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THE TTTICE-A-WEEK TELEGRAPH
FRDIAY, APRIL 12, 1907.
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THE TELEGRAPH IN ATLANTA.
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mont Hotel lit Atlanta.
MR. GRAVES’ ANTI-CLIMAX.
la It because of * well-founded dis
trust of orators and oratory that no
mere orator, however great, has ever
succeeded In reaching the Presidential
chair? Clay, CaJboun, Webster, Doug
las, all strove to reach the prize and
•were defeated by less prominent and
comparatively unknown rivals. At
later period Blaine, who approximated
them as an orator, emulated their fate
mm a candidate. For more than a. de*
cade past the Democratic party has
fccen dominated by an orator, who is
styled "Peerless,” and who has never'
tbeless twice In that time led his party
to defeat. The question is suggested
at this time by the absurd Graves-
Bryan episode at* the Chattanooga Jef
ferson banquet.
Mr. John Temple Graves, of Atlanta,
went to Chattanooga to deliver an
address at a Jefferson banquet at
which Mr. William J. Bryan was the
guest of honor. Mr. Graves had pre
pared a speech filled with flamboyant
rodomontade and extravagant lauda
tion of Cleveland, Bryan and Hearst,
leading up to the apotheosis of Theo
dore Roosevelt as the Ideal Democrat
and reaching Its climax In an appeal to
William J. Bryan to rise In the national
Democratic convention and, "speaking
tor a pure Democracy, and speaking
for the whole plain people of this re
public, should put In nomination The-
odoro Roosevelt for one more undis
puted term of power."
Mr. Graves had procured the distri
bution of his speech as prepared over
the country to be released at the proper
moment to do its work of electrifying
the country and surrendering the Dem
ocratic ark Into the keeping of Theo
dore Roosevelt, the gentleman whose
latest expression of Democracy Is the
desire to obliterate the State lines and
conduct our domestic affairs as one
consolidated Government from his
desk in Washington.
At the critical moment when editors
all over the country were holding their
extra editions In leash, as it were, for
the signal to let loose the tremendous
voltage etored with them from the
Atlanta generator and electrify the
country from East to West, there came
Instead the mournful Intelligence that
the tonstmaster of the occasion had
met Mr. Graves at the depot and muz
zled him. Mr. Graves was cordially
Invited to attend the banquet and speak
If he would, but would Mr. Graves
please eliminate his Roosevelt nomina
tion pyrotechnic? Emasculated of this
pyrotechnic, there was nothing left of
Mr. Graves’ speech, and he declined to
spenk. His scat at the banquet table
became Intolerably uncomfortable and
he soon departed to catch the first out
going Atlanta train. Mr. Bryan
learned of tho trouble, had Mr. Graves
recalled and kindly Insisted on his
speaking his piece as he had pre
pared It.
Had the incident ended with this
Democrats might have enjoyed tho
laugh with the rest of the country, but
Mr. (Bryan, who with all his ability and
brilliance, appears to have a fatal fa
cility for “putting his foot In It,” could
not resist the opportunity to match
Mr. G raves' performance, to judge from
the press report of the incident. After
metaphorically patting Mr. Graves on
the back and praising him for his
boldness and honesty, he turned di
rectly to the subject of Mr. Graves’
recommendation, we are told, and said:
"As at present advised I shall not pre
sent the name of Theodore Roosevelt
to the national Democratic convention.
Bear In mind I say as at present ad
vised.” But. he continued, "If on ma
ture consideration and reflection and
the presentation of the arguments In
the case he should be convinced that
his duty lay in that direction, he would
present Mr. Roosevelt's name if it
ehculd be the last act of his life. He
then went on to say that if any Re
publican was to be selected by the
Democrats to head their national ticket
that man should be Senator La Fol-
lette, of Wisconsin.”
Such an exhibition as this Is calcu
lated to fill Democrats everywhere with
hopeless despair. We have presented
to us the spectacle of a leader debating
with himself whether he will lead his
party into the enemy’s camp. A man
who posing as the exponent of Jeffer- |
sontan Democracy, the chief tenet of •
which is that the best government is ^
that which governs least, admits the i
possibility of selecting from the ene- i
my for a leader the most radical ad
vocate of centralization and petty In- j
qulsition and restriction of individual
liberty tho country has ever pro
duced. A man who. twice hon- i
ored and followed to defeat by South- j
ern Democracy, ignored the suggestion
of finding a leader for the party among ;
the many loyal Southern Democra
for the spoetaci;
formance.
Ignoring Mr. Bryan's seeming as
sumption that tho Interests and for
tunes of Democracy are matters solely
for his personal management and de
cision, what Is the country* to think of
a man who wobbles as Mr. Bryan
does? Only four days ago at Des
Moines, Iowa, he said:
"Roosevelt Is too Democratic to
suit the corporations: too little
Democratic to suit the Democrats.
Every time he suggests the in
come tax, trust restriction or rail
road regulation, he antagonize*; tho
corporations, while on the other
hand, what has he done? He has
been President five years; r.o trust
magnate rests in prison cells.”
If this represented his opinion four
days ago what has happened in the
meantime to modify it, since he can
admit the possibility of proposing
Roosevelt as the nominee of Democ
racy?
But most important of all, perhaps,
Involved In Mr. BTyan’s utterance Is
the waiving for himself and for Dem
ocracy, as far as he can speak for It,
of the "third term” objection. Have
Democrats no rights or Interests
sentiments that Mr. Bryan is bound to
respect?
THE LAW IN THE CASE.
For two months and a half the Thaw
trial has held the center of the stage
of public events. Many Incidents and
episodes have attended the trial, which,
has been of record-breaking length
The conduct of the case by the counsel
on either side has been far from flaw
less. Both sides have bungled and
blundered repeatedly and befogged not
only the public but befogged them
selves as to the true legal bearings of
the case. Jerome became Infatuated
with the subject of insanity through
the researches he was led into to meet
the case and he took up and pursued
the theory that Thaw was insane, the
only valid plea the defense had to
stand on. In view of the tack taken by
the prosecutor, the defense practically
abandoned this Its sole legal plea. They
fought Jerome before? the lunacy com
mission and helped to divest them
selves of It almost utterly when the
lunacy commission, declared Thaw
sane. In the closing hours of the trial
Delmas appealed to tho jury almost
entirely on tho /‘unwritten law” and
the "Golden Rule," neither of which
aro known In the law books. At the
conclusion of his address Thaw theat
rically shook hands with his relatives
in a congratulatory manner and strut
ted out of the court room with the
‘chivalric halo” of the hero crowning
his brow. The public, like Thaw, re
garded the return of the verdict of
acquittal as merely a formality certain
to follow. But, oh, what a change
when Judge Fitzgerald coolly and con
cisely stated the law governing the
case to the jury.
No one, not even Jerome, apparently,
viewed the judge as a factor of much
consequence in tho case. For two
months and a half he had presided
over tho trial, It is true, but he had not
particularly asserted himself. He gave
both sides plenty of rope and let the
caso take wide latitude, down to the
very last utterances of the counsel in
their speeches. But from the moment
he took the case In his hands to com
mit It to the jury there was a surprise.
How painful it was to Harry Thaw
and his friends is told in the press dis
patches. The charge, we are told, “was
a concise outline of the law and gave
to the jury the alternative of rendering
any one of the following four verdicts
—Murder in tho first degree; murder
in tho second degree; manslaughter in
tho first degree, or not guilty on the
ground of insanity.” Thus the only
possible loophole of escape for Thaw
left was the despised and neglected
plea of "not guilty on the ground of
insanity.” Nothing was said of the
“unwritten law;” nothing of the "Gol
den Rule;” the entire fanciful fabric
built upon them by Delmas’ romantic
rhetoric collapsed and fell into noth
ingness.
Ts it any wonder that Thaw lost his
“debonnair” air and "sat in a dejected
mood, his entire appearance denoting
a nervous, apprehensive state of
mind?”
Whatever be the final result of the
jury’s deliberations, whether it be an
acquittal, a compromise verdict or a
mistrial, the public is Indebted to Jus
tice Fitzgerald for a great benefaction,
even though it consists only in his
clearly staling the law of the land re
garding the crime of murder at this
critical juncture, when the public mind
has been so injuriously and viciously
befogged on the subject.
j PRECISELY WHAT HE DID DO.
| "Another* ^Southern newspaper, and
J one of the best of them," recently re-
i marked the Columbia State, "thinks
well of ex-Prcsident Grover Cleve
land’s advice about moving the tarlif
I issue to the front In next year’s polit
ical campaign. The Norfolk Virglnlan-
I Pilot’s avowed reasons for thinking
j well of it are, that tariff reform is a
| righteous issue, that it would be a di
visive Issue for Republicans, that the
Democrats couid be ’rallied’ on It, and
that It’s the only Issue they have had
any luck with since 1856. But the Vir
ginia paper Is not ready to let up on
the bad, law-breaking corporations—
railroad or other. ‘A stern demand for
proper revision of the tariff does not,’
It says, 'mean a truce with any of the
other evils which prey upon popular
rights and Interests.’ Did the Vir
ginia paper read attentively Mr. Cleve-
numbered 2,163. The negro population
was 4.959, and the Indians nunrbeied
9.1S2. There are many Swedes in Min
nesota. many foreigners without eth
nologic information. The unintelli
gent have little or no prejudice against
the negro. The women who marry ne
groes are of a class which would be
put on the same level with the negro
In the South. There are few negroes
in Minnesota and only a small per cent
of these have married white women.
But the few who have will breed mon
grels, and a generation or two hence
the man or woman who admits he or
she is from Minnesota will rest under
a cloud of suspicion, and will find dif
ficulty in gaining social recogntion.”
Minnesota and the other States of
the Northwest are literally packed
with Swedes. It is to be Inferred from
the above that they are ready to re
ceive matrimonially-inclined negroes
land's remarks about the present I from the South with open arms. Na-
’craze' for swatting the unhappy rail
roads ?”
To which the Norfolk Virginian-Pilot
replies: ’ "Yes, we read the entire pro
nunciation to and then, as is customary
with this paper," expressed assent with
that portion of it which our judgment
approved, and drew our own deduc
tions, differing from those of Mr.
Cleveland, as to other current Issues.
One great trouble of the times Is the
tendency of men and public journals
to accept everything a leader stands
for simply because he represents some
principle or policy which coincides
with their own opinion. Some of Mr.
Bryan’s propositions are sound and
wholesome acoording to the Virginian-
Pilot's way of thinking, while others,
measured by the same standard, are
neither wise nor Democratic. So, too,
we endorse heartily Mr. Cleveland’s
constitutional theories and his abhor
rence of the legalized robbery mas
querading now under the name of
Tariff, but none the less we feel sure
that in dealing with tho question of
corporation reform, he minimizes ex
isting evils and does not make suffi
cient allowance for the provocations
which have induced the popular senti
ment he deplores. He seems to us to
be as much too conservative In cer
tain directions as Mr. Bryan is too
radical in others. Both fall’ to draw
proper distinction between the law-
abiding and the lawless classes of cor
porations.”
That is precisely what Mr.
Cleveland did do, as'' Tho Tele
graph understood him. Ho ob
jected to the lack of discrimination
in the "delirium” of the present popu
lar outcry, while admitting the exist
ence of “the real iniquities of corpora
tions” which called for reform. "Of
course.” he concluded, "there must be
some form of Government supervis
ion, but it should be planned in a quiet
hour, not in one of angry excitement.”
What more can be desired by any just
and patriotic citizen who takes time
for sober reflection?
In his debate with Senator Beveridge
in the Reader magazine Mr. Bryan
holds that race questions in the South
and on the Pacific const involve prob
lems that are not appreciated by the
rest of the country, and that there
fore the right of local self-government
connected with such matters should
not be taken away by the centraliza
tion of Government at Washington.
Mr. Bryan favors Federal laws that
will supplement, not supersede, those
of the States. With remarkable
slsteney, however, he endorse
Beveridge plan of dealing wit
labor through Congressional enact
ments which would take local self-
government In this particular out^of
WHERE MISCEGENATION IS EN
COURAGED.
A year or two ago the Boston Herald
stated that there were about fifty mar
riages a year between whites and
blacks in the State.of Massachusetts.
The detailed information accompanying
the statement showed that all these
marriages were between negro men
and white women. The thoughtful
reader found good reason to conclude
further that these negro men were at
least fairly prosperous and the women
were of the lowest, poorest class of
whites, and mostly foreign-born. The
Telegraph suggested that Massachu
setts was the place for certain ambi
tious and dissastlfied negroes of the
Southern’States, where such marriages
are prohibited by law and where there
would be no such marriages If there
were no laws to prevent.
It now appears that Minnesota is an
even more inviting field, where negro
men of the South, who are not satis
fied with the women Intended for them
by Providence, ma^ easily achieve the
object of their desire. The following
is clipped frem a recent issue of the
Minneapolis Journal:
A social function which is de
cidedly unusual will be given Fri
day night at the colored Knights
of Pythias Hall, on Hennepin ave
nue. near Washington avenue, when
the Manassas Club, an organization
composed of colored men who have
married white women or who aro
"keeping company” with white wo
men, will give a dancing party to
which club members and their
wives or sweethearts will be ad
mitted.
The Manassas Club is unique
among the social organizations of
the twin cities and for several sea
sons was accustomed to giving its
parties In a hail near Fourth street
and Eighth avenue. S. During the
Eustis administration so much
publicity was given the organiza
tion and its social functions that
the latter had been bold, since that
time, in St. Paul for the most part.
The ball to be given here Friday
is therefore attracting more than
passing interest. There are some
fifteen or twenty colored men In
the city, and many more in St.
Paul, who have married women of
Caucasian blood, while there are
many colored men in each city who
act as escorts of white women,
and it is these men and women
who attend the social functions of
the Manassas Club. One of the
rules of the club is that no white
men shall be admitted to Its social
functions. Neither are colored wo
men permitted to attend.
tive Americans of the Northwest as
well as of the rest of the country
would, however, feel better satisfied if
they would take their mongrel children
back to Sweden.
“WILLIAIYIRANDOLPHHEARSTISM.”
According to the Louisville Cour
ier-Journal. it was not the Dem
ocracy but Wllllerandolphhearstism
that was beaten in Chicago. Still,
there isn’t so much difference.—
Philadelphia Press.
Isn’t there? Why, then, is Hearst to
have nothing to do with either the
Jefferson Day dinner given to Bryan
in Brooklyn on April 16 or the dinner
of the National Democratic Club at the
Waldorf on April 13, but is to have a
“Jefferson” dinner of his own on the
date last mentioned.
It is slated that Hearst was invited
by the (Brooklyn Democratic Club to
tho Bryan dinner, but declined.
Whether or not he was invited to the
dinner of the National Democratic Club
is not stated, but the fact that he an
nounced his own dinner for the same
evening would seem to Imply that he
was not.
The chief speaker at the Bryan-Jef-
ferson dinner will of course be Mr.
Bryan himself. A different order will
prevail at the Hearst-Jefferson dinner,
as Mr. Hearst does not speak. Those
announced to speak for him are Jus
tice John Ford, Justice Samuel Sea
bury, John B. Moran, of Boston, and
Representative Lamar, of Florida.
Judge Alton B. Parker, Senator Ray-
ner and other Sbuthern Democrats aro
booked for the dinner of the National
Democratic club.
There are several varieties of Dem
ocracy in these times, but it is scarcely
accurate to describe "Williamrandolph
hearstism” as one of them. Mr. Hearst
himself has given his brand the name
of the Independence League.
BOOKS AS BRAIN FOOD.
Some trans-Atlantic literary scient
ists have been investigating books as
brain food as a sequel to the scientific
analysis of foods for the stomach, and
the conclusion has been reached that
the more the books, taking them by
and large, the less the mental pabulum.
A writer in the London Saturday Re
view summarizes the results of his
laboratory tests in the following form:
Books should be taken in doses no
bigger than music or pictures: they
aro even harder to digest. There is
more drunkenness in a book than in
ail the vinyards of France. AH thoso
people who read with their eyes only
are fatally wasting their time. Is any
good thing likely to come out of indis
criminate reading any more than out
of any other form of feeding indis
criminately?”
This writer apparently loses sight
of the fact that the majority of read
ers are not after “brain food” but after
amusement and entertainment, and this
they get, in view'of the writer’s ad
mission as to the amount of Intoxica
tion there is in a book.
Victor L. Berger, founder of the
"Socialistic Democratic party,” has de
cided that for tho present his organi
zation must abandon the work of prop-
agandlsm In sixteen of the States of
the Union, nine of those he mentions
having once been included in the
eleven States of the Southern Confed
eracy. In other wordg, he abandons
the 'South on the prinicple that It is
useless to attempt to grow wheat in a
desert. Yet it may be that the longer
the South is a desert from the social
istic standpoint the better. The Re
publican party already furnishes as
much paternalistic socialism as the
country can stand.
1*1 Mil H i-M-i-t-'H | | | 1 H-l-l-I t
| Caught on
| the Wing
•l-'M-M d-H-I-I“H"H-M"I I H-H-H-h
By JOHN T. BOIFEUIL.LET.
I notice that a petition has been filed
in the Bibb County Superior Court for
a renewal of the charter of the Geor
gia Bar Association. The original
charter was granted by this court at the
April term, 1884. for twenty years. The
period of time for which the associa*
tion was incorporated expired about
three years ago, 'but this fact was over
looked until the twenty-third annual
session which was held In July, 1906,
when a committee, consisting of A. G,
Powell, chairman; P. W. Meldrim, S,
P. Gilhert, Z. D. Harrison and Orville
A. Park, was appointed to petition for
a renewal of the charter, also to re
vise the constitution and by-laws. The
name of A. G. Powell does not appear
as one of the committee, or petitioners'
attorneys, on the petition which has
been presented to the Superior Court
of Bibb County, for the reason that
since his appointment last year by the
association as chairman he has been
elected one of the judges of the Court
of Appeals. The original petitioners
for the Incorporation of The Georgia
'Bar Association, in 18S4, were L. N.
Whittle, of Macon: Charles C. Jones,
Jr., of Augusta; Henry Jackson, of At
lanta; M. H. Blandford, of Columbus;
Pope Barrow, of Savannah: George A.
Mercer, of Savannah; Clifford Ander
son, of Macon; George N. Lester, of
Marietta: Marshall J. Clarke, of At
lanta; Robert ’Whitfield, of MHIedge
ville; W. B. Hill, of Macon. The Judge
of the Superior Court who granted the
charter was T. J. Simmons. This was
only twenty-three years ago, but all
of these men are dead, with the ex
ception of Col. George A. Mercer, of Sa
vannah, and he has retired from the
active practice on account of his health
Some of them died at the meridian of
life, but others passed away at an
advanced age. After the granting of
the charter Blanford and Simmons
went upon the bench of the Supreme
Court of Georgia. Anderson and Lester
became State Attorney General. Bar-
row and Clarke were chosen Superior
Court Judges, and the chancellorship of
the University of Georgia was 'bestow
ed upon Walter B. Hill. These origi
nal petitioners were the first officers of
the Georgia Bar Association: L. N.
Whittle, president: .Waiter B. Hill, sec
retary and treasurer: and Jones. Jack-
son, Blandford, ©arrow and Mercer
vice-presidents. Mr. Hill continued as
secretary until 18S7, when he was elect
ed president of the association. In
1897 Mr. J. H. Blount, Jr., of Macon,
was elected secretary, and In 1S9S Mr.
Orville A. Park,’ of Macon, was chosen
and he has held the position ever since,
a period of ten years. Macon has had
five presidents, to-wit: L. N. Whittle.
Clifford Anderson, Walter B. Hill.
Washington Dessau and the incumbent,
A. L. Miller, who was elected at the
annual meeting last year. No other
city *has had as many presidents, or as
many secretaries. It is a rule of the
association to elect a new president
each year. It is my impression that
no annual meeting of the association
has been held in Macon since 1892. the
year that the late Washington Dessau
was chosen president. Not counting
the honorary members, who compose
a largo list, the active roll of member
ship shows 415 names. The year end
ing July 18, 1906, was tho banner year
in the history of the association in point
of new members. 116 having joined
during that stated period.
The Georgia Bar Association is one of
the pioneer organizations of the kind
in the United States. It is also one
of the largest and most prosperous. It
is particularly fortunate in having so
efficient and zealous .secretary as Or
ville A. Park, of Macon. His zeal and
efficiency contributes much to the suc
cess *of the association, and the mem
bers are sensible of and appreiale this
fact The constitution of the associa
tion says: “The object of this associa
tion shall he to advance the science of
jurisprudence, promote the adminis
tration of justice throughout the State,
uphold the honor of the profession of
the law, and establish cordial inter
course among the members of the bar
of Georgia.” Just at this particular
time it may be of interest to recall to
the minds of some of the readers of
The Telegraph that Wm. Travers Je
rome. of New York, delivered an ad
dress before the association last year
“Public Opinion.” He spoke of its
power, some of its evils and injustices,
and the duty of lawyers to it. I won
der what Jerome thinks public opinion
is of his management of the Thaw
trial? In his address Jerome said.
‘The man who declares he is indiffer
ent to public opinion, if he be not a
fanatic, is too often something of a
fool and a knave—a knave to lie and a
fool to think you believe him.” He
further remarked: “If public opinion
is the greatest single force in our pub
lic life, surely tho newspaper is in
comparably the greatest factor in Us
formation and spread.”
the brave garrison was still struggling
merely for the honor of Its dug went
under fire in an open boat to the fort
and climbing through one of its em
brasures asked for Major Anderson
and begged him to desist from the
hopeless fight, offering to him the
same terms that had been proposed
before his position had been rendered
so desperate. Though Wigfall had
acted without authority, upon Major
Anderson’s acceptance of the terms
they were promptly ratified by General
Beauregard.
The bombardment of Fort Sumter
produced intense excitement through
out the country. North and South.
President Lincoln called for 75 000 vol
unteers and President Davis prompt
ly issued a ball for volunteers. The
war was on. History says that tho
Confederates strengthened Fort Sum
ter immediately a’nd put in a strong
garrison, and until near the close of
tho war it formed the main defense of
Charleston. In April. 1SS3. it was un
successfully bombarded by a monitor
fleet under Admiral Du Pont. Still
later it was subjected to a heavy Fed
eral ilre from batteries erected on
Morris island, and reduced to a mass
of shapeless ruins; but every direct
attempt to taka It from the Confed
erates failed and it fell into Union
hands only when Charleston was final
ly abandoned by tho Confederates In
February. 1S65. On April 14, 1S65
(notice how April runs in tho record
of Fort Sumter), just four years after
the surrender of the fort, the Union
flag, the same which had been lowered
In 1861. was again foramlly raised over
tho dilapidated walls of Fort Sumter.
represented Louisiana In the Senate
with Judah P. Benjamin, Clerk O'nest-
ney saw a great deal of Senator Slid !I.
I refer to this because .if the historic
occurrence in which Slidell and form
er Senator J. M. Mason, of Virginia,
figured during the Confederacy. They
were appointed Confederate commis
sioners to France and England. Sail
ing from Charleston, they ran the
blockade, and embarked at Havana on
board the English mail steamer Trent.
On November S 1561. CapL Wilkes,
of the United States steam frigate San
Jacinto, boarded this vessel, and ar
rested tho commissioners, who were
confined In Ft. Warren, Boston harbor.
But as their capture was Informal,
they were released on the reclamation
of the British Government, and on
January 2 1S62, sailed for England.
From there they went to Paris, where
through tho banker, Erlanger (who
became Slidell's son-in-law) they se
cured some financial aid for the Con
federacy. Slidell settled In London
after the close of the war.
Twenty doctors in England have
signed a document endorsing the use
of alcohol as a medicine. Like Timo
thy, they believe in taking a little for
their stomach’s ache.
I am at a loss to understand why
this writ'ng about lawyers should
have made me remember that today is
the anniversary of the first hanging
In Bibb County. On April 11. 182S
William Fields was executed for the
murder of James Abbott. His convic
tion and death were almost as expe
ditious as by the lynching process.
He died on the gallows within ten days
after the commission of his crime.
Papa, who Is so many things, Is also
a member of the Audubon Society, and j
yet Mrs. “Nick” Longworlh is wearing
spring “creation” on her head, the
chief feature of which is a dead bird.
Even Harry Thaw felt he was guilty
when he heard from the lips of the
judge what the law really is in his
case.
icon- j avowed
the
child
1 the hands of the States. If Congre.-s
qualified for the place, so far ns any : can legislate for the States in the one
L
allusion to It Is reported, and who took
it upon himself, with whatever mis
taken notion of magnanimity, to coon
-j
case it can do it in the other, and once
it begins along this line no man will
be able to see the end.
In other words, miscegenation Is the
and steadfast object of the
club. “There was r.ot a negro buck
present,” disgustedly comments the
Nashville American, “who was not as
respectable as any of the white
wenches who displayed their degrada
tion. In 1900 M'nr.csota had 261.009
foreign-born white voters and 245.000
native-born white voters, and a large
per cent of the latter were of foreign-
born parentage. Tho negro voters
Justice Fitzgerald even forgot to
mention "dementia Americana” in his
charge.
COURT RETURNS TODAY
FROM HOUSTON COUNTY
The terrn of Houston Superior Court
will be concluded this afternoon at Per
ry. and Judge Felton and other officials
will return home, preparatory to open
ing the April term of 3!bb Superior
Court. Monday morning at 9 o'clock, at
which time the grand jury will also
bold its first meetingc
Tommorw Is the anniversary of the
commencement of the Civil War. On
the morning of April 12, 1S61, at about
half past four o’clock. General Beau
regard. the Confedreato commander at
Charleston, commenced the bombard
ment of Fort Sumter. This fort was
a work built upon an artificial island
near the entrance of the harbor of
Charleston. S. C., which it was de
signed to protect. The United States
garrison, numbering 109 men and
about 52 cannons, under the command
of Major Robert Anderson, were occu
pying Fort Sumter. A fleet of seven
United Staets vessels were en route
to reinforce the fort. The Confederate
authorities knew this and they ordered
; Beauregard to demand the surrender
of Fort Sumter. Major Anderson re
fused to comply. Several fruitless ef
forts were made to get him to evacu
ate. He played for time hoping for
the arrival of. the Federal fleet The
Confederates had constructed batter
ies on Morris and Sullivan islands, and
Cummlng’s Point. After due notice
to Anderson. Beauregard opened fire
; on Fort Sumter, and in a short time
! serious damage was done to the fort.
I The bombardment became furious, and
' the fort was set on fire. The evacua-
! tion’ of the fort was agreed upon on
1 the afternoon of the of the 13th. and
on the 14th Major Anderson and his
men marched out. They were allow-
! ed to salute their flag and were ac-
I corded all the honors of war. They
: sailed for New York. History records
’ the very remarkamle statement that
j though the fort was put into a blaze by
oursting shells and was reduced to
.-uins no life was lost during the ter-
I rific bombardment. It is related that
the? only casualty occurred when the
garrison saluted the flag as it was
hauled down the day after the sur
render. At that time one man was
killed and several wounded by the
bursting of a gun. In the "Story of
the Confederate states.” appears the
following: A striking Incident occurred
just before the surrender. Louis rT.
■Wigfall, an ex-Senator of Texas, see-
] ing the fort on fire, and believing that
I guess that Major T. O. Chestney.
of Macon, was personally acquainted
with more presidents of the United
States before the Civil War than any
other man now alive in Georgia. Ho
knew James K. Polk, Zachary Taylor,
Millard Fillmore, Franklin Pierce,
James Buchanan and Abraham Lin
coln, six in number. He saw all of
them inaugurated, with the exception
of Polk. Major Chostney’s first recol
lection of Polk was towards the end of
that gentleman’s administration,
which closed on March 4. 1849 He saw
him In a Presbyterian church in
Washington. The major’s father point
ed him out to him. Major Chestney
not only witnessed the inauguration
of President Taylor on Monday, March
5, 1849, but he attended his funeral,
which occurred in less than fifteen
months after he became President. On
July 4, 1350. Taylor was seized with
billious fever, of which he died on tho
9th at the Presidential mansion. He
was the father-in-law of Jefferson Da
vis. President of the Confederacy. Ma
jor Chestney says he vividly recalls
the funeral of “Old Rough and Ready.”
During the administration of President
Pierce, in 1S54, Major Chestney was
appointed the private secretary of
United States Senator Clement C.
Clay, of Alabama, and when Clay was
made chairman of the committee on
commerce, in 1856. he hg.d Chestney
appointed clerk of the committee,
which position Chestney held during
the entire four years’ administration
of President Buchanan. The commit
tee consisted of Clement C. Clay,
chairman; Judah P. Benjamin, of Lou
isiana: Robert Toombs, of Georgia:
Zachariah Chandler, of Michigan:
Hannibal Hamlin, of Maine. They
were all big guns. Think of being a
clerk of a committee ofGk-hich these
two grand orators and patriots, Ben
jamin and Toombs . were members.
What an intellectual and patriotic treat
it must have been to young Chestney!
How he must have reveled in the feast
of eloquence and partlotism! What a
banquet of fervid rhetoric and glow
ing speech to feed upon! In those days
the Democrats were in the majority in
the Senate, and the committee on com
merce consisted of three Democrats
qnd two Republicans. Chestney was
born in Alabama, but was living then
in Washington with his father, who
held a Government position there, and
Senator Clay being from Alabama, ap
pointed young Chestney first ns hi*-*
private secretary, and then clerk of
his committee, as already stated. Ma
jor Chestney now has in his posses
sion letters which were written to him
by Clay. Toombs and others of the
committee. He cherishes the commu
nications as relics of the golden days
of oratory—when Toombs shook the
Senate with the thunders of his elo
quence. Chestney says he felt, away
back yonder in the fifties, that the rep
utation of Toombs would far outlive
the man. so he preserved the letteters
as a legacy frob one of the most mo
mentous decades in the history of this
nation—an era in which the great
Georgian was a directing force and a
towering genius.
MaJ. Chestney attended all the great
debates leading up to tho Civil War.
He heard Stephen A. Douglas and
John J. Crittenden and William A.
Seward and Charles Sumner and Rob
ert Toombs and Alfred Iverson and
Judah P. Benjamin and Jefferson
Davis, and many other of the master
minds of that great period. He heard
the splendid speeches of Benjamin
and Toombs, two of his committee, on
withdrawing from the Senate to unite
with the Confederacy. Toombs was
very menacing and defiant. I asked
MaJ. Chestney yesterday which one o£
all the speakers in the matchless
galaxy impressed him most. "Benja
min," was his reply. “To nie he was
tho most brilliant and captivating of
all.” he said. Maj. Chestney left
Washington in the early part of
March, 1861. proceeded to Alabama
and Immediately enlisted* In the Con
federate army. He was on the “E. E.
E." staff: that is to say, he served
during the war on the staff of three
generals whose names commenced*
with E, to-Wit: Elzey. Early and
Ewell. He was captured in April,
1865. and was kept in prison some time
after the surrender, thus serving for
more than four years in the causo of
the Confederacy. He has In his pos
session a letter of endorsement by
the distinguished Henry A. Wise, of
Virginia, for the position of assistant
editor of the Richmond Enquirer,
which was given to Maj. Chestney
soon after his release as a prisoner of
war. Clement C., the son of Maj.
Chestney. was named after Senator j
Clement C. Clay, whose private secre
tary Maj. Chestney was fifty-threo
years ago. I will state in conclusion,
that Maj. Chestney witnessed not. only
the Inauguration of five Presidents of
the United States before the Civil
War, but he saw Jefferson Davis, the
only President of the Confederacy. In
augurated at Richmond.
DRAYMAN’S COAT USED AS CLEW
BY THE SLEUTHS.
Consider for a moment the person
nel of the committee on commerce, of
which Chestney was clerk In his early
young manhood.' There was Clay, a
Senator from Alabama from 1853 until
he resigned fn February. 1861. to cast
his destinies with the South in her
struggle for constitutional liberty.
Then he was chosen a Senator in the
Confederate Congress. In 1S64 he
went to Canada as one of the secret
agents of the Confederate Government,
and took part in planning tho attacks
on the Northern frontier, and 1n July
made some unsuccessful attempts to
enter upon negotiations with President
Lincoln.
There was Benjamin, as true a pa
triot and as brilliant an orator as tho
South possessed. He was an honor to
the Jewish race and a glory to his
adopted Southland. In 1852 he was
elected from Louisiana to the Unitetd
States Senate and served continuous
ly until he withdrew In February 1861,
to join his State in the defense of her
legal rights. On December 31. 1860,
in a magnificent speech in the Senate
he avowed his adhesion to the South
ern cause. This great lawyer was ap
pointed Attorney General in the Pro
visional Government of the Southern
Confederacy. Latctr he was made act
ing Secretary of War. He stood high
In the confidence of President Davis,
and was next appointed Secretary of
State, which position he held until the
end of the Confederacy. Soon after
the rtrrrend'-r Benjamin took up his
residence In London where he reaped
fame and fortune in the practice of
his profession
There was Toombs, one of the fore
most intellects in the Senate, a blaz
ing Southern light, superb in debate,
a marvelous orator. He was the gen
ius of secession. What Mirabeau was
to the French revolution Toombs wn3
to the great American conflict. He
was in the Senate from 1853 to Jan
uary 23, 1861, retiring as soon as
Georgia decided to secede. He was a
delegate from the State at large to the
convention of the seceded States which
met in Montgomery on February 4,
1861. It was expected by many that
Mr. Toombs would be the President
'•f the Provisional Government whica
was formed by the election of Jeffer
son Davis. Mr. Toombs refused to
allow his name to be presented by the
Georgia delegation, which wanted to
do so. President Davis immediately*
appointed Toombs Secretary of State,
but he held the office only a short
while, his fiery spirit preferring to
be a general on the field of battle.
There was Hamlin, who was first
elected to the Senate in 1S4S as a
Democrat, but in 1856 Joined the Re
publicans and was elected Governor of
Maine, which office he resigned on be
ing re-elected Senator. In I860 he was
elected .Vice-President of the United
States, when Lincoln was chosen
President. He again served in the
Senate from 1869 to 1881.
There was Chandler in the Senate
from Michigan from 1857 to 1875. and
in 1875 appointed Secretary of the In
terior by President Grant.
Late Wednesday .night the report
reached the police station that a halo
of cotton was missing from the plat
form of the Atlantic Compress Co.
Early yesterday morning an old ne
gro man who has a little shop on Wall
street, reported to Chief Conner that
when he -opened his shop he found a
number of sacks of loose cotton, and
t'hat the door of the shop had been
broken open during the night.
The chief, at that time, did not know
of the report of a missing bale from tho
compress, and at once putriils men to
work on the find. Later, it was easy
to connect the missing bale with the
loose co’ton found in the shop. *
Th's cotton had evidently been car
ried to the shop by a drayman. It Is
supposed that he was to take it to soma
place wnere it cou.J be sold, but tho
place w-s close 1 up, and he placed
it in the shop to bide it.
On the sacks was a man’s coat. In the
pockets of which was tho license for
the dray, some deeds to property, and
other papers, and these made his cap-’
ture certain.
FIRE IN MJLLEDGEVILLE
DESTROYED MUCH PROPERTY
MILLEDGEVILLE. Ga„ April 11.—
The entire plant of the Cook Lumber
Company was completely destroyed by
fire last night. The origin of the fire
is not known. Engineer and fireman
on extra No. 38, west bound, on Geor
gia Railroad discovered the fire ad gave
the general alarm by blowing long and
loud. This train was delayed here for
two hours hauling railroad cars to
places of safety. The plant of Cook
Lumber Co., being right near the rail
road tracks. ‘Before they got through
with their job five freight cars had
burned up. The loss to Cook Lumber
Company Is about $25,000, partially
covered by Insurance, to the amount of
$11,000.
Mllledgevllle has one of the most ef
ficient fire de-partments of any city of
its size In the State and the whole forco
were on hand quickly. The firemen
claim when they first arrived there was
little or no water pressure and for a
considerable time they could not got
a steam of water strong enough to
reach to the first story of a "Terrapin’s
residence.”
After a while the water came good
and strong and the boys did good work,
but too late to be of any consequence.
For a while both the Georgia Rail
road depot and the Miiledgevllle Oil
Mills were In great danger but both
escaped with small damage.
HE SUITED HER. <
From the New York Herald.
"The man I ever wed.” she said,
"Must have accomplishments.
"Yes: he must play and s'ng and dance,
And ride and row and fence.
And take a skillful hand at bridge,
A tennis racquet wield.
And chase the bounding golf ball, too.
Across the dewy field.”
The man who won her Illy hand
Was 'bald and stout and slow:
He couldn't sing or dance or play.
Or fence or ride or row.
He didn’t care a rap for golf.
And never led cotillions:
But he could sign a check, you see,
For half a dozen millions.
C. A. CALDWELL AGAIN
HEADS CHEROKEE CLUB
THE ANNUAL ELECTION OF OFFI
CERS WERE HELD LAST NIGHT.
The annual election of officers of the
Cherokee Club was held last night. Tho
membership of the club was well repre
sented and tho election resulted us fol
lows:
C. A. Caldwell, re-elected president.
E. A. IVaxolbaum. vice-president, suc
ceeding Morris Happ.
Charles E. Campbell, re-elected secre
tary and treasurer.
Guerry Cabaniss. 9. R Jaques, Je^-
Powell. Tate Stetson. R. H. Smith. Custis
Nottingham, tv. H. Jones all compo. o
the new governing board, most of the
members having been re-elected.
The club Is in a most flourishing con
dition, and the members are seemingly
more enthusiastic over its success
r
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In view of tho fact that John Slidell j ever before In Us history.