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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. i indistinct print