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THE HERALD AND ADVERTISER
VOL. XLIII.
NEWNAN, GA., FRIDAY, JULY 24, 1908.
NO. 43.
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Jars, and Rubbers to go with
them. A big let of Jelly
Glasses on hand also.
Bargains' in Bowls and
Pitchers. We have a good
Bowl and Pitcher for
98dts.
Come to see us for any
thing you want, or’phone 147.
Agents for the Chattanooga
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LITTLE MR. LITTLE.
Little Mr. Little is a timid little man,
Whose little life is ordered on a very modest plan.
He owns a little cottage, he runs n little shop,
He hasn’t any hankering to clamber to the top.
He makes a little profit on the goods he has to sell,
And when he seeks his little bed he sleeps exceed
ing well.
Little Mr. Little is a man you’d never note;
His hat is five and something, and he wears a
rusty coat.
The trolley rush upsets him. he never gets a seat,
And half the leading men in town have trodden
on his feet;
But little children love him, though his clothes
ire out of style.
And dogs run out to meet him, and wag their tails
and smile.
Of learning he has nothing, of talent not a spark;
He doesn’t own one quality commanding of re
mark;
With mind tot) small for envy or pride or guile or
greed,
This little Mr. Little is a funny sort indeed.
And yet the host of friends he has 1—in every
block are scores,
For little Mr. Little’s heart’s as big as all outdoors.
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150 lbs. Landreth’s new crop turnip seed now on
hand.
Rutabaga.
Landreth’s, Bloomsdale, Swede-
best on the market.
-said to be the
Yellow Globe.
A large, yellow-flesh kind; fine for the table, and
if put up in hills can be used all winter.
Purple-Top Globe•
The largest turnip on the market.
Eatly Purple-Top.
The earliest turnip on the market.
Early Flat Dutch.
We all know what this is. It’s good.
Seven- Top.
For winter or spring salad.
KIRBY-BOH AN NON
Hardware Company.
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UNION OFFICER ON JEFF DAVIS.
Col. Brownlow Apologizes for Roose
velt’s Untrue Attack.
Col. John B. Brownlow in Confederate Veteran.
In the interest of that “square deal”
which President Roosevelt has so vol
ubly advocated with tongue and pen,
but which he has done so little to pro
mote by his acts, I wish to say a good
word for the President. When a young
man of 28 he wrote a book, in which
in substance he described Andrew Jack-
son as about the most unworthy man
who had ever occupied the Presidential
office. According to Historian Roose
velt, the occupancy of the White House
by such a man as the “hero of New
Orleans” was a disgrace to the Ameri
can government. That I do not state
this too strongly, I could prove by such
copious extracts from his “Life of
Thomas H. Benton” that it would re
quire more of your space to insert than
I would ask you to grant me. But I
gladly acknowledge that in his speech
at Nashville on Jackson Mr. Roosevelt
made the amende honorable. He told
the truth about our great Tennesseean
as he had learned it since he wrote that
book, twenty-one years ago, when he
was in the roasting-ear age of his life,
and for so doing he has elevated him
self in the estimation of the great office
he holds.
Many years ago, when Mr. Roosevelt
was still a young^an, he wrote for a
Northern magazine an article on Jef
ferson Davis, in which he charged that
Mr. Davis in 1861 had advocated the
repudiation of Mississippi’s State debt,
and that not only was he a repudiator
of public debts, but that he had repu
diated his private debts. In other
words, that Jefferson Davis was dis
honest in his private business life.
When this article appeared Mr. Davis
wrote Mr. Roosevelt a polite letter,
telling him that he had done him in
justice, that he had never approved of
the repudiation by Mississippi of its
debt, and that never before had anyone
charged that he had repudiated or
sought to repudiate or failed to pay
his private debts, and he concluded his
letter by respectfully requesting Mr.
Roosevelt to give his authority for the
charges he had made. He naturally
supposed that Mr. Roosevelt, whose
father had been his friend, would glad
ly make the correction when furnished
with the facts, which Mr. Davis of
fered to do. He was not willing to be
lieve that the son of an old friend and
the nephew of Capt. Bulloch, a loyal
Confederate soldier and a devoted per
sonal friend of his, would willingly as
perse his character or hesitate to do
him justice when enlightened as to the
truth. Instead of cheerfully comply
ing with this reasonable request, Mr.
Roosevelt had his secretary write for
him the insulting response: “Mr.
Theodore Roosevelt declines to have
any correspondence with Mr. Jeffer
son Davis.”
I will here add that within a few
years after the close of the Civil War,
when all manner of lies were published
about Mr. Davis—3uch, for example,
that “when captured he was attired in
female attire”--it was published in a
Northern newspaper or magazine that
he had advocated the repudiation of his
State’s debt in 1.850-51. Promptly Mr.
Davis replied through the North Amer
ican Review that the charge that he
had ever favored the repudiation of the
State’s debt was false, and that he
challenged proof to the contrary.
This put a quietus on the charge.
Whatever Mr. Davis’ faults, the
greed for money was not among them,
nor was personal dishonesty a trait of
his character. His reputation for per
sonal integrity was unblemished. Prior
to the Civil War, though not rich like
the thrifty New York Roosevelts, he
was in comfortable financial circum
stances, and being a man of an unos
tentatious and economical manner of
living and of a high sense of honor,
neither necessity nor inclination
prompted him to swindle his creditors.
"Who steals my purae, steals trash; 'tia Dome-
thingr, nothing;
’Twaa mine, ’tia hia, and haa been alave to thou-
sanda;
But he that filches from me rny good name
Robs me of that which enriches him not
And makes me poor indeed.”
For many years after the close of
the Civil War I spent every winter in
Washington, where I personally met
Sumner. Wade, Chandler, Cameron,
Chase, Stevens and other Republicans
who were contemporaries of Davis and
had served with him in both the Senate
and House. I heard them discuss his
character. They disliked him as a pol
itician. considered him as the chief of
political sinners, but said not a word
in derogation of his private character
or personal integrity.
After the Civil War, smarting under
the most severe criticisms on his own
character and on his official acts while
he commanded at New Orleans by the
newspapers and people of the South,
Gen. Benjamin F. Butler made a speech
in Congress, in which he said that the
extreme penalties of confiscation of
property and death should have been
visaed upon Mr. Davis and other distin
guished Confederates because they were
leaders of secession. Hon. Samuel S.
CoX, in reply, twitted the doughty Gen
eral. who never won a battle, with hav
ing voted in the Democratic National
Convention at Charleston in I860 for
Jefferson Davis 57 times as a Presiden
tial candidate. I asked Butler why he
had so ardently supported Davis and if
he was not embarrassed by what Cox
had said. Of course, it was a foolish
question for me to ask Butler, as if any
thing could embarrass him, but it did.
He replied: “No, sir; I am not em
barrassed ; I am proud of having voted
as I did. Subsequent events have vin
dicated my judgment. I believed that
Mr. Davis would be the strongest,
most available candidate the Democrat
ic party could run ; and if nominated he
would defeat the Republican candidate.
He could unite the Democracy, North
and South. I knew if Mr. Lincoln
wefe elected we would have secession
and war, and that I wished to avoid.
That he was stronger in the South than
anybody else was later shown by his
election as chief of the Confederacy.
His irreproachable private life, his un
blemished character for personal in
tegrity, and his brilliant record as a
soldier would have made him a strong
candidate in the North.” Continuing,
Mr. Butler said: “While Secretary of
War, between 1853 and 1857, Mr. Davis
made a tour of New England, speaking
eloquently for the preservation of the
Union and the Constitution, and re
ceiving everywhere enthusiastic ova
tions.”
As an illustration of Davis’ high
sense of honor, Butler related to me
the following : “Massachusetts had a
claim for several hundred thousand
dollars against the United States Gov
ernment which was nearly as old a3 the
Government itself; that for more than
a generation Congress had refused to
pay it because of the scarcity of money
in the Treasury, and after that had re
fused because of the age of the claim.
Finally, when it was referred to a
committee in the United States Senate,
of which Mr. Davis was chairman, the
latter made a thorough investigation
and reported a bill and made a speech
which forced the Senate to pass it. Mr.
Davis insisted that the claim was just,
and he said that no lapse of time should
be made a bar to the payment by the
Government of a just claim, as no hon
orable man would seek to avoid the
payment of a private debt by pleading
the statute of limitations. Such,”
added Gen. Butler, “was the character
of Jefferson Davis for integrity.”
While recently in Mississippi Mr.
Roosevelt favorably mentioned Mr.
Davis for his gallantry at Buena Vista.
It did not need Mr. Roosevelt’s testi
mony to establish th*e intrepid courage
and brilliant generalship of Jefferson
Davis on that historic field. Gen. Zach-
ry Taylor, commander-in-chief, and
every other officer and soldier in that
battle freely acknowledged that Davis,
as Colonel of the First Mississippi Ri
fles, did more to win that battle, which
made Taylor President of the United
States, than did any other officer. And
when the conqueror of Napoleon, the
Duke of Wellington, read how four
thousand volunteers and five hundred
regulars had routed at Buena Vista an
army of twenty-two thousand well-
armed and drilled men under experi
enced officers, he said : “It was one of
the most wonderful victories in all his
tory.”
I advised Mr. Roosevelt to make the
amende honorable nearly three years
ago. when my attention was first called
to the matter. This is what Gen. Jack-
son and Gen. Grant would have done,
hard fighters and stubborn men as they
were. The first officer to scale the In
dian fortifications at the battle of the
Horse Shoe Bend was Col. William
King, of Sullivan county, Tenn. In his
official report of the battle Gen. Jack-
son did not do full justice to Col. King.
The latter, a hot-headed and intrepidly
brave man, challenged Jackson to a
duel because he had done his regiment
and himself an injustice. “Old Hick
ory” replied that he would not accept
the challenge. He said he thought his
courage was sufficiently established to
make it \mnecessary that he should
fight a duel when there was no neces
sity for it, and he knew Col. King’s
courage was unquestioned. He admit
ted that in the pressure of business he
had not done justice to Col. King and his
regiment, but said that it was an inad
vertence, and that he would remedy the
omission in a subsequent report, and he
did. And many years thereafter, when
President, he magnanimously appointed
Col. King Governor of the territory of
Florida.
Gen. Grant, while President, decided
adversely to the petition of Gen. Fitz
John Porter for restoration to the regu
lar army, from which he hail been
cashiered during the Civil War by a
court-martial, influenced by partisan
considerations. Subsequently he frank
ly acknowledged that he had erred
from lack of information, and on his
earnest recommendation Congress
passed a bill restoring Gen. Porter to
the army.
Mr. Roosevelt makes the mistake of
supposing that the people of the Uni
ted States will place a lower estimate
on him if he frankly acknowledges that
he had erred. On the contrary, the
people know that he is not infallible;
and if he would acknowledge in a man
ly way where he has done a palpable in
justice, they would have more regard
both for his judgment and honesty.
Mr. Davis wrote to Roosevelt to fur
nish data which would enlighten the
son of his old friend and the nephew of
Capt. Bulloch, also his personal friend,
and who was a loyal Confederate offi
cial in the sixties, and he was evident
ly disappointed by the result.
In a personal letter Col. Brownlow
says in regard to the inconsistencies of
Butler’s conduct:
“Butler, while advocating executing
Confederate leaders, was ‘playing to
the galleries,’ and was competing with
Thaddeus Stevens for the leadership of
the radical wing of the Republican
party. But he was a leader in Con
gress, and was chairman of one of the
most important committees of the
House of Representatives-*-the judicia
ry committee. He was also the leader
in the impeachment of Andrew John
son, and of the seven managers of im
peachment was regarded as the domi
nating and ablest figure.
“When such a man should unstint-
ingly bear testimony to the purity of
the private life and lofty personal in-
tergity of Jefferson Davis, it should
make Mr. Roosevelt’s cheeks blush
with shame that he should-have so as
persed his character without the man
liness to have made the amende honor
able when enlightened as to the facts.
“Of course, nobody of Confederate
nor of Federal interpretation of the
Constitution adopted by our fathers in
1789 cares a bawbee what Ben Butler’s
interpretation of that sacred instru
ment should have been. Those of Con
federate education adopted the con
struction of Presidents Jefferson and
Madison and Mr. Calhoun; those of my
education, that of Alexander Hamilton,
Chief Justice Marshall, Daniel Webster
and Henry Clay.
“The question Mr. Roosevelt raised
was not one of constitutional construc
tion, but of Jefferson Davis’ personal
integrity, and he should be ashamed of
himself that he, the self-elected cham
pion of a ‘square deal,’ was too nar
row-minded to do that justice which
even Butler freely did.”
Loyalty to Your Town.
Marietta Journal.
When one finds he is out of sympathy
with his own town and can only say a
good word for it coupled with an apology
he ought to get out. Many people fall
into a sort of unconscious habit of
growling. But it’s a miserable habit.
Such people make of themselves a dead
weight, while, of course, they imagine
themselves particularly independent.
The individual has about all he can do
to get along under his own loads, and
he wants help and encouragement from
those going his way. and who are iden
tified with him in town. So with
the interest he has to care for—and
it needs all the pluck, all the energy,
all the co-operation and helpfulness
its citizens can provide and bring to
bear-—every man is a part of his town.
The town embraces the fortunes, and,
in some measure at least, takes on
the character of the man. So loyalty to
one’s town is no more than loyalty to
one’s self; and this loyalty is in the
line of all well-shaped human nature.
Therefore, it is right to say that the
man who does not stand up for his
town is in some way dwarfed. There
is something wrong about him. His
fellows will pass this judgment upon
him, and the chances are that while he
may add to the discomfort of others,
he will not escape making himself un
happy.
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Bryan's Wonderful Power.
It is estimated that five million peo
ple heard Mr. Bryan’s speeches during
the campaign of 1896. He almost du
plicated the feat in 1900. A writer in
Collier’s Weekly says that Mr. Bryan
has continued close to the heart of the
people by lecturing on the lyeeum and
speaking in the chautauquas of the
Middle West. There are six hundred of
these scattered throughout the West.
Mr, Bryan is the chautauqua star. His
voice is strong and his personality is
well suited to these crowds. He talked
personally to three hundred thousand
people during the chautauqua season of
1907. He has been delivering from one
hundred and one hundred and fifty such
nddresses for a dozen yeurs. Compara
tively few people know anything about
the extent ot this movement. The far
mers go into town on Bryan day. He
makes about $25,000 in a single sum
mer. One day last year his receipts
were $1,200.
The official reporter who accompa
nied Mr. Bryan through his campaigns
of 1896 and 1900 gives his recollections
of the contest. He says that Mr. Bry
an never touches intoxicants in any
way, and never uses tobacco. He made
about thirty speeches of ten minutes to
two hours each day. He did not break
down. He rarely repeated himself. He
was very quick to answer questions
and to meet arguments. He now trav
els in a private car, and after each
speech seeks the seclusion of his state
room and lies down to sleep until the
next stop. After each elaborate effort
he is rubbed down with alcohol like an
athlete and fresh clothes given him.
He is a physical giant and would have
made a greai wrestler. He had twen
ty-eight platforms to fall with him
during the last campaign, and some
times the voters would squeeze his
hands until they were twice their nor
mal size. One night in Michigan he
made six speeches and said he felt fit
to make six more. His” friends now
watch him very closely and take good
care of him on these campaigns. He
makes most of his speeches without
preparation. Only when he addresses
the people on some important occasion
and desires his speech to be sent out
in advance does he prepare them. His
spontaneous speeches are always best.
He read his notification speech, and his
delivery suffered when he U3ed manu
script. In 1900 at Indianapolis he mem
orized the peroration and aroused great
enthusiasm. Sometimes an editorial in
a morning paper will bring out a reply ;
perhaps someone in the audience would
liven things up by shooting some ques
tions at him. When the correspondents
who go with him find him getting wea
ry or mechanical, they will send some
one out in the audience and ask him a
question. These never fail to fire him
up. In the two campaigns when he was
the nominee for President he made
fourteen hundred speeches, no two
ailke—certainly a tax on the resources
of any speaker.
The article in Collier’s Weekly con
cludes:
“I have seen five thousand people at
Fredericksburg, Va., the home of
Mary, the mother of Washington, cry
like children while listening to his elo
quent eulogy of the word ‘mother,’ and
three minutes later, while the tears
were not yet dry on their cheeks, laugh
heartily. In Boston, at the banquet of
the New England Bimetallic League,
when the immense crowds gave Mr.
Bryan hopes for his election. I have
heard him conclude a speech with a
prayer that, in case he was elected,
God would so direct his efforts as to
make him of the greatest benefit to his
fellow-men. which caused everyone in
the room to pay tribute to his magnetic
earnestness with a hearty ‘Amen,’ in
stead of the usual applause. J have
seen him, in Waukesha, Wis., at the
conclusion of a hard day’s work, and
after three speeches in that city during
the evening, conclude with a twenty
minutes’ talk in a crowded hall, taking
his text from the bible, and become so
eloquent that the local shorthand re
porters, as well as myself, forgot our
business and listened instead of report
ing what was said. Had these people
heard him on such occasions, there
would be no doubt with them of his
ability as an orator, and all would pro
claim him as perhaps the greatest in
the country.”
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Tom—“When are you going to wed
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Dick (gloomily—“Indeed, I do not
know.”
Tom—“But the report is gaining cur
rency.”
Dick—“Yes; but I am not gaining
currency. That is just the trouble.”
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