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The Atlanta Georgian.
THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN.
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JOHN TEMPLE GRAVES, Editor.
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Entered ns sscosd-elats mstter April 21, IMS. tt the Psatoffte* St
Atisnts, Os., osder set of congrva# of March *. UTS.
Fairbanks Glorifying John Brown.
Three weeks from today the rice president of the
United States and presiding officer of the upper house
will participate in the glorification of a man whose
crowning work was thus characterized by a select com
mittee of the United States senate, appointed at the
time to Investigate It:
“The Invasion (to call It so) by John Brown and
*h!s followers at Harper's Perry . . . was simply the
' act of lawless ruffians, under the sanction of no
public or political authority—distinguishable only
from ordinary felonies by the ulterior ends con
templated by them."
Until these historic words, signed by a majority of
that select committee, are expunged from the flies of
the Congressional Globe, and the truth of history Is offi
cially mads a lie, the vice prealdent of these United
S’utss, who a& recently was the recipient of Southern
hospitality, might be doing something better than thus
entering Into fellowship with treason and felony and
stirring the slumbering embers of a sensitive sectional
ism.
That John Brown, of Osawatomle, was a felon and
a traitor no sane ntan can deny In the face of the ver
dicts of the courts and the summary punishment vis
ited upon him for his crimes. It Is not a matter of
opinion. It la a fact of official record.
In the opinion of a more tranquil and conservative
posterity bitterness has In a large measure given plaoe
to a cynical pity tor his civic obliquity, compounded as
It was of malice and madness. He Is looked upon by
the. dispassionate thinkers of today as s .dangerous Don
Quixote whose self-imposed and chlmerlcst task ended In
his own undoing as the Inevitable consequence of his
fanaticism and folly.
< The rancor with which his name was once dla-
cussod has passed away, but his wisdom and foresight
have not grown upon the world.
That he was a madman and a firebrand, and that
he Jirought reproach upon the honest and well meaning
people who differed politically from the South Imme
diately before the war, stands undisputed and Indis
putable.
Three weeks from today will be the fiftieth nnnl
▼emery of that military nstlcult known a*“ “the battle
of Osawatomle." On the twenty-first anniversary of
(hat event ,a monument wns erected on the scene of
the contest, out there on the plains of Kansas. In the
dedicatory speech of that occasion the orator of tha
day declared that John Brown "dared to be a traitor to
the government that he might he loyal to humanity."
Hla loyalty to humanity consisted In part In (he cold
blooded murder of five men who dared to differ with
him and hla followers as to the form of government
which the state of Kansas ahould adopt.
His treachery to the government Is not denied.
We might well Imagine that some such sentiment
as "treason to the country that they might be loyal to
humanity" would have risen spontaneously to the lips
of August Spies, Adolph Fisher, George Engel and Al
bert Parsons as they walked to the gallows 20 years
ago for their part In the slaying of seven policemen and
wounding of twanty-aeven more because those officers
of the law had attempted to disperse an anarchist
meeting In the Haymarket square of Chicago. They
were glorified enough, Ood knows,.and nothing they
could have said for themselves would have sounded
more grandiloquent than "treason to the government
and loyalty to humanity."
It would have been a reign of anarchy. Indeed, If
John Brown and his misguided followers had succeeded
In acquiring any momentum when they captured the
government arsenal on that Sunday night of October,
1859. It would have set a precedent for murder and as
sassination Infinitely worse than organised warfare.
The determination to make a hero of thla shiftless,
thriftless fanatic—the unsteadlest product that ever
came out of the “I.and of .Steady Habits”—has Inten
sified the bitterness between North and South a
thousand fold more acutely than the meeting of brave
men on the battlefield, where each rendered willing
tribute to the skill and courage of the other. has
brought forth more bomb-proof rodomontades and cor
ner grocery bitterness than Gettysburg and Manassas.
It has been the text of a world of "envy, malice and alt
uncharitableneaa" which North and South alike would
do well to forget
John Brown la dead, and hla soul, so far as there is
any satisfactory evidence, has long since censed to go
marching on except to stir up occasionally, even as It
did when It Inhabited the flesh, needless rancor and
recrimination.
At any rate the Idcular Mr. Fairbanks, who Is at
present Important chiefly because he Is vice president
of the United States, could be engaged In many things,
or even anything, more timely and In better taste, than
participating In the glorification of John Brown and hla
guerrilla warfare of treason.
Ings regularly appointed where the public and Interests
parties may be assured of an attentive hearing.
Third, the committees of the bouse and of the senate
should have regularly appointed days and hours of meet
Ing from which there should be no variation except by
public notice backed by substantial icaaons. It Is an
expense and an annoyance to the public end those inter
ested In special legislation to have to visit the capltol
and wait for a hearing.
Fourth, the rule covering committee meetings should
be such as to secure the attendance of all of tbs mem
bers of these committees unless there be a valid excuse
for not doing so.
Fifth, the chief reason for the so-called lobby Is In
the fact that unlasa matters of great Importance are pre
sented to members with a personal Interview and within
a limited time, they will be delayed and quite often
legislation Inimical to the beat Interests of the state may
be enacted.
The legislature will do a wise thing In passing this
bill. There has been loo much lobbying and too much
of personal intersat of an unworthy kind. But no body
of honest legislators can forget that commercial and
personal Interests bava a right to be heard fully and
freely on all aides of every public question, and that It
la a duty to avoid a one-sided or prejudiced bearing of
public questions.
It Is very dear that only by the most liberal treat
ment of public and private Interests along thaaa lint*,
and by the putting up of the most careful safeguard! for
the proper hearing of advocates, can tfie legislature
justify the admirable reform Instituted In the Wright
bill: ' '
The rush of the Roosevelt renomlaatlon Is not so
vlolsnt as It way a month ago. Has Taft, who "sat on
tha lid,” now also blocked tbs llha?
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Curb the Lobby But Be Fair to Vested
Interests.
Perhaps no bill passed by the present legislature
will meet with more general Indorsement and approval
than the anti-lobby bill presented and advocated by
Hon. Seaborn Wrlgbt, of Floyd.
It Is yet to be taken In hand by the senate and
there can scarcely be any doubt that the senate will
pass It aa emphatically aa the house baa done.
The public will applaud this bill In every section
of the state. It Is aimed at an eril which has too long
•xlsted, and which has for many years been a source of
annoyance and IrrttaUon to the voters of the state.
But If the legislature passes this bill there will de
volve upon that body certain self-imposed responsibili
ties to the large vested Interests which are represented
In legislation throughout the state.
In the first place as tt appears to a newspaper seek
ing only the right thing. It should be the duty of the
members ot the legislature to personally investigate all
the bills they vote upon.
In the second place, the committee having In charge
legislation ot an Important character ahould have hear-
We Join the Red Cross Society.
Surely there ought to be some one In this time of
bitterness and trial to play the part of peacemaker and
to moderate so far as possible the bitterness of tha
ballot. '
In every war there follows after the mailed battal
Ions of the werrior the ambulance and the Red Cross
brigade; And In this wild war of words where missiles
of discussion fill the sir with their mission of III the
civilisation about us ought to furnish some element of
reconstruction, of reorganisation and of healing.
Ae The Georgian Is a non-combatant In this strife
of citizens, we propose to join the Red Crose brigade of
relief and so far as In^us lies to heat the wounds of the
battle and to preach the peace which ought to follow
ee He aftermath.
Men all over Georgia Are thanking Ood today that
this bitter and remorselets campaign Is drawing to Its
close. It has been without a parallel In the history of
the state, and Its casualties In character and In repute
will outnumber the actual destruction wrought among
the combatants most nearly engaged.
For Naims come to pass that not only do the candl
lntes thetnselvos through their organs belabor each other
with unceasing venom, but If a citizen of any age or any
station or of any character, sees fit to exerelse his civic
liberty In declaring In public for one or for another of
these candidates, he becomes the Instant target for the
abuse and malediction ot the organs bf the other side,
and every small and trivial criticism that has been mado
In the past Is Instantly raked from the record* of other
yeers to reflect upon him and to prejudice , public eentl
ment against his Influence and. hi* name.
No part of this campaign Is more lamentable than
this. Surely men without malice who entertain and ex
press their preference* for one or another of the op
posing candidates In this election, ere not the legiti
mate targets for the crltlelsms and the abuses of the
organs of the candidates opposed. In moat Instances
these men who take a stand for one or the other of.the
aspirants for gubernatorial honors do so holding
In their minds and In their hearts the kindest feeling for
the others, and the decision of the ballot Is reached
In most Instances purely on public and economic reasons
and with no personal discrimination between the various
gentlemen Involved.
And yet for this simple exercise of personal and
civic right these men are criticised and assailed at vio
lently as are tho candidate* themselves.
So that out of the nols^ and the buetle of the pen*
and the papers, the tongues and the tempers, the com
mittees and the caucuses, the methods and the mass
meetings, the air Is thick with arrows, each with a pois
oned tip, and the hospitals of our fair repute are filled
with the wounded whose minds are sore and whose
characters are aspersed.
Surely the time he* come for the relief corps of the
hospital and for the evangels of peace. Aad so, without
any other than a aelf-appolntment and with no commis
sion beyond the Impulse of general good will. The Oeot-
glan has pinned the Red Cross upon the arm tljat moves
the pen and we will seek so far as In us lies from time
to time to soften the asperities of a malignant war with
the mission of relief. We will seek to show that many
of the men whose hands are now at each others' throat*
are not natural enemies and may yet be friends. We
will seek to show that many of the eminent Georgians
from whose garments drip the Ink and mud of opposi
tion camps, are neither traitorous nor dishonored. And,
that within six weeks from this blessed day, when the
storm Is stilled and the tempest Is over, they will each
and aH abide once more along the tranquil waters of a
serene end placid period enjoying Ibe rest #nd receiv
ing the blessing end the salutation ot their fellow men.
Unless all precedents are broken, unless all tradi
tions ere destroyed, end unless history for the first time
refuses to "repeat Itself,” the next six months must and
will record not only the rehabilitation of character, but
the restoration of the entente cordial between the fierce
end heated combatants who now have the etate In a
■team and the people In a stew.
Pave Peachtree Before the Fair
The whole community It becoming thoroughly
■roused over the delay In repaving Peachtree afreet.
There wea every reason to hope that this work
would be taken up and authorised by the last session of
council, snfi It is putting It mildly to say that there waa
a general feeling of disappointment when this we* not
done.
There are e hundred good reasons why this work
should be hurried to completion end not one. eo far ae
we ere aware, why the delay should bb continued.
One of the strongest considerations I* that the State
Fair will be held In this city next Qctober. That time It
rapidly approaching. Little more than two months now
remain before the gates are thrown open to the public.
There will be visitors In the city not only from ell over
the state, but from the country at large. It te a matter
of some Importance that this leading thoroughfare ot the
city should not be found In Its present condition when
those visitor* come. They will be disposed to Judge
Atlanta aa a whole by the condition of this chief high-1 reTlablV'statlsticiT were^o'btsi'nabteai
way, and In that event, unless something Is done, we will
not create a very favorable Impression.
And yet this la not perhaps, after all, the strongest
reason to be advanced for hastening this work. The
condition of Peachtree I* undoubtedly a. menace to life
and limb as It now stands. The holes and abrasions
make travel a positive danger and very far from a
pleasure.
The effort to secure united purpose on the part of
the abutting property owners an<^ the street railroad
was regarded In advance as a difficult undertaking, and.
In point of fact. It was not easy to accomplish, but this
co-operation has long since been secured. Those In
terests are agreed, and the amount -which the city will
be called upon tfl pay Is very small. Under these cir
cumstances there seems to be no good reason why the
work should be further delayed. It Is conceded by all
concerned that the present asphalt Is actually and hope
lessly worn out It would be Idle to talk further of re
pairing It or adopting any kind of makeshift.
Give Peachtree a new pavement, and let us have It
completed before the State Fair begins.
The official police of the Jameston Exposition will
be called the "Powhatan Ouard.” Oood. Now see to It
that the uniform I* either Indian or Colonial, and that
the taciturnity of the Indian 1* freely Relieved by the
friendliness ot the Colonial, and a wholesome willing-
ness to surrender Information.
Growth and Progress of the New South
tender tbla
remark*hie tie
log attention.
How Southern Spindles Multiply
The song of the looms and spindles In the South already Indicates that
this section of our common country Is enjoying a Urge degree of pros
perity, and the rapidity with which those vehicles of Industry are multi
plying give* great promise for the future.
Everybody thought the Bodth was doing remarkably well when 190,-
000 aplndlea were added or contracted for In Southern mills during' the
first quarter ot the present year, but (he second quarter did even better,
for It brought out the announcement that a still further number of 111,-
000 aplndlea had been added or contracted for during that period of time.
It Is-even predicted by thoee who are In the best position to know that
the Increase in the number of cotton - aplndlea In the Booth during the
present year will amount to practically one million.
Georgia U holding her own In this Increase. That excellent trade pub
lication, "Cotton," In presenting' the figures, soys that North Carolina’s
enterprise la easily first this year, her additions In April, May-and June
aggregating 167.280 aplndlea and 2,210 looms. South Carolina comet next
with 101,104'Spindles and 1178 looms, and Georgia follows with 44,600
spindles and 170 looms. Mississippi added during the eecond quarter 9,000
spindles, and Virginia Installed 6,Oil spindle*.
Alabama hat a record In the second quarter of 4,082 eplndlet and 24
looms, thug outdoing Tennessee and Texas. The new aplndlea In Ala
bama ere to be placed, not In new mills, but In old mills at Bylacauga'and
Girard. In the Bylacauga mill 2,188 spindles are to be placed, In the
Olrard mill 8S8 spindles.
In this connection we reprodude the following timely and Impressive
paragraph from The Cleveland Leader;
Whep the veteran editor Henry Watteraon delivered an address be
fore the etudents of Brown university at Its commencement exercises he
advised the young men who were seeking for opporluntles to go South. He
knew whereof-he apoke. The land beyond What waa once Maeon and Dix
on's line haa^at last awakened Industrially and the people are beginning
to gather In the fruits. In New Orleans the building under way represent*
810.000. 000. During the laet year the building Improvements In San An
tonio, Tex., coat tl.021,000. The year's record for Chattanooga Is about
81.600.000. During the same month for Loulevllle, Ky., they cost 2496,000;
for Atlanta, Oa., 1687,000. A significant feature of this rncorS IB the fact
that soma of the best new buildings are railroad stations. Atlanta.has a
line new paeeenger depot and Birmingham, Ala., Memphis, New Orleans
and Little Rock will soon be almllarly provided. The Southern etatee are
eurely coming Into their own.
COMMENT OX REVELATIONS
IN COTTON ASSOCIATION
WHAT IS THE DESTINY OF THE NEGRO RACE?
EXTINCTION
By DR. WM. EDWARD FITCH
In the working out of the problem
of the survival of the Attest the handi
cap Imposed by nature upon the black
race Is slowly, but surely, telllnr
agalnat the negro. His little knowl
edge and his Indifference to the re
qulrementa of sanitation compel him
to suffer the Impost of a heavy penalty
In the form of disease engendered by
hla surroundings. Torn from hla
moorings by the tide of war, the negro
In America la drifting steadily toward
oblivion and will eventually disappear
below the soolologlc horlxon, following,
but more slowly, the North American
Indian Into extinction. The race prob
lem will eventually solve Itself, pos-
elbly In less than a century, for the
negro In America haa served hla ptfr-
pose and must now move on to give
place to the resistless Anglo-Saxon,
whose manifest destiny Is to control
the world.
The coming of the negrq to America
waa the result of the needs of condi
tions then existing nnd the necessity
for their fulflllment In the develop
ment of the country, and particularly
of the southern half. With the termi
nation of these conditions by war, a
new era In the development of the
Southland was Inaugurated In which
the dark-skinned rare Is but little
available and aa a free agent the ne
gro Is left to work out his own des
tiny. That he will play any part of
Importance In the future development
of his adopted country la Improbable,
and aa an eeonomlo factor may be
Ignored, for as a rare he has fulfilled
the object which made his presence
neressary, and Is now a discarded bit
of the mechanism ot ths world's ad
anrement.
Their gregarious tendencies have
caused them to gather Into towns and
wlllagea In large numbers and to exist
there under conditions far less favor-
ana to their existence than In the
country districts. The urban life of
this hapless race la accurately de
scribed by Dr. Beale Harris, of Ala
bama, In American Medicine, who
states that "they are poorly fed. Im
properly clothed, and their homes are
located on the low-land* In the suburbs
of the towns, where the dampness of
the atmosphere predisposes to tuber
culosis and where all the ftlth and Im
purities of the towns drain directly
nto their wells and atreams, contami
nating their only source ot water sup
ply."
Harris further adda that "with auch
surrounding* and an utter lack of re
gard or appreciation for the laws of
health, they become very susceptible
to all forms of disease, particularly
typhoid and malarial fevers and tuber
culosis; and for ths same reasons their
tissues, having less powers of resist
ance to the ravages of disease, they
fall easy victims to the fell destroyer."
Hybridisation among the negro race
an Interesting subject from an
anthropological standpoint. It Is a
well-known fact in horticulture that
If, for Instance, cantaloupe and pome
granate seeds sre planted side by side
they will hybridise, and the fruit
borne on the respective vine* will not
be either a Juicy cantaloupe or a fra
grant pomegranate, but a hybrid par
taking of the nature of both, and unlit
for use. Seed* taken from the fruit
each vine and replanted will pro
duce a fruit of an Inferior quality, the
seeds after being planted again will
fall to germinate and the hybrid be
comes extinct. We have an Illustra
tion In animal life that hybridisation
leads to extinction. The ass crossed
with the horse produces an animal
which la neither horse'nor ass, but a
mongrel hybrid—the mule; which Is
Incapable of procreation.
An Interesting side-light could be
thrown upon the general question of
the Increase In the negro population. If
to the numbers of full-btooded negroes
and the numbers of mulattos*. An at
tempt was made. In the census of 18S0,
to classify the negroes In proportion
to the purity of their blood, but the
results obtained were so unsatisfactory
that nothing of ths kind was done when
the last census was taken.
About ten years ago Professor
Bloomfteld, of Johns Hopkins Univer
sity, wrote a remarkable series of ar
ticles, In which he discussed the race
question from ths standpoint of a
naturalist and anthropollgtst and
reached the conclusion that the per
centage of full-blooded negroes was
gradually decreasing. Professor Bloom-
Held believed that the Darwinian law
of natural selection was working In
the negro race, and that In accordance
therewith there waa a constant ten
dency on the part of both men and
women to mate with those of lighter
color than themselves. As tar as there
may be fresh Infusions of white blood
Into the race, the bleaching out pro
cess would be accelerated, but, of
course, It would require many cen
turies to so far eliminate the nsgro
blood as to make the rice as a whole
lose the distinctive characteristics ot
the negro.
One who has observed the negro face
In the South must admit that It Is ths
tendency of both sexes to mate with
mulattoes lighter In color than them
selves. The fruits ot such marriages Is
small families—two, three, or perhaps
four, children, whereas In the full-
blooded black families from ten to
sixteen children are common.
In order to give our reader* the
status of the death and birth rate of
the negro race, we quote from the last
census report:
If this Is true, there Is no doubt that
the negro population of the cities. If
not recruited by flew arrivals from
the country, would rapidly diminish.
Out of Afty-slx cities reported by the
census, In all part* of the country—
North, South, East and West—the
death rate among the negroes Is found
to be greater than the birth rate In
Afty cities. The remaining six cities
are nearly all places with very small
negro populations, where the small *x-
cess of the birth rate reported might
be accounted for by an accidental fall
ing off in the death rate for that par
ticular year.
There la no part of the country In
which the registration of vital atatls-
tlcs la so nearly perfect as In New
England. For this reason the Agure*
for Boston are particularly Interesting.
They show that during the census yesi
there were 81,991 births and 11,277
deaths among the white population,
making an excess of 2,714 births.
Among the negro population of Bos
ton In the same year the births num
bered 240, and the death* 227, making
the exrese or death* 27.
Greater New York there were
98.164 births and 70,229 deaths among
the white population, making the ex
cess of births 16,935. Among the ne
gro population there were 1,970 deaths
and 1,420 births, making the excess of
deaths 640. In Buffalo there were *,-
227 births and 5,167 ‘deaths among the
white population, making the excess
of births 4.070. Among the negro pop
ulation there were 29 birth* and 50
deaths, making the excess of deaths
21. Ii» Chicago there were 41,098 births
and 27,582 deaths In the white popula
tion, mak'ne an excess of births 16,626.
Among the colored population there
were 889 births and 87* deaths, making
the excess of deaths 290.
In St. Louis there were 13,980 births
and 10,220 death* among the white
population, making the excess of births
",840. Among the colored population
there were 6*4 birth* and 1,165 deaths,
making the excess ot deaths 5*1. In
New Orleans there were 5,224 births
among the while population and 4.817
deaths, making the excess of births 247.
Among the colored population there
were 1,725 births and 2,110 deaths,
making the excas* of death* 1,876.
lAr, Jordan cn Future*.
From The New York Journal of Com
merce.
There is nothing strange In the fact
that Mr. Harvle Jordan, prealdent
the Southern Cofton Association, sup
ports with auch vigor as he Is capable
of the bill which has passed the lower
house of the Oeorgla legislature pro
hibiting contracts for the s*te and fu
ture delivery of cotton, grain, provis
ions and other commodities, or
stocks, bonds and other securities, or
what la commonly known aa "dealing
In futures." Mr. Jordan haa shown pn
so many occasions hla limited know!
edge and understanding of commercial
and economic principles, and auch an
Incapacity for clear reasoning that any
vagary Is to be expected of him. The
only thing that makes what' he says
upon such a subject of the least con
sequence Is the position he holds as the
head of the Southern Cotton Associa
tion and editor of what assumes to be
th* special organ of the cotton Industry
and trade of th* 8outh, and the oppor
tunity thla gives him to mislead the
minds qf those whose understanding
may be no batter than his own. What
Is to be regretted le that the leglelature
of any state should at this late day be
misled by the fallacious arguments
used against speculative dealings on
tho regular exchange* In commodities
or representatives of value for whlnh
systematic distribution and stability of
market price ran be established and
maintained In no other way. Mr. Free
man. whose reply to Mr. Jordan's At
lanta article we published yesterday,
put the general, case forcibly: but the
matter needs to be pressed home espe
cially to those the market for whose
product would be constantly In confu-
stoh except for dealings In futures upon
the cotton exchanges.
Cotton Is a product with which the
advantage of ronatant buying and sell
ing on contracts for future delivery Is
especially conspicuous and easy ot
comprehension. It Is a commodity of
which about three-fourths of ths
world's supply Is produced In our
Southern states and two-thirds of our
product It sent to foreign markets,
takes half the. year to prepare the
crop for the harvest that begins about
September 1, and the natural tendency
would be for It to pile Into the market
In about three.months after that date,
though the demand for It la a contlnu
ous one throughout the year and year
after year. Efforts to adjust supply
and demand at a fair price for producer
and consumer le a difficult one at beet
on account of the uncertainty of the
crop, owing to climatic and other con
dition*. But whatever may be the re
sult of such efforts, so far aa a season')
output Is concerned, the value will be
determined by the relation of supply to
demand. The most Important thing Is
so to distribute the marketing and da
tively of the product over the year as
to have that value represented for sell
ers and buyers by a price as nearly
uniform and stable aa it can be mode.
The effect of wide Auctuatlone will be
disastrous to selling producers and
buying consumeYs alike, and proffta-
bio only to middlemen and speculators
for Immediate taking and delivering,
which need not be simultaneous or In
close succession. When the product
comes Into the market under such con
ditions competition to sell will depress
the price and men with capital may
capture much of the supply to hold for
higher prices, and aplnners cannot tell
what to calculate upon. '
Ran With Hare and Held With Hounds
From The New Orleans Item.
The committee of Ave who have been
Investigating the charges made In the
Georgia legislature, to the effect that
Richard Cheatham, secretary of the
cotton association, has been dealing
with bucket shops, report that the
charges made against him are true. He
owned stock In what Is known as i
bucket shop. He bought and sold un
der assumed names, nnd he often
signed "secretary” after hla own name,
to give credence to the Idea that hla
operations were for the association,
whsreas they were exclusively for him
self. The committee, while admitting
that there Is no law against buying
and selling futures, condemn Secretary
Cheatham for using his official position
to speculate In a bucket shop, a part of
the stock of which he was ah owner.
That Cheatham knew that he waa do
ing something Improper Is shown by
the fact that he opened accounts In
Actttlous names.
This report will be forwarded to
“Preiident Jordan and acted upon by the
executive committee, which meets Sep
tember 6, at Hot Bprlnga. A singular
feature of this affair Is that the charges
against Cheatham were made by bis
bucket shop associates, who discovered
that Cheatham was using his InAuence
before the legislature to secure the
passage of antt-bucket shop measures.
When a man runs with the hare and
holds with the hounds, he Is apt to be
caught. The wrong In thfs ease was
that Cheatham made use of his knowl
edge of the condition of the cotton crop
to bull or bear the .market at pleasure
for his own proftt. He did exactly
what he ao vehemently denounced gov
emment offtclals for doing.
8hould Probe Further.
Frqm The New York Commercial.
The Investigation of the’affairs of the
Southern Cotton Association should not
stopped where It is. There Is a
whole lot of things yet to be brought
out, and the probe should be sent to
the bottom. There was a great chance
ot a great deal after that famous New
Orleans meeting, but unfortunately
there was a mlscue somewhere.
Short on Past, But 8trong on Futures.
From The Amerlcus Times-Recorder.
Secretary Cheatham may not deal
largely In the past, but he Is certainly
there with the goods when It comes to
dealing with the futures.
Living Down His Namt.
From The Rome Tribune.
“My Dear Dick" Cheatham was, per
haps, merely trying to live down his
name.
Has Earned a Rett
From The Amerlcus Tlmes-Recorder.
The Hon. Harvle Jordan has gone to
New York upon a pleasure trip. Th#
mixing of that barrel of whitewash.
By Private Leased Wire.
New York, Aug. *.—John D. Rocke-
feller’s fondness for oil has at last tri
umphed and he haa given his consent
to have hi# picture painted, wig and all.
Nerval H. Hussy is the artist who Is
to go into the history of American art
aa the only man who ever “done John
D. Rockefeler In oil.”
It waa a portrait of Samuel T. Todd,
the retired general solicitor of the
Standar Oil Company, don* by Mr.
Buiey, which gave Mr. Rockefeller the
Idea of having hi* wig painted. After
easing the portrait of Mr. Dodd, he call
ed at the Bussy studio and asked th*
artist how he thought a portrait of him
wearing a wig would look. The artist
with supreme frankness replied:
“It would be a great Improvement
Your expression would not be so stolid
and hard.”
"Well, suppose you begin right
away," aald Mr. Rockefeller, and Mr.
Bussy began. The famous portrait
will ba ready for an admiring world
before long.
The strenuous highway comlsslonera
of Oyster Bay have been foiled, for a
time at least. In their crusade agalnat
the encroaching piers which they de
sired to clear away. An aged lady,
Mrs. Frederick R. Coudert, put a stop
to their work of demolition. When
Commissioner Hawkhuret led a gang
of men and began to tear down th*
pier, Mr*. Coudert. who. Is 72 year*
old, ran out from the house and order
ed them to etop. They paid no atten
tion to her and ripped a few planks
from the structure. Then the old lady
rah out on the pier and dared them to
pull It down and let her drown. She
was Joined by Mrs. E. C., Whitney, a
friend, and the two women defted the
commissioner.
Sirs. Coudert ordered her servants
to bring camp chairs and the women
made themselves comfortable. Com
missioner Hawkhuret called for them
to come down, but like Cassablanca,
she refused to leave her post of duty.
Hawkhuret Anally turned on hla heel
In disgust and went away.
"No, 1 don't Aght women," said he
aa he went. Then gathering hla men
together,, he told them to follow. As
they turned the bend of the beach they
saw two women standing on the pier.
One was waving a handkerchief. '
Hungarians In New York are prepar
ing today to select a committee to at
tend the unveiling at Budapest, on Sep
tember 16, next, of a monument to
George Washington. The movement
for the monument waa started several)
year* ago by Hungarians In America.
GEORGIANS IN GOTHAM.
New York, Aug. 9.—Following are
among the visitors In New York today:
ATLANTA—Miss Dubois, W. M.
Richards, R. B. Sey, S. L. Leers, Mrs.
Rosenbaum, A. Wellhouse, R. O.’Camp-
bell.
AUGUSTA—b. L. Green, P. F. Mc
Carthy, J. J. Tarletoh.
SAVANNAH—Mr*. Fltxgerald. W. P.
Powers, J. P. Lyons. H. Small. '
MACON—J. H. Crandall, Jr, J. C.
Holmes.
THIS DATE IN HISTORY.
AUGUST q, I
1631—John Dryden, poet, horn. Died 1701.
1672—New York ittrrendered to the Dutch.
1767—Fort William Henry surrendered to
Montcalm
1809—Non-Imports tlon
set proclaimed by
President Madison,
tin— Bottle of Htnnlnglon, Conn.
18K-Lonls Phlllppo proclaimed king of
ranee.
1841—Steamer Erie burned on Lake Erli; 176
lire* last.
vee-Mrs. Charles Matthews, setreis, died.
1882—President Lincoln called for 360,600 men
for nine uiontha.
1871—Celebration of the Sir Walter Scott
eentensry at Edinburgh.
1888—Dynamite conspirators at Liverpool
sentenced to penal servitude tor lire.
1893—Hevere earthquake ahocka lu Califor
nia.
1804—The yacht Britannia best the VlfAsnt
at Cowes.
1899—Hurricane In West Indies; 2,000 drows
ed.
1904—E
aonrl, died. Born December 6, 1810.
Th* Aasoeiation Must AoL
From the Charlotte Chronicle
The Oeorgla legislator certainly
made good his charges ot bucket shop
ping against Messrs. Cheatham and
Fairchild, two oAtclals of the South
ern Cotton Asoclatlon. M r. Fair-
child lost no time In resigning. Mr.
Cheatham holds on under censure.
This may, be well. The Chronicle Is
not one of the papers that calls for his
resignation, It la perhaps best for the
whole matter to go to the executive
committee and from that body to th*
association Itself. About the best thing
that could come to^paaa would be for
the association to take account of af
fairs, which It probably will do at Its
next annual meeting.
Wants th* Whole Truth.
From the Washington Gaxette.
They are shilling Harvle Jordan hip
and thigh on the bucket chop and
cotton future business. We have a
very high regard for Mr. Jordan and
hop* he will come through without the
smell of Are about his garments, but
nevertheless w* want to see the whole
truth com* out no matter who It may
hurt. -
No Explanation - Will 8atlsfy.
From The Marietta Courier.
It seems that Mr. Cheatham, of the
Southern Cotton Growers' Association,
has gotten himself Into a very embar-
raslng position. No explanation that
he can make will satisfy the public.
Jordan’s Poor Selections.
From the Waycross Herald,
The Southern Cotton Association
seems to have received n black eye.
Mr. Jordan doe* not seem to be Im
plicated, but he should have been more
careful In selecting his associates.
Th# Psoplt Pay th# Penalty.
From the Ellsvllle New*.
It actually looks as If the Southern
Cotton Association had gone Into the
gambling business. Away goes another
reform move In the Interest of the dear
people, and money was the cause of l«
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