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TV88PAT, MACH 1Z 1907.
WORD “
Lx-Governor Montague of
Virginia Speaks at Har
vard University
TEE SOUTH AND ITS BAD LEADERSHIP
In a speech before the New York
alumni of Trinity College, North Car-
w „ . - . ollr.a. at a dinner held in the rooms of
CAMBRIDGE. Mass.. March S. A. , Aldlne Association, No. Ill Fifth
J. Monrigue.
formerly Governor
addresa at Harvard
w” hhe touch-
ot George . _ _
perlor Court, to the grand jury today
vraa an interesting one.
Judge Cann referred to the duty of
the cltlaen to serve on Juries: the
duty of every citizen to pay his Just
pro-rata of taxes; to the good work
of the board of tax equalizers; to the
need of a Juvenile court, and the man
ner In which one could be secured to
the need of protecting the health of
the school children.
Kald Judge Cann: "The name
'ehalngang' should be abolished from
our statute hooks. Certainly within
this county II Is but little more than
a name and can readily be wholly so.
The name Is not nnlv unnecessary and
Ignominious as It affects the Individ
ual, but la salzed upon with apparent
avidity by sensational writers for
magazines to unwarrantably heap re
proach upon the South. If the name
‘reformatory - need he changed to ‘In
dustrial school, 1 as It has been within
our own State, why not abolish the
name 'chalngang?’ ”
r] on the subject of lynching In the
South. He said In part:
"Some of us are taught to favor
lynching, and therefore to fear the
strong arm of Federal power. Thu)
barbaric malady will not be finally
eradicated in America until the peo
ple exercise a self-restraint born of
conviction and not of fear. In our
system of government. above all
others there is no place for private or
per-onal vengeance.
"I think that a strong constabulary
Is the best school to teach the virtue
nd the beneficence of
i avenue, on Saturday night, the Rev.
! Dr. John C. Kilgo, president of the col-
t lege, said:
I am sure that you have lost none of
your Interest In the affairs of the South
because you now have your homes in
the North. Never before in our South
ern history was there so much to
quicken the faiths of men. and so much
to Inspire their hopes. And I rejoice
> to assure you that the South Is fast
[ coming Into Its own.
Down in that region of our nation we
have had a strange and, in no small
sense, a tragic history. Many hard
tasks have fallen to the lot of the
Southern people, tasks that are unique
Saumgilhtl ®m
ttflne Wlmii
By JOHN T. B0IFEU1LLET.
A well known Macon lady
elf-restraint and the oenencencc ui ; j n the j r history and exceeding co n-
anil order over riot and murder, j , . .
I give iL as my deliberate opinion,
e"are.l by the bulk of the law abiding
people of the Southland, that there Is
never an occasion where resort to
lynch law Is justifiable among civi
lized people. Such practices snap the
fundamental bonds of society and will
eventuate In a government as capric
ious and as relentless as that of wild
beasts."
NEW INDUSTRIES IN THE SOUTH
CHATTANOOGA. Tenn.. March 8.—
In the accompanying list of new in
dustries established in the South dur
ing the week ending today, as reported
by the Tradesman. It will be noticed
♦hat the State of Texas leads in the
number and variety of new invest-
merit*. Among the Texas itfiri* will be
found oil mills cotton gins, electric and
power companies, saw mills, invest
ment companies, etc. and a $200,000
cooperage company. Kach of the
Southern State* is well represented In
the new Industrial list this week. West
Virginia has a new electric light plant
and telephone system; Virginia pre
sent' a varied array, including manu
facturing and mining companies: Ten
nessee adds a cotton mill: Oklahoma
records some heavy Investments,
among which are a $l,OOO r OOQ mining
company and a $750 000 chemical com
pany; North Carolina comes to the
front with several new lumber com
panies: Missouri is long op construc
tion and investment companies; Mis
sissippi adds three new lumber con
cerns; Louisiana reports lumber and
oil companies with heavy capitaliza
tion: Kentucky has another large to
bacco factory: Indian Territory reports
a $2oo,onn oil company and n $1,000,000
power plant: Arkansas swells the list
with four new lumber companies and
Alabama adds a warehouse company
and a cotton compress.
The Tradesman’s complete list for
the week Is as follows:
Alabama.
Birmingham—Tile works: $10,000 de
velopment company: $20,000 land com
pany.
Mobile—$10,000 amusarr.ent compa
ny; $10,000 office equipment company:
$5,000 lumber company: laundry.
Bridgeport—$300,000 trust company.
Decatur—$7,000 warehouse company.
Florence—Stove foundry.
Alicevllle—$30 noo cotton compress.
Arkansas.
Springtown —Development company.
I.lttle Rock—$10,000 lumber com
pany.
St. Paul -$25,000 lumber company.
Fori Smith—Shoe factory: $25,000
oil and gas company.
Briehtwater—Lime works.
Fordyce—Lumber company.
Hope—$15,000 lumber company.
Florida.
Lake City—Cigar factory.
Indian Territory.
Tulsa—$200,000 oil company.
Afton—$1,000,000 power plant.
Kentucky.
Central City—$4 nno brick works.
Louisville — $170,000 development
company: $100 oop shoe factory.
Owensboro—$50,000 land company.
Glasgow—$10,000 milling company.
Paintsvllle—$100,000 mining com-
pnnv.
Hopkinsville—Stone company.
Hawesvlllo—$200,000 <obacco fac
tory.
Forrtsvlllo—$S,noo planing mill.
Crofton—$20,000 telephone company.
F.lizahrthtown—$10,000 sumac fac
tory.
Louisiana.
y v Orleans—$50,000 Investment
err i rv; $100,000 manufacturing com
pilin' . $100 000 lumber company.
Shreveport—$50,000 lumber compa
ny: $50,000 saw mill.
Mansfield—Spoke and hantfle fac
tory.
Jennings —$100,000 canal company.
Covington- $10,000 light and power
plant.
Bastrop—$100,000 oil and land com
pany.
Mississippi.
Hattiesburg — $10,000 amusement
compony.
Columbia—$150,000 lumber company.
Philipp—$200,000 lumber company.
Gulfport $10,000 bottling works.
Scranton -Cement block factory.
Collins—$10,000 Ice and cold storage
Ant.
Pass Christian—$10,000 lumber com
pany.
Missouri.
St. Louis—$100,000 construction com
pany: . , . .
$20,000 investment company: $200,000 • passage of intending immigrants or to
mining company: contracting conipa- | Assist immigration except by adver-
ny: $5,000 constructing company; $12.- I tisement, will not apply to the Island
000 heating and manufacturing com- Hawaii. In that country the decls-
pany: $10,000 mining company: $100.- I lon has already caused considerable
000 Investment company: $50 000 motor
Madlsonvllle—Oil mill.
Beaumont—$100,000 oil company:
$5,000 oil company.
Waco—$60 000 hardware company.
Brownsville—$50,000 canal company.
KIrbyville—Sash, door and furniture
factory: $25,000 oil company.
Austin—$15,000 creamery.
Dallas—$20,000 builders - supply com
pany: $20,000 machinery company.
id Paso—$25,000 building and loan
company.
Killeen—$10,000 light and power
company.
Bonham—$100,000 gas and electric
company.
Rockport—$25 000 ice and light plant.
Creedmore— $10,000 cotton gin.
Sherman—$200,000 gas and electric
company.
Lund—$8,000 cotton gin.
Texarkana—$200,000 cooperage com
pany.
Lufkin—$50,000 lumber company.
Corpus Christl—$15,000 navigation
company.
Cleburne—$200,000 gas and electric
company.
Winters—$10,000 telephone system.
Dublin—$100,000 gas and electric
company.
Henderson—$10 000 lumber company.
Hillsboro—$150,000 gas and electric
company.
Mexia—Saw mill.
San Antonio—$20,000 bottling works;
$100,000 land company.
Virginia.
Clarksburg—$50,000 loan company.
Norfolk—$30,000 crematory: $25,000
mining and quarrying company; $10,-
000 amusement company: $10,000 man
ufacturing company; $15,000 shoe fac
tory.
Roanoke- 41 50,000 investment com
pany.
Petersburg—$150,000 electric com
pany..
'Brookneal—$20,000 land company.
Ashland—Ice factory: laundry.
Blacksburg—$25,000 lumber, sash and
door factory. - *
Newport News—$50,000 amusement
company: $700,000 brewing and Ice
company.
Manassas—$100,000 oil company.
Narrows—$5,500 telephone system.
West Virginia.
‘Pennsboro—$50,000 oil company.
Webster Springs—$15,000 electric
light plant.
Morgantown—$5,000 plumbing and
supply company.
Green Sulphur Springs—$5,000 teler
phone system.
Lumberport—$10,000 coal and coke
company.
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BONAPARTE’S OPINION
EFFECTS MUCH PLANNING.
NEW ORLEANS. La.. March 8.—
Charles Schuler. State Commissioner of
Agriculture and Immigration, today
expressed the opinion that the de
cision of the United States Attorney-
General Bonaparte received yesterday,
regarding South Carolina Immigrants
will seriously Interfere with the plans
of his department to induce white im
migrants to come to Louisiana during
the present year. About 600 Italian
agriculturalists wer being arranged for,
the State government to pay the ex
penses of the new comers and the em
ployers of such laborers to reimburse
the State for expenses Incurred. An
Immigration station for New Orleans
j was dedicated only yesterday.
r.
WASHINGTON, March 8.—It was
authoritatively stated today that the
recent opinion of the Attorney-Gen
eral. In which he held that it is un
lawful under the recently enacted im
plex in their nature. And If there be
those who think that the South might
have done better than it has done, they
may he abundantly pardoned on the
grounds that a problem as an experi
ence is altogether a different thing
from a problem as a theory.
You cannot estimate the«e changes
by the political pres? and the words of
the professional politician’. It is true
that these still seem to triumph, that
they still hold the place of leadership:
vet I know that they do not voice the
deep and growing sentiments of the
thinking and working South. In every
reformation, sentiments change long
before they express themselves in ac
tion. For twenty-five years my duties
have given me friendly association
■with the best classes of business men
in both towns and country, and the
one thing that I have met among them
all is a secret dissatisfaction with the
spirit and the methods and aims of
politics.
The working South is tired of the old
type of leader. It wants a leadership
that will express Its faiths and its
hopes and its sympathies. Never before
was there felt throughout the South by
worthy men in every line of work a
deeper humiliation than that recently
provoked by the rough and sectional
utterances of Senator Tillman in the
United States Senate. And never did
the South more earnestly long for a
Southern leader like Lamar or Hill or
Vance to rebuke in its name this anti
quated voice of strife. Forever has the
day passed when the builders of the
South will applaud the voice of strife
when they will have pleasure in sec
tional hatreds, and when they will ad
mire the demagogue.
What the South needs and what it
wants today is a leadership that fullv
interprets the soul of its progress. It
needs pathfinders—not a type of lend
ers that will flatter its weaknesses,
that will gratify its shallowest desires,
and that will foster its useless tradi
tions. but a leader that will fully inter
pret what the people ought ta believe
and what they ought to do, a leader
who has sufficient vision to compass
all the movements of the South, and
who can direct them in the lines of a
larger prosperity' and a surer happi
ness.
Men who know the South only from
what they have seen through a car
window or learned from those who
have spoken and written for It are yet
in deep ignorance of that mighty sec
tion of our country and the wealth of
citizenship the nation has beyond the
Potomac. There is a great unknown
South. It is not a talking South, but
a working South. If one would know
it. he must go away into the fields,
where sturdy farmers are making
things grow out of the dirt, he must
go into the forests where mills are put
ting out millions of lumber, he must
go back Into the mountafns and see the
miners, he must go into the stores and
hanks and factories, and there he will
And a busy South of which he has
heard little and about which he knows
little.
"The working South is bringing
things to pass.” continued Dr. Kilgo.
“The marvelous growth in the equip
ments of Southern industries and the
amazing increase of Southern wealth
bear witness to the energy and wisdom
of the working South. But as wonder
ful as this record is. it is only a proph
ecy of what can and what' will be done.
It is to this great army of brave and
sturdy workers-that all lovers of the
South look for the final solution of all
Southern problems and the security of
Southern progress.
A Revolution in Sentiment.
“It Is a great mistake to assume that
the only changes which are going on In
the South are industrial changes, that
the South is only interested in material
prosperity. I grant that, under the
stress of sore poverty, the South has
had to give much of its time to mate
rial affairs. But I rejoice to know that
this strain has passed, and that the
men who have been too busy in the
past to study and work at political and
social questions are coming to have a
deep and sober Interest In all these
issues. There is going on in the South
a tremendous revolution in the senti
ments of serious men of all classes.”
Among the qualities which the leader
of the South must possess I mention
three:
(1.) He must have unquestionable
regard for the principles of righteous
ness. In times past, the South has al
lowed party zeal and party success, as
well as other Influences wholly con
ventional, to set aside other considera
tions of supreme Importance. This
discreditable policy has been excused
his party mocked it as the belated
voice of a worn-out trick. The lead
ing paper of the South said recently
of the reckless propositions before the
Legislature of its State: "It is a com
mentary that It can be said with truth
that a considerable contingent of the
people of the State regard their Gen- I ouested me to publish the
era! Assembly as a menace.” By
thousands of such signs it is made
more and more evident that the South
will not longer follow a leadership that
does not voice the eternal principles
of righteousness, and labor to establish
government and society upon founda
tions that cannot be destroyed.
(2.) The future leader of the South
must believe and heartily defend the
is the motto "Victory or Death." A law ' House. I was feeble, but I think I
passed by the Legislature in 1905 says made one of the best speeches I ever
has re
circum
stances under which Francis Scott
Key composed the Star-Spangled Ban
ner. A recital of the facts just at this
time would be particularly appropriate
as the press telegrams of yesterday
stated that Mrs. George Livingston
Baker, of New Brighton. Staten Is
land, is authority for the statement
that the identical flag which flew over
Fort Henry during its bombardment
cause of mankind. No man can hope I in the war of 1S12 and inspired Key to
to do much with men. no man can hope • the composition of the national ode, is
to achieve lasting good among men, the nropertv of her brother. Ebcn Ap-
unless he have a faith in men and a pieton, of New York, and that it has
sympathy with men. The one unre- been deposited by him in the safe de-
Ienting complaint that all men have i posit vaults of a Broadway trust corn-
had against monrehies and aristocra- 1 pany. Historical accounts tell us that
cles is their extreme regard for their ! when
own classes and their utter disregard I ingto
for all other classes. And nowhere Is 1
the flag of the State of Georgia shall
be a vertical band of blue next to the
flagstaff, and occupying one-third of
, the entire flag; the remainder of the
; space shall be equally divided into
j three horizontal bands, the upper ami
lower of which shall be scarlet in col-
I or and the middle band white. On
the blue field shall be stamped, paint
ed or embroidered, the c.'at of arms
! of the State. Every regiment and un-
! assigned battalion or squadron shall.
! when on parade or review, carry this
; flag. It shall not be lawful for any
, person or persons to use the State flag
I or coat of arms for advertising pur-
! poses or otherwise desecrate or mis
use the same.
And the controversy continues as to [
| the identity of the man who declared |
that he could swallow Alexander H. i
I Stephens. Col. Fleming Jordan, of
! Monticello, was quoted in The Tcle-
| graph yesterday as saying that all hi*
: life long he has understood that Wal-
made in my life. This is my opinion:
I do not know what others may make
of it. I would n>t say this to any
other in tlie world but t> you, and to
you only because • know you would
like to have niy opinion .is well as that
of others. Poor Ireland was out in
mass. The spirit was in im> and I
never spoke with greater liberty and
unction. p— wished to know whom
I would support for Governor. I told
him I would consider the matter. He
knew I did tint intend to vote for John
son. If Andrews would come out and
declare himself in opposition to the
two leading articles of the Know-Noth
ing creed, I might vote for him. But
the contest I was engaged in was one
of my own. The Governor's election
was a matter that I should have noth
ing to do with, except, perhaps to
vote. I had my own canoe to paddle,
and every man in this campaign must
'tote his own skillet. - "
A writer says this “skillet" was a
reference to an anecdote, well known
to Linton, of the elder G neral Dodge.
this spirit of democratic resentment
having a sounder growth than it is
having in the South. Of this the po
litical upheavals In Southern common-,
wealths within recent years are infal
lible signs. Senator Tillman, in South
Carolina. Governor Vardaman, in Mis
sissippi. and Senator Davis, In Arkan
sas voiced in one form the rising of a
democracy, the keynote of which is,
"The. rights of all the people.”
Tillman Not the South's Voice.
cv, 1 ter T. Colquitt was the man. and that i Senator for Iowa. During the war of
rZm in - incident occurred in a debate he- 1S12 h e and a number of others were
*p?£oner Dr. Wiliam BwnJS? and i Colqmtt and Stephens at For- taken prisoner by a party of Indians.
Cey and John S. Skinnqr were ^ Col. Jordan says when he was who in their marching about coinpell-
v... a boy it was common talk what Sto- ed the prisoners to carry the cooking
Key and John S. Skinnqr were
sent by President Madison with a flag
of truce to the British commander to
negotiate for his release. The British
fleet, commanded by Admiral Cock-
rane, and a British armv, under the
command of General Ross, were co
operating. The fleet was to cannon
ade Fort McHenry near Baltimore, and
the army was to attack Baltimore by
land simultaneously with the fall of
the fort, Sept. 13, 1814. Key and Skln-
"If you ask me what bearings this ner had gone with their flag of truce
will have on the bi-racial relations of
the South.” said Dr. Kilgo. "I answer
that it will have the most wholesome
bearings on it. The sentiments of
Senator Tillman and the teachings of
‘The Clansman' do not voice the senti
ments and the faiths of the South.
"I am not here to speak on the so-
called negro problem. Of it all wise
and patriotic Southerners have long
since grown weary. Much of it is but
the chat of academic theorists and the
night-mare of demagogues. Those of
us who do not know the negro from
the standpoint of the fields and the
aboard one of the British ships before
the bombardment commenced and were
successful in their mission, but were
detained by the British commander,
who had prepared to attack Baltimore.
The cannonading on Fort McHenry-
continued during the night. If the fort
surrendered Baltimore would be taken.
The bombardment was witnessed by
Key and his companions. “From the
deck of their ship, nearly all of the
night, they beheld the American flag
on the fort. The glare of the battle
threw light on the scene, but long ore
d the prisoners to carry
| utensils of their captors as well as
their own. At the end of about the
third day the General, desperate of
consequences, stopped, threw down
his burden, and remarked, “Mr. Indian,
; from henceforth every man of this
| crowd has got to tote hts own skillet,
so far as I’m concerned.” Linton Ste-
: phens was defeated for Congress hy
I less than a hundred votes, but Alex'
I toted his skillet to victory, over L:l-
j fayette Lamar, by a majority of near
ly three thousand.
boy it was common talk what Ste
phens said to Colquitt in retort. Per
haps Colquitt was the man, but the
place of debate may have been Xew-
nan instead of Forsyth, and I say so
for this reason: Ip 1S43. Stephens
and "Walter T. Colquitt had a famous
stump discussion at Ncwnan. It was
during Mr. Stephens' first race for
Congress, and it was Colquitt’s flr^t
year as a Senator of the United States
from Georgia. Hon. Mark A. Cooper,
having been nominated by the Demo
crats as their candidate for Governor,
resigned as a member of Congress. To
fill this vacancy the Democrats put
James H. Starke, of Butts County. In
nomination, and the Whigs nominated
Stephens. Stephens had a majority of
three thousand to overcome. In a life
of Stephens by Richard Malcolm John
ston and William Hand Browne, refer
ring to this contest, it says. “Accounts . r , , , ..... ^ .
came down from the mountains Into I Llfrht °nd " “tor Company which was
Middle Georgia that this youthful chal
lenger (Stephens), had vanquished ev-
In the golden long ago the mayors
and councils of Macon did some
things contrary to the general rule of
action followed by the mayors and
councils of more rerent times. This
*_ | thought has been suggested by the
annual meeting of the Macon Gas
ery opponent who had met him in d<
bate; so it was thought prudent to
_ the dawn the firing had ceased. The
shops and' their churches know" too ! prisoners thus were held in suspense till
much of the situation to be sweut the way dawn of morning should tell j send an old hand and proved cham-
away by the delusions of those who ! them the tale. It could hardly he j pion to dispatch him at once and get
have never worked with him in the h °P eci that the colors could stand j him out of the way. Their choice fell
fields or th« shops, or prayed with him
in his churches
"But the new type of leadership that
the South demands will have to stand
for justice to all men, regardless of
color or condition. The inherent dif
ferences of races are fixed In nature,
and they are ns assuredly fixed in so
ciety. This much of the bi-racial prob
lem of the South has been perma
nently settled. Arid with its settlement
has come the demand that both races
shall be just to each other. The white
man will continue to pay his taxes to
educate the child of the negro, while
more and more the white man will give
of his influence and means to advance
the welfare of the negro. Brit the ne
gro is a ghost to frighten the white
voter into party lines and party acts
is a thing of the past.”
The speaker continued:
(3.) The third quality which the
leader of the South must possess is the
spirit of nationalism. It has been often
said that the Soutli is provincial. In
fact it has become one of the chronic
criticisms of the South,.a. criticism ex-
through the terrible shower of bullet upon Waiter T. Colquitt, then thought
and shell. The watchers in doubt
watted long to descry what flag on the
ramparts' the morning would fly. Un
der tension of patriotism and anxiety
for the fate of the fort. Key wrote
tile ever-since popular national song.
The Star-Spangled Banner. The morn
ing light disclosed the Stars ■ and
Stripes floating “o’er the land of the
free and the home of the brave.” The
British fleet withdrew from the scene,
while the glorious ensign of our ‘coun
try’s liberty continued to float proudly
and gaily on the breeze over Fort Mc
Henry. Key’s patriotic song was pub
lished and sung to the tune of Ana
creon in Heaven. It is to Americans
what the "Marseillaise” is to the
French.
the ablest stump-speaker whom Geor
gia had produced, and who is still re
membered with admiration by those
who heard him In the prime of his
powers." There were no Congression
al districts in Georgia then, and Mr.
Stephens ran upon a "general ticket.”
"Mr. Stephens had an appointment
to speak in Ncwnan." so this histori
cal account says. Just before the hour
arrived it was found that Judge Col
quitt was present, and the Democrats
requested that he be allowed to take
part in the discussion. The Whigs,
somewhat dismayed at the entrance cf
this doughty paladin into the affray,
were about to refuse, when Mr. Sto-
By the liberality of James j phens interfered, declared that It would
Lick, who gave $60,000 in 1874 for the
purpose, a magnificent monument to
Key. costing $150,000, was erected in
the Golden Gate Park. San Francisco.
Key was a native of Maryland. He
died on January 11th. 1843. in his 64th
year. The foregoing naturally sug
gests the Inquiry—-what was the origin
of the “Stars and Stripes?”- The Con-
cepdintrlv •“ “AT, , or tile "stars ana stripes: - xne uon-
of Southern P 'nJir».-» h t S® rtail ? S ass ' Gnental Congress appointed a com-
that the"SJE**"* * not , d 7 n , y mlttee to confer with General Wash-
Perhans all ' ington and "design a suitable flag for
and ,11„ p ° 0 p *L ? re ’ t? c f P r ! the nation.” The committee and
«ee that ® ut 1 to ! Washington met and agreed upon a de-
° J. - any more pro- j sign, and-one da- they called on a Mrs.
rhTVi'oetnn 31 !* EnffIani3 - °f that R 0 ss, an upholsterer, residing in a
Boston The South Is^nrnvlnMai ^0° ! bouse on Arch stret, Philadelphia, and , paying the men engaged in Nelsoi
are the North S Rnd h the West and i requested her to make a flag according • Florida exnedition. by resolution of t
and ! to the -design which they had selected. | House. The judge glanced at the
xaminatlon
give him pleasure to meet the judge,
and cordially invited the latter to
share in the debate. It is probale that -
the judge so far under-rated the abili
ties of his antagonist as to be less
cautious than his custom. Some one.
we are told, had furnished him with
a copy of the Journals of the Legis
lature marked at those votes of Mr.
Stephens which it was thought might
be used against him. One of those
votes was against the payment, by
Georgia, of pensions to her soldier'
who had been disabled in the Creek
War. and to the widows and orphans
of those who had fallen: another was
paying the men engaged in Nelson’s J
; held on day before yesterday. On
i March 1. 1853, fifty-four years since,
the City Council of Macon subscribed
$10,000 to the capital stock of this cor
poration. The Council “wanted light.”
and no constitution of 1S77 reared its
massive front in the way to prevent
them from getting it. Councils In
whoso days were almost prompt to
subscribe to public enterprises and
utilities, because thqre was no constl-
i tutional inhibition, as now exists. The
‘ Macon Gas Light Company was or
ganized in 1S53 with a capital stock
j of $42,000, all of which was subscribed
- in this city. In 1S57 the amount was
j increased to $65,000. Mr. A. J. White
was the first president. This gentle-
1 man is well remembered as the presl-
: dent of the Macon and Western Rall-
; road Company. In 1S76 the name of
; the Macon Gas Light Company was
I changed to the Macon Gas Light and
Water Company the present name.
.The capital sto-k of the corporation
has Increased from $4 1 000 In 1853 to
; $727,724 in 1307, and a large amount of
j bonds. The late J. M. Boardman was
j president of the company’ for more
than a quarter of a century, and his
son-in-law, Mr. H. T. Powell, has
: been holding the place for some years,
| and his son. Mr. A. E. Boardman,
who has been connected with the or-
1 ganltation officially at least thirty
j years, is still a member of the direc
torate.
EaSt ’ nlo 1 nrovinci7l il,CUmStanCeS ma ^ e I to-wit^Twrteen red and white stripes! I ^tUy, Jithout^suffTci’ent ex.-i’* tV ^
out
patriotism
ln oouin we have our Southern sun points and folded a sheet of paper and
and flowers and forests and rivers produced the pattern by a single cut.
and speech and song and ideals. Is ! This was approved and shp finished a
this a shame” Is it treason to love 1 flag the next .day’. Congress resolved
them? Must we forget Lee in order i on June 14, 1777, “that the flag of the
to admire Lincoln? Must we despise ! 13 United States be 13 stripes alternate
$10,000 construction company: j migration law for a State to pay the on the grounds of pressing necessities..
car company: $40,000 lumber company.
Kansas City—$10,000 paper box fac
tory; $500,000 structural steel com
pany.
Webb City—Concentrating mill.
Columbia—$25,000 mining company.
Oartarvllle—$32,000 mining company.
Joplin—$20,000 mining company.
North Carolina.
Henderson—$25,000 supply company.
Durham—$50,000 knitting mill.
Shelby—$30 000 furniture factory.
Stanton—$10,000 canning factory.
Charlottee—$100,000 land company.
Plymouth—$5,000 lumber company.
Raeford—$28,000 lumber mill.
Oklahoma.
Butler—$5,000 cotton gin.
Waklta—$1,000,000 mining company.
Omega—Telephone system.
Hydro—Telephone system.
Oklahoma City—$20,000 development
company: $100,000 Investment compa
ny; $200,000 piano factory-
Weatherford—$200,000 oil and gas
company.
Yale—$25,000 telephone system.
Guthrie—$750,000 chemical company:
(800.000 awing company.
Pawnee—$40,000 oil company.
South Carolina.
Chester—Laundry.
Tennesaoo.
Naahvi’le—$160,000 lumber eompanj*.
McWilliams—$55,000 oil, gas and
mineral company.
Bristol—Power plant.
Tullahoma—Tobacco factory.
Harms—$75,000 cotton mill.
Johnson Oily—Telephone system.
Taxaa.
New Boston—Plow works.
Waxahatchle—$150,000 gas and elec
tric company.
Fort Worth—$25,000 manufacturing
company.
Houston—$5,000 oil company: $15.-
000 Investment company; $100,000 con
crete company: $3,000 development
company.
Hamlin—$50,000 oil and cotton com
pany.
Midland—$300,000 loan companv.
Burleson—$25,000 mill and elevator
company.
agitation, as under the auspices of the
; territorial Immigration society, lmmi-
[ grants are being brought to the island
; from Europe and the Azores to taka
; the place of Japanese laborers on the
; sugar plantations. This has been
sanctioned by the United States
; Government and a ship load of lmml-
: grants recently brought from the
Azores Islands have proved very sat-
I lsfactory.
SEMI-ANNUAL DIVIDEND OF 2V Z
PER CENT ON PREFERRED
STOCK ALLOWED.
NEW YORK. March 9.—The direc
tors of the Southern Railway today de
clared the regular semi-annual divi
dend of 2H per cent on the preferred
stock.
A statement of the company income
for the six months ending December
I that no MudltVon o»u1d
Increase of Free Voters.
The standard of morals In public mat
ters has been, “not what is best, but
what is most expedient. - ’ So, unright
eous means have too often been ap
plauded because they brought the cov
eted success.
In the practice of this evil the South
has not been alone. It has been the
evil of American politics in all sections
of the nation. There is not a large
I American city that has not its political
scandal, not a commonwealth that has
not fallen under evil leadership. But
I want to tell of what I think is going
on in the South, not what I think of
other parts of the country.
| The evidences of this wholesome re-
1 form in the South are manv. The
j growing outcry of the public and the
I strong opposition of leading papers to
! all forms of election Irregularities and
: the deeds of the mob, are Infallible to-
| kens of Its growth. No other section
1 rtf the nation was more deeply humil
iated by the riot of Atlanta than the
1 South. The whole South regarded it
; as a shameful outrage upon soclety
nnd a disgraceful outbreak against law
Klng’s Mountain. In order to love Con
cord? Must we turn away from our
history of New England? Should Lord
Rosebery forget Burns if he would ad
mire Tennyson” Provincialism is the
guardian of local history, the security
of local character. And the provincial
ism of the South will abide as the pro
vincialism of the North and the East
and the West will abide.
. But provincialism should flower in
nationalism, not in sectionalism. The
Southern people are Americans, and
they have grown weary of every as
sumption tllat they are not Americans,
or that they are Americans with an
apology. I grant that Southern his
tory has been sectional history. I grant
that the South was trained from the
establishment of this republic - to sus
pect the integrity of the nation. Jef-
red and white: that the union be 13
stars, white in a blue field, represent
ing a new constellation.” It has been
asserted that the design of the flag
was borrowed from the coat of arms of
the Washington family but I have
never heard that this claim was estab
lished by. any proof. The 13 stars of
the flag of 1777 were arranged in a
circle. It is recorded that Mrs. Ross
was given the position of manufacturer
of flags for the Government, which de
scended to her children.
A few years ago I read a statement
that the house—No. 239—In,which Mrs.
Ross made the first flag, was still
standing, but I am unable to say
whether it yet remains as one of Phil
adelphia’s relics of Colonial days. The
flag of 1777 remained unchanged till
1794, when, on motion of Senator Brad
votes to tlte man who would have re
fused a pension to those who suffered,
and to the. helple's widows and chil
dren of those who died in defence of
the country. The effect on the audi
ence was powerful.
ferson made the South fear that there j le >'- ot Vermont, which State, with
was a deep scheme to overthrow re- 'Kentucky, had been admitted into the
publicanism and establish monarchy.
His successors fostered the same fear.
The South loved liberty and believed
Continuing, the account further says: . i
Mr. Stephens in reply called attention ^ J ‘
to the fact that these persons were on- <k.
i titled to pension from Congress, pen-
‘ sions to be paid out of the common
treasury, .to which Georgia as well as
the Other States contributed. That
while he heartily approved these pen
sions, he did not see the justice of
Georgia paying special pensions to her
soldiers, who wore already provided for
bv Congress for services done to the
United States, while he was also pay
ing her full quota, not only to these,
but to. the pensions of all the soldiers
from other States. As to the payment
of Nelson’s men, he had voted against
it because It was proposed in an un
constitutional form by a mere resolu
tion instead of a regular bill: and he
showed that when the same measure
In local self-government, and resisted
every tendency, real or imaginary, to
destroy that for which it had "con
tended. E’ut those issues have been
settled. That this nation shall be a
republic, the world’s defender of free
dom has been recorded in the blood of
battle.
ssr«1».rssFJKiBSi
a.Li; lit... IfP’ 3 ''"'-, -Vr- Stephen. he,l pent for
the Senate Journal, and after making
the above explanation, added, that
j whether his vote was right or wrong
lit was not for his opponent to.cen
sure it. since the Journal in his hand
the judge and his friends were utterly j of the i ea ,n n g attorneys of
• ! Lap
income from operatfon; a decrease of
$875,570. in total Incomes and a de
crease in the total balance of $1,554.-
000. The statement declares that the
dividend on preferred stock has been
earned and that the operations of the
company for the first six months and
of the present month reflect extra
ordinary conditions, which it is be
lieved can be improved except as the
company may be affected in common
with other roads by an increase in
wages and higher prices for material.
POWHATTAN BOULDIN,
AN OLD PUBLISHER, DEAD.
DANVILLE. Va.. March S.—Powhat-
tan Bouldin. the founder and publisher
of the red Danville Times, a weekly
Democratic newspaper he published for
twoaty-niiie years, here after the Cioll
War uied today at his home af.er a
long illness. He was born In Chari itto
County in 1S30. and prior to the war
wa~ .1 wllely known lawyer. Si no.
the war he has lived In Danville but
ha' cngigeo in no active business since
’.'34 or. account of failing health. Mr.
Rou'dIn wrote "Reminiscences of John
Randolph" and "The Old Trunk.” two
publications which were well received
! The steady and o.ulet increase of the
1 independent voter In the South indi
cates the unwillingness of men to act
: longer In public matters against the
dictatess of their consciences. This
vote does not represent a tendency to
organize another political parti-, but it
does represent a stubborn determin
ation to express one’s own conscien
tious rights and duty. The scratching
of ballots at elections is steadily in
creasing, not only among the more in
telligent voters, but among voters of all
classes. Nor w'll the old party lash
deter these voters from doing the
things that are most righteous in their
sight. And the one thing all this seems
to Indicate is that the solid South will
find in the future its bond of union in
that which is patriotic and right in
stead of finding it In the fear of social
disparagement and political persecu
tion.
Another evidence of this change ap
pear? in the growing distaste. I came
near saying growing contempt, for the
demagogue. A few days since a South
ern leg's’ator said In a speech: "There
are no second-class people in this com
monwealth." His audience heard it
United States be fifteen stripes alter
nate red and white, that the Union be
fifteen stars, white in a blue field. "This
was the flag used in the war of 1812-
14. Other States were gradually be
ing admitted into the Union In 1816, ■ showe(J that he (Colquitt), in his place
nfinlirpTo in the Senate, had voted against the
niittee was appointed to Inquire into reso i ution _ just as stenhons had
the expediency altering the flag. Capt. d jn th Iower house This entire
Political sectionalism is far behind Samuel C. Reid recommended the re- ? turned t h 0 table* The triumph
the growth of nationalism in the South. ; Auction of the stripes to the original 1 oa
One no longer hears the real South ! thirteen, and the adoption of stars ^ „ ilu lll=>
through the voice of the sectional poll- ! equal to the number of the States, I discomfited*! 'and^the C Democratic ma
tician. It is in Southern Industry and , formed into one large star, and a new - j 0r j^y j n the county was overcome. Thi*
commerce that Southern nationalism j star to be added on the admission of , campaign placed Mr. Stephens at once
has its surest growth and soundest ex- ! each new State. On April 4, 1818, a. among the acknowledged leaders of the
pression. Southern capital and North- 1 bill embodying these suggestions, with j whig party throughout the State, and
ern capital have met in our factories, I the exception of that designating the : age of thirty-one Mr.
and banks, and railroads, and furnaces, J manner of arranging the stars, was ^P- Stephens was chosen to rooresont hl c
and at these altars the sons of Amer- i proved by the President. Until then . native state in the Federal Congress
ica have found a new meeting point j the stars and stripes were equal, and |
and a now national fellowship. They ! a star and a stripe were added with j In the pu b? shed life of Mr. Stephens
\\ ill no longer tolerate a spirit that i the advent of each new State. The ; referred to above., appear the following
seeks to profit by sectional strifes and I flag threatened to become too large ]i nes> j n connection with this Con
ti di\ ided nation. And there is noth- j hence the action in reducing the stripes • ^ressional racer “In this campaign he .
lug of which the South has grown less ' to thirteen, representing the original j with various humorous advent-
tolerant than the cr}’ of the sectioned 1 Union, and the stars were made equal j u^eg t and was more than once mis-
Demagogue, whether he has his home . to the number of States. No change 1 taken for a mere boy, and treated as !
in Texas or in Ohio, whether he comes has since been made except to add a such; a misconception which he always j
from the South of from New England, star whenever the Union Increased by . enjoyed, as there was generally ail
The South has found its place in the ’ the admission of a State. There are ; amusing scene of discomfiture when i
nation and more and more will it fill . now forty-five stars, and the number ; the error was discovered.” In view of ;
its place in all of our national tasks. : will be Increased to forty-six on July i this, and all of the foregoing. Col. Jor- '
The nation has a wealth of citizenship 4, 1907, when Oklahoma is admitted fian may have located the man who i
beyond the Potomac whose patriotic to the Union. ■ said 'he could swallow Stephens.
service will prove to be one of the ; . It also seems to be a mooted ques- •
chief forces in helping this American j Just as it was a patriotic woman tion whether Stephen's words used.in i
republic to fill its mission to mankind, j who made the first flag of America, . retort to his antagonist, to wit: “Then
And no other thought is more inspiring i even so the first flag of the South- y OU would have more sense In vour
to every patriotic man of the South. | ern Confederacy was made by noble belly than you have In your head. --
I rejoice to know that there is not j women. Forty-six years ago this very | were original with the Great Common
growing In any section of our country ; week, the convention Jn Montgomery
h worthier type of Americanism than adopted a de'ign for a flag for the
that which exists between the Poto- 1 Confederate States, and within two
mac and the Rio Grande. j hours after this action the ladies of
“Truth and candor require me to say i Alabama's fair capital had completed
that your alma mater has had, and a beautiful merino flag after the new
still has. a unique place among South.- design and It was at once raised amid 1 He employed
ern colleges In doing her part to help much rejoicing over the State house. ; and effectually
forward this worthy reform ” concluded
I notice that a press dispatch says
ex-President Grover Cleveland has
1 gone to South Carolina to visit Gen.
1 E. P. Alexander. This means some
excellent sport as the general has fine
! on South Island. Georgetown, where he
on South Island. Georgeton where he
is a rice planter. Gen. Alexander is
I well known in Macon, having been
j the president of the Centra; Railroid.
and at one time a leading spirit in the
I Louisville and Nashville Railroad.
when that great combination first Ift-
j vnded Georgia in its movement to ob
tain railway supremacy in th ! s State.
I Gen. Alexander is a native Georgian,
and has had quite an eventful career 4 ,
j more- so perhaps than the average
j reader la aware. Ho was born in
I Washington. Ga., Mnv 26. 1335. Grad
! tinted at West Point, and was ap
pointed second lieutenant United
Corps: resigned In
1561. entered the Conf*-dere;. army,
captain of engineers: served in the
army of Northern Virginia,
surrender a - Anpiomttox in
chief of ordnance and later
dier-genernl of artillery. L<
corns; professor of mathematics and
engineering !: the University of South
Carolina. 1866-70; general manager
and president of various railroads,
two of which I referred to just now:
was one of the commissioners that
erected the State capitol of Georgia,
in Atlanta: member of hoards on nav
igation of Columbian River, Oregon,
and on ship canal between Chesape-i ;o
and Delaware bays. 1E93-4: Govern
ment director of the Union, Pacific
Railroad Company. 1885-7: engineer
ing aribtnitor of the boundarv sur
vey between Costa Rica and Nicara
gua. about 1900. Gen. Alexander has
always been regarded ns a genius it.
mathematics and engineering. The
general will be seventy-two years old
this coming May. and on the ISth dav
this month the ex-PrcsldenJt will
round out his three score arid ‘on. T n
the language of Mr. Cleveland's old
friend Rip—may they live long and
prosper.
until the
1365, ft'
as br'ga-
■vngslreet's
I o
Hon. John R. Irwin, of Dawson, one
neys of Southwest
visiting in
President Kilgo. “Unh'ndered hy po
litical all'ances or political patronage,
bound only hv the necessities of truth
and righteousness, she has been excep
tional in her efforts to promote every
generous spirit and patriotic faith. And
It is with pride that she watches the
wise and broad spirit of her two sons
.While I am on the subject of flags
something about the flag of Georgia
might not be amiss. The Cyclopedia
of Georgia says that the first State
flag of Georgia, of which»any authen
tic account can be found, was after
the adoption of the State seal of 1799,
when the design, the arch of the Con-
In this connection it may bo well
to say that there Is another sentiment
usually credited to Stephens as its au
thor, and with which his name will
always be associated in the political
phraseology of this State, at least.
‘: very appropriately
there Is no doubt of
that. I allude to the phrase—“tote
his own skillet.” Mr. Stephens used
the saying on the stump as a quota
tion. hut many nersons think that he
originated it. The expression appears
in a letter written by Mr. Stephens
on June 30, 1855, to his brother Lin
ton, who had been nominated in that
month as a candidate for Congre:
Georgia has be
several days. He graduated at Merer
University in the class of ISSl. Among
some of his classmates who have hold
political nd judicial office .are: Wil
liam C. ♦ inn. of Cedartown, n member
of the 1 Vt State Senate: Beverly D.
Evans, of Sandersvllle, formerly in the
General Assembly and judge of the
I middle circuit, and now one of the
Justices of the Supreme Court of Geor-
| gia: William .T. Nunnally, ox-Solicitor-
General of the Rome Circuit. Among
other professional men that were in
Col. Irwin's class are: Dr. .1. F. Ander
son. of Clinton: Dr. R. B. Barron, of
Macon: Prof. Charles C. Blackshear of
the Woman’s College, of Baltimore:
Ptlaf. Lawson Brown. Rev. John F.
Eden. Dr. George F. Ford, R"i - .
Thomas Vi. Fuller. Rev. Julian Rod-
ges. Attorney John T. West, all of
Georgia. The members of the class
who entered business life are: E. B.
Burke, Robert L. Finney. Thomas
Grier, William W. Solomon, of Macon:
Thomas Hawes. Augusta: John Jones.
Marsh McAllen. Drury .T. Powers, of
Atlanta: Newton McBride, Rockmart;
George W. McCall Hawkinsvllle: Rowe
Price. Tallapoosa, and William Worthy,
Americas. Col. Irwin was a member
of Governor Atkinson’s staff, and was
Solicitor-General of the Patauln Cir
cuit for several years. He married a
daughter of Major C. D. Findlay, of
Macon.
who now represent North Carolina in etilution, supported by the three pil- the district adjoining Mr. Stephens'.
when issued. He leaves five children, i with silent sarcasm, while the press of part in the nation’s work.”
lars. Wisdom. Justice and Moderation
was emblazoned on the State banner.
The Cyclopedia further says that when
the ordinance of secession was passed
in 1861, this flag was unfur'ed over the
canitol. No other State flag was of
ficially adopted, thoue-h In the nation
al flag mu'eum at Washington is an
proved to Southern colleges by her ' ensign bearing in the center of the
heroic adherence to her faith that a \ union the coat of arms of Georgia sur-
colieve owes service to society, and It , rounded bv a circle of silver stars,
is a joy to know that she ha? made it j On one side are the words “Presented
possible for them to have an active | by the Ladies of Henry,” and on th
the United States Senate. By the terms
of her Constitution she is bound to
serve a? far as possible every interest
that looks to national prosperity and
social purity. For all that is worthy
In the new Southern spirit she has
gladly made her share of sacrifice and ;
patiently borne her share of pain. She I
bfl
In that same year H. V. Johnson and
Garnett Andrews were pitt -d again
each other for Governor. Johnson | thi
had been renominated by the D:-mo-
crats. and Andrews was the Know-
Nothing candidate. Alexander Stephens
was running as an independent candi
date for re-election to Congress. He
wrote to his brother as follows:
“Jun' 30th.—I have just returned
from Raytown. We had a good time
there today. A large crowd present
from Augusta. "Washington. Wnrrenton.
other “Lackey Rangers,” below which 1 Greensborough and Columbia Court
The Telegraph stated in an editorial
yesterday that the Sprinefield Repub
lican a Massachusetts newsnaper. rec
ommends Alexander Stephens' "Consti
tutional View of the War Between the
States" a-- a reference book for Repub
lican statesmen of the anti-Roosevelt
brand. It may be a matter of public
interest to note that Mr. Stephens re
ceived about $35,000 from the sale of
work. It Is said that he was paid
royalty of 25 coots per volume the
work being in two volumes This
would Indicate a sale, of 79.0090 cop
ies. Mr. Stephen' lost $20,090 of thi,?
sum in the publication of the Atlantfi
Sun. "Living always at Crawfordville,
he had not been able to keen an eye on
the business mnngerrent of the paper,
and was astonished to find that more
than hot: hi? fortune had been sunk
In It. This loss by the Sun left him