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THE TWICE-A-WEEK TELEGRAPH
FRfDAY, MARCH 22, TO*
THE MACON TELEERAPH
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C. R. PENDLETON, President
LITTLE RHODVS REMARKABLE
, BOSS.
The young Democratic Govarnor of
Rhode Island and Its Republican polit
ical boss, Charles Ray Brayton. are In
volved in a remarkable contest. For
thirty years •‘Boss" Brayton baa sold
legislation in the State and dominated
Its law-makers. Governor Higgins
brands him aa "Rob Roy demanding
tribute ere political action can bo taken
on any public matter.'* He makes his
headquarters In the offieo of the high
sheriff of Providence County, which Is
in the State House directly opposite
the door of the Senate chamber, from
which he summons Senators and gives
them his orders. Brayton exercises his
power by reason of bis control of twen
ty little towns In the State. Each of
these towns, some of which poll lees
than one hundred votes, have equal
representation In the Senate with
Providence itself. Sheriff White of
Providence County io a tool of the
boss. He merely smile* at the Gover
nor's demand that he shall turn ©rav-
ton out of the State's property and rays
General Brayton shall have a seat In
his offieo as long as he wants one, end
Brayton puffs hla cigar and never says
a word.
Higgins was elected practically on an
anti-Brayton platform, and the fight
he swore to take up when he was cam
paigning Is said to bn becoming so
heated that charges and counter
charges are fairly flying through the
sir. and the atmosphere of the State
House Is supercharged with recrimi
nations. while such epithets aa "nox
ious pest.” "Infamous characler.” "ras
cal.'' ."bribe giver." "corruptionist,”
“scoundrel" and "coward” aro more
»ften heard than the more com
mon expressions of greeting and leave-
Aklng.
Governor Higgins' letter to Sheriff
White to expel Brayton from his office
's declared to be the most remarkable
plea of its kind on record. It Is In part
as follows:
The people of Rhode Island have
tolerated Boss Brayton and his
brazen arrogance as long as they
should. The time has at last ar
rived when patience Is no longer «v
virtue, and when In deference to
an aroused snd Indignant senti
ment throughout the State, this
man should bo expelled bodily and
forcibly, Jf necessary, from the
walls of this Capitol.
To nono Is his conduct known
better than to you. Tear in and
year out. he has occupied and used
your office for his vile purposes,
with your knowledge and consent.
He could not haver appropriated
your office without such knowledge
and consent.
You know that for thirty years
this man has been in almost dally
nttendance upon the sessions of
the Legislature, dispensing his or
ders to certain members with the
most Imperious despotism.
You know that for decades he
has stood like an ancient brigand
at the door of this Capitol and
clubbed Into servility and compli
ance with his demands practically
all seekers of legislation, public
and private franchises. You know
that for a generation past many
citizens have openly charged that
it was Impossible to secure proper
action on certain matters of legis
lation without a first hearing or
first paying tribute to the legisla
tive Rob Roy of these Plantations.
Your office In the Rhode Island
Stale House has been almost Inva
riably the center of his activity.
The situation. In short, resolves
Itself to this: The State House of
Rhode Island, a building paid for
by all the people of the State, sup
posed to be used exclusively for
public and legitimate purposes, has
been turned over, so far as your of
fice is <oncerned. to the private and
illegitimate use of Charles R. Bray
ton.
In the secrecy of the Gubernatorial
office the sheriff It is stated begged
nnd said he would not for all the posi
tions in the world oust Brayton. while
In the open he dashed into print and
accused the Governor of playing to the
galleries, and Brayton smiles grimly
when the matter is called to his atten
tion and continues to run the machine.
course with Nature tends not only to
preserve the bodily health of her devo
tees but equips them with sounder
mental faculties and keener percep
tion than other men.
THE CHRONICLE FIRE.
The Augusta Chronicle, which was
burned out of house and hone as it
I was about to go to press Tuesday
I morning, comes to us in an unbroken
| but abbreviated Issue under date of
Grover Cleveland, at the age of 70. .'Tuesday. March.19, 1907, showing that
ten years beyond the alleged Osier while its physical body has gone up In
•tag* when chloroform coaid bo prof- j srnoke the sou! of the oldest paper in
Itably applied. Is popularly looked upon : th* South still lives and triumphs over
f material mutations. This is the second
| time the Chronicle has -been burned out
| in recent years, the former occasion
him in the Philadelphia Public Ledger j abQUl
fifteen years ago. But the
President Woodrow Wilson says, "a I was about t(> mQve into a new
great many men of both parties have ; buI](Jlna and plant at that tlme and
recently longed for the safe courage ] the difficulty of continuing publication
and thoughtful audacity of a man like [unbroken was not so great. However.
as the councfllor-ln-chlef of the Amer
ican people. In an appreciation of
UP TO DATE CLAUDE DUVALS.
Two gentlemanly thieves named
Green and Rohrer were arrested as
they stepped from a steamer at New
York Sunday and divested of some
$25,000 worth of diamonds, jewelry and
other loot which represented the re
sults of a season's operations in Lon
don. The gentlemen, who had played
the gallants like real Claud Duvals, to
two fair ladies whom they met aboard
ship on the trip over, proved to be
American "crooks'' who were well
known to the police and had done
"time"—brief terms—for various of
fenses on this side. The ladies were
much impressed with the courteous at
tentions of the "crooks'* and were sub-
monious is not a proper exercise of the
police of the State.”
Mr. Cleveland, If there be any other ; tbe pPOmpt action of the Chronicle's Jected to the unpleasant experience of
man like Mr. Cleveland.” His two j afternoon neighbor, the Augusta Her-
terms of office as President._ separated | a ] d> j n sharing the use of Its plant with
by Mr. Harrison’s single term, "fell : Editor Loyless and his people, the
within a period of singular doubts and | proffer by the Augusts Typographical
mutations In our polities,” says Mr. j Union of the services of every member
Wilson. “In the midst of the shifting to the Chronicle and the aid and sym-
AMERICA’S GRAND OLD MAN.
The 70th anniversary of Grover
Cleveland's birthday found him close
to the bosom of nature duck hunting
in the waters of South Carolina. In
an article published in the New York
World Sunday Mr. Cleveland extols
the outdoor life and demonstrates In
his love of it the reason for his ability
to enjoy It at so advanced an age.
"Nothing that the wealth of a city
can buy,” he says, "will atone for the
loss of that American sturdiness and
Independence which the. farm and the
small town have so frequently pro
duced. In ray experience I have found
that Impressions which a man receives
who walks by the brookslde or in the
forest or by the seashore make him a
better man and a better citizen. They
lift him above the worries of business
and teach him of a power greater than
human power.” It may be noted here
that this love of and tendency to re
turn to nature has been the character
istic of the grand old men of different
times and countries. Washington and
Jefferson longed to lay down the cares
of office and return to their country
estates. Daniel Webster craved to die
amid the rural scenes of Marshfield.
Gladstone the grand eld man of Eng
land, refreshed himself for his won
derful labors by swinging an ax and
by other outdoor exercises. This Inter-
>
scene Mr. Cleveland presently came to
seem the only fixed point. H# alone
stood firm snd gave definite utterance
to principles intelligible to all. ‘Cour
age, directness, good sense, public
spirit as If without thought of conse
quences either to himself or to his
party, made him at once a man whom
all the country marked* as a point In
its affairs which did not shift or
change.”
He was a man of strong party con
victions, Mr. Wilson says, but just here
Is where the point of divergence arose
between the President and his party,
“He believed, as all practical men must,
that party organisations are an indis
pensable means of action and control
in the politics of a Belf-governlng dem
ocratic people; more than that, he saw,
as all thoughtful men see, that party
is more than a means for organizing
victory at the polls—that It is a means
a vital means, of putting men of the
same views and temper in affairs for
the accomplishment of common ends,
an ind:spensnble means of subordlnat
ing varieties of Individual opinion to
the pursuit of common principles and
large objects of policy. He never pre
tended to be independent of party, al
ways avowed himself a party man, and
sought to work his purposes out
through th'ciae who were of the same
political faith and affiliations as he.
But he had stronger and more definite
party prepossessions, it turned out,
than many of his fellow partisans;
while he sat still they had changed;
they grew more and more restive under
his leadership: more and more chafed
under his stubborn Insistence on the
views with which he had set out; more
and more resented his efforts to keep
legislation to the paths of his prefer
ence, and by the end of his second term
were ready to break with him alto
gether. He seemed at last a man
without a party.”
The difference between Mr. Cleveland
and some of his party Mr. Wilson re
gards aa having been unavoidable if
the President was to stand to his party
principles while the changes were go
ing on within the parties. "The same
ferment and disorder, as of disruption,
were becoming evident in the Republi
can party as well as In the Demo
cratic. It was one of the almost chance
happenings of politics that as the
Presidential campaign of 1896 ap-
proehed the Republican party did not
espouse the cause of the free coinage
of sliver Instead of the Democrats; it
was hardly more than the Inborn in
stinct of opposition between the two
parties that prevented both of them
from espousing It. The one was as
willing as the other to play to the sup
posed popular wish In the matter, re
gardless of well-grounded principles of
finance, and only its iong-practieed
discipline and habit of union, the dis
cipline and habit of a party trained to
the exercise of power, prevented the
Republican party from falling to pieces
in factions. Mr. Cleveland consented
to be left by a party which had shifted
from the immemorial ground of Dem
ocratic principle and practice in mat
ters of finance.
"His isolation led to the painful re-
ults which always follow such
breaches. He retired from office amid
a storm of obloquy and misrepresenta
tion: but time has brought about Us
healing and its revenges. The misrep
resentation has not entirely cleared
away; it could not in a single genera
tion, when once such fires of passion
ate feeling had been kindled, but it is
no longer a mist in the eye of the
people. Their old admiration for the
man, their old confidence in his utter
honesty and Integrity, their love for his
downright utterances and clear sense
of right, their belief in his homely wis
dom. have returned with an added
force and enthusiasm, because of their
nsciousness of the deep injustice
they had for a while done him In their
misinformed thought. He is hailed
wherever he goes with as eager a wel
come and with as keen a sest for what
he has to say. as Is the more piquant
Chief Magistrate himself.”
pathy extended on all hands will great
ly encourage them In overcoming an
unfortunate situation. With the news
that the old files of the paper, reaching
back over one hundred years, have
been preserved, The Telegraph In
dulges the hope that the Chronicle has
sustained no irremediable loss and will
soon reappear in more prosperous
shape than ever.
BRITISH TITLES, SOUTHERN GEN
TILITY AND NORTHERN MIL
LIONS.
A Washington dispatch states that
"society in three cities nnd all through
Virginia Is deeply interested in the
rumor from London that credits Miss
Nora Langhorne, youngest of the five
handsome Langhorne girls of Albe
marle County, with having captured
the heart and received an offer of the
hand of Prince Francis of Teck. the
good-looking brother of the Princess
of Wales. He is therefore a. member
of the royal family Itself as well as
brother-in-law of the future King of
England.”
It is further stated that Prince Fran
cis is in a receptive attitude, having
been willing for some time to exchange
his title for an American fortune. Miss
Langhorne, of Virginia, has no for
tune, but her brother-in-law, Waldorf
Astor, and the latter’s father, William
Waldorf Astor. are said to be willing
to furnish the necessary shekels, being
"heartily in favor of an alliance that
would place them in the innnermost
circle of English society."
If such results are within the bounds
of possibility, from the Astor stand
point the money would be well spent.
To put up their money on the fair
young Virginian would pay them bet
ter In that which they most desire than
to "grub-stake" a dozen Klondike min
ers on the half-profits plan.
The account further shows that Miss
Langhorne’s sisters were all famous
Southern belles and are now distin
guished and popular matrons. They
are Mrs. R. Moncure Perkins, of Rich
mond; Mrs. Charles Daifa Gibson, of
New York, but now residing abroad;
Mrs. Reginald 'Brooks, of Boston, and
Mrs. Waldorf Astor. “Their father’s
estate ‘MIrado’ in the mountains of
Albemarle County,” the story reads,
"has been in the family for generations
and, although somewhat depleted in
the lifetime of its present owner, is
quite the type of an English estate,
from which even a prince might be
proud to take a bride. Young Mr. As
tor, who passed several weeks at Mi-
rado last September, is said to be ready
to restore the glories of the estate to
something of Its status before the war
period, when the grandfather of his
bride was the owner of 1,000 slaves and
everything about the land and man
sion was kept in the highest state of
order. Should Mr. Langhorne consent,
Virginia will present a manor house
and estate equal to Blitmore, In North
Carolina, to which will be added all the
romance and tradition of a typical i
Southern family of high degree.”
being arrested with them and searched.
They proved to be innocent of any
guilty knowledge of the robberies,
however, and were released. One of
the ladies named Miss Kit Dealtry. who
is an author and dramatist, said the
experience was Jn fact valuable to her,
as it furnished her with the plot of a
new comedy she would write under the
title of "The Lady and the Rogue,"
The profitable moral of this arrest,
however, is pointed out by the Phila
delphia Public Ledger. The two thieves
are fair examples of the ordinary crlm
inal trials In this country which the
Ledger properly characterizes as *‘farC'
ical.” “There is. In the first place,
long and tedious trial: then there Is
new trial: then follows an appeal, and
between trials or pending the appeal
the crooks are usually released on bail
which they often promptly repudiate.
At some stage of the proceeding resort
Is made to habeas corpus: and If by
miracle there is a conviction and the
culprit is finally sentenced, the term is
brief, even in the ease of a man with
a criminal record.'
But this time Green and Rohrer will
have to do with Justice of the “Old
Bailey” variety. The Tiffanys in Lon
don were their chief victims. The
Ledger says:
If the pair are extradited there
will not be the slightest doubt a3 to
their fate as a result of robbing a
jewelry store. A few days after
they land In England they will be
trotted from the prison Into the
prisoner’s dock, and some grim old
Justice Hawkins or other will di
rect the. prosecutor to "proceed
with the case.” There will not be
the slightest delay in getting the
jury. Twenty minutes will suffice
to hear the plain evidence, and in
an hour and a ^talf after the be
ginning of the case the Justice will
pronounce his verdict of from seven
to fourteen years at hard labor for
grand larceny.
There will be no foolish objection
to the introduction of evidence.
There will be no appeal, because
the judge will not .grant an appeal
for the purpose of obstructing jus
tice. Old habeas corpus will be un
disturbed. The rogues will just go
to jail because they are guilty, and
that will be the end of it.
And It is safe to say if they emerge
therefrom while life lasts they will
steer clear of-Old England in any fur
ther operations they may feel like con
ducting.
“JIM CROW” AND THE SUPREME
COURT.
The Florida “Jim Crow” car case
before the Federal Supreme Court has
come to nothing on account of the
technical objection that the record in
the case was not filed with the appeal
from the State Supreme Court, but it
is asserted that the complainant’s
counsel “regarded the appeal,
forlorn hope and studiously failed
to comply with the rules of pro
cedure.” That is, to say, no redress of
the alleged grievance was expected, but
it was desired to confuse the issue and
disguise the defeat.
It appears that Andrew Patterson,
the appellant, was arrested for refus
ing to leave the white compartment of
a street car In Jacksonville and sen
tenced to pay a fine of $10 or serve a
term of fourteen days in prison. The
case being appealed to the Florida Su
preme Court, judgment was Tendered
against him, the court holding that the
Did any Southerner of the ante- I Jacksonville ordinance was In the na-
bellum regime, except on the great cot- j ture of a police regulation to prevent
ton and rice plantations of the lower I raco friction and consequent breaches
South, own as many as a thousand j °f peace. Appealing to the United
slaves? And if so, how were they j States Supreme Court Patterson in-
employed? If accurate records on this j voked the Fourteenth amendment, and
subject are obtainable their publication also claimed that he was the victim of
would be of interest and value to the
The New York World e>ays Gen.
Sherman’s remark "War Is hell.” was
not original with him. but that it “ap
pears to have had an Italian ancestry.”
Neither was Gen. Sherman's method of
making war orginal with him. One
Attila was attend of him there, loo.
The Richmond Times-Dispatch has
heard Ben Tillman and It is asking this
question: “Would you rather be a
mollycoddle or a Bentlllman?" This
would be a stumper for President
Roosevelt.
Wall Street Summary has a leader
under the caption ''Recovery Too
Rapid to te Healthy." “For the
Lambs," it should have added.
the "cruel and unusual punishment"
! which the Constitution forbids,
j The case has been stricken from the
docket of the Supreme Court for the
reason stated. But even if there had
been no technical error Patterson
would no doubt have lost his case. It
was long ago held by the Supreme
Court in the Civil Rights cases that
Congress could not enact a civil rights
act the object of which was to protect
negroes in the equal enjoyment with
whites of the privileges of hotels, pas
senger trains, etc. The court held that
Federal legislation in that case cannot
properly cover the whole domain of
rights appertaining to life, liberty and
property, defining them and providing
for their vindication. That would be
to establish a code of municipal law-
regulative of all privileges between
man and man in society. It would be
to make Congress take the place of
State Legislatures and to supervise
them.”
Commenting on this case the New
York Sun pertinently observes that
"while the question involved in the
Patterson appeal was the constitution
ality of a municipal ordinance and not
that of an act of Congress, the police
power of the State seems to be as
much a controlling factor in the one
"Speaking of funeral reforms, why I case as In the other, and it is not sur-
cannot we abolish the necessity of fu- j prising that lawyers balk at arguing
historian. In these matters romance
is too often employed in lieu of fact,
particularly when social pre-eminence
in the world's capitals is the object of
absorbing ambition.
However that may be, it is to be re
marked that Southern gentility. British
titles and Northern millions form a
very strong combination — strong
enough to triumph over everything ex
cept the forces that were let loose dur
ing the French Revolution. Such com
binations promise the establshment in
this country of a dominating aristoc
racy, allied with that of England, such
as the founders of this republic ab
horred and de«ired to destroy.
A Missouri editor is being sued by a
woman because in writing the obituary
of her husband he slated: "He has
gone to a happier home.” Who can
hope to define the limits of a woman’s
Jealousy?
The advice of the Americus Times-
Reeorder to that town, to be progres
sive as well as attractive, reminds the
SaVannah Press of the apostrophe of
the Hindoo to his god. "I know that
thou art not beautiful, but I believe
that thou art great.”
PREVENTION OF PANICS.
The commercial health of the coun
try depends on women keeping strictly
up with the fashions In matters of
dress, according to Mrs. Belle Arm
strong Whitney, an authority on dress.
In an address to the dressmakers of
Chicago, she demonstrated that the
way to avert great financial panics Is
for women to wear plenty of fashion
able clothes. Mrs. Whitney said:
"Women wear new clothes that
men may make money. The rea
sons that we have new fashions in
dress is because men who have
billions invested In the manufac
tories and dry goods stores of the
world insist upon earning just ns
big dividends one year as another.
"If they waited for women to
wear out clothes they bought last
year dividends would be passed
this year. If you refused to wear
new clothes for six months there
would be a financial crisis that
would be tCorld-wide. So in wear
ing fashions early and late you are
helping to dispel financial clouds
and giving the worker and the
capitalist their due.”
This Is certainly a comfortable doc
trine for the ladies, to espouse about
Easter times and incidentally It should
help swell the exchequers of the dress
makers and milliners.
“QUEER DIPLOMACY WITH [ Ben Tillman, who got his start by
CASTRO.” ! arraying the wool hats of South Caro-
The Loomis-Bowen episode and the i Una against the aristocrats, says he 3
FAT OPERA SINGERS MUST GO,
The edict has gone forth in New
York against fat opera singers. Oscar
Hammerstein. who opened a house re
cently in competition with the Metro
politan Grand Opera House, is respon
sible for the proposed reform. He has
made it a condition of his contract
with Signor Ancona for the next sea
son that unless the baritone' takes at
least five inches from his waist line he
will have to hunt for another engage
ment. Hammerstein says of Ancona:
He’s too fat to look any part but
Falstaff, and if he comes back here
next winter without having taken
off that extra girth there'll be noth
ing doing so far as the Manhattan
opera house is concerned. That’s
one of the definite conditions in his
contract. Dalmores goes to n gym
nasium every day, and there is no
reason why they should not ail do
that when they’re too fat.
Lovers of grand opera have always
had to contend, more or less, with the
disillusion of fat, stuffy or otherwise
ugly heroes and heroines, introducing
something of the burlesque into the
divinest of productions. There is noth
Ing more painful to fat people than
unaccustomed exercise, but the opera
singers are a high salaried class and
It is but right they should take the ox,
erclse necessary to keep them In form.
Dalmores, the French tenor, it is
said, arises early, takes a cold bath
and boxes with his valet until it is time
to go to the gymnasium. He takes
long walks or other outdoor exercise.
Ancona, on the other hand, takes a
late breakfast in bed and arises in time
to lunch. This lasts until late in the
afternoon, and he rides home to dress
for dinner. The wonder is that he has
wind enough to sing at all.
PEN PICTURE OF A PERSONALITY.
According to Col. George Harvey,
editor of tho North American Review,
and orator of St. Patrick’s day at
Charleston, S. C., Theodore Roosevelt
is a most ingenious paradox. If It was
he that Col. Harvey referred to during
his speech in the following pen picture
which does not have to be labelled to
be identified. Col. Harvey said:
In the ordinary course of human
events, especially in the turmoil
and excitement and misapprehen
sion of a national political contest,
an error might be made and one
might be chosen by the nation as
its Chief Magistrate who should
combine in himself qualities of pro
fession so inconsistent with h1s
practices as to create general dis
trust nnd constitute a real menace
to the stability and permanence of
our national institutions—one, for
Instance, who. while demanding
vehemently that all should be doers
and builders, himself should be the
most striking exemplar of constant
undoing and persistent tearing
down; one who should sternly de
nounce all critics, though himself
the most censorious of persons;
one who should sneer at opponents
for antagonizing radicalism instead
of proposing actual reforms, while
himself forced to appropriate the
notions of political antagonists: one
who should hold aloft the banner
of idealism and simultaneously
trade with those notoriously cor
rupt; one who, while urging the
necessity of individual achievement,
should encourage socialism by in
viting attack upon accumulations
of wealth, which are the natural
results of the very individual en
deavors thus advocated: one whose
sense of personal righteousness
should so far overpower his sense
of personal charitableness as to
induce frequent denunciation of
those disagreeing with him as wil
ful, malicious and unqualified pre
varicators; one who should, while
constantly railing at trusts, yet
shield with the utmost care the
sacred tariff, breeder of them all:
one who should deplore political
contributions for corporations, yet
raise to the most powerful position
in his Government one who had
sought and obtained them; one
quicker than any other to castigate
the beneficiaries of a violation of
trust, firmer than any other in de
manding restitution of diverted
funds, yet painfully silent respect
ing the disposition of large sums of
money taken from policy-holders
and used to insure, not the lives of
the insured, but the election of a
President.
The colonel’s picture fs certainly true
tX life-
fiasco of our National Administration's
ultimatum to President Castro of Ven
ezuela a year or so ago, which Presi
dent Roosevelt found it convenient to
forget about later, are recalled by an
article on “Queer Diplomacy with Cas
tro," by Herbert IV. Bowen in the cur
rent number of the North American
Review, it will be remembered that
there was crimination and recrimina
tion between Loomis and Bowen at the
time which President Roosevelt um
pired by “firing” Bowen, who was
minister to Venezuela, in favor of
Loomis, who was apparently a favor
ite of the Washington Administration,
and who was also later advised to
travel for the good of his health. Mr.
Bowen says:
The main issue between the
United States and A'enezuela was
the asphalt case. In July. 1904,
President Castro had demanded ten
million dollars from the American
Company, known as the “New York
and Bermudez Asphalt Company,”
and had threatened, if that amount
was not pqld immediately, that the
whole asphalt lake and the prop
erty of the company would be
seized. He based his demand on
the alleged support given by the
Asphalt Company to the Matos
revolution of 1902: but, as he did
not demand anything from the
countless other supporters of tho
revolution, it was clear that his
demand on the Asphalt Company
was piratical. The demand was
refused, and the lake and property
were seized. The Government of
the United States naturally pro-
tsted vigorously against President
Castro’s high-handed procedure,
sent a military attache to Caracas
and prepared, as the newspapers
announced, to take drastic meas
ures to secure justice and to main
tain its dignity and prestige.
“got as good a pedigree as any man
who was ever horn on the face of this
earth." When a man can command
$200 a night lecturing it is time he be
gan looking up his pedigree.
The
heard of Harry Thaw
Wednesday night when Jerome de-
1 dared he was bughouse and had been
! all along he was furiously writing .1
statement for the public to prove the
truth of the district attorney's state
ment.
nerais altogether?" asks the Savannah
Press. Dead people might get tired
from a brief which maintains that the
separate compartment law in Southern
walking around forever Just to save i cities where negroes are numerous and
the trouble of burial
their relations with the whites inhar-
A gentleman and his wife, while re
turning from a party at 2 o’clock in
the morning in Charleston, were ar
rested by a policeman and “sent In”
under the charge of fighting. The lady
was taken ill on the way home and
fainted. The policeman appears to
have Jumped to the conclusion that
hubby had knocked wtfle out. The too
faithful guardian of the peace will have
reason to congratulate himself if the
affair does not prove a knockout blow
for him.
At' this juncture Mr. Bowen says
Castro was induced to consent to ar
bitration, to which President Roosevelt
and Mr. Hay, Secretary of State, agreed
as the ex-minister shows by an ex
tract from the^book on Foreign Rela
tions. This extract recites that “the
President approves acceptance of
5,000.000 bolivars, annually to be paid
to all creditor powers from customs
revenues, provided said powers as
sent. . . . “The President approves
tho suggestion of an arbitration treaty
with the United States for settlement
of all questions which, being of a dip
lomatic charaoter. cannot be settled by
mutual consent. Also of the provision
to settle by arbitration unsettled claims
of all the powers, except contractual
claims and bonds held by citizens of
other Governments. - The department
will cable Mr. Bowen bases of protocol
for arbitration of all disputed claims
of the United States and other nations,
excepting bonds and all claims of a
contractual nature.”
All this was satisfactory to President
Castro, Mr. Bowen says, and the prom
ised protocol with bases for arbitration
was eagerly looked for. When it came,
Mr. Bowen says:
“It was signed by Mr. Loomis and
did not cover the 5,000 000 bolivar
agreement, nor the claims of other na
tions. nor anything except the asphalt
case! And it was couched In such dis
pleasing terms that President Castro
immediately rejected it. No word of
explanation or apology accompanied it.
The Venezuelan Government, as well
as the American minister, was as
tounded. Subsequently, it was learned
that the entire protocol had been writ
ten by tho attorney of the Asphalt
Company. The explanation offered by
President Castro’s friends was that
the Asphalt Company feared arbitra
tion, and so broke up the entire scheme
by getting an offensive protocol sent
to President Castro. Negotiations were
continued for a time to induce Pres
ident Castro to settle fhe asphalt case,
but he sent to Washington an agent,
who succeeded absolutely in under
mining the influence of Mr.^Hay, as is
shown by his cablegram to President
Castro sent just after Mr. Hay ad
dressed his so-called ''ultimatum” to
Venezuela, and stating in substance
that after President Castro had an
swered the ultimatum the matter
would be allowed to drop.
“Several attempts have been made to
fix on Mr. Hay the responsibility for
all the occurrences in the Department
of State at this time, but It is now
pretty generally known that he was
utterly unable to cope with the forces
arrayed against him.”
Mr. Bowen says that President Cas
tro was pleased to have the whole
scheme of arbitration fall and that he
now became a strong supporter of the
Drago doctrines and joined the ranks
of -those who want all the rights of
sovereignty without any of the respon
sibilities, while the United States
tamely receded from the grounds it had
taken in opposition to those doctrines.
In its warm tribute to Mr. Cleveland
the New York Sun speaks of the great
changes which have taken place since
he was the object of fierce attack.
Wonder if the Sun recalls tho pot
names it used to call him, such as
“Stuffed Prophet,” and the like.
President Roosevelt made no mis
take when he selected Charles J. Bon i-
rarte for Attorney-General. Mr. Bo
naparte has written an article entitled
"Two years of a Government That
Docs Things’-for one of the magazines.
Noting the fact that "a day or two
ago an Atlanta bully knocked down
Col. John Temple Graves and now
somebody has shot into iho home of
Hon. Tom Watson.” tho Houston, Tex.,
Post wants to know If there is In Geor
gia a vendetta against genius.
Gleason has superseded Dclmav
again. The trouble with tho Thaw
side is that it has too many lawyers,
including the defendant himsolf, who
ore trying to make a reputation out of
the case.
Tho growing popularity of "shad
roe" foreshadows the extinction of this
most tasty of fish It ih said. It Is
short-sighted greed to eat tho egg that
lays tho shad.
"The more wo read, hoar or
meet some professional reformers, th?
better we like somo professional poll-,
ticlans. They are manlier.” So says
the Brooklyn
Tom Lawson offers $5,000 for. the
best review of his story recently pub
lished. Who Is to be tho judge of the
review?
After all Anna Gould is haggling
about the price her lawyer charged her
for relieving her of B'opi’s presence.
Some more balking, backing and fill
ing in the Thaw trial, just as the public
was promised tho end of it.
If battleships can be blown up by
wireless, the only point of danger in
future will be on the battleship.
Wail Street.
W. J. Lampton In N, Y. World.
Oh, say,
Get out of the way
Of the tumble!
Don’t you hear It rumble
Down in the Street?
But it isn’t the lambs that bleat— t
It’s bull meat.
And, say,
The way
Stocks have hit the slide
■ For a ride
Is fierce, ain't it?
Words can’t paint it.
Azd yet
Nobody seems to get
The knockout lick
As quick
As one might expect
When everything '.-eems to be wrecked.
Why?
Oh! me! Oh! my!
Don't you know?
You must be slow.
It's water, water everywhere
In every valuation.
And what seems loss will hardly ben.
The full Interpretation
Of loss because the loss is not
Of actual valuation:
But it is something—um, let’s see—■
Well, gay. deliquidation.
You want to know what that is. eh?
In this case It’s about
Like -ranching holes In anything
To let the water out.
See?
| Gee!.
■Water, water everywhere—
The actual stuff's behind it,
And when the water’s all let out
Is when you’re going to find it.
Punch, brothers, punch with care.
Punch for the water everywhere:
Get right down to the solid rock
And when you have It havo stock as i3
stock.
If you want to feel safe
From the jars and jerks
Of the Street, you must smash
Tho waterworks—
That's what!
NEGRO LACKEYS FOR CADETS.
The alleged confession of D. C. Gray,
a member of the discharged negro bat
talion, telegraphed from Galveston the
other day, ends with these words: “We
swore to stick to the lie.” This is cer
tainly a plausible explanation of the
great amount of lying—and foolish ly
ing at that—before the Senate investi
gating committee.
William J. 'Bryan says he will not
discuss Government ownership since
President Roosevelt has expressed his
opinion on it because “if I did say any
thing I might be charged with pla
giarism.” Weil, this beats all. Afraid
to wear his own clothes for fear of be
ing charged with stealing them from
thp President.
WASHINGTON. March 20.—Morn
trouble with colored troops Is predicted
as a result of an order issued by Sec-'*
retary Taft detailing 76 men of the
[ Ninth Cavalry, colored, for duly at the
West Point Military Academy. Th- e
colored troops will relieve the detach
ment of white cavalry which has been
stationed at West Point in the past,
and for the first lime in the history of
the military academy- the young cadets
will have their horses and accoutre
ments cared for by colored troops and
will take turns commanding thoso
troops.
According to the statement made by
the War Department the reason colored
troops have been sent to the military
academy to replace the white cavalry
men there is that the latter objected to
taking care of the horses used by tho
cadets as well as their own mounts.
The War Department believes the col
ored cavalrymen will not object to thi3
extra service.
The rest of the Ninth Cavalry has
been ordered to duty in the Philippine
Islands, as has the Tenth Cavalry, also
colored and the Twenty-fourth and
Twenty-fifth Infantry, the other two
colored regiments.
ATHENS IN THE THROES OF
BIG FREIGHT BLOCKADE.
ATHEN’S. Ga„ March 39.—The city
of Athens is in th< midst of a big
freight blockade, which the railroads
seem unable to remedy. There are
now standing on the tracks in this
city several hundred loaded cars, con
taining merchandise that the mer
chants of this city need in their bus
iness. while there are many !oa>r»d
The Washington Post thinks the end cars that cannot be shipped out. The
8eat hog is better worth knocking than j situation has been brought to the at-
the ground hog. He is a more reliable
indicator of fine weather than the
other.
tention of the Railroad Commission of
the State in the hope that the body may
find a way in which to compel the rail
roads to do something to relieve th»
Situation.
INDISTINCT PRINT