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The Atlanta Georgian.
JOHN TEMPLE GRAVES, Editor.
F. L. SEELY, President.
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la now doing the best work of his life. Hla hosts of
friends throughout the country hope for his early re
covery.
BstarM as saeeod-elaaa matter April 26, ISOS, at the Poatofflee at
Attanta. Ga.. under act of eonareae of Uareh S. lift.
We Nominate a Mayor on Wednesday.
It is not to be forgotten In the absorbing whirl of
state polities 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 is 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 la
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 la 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 tills 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 cttlsena
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 who are opposing each other
(or 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. Hla
long and Invaluable services as chief of the Are depart-
ment and the preserver of our homes and firesides from
the fiend of the flame, hna made hla 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 has 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 rfmall boy In Atlanta—"without distinction to race,
color or previous condition of servitude."
Mr. Goodwin la a younger man than hla opponent,
but has ably demonstrated the fact that be 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, as Is
now evident, of unusual energy and of a vory definite am
bition.
The campaign between these excellent citizens has
progressed happily and hopefully on both sides up to the
last ten days, and although the burden of prophecy and
the bulk of the betting Is heavily In favor of Captain Joy
ner, It Is undoubtedly true that Mr. Goodwjn has made a
remarkable race and has demonstrated his capacity to
win friends and to hold them.
If Mr. Goodwin does not win In this election hs Is
young enough to expect preferment at another time, and
hla vigorous and vital canvass make an easy prophecy
that he will be honored In some future campaign by the
triumphant ballots of hit friends In the city of Atlanta.
The Illness of Two Notables.
Two distinguished men have been 111 within the past
few days and the whole country haa felt solicitous.
John D. Rockefeller was to have received a delega
tion of pasaenger agents at bit summer home. Forest
Hill, a few days ago, hut when the visitors arrived they
were Informed that Mr. Rockefeller was III and conld
not see them. They were escorted through the grounds
by hli brother-in-law, Vho 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 n tempting dish nt any time nnd
for anybody, hut when a man has just come home from
France, where a citron or a gourd are the nearest ap
proach to Oeorgia 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 a rule they nrc harmless and well behaved.
Taken in anything like moderation, one of tlioin “doeth
good like a medicine." But for the sake of the fair fame
of the atate we hope that It was not one of our own
product which had the bad grace to make Mr. Rockefel
ler III. He was just beginning to look upon life with a
more Indulgent eye. lie had found that there was some
good even In newspaper men and magaalne writers,
and the world wat beginning to visualise before him In
couleur de roae.
He may lapie Into hla old cynicism and isolation
as a result of this experience.
Another great man who Is on the sick list ts 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 hunter of tlie moat pronounced type. He came into
office under the municipal ownership mayor, Dunne.
Recently he haa been out gunning for the tax dodger.
He has succeeded In unearthing millions of bark 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 sturted In then to
make the Yerkea and other estates come across with the
millions of back taxes due the city. Jt was strenuous
work and tt soon became evident that the strain was too
much for hla physique, which has never been of the
strongest, in a recent conference ho was taken III and
bad to go to his home. He made a brave effort to re
sume his duties at once, but he found that he would
b«ve to take a vacation and consequently he has gone to
A hospital for rest and recuperation.
In all serlousuess. Colonel Lewis is a man of whom
th* state of Georgia Is justly proud. Few men owe less
to outside influences than *hc. In the strictest sense be
Is a self made nmn. and he made a mighty good job of
It By hla own efforts be has risen to eminence and
How to Vote on Wednesday.
Let the 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, c
And If there has been a braver and a timelier mes
sage sent to the people In these eventful days of graft and
greed and patriotism and reform, we have not heard It.
No lesson more saving and more vital to the republic
and to good government can be tanght In this tremen
dous age than the gospel of Individual Integrity and Indi
vidual responsibility in the ballot, tt fa 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
cabals voice, and every leader that trading caucuses pro
ject, is neither the Democratic party nor the Republican
party, but a rout of spoilsmen or a procession of tools.
Their blindness and their subservience Is 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 .organizations of men they are 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 loyalty 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. Hearst has not directly voiced,
but It Is the creed In action by which he has grown to be
the greatest and most popular of the' Democrats of bis
generation.
And this creed applies to Oeorgia today as It ap
plies to New York, or Wisconsin or Missouri.
What Georgians are Interested In Is not men but
measures—not personalities but policies, not the Smiths
nor the Howells, nor the Russellf, nor Kstllls, but
railway rate regulation and the supremacy of the white
man In the South.
The way for Georgians, to vofe on Wednesday Is to
forget for an hour every name that haa been mentioned
In the canvass—to bury every bitter word ahd every
scandal cheated 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 honeat and patriotic voter has made
hla choice among the platforms and principles which
pulse the campaign, let him reach under the table nnd
drag out Hoke or Clark or Dick or Jim Dr John, and put
down a big mark opposite his name ns his choice to
execute the policies he follows.
That’s the way for a man and a citizen to vote.
Tha{j8 the way for a Georgian to Illustrate hla 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 Is government—under which they can live and
prosper and be free and Imppy.
If tho time ever comes—and may God apeetj It!—
when the free man of Americn shall go to the ballot box
carrying that little white slip of paper ub the voice of
his conscience and tho pledge of his patriotism, there
will be no problems ^that need alarm and no real dan
gers that will threaten the republic.
May the aoddess of Liberty fill the clear minds of
Georgians—and their gallant hands—with the Incarna
tion of this truth on Wednesday.
Eloquence in the Legislative Close.
Words spoken nt conventional presentations and re
sponses are usually formal, seldom enjoyable, often
stilted and never funny; though faint attempts at humor
sometimes relieve the oppressive solemnity of eulogy.
And yet, with all these difficulties of performance In
the way, the remarks of speakers during the last hours
of the closing session of the legislature when officers
were remembered with appropriate tokens, were so fit
ting, so graceful, and beat of nil, bo well deserved, that
many visitors felt repaid for their long wait—past mid
night—to hear the conclusion.
Boykin Wright's brief nddress to the speaker waa
fine enough to satisfy the critic of rhetoric, earnest
enough for a Spartan, yet delivered with that tone of feel
ing In restraint, not In tumult, pathos suggested, not
vented, which graces a high and noble speech.
The same may be snld of Speaker Slaton's response.
He spoke front no notes, but the words. Impassioned in
feeling, eloquent In delivery nnd graceful In diction—
not only front the speaker but from others on the same
occasion, reminded one of the time when oratory flour
ished and flowered In the' lives of almost every Southern
public ntnn.
John Bolfeulllot, whoso strenuous work nt the clerk’s
desk forced him to rend In loud monotones piles of dreary
statutes, dropped nimbly from the desk to the rostrum
nnd surprised those who did not know him with rounded
sentences, beautiful sentiments and graceful action.
That such things—conventional nnd commonplace—
should furnish a real trent to those who believe In elo
quence and feel Its charm, la enough to wnrrant this con
gratulation, nnd to Justify the belief that the growing In
fluence of the dally newspnper nnd the Increasing cyni
cism of the ngo have not robbed oratory of Its voice nnd
scepter.
The Disaster in Chile.
The details which are coming to light Indicate that
the earthquake along tho coast of Chile, which wrought
the greatest damage at Valparaiso nnd Santiago, was
practically as destructive as that of San Francisco.
Tho fact that the houses In' those stricken cities are
low, the tallest not exceeding five or six stories, mado
such wholesale destruction ns that of tho California city
practically lm|K)ssihle. They were built with an Idea to
just such disasters ns that of Thursday nnd Friday and
the events go to show that they Imlldcd wisely, but for
some reason the fatalities In Valparaiso and Santiago ap
pear to have been greater than those of 8an Francisco.
Final figures give the mortality In San Francisco at less
than a thousand, while present reports Indicate thnt the
number of killed In Chile will reach at least 5,000, while
twice or three times that number Is not Improbable when
all tho outlying districts are heard from.
Many of the same harrowing scenes which marked
the earlier disaster have been present In accentuated
form In the Chilean cities. Again fire broke out and tho
horrors of the enrthqunke wore 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 gunrd the ruins had no hesitancy In shooting down
the thieves and plunderers without a word of warning.
Thousands of frightened people are camped In the streets,
while every hour brings a fresh visit of the demoralizing
tremors. „
The Interest In seismic disturbances will be stimu
lated by this 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 Francisco and now Valparaiso, all of which have
been victims at more or less remote periods of great
earthquake disasters, are on the coast, and In fact It la
almost uniformly the rule that these shocks occur on or
near the seashore, so that such cities must be be pecu
liarly subject to such convulsions of nature. '
It Is hoped that further details will show that earlier
accounts of the recent earthquake were not so destructive
to life and property as at first reported. Chile Is one of
the most prosperous and enterprising countries of South
America.
Extending like 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 cities in that section of the world, and the
suffering inhabitants have tbs 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 Isaue of the
campaign and to -,u!>mit these suggestions:
Georgia politics has but fallcA In line and yielded t
the demand of corporate greed and consequent power.
One week from today will mark the destiny of our atate
for bad "enough” continued, or for better conditions.
So great a fight for civic righteousness has not been
made since the bitterly accepted negro suffrage, for tho
evil has been accumulative and the ableit talent of the
atate Is leading the fight. So If this Is denied Its Just
success then bad "enough" will move smoothly along
In the same old easy way. *
The citizenry of the state protests against “ring rule.”
The ring cries "There Is no ring. If so. where Is it?
Put your finger on It” Well, ring or not, the diabolical
Influence exists, and powerfully so. But If "ring" ts dis
pleasing, suppose you dub yourselves au 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 agitation* caused freight rates generally to be re
duced 10 per cent? Isn’t U rather significant that the cor
porate Interests of the atate are fighting the reform
forces?
They prate of prosperity. Boah! the sustained high-
price of cotton has brought prosperity to Georgia. And
what baa "well enough” to do with the price of cotton?
The ebb and flow In the tide of state and national prosper
ity conjee usually at periodicities, and comes as 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" has rotted our state
politics, and “well enough” will some day beg bread rrom
the Bad Man’s barn. Gratefully yours,
C. J. TAYLOR.
Buena Vista, Ga„ August 15, 1906.
_ HEARST ON THE BALLOT
A Great Speech by the Bravest of American Democrats
Congressman William Randolph
Hearst, of New York, in an address on
Friday, the ftth, at Salem, 111., the
early home of Abraham Lincoln, to the
Old Salem Chautauqua Association,
pointed out tpe 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 waa founded to express tlje will dt
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 alma
and objects of our government, and Is
oday.
maintain that these evils will never
be remedied until the people vote care
fully and discriminate!)- for good men
and 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 balance of power that trans
fers Its vote from one party to the
other according to Its Ideas or Its In
terests.
Determining Factor in Elections.
This variable vote will always be
determining factor Jn elections.
Certainly, therefore, the conditions
demand that |his Independent vote
shall be as large‘and as representative
us 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.-
000 voters, anil 100,000 habitually voted
the Democratic ticket and 100,000 hab
itually voted the Republican ticket, the
decision of all matters would lie In
tho 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 citizens, moved only by the
most patriotic and unselfish sentiments,
we would still have a condition of mi
nority rule foreign to the plans of the
fathers and contrary to the principles
which underlie our American system.
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 n dan
gerous menace to our Institutions and a
powerful Influence exerted In opposi
tion to popular rights and liberties.
You can easily see that the bose of
a political machine would not long con
sider the hundred thousand that would
vote for his party under any circum
stances, but would devote his time to
securing the support of the one thou
sand that might be Influenced to de
cide the election hie way.
If the 1,000 were grasping and greedy
and wanted special privileges, they
would get them. If they wanted the
people's franchises, they would get
them. If they wanted discriminating
tariffs, they would get them.
If, under the effect of this polltlcn!
partiality and patronage and protec
tion, these favored few should grow
enormously rich and odd the corrupt
ing power of great wealth to their un
due political influence, they might conte
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,
can follow clearly enough what
would happen In our own little commu
nity of 201,040 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 larger nnd more complex manner
throughout our w*hole country.
The result has been the concentre
tlon of power In the hands of a small
but Shrewd and active minority, work
ing Incessnntly for Its own Interest and
Ithout 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 ami Rockefel
ler and Morgan and Belmont have no
party prejudice, but conduct their poli
tics for their own pocket and accord
ing to the maxims laid down by Jay
Gould.
Mr. Gould said before an Investigat
ing committee: "When I am dealing
with Republicans I am a Republican.
When I nm dealing with Democrats I
nm a Democrat. When the district Is
doubtful I am doubtful. And all the
time I am an Erie Railroad man,”
We have seen Walsh, the hank
..rocker In Chicago, label his publica
tion Democratic ono day and Republi
can the next, but all the time conduct
for Walsh’s benefit and In opposition
the people's Interest.
Two Purtinunt Questions.
Should the people stand by. and see
the power 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 books and vote for
their own Interests and their owh
friend*, regardless of party loyalty?
1‘artv loyalty Is n fine thing when
a great Issue ts at stake and when one
HEARST BUYS LINCOLN HOME
FOR NATIONAL PARK SITE
By Private Leased Wire.
Springfield, III., Aug. 20.—The site of
the Now Salem Mill, famous because of
Its association with the early life of
Abrahkm Lincoln, haa been bought by
William Randolph Hearst and present
ed to the Old Salem Chautauqua As
sociation. New Salem was the home
of Lincoln for six years.
The property presented by Mr.’
Hearst, he provides, must be main
tained forever as a national park. It
for a great rj’orm. So It was 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
?iad been too timid to do It, or too
corrupt to do It.
Today there are great Issues, the
same Issues that have divided people
since human society was formed.
Lincoln snld: "There are two prin
ciples that have stood face to face from
the beginning of time; and .will ever
continue to struggle. It Is the same
principle In whatever 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 comes, whether from the
mouth of a king that seeks to bestrldo
the people of his own nation nnd live
by the fruit of their tnbor, or from one
race of men us nn apology for enslav
ing another rare, It Is the same tyran
nical principle."
8am* Issue Exists 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 and earn
bread and I'll eat It." But neither of
the old parties distinctly represents
either side of the Issue.
There are trust Republicans and Lin
coln Republicans. There are trust
Democrats and Jefferson Democrats.
No longer does the word Democracy
define any definite doctrine and the
word Republican express any parties
lar principle.
Under such conditions party devo
tion only divides the people's strength
and fortifies their enemies who are uni
ted against them. ,
Let the people unite In their own
Interest.
Let the people vote Independently
and for the public good.
Let them vote for honest men and
honest ipeiisures, Irrespective of party,
and they will soon find themselves once
more the great power In the republic
that polltlclana will regard and even
organized wealth will respect.
It Is most gratifying and encourag
ing to find thnt this fact Is being gen
erally recognised and that Independ
ence In voting Is Increasing with ev
ery election.
In Illinois nt the last election, when
the state went 300,000 Republican, the
people of this district had the dis
crimination to return to congress a
Democrat, the Hon. Henry T. Rainey,
who has served them with conspicuous
fidelity nnd ability.
In Pennsylvania, In the present cam
paign, the sincere Democrats have re
pudiated the unspeakable Gulley, and
have unfled with the Lincoln Republi
cans In a movement which represents
the character and conscience of that
community.
“Breud of Ysltow Dogs Toe Poor.*'
From New York to California, the
people arc realizing that the success of
popular government depends upon the
care and conscientiousness, the Intellt
genre and Impartiality, with which ev
cry Individual vote Is cast.
A man can no longer take credit to
himself for supporting a yellow dog
that happens to have been nominated
by hi* 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 the Independent voter, with the
best Intentions often meets with much
difficulty and deception.
He sometimes finds that the msn he
haa trusted has been captured by the
corporations.
Unhappy examples of such cases are
Grover Cleveland, In his second term,
anil District Attorney Jerome.
The people supported each of these
men, believing him to be true and their
friend, and the corporations added their
support, know ing him to be their chat
tel.
contains 40 acres, for which *200 nn
acre was paid. The grounds are adja-
th « camp grounds of the
Old Salem Association, which Is one
or the oldest and most prosperous o£
Its kind In Illinois, and It agreed to
comply with the spirit and letter of
Mr. Hoarst’s proposition.
The New York congressman made an
address to a large gathering Friday at
the Chautauqua, and was received with
a great demonstration of w elcome.
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 ns a permanent organization to
meet such situation and to protect the
political rights of the citizen.
Speaking nt Albany of the league,
endeavored to define It as follows:
"The fundamental principle of the
Independence League Is Independence—
Independence of boss rule, Independ
ence ot 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 Inde;
Hall on February- 22, 1861, sal_
”1 only say that all the political sen
timents I entertain have boen drawn
as near as 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 te Sustain a Fro* Ballot
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 maintain 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 n 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, by their nctlrtn,
admit fraud, and seventeen convicts
sent to the penitentiary prove that
fraud.
But both parties have entered Into a
criminal combination to deny to the
people of New Yorlfcan honest count of
the bnllots actually cast.
By CHOLLY KNICKERBOCKER.
By Private Leased Wire.
New York, Aug. 20—A remarkabl,
suggestion Is contained In a dlspatra
from Cleveland In today’s papers ?.
1* to the effect that John D. R„ cke .
feller Is considering a project to en.
dow a home for chorus girls, and th«a
he has signified his willingness, tent”
lively, to give *100,000 for this praise-
worthy purpose. e
Th« project was planned by Man*
‘he actress, and through a ,
sssaafasr 1 ” —s^a:
The Idea appealed to him. It Is said
HI* donation will be conditional '
like amount being raised by MIm Cahifi
and those Interested with her 8,1
The home will serve a two-fold por
ts* In agreement writh the pi a „.
m-.n? 0 ’*., L h .n havt 8 ‘ a ried the move,
ment. It will serve as a place when
chorus girls may be trained and edi!
rated for their work, and also ns *
home, should Illness or age preveiu
fe*sTon fr ° m contlnulng ln ‘heir
C- Rudd, brother-in-law of Mr
ockefelier, was asked last night
ment her h ® hB<S hear<, of the mo «-
I h*ve heard nothing of It, nor
" f „ Mr. Rwkefeller’s Intention to aid
It, he replied. "The -report might be
Ron | t a ., t h ou *h 1 am Inclined to q U e s !
There Is a large contingent on Broad,
way also who prefer to suspend Judg
ment until more definite news conics
out from Cleveland.
Stenslands are cropping up all over
the country these days. Here In New
York Detective Sergeant Duggan felt
sure he had nailed the missing Chica
go banker.
“Hello, Paul: bow’dy leave every,
thing out In Chicago?” ‘
«’■* ‘he way Duggan greeted
" llllam Keogh, an actor, as he was
dining on Broadway.
“Guess again,” replied Keogh. -Tm
not Paul.”
"Sure you are," Insisted Duggan
You're Paul Stensland, the Chicago
banker, for whom there Is a reward of
$5,000.’”
Then he started to arrest Keogh, hut
•Eddie" Dunn, who knew Duggan, res
cued the actor.
THIS DATE IN HISTORY.
AUQU8T 20.
1592— George Vllllers, duke of Bucklnchn
horn.
of Coventry i
Charles of England.
1701—Sir Charles Bedley, poet, died.
1776—Fight In Ilndaon river between Amor-
Imu Are ships nnd British meii-vf-
war.
183-Cope riuw VII died.
1829—Adrln nopit* token by the Russians.
1833-ReuJamln Harrison. twenty-third
president of United States, ln»rij. lU»d
1901.
1847—Battle of Churubuaoo, Mexico.
1862—Mteamer Atlanta loet on Lake Erie;
250 perched.
1866— Final proclamation of cessation of
hostilities In the civil war.
1886—Bight Chicago anarchists acnteaced to
death.
1892—Queen Victoria's carriage flopped Inr
nn lusane inun, who threatened to kill
her.
-Lord Curxon resigned the v|cero/«fc}j»
of Judin; tho earl ot Mlnto succeeded
him.
shared the responsibility for such rev
olutionary acta. I«et them ahare the
responsibility before the people this
fall.
We have complete confidence In the
Integrity and Independence of the peo
ple. We depend not upon party preju
dice, but upon patriotism and public
spirit.
We.call to our cause the living words
of patriots (lead, of Washington, who
snld: "Beware of the baneful effects
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 all.”
Of Jackson, who wrote: "In every
section party and party feeling should
be nvolded."
Of Lincoln, who said: "The party
lash will overawe justice and liberty."
Our greatest Mtatesmen, our national
heroes, teach us that there is a senti
ment higher than party loyalty, nnd it
lx patriotic duty; there Is a purpose no
bler than the success of a political
clique, and it Is the welfare of the
whole people and perpetuation «f a
government "of the people, by the i*eo- -
They have | pie nnd for the people.”
Growth and Progress of the New South
Under this hood will appear from time to thus Information llliislratlns ta-
rcmnrknlils development of tbs South wbicb deserves something more lliau pass-
This betrayal of public confidence
is a grave danger to which even the
most conscientious voter Is exposed,
and to guard against tt a candidate
should be carefully weighed and Judged,
not by his professions alone, but by
hls associations ns welt.
Axiom of the Corporations.
It may be set down ns An axiom that
the corporations never support a inan
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 Mitered Into a
"gentleman’s agreement" for a division
of the spoils, with an understanding
farty clearly represents a noble effort that a corporation Democrat should be
Extending Small Railroads.
We have pointed out more than once in these columns that the de
velopment in railroads in this section Is one of the most notable features
of the growth and progress of the South.
• It has been shown that there Is almost a 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 be
used In developing and handling the output of industries such as coal min
ing, lumbering, phosphate mining, the gathering of naval stores, etc.
The Manufacturers' Record points out that there Is 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 arc un
der way. In the states named a large proportion of this new building Is
on account of coal, 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 timber land and the products therefrom Is mainly responsi
ble for the building of many short railroads. This type of construction is
particularly active Just now throughout these states, and how useful It be
comes In the Inter development of the country Is now shown by the utili
zation of several small lines In Georgia, by meant 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 ot these lumber
mads, or even of coal lines, Is of small extent. For Instance, the Good
year line In Mississippi, a lumber road, Is to be lOtNmites long from the
beginning, construction for that amount of track belng N already under way,
ln addition to the trackage of the line previously built and which was
purchased to form the nucleus of this railroad. On the other hand, the
Tidewater Railroad, which will be over 400 miles long In Virginia and
West Virginia, ls*an example of what an influence coal mining may havs
upon the developing of ji 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 ot their
development."