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F * IHfi ATIjANTA ujgukuiajn. The Atlanta Georgian. JOHN TEMPLE GRAVES, Editor. F. L. SEELY, President. Subscription Ratei: Published Every Afternoon | One.Year *4.50 Except Sunday by Six Months 2.50 THE GEORGIAN CO. Three Month 1.25 at 25 W. Alsbsma Street, | By Carrier, per week 10c || Atlanta, - Ga. Entered as MCODd-rlaM matter April ». ISOS, at tha Poatoffleo at Atlanta, Qa.. under act of Mnarraa of March & ISIS. 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 Standard XT - '»« 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