticket* headed by the three men we have mentioned, what would Wall street do? For more than a dozen years Wall street ho* been a Re publican. but Mr. Roosevelt has har ried Wail street as no other man ever did, nnd a* Mr. Bryan could not, If he were Mr. Roosevelt’s successor. Roose velt coerc' d legislation out of a reluc tant senate. A* Roosevelt’s successor Mr. Bryan would have to deal with that some senate, that would surely refuse to chase the octopus at hls dictation. Then It would not be very strange If Wall street should whoop It up for Bryan, after al). We do not believe Mr. Roosevelt was Insincere In 1904 when ho asserted that hls first "elective" term was hls second term, but Mr. Roosevelt docs not wnnt to be succeeded In the White Houss by a Democrat or a Republican reactionary and what shall come of it a twelve- month will tell. If Mr. Roosevelt Is a "receptive" can didate, that wtll make the Republican national convention of 1908 a ratifica tion meeting. “THE CROSSING.” The englno of existence Draws the train of time. We enter the coach we wish, Tho selfish or the sublime: Somo live In berths of sleepers. The Idlers, they who drowse. To life these never waken. E'en death falls to arouse; But the observation car. With optimists Is filled. For they sec that each life-map Is outlined the way we willed. And when we reach tho crossing The terminal will appear The way wo build It here. ARNOLD B. HALL. PendsrgrssB, Ga. ~EVANESCENCE. Life proves that pleasures pass Ctko tho music of a moss; But the unseen music lives And a glimpse of Glory gives. While the fleeting pleasures blight. Bringing not the noon, but night; Earth's enticements glided gay Olldo to gloom Instead of day. ARNOLD B. HALL. Pendergrass, Ga. .... Stationary Engineers. For the benefit of all engineer, who wish to stand the examination In engi neering It Is announced that the Fulton county board of examiners of station ary engineer* meets at the court hours at 4 o'clock on Saturdays. week. Olre us Immlgran Talbetton. Ga.. May T. INI. T. n. MARTIN. BAGLEY STATUE AT RALEIGH, N. C. Invitation* to attend the unveiling ot the mine af Ensign Worth Ussier, at Italelxh. I. C- on May 30. K-K. have been received r ■ number of Atlantan*. 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