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THE MACON TELEGRAPH : SUNDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 20, 1904.
THE MACON TELEGRAPH
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C. R. PENDLETON,
President and Manager*
C« F. PENDLETON . .
LOUIS PENDLETON*
THE TELEGRAPH IN ATLANTA.
-The Tele&.-sph will be found on salt
«t tho Kimball Houao and iho Pied
mont Hotel In Atlanta.
NO DEFINITE 8UQQE8TION8.
In the couree of a friendly article on
the Southern aituatlon aa It appear*
since the election, the Philadelphia
public Ledger asks: “With the ever-
prevent shadow of negro domination—
u. thin* of hldeoua memory whoae re
currence muat at every aacrlflce be
averted—what could the white men of
tthe South do but stand together and
'vote together agalnat any party or any
candidate whoae aucceas might tend In
any way, or appear to tend, toward a
peril that cannot be thruet from their
snlnda?" Tet the aame newepaper In
the same editorial arttcla apeaka die-
, approvingly of thla inevitable South
ern attitude, aa follows;
A disheartening feature of recent Amer
ican politic* ha* Iteen the continued aloof-
lie** of tnc South. In other part* of the
country the people divide according to the
opinion* prevailing at the time, and par-
tie* contend for the m*«t*ry; the Mouth
hn* remained '•solid" and Immovable. In
the recent election, when President
Roosevelt may be *nld to have awept the
country by popular ucrlMin.it Ion, the
Southern Plnte* alone maintained their
attitude of dl**ent. . . . We read of
11 conference of rioufhern leader* to he
held In Washington with n view to organ
•Jslnf some plan of Independent poll lira
action. Thl* I* not whnt the Houtl
peadi. A distinctly Southern parly or
ganlntlon would ba more hopelessly sec
tional than tha present mdhtranca to tha
Democratic name.
LIND3AY EXPLAIN8.
According to Mr. Lindsay, former
United States senator from Kentucky,
while Gold Democrats who had sup
ported Mr. McKInley.once or twice,went
to Mr. Parker, two Sliver Bryanlte*.
for every one of such Gold Democrats,
went to Mr. Roosevelt. They wept to
him to revenge themselves on the Dem
ocratic party, and on Judge Parker, for
having come out for gold. Mr. Roose
velt was. and is, for gold Quite as
strongly aa Judge Parker was. and Is.
But Mr. Roosevelt's election, these
Sliver Bryanltea knew, would be their
method of “spiting" Judge Parker and
the St Louie Convention, and of re
habilitating Bryan and Bryanlam
within the Democratic organization.
We may add that Mr. LIndaay'e opin
ion la very generally entertained.
CALL TO DUTY!
Bound the trumpet call throughout
the South" aaya the Florida Times-
Union, discussing the “duty of tke
Mouth." to be true to itself and take an
Independent position In politics. Let
the world he told that we keep our
trust and will not palter with the truth.
We may not succeed, l»i^ we con de
serve sucre**, and that in better. Raise
banner and those who may will
come to us; for others It is better that
they go with tho proeefflon. I>ld not
God blesa us because we stood firm
after Appomattox? Ask him to bless
us again by facing with the saitie firm
ness a new day of trial. We havg fol
lowed strange gods long enough: To
your tents, o Israel.' Such words are
likely to appeal to all except the very
considerable contingent which long*
for the flesh pots and can not breathe
freely except on the winning side.
Unfortunately neither the Publlo
• ledger nor any other friendly North
ern newspeper makes any definite or
practical suggestion as to what the
South does "need." They do not won
der that the South Is solid In view of
the conditions, but they tell us that It
ought not to be solid and that Inde
pendent political action on the part of
the South will only make matters
worse. Their well meant discussion
of the situation simply amounts
this: The South cannot help Itself,
Put until It does so It must stand con
demned. The North may be solid
enough to go for a candidate virtually
by "acclamation." but that la differ
ent, for the North Is "ths country" and
the South a luckless appendage. This
Is the unconscious view of even the
Northern friend of the South.
What is to be done about It? Very
little can be done for sf long time to
come. But the South can ft* least
preserve Its self-respect by asserting
Its rightful position of leadership In
the Democratic parly, as The Tele
graph urged It to do after the defeat of
3 WO.
A SIGN OF THE TIMES.
That even Democrats and Southern
men should show a disposition to turn
and rend Judge Parker tn their disap
pointment over the defeat Is a some
what ominous as well as an unwelcome
sign of the time*. It shows that the
people of this country are turning their
faces more and more toward the rule
of men rather than the rule of princi
ples and of law.
It is altogether possible that another
leader more magnetic than Judge Par
ker. more gifted with the ability to in
spire enthusiasm In the multitude,
could have been chosen. But if such
a one had been chosen he could not
have been elected under present condi
tions. Granting for the sake of argu
ment that we did not have the best
available fighting leader, it remains to
he said that our platform and the prin
ciples with which the party went be
fore the people were the soundest since
the campaign of 1892. These principles
deserved success in any event, and In
this respect we can all And satisfaction
the record made by the Democratic
rty In a contest which, n« the Hon.
John A. Reagan has put It “may b« a
turning point in the history of the
United States."
Judge Reagan truly says that the
Democratic national convention "adop
ted a platform In harmony with the
Declaration of Independence and the
Constitution of the United States, and
with the traditions of the fathers for
the first three-quarters of a century of
the hlptory of the great republic."
1th equal force ho adds:
this content the Democrats sought to
•establish and maintain a government
hlch would perpetuate the liberties of
MISSOURI'S CONGRESSIONAL
VOTE.
t Is remarkable how Missouri has
varied In recall years In her return of
delegations to congress. To the Fifty-
fourth *he sent only four Democrats
but eleven Republicans. To the Fifty
fifth she ssnt twelvs Democrat* and
three Republicans. To the Fifty-sixth
she sent twelve Democrats and three
Republicans. To the Fifty-seventh she
sent thirteen Democrats and two Re
publicans. To the Fifty-eighth <ln-
creane of representation beenunf of
the census) she sent fifteen Democrats
and one Republican.
A* to tho return* for reprenenta-
tlves In the Fifty-ninth congress. Ml*
Kourl will send elthe** right Democrat:
and eight Republicans or seven Dem
ocrats and nine Republicans. There
Is doubt as to one district.
When tho election of representatives
to ths Flffy-nlnth congress is com
pared with that for the Fifty-fourth.
It will be seen that the Republican
tidal wave of 1904 wan not nearly *o
violent In Its effect upon Missouri ns\
it was tn the latter instance. The
people of Missouri, while giving thslr
electoral vote to Missouri, practically
spilt even a* to ,their representation
In congress. The swing of the state,
therefore, from the Democratic to the
Repub^aii, column Ip the electoral
collefe, !a one thing, hut the probable
equal division ns tn popular represent
atlon In the halls of congress Is quite
another.
uppnrtMl
he Ameri .. ^ -
lhe future m*y bring to \iew. w* should
“ “ * * “ * * H, and-splendid
party for the
ial government
. ...
ths Dejn<
preservation of constltutl
hnd popular liberty.
It would I"* Interesting tn have those
who are crying out for a "reorganlza
tlon" of the Democratic party to point
out the particular plank or plank* In
the St. Louis platform that ought to be
thrown out. and the new one or onss
that ought to be substituted.
It would also he interesting to have
them point out the plank nr plnnks that
Judge Parker repudiated or refused to
stand on.
If any of the several newspaper* that
are urging “reorganization" would get
nd print a statement from Mr. Henrst,
Mr. Cockrell or Mr. Anybody Else
whose name was before the St. IamiIh
convention, that he, or any of them,
would have declined to stand on the
platform If nominated. It would be a
great stroke of newspaper enterprise,
and would be the sensation of the post-
clectlon season. But they Accepted the
platform, because their names were
proposed and voted for after the pint-
form was udopted. Why should their
friends lie kicking now'?
There Is nothing to be ashamed of,
but on the contrary much to be proud
of, and If our faith can be shaken by
defeat then we are mere opportunists
who do not deserve *ucc4»»—sm! the
eakness complained of In Judfce Par-
Her Is really In ourselves.
MR. WAT80N AT DINNER.
Mr. Thomas K. Watson has written
a novel called “Bethany." Mr. Watson
Is always doing aomethlng novel, thus
contributing to the gayety of nations.
According to some advance proofs
which Mr. Watson's publishers have
bent to The Telegraph, the following
paragraph appears:
,o ** ,v * r * 1 time*
In my life to he *rr**ted. eonvlrtM mid
d,n VS llh other well.dressed
convicts. male and female, *t »swell din-
,h * w v formal functions where
solemn flunkey# bring rnu on- thing onlv
to est at a linn*. When you have nr r lied
e wfllle at that one thing, whatever U
mar be. solrmtt flunkey* take it nway
y ? u rUte and some
other thing to perk at a while. florin-
tlmsa It happens that tills one thing is a
Mg defiant-looking tomato. To ilt tn
Ptf! * f "t r gating at the last course
whkh the flunkey has just put on* to
reeks# that this entire counU VnnJSt. IS
a estttary tomato. looking n,-rr<*ly red end
flj* 1 ** ••»«* the table and to
. lh * 1 «*• convicts, male and fe
male. h%\ e one tomato apiece. en<l see
JrylnB lo l<w>k cheerfully a, tha remvl.-t
hnel haa nv»rwhrtm»d ml
r,r&nSL'U”* ,h " rhmnr " rht
*• romtn* from Mr. Watann. tha
f'lr.fnlnt *» moat Inter.Mtn*. Thu! ha
hu been aonaptcunu, tn polttlaa an.t
In bookmaktnf »n<l In law and In
trad*. », alt know, nut that ha .herald
hava now aaaum«d to ba tha arbltar
and poatlhly tha autocrat of tha dte-
tiar tabu. la aomewhrt a aurprlaa .van
to thoao who bavo learned to recard
htm aa a man of turprtaea. It ta Mr.
Wataon'a Idea, from tha forecotnc *x-
rerpt. that everythin* about.! ba
heap—d upon tha tab!- a! nnca. and
that a dinar ahould ba nbta to ' aco
everything tha boat had to rat bafora
him at tha Brat rtanre. ao that ha. with
hta hungry fork, might ha abla, re-
gardtaaw of tha ordarllnaaa of a courao
dtnnor. to ap««r tha biscuit If ha did
rot want tha pona; awl pa tha tomato
If ho did no! Ilka tha turnip; ordar
tha butlar to ho poaa.it bp hta nslgh-
bor n faw aaata removed, and no on.
It ta evident that ha object* to folka
balng wall-dreaaod at dlnnar. and wa
muat Infar that ha prefars to go right
to tnhlo aa ha corn.* from hta toll and
aaaaaga hta hangar ragardlaaa of all
rnnvontlonallty. Rut what la more
charming than tha avsntng dlnnar
whan It ta formal eepertally In tha
horn* ctreta, Let It he the tnhlo of
tha rich or tha poor, tha more of care-
moor tho batter. Children, under tha
eiarept. of parent., drawad aa heat
they may. whether In aatln or cotton-
ado. A dinner without formality ta
not much of a dinner. Thare ta no
placo under tha paaantal reef-tree
where tha gentlamanhood and tha
ladyhood of -too Infantile youth can
ha ao quickty developed a- at the din
ner table. Tba pleasure of dining lira
far more In tha tabla association than
In the provender. The tabla should
never ba ragardad aa a trough, though
111 Wateoe may ream to thick ao.
THE OLD TIME SPIRIT.
A wadding occurred In Pataraburg. Va.
of a vary unusual character. Oenrral
Jamre Marglll nf Pulaakl. Va. was
married In Mire t.ury Lea Hill, dough
lar of Ota Ial* Ocn. A. P. Hill, whoae
tut me grows with ever-increasing lus
tra aa tha annala of tha Confadaracy
ara recited and atudled. ITpnn tha
death nf Mlee Winnie Ttavla. Mine Iflll
become known ae the Daughter of the
Confederacy. She waa horn when the
war-tide wae at lla highest. In rera.it
years ehe hop lived In Chlrago engaged
In literary work. Mlaa lllll wae not
only tha daughter of the great general,
hut waa the nlere of another Confede
rata hare, that other beau eahreur,
Clan. John H, Morgan of Kentucky.
Her aunt la the wife of Clan. Rasil
Duke, who was Morgana' right hand
In tha desperate Ohio raid. Oan. Mac
gill aarvrd with both Jurkaon and Hill,
and hie brothers, three nf them, won
distinction In the service nf the Con
federacy. ftlnce the war Oen. Marglll
haa lived at hla country home la Vlr
glnla, greatly honored by the people of
tha state.
Rut what cava tha dominant not# to
the wedding ceremony waa the re-aa
aartlon nf the old aplrlt of the Cnnfetl
eracy. It was patriotically romantic
In the highest degree. Tha maid of
honor was tha daughter of Iho lata
Oan. William Mahons. Tha groom waa
dressed In the full Confederate uni
form. Hie ton. who 1a tha assistant
commanding general of tha United Bona
of Confederate Veterans, waa alai
Confederate gray. Tha uahara i
els veterans of tha A.' P. Hill camp,
which had presented tba bride with
puree of gold, other camps ware rep
resented In tha bridal tributes. In oth
ar words, from beginning to end, and
In all It* features tha nuptials ware
every way significant of the glory and
traditions of tho old Confadaracy.
la not thla a wondrous Instance
the survival of tha old tints love and
loyalty?
Humor hath It that tha stand-pat
tan are aliaady hurrying to Washing
ton to hold up tha arms of tha newly
converted President who ta thought
ba landing a too willing nor to tha
friends of reciprocity and tart* re
vision- If Mr. Roooevelt ta really n
to ba a candidate In INI he can do
ha pleases, but If ha does as ha pleai
In soma particulars there will be a trr
title howl and angry charges o
Ingratitude. There are some threaten
' log rocks ahead of the Roosevelt ship.
Those had man out In Wyoming
have accepted Teddy's election aa the
dawn of a new era of prosperity. Th
have already looted a hank, killed
cashier and cleaned up a gambling
house. Mill we trust tha Republicans
out there wtu not lynch thus* jubilant
artists when they catch them.
•f people, nnd r<**t upon the equal
itttirsl right" of nil, uni) which would bn
d ri; * *
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TOPICS OF THE TIMES.
O P
OOOOOOOOOOOOCCCCOOCOOOOOCXJ
Admiral Toeo ta enviously awaiting
the arrival of the Baltic fleet. He ta
beginning to feel the need of exerda*.
—Chicago News.
After heltig dead all these months
Washington now promise to" be liv
ened up with another postal Investiga
tion.—Indianapolis News.
“Money Is plentiful." says Secretary
Shaw, “and it's cheap, too." Now.
isn't that tantaltalng? But. then, talk's
cheap, too.—New York Herald.
Mr. Davl* may be consoled by the
fact that he has not been effectually
retired as he who has been elected
vice-president—Chattanooga Times.
The theory is advanced that the
Huntsville hen that laid an egg on
which were Initials and a date may
have swallowed a fountain pen.—Bir
mingham News.
Wouldn’t it surprise you If George
Cortelyou should be a strong pres
idential factor In 1308? Yet they are
talking of him as a coming man.—Lou
isville Herald.
We are the creatures of the tariff, 1
said Mr. Andrew Carnegie. “The tariff
Ih the mother of the trusts," said Mr.
Havemeyey. Now who Is the father
of the family?—Houston Chronicle.
President Amador of Panama has
nipped in the bud an alleged conspir
acy to get In touch with some of that
$10,000,900 canal fund. These alleged
plntterfi are a little green as grafters.
—Baltimore Sun.
An order has been Issued for boats
on the Chesapeake and Ohio canal to
tie up for the night ns soon os It be
gin* to get dark. That's a wise pre
caution. aa there is no telling where
the Baltic fleet will "how up next.—
Washington Post.
Should that Baltic fleet happen, as
Is not Improbable, to meet with real
Japanese torpedo boats "somewhere
cast of Sues." It will have no difficulty
In recognising the difference between
them and the Dogger Bank variety.—
New York Tribune.
“Happily tho world does not end
with this election." Those are brave
words. Col. Watterson. In fact, it Is
ths only really sunny bit of philosophy
that we have hart from a Democratic
source since somebody turned off the
sunshine.—Detroit Journal.
According to the latest dictum of
ths London fashionables, men’s coats
must be creAsed. If this sort of thing
keep* on even the most circumspect
citizen will scarcely he blamed for en
vying the freedom from sartorial re
strictions that made Eden so much
more of a paradise.—Cleveland Plain
Dealer.
THE MUNICIPAL PROBLEM
Mr. Telamon Cruger Cuyler Smith,
society man of Atlanta, has filed his
petition tn the superior court of Fulton
county, asking to have his name turn
ed nrounrt so that Smith will hang out
In the middle. Telamon Cruger Smith
Cuyler will not sound so much like a
trunk tumbling down stairs with a sud
den take-up at the bottom.
POINTS ABOUT PEOPLE.
5m»w«wiMiMMftir ftwHMHHriHwmtao
Rev. J. A. Davis, of the negro Meth
odist conference now tn session at
Montlcetlo, seems to be the Sam Jones
of that conference, lie has been tell
ing some wholesome truths to his
brethren.
It Jars the harmonise to see leaders
of the "great common people" lugging
their middle names around In a shawl
strap, aa It were. It ts a prerogative
of plutocracy—an equipage of royalty.
Rockefeller says that riches will not
get any man a free pass to heaven.
We suspect he has examined the eye
of the needle and Is training down to
inaks the trip on physical terms.
ts not complimentary much to
the South that we cannot rid ourselves
of tho "submission" collar put upon
us by our Northern Democratic friend*
tn t«€*.
Mayor Harrison of Chtcoge need not
explain ho* It happened to Parker tn
his bailiwick. Both are down and out
now.
Let Roosevelt come on down
Georgia. These street f»ir carnivals
are growing stale and do not draw
Itks they used to.
Ths president very naturally lUtes to
w the South pictured on the political
maps "all black."
Talking about logical things. Macon
ta the logical permanent site for the
State Fair.
The esteemed Augusta Chronicle
can come pretty near being the sec
ond-hand "original Bryan man."
Algernon Charles Swinburne la en
gaged upon a drama, tho central per
sonage of which Is that sinister type
of the renaissance, Caesar Borgia.
Edward Clark, head of a sewing ma
chine company, who conceived the idea
of selling goods on the Installment
plan, died worth $20,000,000. His wid
ow Is now the wife of Bishop Potter.
Lord Curxon's writing Is said to be
so bad that few csta read It. He wrote
to a friend regardlhft a relative's short
comings. The letfi*^. by mistake, :wa*
sent to the relative, and the latter, sup
posing U to be a. request for money,
sent a check at once.
The death occurred at Nuneaton,
England, on October 28, of a widow
named Bateman, who wae the favored
school-companion of " George Eliot."
She was born In 1120. spent th# whole
of her life In one house, nnd died In
the seme mom In which she flgrst saw
the fight,
An extraordinary) nickname has been
given to King Peter of Rcrvla. The
nnme Is “Peter Prvovjencanl." mean
ing Peter the Rrst-crowned. a title
which waa assumed In 1195 by Stephen
Urns, who was really entitled to It, be
ing the first Servian king to be
crowned.
Karl Blind, the noted German revo
lutionist. who has ttved In England for
many years, celebrated his eightieth
birthday last week. He was a leader
In the revolution of 1848. for which he
was condemned to death, afterward
being reprieved. However, he suffered
eight months solitary confinement.
The sisters of ths murdered Queen
Drags of Servfn have decided to offer
for gale In London next month an em
erald bracelet that waa given her by
the caar as a wedding present, dia
mond necklaces that belonged to her,
an ancient nnd richly adorned histori
cal costume, nnd a yacht the city of
Belgrade gave her.
John Carey, a hanker of Des Moines,
la at the head of a movement for the
formation of a local municipal league
there, the object being to watch the
city council and. all other governing
bodies tn the Iowa state capital. This
movement is the outcome of a general
belief that there la a good deal of
"grafting” In the place.
Refugees from Port Arthur tax that
Mme. Stoeasel. wife of the famous
Russian general, takes the lead of the
Red Cross work and Is almost constant
In attendance at the hospital, tenderly
caring for the wounded. In the midst
of this exhausting work she finds time
to sld orphans and widows and super
intend the making of bandages. Ths
soldiers are said to regard her as their
guardian angel.
Miss Jeannette L Glider, whose new
book, “The Tomboy at Work." has Just
been brought out. Is one of the few
Women most prominently Identified
with literary Ilf# in America
of The
Notes on Same, and an Outline of an
Address Given Before the Macon
Municipal League, November 14,
by Prof, J. R. Moaely.
1* Wnat Is the municipal problem?
To promote the general welfare and
the common Interest of all the people
residing in our cities; to compel an
equitable, righteous and unlfdrm dis
tribution of common burdens and com
mon benefits; to secure efficiency, hon
esty and economy In every phase of
administration; to prevent the prosti
tution of public office for partisan and
private ends, and to arouse and main
tain an enlightened and vigilant public
sentiment In favor of good government
with an uncompromising condemnation
of everything that tends to produce in
efficiency, extravagance and corrup
tion.
2. The enormity of the problem.
This enormity arises from the fact:
(L) That our population is becom
ings largely urban, whereas a century
ago It was almost entirely rural.
(2.) That we have been vitally In
terested for generations In national and
state politics and are still comparative
ly indifferent to nearly all the vital in
terests and the stupendous and un
solved problems of our cities.
As a result of this, we know more
about the government at Washington
and at Atlanta than that at the City
Hall, and our best citizens are willing
to serve the nation and the state for
honor and opportunities of service,
while some of our citizens enter city
politics as a means of making a living
ns well as for public service, and occa
sionally, and too dTten I fear, for reve
nue only.
(3.) That the Immense wealth of our
cities and the rapid extension of muni
cipal functions make politics a highly
lucrative profession. In fact, I know of
no other field where a moderate degree
of Intelligence and an even more mod
erate degree of virtue have been so lib
erally rewarded. There are striking ex
ceptions to this, but not ao many as
there should be. As the result of this,
we have in many of our cities, in
competent nnd unfaithful governing
boards and officials.
“The various forms of mischief re
sulting from a public service thus
filled are numberless; but they uni
formly present the common feature of
Increasing either debt or taxation, or
both. These unworthy holders of pub
lic trusts gain their places by their
own exertion. The voluntary suffrage
of their fellow-citizens would never
have lifted them Into office. Animated
by the expectation of the unlawful
emoluments, they expend largo sums
of money to secure their places, nnd
make promises before hand to support
ers and retainers to furnish patronage
or place. The money expended to se
cure election must be paid. The cor
rupt promises must be redeemed. An
ticipated gains must be realised. Hence
old and educated subordinates must be
dismissed and new places created * to
satisfy. the crowd of friends and re
tainers. Profitable contracts must be
awarded nnd needless public works
must be undertaken. The forms of law
are evaded or shaped for the purpose of
conferring the patronage upon favor
ites; and the various departments of
administration, instead of etrlvlng to
make the burden of government as
light aa possible, engage In a conten
tion to draw within their own control
the largest possible part of the public
resources. The amounts required to
satisfy these Illegitimate objects enter
Into the estimates upon which taxation
Is eventually based; In fact, they con
stitute In many Instances, a superior
lien upon the money appropriated for
government, and not until they are In
some manner satisfied the real wants of
the public receive attention."
(From the report of the New York
commission of 1877. of which Hon.
WliUam M. Everts waa president.)
(4) . That our city governments seek
to get the money for their lavish ex
penditures through every conceivable
means rnther than through direct tax
ation. Quoting again from the report
of tho New York commission:
"These unlawful demands, together
with the necessltlcH of the public, call
for u sum which. If taken at once by
taxation, would produce dissatisfaction
nnd alarm In the community, and bring
public Indignation upon the authors
of su<*h burdens. For the purpose of
averting such consequence*, divers
pretenses are put forward suggesting
the propriety of raising means for al
leged exceptional purposes by loans
of money, nnd In the end the taxes
are reduced to a figure not calculated
to arouse the public to action, nnd any
failure thus to raise a sufficient sum
is supplied by nn issue of bonds."
(5) . That this •‘borrowing zeal'
municipalities tends to entourage ex
travagance, and where the power of
throwing the responsibility of our in
debtedness upon posterHy exists, I
tends to produce nothing short of reck
lessness. The Injustice of beeping
debts upon our children Is Intensified
when we remember that in many In
stances our children will be compelled
to pay the debts without receiving
anything like equivalent benefit*.
(f). That a large per cent, of the
cltlsen* have received so ninny special
favors from our municipalities that
their hands are so tied that it make*
it embarrassing aa well as difficult
for them to do other than support the
existing order, and especially difficult
for th«*m to Join hand* with reformer*.
(7) . That tn many sections of the
United States municipal politics have
been closely associated with state and
national politics, arid where this has
not been true It haa been almost im
possible to keep the different centers
of local politics from pooling their in
terests and forming a trust.
(8) . That the state legislature. tn
most of the states until recently have
bud too large a direct control of local
affairs.
(9) . That the so-tailed better and
more disinterested element have had
a decided tendency to retire from pol
itics. and where they become aroused,
their awakenings lack organisation
and unity of nlm.
(10) . That, when there Is an awak
enlng of the people, they often find
the whole machinery of the govern
ment In the hands of professional pol
iticians and checks and balances
against their will being expressed.
3. How far are these conditions true
of Macon and our Southern cltlea?
1 have not Investigated the quee
t'on sufficiently to discuss, with per
fect fairness and with authority, such
■RM a delicate query I had rather hear
•nAsv Am 1 from members of our city admin 1stra
" 1 tion and the Citizens trhn urn In a Ka»
“77”
Cuaes Grip and
COLDS
“Seventy-eevenV widest field ot
usefulness ta to 'check' A common
everyday Cold, thst bectns In the head
and enda in a cough.
«77’ t " greateat uae la to break up
Orlp and dangeroua Colda that “hang
on" and haev not yielded to other
treatment-
"77” cornea In handy for Influema.
for Catarrh, for Hoarseness. Laryngitis
and Los* of Voice.
Dr. Humphrey*’ "Seventyseven ta a
anuill bottle of pleaaant pellet*—fUa the
vest pocket.
At Druggists. 25 cents, or mkUM.
Humphreys’ Medici ns Co. Cor. William
and John Street*. New York.
Ti,e European Hotel
j American and
European Plan
ns up-to-date. Careful atten*
tion given to guests.
Reasonable rates.
H. O’Hara, Prop.
MACON. GA.
No. 562-564 Mulberry Street.
present duty and vrhat are our posst-
If we cannot do everything, we can
do better than we are doing; and by
"we" I mean to include both the city
administration and the municipal
voter*. . . .
(1) . The city officials can ana
ahould give their cordial support to the
proposition to elect the mayor and the
whole council at the same time. For
them to refuse to do thl*. would tend
to indicate an assumption on their
part that the people would retire them
if they could and that they (the city
officials) are either too indispensable
to the city or the city 1* too indispen
sable to them for this to happen.
(2) . Taxation can be made to bear
upon all alike, and all bints of Parti
san favoritism can be diminished, if
not wholly eliminated.
(I). The city can live within it*
meana x ,
(4) . The beauty of our street* and
city which make Macon loved at home
and famous abroad can be preserved
from further encroachments.
(5) . The city administration can If
It will give these reform* without a
revolution, without necewarlly giving
place to men who wlIL Will It do so?
I hope it will. However, reform* in
most of the cities have come from
pressure from without rather th^n
from initiation from within.
The municipal voters and citizens can
elp to bring about these refroms in the
following ways, as well a* in other ways
I shall not mention: . ...
We can familiarize ourselves with
present status of our municipal Ilf#:
and as Mayor Smith says, “we snould
elect only good men to office, and good
men for public service must be courage
ous and efficient, as well as honest.
2. We can help the city fathers in their
efforts to reform themselves and to glvs
us a more economical .pnd equitable ad
ministration. _ . . .
8. We can form a new party to check
certain abuses that unquestionably exist
and others that may exist, provided the
present administration does not go to
work to accomplish these end*..
I. We can help make municipal politics
_ worthy field for our most Intelligent
and most public spirited young men nnd
municipal honors and service a worthy
ohlect of our best citizens.
5. We can be one of at least a small
group of Independent thinkers and Impar
tial students of municipal affair* wh<
stand for the highest efficiency nnd de
cency that can be attained through pres
ent agencies or new agencies in city ad
ministration. We can be men who ask
no favors, but that justice shall be meted
out to all alike; men who will tend to
make all parties agencies for better city
government.
8. We can cease asking and accepting
special and unjqat advantages from the
city administration, and we should seek
to do our full duty In utilising all oui
natural advantages and *11 of our soten
did resource* to make Macon the clean
est. henlthlest, and most beautiful of
Southern Inland citlas.
Will the present city administration
•lo Its best to help us do these things?
If It does, reform can commence at once
and come through evolution even more
revolution: If It does not. the thing*
are worthy of success win sooner or
later draw to themselves supporters
through whom they will win.
Brown House,
MACON, GA.
Stubbs & Etheridge
Proprietors.
Opp. Union Station.
Knu.vn throughout the South
for tho excellence of its ac
commodations and service.
Careful attention paid Every
Guest. Cuisine Unsurpassed,
Rates Reasonable.
Hotel Lanier
American and European Plan
Cafe Open Until
12 Midnight.
Your Patronage Solicited
J. A. Newcomb,
Proprietor.
tion and th* etttaana who are In a h*t
th*y
dtaposrd to
fmind.r and editor of ^h* Critic ,h* t, r position tn know whereof
haa »xcrtm| n dtatlnct Influence. 8h* 1a [ .peak. However. I am dtapo
a member of a New York family noted \ think that many of the problem, that
for It. di.tlnaul.hed literary activity. ' confront u« ore not »n aerlou* nnd »o
One of her brother* 1a Richard Wataon , *T* V * ■£* f h 'o? r , ohl ' n '* ">»> confronted
Alfred Auetln ehorely trta. to «»> 12“"’ C, 2L“™' ' "ta ata^my'^-
hta annual ealary of UN aa poet tau- . vlc,lon - » conviction which I hop* the
reate of Kn«UnA I *^!T r * n, f 4 th * I facte and th. future action of our
mayor will warrant, that, whatever
„ thank* Ih.'if... nf _„ rl . I K,unl - Mll » Glider's llret atory waa mar be the dimcuitie* m hta path, he
Kurohl thank* the preea of the world . printed when ahe waa fourteen yeera will be able, with th* co-operation of
for a handsome bunch of obituary bou
quel*.
That Chefoo Uar
more cheefcoalea.
la maktnc aome
The Imperial chanter will have Baled
Hey for the next four year*.
McOInty—
more.
Kurohl ta tho Ja
he boh* up aerenely
May Cem, True.
from the New York Telegram.
A European artenttat 1a again din-
nlnq into our eari that tn courae of
lima wc Shall become a trilern people.
We certainly ehall untawi th* frusta
ar* restrained in their pulUcq power.
of axe. Her first book. The Autobl- ^ council end
okrephy Of e Tomboy." wa a written <,<h .* r .- <, *l c * r * ln «° check
ou » °*J^ r own Childhood; and. In th* , comlna apparent ^to m ilk I^roT
near bonk, "Th* Tomboy at Work." she especially to the acknowledged fart:
really tell a her own first efforts tn (l). That the rlt T |* not paying as
R 1* tunning worse a nd worse
making & livelihood.
Attached by Neore.
I AI.DOHTA Cm., Nov. if—This »ffer-
• yhlte carpenter. Mr. Cap. How-
eU, wa* kntvkrd down end badly wounded
SU* P**™ named Alex Life, with e big
"**** B«>th men were at work on th*
new M*thndt»t church and a quarrel en-
Before eny of the
•Sher xprfcircn knew what waa going 'Hi-
the negro -truck th* white man a fearful
mow <*n the head. Ur Mowed waa
thought | a h* faulty wounded, but be
snnwMi signs of Improvement taler tr.
g* y *od K la believed now that he
tC? Ae son* aa the negro struck
,u *Fed Mit and be* not been
The Plaza Hotel
MACON, GEORGIA.
European Plan-
Cafe and Buffet Unexcelled
A New Hotel. Wth Spacious Sam
ple Rooms. All modern conveniences.
CAFE CATERS ESPECIALLY
TO BANQUET8 AND
WEDDING PARTIES.
ED. LOH & CO., Proprietors.
Curran R. Ellis,
ARCHITECT
Offices; 4, 5 and 6 Ellis Bldg.,
Cherry st. Cotton ave. and First st
Phone 239 Macoo. Ga.
ARCHITECTS.
P. E, DENNIS. Architect
56S Cherry st., Macon, Ga.
Twenty years experience and suc
cessful practice.
NURSING.
Night Nursing « Specialty.
MRS. S. R. RUSSELL. Trained Nurse.
'Phone 1525; residence, 669 Mulberry sL
OCULIST AND AURIST.
MIND HUNGER AND THEFT.
DR. MAURY M. STAPLER,
Oculist and Aurist.
Office. 558 Cherry Street
Day 'Phone, 3171. Night 'Phone 3053.
DR. J. H. SHORTER.
Eye, Ear. Nose. Throat.
Cherry and Second Streeti*.
Thone 972. office. Residence, 3073.
.. Jew York boy ha* been committing
forgery In order that he might secure
sn education- He took a novel method
of staving eff Ignorance Th# Judgr who
—mee on his case will hava to be a Solo-
for wisdom. In the meantime the
sociologist* and the criminologist* will
have an Inning. There’* a study In the
many employes nt tha scene of hi* la
bors that ha thought hi* absence would
not be reported widely enough to reach
»ars of the cashier. The t>oy secured
signatures of the three men who
signed the pay checks and soon was able
to Imitate them. He made a facsimile of
the punch- tho use of which wns nec-
C ry to make hi* check good. Thsn this
with a yearning for knowledge
wont to school five days a week and on
the sixth day he went to the ahop. pre
sented hla forged credentials, an«l drew a
week's pay. which he dutifully turned
over to his perents
Finally the youthful forger wss caught.
-J* had a volume of Greek myths and a
bundle of clippings on economic subjects
In hi* pocket. He had studied mvths and
labor economy to good—or bad—effecc.
What will be done with the youthful
forger student? Hunger la held by some
©f the moral philosophers to justify
theft. They have In mind th# plain
cases of stomach hunger. Will the theory
hold In a case of mind hunger?
The boy was facing the problem of
R anrlng th# mind or stealing the money.
e stole the money. Th* chances are
that he will b« locked un where he can
both work and study. Th# chances are
also that It Is just as well aa Th# boy
showed criminal cunning enough to In
dicate that with an education Joined to
B nrerted ingenuity, he would get into
* papers and Into prison later If be
hadn't been caught this time
THE NOVEMBER MAGAZINES.
Alexander Blair
& Kern ....
Architects,
673 CHERRY ST MACON. GA.
PROFESSIONAL CARDS
Classified advertisements under
this head are intended strictly for
the professions.
OSTEOPATHY
DR. F. F. JONES, Osteopath,
354 8econd St. ’Phone* 920-3019.
CIVIL ENGINEERING.
GABRIEL R. SOLOMON,
Civil Engineer,
Plans, Estimates. Surveys,
568 Cherry Street, Macon, Ga.
Office Phone 982—Residence Phone 169
DENTISTRY.
Pearson's Magazine,
George Ade, tn his own inimitable way
tella In hla article. “How I came to butt
Into the drama"—how he happened to be
come a playwright It aeema that Mr.
Ade'a modesty would have made him keep
his dramatic talent forever under a bush
el. but he happened to run up against -e
subject that offered a capital theme for
a comic opera; none of the men who
made comic opera would accept the plot
ea a gracious gift, so Mr. Ade got bumr.
os he would ear. and wrote It himself,
end "The Sultan of flutu * was received
lit open arms
r In writing
you fait you
If you succeed you will be worked to
death, but in either case you will have a
glorious finish Albert Bigelow Paine
continues hi* excellent biographical ar-
the Ilf* and work of the groat
, Thomas ** “
DR. ADDIEL M. JACKSON. Dentist.
Office on second floor Commercial
Bank Building, Triangular block. Tel
ephone 136.
• over M
'Phone
cAndrewg 4k Taylor, Cher.
PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS.
DR. MARY E. McKAY,
Speoial attention to Obstetrics and
Diseases of Women.
Commercial Bank Building.
Phones: Office. 2554; Residence. 3573.
DR. W. H. WHIPPLE.
Office, 573 Mulberry St., rooms 4 and 5.
Washington Block. Hours: 9 to 10 a. m.
13 to 1, and I to 6 p. m. Telephone con
nections at office and residence.
DR. J. J. SUBERS.
Permanently located. In the special
ties venereal. Lost energy restored.
Female Irregularities and poison pak;
cure guaranteed, .\ddress m confi
dence. with stamp. 510 Fourth street,
Macon. Ga.
cartoonist.
number of
In debt.
f21. That the l-uitv of onr street*
ta Items elmoet tally marred by the
erection of bulMtnn upon th* en
croachments that the city council sell*
for a pittance.
<S). That the common burden of
taxation 1, not enultaMy borne by all
preparly owner, aim,.
f«>. That three now extata a check
upon th* popular will and thla win
continue to extat until the charier ta
r 'V "g* *k* -hole
cmme^iuay be elected a, tba aarne
a. What ran w* do? Whnt ta nn-
The Atlantia Monthly open* with an
article by Alleyn* Ireland on “The Unit
ed Star. In th* Philippine*.” Mr. Ire
land ha* apent two ream In the Par
Eaat In the eepectal study of th* cotoni-
ration question, and hta article contains
the ripe question of bln taveattaatton*
Th* remainder of the content* ta aa fol
low*: "Country Life." Ralpk Waldo Bm-
eraon: •■taWro," Mary Austin; "A lat
er Prom Japan.” lafeadlo Hearn; "Tho
Renascence of Sapplitra," Chartae D. Ste
wart; -The American Coup d'Ht.it nf
I96l. ,; Heavy Dwtgbt fledgwk'k: "A Cttg-
E Hhtp and Her Commander.” Frank J.
th*r; -Cine* Election Conteets,” John
T. Wheelwrtght; "Wa* Sir Walter Scott
a Poet?" Arthur Symons; "Work and
Key." Arthur 8tanwood Pier; "A Chat #6.
Tntelicituaifty/' Emery Pottle: "On Im
proving the Style of tee Bible," J- H.
Gerdtner; The FertUe Hand.” fcdith Rlc-
kert: "AWdtng London** Dora Grr**r«-n
MeCbesaey; "The lark Male. Boitoo
O’t Frown, fl
Dr. Chat. H. Hall. Dr. Thos. H. Hall
Office, 610 Mulberry aL
Residence. 507 College at
OPTICIANS.
Oraduat. Optician. U1 Cherry at.
DR. C. H. PEETE. OculUt.
Office ‘phone residence phone i’t
ABSTRACTS.
GEORGIA TITLE A GUARANTY CO.
L B. tLVJl.ltiH. Prea J. J. COBB 8.c_
T. B. WEST. Alty.