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Wc Nominate a Mayor on Wednesday.
It la not to be forgotten In the absorbing whirl of
state politics that the next mayor of Atlanta will be
chosen also on Wednesday next.
And to the people of this city the selection of the
proper man for mayor la Just as Important as Is the
choice of a governor for the commonwealth of which At
lanta Is the brilliant and beautiful capital.
• It Is to be regretted that the calm of municipal poli
tics has been Invaded to any extent, even a limited one,
by the evil example of the gubernatorial campaign. It Is
much to be regretted that the personalities of state pol
itics have gradually tempted the candidates In municipal
affairs to enter upon a personal criticism of one another.
Surely the gubernatorial example Is sufficiently repel
lent and sufficiently unpopular to have deterred and made
wise the two excellent gentlemen who.are competing for
our ballots for the executive chair of thin municipality.
It would have been difficult when this campaign was
announced for an outsider to have conceived on what
particular line Messrs. W. R. Joyner and Thomas H.
Goodwin could personally abuse each other. Two cltlxens
of excellent character, of tranquil lives and of apparently
blameless records might have been expected to go
through the campaign upon a very broad plane without
Indulging In the least personal reflection upon each other.
For the two gentlemen w'ho are opposing each other
for this responsible office The Georgian has the kindliest
feelings of good will.
Captain W. R. Joyner has been for many years per
haps the most popular man In the city of Atlanta. His
long and Invaluable services ns chief of the fire depart
ment and the preserver of our homes and firesides from
the fiend of the flame, has made his name a household
word both with grown people and with the little children
In every nook and corner of Atlanta. Beyond this Cap
tain Joyner hns been a vital figure In almost every local
public movement of the last twenty years, a foremost
and focal force in a thousand gentle charities and a hun
dred public enterprises, member of the chamber of com
merce, an executive figure In state and national fairs and
expositions, a nabob of Atlanta's popular baseball club,
and In his . "Little Red Wagon" the absolute Idol of
every small boy In Atlanta—"without distinction to race,
color or previous condition of servitude."
Mr. Goodwin is a younger man than his opponent,
but has ably demonstrated the fact that he Is an active
and vigorous factor In public affairs, having been an ef
fective and useful member of the city council, an Inter
ested and Influential figure In many phases of our public
affairs, a young man of character anu Integrity, and. ns Is
now evident, of unusual energy and of a vorjr definite am
bition.
' The campaign between these excellent cltlxens has
progressed happily and hopefully on both sides up to the
last ten days, and although the burden of prophecy nnd
. the bulk of the betting Is heavily In favor of Captain Joy
ner, It Is undoubtedly true that Mr. Goodwin has made a
remarkable race nnd has demonstrated his capacity to
win friends and to hold them.
If Mr. Goodwin does not win In this election he la
young enough to expect preferment at another time, and
his vigorous and vltnl canvass make an easy prophecy
that he will be honored In some future campaign by ths
triumphant ballots of his friends In the city of Atlanta.
The Illness of Two Notables.
Two distinguished men have been III within the past
few days and the whole country has felt solicitous.
John P. Rockefeller was to have received n delega
tion of passenger agents at his summer home. Forest
Hill, a few days ago, but when the visitors arrived they
were Informed that Mr. Rockefeller was III and could
not see them. They were escorted through the grounds
by his brother-in-law. who showed them every courtesy
and all the places of Interest,
It develops now that the cause of Mr. Rockefeller's
Illness was too much of that delicious Southern product,
the watermelon. It Is a tempting dish at any time and
for ahybody, but when a man has Just come home from
France, where a citron or a gourd are the nearest ap
proach to Georgia watermelons, It Is no wonder that he
should have been led Into Indulging too freely In thu
succulent rattlesnake or the luscious Kolb gem.
We have always been proud of the Georgia water
melon. *As n rule they arc harmless and well behaved.
Taken In anything like moderation, one of them “doetjf
good like a medicine." But for the sake of the fair fame
of the state we hope that It was not one of our own
product which had the bad grace to make Mr. Rockefel
ler ill. He was Just beginning to look upon life with n
more Indulgent eye. He had found that there was some
pood even In newspaper men and magatlne writers,,
end the world was beginning to visualise before him In
couleur de rose.
He may lapie Into his old cynicism and Isolation
as a result of this experiedee.
Another great man who Is on the sick list Is very
different from Mr. Rockefeller. Colonel James Hamilton
Lewis, of Georgia, of the state of Washington, and now
corporation attorney for the city of Chicago, Is An octo
pus Ifunter of the most pronounced type, lie came Into
office under the municipal ownership mayor, Dunne.
Recently he has been out gunning for the tax dodger.
He has succeeded In unearthing millions of back taxes
due by evasive millionaires. The Marshall Field estate
was the first to be run to earth, but that was like the
tiger's taste of blood. Colonel Lewis started In then to
make the Yerkes and other estates come across with the
millions of back taxes due the city. It was strenuous
work and it soon became evident that the strain waif too
much for his physique, which has never been of the
strongest. In a recent conference he was taken Jll and
had to go to his home. He made a brave effort to re
sume his duties at once, but he found that he would
have to take a vacation and consequently he has gone to
a hospital for rest and recuperation.
In all seriousness, Colonel Lewis Is a man of whom
the state of Georgia Is Justly proud. Few men owe Jess
to outside Influences than he. In the strictest sense he
fb a self made man. and he made a mighty good Job of
it By bit own effort! he has risen to eminence and
Is now doing the beat work of his life. His hosts <
friends throughout ths qountry hope for his early T
covery. . '
How to Vote on Wednesday.
J<et tho- man who thinks Hearst can't make a speech
read that brave and clear cut utterance at Old Salem,
Ills., on Friday last.
There was no Arthur Brisbane there to suggest or aid.
The Invitation was given one day and the speech deliv
ered the next.
And If there has been a braver and a timelier mes
sage Bent to the people In these eventful days of graft and
greed and patriotism and reform, we have not heard It.
No lesaon more saving and more vital to the republic
and to good government can be taught In this tremen
dous age than the gospel of Individual Integrity and Indi
vidual responsibility In tho ballot. It la the hope of the
people, and the last promise of a real democracy.
This blind unreasoning mob of partisans who follow
unknowing and unthinking behind every fallacy that
cabala voice) and every leader that trading caucuses pro
ject, is neither the Democratic party nor the Republican
party. Kill a rout of spoilsmen or a procession of tools.
Their blindness and their subservience It at once the
weakness and the menace of republican Institutions. ^
Parties are not organisations of men. They are
organisations of policy and the men are merely banded
to achieve these policies In government. When parties
are mere organisations of men they arp conspiracies of
the ambitious—syndicates of spoilsmen, trusts of selfish
office seekers. Parties have Integrity only as they are
true to the principles that formed them and parties only
deserve the Ipyalty of men when they are absolutely
true to the principles for which men Joined them. There
can be no answer to the logic of this proposition. This
Is the creed which Mr. Henrst has not directly voiced,
but It Is the creed In action by which he has grown to be
the greatest and moat popular of the Democrats of hla
generation.
And this creed applies to Georgia today aa It ap-
piles to New York, or Wisconsin or Missouri.
What Georgians are Interested In Is not men but
measures—not personalltlea but policies, not the Smiths
nor the Howells, nor the Russella, nor Estllls, but
railway rate regulation and the supremacy of the white
man In the South.
Tho way for Georgians to vote on Wednesday la to
forget for an ho^r every name that has been mentioned
In the canvass—to bury every bitter word and every
scandal created prejudice, and to get busy In the honest
minds with the policies they are voting for. Put all
the candidates under the table, and put the principles
on a pedestal.
'Then when the honest and patriotic voter lias made
his choice among the platforms and principles which
pulse the campaign, let him reach under the table and
drag out Hoke or Clark or Dlek or Jim or John, and put
down a big mark opposite Ills name as his choice to
execute the policies he follows.
That’s the way for a man nnd a citizen to vote.
That's the way -for a Georgian to Illustrate his love for
Georgia. That's the way for a patriot to provide for the
future.
A plague on all your factions! What the people
want la government—under which they can live and
prosper and bo free and happy.
If the time ever comes—and may God speed It!—
when tho free man of America shnll go to thq ballot box
carrying that little white slip of paper ns the voice of
hla conscience and tho pledge of hla patriotism, there
wilt "lie no problems that need alarm and no real dan
gers that will threaten the republic.
May tho Goddess of Liberty All the clear minds of
Georgians—and their gullnnt hands—with the Incarna
tion of this truth on Wednesday.
Eloquence in the Legislative Close.
Words spoken at conventional presentations and re
sponses nre usually formal, seldom enjoyable, often
stilted and never funny; though faint attempts' at humor
sometimes relieve tho oppressive solemnity of eulogy.
And yet, with all these difficulties of performance In
the way, the remarks of speakers during the laat hour*
of the closing session of the legislature wheft officers
were remembered with appropriate tokens, were so fit
ting, so graceful, and best of all, so well deserved, that
ninny visitors felt repaid for their long wait—past mid
night—to hear the conclusion.
Boykin Wright's brief address to the speaker was
flue enough to satisfy the critic of rhotorlc, earnest
enough for n Spartan, yet delivered with that tone of feel
ing In restraint, not In ttimult, pathos suggested, not
vented, which graces a high and noble siieech.
The same may be said of Speaker 8lston'a response.
He spoke from no notes, but the words, Impassioned In
feeling, eloquent In delivery nnd graceful In diction—
not only from tho speaker but from others on tho same
occasion, reminded one of the time when oratory flour
ished and flowered In the lives of almost every Southern
public man.
John tlntfeutllet, whose strenuous work at the clerk's
desk forced him to read In loud monotones piles of dreary
statutes, dropped nimbly from the desk to the rostrum
and surprised those who did not know him with rounded
sentences, bountiful sentiments and graceful action.
That such things—conventional and commonplace—
should furnish n real treat to thoao who believe In elo
quence and feci Its charm. Is enough to wnrrant.thls con
gratulation, and to Justify the belief that tho growing In
fluence of the dally newspaper and the Increasing cyni
cism of the nge have not robbed oratory of its voice and
scepter.
The Disaster in Chile. .
The details which are coming to light Indicate that
the earthquake along the coast of Chile, which wrought
the greatest damage at Valparaiso and Santiago, was
practically as destructive as that of San Francisco.
The fact that the houses In those stricken cities sre
low, the tallest not exceeding live or six stories, made
such wholesale destruction aa that of the California city
practically Impossible. They were built with an Idea to
Just such disasters as that of Thursday and Friday nnd
the events go to show that they budded wisely, but for
some reason the fatalities in Valparaiso nnd Santiago ap
pear to have been greater than those of Ssn Francisco.
Final figures give llie mortality In San Francisco nt less
than a thousand, while present reports Indicate that the
number of killed tn Ohllo will reach at least 5,000, while
twice or three times that number Is not Improbable when
all the outlying districts are heard from.
Many of the same harrowing scenes which marked
the earlier disaster have been present In accentuated
form tn the Chilean cities. Agsln Are broke out and tho
horrors of the earthquake were Intensified by the terrors
of conflagration. The ever present ghoul was on the
scene, robbing dead bodies and looting buildings In the
very midst of the general pandemonium. Troops called
out to guard the ruins had no hesitancy In shooting down
the thieves nnd plunderers without a' word of warning.
Thousands of frightened people are ramped In the streets.
visit of the demoralizing
while every hour brings a
tremors.
The Interest la aslamlc disturbances will be stimu
lated by tbl* new disaster. It la confessed that we know
but little of the subject, after all, but It becomes Increas
ingly evident that these visitations are confined, to a
large extent, to the coast. Lisbon, Caracas, Charleston,
San Franclaco and now Valparaiso, all of which have
been victims at more or lese remote periode of great
earthquake disasters, sre on the coast, and tn fact It Is
almost uniformly the rule that these shocks occur on or
near the seaahore, so that such cities must be be pecu
liarly subject to such convulsions of nature.
It la hoped that further details will show that earlier
accounts of the recent earthquake were not so destructive
to life and property aa at first reported. Chile le one of
the moat proaperoua and enterprialng countries of South
America.
Extending dike a narrow ribbon more than half way
down the length of that half of the hemisphere. It has all
the variety of climate from the equatorial to the antarctic.
Valparaiso—which means the Valley, of Paradise—Is all
that Its name Implies. It Is one of the most charming
and attractive dtles In that section of thff world, and the
suffering Inhabitants have the sympathy of the entire
world In this sad calamity.
LEAVING WELL ENOUGH ALONE.
To the Editor of The Georgian:
Accepting your general Invitation I beg to Indorse
your editorial of today touching the vital Issue of the
campaign and to submit,these suggestions:
Georgia politics has but fallen In line and yielded to
the demand of corporate greed and consequent i*ower.
One week from today will mark the destiny of our stnto
for bad “enough” continued, or for better conditions.
So great a fight for civic righteousness has not been
made since the bitterly accepted negro auffrage, for the
evil has been accumulative and the ableat talent of the
state is leading the fight. So If this Is denied Its Just
success then bad “enough” will move smoothly along
in the same old eaay way.
The citizenry of the etate protests against “ring rule.”
The ring cries "There la no ring. If so, where la It?
Put your finger on It." Well, ring or not, the diabolical
Influence exists, nnd powerfully so. But If "ring” la dis
pleasing, suppose you dub yourselves an all-hands 'round,
while your prompter “gingers up" the performance with
the call, "Pass around the bottle and we'll all take a
drink."
Now, seriously, fellow citizens, if the railroads, as the
servants of the people, are doing the fair thing, why the
unjust discrimination In our freight rates? Why have
recent agitations caused freight rate* generally to be re
duced 10 per cent? lan’t It rather significant that the cor
porate Interests of the state are fighting the reform
forces?
They prate of prosperity. Boah! the sustained hlgh-
price of cotton has brought prosperity to Georgia. And
what haa “well enough" to dd with the price of cotton?
The ebb and flow In the tide of state and national prosper
ity comes usually at periodicities, and cornea aa a result of
a series of economic forces, and Is not the- work of a set
of JumpIng-Jack-stand-patters. "Well enough" has main
tained our high tariff. "Well enough” haa rotted our state
politics, and "well enough” will some day beg bread from
the Bad Man's barn. Gratefully yours,
C. J. TAYLOR
-Buena Vista, Ga., August 16, 1906.
HEARST ON THE BALLOT
A Great Speech, by the Bravest of American Democrats
Congressman William Randolph
Hearst, of New Tork, In an address on
Friday, the 17th, at Salem, III., the
early home of Abraham Lincoln, to the
Old Salem Chautauqua Association,
pointed out the harmfulness of blind
party allegiance, and argued for In
dependence In voting. His address was
i follows:
My Friends: I think we will all agree
that this American system of govern
ment was founded to express the will of
the whole people and to be controlled
by a majority of the voters.
I maintain that blind party allegi
ance tends to Interfere with these alms
and objects of our government, and Is
responsible for most of the political
evils under which we suffer today.
I maintain that these evils will never
be remedied until the people vote care-,
fully and discriminate!}- for good men
nnd good measures, Irrespective of par
ty prejudice or political bias ,of any
kind. If a very large proportion of the
people vote blindly for one party or the
other, the control of government Is
really left In the hands of a small mi
nority or balnnce of power thut trans
fers Its vote from one party to the
other according to Its Ideas pr Its In
terests.
Dstermining Factor In Elections.
This variable vote will always be a
determining factor In elections.
Certainly, therefore, the conditions
demand that thla Independent vote
shall be as large and ns representative
as possible, in order best to carry out
the admitted objects of our govern
ment.
The more nearly universal It Is, the
more nearly It will express the will of
the whole people. The more restricted,
the more It will express merely the In
terests of a small and perhaps selfish
minority.
Let us take a concrete example.
If In this community there were 201.-
noo voters, and 100,000 habitually voted
the Democratic ticket and 100 000 hab
itually voted the Republican ticket, the
decision of all matters would lie In
the hands of the 1,000 voters who.
through Inclination or Interest, voted
now with one and then with the other.
If these 1,000 were all' of the highest
type of cltlxens. moved only by the
most patriotic and unselfish sentiments,
we would still have u condition of mi
nority rule foreign to the plans of the
father* and rnntrary to the principles
which underlie our American syatem.
On the other hand. If these 1,000 were
selfish, scheming, unscrupulous men,
using their balance of power for their
own Interest nnd aggrandizement, we
would certainly have In them a dan-
gerouM monnee to our Institution* ana a
powerful Influence exerted In opposi
tion to popular lights nnd liberties.
You cun easily see that the boss of
a political machine would not long con
sider the hundred thousand that would
vote for his party under any circum
stances, but w.ould devote his tlmo to
securing the support of the one thou
sand that might he Influenced to de
cide the election his way.
If the 1.000 were grasping and greed)
and wanted special privileges, they
would got them. If they wanted the
people's franchises, they would JfJJ
them. If they wanted discriminating
tariffs, they would get them. .....
If, under the effect of this political
partiality and patronage and protec
tion, these favored few should grow
enormously rich ami add the eorrupt-
Ing power of great wealth to their un
due political Influence, they might come
to control the machines of both parties,
name the candidates of both parties
and conduct the whole government In
their own selfish Interest.
Exact Situation Today.
We can follow clearly enough what
would happen In our own little commu
nity of 201,000 voters, and that condi
tion, which we have merely reduced to
round numbers and stated In simple
form. Is exactly what has prevailed in
a Inrger and more complex mnnner
throughout our whole country.
The result haa been the concentra
tion of power In the hands of a small
but shrewd and active minority, work
ing Incessantly for its own Interest and
without regard for the public welfare.
We saw in New York that the life
insurance swindlers had contributed to
the Democratic party one year and to
the Republican party the next.
We know that Ryan and Rockefel
ler and Morgan and Belmont have no
party prejudice, but conduct their poli
tics for their own pocket and accord-
Ing to the maxim, laid down by Jay
Gsiutd.
Mr. Ooulil mibl before an Inve.tlgat-
Ing committee: "When I am dealing
with Republican* I ant n Republican.
When I am dealing with Democrat* 1
am a Democrat. When the district la
doubtful 1 ant doubtful. And all the
time I am nn Erie Railroad man.
We have aeen Walith, the bank
wrecker In Chicago, label hi* publlca-
tlon Democratic one day and Republi
can the next, but all the time conduct
It for Walsh'* benefit and In opposition
to the people'* Interest.
Two Pertinent Question*.
Should the people stand b£ nnd *ee
the (tower of their number* nullified
by a slavish devotion to a party ma
chine that doe* not consider them, but
only their enemies?
Shall the people not take a leaf out
of the corporation book* nnd vote for
their own Interest* and their own
friend*, regardless of party loyalty?
Party loyalty I* a line thing when
n great l*.ue I* at stake and when one |
HEARST BUYS LINCOLN HOME
FOR NATIONAL PARK SITE
L
By I’rlvate Leased Wire.
Springfield, III., Aug. 20.—The site of
the New Salem Mill, famous because of
Its association with the early life of
Abraham Lincoln, has been bought by
William Randolph Hearst and present
ed to the Old Salem Chautauqua As
sociation. New SAlem was the home
or Lincoln for six yeaft*.
The property presented by Mr.
Hearst, he provides, must be main
tained forever as a national park. It
contains do acres, for which $200 an
acre was paid. Ths grounds ars ndja.
cent to the camp grounds of ths
Old Salem Association, which Is one
of the oldest and most prosperous of
its kind In Illinois, and It agreed to
comply with the spirit and Tetter of
Mr. Hearst's proposition.
The New York congressman made an
address to a large gathering Friday nt
the Chautauqua, and was received with
a great demonstration of welcome.
for a great r |'orm. So It waa when
Abraham Lincoln led the Republican
party against the entrenched power of
slavery.
But even then It was a new party
that made the fight. The old parties
had been too timid to do It, or too
corrupt to do It.
Today there are great Issues, the
same Issues that hnve divided people
since human society was formed.
Lincoln said: "There nre two prin
ciple* that hnve stood face to face from
the beginning -of time; and >vlll ever
continue to struggle. It Is the same
principle' In w hatever shape It devel
ops Itself. It Is the same spirit that
says, "You toll and work and earn
bread, and I'll eat It.’ No matter In
whnt shape It routes, whether from the
mouth of a king that seeks to bestride
the jK>opte of his own nation and live
by the fruit of their labor, or from one
rare of men as an apology for enslav
ing another race, It Is the same tyran
nical principle."
Same l.au. Exist. Today.
The same Issue exists today In trust
domination, trust oppression, trust ex
tortion. There Is still a class that
says: "You toll and work und earn
bread and I'll eat It." But neither of
the old parties distinctly represent*
either side of the Issue.
There are trust Republicans and Lin
coin Republicans. There are trust
Democrats and Jefferson Democrats.
No longer does the word Democracy
define any definite doctrine and the
word Republican express any partlcu
Inr principle.
Under such conditions party devo
tion only divide* the people's strength
and fortifies their enemies who are uni
ted against them.
Let tho people unite In their own
Interest.
Let the people vote Independently
and for the public good.
I.et them vote for Itonest men and
honest measures. Irrespective of party,
and they will soon find themselves once
more the great nower In the republic
that politician* will regard and even
organized wealth will respect.
It Is most gratifying und encourag.
Ing to find that this fact Is being gen
erally recognised und that Independ
ence In voting is Increasing with ev
ery election.
In Illinois nt the last election, when
the stnto went 300,000 Republican, the
people of this district had the tils
crimination to return to congress i
Democrat, the Hon. Henry T. Rainey,
who has solved them with conspicuous
fidelity and ability.,
In Pennsylvania, In the present cam
paign, the sincere Democrats have re-
K udlated the unspeakable Uuffev, and
ntg- united with the Lincoln Itepubq-
cons in a movement which represents
the character and conscience of that
community.
"Breed of Yellow Dog. Too Poor.”
From New York to California, the
people are realizing thut the success of
popular government depends upon the
enre nnd conscientiousness, the Intelli
gence and Impartiality, with which ev
ery Individual voto la cast.
A man con no longer take credit to
himself for supporting a yellow dog
that happens to have been nominated
by his party.
The breed of yellow dogs has become
too poor and the marks of the corpora
tion collar are too plainly visible around
their mongrel necks.
But tho Independent voter, with the
bent Intentions often meets with much
difficulty and deception.
Ho sometimes finds that the man he
has trusted has been captured by the
corporation*.
Unhappy examples of such cases are
Grover Cleveland, In his second term,
nnd District Attorney .Jerome.
The people supported each of these
men. believing him to be true and their
friend, and the corporations added their
support, knowing him to be their chat
tel.
This betrayal of public confidence
Is a grave danger to which even the
most conscientious- voter Is exposed,
and to gusrd against it a candidate
should be carefully weighed and judged,
not by Ills professions alone, but by
his associations as well.
Axiom of tho Corporations. "
It may be set down as an axiom that
the corporations never support a man
that they do not expert to use. Again,
the Independent voter frequently finds
little opportunity for a Judicious vote,
the machines of both parties having
combined against the people and unit
ed In the corporation service.
Such a situation existed In New York
last fall. The machines of the two old
parties had apparently entered Into a
"gentleman's agreement" for a division
of the spoils, with an understanding
usrty clearly represents a noble effort that a corporation Democrat should be
elected mayor at that election and a
corporation Republican governor at the
next.
A third party was straightway start
ed to restore to the American citizen
his freedom of choice.
The Independence League has since
formed as a permanent organization to
meet such situation nnd to protect the
political rights of the citizen.
Speaking nt Albany of the league, I
endeavored to define It as follows:
"The fundamental principle of the
Independence League Is Independence—
Independence of boss rule, Independ
ence of corporation control and Inde
pendence of any party subject to boss
rule and corporation control."
Our Idea Is to revert to the first prin
ciples of the Declaration of Inde
pendence, which Jefferson, the found
er of the Democratic party, wrote, and
from which Lincoln, practically the
founder of the Republican party, drew
his every Inspiration.
Lincoln, speaking In Independence
Hall on February 22, 18(11, said:
"I only say that all the political sen
timents 1 entertain have been drawn
ns near os I have been able, to draw
them, from the sentiments which orig
inated In. and were given to the world
from this hall. I Have never had a feel
ing politically that did not spring from
the sentiments embodied In the Dec
laration of Independence."
Fight to Suitain a Free Ballet.
We believe that these broad and
fundamental principles offer ground
upon which Jeffersonian Democrats
and Lincoln Republicans can unite to
defeat the machinations of machines In
the interests of a privileged few and
to majptnln a government . for the
greatest number.
We will enter upon a campaign this
fall In New York to sustain the sa
cred American right of a free ballot
and a fair count.
In the last election the people of
New York were disgracefully defraud
ed. We can convict the machines of
fraud. Our opponents, Gy their action,
admit fraud, and seventeen convicts
sent to the penitentiary prove thut
fraud.
But both parties have entered Into a
criminal combination to deny to the
people of Now York an honest count of
the ballots actually cast,
By CHOLLY KNICKERBOCKER,
By Private Leased Mire.
New York, Aug. 2<S.-A remarkabl,
suggestion Is contained In a dispatch
from Cleveland In today's papers u
Is to the effect that John D. Rocke.
feller Is considering a project to ea.
dow n home for chorus girls, and thu
he has signified his willingness, tenta.
lively, to give $100,000 for this praise-
worthy purpose.
, Project was planned by Marl*
Cahill, the actress, and through a iler!
gyman, whom she knew and who un.
acquainted with Mr. Rockefeller shl
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wI^oW*go , °eo h n‘d'?u^ £
like amount being raised by Miss Cahill
and those Interested with her. n
The home will serve a two-fold nur.
pose In agreement with the pUn.
of those who have started the move
ment. It will serve as a place uh- r,
chorus glrla may be trained and ch
eated for their work, and -also as a
home, should Illness or age prevent
them from continuing In their urn
fesslon.
W. C. Rudd,' brother-in-law of Mr
Rockefeller, was asked last nlzhi
whether he, had heard of the move-
ment.
"No. I have heard nothing of it. nor
of Mr. Rockefeller’s Intention to aid
It,' he replied. "The report might be
true, although I am inclined to nuc«.
Uon It.”.
Tnere Is a large contingent on Broad,
way also who prefer to suspend ju,le
nient until more definite news comes
out from Cleveland.
StenslHnds are cropping up all over
"Hello, Paul; howdy leave every
thing out in Chicago?"
This was the way Duggan greeted
lYUliam Keogh,' an actor, ns he tvas
lining on Broadway.
"Guess again," replied Keogh. “I'm
sot Paul."
“Sure you are," Insisted Duggan
‘You're Paul Stensland, the Chicago
Then he started to arrest Keogh, hut
'Eddie" Dunn, who knew Duggan, res-
THIS DATE IN HISTORY.
1592— George Yllllera, duke of Buckingham,
born.
1642-»Gi*tea of Coventry abut ngnlnat Kin?
Clin lies of Knfflrjiiil.
1701—Mir Charles Medley, poet, died.
1770— Fight In Hudson river between Amer
ican Are ships und British nieii-of-
wnr.
1823—Pope Plus VII died.
1829— Adrlnnopte tnken by the Ituaslmis.
1833—Beiiininlii Ilnrrlson. twenty-third
president of United Mtates, hum. ldcd
1847—Buttle of Churubiisco, Mexico.
1852—Htenmer Atlanta lost on Like Erie;
2f»0 perished.
1865— Final proclamation of cessation of
hostilities In the civil wnr.
1886— Eight Chicago anarchists sentenced to
death.
-Queen - Victoria'# carriage stopped hr
on insane man, who threatened to kill
her.
1905—Lord Cursoh resigned the vlceroysblp
of India; the earl of Mlnto succeeded
hltu.
shared the responsibility for such rev
olutionary nets. I«et them share the
responsibility before the people this
fall.
We have complete confidence in ths
integrity and Independence of the peo-
pie. We depend not upon party preju
dice, but upon patriotism nnd public
spirit.
We call to our cause the living word*
of patriots dead, of Washington, who
said: "Beware of the baneful effect*
of party spirit and of the ruin to which
Its extremes must lead.”
Of Jefferson, who wrote; "If I could
not go to heaven without a party, I
would not go there at nil."
Of Jackson, who wrote: "In every
section party and party feeling should
be avoided."
Of Lincoln, who said: "The party
lash will overawe Justice and liberty.’
Our greatest statesmen, our national
heroes, teach Us that there Is a senti
ment higher than party loyalty, nnd it
Is patriotic duty; there Is a purpose no
bler .than the success of n political
clique, and It Is the welfare of the
whole people ami perpetuation of a
government'"of the people, by the peo-
They have | pie nnd for the people."
Growth and Progress of the New South
iHg nttentlou.
Extending Small Railroads.
We have pointed out more than once In these columns that the de
velopment in railroads tn this section Is one of the most notable feature,
of the growth and progress of the 8outh.
It hns been shown that there Is almost n famine In plg-lron, so great Is
the demand for structural Iron throughout this section, and the demand
for rails alone would largely account for this fact. These lines are to he
used In developing nnd handling the output of industries such ns coal min
ing, lumbering, phosphate mining, tho gathering of naval stores, etc.
The Manufacturers’ Record points out that there Itf scarcely a state In
the South In which the building of small lines Is not In progress In a num
ber of localities. In the mountains of Virginia, West Virginia, Kentucky
and Tennessee much of the construction of small lines Is done by the trunk
roads as feeders, although not a few Independent pieces of work nre un
der way. In the states named a large proportion of this new building l»
on account of efffil, although lumbering figures In the situation to some ex
tent. Farther south, In North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida,
Alabama, Mississippi, and even beyond In Arkansas and Louisiana, the de
velopment of limber land and the products therefrom Is mainly responsi
ble for the building of many short railroads. This type of construction la
particularly active just now throughout these states, and how useful It be
comes In the lafer development of the country is now shown by tho utili
zation of several small lines In Georgia, by means of connections, In mak
ing a through route from Augusta to the Gulf of Mexico.
Continuing, The Manufacturers' Record says: "The activity of this
variety of railroad work Is Indicated by the reports of new Incorpora
tions received by The Manufacturers' Record, hardly a day passing with
out one or more companies being chartered to build such lines. But It
does not always happen that the first building’of one'of these lumber
roads, or even of coal lines. Is of small extent. For Instance, ths Good
year line In Mississippi, a lumber rood, Is to be 100 miles long from ths
beginning, construction for that ameunt of track being already under way.
In addition to the trackage of the line previously built and which
purchased to form the nucleus of this railroad. On the other hand, the
Tidewater Railroad, which will be over 400 miles long In Virginia abd
West Virginia, la an example of what an Influence coal mining may have
upon the developing of a new line.
\ "The construction of small lines of railroad promises to continue In
definitely throughout the entire South, the riches of the country In both
mines and forests being so great that none can now see the end of their
development." v X