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“ THE SEMI-WEEKLT JOURNAL.
Nealy is "out" for the stuff again.
This is the “open season" for office
hunting in Georgia.
The David B. Hill presidential boom
keeps on feeling its way.
Democratic harmony a assuming very
' ominous appearances of late.
‘ „ Governor-elect Terrell still insists that
he to arbitrate.
Wouldn’t It be best, after all. to leave
this depot muddle to arbitration?
The treasury raiders of the house are
•till unable to spike, the Hon. Joe Cannon.
When the railroads and the politicians
fall out, perhaps Atlanta will get her
Imm t
Why is it that with all the mirrors in
the saloons a man seldom sees his jag as
others see It?
Germany has once again delayed her
frequently declared determination of mop
ping up Venezuela. ,
President Roosevelt seems to be having
enough trouble with his party to satisfy
even his strenuous soul.
So ex-Qkndidate Guerry is to publish a
weekly newspaper It is understood that
it will carry no railroad schedules.
The Hon. Carter Harrison seems to have
lost some of his old-time ability to carry
water on both shoulders without spilling
a drop.
Just to satisfy our curiosity, we would
like to see what President Spencer really
has tn his hand.
It begins to look like King Edward will
be unable to pacify Lord Salisbury in
time for the coronation.
That • right, go it—everybody is privil
eged to call the weather man. names dur
ing this sort of weather.
The president may find it more danger
ous to do a little rough riding up Capitol
MU than it was up San Juan hill.
We hope all these cabled reports about
King Edward's illness Are not the out
come of a preliminary coronation jag.
Instead of jumping General Miles
every day. the president has taken to
Jumping horses as a new form of exer
cise
A New Tork preacher declares that the
mil lent um has already been ushered in.
But it won't get here until Atlanta gets a
hew union depot.
If Grover Cleveland should become the
Democratic Mo«< - again a good many
newspapers in Gecr./u would want to burn
their files.
Now that the Filipinos are to celebrate
the Glorious Fourth the mortality reports
from the islands will probably be swelled
considerably.
A Chicago woman paid $17,000 for a hus
band. and then sought a divorce in ten
days. She ought to have bought him on
approval in the first place.
We are pleased to observe that Gover
nor Cendler has taken to using sign lan
guage in his interviews. This, of course,
makea denials unnecessary.
The United States army is to have a
Change in uniforms tending toward sim
plicity. This is probably intended as an
other rebuke to General Miles.
The American jockeys continue to cap
ture a majority of the big races in Eng
land. The American jockey generally
leads the list until he becomes a dude.
The Insurrection against Hanna in Ohio,
we are told, has been "smoothed out."
This means that Hanna has passed his
big road roller over the conspirators.
The next time a supreme court judge or
anybody else resigns an office with a
string to his resignation, the politicians
are going to hold an indignation meeting.
Senator Hoar received the unusual com
pliment of having Ms recent speech adopt
ed as a Democratic campaign document.
But the old man will continue to vote the
Republican ticket.
Several circus elephants broke loose
during a performance in Omaha the other
day and several people narrowly escaped
with their lives. The excitement is said
to have been in tents.
There is no better evidence of the real
greatness of New Tork city than the
steady increase of the number of its hos
pitals and other charitable Institutions
and the means of their support.
The miners claim that they can hold out
fully ninety days longer. But it is be
lieved the operators, by living on half ra
tions. can bold out fully six months with
out having to draw on the relief fund.
And still we have no answer to our oft
repeated Question, says the Chicago Jour
nal, why it la that the loudest champions
of the downtrodden Filipino are the New
England people who have grown rich and
fat on child-slavery in the Carolina cot
ton mills. •
While ex-Preeident Cleveland is proba
bly not seeking another nomination at
the hands of the democracy it is quite
evident that Mahomet Is willing to stand
right still and let the mountain com* to
him If it wants to.
DEMOCRATIC UNITY.
The opening of the Tilden club Thursday
night was an occasion that will inspire
Democratic hopes and help forward the
cause of Democratic harmony upon which
the future of the party must depend.
The speakers of the evening were Gro
ver Cleveland. David B. Hill, Governor
Montague, of Virginia. Hon. William A.
Gaston, of Boston, and Ex-Mayor Tag
gart, of Indianapolis.
The meeting certainly was from first to
last in accord with the purpose and spirit
of those Democrats who organised the
Tilden club “to promote the best Interests
of the Democratic party," as the chair
man put it.
All of the speakers proclaimed good
Democratic doctrine and all seemed to be
deeply Impressed with th necessity of
bringing the party back to the standards
which It followed to victory and in desert
ing which it made sure of defeat. But
the chief interest of the occasion centered
In the address of Mr. Cleveland.
He never spoke more aptly, though his
public utterances have been almost invar
iably strong and impressive.
His speech Thursday night will sink deep
into the mind of the country and by mil
lions of Democrats will be regarded as
the rallying cry to victory in 1904.
We do not mean to say that there is
any evidence of a movement to make Mr.
Cleveland the Democratic candidate for
president In 1904.
We do not believe that he will counte
nance any such effort on the part of his
enthusiastic friends and we have no doubt
that he meant exactly what he said when
he referred to his contented retirement
from politics.
But he is looked upon by the great ma
jority of Democrats as the wisest leader
of their party, and in its coming contests
rt will have no abler or more effective
champion.
WOMEN AND GOVERNMENT.
Those who contend that the influence of
women should not be felt in the affairs
of government could learn something by
reading the recent history of New Or
leans.
In 1599. when it was proposed to issue
bonds for more than $14,000,000, to be used
in establishing an ample supply of good
water and a thorough system of sewer
age for that city, women taxpayers were
permitted to vote. It would have been a
great wrong to forbid the ballot to the
owners of about one-half of the property
in the largest and richest city of the
south when the question of a special tax
was to be passed upon.
And it was a mighty good thing that
the women property-holders of New Or
leans were allowed to vote at that ejec
tion. As a rule, they showed a much high
er appreciation of the important Issue at
stake than did the men. In fact, the wo
men of New Orleans interested them
selves so actively in behalf of the special
water and sewerage bonds and used their
influence so effectively to secure their
adoption that the Success of this move
ment was everywhere recognised and her
alded as a victory of women and a demon
tration that she was capable of using the
ballot wisely and beneficently.
New Orleans owes the success of one
of the greatest movements ever under
taken for her advancement In the ele
ments of public health and strength di
rectly to her women.
After winning this victory for good gov
ernment the women of New Orleans have
perceived with indignation that the money
voted for public Improvements was likely
to be placed in the control of what they
consider an untrustworthy board.
They do not propose to submit to such
imposition if they can possibly prevent it.
A very large number of women taxpay
ers in New Orleans are already organised,
and they propose to make their power felt
as they did at the bond election In 1899.
They have the Local Council of Women,
the Era club, the Woman's club and the
Council of Jewish Women, all strong in
numbers, property influence snd determi
nation to stand by their rights.
As the New Orleans Picayune says :
"Now. when they learn that efforts are
being made to put the money which they
helped to secure for water and sewerage
into th® hands of spoilsmen, when, they
see thst the magnificent gift of more than
$14,000,000 made by the property taxpayers,
for the publie good, is tn danger of being
exploited by politicians, it is not strange
that the women of New Orleans have once
more become aroused to the necessity of
doing something tp save their sacred sew
erage and water fund from the hands ot
spoilsmen."
Under the lead of the four powerful
women's clubs we have mentioned the wo
men of New Orleans, to an immense num
ber, have signed a petition to the legisla
ture, now in session at Baton Rouge, pro
testing against the proposed change in
the water and sewerage board.
In their call for action of this character
the women who represent the various al
lied clubs that are making this fight say:
"There are more women than men tax
payers in the city of New Orleans. It
was due to the work done by the Wo
man's League for Sewerage and Drainage
that the tax of two mills was voted, there
fore it becomes the moral duty of every
woman, taxpayer or not, to be present to
protest against any change being written
into the bill as it originally stood.”
Several of th® leading New Orleans
newspapers are standing squarely by the
women in this conflict, and we venture the
prediction that they will defeat the poli
ticians who are trying to misdirect the
water and sewer fund, which owes its very
existence to the women of that city. They
seem sure to win another splendid victory
for good government.
W® shall hear wore of such things as
civilisation progresses.
Woman as a practical and powerful fac
tor in government will hav® to be dealt
with more and more largely from this time
henceforward.
A NEW ERA IN GEORGIA.
Among all the interesting events of
the brilliant commencement at the Uni
versity of Georgia which has just closed
none has attracted more attention than
tb> appearance on the program of Miss
Lollie M. Smith, of Athens, at the close
of her course in the State Normal School.
Mies Smith is the first woman who ever
delivered an address on the University
rostrum, and the manner in which she ac
quitted herself convinced many who heard
her that the women of the Normal School
should have representation at the Uni
versity commencements.
This gifted girl handled her subject,
"The Old School and the New," admirably
in respect to thought, composition and
delivery.
The enthusiasm with which her essay
was received was a very high compliment
to Miss Smith, and was richly deserved.
Where this young pioneer in the pro
gress of Georgia womanhood stood last
u| puwis him uouiom Jaqjo Atretn
the years to come. She was a courier
from the future. _
The way to the higher education of wo
men has ben widened until we find many
opportunities open to the daughters of
our land which narrow and prospective
views and theories long kept closed.
I or the first time since her creation wo-
THE SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA, GEORGIA, MONDAY, JUNE 23, 1902.
man has recently won something like a
fair chance in the fields of knowledge and
practical endeavor. She is proving so well
her right to these opportunities and her
capacity to use them nobly that they will
never be taken from her. On the contra
ry, there is sure to be a still larger em
ployment of the genius of women in more
and more lines of the world’s work.
It Is Idle to resist the tendency, and it
is a blessed thing for civilisation, govern
ment and society that it has became irre
sistible.
Women are gaining wonderfully in
knowledge and power while they are los
ing none of the graces and charms which
we prize in them so highly.
The feudal idea of woman's proper
sphere has given way to the bet
ter and more beneficent theory which
men are putting into practice with such
superb results.
OUR HUGE LIQUOR SUPPLY.
The United States lead in many more
lines of production than any other coun
try.
We are away at the top of the list tn
the output of iron and steel, which are
the great bases of commerce and trade.
We lead also tn the quantity and variety
of our manufactures as we do in the pro
duction of wheat, corn and the other ce
reals which are most useful to man.
American meat goes along with Ameri
can bread to feed millions among the na
tions of Europe.
Another line of production in which we
are unrivaled, for quantity at least, is
the making of alcoholic liquors.
The extent of manufactures of this kind
in the United States is comprehended even
'by very few of our own people, the figures
being so enormous that they convey no
distinct meaning to the ordinary mind.
The total output of alcoholic liquors in
<his country for the fiscal year ended
June 30. 1901, was 1.336.358.094 gallons. It
will aid us to comprehend what these fig
ures ‘mean to say that the vast mass of
liquids they denote would equal in weight
to 533 battleships of the size of the Geor
gia, which ways more than 15,000 tons.
Equally divided among all the. people of
the United States this one year’s produc
tion would allow to each man, woman
and child 17.3 gallons, of which 15.7 would
be malted, 1.3 distilled and one-third of a
gallon of wine. We export nearly twice as
much beer as we import, a fact that is
not generally known.
The beer imported into this country is
less than 3 per cent of the amount our
people drink.
Though many of our domestic wines are
excellent and their average quality Is Im
proving constantly, our importations of
wine are proportionately more than three
times as great as those of beer, for more
than 10 per cent of all the wine drank in
the United States comes from other coun
tries.
Though there has been for years a large
and steady increase in our production of
alcoholic liquors the proportionate con
sumption of the stronger liquors is de
creasing regularly and to a decided ex
tent. There is beyond all question less
drunkenness in this country than there
formerly was. The statistics of the inter
nal revenue bureau which keeps an ap
proximate account of the manufacture
and sale of alcoholic liquors present many
very interesting and suggestive studies.
SOUTHERN NEGRO CONGRESS.
The southern negro congress will hold
its second annual session In Galveston
next month, beginning July 1 and continu
ing five days.
The first meeting of this congress was
held in Jackson. Miss, last July. There
was a very large attendance then and a
much larger one Is expected this year.
The object of the congress is most com
mendable and Its first meeting Indicated
that its purpose will be pursued In a prac
tical and judicious way.
It is hoped aud believed by the sensible
and conservative negroes who are direct
ing this movement that it may result in
advancing greatly the welfare of the ne
gro race in the south. They realize that
a better understanding between the whites
and the negroes will be immensely bene
ficial to both.
The addresses made and the resolutions
adopted at the congress last year were
on the line that leads most surely to im
provement of the negro’s condition.
From the character of the leaders of this
movement we may expect like counsels to
prevail again and to be even more effec
tive than they have yet proved, as the
organization has grown and reached a
much larger number of southern negroes.
We believe that the southern negro con
gress, wisely directed, may accomplish
much good. Those who are engaged In it
and striving so earnestly to build up a
wholesome influence for it deserve the
sympathy and encouragement of the white
citizens of this section.
1 FEDERAL AID TO ROADS.
The good roads movement that seems to
be going over the whole country is one of
the best signs of the times. It is, per
haps, a better evidence of real progress
than industrial enterprise of any other
character.
When a community once gets well
started in good road building it is very
likely to keep it up, for every advance
on this line gives a fresh object lesson
of the practical value of good roads and
the wastefulness of bad ones.
For several years past a campaign of
popular education on this subject has
been carried on in every section of the
country by individuals and organizations,
by newspapers and magazines and to a
very notable extent by the federal gov
ernment through its admirably conduct
ed department of agriculture. The rail
roads have also given it very valuable aid.
This work has seemed in many localities
to have little effect and there has been
much to discourage those who have de
voted themselves te it. But they have
kept bravely on and now on all sides the
fruits of their labors are beginning to ap
pear. It is a safe prediction that there will
be more miles of first-class roadway laid
in the UniJed States this year than in
any previous year of our history. It has
become much easier than it formerly was
to interest the masses of the people, the
farmers, the business men, men of prop
erty and professional men—the public
generally—in this subject, which concerns
us all and touches all our in
terests. Interest in road improve
ment is growing into enthusiasm for it as
a larger proportion of the people are com
ing to appreciate its importance and prof
fitableness.
We are at the beginning of a great era
of road building in this country, which is
equivalent to saying that we are mak
ing surer the way to the substantial de
velopment and progress of the country.
Representative Beldler, of Ohio, has in
troduced in congress a bill which should
receive the hearty support of men of all
political opinions.
It is emphatically a measure for the ad
vancement of the public welfare; it is
hard to conceive one that would better
deserve that title.
The Beidler bill provides for the assem-'
bling of a convention representing the
war department, postoffice department,
agricultural department, interior depart
ment of the federal government, as well
as every state and territory in the union.
Such a convention would be composed
largely of men who have made a special
study of the construction and care ot
roads. From it we might therefore rea
sonably expect recommendations that
would be of immense value to congress,
the state legislatures and county boards
tn their legislative and administrative pro
visions for road work.
The convention might also lay the basis
of a national good roads policy that
■would benefit the country quite as much
as the government’s labor and expendi
ture for river and harbor improvement.
The Beidler bill is one of the most prac
tical and promising measures that has
been proposed to congress in a long time.
THE WORLD’S VERDICT.
The time has come already when Robert
E. Lee is regarded as a national hero, and
not merely the superb military chieftain
of the Southern Confederacy.
This estimate is so qften proclaimed by
men who contended with General Lee in
arms and by their descendants who have
come upon the stage of action since that
grand figure passed away that it is now
recognized as the verdict of his fellow
countrymen of every section.
It was registered as the judgment of im
partial natloris long ago.
Mr. Charles Francis Adams, of Boston,
in his -ration before the Phi Beta Kappa
society, of Chicago, Wednesday paid a
splendid tribute to General Lee which
will touch the heart of the south and re
ceive the cordial approbation of the north.
The words of an illustrious son of Mas
sachusetts on this occasion constitute one
of the broadest and noblest expressions of
true American liberality and patriotism
that the country has heard in a long time.
Mr. Adams saidr
"Virginia did not take its place in the
secession movement because of the elec
tion of an anti-slavery president. It did
not raise its hand against the national
government for mere love of any peculiar
institution, or wish to protect and per
petuate it. Virginia made state sovereign
ty a cardinal article of its political creed.
To us noW this position seems worse than
illogical. Yet, after all, It Is based on the
great fundamental principle of the con
sent of the governed.
"I hold It to be certain that the year
1865 will recognize the somewhat essential
fact that all the honest conviction, all the
loyalty, all the patriotic devotion and
self-sacrifice were not any more than all
the courage on the victor’s side.
“Lee represented, individualized, all that
was highest and best in the southern
mind, and the Confederate cause, the loy
alty to state, the keen sense of honor and
personal obligation, the slightly archaic,
the almost patriarchal love of dependent
family and home.
"I look forward with confidence to the
time when the bronze effigy of Robert E.
Lee, mounted on his charger, and with its
insignia of his Confederate rank, will,
from its pedestal in the nation’s capital
look across the Potomac at his old home
at Arlington.
“When that time comes Lee’s monu
ment will typify the historical apprecia
tion of all that goes to make up the
loftiest type of character, military and
civic, exemplified in an opponent, once
dreaded, but ever respected. j
“Above all it will symbolize ana com
memorate that loyal acceptance of the
consequences of defeat and the patient
upbuilding of a people under new condi
tions by constitutional means, which I
hold to be the greatest educational lesson
America has yet taught to a once skepti
cal, but now silenced world."
Sentiments like these help to bind the
once severed sections of the United States
close together once more.
The people of the north and those of the
south give each other due cridlt for hon
esty of purpose, as well as a splendor of
courage and an almost unrivalled heroism
in the civil war.
They are coming constantly closer to
gether in this high and honorable feeling
and in the unstinted admiration and love
of Robert Edward Lee as one of the lau
relled heroes of the world.
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.
New Tork Press.
Married life is dough, the leaven of which is
an occasional caller.
' In a controversy between two women there
is much to be said on both sides.
A woman’s idea of learning how to play a
game Is to learn how to count the points.
There is nobody who has so large a respect
for a widower as the man who Isn’t yet.
A funny thing about a position in society Is
that after you have It you don’t need It any
more.
The difference between a red-headed man and
a red-headed woman Is that she seems to be
proud of it.
If some men were able to make money as
easily as they mate trouble their wealth would
soon become burdensome.
You can tell whether a woman cares for you
by the way she tries to make you believe you
don’t care for other women.
Lots of people would rather eat corned beef
and cabbage if they weren't afraid the ser
vants would laugh at them.
The r*an who knows how to build a fire In
the parlor grate Is a great deal nearer to the
accomplishment of the unattainable than he
ever dreams of.
When a man's appetite for dinner is not as
good as usual his wife begins to fret right
away about whether he Is wearing the right
weight of underwear.
You can never make a woman understand
that if there are two windows In a room and
you screen one of them yoU don’t necessarily
keep out half the mosquitoes that otherwise
would get in.
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
i
Chicago News.
Most remedies for prejudice seems to be fatal.
An idle tongue is one that works overtime.
A thing of beauty is a joy while it continues
to draw.
It costs more to be stingy than It does to be
charitable.
If you would make a woman angry abuse
her physician.
Importunity Is simply holding on till you get
what you want.
There is no place like the home of a young
man's best girl.
Slaughter-sale prices haven’t struck the
meat markets yet.
Candor compels some men to admit that they
are above the average.
Successful men have no time to go back and
cover up their footprints.
Every time a lazy man looks at the clock
the day becomes longer.
Men who prevaricate are just as little ap
preciated as are ordinary liars.
Business Is never lively with the undertaker,
no matter how busy he may be.
Fashionable charity keeps the left hand fully
posted as to the operations of the right.
A woman works almost as hard buying
things as her husband does In paying for them.
Many a good man has strayed into the
crooked path by following the direction of a
corkscrew.
It Isn’t work that kills. It’s the worry caused
by having to work that Increases the under
taker's bunk balance.
It Is always cowardly to speak ill of a man
behind his back, and It Is often dangerous to
say it to his face.
Many a rapid youth finds it easier to contest
his father’s will after the old man Is dead than
while he was on earth.
There are several kinds of talking machines
on the market, but none of them can hold a
candle to those In evidence at an old-fashioned
sewing circle.
Yellow Streak Will Show.
(Montezuma Record.)
We have recently heard men say they would
not vote for Mr. Terrell in the final election.
Upon this question we only say It Is the solemn
duty of every true citizen of Georgia to give
hts support to the nominee of the Democratic
party. If you do not aupport the nominee you
should not be given a voice in the primary.
“HARMONY WILL RESTORE DEMOCRACY,”
SAYS CLEVELAND IN NOTABLE SPEECH
NEW YORK, June 29.—Former Presi
dent Cleveland, speaking at the opening
of the Tilden Club last night, said:
“I have been urged to participate in
this occasion by those who have assured
me that this handsome structure is to
be dedicated tonight to the rehabilitation
and consolidation of the democratic par
ty, under the inspiration of a name which
during the days of democratic strength
and achievement was honored in every
democratic household. Such an assur
ance made to one who followed with
hearty devotion the leadership of Samuel
J. Tilden when living and who has since
found in his career and fame the highest
incentive to democratic steadfastness,
could hardly fall to overcome the tempta
tions of my contented retirement from
political activity. Perhaps there are those
who could define my position as one of
banishment in stead of retirement.
Against this I shall not enter a protest.
It Is sufficient for me in either case, that
I have followed in matters of difference
within our party the teachings and coun
sel of the great democrat In w’hose name
party peace and harmony are tonight
invoked. No confession of party sin
should therefore be expected of me. I
have none to make; nor do I crave politi
cal absolution.’ I am here to take counsel
with others professing the same party
faith, concerning the democratic situation.
I suppose we all are convinced that this
situation might be improved, and some
of us may think it is perilously under
mined. Whatever the measure of its im
pairment may be, our condition as an
organization cannot be improved by call
ing each other harsh names, nor by in
augurating a system of arbitrary pro
scription and banishment. The members
of a business firm In financial embar
rassment should not sit down and look in
each other’s faces in mute despair; neith
er will they regafh financial soundness or
the confidence of the business commfunity
by recrimination and quarrel; nor will
any member of the firm aid in its resto
ration to solvent strefigth by an angry
insistence upon a continuation of the
business methods which have invited its
embarrassment. t
Democratic Party Not Insolvent.
The Deniocratic party is very far from
political insolvency, but no one here
should be offended by the suggestion that
its capital and prospects have suffered
serious injury since Mr. Tilden was elect
ed president. Then and afterwards north
ern Democratic states were not rare curi
osities, northern Democratic senators,
now practically extinct, were quite nu
merous, and northern Democratic gov
ernors, now almost never seen, were fre-
DEFECTION OF NORMAN E. MACK EFFACES’
BRYANISM IN THE STATE OF NEW YORK
From the Philadelphia North American.
BUFFALO, June 17.
Norman E. Mack, editor of the Times,
and democratic national committeeman
for the state of New York; Mack, who
for six has been the very embodi
ment, the absolute personification ot Bry
anism; Mack, who has been as impregna
ble to the shafts of those who bitterly
assailed the "montrous doctrines" of the
Chicago and Kansas City platforms as
he has been unswerving in his loyalty to
“Democratic principles as enunciated in
those platforms;” Mack, who has fought
David B. Hill and also Tammany with the
consummate 1 skill of a master politician
and with all the subtle venom of a caustic
pen—Mack has trekked into the camp of
the enemy. His banner floats side by side
with the banners of Hill and Tammany.
His vaunted loyalty to “Democratic prin
ciples, as enunciated in the platform of
the National Convention,” vaunteth no
more. Bryanism is ground in the dust
beneath his heels. The acid has been re
moved from his ink-wells and sweet honey
feeds the nib that sings the loving praises
of the one-time hated foe. John G. Mil
burn laughs in his sleeve. William F.
Mackey gnashes his teeth and has taken
to the habit of swearing—swearing in
public.
Commended and Condemned.
“You are, as of old, loyal to your party
you are working for a united democracy,”
purrs Milburn, as he fondles the -wrinkles
in the national committeeman’s coat
sleeve. z
"You have gone back on your friends;
in supporting Hill you are supporting a
man who should be driven out of the
democratic party,” says Mackey. ‘‘A
united democracy? Yes! But not at the
price of a union with Hill!”
Mackey, late democratic candidate for
lieutenant governor, and formerly the
most loyal friend and supporter of the
democratic committeeman, no longer
floods the latter’s library with the aroma
of imported cigarettes, but visits are in
terchanged between Mack’s palatial home
in Delaware avenue and ttfe pretty, vine
clad house where President McKinley
died.
The attitude Mack would assume was
an item that received more than ordi
nary attention from those who projected
the reunion of the various democratic
factions of the state under the leadership
of Hill. It there was one man in the
state who had the .power to sway the
Bryan democracy for or against such a
movement, they argued, that man was
Mack. He was the one Individual leader
in New York in whom William Jennings
Bryan placed implicit faith. He was
Mack, who in the face of the united op
position of the democratic press and the
democratic leaders in Western New York,
in 1896, stood sponsor for the Bryan doc
trines. and, fighting almost alone, suc
ceeded in inducing Erie county to pile up
35 000 votes for the apostle of free sliver.
He was Mack who, in the state conven
tion in 1900, outgeneraled Richard Croker,
and while submitting to the election of a
gold democra..c delegation to the national
democratic convention succeeded in get
ting the convention to instruct that del
egation to vote for Bryan and free silver.
He was Mack who was Bryan’s personal
representative in the conduct of the cam
paign in New York that year, and, finally,
he was Mack who, more than any one else,
held'' the love and veneration of- those
democrats who faithfully followed the
lines the Nebraskan had induced two dem
ocratic national conventions to lay down
so- party guidance.
Mack won over to the Hill-Tammany
movement, figured the projectors, potency
could not attach to any movements the
Bryan Democracy might hatch. Whether
they were right in their conjecure re
mains to be seen. He has been won, but
his accession to the Hill-Tammany forces
has drawn him personally to the verge
of what promises to be one of the most
bitter controversies in the political his
tory of Western New York.
The continuation of the Mack leadership
in Western New York is, of course, de
pendent Upon his success in the approach
ing campaign. That in this fight he will
be opposed by almost a majority of the
followers of Bryan seems probable, in
view of the position taken by William F.
Mackey, Wallace D. Thayer and others.
To offset this defection it is presumed
that Mack is to have the united support
of the Hill-Sheehan forces, whom he has
fought for years with a persistence and
vigor that from time to time has en
gendered an excessive acrimony. He drove
the Sheehans out of the county, in a po
litical sense. Time after time “Blue-eyed
Billy” Sheehan has returned to the as
sault, and each time has he been relent
lessly pursued and beaten by the invin
cible horde that followed the leadership
of the national committeeman.
Organized a Surprise Party.
Two years ago Mayor Diehl, Frank Rey
nolds and John W. Fisher in the course
of a night turned over to Sheehan the
quently encountered.
If this state of impairment exists, an
instant duty presses upon the managers
of the Democratic establishment, and one
which they cannot evade with honor.
Those of us less prominent in the party—
the rank and file—are longing to be led
through old Democratic ways to old Dem
ocratic victories. We were never more
ready to do enthusiastic battle than now,
if we can only be marshaled outside the
shadow of predestined defeat. Is it too
hiuch to ask our leaders" to avoid paths
that are known to lead to disaster? Is it
too much to ask that proven errors be
abandoned, and that we be delivered from
a body of death, and relieved from the
burden of issues which have been killed
by the decrees of the American people?
Ought we not be fed upon something bet
ter than the husks of defeat? If these
questions pre met in an honest, manly
fashion, I believe it will be productive of
the best kind of Democratic harmony. •
In dealing with new issues we of the
Democratic faith are extremely fortunate
in the simplicity of Democratic standards
and the ease with which new questions
can be measured by those standards. A
party based upon care for the interests
of all the people as their aggregate con
dition demands, with no unjust favorit
ism for any particular class; a party de
voted to the plan of popular government
as our fathers ordained it and for the
purposes which they sought to establish;
a party whose conservatism opposes dan
gerous and un-American experiments and
yet puts no barrier in the way of genuine
and safe progress, ought to be able to deal
with new questions in a manner quite con
sistent with Democratic doctrine and
stimulating to Democratic impulses and
instincts.
Gaudy Issues Must Be Eschewed.
Let us not forget, however, that it is
not In the search of new and gaudy is
sues, nor in the interpretation of strange
visions that a strong and healthy democ
racy displays its splendid power. Another
party may thrive on the ever shifting
treatment ot the ever shifting moods of
popular restlessness, or by an insincere
play upon unreasoning prejudice and sel
fish anticipation, but the Democratic par
ty never. Democracy has already in store
the doctrines for which it fights its suc
cessful battles, and it win have them in
store as long as the people are kept from
their own, and just as long as their rights
and interests are sacrificed, by favoritism
in government care, by inequality in gov
ernment burdens, by the encouragement
of huge industrial aggregations that
throttle individual enterprises by the reck
less waste of public money, and by the
greatest of all injuries, as It underlies
nearly all others, a system of tariff tax-
patronage of the city government for the
purpose of a fight against Mack's domina
tion in the city primaries. Mack staggered
at first, caught his second breath. There
was one short, sharp round, and the Shee
han-HIU army, including the mayor and
a score of other office-holding generals fell
in a heap battered and beaten.
Sheehan hated Mack, and the hatred was
returned in full measure, although the lat
ter was Mways wont to smile in the face
Ox his foe, and did so, even when on sev<-
eral occasions they have almost come to
blow’s. Until recently they had not spoken
to each other for years. Now they seem
on friendly terms.
Is this new friendship sincere? Upon
that question hitches the success of Mack.
Few there are who believe it. N6ne can
believe that Sheehan and Hill would let
slip any opportunity to wrest from Mack
the power he has torn from their hands.'
None believes that Mack does not know
this, and that he counts on their help to
succeed in the new policy.
WITH THE STATE PRESS.
It’s Newt’s.
(Marietta Journal.
The suggestion of Hon. Pleasant Stovall for
speaker of the house of representatives will
meet with hearty approval in this section of the
state. If Mr. Stovall wants the place The Ban
ner Is for him.—Athens Banner.
Yes, but The Banner ha* no vote. Hon.
Newt Morris, of Cobb, will be the next speaker.
Rainey at His Worst.
(Dawson News.)
Atlanta is all right. A Decatur street negro
had an uncle In a Martinique chaingang when
the eruption of Mont Pelee began. Atlanta
never fails to score.
Making Home Happy for the Boy.
(Dalton Citizen.)
Put your boy to work if he’s not at school. It
there Is nothing else to do put him to white
washing . the back fence. Keep the lawn
mowed and even cut the winter supply of wood.
Capital Punishment.
(Perry Home Journal.)
It is said Editor Rainey, of The Dawson
News, who will represent Terrell county In the
next legislature, proposes to introduce a bill
to prohibit drinking of liquor on the capltol
premises. That would be a capital law, provid
ing punishment for a capltol offense.
The Truth Will Out.
(Athens Banner.)
When the truth is known Mr. J. H. Hall is
one of the ablest men In the state and a most
valuable man In the Georgia legislature.
Even the Children Cry For IL
(Macon News.) '
The Journal Is getting to be the Greatest
Thing In the world to Atlanta people. They
even praise it in court, during murder triala
Going to Be No Core.
(Newnan News.) Z
Judge S. W. Harris is urged for the supreme
court vacancy. The Coweta circuit would lose
Judge Harris lothly, but the supreme bench
thereby would gain one of the state’s ablest
jurists.
Innocent for Once.
(Brunswick News.)
Joe Hill Hall, of Bibb, cannot be blamed for
the latest turn In the Atlanta depot question.
Stage Money.
Butler Herald.
It is said the railroads spent $20,000 in Bibb
county to defeat Hon. J. H. Hall for the legis
lature in the late nomination, but were unsuc
cessful. Mr. Hall having been nominated by a
big majority.
With His Little Hatchet.
Walton News and Messenger.
We have heard nothing from the scheme to
put a local option plank In the platform since
our editorial on the subject. We therefore con
clude that it must have been unanswerable and
that The Constitution and Journal have decided
that it is best for the party to follow the
precedents set two aqd four years ago—just
leave it alone and say nothing about It.
That False Alarm Again.
Rome. Tribune.
it Is now probable that Justice Hal Lewis
will not resign. His health Is improving. So the
numerous candidates can withdraw.
Honorable Mention.
Sandersville Progress.
Hon. Martin V. Calvin, of Richmond, and
Hon. P. A. Stovall, of Chatham, are both be
ing mentioned in connection with the speaker
ship of the next house of representatives.
Where the Band Wagon Was To Come
From.
LaGrange Graphic.
Terrell carried sixteen out of the seventeen
precincts of Bartow county. In the whole
county he received 1.400, against 876 for Guerry
and 455 for Estill. Again we drop a tew tears
for the lamented "band wagon.”
Where the Office Seeks the Woman.
Athens Banner.
A Tennessee newspaper says the best office at
the disposal of Mr. Terrell should be given to
Hon. Mary Louise Myriek, the talented little
woman at the head of The Americus Times-Re
corder.
The Only One.
Judse.
“Are you sure you can support a family F*
“I only want the girl.”
ation whose robbing exactions are far be
yond the needs of economical ahd legiti
mate government expenditures, which
purchases support by appeals to sordiness
and greed, and which continually corrupts
the public conscience.
What but infatuation with the visage of
defeat can explain the subordination of
these things by Democrats when they pre
pare for battle?
If we are to have a rehabilitation and
realignment of our party in the sense
suggested, it is important that it be done
openly and with no mystery or double
meaning. Our people are too much on the
alert to accept political deliverances they
do not understand; and the enthusiasm of
the Democratic rank and file does not
thrive on mystery.
The democratic harmony of which we
hear so much cannot be effectively con
structed by mathematical rule nor by a
formal agreement on the part of those
who have been divided, that there shall
be harmony. It grows up naturally when
true democratic principles are plainly
announced, when democratic purposes
are honestly declared and when, as a
result of these, confidence and enthusi
asm stir the democratic blood. It was
such harmony as this, growing out of
such conditions which with the batle cry
of “Tilden and Reform," gave us the dem
ocratic victory of 1876 against odds great
enough to discourage any but a har
monious democracy, and against an op
posing force brazen and desperate enough
to take from us by downright robbery
what the voters of the land gave to us.
Democratic Opportunity at Hand.
I believe the times point to another
democratic opportunity as near at hand,
but I we shall reap the fruits
of it only by following the line of con
duct I have indicated. In any event, I '
have a comforting and abiding faith in
the indestructibility of the party which
has so many times shown its right to
live and its power for good; and I am
sure the reserve of patriotic democratic
wisdom will at some time declare itself
in the rescue of our country and our
party.
My days of political activity are past!
and I shall not hereafter assume to par
ticipate in party councils. I am, abso
lutely content with retirement; but I
still have one burning, anxious political
aspiration. I want to see before I die the
restoration to perfect health and suprem
acy of that democracy whose mission it
is to bless the people—a democracy true
to itself—untempted by clamor—unmoved
by the gusts of popular passion and un
corrupted Vy offers of strange alliance—,
the democracy of patriotism—the de
mocracy of Tilden, and the democracy
that deserves and wins success.
Norman E. Mack, it is presumed, is de
pending for success more upon the trou
bles of the enemy than he is upon the aid
of the new alites whom he himself de
prived of their power for good or harm.
William C. Warren, editor of The Commer
cial, the Platt leader in this section of
Western New York, has as much of a
fight on his hands as has the Democratic
leader. George E. Matthews, editor of The
Express; Edward H. Butler, editor of The
News; Ottoman Reinecke, editor of The
Freie Presse, and John Neff, county audi
tor-peculiar bed-fellows by the way—have
lined up against the Warren leadership
while Warren retains the friendship of
Fred Greiner and Henry W. Brendel, col
lector of the port, and has drawn to his
support Charles F. Klngslek editor of The
Review, and the irrepressible Rowland B.
Mahany, former congressman, who in the
late campaign were his implacable foes.
There will be war enough on both sides
to satiate the cravings of the most san
guinary nature.
FOREIGN NOTES OF INTEREST.
There are 2,850 blind persons in the East
End of London, many of whom have to beg
for a living. _
The dukite snake of Australia is said tob» z
more dangerous and more relentless in Its
pursuit of a foe than even the fer-de-lance.
The miners are the wealthiest and best organ
ized of trades unions in France. Things have
changed since "La Terre” was written.
North of England ironmongers are making
money by loaning machines to thrifty house
wives who wish to turn a supply of oranges
into marmalade.
The experimental electric rail underground
railroad in Paris has been so successful that
two Important branches will be added to it
during the current year.
The coronation oath will be written on vel
lum and will, after the ceremony, be at
tached to the coronation robe and be deposited
with the latter in the court of chancery.
Manila police must be acquainted with Eng
lish. Chinese, Spanish, Tagalog. Vlsayan,
Pahpanga. Macabebe, Japanese, Russian and
Hindustan**. For all these attainments their
salary is S9OO a year. v
From the records ot life insurance compa
nies and annuity societies T. E. Young, late
president of the Institute of Actuaries of Eng
land, out of 800,000 cases has only been able
to find twenty-two centenarians. American
Medicine declares that if one wishes to live
long one should choose long-living ancestors.
In London some American fashionable women
are wearing belts ornamented with Chinese
hieroglyphics In silver, and one woman was
chagrined to learn from a Chinese diplomat
that the heiroglyphlcs she wore read, /“May
all my enemies die by torture” and “May I
have fifty sons.”
POINTS ABOUT PEOPLE.
Queen Wilhelmina, when in health, insists
upon knowing the contents of every document
she signs.
The emperor of Japan is to confer the high
est decoration within his gift upon Lord Salis
bury Ip honor of the Anglo-Japanese alliance.
Kingdon Gould, George Gould’s 14-year-old
son. is one of the best polo players in the
country, outclassing his father, who is a good
hand.
Prince Henry has found In the possession of
a sailor of his squadron a gold watch formerly
owned by the prince’s great-grandmother.
Queen Louise.
Congressman Norton, of Ohio, is the owner
of a watch made from a cannon captured by
Napoleon during the Egyptian campaign, the
charm being once worn by Marshal Ney.
Because guests at a Washington banquet all
arose when Miss Alice Roosevelt entered, so
cial circles are agitated as to whether or not
such action is obligatory in etiquette.
Robert Swan, who was for forty-six year*
the head of the Winthrop School for Girls, in
Boston, and who died a few days ago, was a
pioneer In the introduction of Instruction in
useful industry into the public schools of Bos
ton and the country -
APHORISMS.
Our failures x>ave the road to ruin or suc
cess. —Gan net
Disappointments and distress are often bless
ings in disguise.—Havergal.
Every daf should be distinguished by at least
one particular act of love.—Lavater.
Truth is violated by falsehood, and it may be
equally outraged by silence.—Ammien.
The sunshine of life is made up ot very little
beams that are bright all the time.—Arkin.
Our greatest glory is not In never falling, but
in rising every time that we fall.—Confucius.
Th* great secret 6f success in life is to b*
ready when your opportunity comes.—Dis
raeli.
It is worth a thousand pounds a year to hav*
the habit of looking on the bright side of
things.—Johnson.
Never think that God’s delays are God’s de
nials. Hold on; hold fast; hold out. Patience is
genius.—Buffon.
Paying for a Mistake.
Boston Herald.
The Oregon Republicans have paid the penalty
of running an unpopular candidate for gov
ernor. The proportions of their mistake in
this respect are- best measured by the size of
their majority for the balance of the ticket,
including their congressional candidates.
Character Is bounded on the north by Indus
try. on the east by integrity, on the south by
morality and on the west by subrirtg.