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THE TWICE-A-WEEK TELEGRAPH
FRIDAY, APRIL 19, 1807.
THE MACON TELEGRAPH
PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING
AND TWICE A WEEK BY TH
MACON TELEGRAPH PUBLISH
ING COMPANY. 563 MULBERRY
STREET, MACON. GA.
C. R. PENDLETON, President
THE. TELEGRAPH IN ATLANTA.
The Telegraph can be found on sale
at the Kimball Hones and the Pied
mont Hotel in Atlanta.
•THE MILK” IN THE GRAVES
“COCOANUT."
Mr. Graves, the editor of the Atlanta
Georgian, cannot stand criticism. He
fairly boils over at opposition. And It
emphasize* a case of "exaggerated ego'
from which he suffers.
When Mr. Graves made his foolish
yet in a degree successful, play for
notoriety at the Bryan banquet In
Chattanooga, calling personally to the
Nebraskan, who sat near him, to put
Hoosevelt In nomination for a third
term at the next Democratic national
convention. The Telegraph, In common
<vith every other Democratic newspa
oer In the country, ridiculed the sug
gestion. It merited nothing more or
toss than ridicule.
After catching his second breath the
:dltor of the Georgian turns loose at
the editor of The Telegraph. He does
.jot try to convince us that Hoosevelt
is a Democrat rather than an autocrat;
‘.hat a third term is a Democratic pol-
cv to be upheld, or that the uses of an
apposition or minority party havo de
parted from this Republic. He felt
chat The Telegraph understood him
«nd It made him furious. And yet The
Telegraph did not mean to be more
than accurate; it did not mean to be
unkind. But the accuracy of Its fire
hit the spot and the bell rang!
\J’hat did the editor of <tho Georgian
do about ft 7 He made faces at The
Telegraph whllo ho repeated two old
slanders which have signally failed
on several occasions as knock-out
drops for this newspaper.
Three or four times In aa many year
Mr. Graves has charged that—as he
now puts it—"one dark November
evening of 1904 there appeared on the
editorial sheet of The Telegraph, first
column, head of page, the meanest
most malignant-, most unjustifiable and
most untruthful denunciation of William
J. B'ryan that has- appeared In any pa
per, Democratic or Republican, North
or South, white or black, since the Ne
braska. statesman came into the polit
ical world."
Mr. Graves has told this story so
often perhaps he now believes it; and
each time he .tells it his string of ad
jectives grows longer, and his parts of
speech moro daring in its assaults.upon
the citadel of Truth. The time he used
. the story- first (which ho borrowed
from another publication) antedated
any "dark November evening in 1904
by nearly a year. We have met and
discussed this charge more than once
before. It is sufficient now to say that
the editor of The Telegraph never
knowingly did Mr. Bryan an injustice,
although he has opposed and freely
criticised Mr. 'Bryan’s policies from
time to time. It is also pertinent to
say that if all that Air. Graves charges
is true, what bearing does it now have
on tho question of Roosevelt's availa
bility as a third term candidate for
President as a Democrat?
The other attempt to queer The Tel
egraph without meeting its arguments
—the old, revamped charge as to doubt
ful ownership—has been met more than
once. It is a -matter of record who
owns The Telegraph, and if it is any
body s business to see the proofs they
can he seen. T.iere are locked in Air.
Pendleton's private locker in a big
Herring safe In this office 400 shares
of The Telegraph Publishing Com
pany's stock, owned by him. This is
■tot only a majority of the stock, it is
«ll of th« stock.
It is a late day in Georgia to associate
the conduct and spirit of this news
paper with any other than the man
whose name heads this page, and
whose labor and management has
made :t a valuable piece of property,
and a potent factor for stripping shams
and exposing political r.-.juntebanks.
'But as a matter of fact Mr. Graves
does not merit the serious considera
tion we have here accorded him. He
has been in the short span of his ca
reer on all sides of all questions and
has done some artistic straddling. He
can straddle a rainbow, Rn{ slide down
to a pot of gold. He can ride Pegasus
and gallop to both poles on the same
day. He ha* been a Cleveland Demo
crat. a Bryan Democrat, a Hearst Dem
ocrat. a Populist, and now he is a Re
publican—advocating the disbandment
of the Democratic party and the unan
imous renomination of Roosevelt, who
is the very antipodes of the father of
the Democratic party.
On the other hand. The Telegraph
has been always (under its present
management) a consistent advocate of
sane Democracy as illustrated by Jef
ferson. Jackson. Tilden and Cleveland.
It never has gone off after strange
gods, and it never will while its present
guiding hand holds the helm. It never
has been' deceived and misled by the
flutter of political Jaybirds, and ft
never will. While The Telegraph has
never followed Mr. Bryan (exoept afar
off when there was none other to fol-
r) it believes that an opposition par-
1 way* a coverning wheel in the
machinery of a Republican Govern
me.-r. and if there is no one «:.«<■> to lead
an opposition to the next Republican
■ end'date—particularly if it be Roe
veit—The Telrsraph will be glad to
Mr. Bryan lead that opposition.
But we want to see the Democracy
go down—if it must go down—bravely
fighting behind a Southern leader. The
Idea of proposing a cowardly surrender
two years in advance of the battle is
enough to condemn the man making it
to an asylum for the feeble minded.
HISTORY OF PEACE CONGRESSES.
This week’s Peace Congress In New
York is said to be one of thirty-three
congresses of this character held since
1875. That date does not, however,
represent the beginning of peace move
ments. There was a congress in Lon
don in 1843 with delegates from the
United States, and as far back at 1797
John Jay was burned in effigy in Bos
ton because he inserted an arbitration
clause in the treaty he negotiated with
England. Blit The Hague Peace Con
ference w’hich meets next June is the
second assembly of the first large In
ternational movement toward the car
rying out of the Biblical injunction
that the nations should beat their
swords into ploughshares.
Innumerable facts of history attest
the desirability of the establishment
of the principle of international arbi
tration. To go back no further than
1898, it is known that the Spanish
American war might have been averted
but for the popular excitement caused
by the blowing up of the Alaine. After
that war Gem. Woodford stated -that
he was making good progress In his
negotiation* at Madrid with a view to
getting Spain out of Cuba by peaceable
means, and that he would have suc
ceeded but for the deplorable accident
in Havana harbor. If the United States
and Spain had been willing for the
questions at issue to be placed before
an International board of arbitration,
no doubt a peaceful solution -could have
been reached.
But the United -States would not
havo been willing even if Spain had
been. The powerful nations have never
been, and probably never will be. wil
ling to submit serious disputes to an
international court. They always -take
the ground that questions involving
national honor cannot be submitted to
outsiders. The trouble about this is
that the national honor is regarded as
involved in many more matters than
the righteous resistance of manifest
aggres.-ion. Whatever a nation wants
very much, even though it be an ample
slica of a weaker nation’s territory, its
"honor" always demands that it shall
be secured. 'J'hat is why In the House
of Commons j» 1873. Mr. Gladstone, a
shrewd observer of human affairs, op
posed internat'onnl arbitration as a
veritable chimera. ,
Nevertheless International peace so
cieties and attempted international ar
bitration are desirable and are worth
all the money spent on them. They
can never prevent powerful nations
from going to war over questions that
are at all serious, but they may be
come a useful restraining force when
the disputes are relatively trifling, and
they may persuade the weaker nations
to take time for reflection and induce
them to adjust their differences with
out recourse to war.
I * I
that degrade than ever before in the
history of the Government. Just be- 1
cause iniquities are held up Cor the i
condemnation of a healthy public opin
ion. we must not think that all ie bad.
Our statesmen are of as high a type
as In the days of Webster and Cal
houn.”
The results of Mr. McMaster 1 * expe
rience and observation will commend
itself -to the reason ot most as truly
stated, and we learn from It that while
we have our dissensions and conten
tions, as our predecessors did before
tt*. it all tends in the end to progress
and improvement. The sum total of It
Is a big balance to the optimistic side
of the ledger.
SOUTHERN NEGRO NOT “IN IT.”
President Roosevelt is keenly alive
to the force of the negro balance of
power, on the one hand, and of the
drawback of the negro prejudice on the
other, in Ohio, as shown by his "back
down” from appointing the OMo negro
Tyler to an Ohio office, when he met
with white opposition to that proposi
tion in Ohio, and In his giving Tyler
position in Washington instead. But
he appears to be short-sighted in bis
failure to appoint any negro from the
South to an office In any of the de
partments in Washington, if the bill
of grievances said to have been draw-
up against him by Georgia negroes is
correct. It is true that the Southern- ne
groes do not figure to any appreciable
extent at the ballot box, but they count
as big as anybody In the Republican
national conventions, and there
where Roosevelt primarily needs votes,
whether for himself or for Taft, as the
event may show. Referring to an al
leged Republican anti-Roosevelt move
ment among the negroes in Georgia the
New York Evening Post says;
It is over a patronage grievance
that the anti-Roosevelt Geqrgians
—assumed to bo minions of Foraker
—are going out with their four and
twenty men and five and thirty
pipers -to capture the next conven
tion delegation. It is an impres
sive hill of grievances which these
Republicans, not only in Goorgia,
•but the other Southern States, can
draw up. They submit that "not
only are -the Southern States with
out a Cabinet officer, . . . but
there is not a Southerner, white or
black, who holds office by choice
of President Roosevelt in any of
the departments in Washington.”
The President, like other philan
thropists of -this class, loves the negro
at a distance. He is not averse to ap
pointing negroes to office in the South
ern States, but he finds it a ‘‘devilish’
ticklish thing to do where a Northern
Republican State is concerned, and he
recently determined in -the last resort
to -place one of them near himself in
Washington rather khan offend the
delicate senses of -the Ohio people by
billeting an Ohio negro on -themselves.
But to open the departments at Wash
ington to the Southern negro would be
equal to turning on the deluge, and Air.
Roosevelt draws the line at this.
CHILDREN AND TREE8.
Let us hope that this passage !n the
President's special message to the
school children of the United States
on the subject of Arbor Day will linger
long in their memories and influence
the acts and votes of those of them
umphed, there ts something more than
a possibility, perhaps a probability,
that the eleven States would have
eventually fallen apart Into eleven
little republics. The Southern Con
federacy fought for State sovereignty,
and one of the diseases of which that
who will have to do with public affairs luckless Government died
A few years hence:
It Is well that you should cele
brate your Arbor Day thought
fully. for within your lifetime the
nation's need of trees win become
serious. We of an older genera
tion can get along with what we
■ have, though with growing hard
ships, but in your full manhood
and womanhood you will want
what nature once so bountifully
supplied and man so thoughtlessly-
destroyed, and because of that
want you will reproach us not far
what we have used, but for what
we have wasted.
this
State sovereignty itself, or the tend
ency to assert the right of the separate
I States to do as they pleased, to ignore
| the decisions of the weak general Gov
ernment at Richmond, even in the face
[ of a common enemy and in the midst
of the perils of war.
The people of the Southern Confed
eracy, like the members of the Demo
cratic party in all periods of American
history, were too deeply concerned
the Wing
CHANGE FOR THE BETTER.
The changes in one's country, like
those in one's physique, from day -to
day, are usually so gradual as to be
imperceptible to the citizen. It is a
tribute to the rapid progress and
growth of a country when vast changes
can be noted and pointed out as having
occurred in the span of a lifetime.” On
a visit to Washington the other day
to dine with his fellow historian. Am
bassador Bryce, Professor John Bach
McMaster, author of a "History of the
People of the United States," was in
terviewed by the Washington Post.
Professor McAiaster “has the reputa
tion of knowing more about the life of
the people of the country, from the
foundation of the Government until the
outbreak of the Civil War, than any
other living man, and is even more fa
miliar with the life of his own time."
What he says, therefore, of the changes
which have taken place in the country
as quoted below will be found doubly
Interesting and valuable.
"The United States has so changed
materially, intellectually, and in the
customs of its people that It seems an
entirely different nation than in the
days previous to the Civil War," he
said. "The greatest change materially
has beer, the vast industrial develop
ment—a change which .oas brought
people closer together. Newspapers
particularly have brought about an ed
ucated public opinion which is of an
incomparably higher standard than
that of fifty years ago. The country
is broader and more tolerant. Where
men formerly resorted to rioting or
fighting cr calling names to emphasize
their opinion, they now resort to fact
and argument alone. With our devel
opment has come a demand for effi
cacy that will not tolerate intemper
ance. Where one saw many drunken
men thirty, forty or fifty years ago. he
now sees but few, tor they are not tol
erated in business or anywhere else
where competency is required.
"In the last half century we have not
departed from old standards of life and
ideals except to go forward. We are
more wholesome than we were at the
beginning of that period. Though our
amusements are not restricted to the
narrow life entirely within the family,
our home life I* of as high a standard
as It ever was. Public morality is bet
ter, for there is less graft in the public
servica and lees tolerance for the things
A j-oung Virginian. Lieut. E. R. War
ner McCabe, of the Sixth Cavalry, has
been selected to test, in a ride of over
,000 miles, the endurance of an Ara
bian breed of -horses recently intro
duced into the United States. Lieut
AIcCabe is described by Maj.-Gen. <Bell,
who selected him, as an "athlete and
gymnast with muscles of steel” and as
possessing all -the necessary qualifica
tions "in a higher degree than any
other" cavalry officer. If young Me
Cabe had lived three -thousand years
ago who knows but that he would have
been able to make the most .distin
guished winners in the Olympian
games sit up straight and take notice.
about State rights, self-government.
An awakening to the need of forest I home rulr, individual treedom (except
preservation is more important now for the negro slave, of eourse), to per-
because it can be of more lasting ben- m lt more than a very few of them to _
eflt than later en, and the President Is I give the monarchical suggestion a mo- I nlw* a ' r ' i. therefore, “Action-
doubt addressing the parents | ment's consideration. | oratory, an^the''Demosthenlan defin!-
■H-I l 1 l I-l"l-I"I-l"l"l"l'-l"H~i-I-I i ‘i"l' l H-k i while I still regard it highly as a
+ great thing, yet to my mind rhere Is a
ITo | T thing still higher, and that is brotherly
k—1. W-l1 1 V- vJI 1 J love. This world would he a cold place ,
I indeed with justice alone. A
' "Brotherly love goes farther. It fills ?
I this old earth with warmth and makes
• life worth living. It's like mercy which
T-H-l 111 1 M-h-h, | i | H-i-H-H-fr* | tw!ce blesses 5 lls _ it glves us ho pe.
By JOHN T. BOIFEUILLET. | strength and encouragement,”
John Temple Graves* suggestion - An editorial in The Telegraph on
that Bryan nominate Roosevelt for the ' Wednesday stated that "Alabama ha*
next Presidency has brought the At- ! A'’ 0 former Governors still living." In
lanta editor once again before the I little over two months Georgia will
American footlights. What Is the se- have the same number. This State
cret of Mr. Graves’ attraction as an no ' v bas f° ur ex-Governors still Hv-
orator? What makes him one of the I ,n S'- They are Rufus B. Bullock Hen-
most popular platform talkers In the
Lnited States? Why is he in such
universal demand as a public speaker?
We are told that when Demosthenes
was asked what was the first part of
oratory, he answered. "Action;" and
which was the second, he replied. “Ac-
tlon; and which was the third, he
still answered. "Action." We all know
tnat Air. Graves exercises but little
‘Action" Jn his speaking. He seldom
makes a gesture. He rarely changes
posture. He never saws the wind or
through the children in the following:
“A people without children would face I
a hopeless future; a country without |
trees is almost as hopeless: forests
which are so used that they cannot re
new themselves will soon vanish and
with them all their benefits. A true
forest is not merely a storehouse full
of wood, but, a* it were, a factory of |
wood, and at the same time a reser
voir of water. When you help to pre
serve our forests or plant our new ones I
you are performing the part of good
citizens. If your Arbor Day exercises [
help you to realize what benefits each
of you receives from the forests, and I
how by your assistance these benefits |
may continue, they will deserve a good j
end.”
j M 011 not applicable to Graves. His
WA$ THERE A HAYES-HAMPTON vo1c « is well modulated, he employs no
roaring chest tones or swelling infleo
“DEAL?”
After a campaign of much ex
citement and unusual bitterness
Gen. Hampton was elected, and
there followed a period of dual
Government at the State Capital,
Hampton representing the white
people of -South Carolina and
Chamberlain standing for the Re
construction forces. In the spring
of the following year, as every stu
dent of history will recall, the ne
cessities of the Government at
Washington were so great that the
Federal support of the Reconstruc
tion administration represented by
Chamberlain was withdrawn and
Hampton, being the acknowledged
representative of the people of the
State, was permitted to take peace
ful possession of the office to which
he had been elected.
tions. So he does not come within
the criticism of Cicero, who said:
“Loud-bawling orators are driving by
their weakness to noise, as lame men
to take horse.” Plutarch tells us that
Aristotle was called "a river of flow
ing gold. Now we have the expla
nation of Graves' popularity as au
orator—the charm of his oratorv. His
speech Is "a river of flowing gold"—
his eloquence “an argosy of pearls
Whenever I hear Graves I think of
what Themistocles said: “A man's
discourse is like to a rich Persian car
pet, the beautiful figures and' patterns
of which can be shown v only by-
spreading and extending it out: ’when
it is contracted and folded up, they
are obscured and lost.”
I am In receipt of a letter contain
ing this inquiry: “Who are the five
most popular platform speakers in
The above is extracted from an edi- Georgia today? That is to say. which
AN OLD FABLE IN A NEW FORM. I torlal of the Charleston News and XtETt&'bS" “'STfelntoSS
A cable dispatch from Berlin, noting -Courier on the death of Daniel H. atter a hurried survey of the field, t
the death of Col. Heros von Borke, Chamberlain, a former Reconstruc- (Templ^ cVaves^Sam'^Smal^^Jud’c
one of the few Germans who served tion Governor of South Carolina, I Emory Speer, Thomas E. Watson and
in the Confederate army," quotes a marked with singular charitableness Seabo ^ n Wright. Graves, the dream-
Berlin weekly as saying that if the and devoid of one unkind word. De- morist; 'speer,*^“royal^purple 6 elo"
South had been successful Prince Fred- spite the fact that the News and quence;" Watson, bold and fiery;
erick Charles von Hohenzollern "would Courier prefaces the last sentence 2281* vourth
have been invited to be king of the quoted with the words “as every stu- I diction. Small entertains you with a
Southern monarchy." The dispatch | dent of history will recall" the sentence I * east of wlt an . rl originality. Speer
adds:- 'Gens. Stuart and Lee are said will, we are sure, prove enigmatical to an^elegant* eJWssloM^’WauSnTthe
to have favored the Prince, and - the the vast majority of readers, if not to a fi Plrit of battle ever on his Ups. fires
Prince himself knew' of the plan. I great majority of the fairly informed I Lminons^ mind fU w5S? n V2SEL| , if
Prince Frederick Charles was a friend students of history. It Is true that the you with fervid periods" and the. musi-
of -Stuart, and had a picture of the man whose memory runs back to the caI cadence of his marvelous voice. It
Southern general above his writing troublous times of 1876-77, not only in mosf ^p^^tLorm^ora'to" 6 h2™
South Carolina but in the nation as I been more or less independent in poli-
The belief that the Southern people we H, will recall that there were unau- ' ticS '
wanted to establish a monarchy is one thorized rumors and reports of a “deal” I And speaking of these five Georgia
of the (nost absurd of the many sec- between the Democrats of South Caro- orators - 1 m reminded that Harvard
tional misunderstandings, and one of Hna and Hayes and his Republican ^"^seven^g^eat 6 ‘"of" the
the longest to weaken and die aw/, friends and managers whereby the Re- I world. Here is an extract from the
Probably Andrew Johnson wms very publican electors were given certlfl- S® v ’ Henry N. Hudson’s discourse de-
largoly responsible for putting the no- | cates without a fight, in exchange for of the birth of Daniel Webster: "Sagu
tion into the heads of Northerners and I the recognition of the Hampton Gov- I and venerable Harvard, on mature
Europeans, to Johnson’s speech In ernment by the Federal Admlnistra- £° naiderat * on no doabt - bns spoken
“ I ernweui uy me reuerai Aammistra- l Webster for one of the seven great
the Senate of the United State-s, De- tion. The Telegraph is not informed orators of the world. At the theater
cember 18-19, 1860, he warned the on the point if the truth of these alle- ?? d ? f her Memorial Hall, which has
country that monarchy was the secret | nations has been definitely settled by inVmany gable™ 'oraches
purpose of the secessionists. j and recorded in historv. The -News I above the cornice, the seven heads, of
and recorded in history
and-Courier is an unexet
of a very attenuated character. He I thority on the subject. It led in the j the Greek: second, also of course.
The proofs he offered, however, were | and Gourier Is an unexceptionable an- | c?^e. Kemosthlurt
aguely alluded to "various speakers" advocacy of -Chamberlain for Governor £‘ cero the Roman: thlrd - Saint John
ithout giving their names or quoting , as the best hope of the white people of about th^mkTdl^'of^the^o'urth cen-
their particular utterances, and then the State In the early part of 1876. tur y: fourth, Jaques Benigne Bossuet.
cited the expressions of but two South- | Later it supported Hampton, when a < the groat French divlne and author '
ern newspapers, both published
The words of Washington qua-ted by
a speaker In the Peace Congress at
New York. "To be prepared for war is
one of the most effectual means of pre
serving peace,” were hissed by some
or the peace delegates, but they will
doubtless continue to be of -the highest
practical force in this connection.
Now that the trial has ended—for
the present—Mr. Jerome extends his
distinguished consideration to Air. Del-
mas as a great lawyer. Air. Delmas
will doubtless cordially reciprocate the
sentiment. They were both such "easy
marks’’ for each other.
Monarchy,” in part as follows:
in straightout Democratic ticket was j teenth; fifth, William Pitt, the elder
Georgia, the Columbus Times and the agreed on. and it was then and always EarI of Chatham, an Englishman:
Augusta Chronicle and Sentinel. He loyal to the Carolina chieftain. Its p'^ly^Sr^teal' geldua 'of^hem
read from a communication in the Co- friendship for Chamberlain went hand | a, l though not the greatest orator;
lumbus^paper, ^signed ^Constitutional | in hand with its loyalty to Hampton ?Sc can'
without Interfering with either. The not say, except in the case of Web-
News and Courier was in an excellent I s * er: here the likeness la true; and to
. . , , , I my sense. Webster’s head is the finest
position to be Informed sufficiently for 0 f the seven, unless that of Bossuet
the purposes of history. Does it mean | h® set down as its peer.” The
to say that the uncor.tested award of
the electoral vote of South Carolina to
Hayes, who needed toe vote of every
Southern State he could by hook or
D. AleDaniel. William J. Nortben
and Allen D. Candler. Before the first
day of next July Joseph M. Terrell
will be added to’ the list, and then
Georgia, like Alabama, will have a
quintette of former Governors alive
and in the flesh. Of these five Bul
lock is the sole Republican. He is the
liivng relic of the days of reconstrui--
toin. It is interesting to note (hat
AleDaniel, Northen, Candler and Ter
rell are Baptists. The first three
named are graduates of Arercer Uni
versity. In IS5t> McDaniel graduated
with the highest honors of his class.
Northen graduated in 18,1.3 and Can
dler graduated in 1S59. Candler Is the
oldest, having been born In November,
1834. Northen was horn in July. 1835,
and AleDaniel In September, 1837. Mc
Daniel was first elected Governor in
1883. Northen in 1S90, and Candler in
1898. AleDaniel was, what might real
ly be termed, a “dark horse.” On the
death of Alexander H. Stephens, in
Alarch. 1SS3. James L. Boynton, presi
dent of the Senate, became Acting
Governor, and was a candidate, along
with A. O. Bacon and others, for Gov.
Stephens’ unoxplred term. On the
hustings the fight was between Bacon
and Boynton. Bacon lending. In tho
State convention Bacon came within
one vote of a nomination—so near, and
yet so far. McDaniel had only a hand
ful of votes—not enough to be con
sidered in the running. Yet ho waft
selected as the one of the various can
didates to break the deadlock, and
was nominated. Ho filled out Steph
ens' unexpired term from May 10.
1883, to November. 1884, and then was
elected for a full term of two years,
ending November. 1SSG. McDaniel
gave a splendid business administra
tion. He still resides at the home of
bis birth, Monroe, Walton County,
Georgia, whop* ho is engaged in tho
practice of law. He Is president of
the board of trustees of the University
of Georgia, trustee of the Southern
Baptist Theological Seminary and
has been a trustee of Mercer Univer
sity. He was a member of the Geor
gia secession convention, captain and
major In the Confederate army, and .i
former member of both branches of
the Legislature. Contrary to the gen
eral experience of ex-Governors ot
Georgia, Air. AleDaniel possesses con
siderable wealth. Ho is no longer ac
tive In politics, but takes great inter
est in educational affairs, and is a
factor In business matters. W, J.
Northen was Governor front Novem
ber, 1890. to November, 1S04. Allen
D. Candler’s administration extended
from November 189S, to November,
1902. Candler is in tho seventy-third
year of his age, Northen tit his seven
ty-second. and AleDaniel in his seven
tieth. They are patriots and pa
triarchs, I do not know • the age of
Bullock, but ho must be hovering close
to the eighties. He came to Georgia,
just before the Civil War. and was the
head o? the express company in this
State, and president of the Macon and
Augusta Railroad. He was Governor
from July. 1868. to October ?P, JWl,
when he resigned his office, and fled
the State.
While walking with a prominent
member of the Royal Arcanum yester
day I was in -the act of allowing a post
•to come between us. when he seized me
by the arm and said: "Walk around
that post; don't you know it Is ha 1
luck to let a post come between you
and another person?” This causer; me
to remark there la no accounting frr
superstitution and antipathies, and I
| contemporary with Louis the Four- am reminded that many great men
! roontVi* fiffVi 11/ 1114aty* "D?4La
“This is where I leave you,” said
Chief Engineer Stevens to Speaker
Cannon’s Congressional party when
they arrived at Culebra “Cut,” and the
Speaker and -the other junketing Con
gressmen persist in regarding It as the
"most unkindest cut of all."
Thomas Jefferson had an aversion to
public speaking. "I cannot think when
upon my legs," he said. There are
some public speakers who cannot think
when upon -their legs, but it does not
prevent -them from talking, more’s the
pity.
"The Federal Government is a
failure. No more experiments.
. . I am one of a few who ever
dared to think that Republicanism
was a failure from its inception,
and I have never shrunk from giv
ing my opinion When it was worth
while. I have never wished to see
this Union disrupted: but if it
must be, then I raise my voice for
a return to a constitutional mon
archy."
The article in the Augusta paper, as
read by Johnson, stated that "some of
the wisest and best citizens propose a
hereditary constitutional monarchy,"
but doubted if the people were pre
pared for such a change. It further
stated that there were others who de
sired to see the new Confederacy pro
vided with "additional safeguards.”
such as "an executive for life, a vastly
restricted suffrage. Senators elected for
life or a long period, the most popular
branch of the assembly elected for
seven years, the judiciary absolutely
independent, and for life, or good be
havior." The article concluded by ex
pressing “our fears that through an
archy we shall reach the despotism of
military chieftains arid finally be raised
again to monarchy.”
Such was the only and the flimsy
basis upon which Andrew Johnson
based his charge. The story went
abroad among the people and con
nected romances without any historical
foundation are told to this day, as the
cable dispatch from Berlin shows.
Alexander H. Stephens consented to
go to Alontgomery on condition that
[ following are the subjects of speeches
which are pointed to as among the
best orations by these famous orators:
"Fortune of Aeschines" Demosthenes:
"Panegyric on Julius Caesar,” Cicero:
"Divine Providence in Nature,” Saint
crook capture, was the price that South | John Chrysotom: “Eulogium upon St.
Paul.” Jaques Benigne Bossuet:
Carolina paid for the preservation of
her civilization when it trembled in
the balance? Looked at from any point
of view, the subject is a painful one:
but a generation has passed; the truth
of history should prevail, and the world
is entitled to every fact and clrcum
stance that contributed to the rape of
the Presidency in 1877.
"Against the Stamp Act.” William
Pitt; "Impeachment of Hastings Fin
ished," Edmund Burke; "Supposed
Speech of John Adams,” Daniel Web
ster.
Williaim J. Oliver declines to discuss the Confederate Constitution should h
the merits of his bid for the Panama | based on the Constitution of the United
canal contract with ex-Chief Engineer
Stevens, whom he contemptuously re
fers to as "a quitter, a welsher and a
dead one.”
General disarmament of the nations
may not be practicable but disarma
ment of the hip-pocket pistol toters in
this country is, and would save more
lives in proportion than the other prop
osition.
"Women are learning every day new
methods of expressing themselves,"
says a woman orator. The Information
may have been required for the un
married ones among her male auditors.
J. P. Morgan says in explanation of
the recent flurry on the New York
stock market that it is only the coun
try's -growing pains." But the country
did not fael them to any great extent.
States, and the one was made almost a
copy of the other with only a few mod
ifications of any importance. The
Presidential period of office was made
six years and the incumbent was for
bidden a second term, this provision
alone furnishing a most positive refu
tation of the charge. The question of
monarchy was not even mentioned at
Alontgomery, if we are to judge from
the accounts of Stephens and Dr. J. L.
Af. Curry, who were present during
all the deliberations. But, as is so
often the case, the facts could not over
take and suppress the fiction, because
the Republican North and monarchical
Europe had different motives for de
siring to believe the same fiction.
There was never the slightest possi- j
biltty of the establishment of a mon
archy by Southern men on Southern
soil, but If the Confederacy had tri-
GUARD MOUNT.
John Finley in the April Century.
The night has come, and forth I fare
To post the sentries of my prayer.
Their silent watch to keep where'er
My waking thoughts would be.
Two more shall stand beside their door
Who gave me birth, and two before
Her hut who lights an alien shore
With her love's ministry;
And two shall nightly vigil keep.
To bring us word who nightly weep.
If they do wake from their long sleep
Beneath the linden tree:
To every door two more shall go
Where trouble threats, or lurking foe
-Waits but the deepening dark to throw
His dart of misery;
And one In silent round I send
From prayer to prayer, his nlrl to lend
If there be special need to fend
Against the enemy.
Forth to your posts, my sentinels,
Till matin praver’s reveille bells
Give you relief, and daylight tells
Where evil shadows flee.
A prominent gentleman said yes
terday he was quite sure that Hon.
George W. Williams will introduce the
disfranchisement bill ;tt the coming ses
sion of the Leg’'slature. Mr. Williams
has always been a strong advocate of
this measure, and he has the ability
and zeal necessary for the effective
championing of a question of such
Importance. Air. Williams is one of
the most efficient and faithful repre
sentatives Laurens County has ever
had. He will make the argument of
his life in the advocacy of the disfran
chisement bill. There is some fine gen
eralship under way on this subject.
Shall Professors Teach or Write?
In Oxford and Cambridge not much
teaching Is required of professors. These
have grown famous, or at least notroious.
In their several subjects, and it Is ex
pected of them, after their seriouH and
hard experiences as tutors and lectur
ers. that they shall especially add to the
glory and distinction of their universities
by writing books and by otherwise il
luminating the intellectual world. When
Dr. Van Dyke first went to Princeton,
eight years ago, he had leisure enough
for his literary work, and It is with that
work that he is especially enamored.
But has he sufficient leisure now? His
recently proffered resignation, which hap
pily he has promised to reconsider, would
seem to indicate the contrary. The new
system established by Woodrow Wilson
remarks Harper’s Weekly, keeps the pro
fessors. as well as the young preceptors
on tap pretty nearly all the time. It is
a great promoter of education, but rough
on writers.
BARACA AND PHILATHEA
UNIONS MEET IN ATLANTA
ATLANTA, April 17.—With over
200 delegates from all parts of the United
States present, the National Raraca and
Phllathea Unions’ conventions opened
with a Joint session here last night.
AI. A. Hudson, of Syracuse, x. Y
president and founder of the National
Baraca Union, responded *o the welcom
ing address. Among the other speakers
was Rev. C. A. Fulton. D. D.. of Svracuse
N- Y.. who spoke on "Young Men 'at
Work.”
Apropos of tho annual meeting in
this city today of the Grand Council
of the Royal Arcanum of Georgia, it
may be stated that the membership of
this fraternal order in the United States
and Canada is 242.000. There are over
4.000 members in Georgia and 71 coun
cils. The Supreme Council was or
ganized at Boston June 23, 1877. and
incorporated under the laws of Alassa-
chusetts. A large sum has been paid
in benefits. The resources are close
on to $5,000,000. Hon. L. H. Chappell,
of Columbus, is grand regent. He has
been Alayor of his city several terms,
and Is one of the best known men In
Georgia. In the State organization are
many of the leading citizens of this
commonwealth, and a large number of
them will be In 'Macon today. Howard
C. Wiggins, of New York, is Supreme
Regent. The order has been in ex
istence thirty years.
It might 'be of interest to Royal Ar- I
canlans to read the following words
of William J. Bryan on Fraternallsm,
spoken in an adress at a recent meet
ing of Elks:
"B'efore becoming a .member of fra
ternal organizations I was rather prej
udiced aginst them, but I now believe
they are doing a great work in the
world. It is a great thing that a man
should lift himself out of himself and
spread his Interest. A lodge enlarges
a man’s interest and from there he is
apt to take up freely with others out
side of it. In short, it teaches him
the meaning of the word ’others.’
"I have found this word ’others’ of
ten marks the line between selfishness
and altruism, and when we have the I
lesson contained in this we have learn
ed much. In the fraternal organiza
tion* the matter of the heart is predom
inant and takes precedence over al!
else. There is no mental examination
nor any discussion over pedigree. It is
the man we want, his heart, not his
poekefbook.
“Here we teach Justice, charity and
brotherly love. I used to think of aim-
had whims. -Here are a few of the
numerous cases which I have seen men
tioned in print: The brilliant Byron
would neither help any one to salt at
table, nor be‘helped himself. To over
turn the salt cellar, or to let the bread
fall, was a -most alarming occurrence:
and to break a mirror was a horrible
event. He believed in dreams and
omens, and Friday was always a black
day in his calendar. Dr. Johnson would
never enter any door or passage with
his left foot first. When he found him
self entering with the wrong foot, he
retraced his steps and made a start
forward agai'n, so he could witor with
the right foot. Montaigne was alarmed
at a hare crossing his path. He wou'd
not be one at a table of thirteen. The
Marquis d’Argeus, the chamberlain of
Frederick the Great, when be found
thirteen at table, immediately rose and
escaped. Hobbes did not flare to sleep
at night without a candle burn'ng at
his bed ide. He did not believe in
God, but he had a dreadful horror of
the devil. Voltaire was thrown Into
fear on hearing rooks crowing on his
left, when in the country, yet be was
a mocker of the beliefs and supersti
tions of men. Peter the Great durst
not cross a bridge; it was with the
utmost difficulty he c'uld forbear from
'bricking. Uladlsias. King of Poland,
could not bear the sight of an apple.
Tho legs of Tycho Brahe shook under
him at the sight of a hare or a fox.
Marshal Saxe, who met and overthrew,
armies, fled at s'ght of a cat. Some
pe'ple have a remarkable antipathy for
cats, and know the instant that one
has entered a room. I have heard that
a prominent man of this city challeng
ed another because be threw a cat
at him. and a duel followed. A spider
hanging from a tree made Marshal
Turenne shudder. The Marshal D’Al-
hret became sick on seeing a boar’?
he.ad; and the Due d’Epernon at sight
of a leveret. The smell of fish threw
Erasmus into a state of fever. AI. de la
Rc-chejaquelln, who led the roynTst
armies during the war in Vende, trem
bled at the sight of a squirrel. Louis
XIV. of France, was thrown into fits
by certain odors. Jasmine was the
only kind he could tolerate. Though
surncmed the Great he had an appal
ling fright on hearing Massilkm preach
his sermon ?n the small number of
the Elect. The word “death” was full
of horrtrs to Queen EVzabeth. nor
could Talleyrand hear tho same word
pronounord without changing color.
Caetar was almost thrown into convul
sions by thunder, and Thomas .Aquinas
also suffered greatly in thunder storms.
Cardinal Richelieu often imagined him
self to be a horse, and would then leap
about the room, neighing and kicking.
Thousands of person.-- arc subjee; to th<.
pett'est foibles and the weakest preju
dices.
In the selection of Tammany Hall
sachems in New York ibis week for the
ensuing year a sachem for Georgia was
chosen, as usual. This may sound a
little singular to the uninformed. The
explanation Is this: When the Society
of Tammany, or Columbian Order, was
incorporated in 1803. the grand sachem
and thirteen sachems were designed
to typify the President of the United
States, and the Governors of the
thirteen original States. The number
of the sachems has never been Increas
ed. The thirteen sachems who were
chosen last Alonday nitrht will se’ecr
»he grand sachem next month. T.he
present grand sachem Is William
Bourke Cochran. The sachem who
was selected to represent Georgia
John Fox. A record shows that the
Society of Tammany was formed in
1789. being the effect of
. , - popular
pie Justice as being above all eise, and | movement in New York, having p r j.
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