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Atlanta Georgian n —~— : JOHN TEMPLE GRAVES, Editor. P. L. SEELY, Pre»ldent. Telephone Connections. Subscription Rates: Published Eveiy Afternoon One Year $4.50 Except Sunday by Six Months 2.50 THE GEORGIAN CO. Three Months 1.251 it 25 W. Alabama Street, By Carrier, per week 10c Allanta, Gs. m -red •• eecond-clase matter April A 190S. it tbi Putotne* It Attanti. Oa.. under act of conireee of March f. Iff*. THE GEORGIAN COMES TO GEORGIA AS THE SUNSHINE God'a goodness hath been great to thee; Let never day nor night unhallowed pass. But still remember what the Lord hath done. —Shakespeare. Saturday Evening. The apples ot Jatakhar were “all sweotnesa on one , side, and all bitterness oa the other." This real or fabulous fruit has been employed on many occasions and In many ways to point a moral or adorn a tale, and yet Its adaptability remains fresh and new. The world Is full of men—and even gallantry cannot deny, of women, too—whose dispositions are like the apples df Is- tnlchar. In the politer circles of the outside world, where they stand In the public gate, they are as sweet as the honey bees of Hybta. The veneer of courtesy, the shadow of urbanity mark every word and gesture. They stand before the world as Admirable Crichtons. They are “all sweetness on one aide.” But it Is the other side ot this fruit of Iatakhar that reveals Itself as soon as they cross the threshold where. In reality, their very soul should unfold 'like a lily with a heart ot flame.” That hypocrisy which vice renders to virtue Is thrown off as a garment and the Alclblades of courtliness becomes a very Caliban. All tho pettiness and meanness In his nature rises to the top, and we discover that the exemplary dtisen Is after all a deception and a fraud. The apple of Iatakhar Is “all bitterness” on the oth er side. And the experiences of human life—they, too, are llho the apples of Istakhar, "all sweetness on one side and all bitterness on the other.” We pity from our hearts the pessimist who feels that all his days are spent In the valley of the shadow, and yet who would deny that “There's not a string attuned to mirth But has lta cord In melancholy.” We know that every highway Is Indifferently strewn with thorns and roses, and yet on the other hand we aro compelled to realtzo that toara endure for a night, but Joy cometh with the morning. To no human heart Is such security assured that the sunniest dreams may not be overcast, nor yet has the Slough of Despond evor been so wido and deep but beyond It stretched a smiling valley of peaco and sweet content. It Is after all In the Horatlan "golden mean” that men must look for the greatest happiness Is this varied and parti-colored world. The prayer ot Agur rises spontaneously to tho lips of every man who has sat at the feet ot wisdom: “Give me neither poverty nor riches.” Was It not Socrates who gave us a variant on the Impreaslvo theme w hen he asked that the gods would give him “that which wiiu best for him, though In his Ignorance he should not ask for It; and withhold from him that which was not bent for him, though In his folly he should ask for It?” Fagan philosophy, at least, cannot offer us a nobler senti ment ' . lie must be a sophist Indeed who can argue suocaas- fully that In civilised aoclety men and women can attain to tho highest degree of usefulness through abject pov erty. In a thousand Instances It Is but the result of condl- tlons which he has brought upon himself when In this busy world, with all Its teeming possibilities, the man of Intelligence cannot grasp the hem of fortune's garment nnd wrest a competency from the list ot fortune. He uho has sucecded In acquiring at least this competency finds himself obviously better able to contribute to tho amelioration of the hard conditions he flnds around him and to scatter sunshlno In substantial form along the highway ot tho deserving. It would be a foolish Agur who prayed for poverty. And yet wealth Is not the ultimate goal of human life. The dinner ot herbs, and contentment therewith Is, »e are told, preferable to the stalled ox and dissension. Diogenes asked nothing of the world's great conqueror but to stand out ot his sunshine and leave him to hie all- sufficient tub, while the gourmet, Apldua, slew himself lest the remnant ot his fortune, still colossal, should not suffice to gratify his luxurious tastes for the remainder of his days. Better Indeed might he have uttered the prayer of Agur that riches be not vouchsafed to him. They cannot buy buoyancy ot spirit or tranquillity of mind or length of days. Happiest of all Is he who has neither poverty nor riches—neither the gripe of moneyless vexation In which “Though six days smoothly run, The seventh will bring blue devils or a dun.' Nor yet that abundance of wealth which breeds de generacy and Insolence and a disregard of the cardinal virtues of human life which blinds and hardens us to the delicate amenities and the finer joys whleb no roan knows unless he Uvea close to the great throbbing heart of the world. Few, Indeed, there are who feel disposed to temper thelwwlshe* to their welfare and restrain their ambition within the bounds of reason, but to Dives and Lauras alike wisdom and experience commend this world old prayer ot Agur: "Give me neither poverty nor riches, lest I be full and deny thee, ... or lest I be poor and steal.” The Birmingham Age-Herald says It would be “cruel to fussy Atlanta" to intimate that the population of the Alabama city would be 200,000 In ten years, but calculates that It will be true, just the same. Yea, and Alnastor. the barber’s fifth brother, csleulated that he would sell his basket of glassware, and multiply the profits and marry the vizier’s daughter. But jus* then he kicked over the basket and waked up. Bryan Against Roosevelt! What Then? It would be a strange contest between William .1 Bryan and Theodore Roosevelt If the fortunes of politics should fling tbeso two to the front of the political parties which must grapple for supremacy In 1908. Theodore Roosevelt represents all that la democratic nnd popular In tho Republican party. He was projected by Providence Into the destinies of this country through the medium of a tragedy that shocked and startled the world. He was tho heir and the successor of the mildest and most pacific president who has occupied tho White House during the present quarter of a century. The man to whoso station and politics he was tho legatee was conservative In temper, orthodox In his Republican creeds, keenly devoted to tho business Interests of the country aftor the theories of Mark Hanna and the capital lata, and was orthodox to a degree In tho advocacy and maintenance of nil Republican doctrine, saving only his Independent expression of fraternity and fellowship which so powerfully Impressed the republic. As the heir to this man, Tbeodoro Roosevelt pledged upon the coffin of his predecessor his fixed Intention to carry Into execution both the spirit and the policy of William McKinley. As a fratornlzor of the sections, he has done fully as much ns the great peacemaker him self, and re-established good will and good fellowship between the sections of tho country. Saving only hlH Invitation to Booker Wnshlngton to dinner, and his In slstonce upon tho appointment of certain negroes to office In the South, no man can deny that the trend of bis administration has been broad, generous and fraternal toward the South. But he has been a very “bull In tho china shop” ot the Republican policies. Before the dooe of his first administration, and from the very day of bis socond Inauguration, ho has been the aggressive reformer within tho lines of capitalistic prlvl lege and corporate selfishness which the Republican party has so carefully and fully enthronod. Thera 1b not a Demo crat living today, with the exception of William Randolph Hearst, who has done so much to unsettle the tenure ot the trusts and the grasp of tho corporations ns the Republlcsn president of the United States. He has failed In tho completeness of many of hts plans snd has seemed to surrender for policy's sake at some points of the battle In which his opponents believed that his consistent obstinacy would have won a com pleter victory. This was notable, say, In tho railway rate regulation bill, and In the beet trust. But with alt this said, It cannot be denied that the Republican president has shaken the foundations of the trusts and the cor porations so distinctly and so definitely that he will be recognized and written In blitory as the redoubtable opponent and a redoubtable reformer of bis times. To run such a man aa the Republican candidate for the presidency would undoubtedly antagonize In large part the spirit and the tradition? ot the great.organiza tion which elevated him to power, and It li a serious question how far this opposition, whethsr expressed In fatal apathy or In direct antagonism, would cripple his candidacy and destroy his chances ot success. But tt Is also true that beyond the lines of partisan ship, the attitude of the president upon these eobnomlc and corporate questions, as well as the sheer dash and courage ot tho man, has won to him thousands of Demo cratic votes who might be tempted by his prestige from their loyalty to the organization which they have fol lowed so faithfully through so many disappointing years. Ten years ago William J. Bryan was looked upon ns the Incarnation of radicalism that stretched almost to anarchy. The mention of his namo lifted hands ot hor ror all over the conservative East In tho realms of finance mothers frightened their children to obedlenco by the mention of the name of this Democratic ogre, and there were Democrats of the sound-money school who held him In as holly horror as did the stalwart partisans of the Republican enmp. Even In the South, the alleged wildness ot bis financial views established au antagonism profoundsr than any which had ever been chronicled before In Democratic ranks since the civil war. And one strong and prominent Democratic editor In the state of Georgia denounced hlnj In editorial prominence as the sum snd Incarnation of olvlc and political heresy and villainy. Without any apology to the American republic, and without a single confession ot error In his previous views, without an apparent change In his political creed's, and with no open recantation of his political faith, tha country has limply progressed toward an appreciation of Bryan's character, of hli motives and of the Justice of bis views, which Is little short ot a miracle. It may be truthful to say that Bryan himself Is not more responsible for this growth or alteration ot public opinion than other great forces which have moved along side ot and collateral with the great Nebraskan. The eight great newspaper* of William Randolph Hearat and the enormous personality of that great execu- live In public affairs have been the mightiest of educators along the lines of the popular Interest and the popular demands. And these forces have educated so rapidly and •o powerfully tho mass of American sentiment that they have swept public opinion almost In a tidal wave against the entrenchments ot prejudice snd ultra-conservatism, under whose cover the trusts end the corporations have grown fat with the fullness ot spoils and of special legis lation. i The triumph of Hearst In New York, the triumph ot Dunne In Chicago and the triumph ot La Follette in Wisconsin have struck terror to the entrenched cattles ot privilege all over the country, and In the thunder ot the people's ballots they have come to look with appre hension upon any definite and popular champion who might be chosen to lead the people In the tremendous and fateful campaign ot 1908. It la tha very terror of the unknown. It la the very apprehension ot the vast popular upheaval. It It the (had- ow ot Hearst and Dunne and La Follette which hai frightened the utra conservatives, and even some of the moderate conservatives, Into the eager search for a moderate chafaplon of tho Inevitable reform. They recognize fully that the people are In the sad dle Id this fateful period, and that the people are going beyond doubt or question to win some sort of victory In the coming presidential campaign. And so the su preme concern of these vast organized forces ot privi lege and of power Is to break the force of the Im pending blow by giving of their vaat resources and ener gies In both parties toward the choice ot the least ob jectionable and the most acceptable ot the various pop ular evangel* out ot whom the next president must come. It Is at once the strength snd the weakness of Mr. Bryan that, with one accord, this element seems to have been drawn to him. It Is his strength because these men are mighty to save In political elections, and while they might not be strong enough to carry their own creeds and their own champions to success, they would be almost omnipotent If they Joined their strength with the conservative element ot the popular revolution. It may be set down as true that tr these men should throw the weight of their money and their Influence upon the Issue of Bryan's nomination, that the result would be almost Inevitable, and that Ills final success would depend only upon the question of a choice between him self and some more radical man. U]Km the other hand, there Is n very grave and se rious danger that the almost unanimous Indorsement which >hla clement of American politics Is giving, to the Nebraska statesman may create In tho minds of the people a suspicion that he Is not so definite In his alle giance to themselves. One thing may bo understood In this campaign, that the people are awake, that they are Intelligent, and that they are resolved, and If the Impression la widely disseminated throughout their ranks that the syndi cates, the corporations and the ultra conservatives are too eager for Bryan's nomination, then It Is not yet too late for tho people to rise In rebellion and to crown with their leadership tho leader who stands definite and clear and beyond even the suspicion of the favor of the syndicates and the fat of tho trusts. Nothing less than definite democracy and a definite leader will satisfy the great mass of the Democratic peo ple of this decade. The Battleship Georgia. It Is entirely fitting that the finest and f.-etest battle ship in tho United States navy should bear tho name of the Empire State of tho South. Testa recently made on thl# new fighting machino reveal tho fact that this Is the case. She has already developed a speed on her trial runs which moro than meets the requirement of the guarantee under which she was built, and there can be no doubt that when she 1b ultimately launched she will be the queen of the s This launching of the new battleship will be made an occasion of considerable ceremony and great rejoic ing, and will take place witbid the near future. The presentation of tho customary silver service, which, of course, will not be overlooked, will be another notable event, and our people must hold themselves In readiness to rise to the occasion as the country expects. , Wo are proud of the Georgia down this way and we aro ready to bear substantial testimony to the fact The University Chancellorship. Tho time la now close at hand when the trustees of tho University of Georgia must select an executive head for that groat Institution to succeed the lamented Walter B. Hill. » The canvass of names and of personalities for this great and responsible station has been wide and com prehensive. The'editor of The Georgian has contributed from various sources suggestions which filled his-mind with regard to the place, and we have had hearty things to say of many eminent* gentlemen whose names have been mentioned In this connection. We desire here and now to enter a warning against any apathy or Indifference iu this great matter. It will not do to defer final action until the last moment and then hurriedly and impulsively select some man for the place who may be abundantly fitted or who may just aa likely be lacking In the elements of success. It requires brains, judgment and tact In no small degree to choose a proper head for the University of Georgia, and we earnestly trust that the trustees even now are sitting up at nights taking thought of this Im portant duty which devolves upon them. We have no particular name to offer for the con sideration ot our fellow alumni beyond those whose claims and qualities we have already exploited in these columns. We do feel like repeating once more the proposition that. It a teacher can be found In the teaching rank of Georgia, strong, able, tactful, sufficiently equipped, and with executive ability for the work, that this teacher should be promoted from a lower station to this exalted place. We do not feel that anything short .of extraordinary emergencies should Justify the planting In the chancel lor's chair of a man unfit for the position by tempera ment, by training, by tact, or by record. We feel that tt would be Just as proper to put a teacher at the head of a great mercantile establishment as a great merchant or a great banker In the chair ot the university. Great callings require speolal training, and no science is more carefully and rigidly developed In this day than the practical science ot teaching. Wa have In our minds no particular teacher In Georgia whom we desire to suggest In connection with this high position, and we are simply debating a general proposition, to which the trustees may or may not give their consideration and regard. It may be possible, although It should not be so, that the teaching rank of Georgia does not furnish at this GEORGIANS IN GOTHAM. By Private Leased Wire. New York, June It.—Here are some of the vlsltore In New York today: ATLANTA—H. Sawtell. C. 8. North en, W. B. Borne, T. XX Thornton and wife, W. C. Warfield. AVGUSTA—E Q. Ferrell. SAVANNAH—J. M. Denton, H. B. Coldlng, Miss Wylley. IN PARIS. Special to The fl-orgtan. Paris, June It.—Joseph O. Magglonl and Mrs. N. C. Ossoht, of Savannah, and Joseph May, ot Atlanta, registered at the office of the European edition ot The New York Herald today. The Traveling Man’s Position. Atlanta. GO.. June It, 1904. To the Editor of The Georgian: Tha edUorlali of The Georgian and ot the few other dally papers who have written any In behalf of the ef forts of the Travelers' Protective As sociation of Georgia to secure an In terchangeable mileage book of 2,000 miles for tio, la appreciated by the members of the association and the traveling men generally. There Is a mistaken Idea among the the Travelers' The railroads themselves think that only traveling men belong to this army ot over 81.000 In the United States. Hundreds of manufacturers, wholesale and commission merchants, os well as their buyers and salesmen, are mem bers from New York to Oregon and from Canada to Mexico. These men represent millions ot dollars and are the people who create freight and pas senger business for the railroads and steamship lines of the nation. The writer has come to the conclu sion that the main reason the South ern, Central and Georgia Southern and Florida roads won't join the present Interchangeable agreement Is purely buli-headedness on the part ot the Southern. This great system has the opportunity of a lifetime to lead off with a 2,000 mile book for 140. ask ing all trank lines In the southeastern terrlto.y to join, thereby bringing about the solution of the passenger rale fight and making friends of the men who route the freight and who have been giving It to other lines when pos v slble. time a man who embodies the qualifications for the direc tion of *he State University. If not, then, of course. It Is the duty and the obligation of the trustees to find some where that man who In their best judgment combines the qualities both didactic and executive who will min ister most largely to tho growth and the prosperity of this great school. The ono pica which we enter beforo the Judgment and the conscience of the trustees Is that, lu the decision of this great matter, no possible temptation will permit tho spirit of politics or the spirit of personal trading to enter upon the deliberations of the university's friends. Wo may invoke for that spirit which has been the curse of tho university for so many years, a long period of suppression and repose. No reward of friends, no pun ishment of enemies, no ‘ strengthening of fences,” and no purchase of Influence ought to enter for one moment Into the selection of one who stands In the highest and the most sacred office of the state. May tho spirit of wisdom and unselfish patriotism guide tho university trustees In their serious and mo mentous work. The State of Oklahoma. Only the stroke of a pen remains in order to create a new state nnd add a new star to the constellation of American commonwealths. On Thursday the house adopted the conference re port admitting Oklahoma and Indian Territory Into the union as one state, and at the same time permitting Arizona and New Mexico to vote separately, at the next general election, on the proposition to come Into the union as one state. The delegates from the two last named territories feel very bitterly on the subject, and in the course of the debate Speaker Cannon wan severely attacked by Delegate Smith, of Arizona, for having, aa the delegate alleged, “log-rolled” to keep the territories out of the union as separate states. In the meantime the people of Oklahoma and the Indian Territory are lighting bonfires and bolding public meetings, marked by great rejoicing, over the fact that at last the? are to enter Into the sisterhood of federal states. The public in general will share In this rejoicing. The two territories together have a population of two millions snd a half. They are a thrifty and Industrious people. It seems only a few days since Oklahoma was opened up for settlement and -places which are today magnificent cities were a tented field. The soli and climate are well adapted to the highest development and the new state will be one of the most magnificent In the union. The Indications are that the two senators from tho new state will be Democrats and that the six repre sentatives who will enter congress under the reappor tionment will also be ot the same political persuasion. If tho people generally approve of the admission of the new state we believe that, aside from all passion and bitterness, they will confirm the wisdom ot not ad mitting Arizona and New Mexico as separate states. It Is doubtful If much more than half the people In the latter territory can yet speak the English language, while in both territories together there are not more than 300,000 Inhabitants. Such, at least, are the figures given out by Speaker Cannon In his defense on Thurs day, aud If this be true It Is quite sufficient to allow the two territories to vote on the question of admission In Joint statehood* Congressman Lester’s Fatal Accident. 1 The entire Btate Is unspeakably shocked and grieved at the announcement ot the fatal accident sustained by Hon. Rufus E. Lester, member of congress from the first district, while tho circumstances of this melancholy event lend to it an additional pathos. Congressman Lester Is In bis sixty-ninth year, and for eighteen years of that time he has been a member of the lower house. Previous to his election to that body he had distinguished "himself at the bar, on the battle field during the period of the civil war, aud lu state politics. In each and every walk of life he had proven him self worthy of the high trust reposed In him. He was a man of strong convictions and devoted loyally to his constituency. As a member of the rivers and harbors committee he rendered excellent service to our common country and enjoyed the respect snd esteem of all his associates. The tragic close ot his long and,useful life Is deeply deplored and there wilt be sincere mourning throughout the state aud country. Is not trying ot drive any road Into the 2-cent agreement. It has been pa tiently waiting for six years for a gen eral Interchangeable book for 825, and asks the roads to sell a 2,000 mile book for 240, good over all trunk lines In the southeast. • Different roads In the state sell trip books at less than 2 cents per mile, even down to 1 cent, we have been told by holders of these books Why la It done? It must be to Induce .people * “ ‘ “ ‘ ' *m to rtde more. It is all right to do tflL, but Isn’t It asking even less of the roads, when the Travelers' Protective Aseoclatlon offers to invest 240 In ad vance tor a book at 2 cents per mile, which will be ridden out In sixty days by the,average traveling man? The roads know that the traveling men must ride on their trains, If they sell their goods In the territory they work. They know they have them at their mercy and refuse to sell to the men, who are traveling freight agents In a sense, books of a larger denomina tion and at a higher rate than the trip books referred to. Suburbanites can many times use a street car or have more than one railroad on which to travel—a difference, It seem. There are several thousand traveling men who work Georgia, and each man will use at least 6,000 miles of an Interchange able book each year, many will use 10.000 miles, and the money paid In advance for these books will represent a large sum of money, thousands of dollars of which the roads will-have tor several months without Interest be fore the books are ridden out. Take the traveling men off the road and the freight business would suffer. A merchant would not go to market as often or buy by mall aa much as he now buys from the many salesmen who call dally. The trains are well filled every day. The trunk lines have about as many passengers aa they can haul comfortably, so the old excuse of the state being too thinly populated to allow this reduction In passenger rates won't do. Any material Increase In travel would necessitate more trains, and It costs no more to haul a full train than one half full. More than two years ago the writer made the prediction that unless this 2.000 or a 8,000 mile book at 2 cents per mile Interchsngeable In the south east was placed on sale, the roads would have to face a fight tor a 2-cent fiat rate In this entire territory. Vlr- irinla hss led off and won. Georgia will >e next On June 20 the Southeastern Tariff Association convenes In Atlan ta. and no doubt this entire matter THIS DATE IN HISTORY. JUNE 16. 1239—Edward I of England born. The Travelers' Protective Association will be settled one way or the other. 1487—Battle of Stoke; last great bat tle on English soil. 1620—Luther excommunicated by the pope. 1644—Henrietta Stuart, duchess of Or leans, bom. 1722—John Churchill, duke \of Marl borough, born. 1802—United States treaty with Creek Indiana. 1815—Napoleon defeated Btucher at Ltgny. 1823—Hlr Henry Raeburn died. 1830—Eruption of Mount Etna. 1846—Cardinal Mastal-Ferettl' elected .... P°P® w l‘h the title of Plus IX. 1864—Grant repulsed at battle of Pe tersburg, Va. 1871—Triumphal entry of victorious . Germans Into Berlin. 1888—Paul Rajou, artist, died. THE RIGHT TO VOTE.' An Open Letter to John' D. J[ 0sa . J"hn D. Moss, Athens, Oa.-M, .Sir: During tho Wg^« n e. Mr. J< j Dear tl.m of manufacturers Of rotinTg^ held at Asheville, X. r yo ,. * among those who spoke on the of labor In the. cotton mills | n th! South, and in every other Industry which our people are engaged ° 1,1 The Associated Press reported that among other pointed remirks pertS te^questlon under considers,To^ da^nd^tt ZXToTV" 1894—Attempted assassination of Pre- Crlspl, of Italy. tlclans, and It Is our fault" Vour spec, h Impressed me deem* Its very essence was contained i? sentence I have quoted. n About the time your convention „ engage,1 In the discussion In which took an active and highly credbot? par,, the senate of the UnitSi giS?! had in hand , a bill amendatory general Immigration law of the cou^I The fact.which you emphasi»d . ssrfirs'jss? brou * ht ,n M >u r C H P ?ech!"l t detSmln t ed e toThe',* time Is opportune to make an effo'n?! arouse tjie tax-payers who have bun Interests at stake, and to win the tentlon of good cltlsens who are Si tax-payers, to an appreciation of theta P°* s *»sed of the K Circumstances which have attended ejections In this state and m otht? states were of a character tha begot disgust In the minds of men who S above gold the rfght to vote. pr ‘“ Methods which have obtained In quite every canvass preceding elee” Jlons, and methods alleged t* hlr, |«* n P™otlced .t the polls, have hid Tharesult is that gentlemen, esne- cldlly young gentlemen Just arrived at the age when they should not only manifest but take a lively Intereet n the affairs of the state, the county the municipality, the ward, declare that they will not have anything to do with politics. Taking this view of the que,. tion, they refuse In many instances to register, or, having registered, refrain from voting. Tho primary, or nominating election. In practically the election, and Is ao ac cepted, exceedingly few votes beln* cast at the regular election. The primary may, therefore, be taken aa a guide In the matter of Interest shown In an election by the people. Regardless of Issues, hundreds refuse or neglect to vote. Oftener than otherwise. It Is a clear case of refusal to vote. Are there many who resolutely adopt and religiously adhere to this mis taken policy? Let us see: Take the primary election held, not long ago, for members of the legislature and for county officers In the counties of Ful ton, Muscogee and Richmond. In Fulton, 7,733 citizens registered and were qualified to vote. If there was no opposition to any county offi cer, there was a sharp contest for seats In the general assembly of the state—a contest vigorous enough to In terest and rally voters to the polls, and ’yet the highest vote cast was 4,- 305. i Nearly one-halt of the qualfled vot ers did not exercise their great fran chise. In Muscogee county, the same con ditions prevailed as In Fulton. Three thousand four hundred and one citizens registered, and were In position to vote. The highest vote cast was 2,737, sd quite 700 electors failed or refused to vote. In Richmond county. 5,562 citizens registered. The highest rote cast was 4,399, so nearly 700 qualified electors refused or failed to rote. It may be set down as an Incon trovertible fact that those who remain ed away from the polls on the occasion referred to did not belong to the class of voters who can be kept In “pens over night” or whose votes can be con trolled or purchased. They are of those who insist they want nothing to do with politics. The men who can be penned up and on the morning of election led to the polls, like dumb-drlven cattle, are never among those who neglect to rote. The men who, forgetting their manhood, will sell their votes, are never among those who refuse t» vote. In the three counties Instanced, 16,- 896 cltzens became qualified voters, and 4.765, or 28.4 per cent, refused or failed to vote. To my mind, the foregoing facts pre sent a very serious situation. It Is s situation so allied to the best Inter est of all the people. It must be promptly met and successfully com passed. , How* may this be done? Ry appeal to the best people In every community —the men who are proud of American cltzenshlp and who value above rubles the highest privilege Inherent In Amer ican cltlzenshp, the right to vote; the ballot which, cast according to the dic tates of one’s Judgment and conscience, shall be a weapon of defense or of fense as circumstances may demand. Away with the suggestion that iwM- tlcs should be tabooed by the best cltlsens—by the young men of any - •. This Is n government ot ■lit 1895—Third Avenue York, burned. 1897— Hawaiian annexation signed. 1898— Bering sea award paid. 1904—General Bohrlkoff, governor gen eral of Finland, assassinated. theater. New treaty A Reasonable Deduction. “You were a long while at church,” said Subbubs, who had remained at home a* usual. ‘Til bet the minister gave you fire and brimstone today.” “He did. Indeed,” replied Mrs. Sub bubs: “how did you know?” “I Just thought he would. I saw their servant girl going down to the station with her trunk Just after you started tor church.”—Philadelphia Press. It will either go aa the Travelers' Pro tective Association wishes, and more than. 31,000 men In one of the best organised and strongest associations of Its kind, financially snd otherwise. In the world will aee their patience re warded and this fight cease, or It will be against the roads’ best friends and a fight to ths finish. The association can win In the legislatures, aa it has always won, but that Is not what It wants. It wants a peaceable settle- ment on June 20. W. W. HYATT. community. the people—presumably by the peo ple. When every qualified voter, serving his manhood, shall take cient Interest at every election to vow In favor of the best measures and mr the best men. It will t» a govenimfnt actually “by the people, for the peo P, Thls being true as to the character of tl\e government under w* 11 . . live nnd struggle to be prosperou.. ful and happy, politics Is an essential part of every cltlsens life-work. Demagogy and demagogufsare^ be avoided, not politics not. the elve duty of duly exercising the’ live franchise for the protection advancement of the beet interest the people. If public speakers. If ntlnlztere the gospel, If the press wouldI take up this Important subject and i-. ately press It home upon the great good would be accomplished. < reform. In the Ught direction the right kind, would b». 'u f> * rJ Inaugurated and established, truly and reepecttoll^ y CAI/nN . Augusta, Oa. “Straw Hat” Day at “Penney.^ “Straw bat" day at the I Pennsylvania caught many dea>r ' .,. aware*, and ae a result there “ most a famine In summer hem* , „ Saturday. There Is an unwritten at the university that straw hst be worn for the first time on Saturday In May. and ell stejj*”* n Jj« could not find their la**-***? buy SSn b,# ,bV“ P ^ ra.e&-^