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MONDAY. SEPTEMBER 22. ISO#.
Wanted—A “south Georgia candidate"
for the supreme bench.
Money iTTaid to be getting dote. But
it has not been getting close to us.
Speaker Henderson appears to have run
into an uncharted tariff reform rock.
To Anxious Inquirer: Street fairs are
fairs where people mostly exhibit prise
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We are beginning to believe that even
Dick Croker could reform St. Louis pol
itics. •
Dave Henderson threw up the sponge
before Vncle Horace Boise even got his
gloves on.
Social Censor Watterson makes the mis
take cf gunning for hummingbirds with
a howitzer.
That endorsement of President Roosevelt
bad to be choked out of those Alabama
Republicans.
It appears that about the only people
who will benefit by the coal strike is the
Standard Oil people.
Mow we know why Maine went h—
bent. Uncle Lon Livingston had a sore
throat and couldn't speak.
That supreme court judgeship is being
saved a lot of trouble in having to hunt
the man up and run him dpwn.
Tariff reform isn't so bad. after all. even
If it accomplishes nothing more than the
retirement of Speaker Henderspn.
Perhaps Congressman Henderson is
merely trying to make one of those “rath
er be right than speaker" finishes.
Perhaps they might be able to pull off
that prise fight tn Kentucky without le
gal Interference by calling it a feud.
■'He is a self-made man." said Jones.
••What makes you think so?" asked
Brown. ’“Didn’t you just hear him say, 'I
seen.* **
A seat in the New York stock exchange
has just sold for SBI,OOO. But seats in the
United States senate still hold the record
price.
Continued developments tn the St. Louis
aldermanic scandal make it seem certain
that the Missouri state prison will have
to be enlarged.
There are just 287 trusts in this country.
It has not yet been figured out just how
many of them come under the head of
“good” trusts.
We desire to give noace here and now
that we have a "south Georgia candi
date” tied out for one of those appellate
court judgeships.
This is carrying news classification too
far. when a St. Louis paper prints mar
riage announcements and divorce notices
in the same column.
The election of supreme court judge is
only about two weeks off. and there are
still a few Georgia counties that have not
yet been heard from.
Explorer Baldwin seems to have enter
tained the idea that he eras sent out after
polar bears instead of the pole. He is
bringing back S 3 with him.
Can’t the Republican party see that
small black cloud out in Iowa? Tariff re
form promises to burst with fury over the
entire country before long.
Tea. Agnes, that sewing machine trust
will undoubtedly sew up the public. But
we would never have thought of it if you
hadn't called our attention to it.
"I think I’ll study law and run for the
supreme court,** said the ambitious youth.
"Don't do it.” replied his friend, "study
politics If you want to be successful.”
General Mlles doesn't seem half so anx
ious to take that trip to the Philippines
now that ha has got on to the fact that
the administration is dead willing for him
to go.
It Is now claimed that Christian Science
will cure the ailments of horses and other
animals. Maybe in time it will also be
able to pump air into a punctured automo
bile tire.
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It will require twenty days for the near
est United States gunboat to reach the
seat of trouble on the Isthmus of Panama.
The other side may be the revolutionists
by that time.
Secretary Shaw thinks that we must have
more money to do business with at this
time of the year. That man must be a
mind reader; we hadn't said a word to
him about it.
Big Bill Devery has demonstrated that
the way to reach the average New York
voter is through his stomach and not
hi 4, head. He has actually fed himself
into power tn the metropolis.
We judge from his recent silence that
the Hon. Joe Hill Hall is busily engaged
just now getting the “people’s wrongs”
arranged tn alphabetical order in time for
the next session of the legislature.
In order to strike a fair average tn
osculatory qualifications what’s the matter
with HUI and Hobson for 1904? The for
mer says he has never kissed a woman
and the latter has never failed to do so.
A Chinese official recently entertained
the foreign officials at Shanghai with a
dinner consisting of 136 courses. Why don't
the boxers adopt this plan instead of re
sorting to the sword and fire to get rid of
foreigners.
Attention should be called to the fact
that a man is not eligible to run for that
supreme court judgeship merely because
he has been admitted to the bar. Every
thing depends on which sort of bar he has
been admitted to.
The commander of the Cossack station
at Wertschinxk. Russia, anxious that his
district should show a preponderance of
males, has ordered that the father of evf
ry girl baby born in the district shall re
cetve 50 strokes with tne knout. This is
very much like adding Insult to Injury.
RAILING AT HENDERSON.
From high and low. from far and near,
the stogm of Republican wrath has burst
upon Speaker Henderson.
President Roosevelt has grown well nigh
hysterical over the matter, and shrieks
out that the stalwart Scotchman, who has
hitherto been considered a fearless and
loyal champion of the party that has hon
ored him to a signal degree, has played
the baby act.
Republican politicians and newspapers
of all grades are pouring hot shot into the
man who was one of their heroes up to a
short time ago but whom many of them
now denounce as a marplot and a coward.
We think that his party associates have
good cause for their severe condemnation
of Speaker Henderson's course. His with
drawal from the field at this time is re
garded by the public as an evidence of
weakness, and from the standpoint of the
Republican party it is little better • than
a retreat from the guns which were plac
rl in his care on the faith that he was
brave and faithful soldier. There Is but
one reasonable explanation of the speak
er's conduct.
It is that since the adjournment of con
gress. since the Republicans of his dis
trict renominated him for congress, he has
seen indications that make the situation
and its prospects disagreeable to him and
drive him to a retreat from it. His prof
fered explanation \of a desire for rest
from public duties will not be accepted
as sufficient by even the most credulous
and most charitable. *
The tender of such a flimsy excuse Is
unworthy of the speaker. It might have
been considered sufficient if it had come
six months ago. Coming now. it is simp
ly ridiculous, or worse. Speaker Hender
son could hardly have done his party
greater damage than he has Inflicted upon
it by the manner of his flight from the
pending contest.
We cannot blame the Republicans for
their bitterness toward him for he has
certainly justified it.
At the same time we welcome it as
the best assurance of the growing might
of the Democracy, the best omen of Dem
ocratic victory next November that has
yet appeared.
WILL HE DELIVER US?
Many persons are convinced that the
meat combine has been a blessing in dis
guise in that it has caused the people to
eat less meat and more vegetable food.
It may be that the greedy and grasping
coal combine that Is endeavoring to
starve out the miners of the anthracite
region who are demanding their rights
will confer a benefit upon the public that
will far outweigh the extortion to which
it has been subjected.
If the high price of fuel for which these
unscrupulous coal barons are responsible
shall stimulate the search for a substitute
for anthracite and cause the discovery or
invention of some article that will serve
that purpose we shall have another nota
ble Instance of good coming out of evil.
There are reports of recent experiments
in fuel that seem to indicate decided suc
cess.
We referred a few days ago to the mix
ture of coke and bituminous coal dust that
xAas tried by the commissioners of the
District of Columbia with very promising
results. All that is claimed for this pro
cess is very reasonable, but we read of
another alleged discovery that, we fear,
is too good to be true.
It would be a delightful revolution that
would take us from an era of the highest
priced fuel we have ever known to one
in which fuel would be literally “dirt
cheap." But a German chemist in Balti
more insists that he will bestow this
boon upon us very soon. He claims that
he has discovered and about perfected a
process of transmitting combustibility to
ordinary street dirt by chemical treatment,
and she result is a brick produced by sub
jecting the mass to high pressure, which
burns with superior results as to light
and heat like the best anthracite. It is
not even affected by dampness, but burns
as readily when soaked in a bucket of wa
ter as when dry. In addition it has the
merit of producing neither odor, gas nor
smoke. *
But the transcendent point in favor of
“dirt fuel" is its marvelous cheapness.
The greatest cost is for the dirt. It Is
claimed by the inventor that at $2.50 per
ton for the manufactured product enor
mous profits would accrue to the capital
Invested. Another phase of its economf
is the fact that when the chemicalization
of the brick is exhausted by fire the ashes
or whatever remains of the brick can be
rechemicalised and thus used over and
over again.
Unfortunately some difficulties stand in
the way of the practical application on
a large scale of this great discovery. It
promises so much that sceptical mankind
will not give it sufficiently serious consid
eration. This inventor who would relieve
the oppressed masses is a professional
man and has never associated with cold
blooded financiers. He is not known to the
cold, practical world and does not know
how to proceed on his humane mission
of downing the coal trust. Nothing less
than a miracle would bring a substantial
backing to this apostle of cheap fuel, but
it seems that nothing less than a mira
cle can deliver us from the grip of the
trusts. z
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IS IT GAINING OR NOT?
Massachusetts, the state in which the
woman's suffrage propaganda originated,
has a large and very active organization
of men and women known as the “Associa
tion Opposed to the Further Extension of
Suffrage to Women.”
Like the Woman's Suffrage association,
this society sends out leaflets, reports, cir
culars and various other forms of litera
ture In the effort to propagate its faith.
According to a recent publication of the
anti-woman's suffragists that cause has
during the last six years encountered no
less than sixty defeats In twenty-eight
states of our union.
In four states—Minnesota, Delaware,
Louisiana and New York—there has been
limited suffrage granted to women for
certain, specific purposes. This report is
so different from those on the other side
of the issue that we cannot without a
wider range of inquiry determine whether
the prospects of woman's* suffrage have
improved or grown gloomy in the last six
years.
Both the suffragists and their opponents
appear to. be satisfied with the outlook and
therefore we see no reason why those who
are not enlisted in either of these move
ments should worry over the matter.
But. at any rate, it is certain that the
cause of woman's suffrage has won many
notable victories in the last twenty years,
and six years is too short a period upon
which to base any valuable opinion of the
probability of the advance or decline of
this reform.
There are now four states, Colorado,
Idaho, Utah, and Wyoming, in which
women have full suffrage. Twenty years
ago there was only one, Colorado.
This is surely an advance, and a very
decided one.
The first concession of woman’s right
to vote ever given in any form in the
THE GEMI* WEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA, GEORGIA, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1902.
south was extended by the largest and one
of the most conservative cities of this sec
tion when New Orleans two years ago au
thorized its women property-holders to
vote on its great issue of bonds.
It is well for this magnificent enterprise
for improving the city that the women
were permitted to vote, for they saved the
bonds and are responsible for the new era
of progress upon which New Orleans has
entered.
The new Australian confederation has
given to women as full rights as men to
vote at all federal elections and left each
of the States to determine how far the suf
frage shall be extended to women in local
elections.
Many other evidences of the advance of
woman’s suffrage might be given.
Whatever we may think of the wisdom
and justice of this movement it is impos
sible to deny that it is marching on.
DECLINED WITHOUT THANKS.
John Mitchell, president of the United
Mine Workers, who are engaged in a
desperate struggle with the coal barons,
is a very determined man and one who
knows just what he wants.
President Mitchell is decidedly not In
sympathy with the scheme of Governor
Stone of Pennsylvania, for the enactment
of a compulsory arbitration law and has
let the governor understand just how he
stands on that question. •
Governor Stone has been talking of
calling together the legislature of Penn
sylvania for the purpose of passing a law
that will compel the mine owners and the
mine workers to submit their differences
to a state board of arbitration whose de
cision they would be bound to accept.
President Mitchell is an avowed and ar
dent advocate of arbitration, tout not of
the kind that Governor Stone wants to put
upon him.
The mine workers have done their best
to bring about an arbitration of their
differences with the mine owners. It is
not their fault that the coal strike oc
curred and that it is still going on. The
strikers have made such a strong showing
of the justice of their cause that the sym
pathy of the public is overwhelmingly
with them. The press and the pulpit con
demn the greed and obstinacy of the mine
owners that caused the strike and have
kept it up.
President Mitchell tells Governor Stone
that as much as he is in favor of arbitra
tion, he does not propose to commit him
self or the labor organization he repre
sents, to the principle of compulsory arbi
tration.
The strikers do not care to leave the
settlement of their case to a lot of polit
ical arbitrators, whose decree they would
toe forced by the state to accent.
Governor Stone expected the strikers
to jump at his proposition but they de
tected the danger that lurked in it and
very promptly rejected it.
They believe that in such an arbitration
as the present state administration of
Pennsylvania would provide they would
very little chance, and they are
probably right.
* BRANTLEY’S GOOD GOSPEL.
We have had occasion frequently to
commend the wise action and counsel of
Hon. W. G. Brantley, who honors Geor
gia as the representative in congress of
her eleventh district.
Only a few days ago we commended his
clear and convincing exposure of the
weakness and delusiveness of President
Roosevelt's proposed plan of controlling
the trusts by the slow and uncertain
method of a constitutional amendment.
At the conclusion of that admirable in
terview Mr. Brantley made an abrupt de
parture from his former line to say:
“There is a matter in which I feel a
more vital and immediate interest. It is
the building of good roads throughout the
state. If they were constructed generally
and the farmer in the country placed In
easy communication with the towns, his
financial condition would be more largely
improved than by any solution of the
trust evil, as it at present exists, that
could be invented or applied.*' z
These are the words of a practical
statesman and business man.
Mr. Brantley has proved himself both
in the Georgia legislature- and the con
gress of the United States a man upon
whom his own district, his state and the
country at large can rely for the advoca
cy of good principles, for adherence to
policies at once sound and progressive.
The record of tlfls able young Geor
gian indicates that there is a great future
in ajore for him.
WOMEN IN AUSTRALIA.
There can be no doubt that the cause
of woman's suffrage is making pretty
steady progress, though it receives fre
quent rebuffs.
Its advocates are much elated over the
most notable triumph their theory has
yet achieved. The new federal constitu
tion of Australia suffrage is granted to
women as well as men, but in the several
states composing the federation there are
wide differences in respect of woman’s
suffrage. •
In other words, while the women of any
state of the federation may vote for mem
bers of the Australian parliament, they
cannot vote fdr members of the local leg
islatures or local officials.
It is probable that the scope of woman’s
suffrage will be enlarged in some of the
states.
The ..gislature of mew South Wales has
pledged itself to glv§ women the full suf
frage in the state, as well as the fed
eration, if a majority of the women of
that state shall vote for it at a referend
um that has been ordered.
It is said that the vote of the New
Kouth Wales women will certainly be for
the full suffrage by an overwhelming ma
jority and that the other Australian
states will probably soon fall into line
with this lead.
Some of the most influential statesmen
in that country are advocates of woman s
suffrage to a full* equality with that of
men. It has not been made a party ques
tion, and the woman's side of it has
about equal support in each of the popu
lar political parties.
HOME NEWS FROM AFAR.
Reckless misrepresentations of Amer-'
lean events and affairs and gross fabrica
tions of alleged happenings in this coun
try are of such frequent occurrence in
the French press that they have ceased
to provoke much comment when they
happen to come to the attention of Amer
ican readers.
The British newspapers, though often
inaccurate in their allusions to this coun
try. rarely perpetrate such glaring fakes
as we find frequently in the French and
some other European papers.
But we have received a marked copy
of The Wiltshire Times, dated August 23,
1902 which shows that the British news
paper liar is among the foremost profes
sionals in that line whdn he lets himself
out.
'lne Wiltshire Times is a typical English
Journal in appearance, consisting of six-
teen large pages, with very wide, closely
printed columns.
This ambitious newspaper aspires to
“cover” not only the United Kingdom,
but the rest of the world as well. One
column of brief items is headed “Foreign
Intelligence." and is a rare jumble, refer
ring to matters hither and thither from
Dan to Beersheba. On this string of gems
we find several that are attributed to out
part of the world.
One claims to come direct from our own
city and looks quite startling to Atlanta
eyes, as the following transcript of it
will show:
“A great tidal wave has destroyed a
great part of Atlanta, and done other
vantage on the Mexican coast. The death
roll at present s 60.”
We confess to a feeling of indignation
when we first saw this account of the
partial destruction of the livest city in
the south compressed into three lines,
hid in a drove of “brief mentions,” and
not even honored with a headline. This
account of the disaster to Atlanta was
evidently sent out by a correspondent in
some rival city who rejoices over the ter
r.oie blow that has befallen the fair me
tropolis of Georgia. We suspect that the
miscreant is one o- the unscrupulous
Mexican journalists on the neighboring
coast.
c.dcago has been treated badly also by
an American correspondent of the enter
prising Wiltshire Times, as «ie following
special’* will prove:
“Chicago grave diggers have struck for
higher wages. As a result their cemetery
is closed. Outside the gates is an an
nouncement that no funerals will take
place until further notice.”
The “gates” of Chicago have never re
ceived the attention uiey deserve, and we
hope that funerals have been resumed In
that city, unless deaths have ceased to
occur among its two million people.
But of all the cities to which this Brit
ish newspaper has given cause of offense
Hot Springs has been worst used. The
following “social” Is likely to cause com
ment In the social circles of that gay re
sort:
“A monster rattlesnake, fried, broiled
and stewed, was the principal delicacy at
a banquet given by Captain Dabney, of
Hot Springs. Ark. It was fatted on rab
bits, chickens ana larks. The guests pro
nounced it delicious,”
The Wiltshire Times is not a regular
visitor to The Journal office, but the
specimen copy that Iles before us tempts
us to request the honor of an exchange.
A GOOD GERMAN LAW.
There are some kinds of “liberty” In
this country that should be restrained.
One of them is the liberty of disfiguring
and desecrating the landscape with all
sorts of advertisements, especially the
features of scenery that are most at
tractive and therefore most valuable for
advertising purposes.
Some of the states have enacted strin
gent laws against this barbarous practice,
but in most of them, Georgia included,
it runs riot yet; and the demand for its
suppression should be heeded by the leg
islature.
The Prussian Landtag at its last session
passed a law against offensive advertising
in the country which is decidedly sweep
ing in its provisions, but probably not too
much so. It regards the mere disfiguring
of natural scenery as sufficient ground
for action against the offender.
This is a very decided advance upon the
American and British courts which still
incline to limit fte right of restrictive leg
islation in the matter of signs to the
usual considerations of public health and
safety.
This attitude of the courts has made it
very difficult to prevent advertising
nuisances in the country.
The Prussians consider the offense to
the eye as a nuisance that may properly
be suppressed and prevented by law.
With such a law as Prussia now has it
would be possible to protect from dese
cration historic scenes, such as great
battlefields and to prevent the disfigura
tion of scenery about our popular resorts.
We hAve made some progress toward
proper local restrictions in this matter,
but by no means enough.
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.
New York Press.
Contentment Is ambition's dope.
A hard answer scareth away wrath.
It is a short road that has no pitfalls in
it.
It is better for a woman to fill up her stock
ing* than her shoes.
The good a man does doesn’t live as long
as he does if he dies the next minute.
You could not get a girl with freckles to
worry about such trifles as the trusts.
A man can make a woman suffer all he
pleases without turning her against him, but
he must not ignore her.
The handicap which a person starting out
in life cannot overcome is to be known as
a bright young man.
Whether he needs it or not, every man skbuld
try to borrow money so as to learn who his
friends aren't, and also never to lend.
The first time a woman loses her temper
it nearly scares her husband to death; after
that it startles him just as much when she
doesn’t.
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
Chicago News.
Happy are they who don’t want the things
they can’t get.
His satanic majesty acts as receiver for
moral bankrupts.
Speaking of gloves, three of a kind aren’t
in it with two pair*.
The lucky man is the plucky one who sees
and grasps an opportunity.
No. Cordelia, we can't all be hero-worship
pers; some of us must be heroes.
Many a woman who makes a man a mighty
poor wife makes him a rich husband.
~Do~ a man a favor and he will consider you
under everlasting obligations to him.
When cupid visits Boston he discards his
bow and arrow and uses a bean-shooter.
Many a man who couldn’t train a dog de
cently Imagines that he is an ideal child
trainer.
Though the pen may be mightier than the
sword, it can’t come up to the scratch when
pitted against the ink-eraser.
A hundred years ago men married younger
than they do now —but women didn’t object
to doing their own housework then.
Truly the prominent woman's husband is to
be pitied, but fortunately for most married
men who play second fiddle the orchestras to
which they belong give but few public per
formances.
JAPANESQUE IDEAS.
Chicago Journal.
Respect always a silent woman; great is
the wisdom of the woman that holdeth her
tongufe.
A vain woman is to be feared, for she will
sacrifice all to her nride.
A haughty woman stumbles, for she can
not see what may be in her way.
Trust not the woman that thlnketh more
of herself than another; mercy will not dwell
in her heart.
• • •
The gods honor her who thlnketh long be
fore opening her lips.
A woman that respects herself is more beauti
ful than a single star; more beautiful than
many stars at night.
• • •
Give heed to her to whom children have
come; she walks in the sacred ways and lacks
not love.
• • •
A mother not spoken well of by her children
is not an enemy of the state; she could not live
within the kingdom's “wall.
THE ORIGIN AND MEANING
OF THE MONROE DOCTRINE
Saracuze Post Standard.
THE recent utterance* of President
Roosevelt affirming conviction
in the Monroe doctrine and de
claring such still to be the
policy of this government in dealing
with the independent states in America
has aroused much discussion of the doc
trine both in America and in foreign pub
lications.
It is timely, therefore, to state the con
ditions under which the so-called Monroe
doctrine was promulgated and to outline
briefly the purport of the doctrine as
enunciated by President Monroe in a mes
sage to congress in 1823.
After the close of the Napoleonic wars
it happened that all of uie American col
onies of Spain located on the continent
gradually threw off the yoke of Spanish
rule and set up independent governments
with the idea of becoming self-sustaining.
Also there was formed in Europe the Holy
Alliance, which originally Aus
tria, Prussia and Russia. The czar was in
formed later by letter from the prince re
gent of Great Britain that he personally
approved of the agreement. The rulers of
Naples, Sardinia, France and Spain la
ter added their names to the alliance. The
chief object in the formation of the alli
ance was to strengthen the hold of abso
lutism on the people and to check the
growth of spirit of democracy.
This country had no complaint to offer
so long as the alliance cenfined its atten
tion to Europe, but when it began to be
apparent that the newly formed indepen
dent governments in Central and South
America were not free from its designing
activities, the particular alm being to re
instate Spanish authority, then the Uni
ted States felt a concern.
About this time Russia caused some un
easiness in America by evincing a disposi
tion to claim lands on the western coast
of North America farther south than her
rights were considered to extend.
Under such circumstances President
Monroe on December 2, 1823, sent his fa
mous message to congress. The utter
ances which have since become famous
were included in two long paragraphs of
the message.
SHY OF HIS MOTHER’S PEOPLE.
BY. DR. M. B. WHARTON, D. D. I
THERE is something significant in
the fact that the president did
not accept the hearty invitation
to visit Georgia when* he was
right on the border of the state. He
swung round the circle, went north, west
and east, and “down south.” making his
brilliant and captivating speeches against
trusts, which reminds one of the ruse of
the guilty when pursued to cry, “stop
thief.” but did. not enter the state where
his mother was born, where she lived,
and was honored. He had an eye to busi
ness in this pleasure tour, and it did not
suit Republican policy to play before
the grand stands of the south. He well
knew that he would be enthusiastically
received and hailed as a “half-Georgian,”
but he was in that frame of mind which
made him wish to be considered wholly
northern, for he could not expect any
thing as to the main issue from the Em
pire State of the South, so he went shy
of us.
The two worst things about the strenu
ous president are: First, that this half
son of the south should dine with an Ala
bama negro; and when he could have
walked a few miles and entered the land
of his mother, he did not do it. It is, to
say the least of it, a bad sign. Great men
are always true to their people. I heard
Andrew Johnson, in the United States
senate just before the war, make a de
fence of Tennessee when that state was
assailed by Senator Iverson, of Georgia,
which greatly delighted my youthful
mind. He rose and said in effect: “Mr.
President: The gentleman has attacked
the partisans of Tennessee. I hurl back
the charge with defiance. What state has
surpassed her in her devotion to the un-
State Press Comment on
Supreme Court Judgeship
Clean, Able and Honest.
Augusta Chronicle.
Whatever may have been the misappre
sion on the part of Governor Candler
which led him to the appointment of
Judge Gober, it is certain that his second
appointment, that of Judge Samuel B. Ad
ams, of Savannah, to be associate justice
of the supreme court of Georgia, has met
with Instant and widespread approval*.
Judge Adams is a clean man, an able
man, and an honest mn. His elevation to
the bench will be agreeable alike to him
self and bar of Georgia. It is a matter of
congratulation that the governor has been
able to fill this brief term with one in
every way so acceptable, and a matter of
regret that Judge Adams* tenure of the
office is to be so short.
An Able Lawyer.
Americus Times-Recorder.
The appointment of Hon. Samuel B.
Adams, of Savannah, as an associate jus
tice of the supreme court of Georgia,
gives much pleasure to the Athenian
friends of that distinguished Geor
gian. He will preside only until the
successor to Justice Lewis can be elected
and qualified, but in that brief time he
will add much ability and dignity to the
highest tribunal in the state. Justice Ad
ams is a graduate of the University of
Georgia and a trustee of that institution.
He is one of the ablest lawyers in the
state and is a citizen without reproach.
Governor Candler exercised much wisdom
in the making of this appointment.
In Every Way Qualified.
Waycross Journal.
While Judge Hammond, candidate for
justice of the supreme court, has not been
well known in South Georgia, he is a man
in every way qualified for the position he
seeks. He graduated from the University
of Georgia, in the class with such men as
Judge Speer. Judge Van Epps, Ben Hill,
Judge H. H. Cabantes. of the Atlanta
Journal; Judge Pratt Adams, of Savan
nah; with the first honor. He filled the
position of judge of the superior court in
Atlanta with distinguished ability for
many years. His private character is
spotless. His standing at the bar is of the
highest. When you consider the elements
of a supreme court judge he has without
reflection on the other distinguished can
didates. more of the judicial temperament.
A successful criminal judge is not always
the best qualified to act as a supreme
court judge, where great constitutional
and intricate civil cases are likely to come
up for adjudication. While all the can
didates are good men. it may safely be
said the election of Judge Hammond will
not be at all experimental.
Has Confidence of the People.
Wilkinson Bulletin.
The resignation of Judge Hal T. Lewis
from the supreme bench has demonstrat
ed the patriotism of a number of good
lawyers who are willing to sacrifice per
sonal interest and devote their time and
talent to serving the state in the, position
recently made vacant by his resignation.
The Bulletin knows of no good reason
why either of the gentlemen whose names
have b>en suggested for the position
should not fill it acceptably, but with
the present lights before us, we will be
found in the Candler ranks, and when the
In the first of these paragraphs Presi
dent Monroe declared that the govern
ments of Russia and Great Britain had
been informed “that the American conti
nents, by the free and independent condi
tions which they have assumed and main
tained, are henceforth not to be consider
ed as subjects for future colonization by
any European powers.”
The second paragraph asserted that the
United States would consider any attempt
on the part of European powers to extend
their control to any portion of this hemis
phere as dangerous to our peace and
safety. Any interference with the newly’
formed independent American states by-
European powers, the president asserted,
would be regarded as an evidence of un
friendliness toward this government.
The exact words in which these prin
ciples were expressed are important.
It is only wnen our rights are invaded
or seriously menaced that we resent in
juries or make preparations for our de
fense.
With the movements in this hemisphere
we are of necessity more immediately’ con
nected (than with those in Europe) and by
causes which must be obvious to all en
lightened and Impartial observers. The
political system of the allied powers is
essentially different in this respect from
that of America. This difference pro
ceeds from that which exists in their re
spective governments. And to the defense
of, our own, which has been achieved by
the loss of so much blood and treasure,
and matured by the wisdom of their most
enlightened citizens, and under which we
have enjoyed unexampled felicity, this
whole nation is devoted.
We owe it, therefore, to candor and the
amicable relations existing between the
United States and those powers to declare
that we should consider any attempt on
their part to extend their system to any
portion of this hemisphere as dangerous
to our peace and safety.
With the existing colonies of dependen
cies of any European power we have not
interferred and shall not interfere. But
with the governments who have declared
their Independence and maintained it and
whose dependence we have on great con
sideration and on just principles acknowl-
ion? I Think of Jackson at New Orleans,
of Sevier, and others of hallowed mem
ory. She is known as the "Volunteer
State. “I love Tennessee; she is my adopt
ed mother, and I can say of her what
Ruth said to Naomi: “Whither thou goest
I will go, where thou lodgest I will lodge;
thy people shall be my people and thy
God my God.'
When Coriolanus, banished from Rome,
was marching toward the city with a
powerful army, the Romans, frightened,
sent deputation after deputation to cause
him to desist, but he heeded them not.
A procession of priests and augurs ap
pealed, but in vain. Then came the women
of Rome headed by his mother. He could
not withstand this, but falling before his
venerable parent he exclaimed, “O. my
mother, you have saved Rome, but lost
your son!” But President Roosevelt
would not even visit the land of the wo
man who gave him birth, because it was
not good politics.
A man should never be ashamed of his
people. When Senator Foster, of Con
necticut, was a young man, and had
achieved some distinction as a barrister,
he became enamored of a rich and beau
tiful society girl of high lineage. The
wedding was soon to taae place. It was
to be the event or the season. All ar
rangements were made. The night before
the date for the marriage Mr. Foster
called to see her for the last time till he
met her at the altar. During the inter
view she said to him, “’Mr. Foster, there
is one thing I wish to say to you; you
know your family is beneath mine; I have
promised you that I would go with you
to see your parents after our marriage;
but you must not expect me to do so
any more. They are poor people, and the
votes have been counted, if the state
votes as we believe Wilkinson county will,
it will be found that he has an over
whelming majority over either of the oth
ed candidates. It will oe remembered that
he held court for Judge Hart here a few
years ago and by his rapid dispatch of
business together with his uniform kind
ness to <he people he gained the confidence
of our people and Wilkinson can safely
be placed in the Candler column against
the field.
Is Worthy of the Honor.
DeKalb New Era.
We are for Judge John S. Candler for
judge of the supreme court to succeed
Judge Lewis. Judge Candler is worthy of
this honor and we hope to see him
succeed.
Press On Henderson’s Withdrawal.
Fitting Close to a Weak Career.
New Orleans Times-Democrat.
It was to be expected that the revolt in
the west against the sentiment of the east
would on the subject of tariff rates be em
phatically felt at the November elections, but
few persons supposed that so shining a
landmark as the speaker of the house of rep
resentatives would be swept away by the re
form wave that is now sweeping over the
west. Mr. Henderson's “withdrawal from the
race" is. from many points of view, exceeding
ly interesting political news. Since his elec
tion os speaker of the house of representa
tives, Mr. Henderson • • has attempted to ride
rough-shod not only over the rights of the
minority but also over the wishes of a large
if not a predominating element of the Re
publican majority In the house of represent
atives. His methods have been highnanded
and arbitrary to the point almost of inso
lence. and in the latest session of congress
his policy was severely rebuked and soundly
defeated by a combination of Democrats and
Republicans. Throughout his terms as speak
er he has contrived to separate himself from
"the plain people of the land” and to occupy
the position of a high public servant who :s
docile tc all instructions given by the pow
ers of organized wealth. This evolution, al
ways Interesting in the lives of public men,
is in Mr. Henderson's case, exceedingly in
structive. Ineligible to the presidency by
reason of the fact that he is not a native
American, Mr. Henderson had by hard, if
not especially brilliant, service, reached a posi
tion of honor and of influence in the govern
ment that is today second only to that of
chief magistrate of the nation. • • • In
ail his political career, however, nothing has
become him half so ill as the manner in
which that career was terminated. He was
required to determine whom he should sup
port. the trusts or the people, and he decided
that he would not support the people.
Denotes the Coming Struggle.
Baltimore Herald.
The reports from the conference among the
national leaders at Oyster Bay and the dis
patch from lowa that Speaker Henderson will
not return to congress because of the strong
tariff revision sentiment in his state mark
what must be considered the highwater mark
of revision probability. Throughout New Eng
land, where cheaper raw material and foreign
coal are widely demanded, and in the states
of the middle west the dominant party has
decidedly staggered the statesmen of Senator
Hanna's unchangeable tariff class by a pro
nounced favoring of the president’s demand
for tariff revision where this means tariff bet
terment for the masses of the population.
It is bad to receive as the motto of any
party that "it is good to leave well enough
alone”; for this assumes a standing still that
is impossible in modern life. William Mc-
Klnlev foresaw the coming struggle and place*
himself in line with the advocates of progress.
edged we could not view any interpositloir
for the purpose of oppressing them or
controlling in any manner their destiny
by any European power in any other des
tiny by any European power in any other
light than as a manifestation of an uiw
friendly disposition toward the United
States.
Such in substance is the Monroe doc
trine and the circumstances under which
it was promulgated over three-quarters
of a century ago. At Augusta, Me., the
home of the late James G. Blaine, presi
dent Roosevelt said that today “we are
more firmly implanted on the Monroe doc
trine than ever he (Mr. Blaine) could
have hoped that we would be.”
At Proctor, W President Roosevelt
said that we believe in the doctrine not
as a means of aggression, but because as
“the biggest power on this continent we
remain steadfastly true to the principles
first formulated under the presidency of
Monroe.” |
As to the authorship of the Monroe doc-'
trine there has been much dispute. Charles
Francis Adams claims that his father,
John Quincy Adams, Monroe’s secretary
of state, was the real author, and Charles
Sumner has urged that it originated with
George Canning, the English statesman. 1
The conclusion of Daniel C. Gilman on
the issue as expressed in his memoir of
President Monroe seems wise.
“To me this discussion seems more im
portant to the antiquarian than to the
historian, for if furt-er research would
establish beyond question the authorship
as that of Adams, the fact would
still remain that the president and not the
secretary of state announced the doctrine.
It was his official sanction which gave
authority to the phrases, by whomsoever
they were written, and lifted them above
the plane of personal opinions. Monroe,
spoke from the chair of the chief execu
tive, and to him statesmen and historians
have continually attributed the doctrine.
His official sanction at a critical moment
and his personal characteristics and
opinions gave to his words authority; and
their pronounced acceptance by the peo
ple of the United States shows how ac
curately they express the sentiments of
the people.”
circles in which I move would think
strangely of it. So I thought I would
speak to you about it beforehand.? Fos
ter became silent, thoughtful, and then
indignant and enraged. All the lamb, all
the lion in him was aroused. His mother
and father who had ntirtured him, and
made him all that he was, to be con
temned by his own wife. He deliberately
turned to her, and said: “Well, Miss,
all that I have got to say to you is that
you may go to the devil.”
Turning on his heel, he took hitf>hat *
and left her and her home forever. No-»
ble man. He was to be the most brilliant 1
lawyer in the state and a member of the
United States senate, while she pined in’
perpetual young maidenhood. The world
applauded him for his act.
Without saying that President Roose- y
velt was unfillal, it does look singular and
significant that he could not stand a grand
“whoop up” in Georgia, the staple of,
what would be “our president is a half-
Georgian.”
How unlike Garfield. His old humble
mother followed him to Washington. I
saw her sitting at his side when he was
inaugurated, and when he had taken the
oath of office he turned to her first ana
kissed her, next kissing his wife.
How unlike McKinley, who seemed to
be nowhere so much at home as on “the
Red Old Hills of Georgia,” making
speeches at her ohautauquas; afterwards
at her reunions, and actually wearing a
Confederate badge at Macon!
I think Georgians had as well drop the
subject of the president’s Georgia ances
try, and let him cling to the Roosevelts
who "sold lampblack” in New York two 1
hundred years ago. Was it because that
was their business that he so respects
that color now?
What Can Be Put on a Postcard.
London Express.
Apropos of the lady who wrote 4,500 words
of three letters each on one aide of a postal'
card, a correspondent writes that his brother
wrote 11,000 words of five letters each on one
side of a postal card.
It was in a competition, when he was badly
beaten by twenty or thirty other competitors, ’
the winner contriving to cram in no fewer than
22,000 words of five letters each in the same
space.
One competitor wrote: “I send you a postal
card on which I have written 450 words. No
one can possibly beat this record, so I have
arranged to spend a good long holiday on the
Continent with the prize money. Please let me 1
have it before Monday.”
The gentleman who wrote 11,000 words on a
postal card writes to say: “But I have done
far better than that. When I was at Oxford
I wasted days of my time, which I now regret,
in the following exploit, which I think will be
hard to beat:
“I wrote the Creed, the Lord's Prayer, and
the Ten Commandments not only in the vul
gar tongue, but inside the compass of a six
penny piece. /
“But the exploit of my life in that direction
was achieved when I succeeded in getting ths
whole of Gray's Elegy, consisting of thirty
two stanzas of four lines apiece, inside a half
a-crown.-'
Next, please!
and his successor, while cautiously studying:
conditions and public opinion, is evidently
convinced that the party of the future must ba
one alive to the chancing necessities of a
rapidly developing people.
A Mere Question of Detail.
Philadelphia Press.
Speaker Henderson does not admit or assert
that a majority of his constituents oppose his
position, but only that "manji” do. The dis-,
cussion to which his action gives rise may
and doubtless will show that no irreconcilable i
difference exists among the Republicans of the
district on what is, after all, a question of
detail and not a question of principle.
It ought to be possible in Speaker Hender
son's«hstrlct to adjust all these differences by
considering all the facts. It will prove to
be true there and in the country that those
who indiscriminately oppose it are each see
ing In part and prophesying In part. Those
urging each need a broader outlook on the
whole subject, which will lead to an agree
ment in the Republican party on the tariff
certain in the end and always attained in the
past. Such an agreement now in Speaker Hen,
derson's district will preserve to the country
services which the Republican party and thq
country value.
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Philadelphia Press.
Bridget—"Ol can’t stay here, ma’am, onlesa
ve give me more wages.” Mrs. Hiram Often—
’“What! Why, you don’t know how to cook or
do housework at all.” Bridget—“ That’s just it,
ma’am, an’ not knowin’ how, sure the wurk is
all the harder for me. mum.”
Philadelphia Bulletin.
Mufkins—“Supposing a fellow was going to
choose a wife, colonel, how would you advise
him to set about It?” The Colonel—“I should
advise him to select a little one.” Mufkins—
“What for?” The Colonel—“ Because when Its
a question of a choice of evils. It Is best to
choose the least."
Washington Starj
"I wonder who it was that said politeness
doesn’t cost anything,” said Farmer Corntossql.
“Don’t you believe It?” “Well, I have my
doubts. Whenever I go to town and some stran
ger is especially polite to me I always feel
es if it was liable to cost me anywhere from
SI to 575. according to how much I happen to
hare.”
Much interest is manifested in the offer of a
13.000 cash prize by the world’s fair authori
ties to any person who shall successfully trans
mit without wires electrical energy amounting
to one-tenth of a horse power 1.000 feet. This
achievement if performed would make a new
step In the development of the electrical
science. Many experiments have been made la
the direction suggested.
