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binary's Offi ca THE HERALD AND ADVERTISER VOL. XLIII. NEWNAN, GA., FRIDAY, JULY 24, 1908. NO. 43. * GENERAL MERCHANDISE * F AMfl FARM Cll DPI IFC ^ * u ^vw t i The Ti i me Has C ome FOR CUNNING and MAKING JELLY So we have just received a large shipment of Mason’s 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 Wagon. $ 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. i. o. & TELEPHONE 147 t t T URISIIP S EED 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. ’Phone 201. vS 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. Here is Relief for Women. Mother Gray, a nurse in New York; discovered an aromatic, pleasant herb cure for woman’s ills, called Austra- lian-Lief. It is the only certain regu lator. Cures female weakness and Backache, Kidney, Bladder and Urinary troubles. At all Druggists or by mail 50c. Sample free. Address, The Mother Gray Co., LeRoy, N. Y. 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.” Wood’s Liver Medicine is for the re lief of Malaria, Chills and Fever and all ailments resulting from deranged con dition of the Liver, Kidneys and Blad der. Wood’s Liver Medicine is a tonic to the liver and bowels, relieves sick headache, constipation, stomach, kid ney and liver disorders and acts as a gentle laxative. It is the ideal remedy for fatigue and weakness. Its tonic effects on the entire system felt with the first dose. The $1 size contains nearly 2£ times the quantity of the 50c. size. In liquid form. Pleasant to take. Huffaker Drug Co. Tom—“When are you going to wed your pretty fiancee?” Dick (gloomily—“Indeed, I do not know.” Tom—“But the report is gaining cur rency.” Dick—“Yes; but I am not gaining currency. 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