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TUESDAY, JUNE 11, 1907*
THE TWICE-A-WEEK. TELEGRAPH "
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WILLIAM H. TAFT
By SAVOYARD.
Tne first time I set foot In this town
I found the two great parties Intent
on pollticR and President-making. That
was in 'February, 1880. Roscoe Conk-
llng, a5slated by Don Cameron, Matt
Carpenter and John A. Logan, had
charge of the Grant boom. Mr. Blaine
In person led the Blaine forces. John
Sherman, then Secretary of the Treas
ury. conducted his own campaign. A
select few were for Senator Edmunds,
who was not a candidate. There were
numerous dark horses — Windom,
Washburn and Garfield among them.
In the other camp the old Demo
cratic party went blundering along.
Every Republican In the Union In
stinctively felt that Samuel J. Tilden
as the opposing candidate would be
invincible, and the one Democrat who
oould be elected. Sam Randall was
about the only prominent man at the
National Capital who saw what was
up clear as noonday, and that made
him a Tilden man. All the others said
that four years after the Republicans
stole the Presidency the Democrats
could elect a yaller dog, blind to the
Inexorable logic that 4f you presented
the Issue you must accept the man
who was representative of the Issue.
That logic was vindicated In 1892.
Proctor Knott, chairman of the
House Judiciary Committee, himself
a profound lawyer, able statesman and
delightful man, sought to secure the
nomination of Mr. Justice Field, of
the Supreme bbench. for some opinion
or other he had rendered In a litigation
growing out of the reconstruction in
famy. •'Johngee" Thompson was push
ing "the old 'Roman,” then and for a
dozen years the greatest Senator In
Congress. Voorhees and the Indiana
squad were for Hendricks. Hancock's
strength was spread over a large sec
tion North and South, due to his fam
ous "order No. 40," a magnificent State
■paper, worthy of Thomas Jefferson
himself. Old Dave Davis had his rod
up hoping to catch the Democratic
lightning, as though he had not al
ready cost the Democratic party a
President by resigning from the bench
to go into the Senate. About the time
,"the roses came again” that spring.
f there was a Seymour boom that would
■ have swept the convention off its feet
had the thing been pulled off a month
earlier than It was.
Grant had the nomination nailed
down If the unit rule had held, but
Robertson, Belden, "Old Salt." and
Mine others, led a revolt in New York;
Washington deserted Logan In Illinois;
Cameron confronted a rebellion in
Pennsylvania, and thus the Grant
crowd was reduced to 306. In Livy
wher«- he attended the public school
In his early youth and mingled with
the boys and girls of that community,
ar.d thus he early contracted that
Democratic deportment that makes
him so immensely popular with all
sorts of people. At 17 he entered Yale
College and there he was a marked
man—conspicuous for his grand pres
ence, manly character, splendid intel
lect and sturdy manhood. He was
graduated In the class of 1878 and re
turned to Cincinnati to enter its fam
ous'law school. After his admission
to the bar he edited a newspaper, and
later was made assistant prosecuting
attorney. President Arthur appointed
him collector of internal revenue for
the First Ohio district, one of the
heaviest tax paying divisions of the
whole country. He resigned a year
later to enter upon the general prac
tice of his profession. Soon there
after he was appointed to the State
judicial (bench by Governor FV) raker,
and in 1890 President Harrison made
him solicitor-general of the United
States. In 1892 he was appointed to
the circuit bench of the United States.
He was then dean of the law depart
ment of the University of Cincinnati.
Our fathers made one mistake in the
Federal Constitution by neglecting to
provide that a man to *e President
should first have practiced law at the
bar, or dlspemed justice from the
bench, fior the period of at least ten
years before he was 35 years old. What
a power for good that would have
added to the qualifications of the man
who is now President!
in a fight as it ever was, and after
you will read of the exploits of another poor old Spain was licked and the
When the McKinley-Hanna regime
came in, the first thing they did was to
make a medieval tariff chock full of
privileges. There had just been com
pleted a liquidation that was univer
sal, and the American people went to
work with an energy never before
heard of anywhere. Within the last
ten years more gold has -been mined
than was produced in any two or three
centuries theretofore, and thus the
prosperity tarried under the Dingley
law as it would have done under any
tariff ever made, or as it would have
done Had we had no tariff at all.
The Cubans were In revolt, and cer
tain yellow statesmen and yellow jour
nalists determined to make this coun
try enter upon an Inglorious war with
poor old bed-ridden and decrepit Spain.
If Tom Reed had been President, there
would have 'been no war. We would
•have bought Cuban independence and
It would have cost about one-tenth
what the war cost. Dewey and Schley
showed to the nations that the Ameri
can navy was just as ugly a customer
306—an army of that number, every
member of the name of Fablus. and
nil of the family of Fabil. In battle
all were slain save one cadet, scarce
past his third lustrum, and he was an
ancestor of Fablus Maximus, who
saved Rome from the conquering arms
Of Hannibal. It Is a striking coinci
dence—806. representing tho pagan
commonwealth of old Rome and the
Christian republic of new America.
And now, more than a quarter of a
century later. Washington Is again
engaged in tho delightful work of per
sonal political speculation. Will the
next President bo Taft, or Hughes, or
Spooner, or Knox, or Fairbanks, or
Cannon, or Cummins, or Shaw, or
FVi raker, or La Follette, or Cor-
telyoui* Will Theodoro Roosevelt
get nnother torm? Timo alone
will tell. A bad crop season would
Ihrow tho thing Into an awful muddle.
A buslncK* depression would make tho
Republican nomination a thing of
much smaller value.
On tho Democratic side of the hedge
tihero Is a dictatorship. William J.
Bryan Is every man himself. He will
take tho nomination If he shall think
there Is a fair chance of election, and
he will sond another to the slaughter
If ho shall conclude that It Is a helpless
case. He will have a year to make
up his mind on that question, and that
is ample time for a resourceful poli
tician to try a dozen or more other
tads on the dog. So It Is not necessary
to say anything of and concerning the
Democratic situation until Mr. Bryan
gets ready to tell what his wishes 'aro
In the premises.
With Roosevelt out of the calcula
tion, Taft is tho leading man for the
Republican nomination, whether there
shall be a flro in his rear in Ohio or
not, Thov say tho colored troops In
that State aro opposed to Mm. The
r sessional negroes arc against him.
That is evident; but on the day of
election Taft or Roosevelt or anybody
el.*-’ bearing tho standard of the G.
O, R. will poll more than 90 per cent
of Ihe negro vote of Ohio and of every
r- ia r ctntc. T■ o professiona’ negroes
who are rcsolutiny against Taft win
ewe.l nts ranks with two white voters
where they tako from him one colored
voter. White human nature In Ohio
js exactly what white human nature Is
Democratic side of the Senate was ca
joled into furnishing enough votes to
the Republicans to acquire the Philip
pine archipelago, Mr. McKinley sought
some leading Republicans to-make sa
trap of the Philippine Islands.
new stunts, the sword will play the
. leading role in this drama. That Ja
in Mississippi and intends to run the pan xyill insist on getting on the stage
His choice fell on William H. Taft
and perhaps it was the most fortunate
that could have been made. Taft went
over there, and his view of the people
we had bought .was the view of a
Burke, and not of a Hastings. He in-
terpreteed his mission ,to be a work of
planting American civilization on the
other side of tho world' rather than
exploiting their sugar, hemp, timber,
and other resources for the money that
was in them for American adventurers.
I do not remember to have read any
passage In the Federal Constitution
conferring on our Government author
ity to go up and down the earth civ
ilizing people less fortunate than our
selves. but that is hones ter work than
robbing them would “be, and as con
stitutional. v
Taft fell in love with that strange
people. He was their friend and their
guardian. He believes they have the
foundation for the erection of an en
lightened and beneficent civilization.
Many of them are his personal friends,
for whom he has as much affection
and respect as for any of his friends in
Ohio or in Washington. He strove to
form a good Government for their ad
vantage. Never was there a minister
of a ffock or a teacher of a class that
discovered more solicitude for his
charge than did big Bill Taft for that
people.
A NORTHERN
VIEW
MAN’S
OF JEFF
DAVIS
Address Delivered by Col.
B. W. Heart, of Eatonton
And that is why big Bill Taft wants
to be President of the United States.
And there must be something good in
that people. They responded to Ta.ft.
If he regarded tham as children, they
looked up to him as a father. They
trust him more than any other Ameri
can. more than all Other Americans:
and if the hand of God Is in the thing
and this Government is to he made
the divine instrument to civilize the
Orient, as our slice of the Orient, Taft
is not only the logical nominee of the
Republican party, hut the logical can-
Ninety-nlne yfcars ago there was
born in Kentucky the man who appeals
to me as the true representative of
American manhood—Jefferson Davis.
The fathers of the republic. Washing
ton, Jefferson, Franklin. Adams and
contemporaries, born British subjects,
with the bias of monarchical training
and education, lived too early in the
world’s history to profit fully by the
epoch-making revolution in thought
that followed the war of the colonies
against the "mother country."
With the exception of Thomas Jef
ferson, I doubt if any of them fully
realized the meaning of the French
revolution and the abolishment of feu
dal privileges in 1789. which fchanged
European history more than any other
event. Mr. Jefferson Davis and his
contemporaries revered the written
Constitution of the United States as
the true palladium of the Union. Any
infringement meant to them the dis
solution of that beloved Union. The
instrument which embodied the best
thought was but twenty-one years old
when Mr. Jefferson Davis was born.
We cannot, ourselves, realize the be
neficent effect of the ratification of
the national Constitution by the States.
It brought peace, prosperity and con
tentment where anarchy threatened
and riot and defiance of law already
existed.
To understand the debates by Web
ster, Clay. Calhoun, Davis and others,
we must realize that the preservation
of the Constitution meant to them the
saving of our country as a whole; that
infringement thereof meant the re
couping of the States of all they had
surrendered to the general Government
for the national good. None were more
logical as all honest thinking men must
admit, whether they agreed or dis
agreed politically. None were braver
in the world's history than the small
minority of the Southern States, when
they accepted war as the price of the
preservation of their rights under the
Constitution.
I may be tedious, as my point of
view and my native State took a dif
ferent course, but I love simple justice
and truth, whether it proves me right
or wrong.
None knew the cost and risk of war
better than Jefferson Davis, who had
graduated from the national military
academy at West "Point in 1828: bad
fought through the Mexican War in
1846. Hear what Mr. Caleb Cushing,
of Massachusetts, says of him we
honor:
'‘Among us is a citizen of one of the
Southern States, eloquent among the
most eloquent in debate, wise among
the wisest in council, brave among the
bravest In the battle field.”
There is no one of whom it cannot
be said that, in memory and admira
tion, at least, and if not in actual fact,
they have been able to tread the glo
rious tracks of the victorious achieve
ments of Jefferson Davis on the fields
of Monterey and Buena Vista, and all
have read or have heard the accents
of eloquence addressed by ’him to the
Senate of the United States: and there
is one. at least, who. free from his
own personal observation, can bear
witness to the fact of the surpassirg
wisdom of Jefferson 'Davis in the ad
ministration of the Government.
I cannot speak with authority in
matters of war: but I have read that
the arrangement of Collin Campbell’s
troops in the epoch-making siege of
Sabast-oool in ,1854 was patterned after
Col. Jefferson Davis’ disposition of his
Mississippi regiment at Buena Vista.
Mexico^ in 1846. The Sebastopol
achievement caught the attention of all
Britain and assisted in the advance
ment. to field marshal of this Scotch
officer, now in the peerage as Baron
Clyde. The reading world knows much
of Gen. Campbell's making history,
therefore the poets have sung of the
relief of Lucknow and of Cawnpore.
and the achievement of British 'arms
In India.
At Buena Vista the colonel of the
Mississippi regiment called out the en
thusiastic praise of the commanding
general. Zachary Taylor, the father
of Mr. Davis’ dead wife, until then had
never forgiven Davis for taking the
fair daughter from the naternal home,
and her young tragic death accentu
ated the spirit' of resentment. It is
said that not a word of kindly prais’e
passed the stem commander’s lips un
til the heroic work of Davis on that
great day. On the evening preceding
the battle Gen. Santa Anna, the Mexi
can commander, sent under flag of
truce notice to the American com
mander that be was surrounded by
20.000 men. and that honorable surren-
tion of funds entrusted to his keep
ing? It is unthinkable. Why? Be
cause the man had always been clothed
in an armor of honor and Integrity. In
small as In great things. Elevated
above every mean or low thought or
action. Never a fanatic, never a hyp
ocrite. never an extremist in word or
action, in speech or writing. Abso
lutely fearless, morally as physically.
Attracting to bis person all who came
In contact with him. as those who had
read his written literature and perused
his published addresses were attracted
to the author. Every one of us under
stands the love and esteem in which
we hold our favorite writers. Bound
by stronger ties were those whom Mr.
Davis reached with that voice, once
heard to always ring in one’s ears.
Disagreeing as I did without wholly
understanding his point of view, I sur-
didate of the American people. No
body knows what the outcome will be. j der was best for the Americans. Gen.
Unless civilization has learned some : Taylor, with 5.000 soldiers only, one to
pdMtles of Ghlo.
Salmon P. Chase, Allen G. Thnrman
and John Sherman were much greater
. ••■ , n Rutherf-wd B. Hayes, James
A. Garfield nnd William McKinley. No
one of the first three attained to the'
Presidency, and for the reason that no
one of them sens fortunate enough to
hhve a solid Ohio for him in conven
tion. Of the Inst three, each had a
solid Ohio behind him In convention.
How It will be with Taft I do not
know. If pro*parity holds, he rosy
be able to km ok tho plain, even if the
Germ tars slUMld be sufficiently infln-
NM Ur pet on rise deirg-rriT e'gor
of ten antf-Taft delegates. There is
no unit rule in Republican conventions
hrifl ihe rule orJy holds in Democratic
conventions because It smacks of State
spy erelgnty.
Is as certain as that the Japanese are
a warlike people. A time will come
when our occupation of the Philippine
archipelago will be as Intolerable to
Japan as Srain’s occupancy of Cuba
was to the United States. However,
that is meat for another generation
than ours.
Taft is a big, strong, healthy, good-
natured man. -but there is all the bull
dog In him there Is in Cleveland, and If
he shall get the Presidency he will be
President. His Akron speech and his
judicial decisions to which professional
laboring men object show the metal of
the man. Both will clast him support,
and It Is just as certain that both will
four of the enemy, returned the fol
lowing letter:
"Sir: In reply to your note of this
date, summoning me to surrender my
forces at discretion, I beg leave to say
that I decline acceding to your "be
quest. With high respect, I am, sir,
your obedient servant.
"Z. TALOR.”
If Taylor’s diction lacks the polish
of the English of bis son-in-law. it
had the ring of the courage that was
the equipment of his army. The vic
tory made Taylor President of the
United States.
On the return of Jefferson Davis
from Mexico, he was sent the com
mission of brigadier-general pf volun
teers” by the President of the United
States. James K. Polk. This honor and
earn him even more support than they | earned by wounds fighting a for-
will cost him. The same may be said j elgn foe, won by military skill and
of the Brownsville episode. j gallantry unexcelled in war. was de-
,, —... I dined on the ground that the Consti-
If Mr. Taft sba.l be the Republican - tutlon of the United States reserves
nominee. I predict Mr. Bryan will send j to th© several States the appointment
do nert 'boUcro that W illiam H-
Taft Is as great a man at Ormr j Judge Gray or Mr. Harmon to the j of the officers of the militia." That the
' ' ' slaughter.
Washington. June 3. 1907.
(Copyrighted by E. W. Newman.)
Cleveland, or anything Tike It: bat be
Is more like Grover Cleveland than any
Other public man now on the political
carpet. If Cleveland had had the tact
that McKinley had. or Tan has. the
success of his last administration
wcmld have been ecraal to Its rredrs-.
7-; wise statevroanshlp. in virile Atner-
trnnisi
Mr. Cleveland did r.?t know
how to conciliate. He forgot, or cvwr
!efi'r>ed. this troth: "Marry a full sack
comes from a crooked row. and he thrt
will cap’s ip none •hut honest nen wt"
hare small hire to pay.” The Presi
dent of the United States *o
■■ ■> the tact fo make use of every
Instrument he can lay hands on
u a secret of Roosevelt's suect
Mr. Taft shows us how it is in the
ease of a Mr. Cox out yonder in Ohio.
P-methlng over a rear ago, Mr. Taft
rr-sde ft Speech In Mr. Jhck’s town cvf
Akron and roasted Mr. 'Cox like a her
ring; but Mr, Cox is now become a
nlllar of the .Taft household in Ohio.
"T'-ia Akron irirrch was r-cpfS'-- lv
Clevelandisht the enlistment of Cox
with the stem rirtue of Cleveland and
ihe gymnastic rirtue of McKinley
iv« country a very sat-
• Isfactory adminlst-at’.on.
appointment by the executive of the
nation was in violation of the rights
of the States. Prized be-ond measure
i is an honestly earned military title by
^Cotton Receipts. ! the soldier. The great apostle of
N»» yORIv. Jun- •-■ i nc roiiowinrr • _ , • • • *_ « t,? 1»/_ i *
are the total net receipts of cotton at all J States rights was all nis life true to
ports s'nce September 1: Riles : his conviction. Some names are writ
Galveston 3.819.476 ! FO large in the world’s history that
was nil that eonid be de- New Orleans 2.234.33s ! titles can neither add honor thereto.
sired. In a party sense it failed solely Mobile -o’.143 j nnr detract therefrom. In nroof of
. 1 nor detract therefrom. In proof of
ChSStJn Uhls, I name Cromwell. Washington
Wilmington'IIIIIIIIIIII 321.849 j and Davis. The man is larger than
Norfolk 1 572 are 1 any title measures.
Baltimore 61 fits To my mind the speeches of Jeffer-
New York son Davis In the United States Sen
ate and elsewhere are more to be ad-
_ mired than those of contemporary or-
Sar. FrancIsco IIIIIIIII.III.II.il 791307 ators. There appears no effort or trick
tat j Brunswick 153.610 of oratory or of rhetoric to catch the
Port Townsend 137.952 attention of the mediocre mind. When
there vras a fact to state he framed it
132 623 5n fitting English: an argument on the
7.455 meaning of the words of the Constitu-
-«4 tion was by him given precisely
T>an»accl
Portland. Ore. .
Port Arthur and
Jacksonville
T-iredo. Texas ..
Minor ports
labine Pass.
rendered to his personality when
heard the voice, unequalled. In my
judgment, in any age. I have heard
many famous men of our era for fifty
years, yet no other ever touched my
heart and won my admiration as did
the martyr of Fortress Monroe. I felt
all the political wrongs that my Gov
ernment had heaped on that honorable
head weighing on me and my nation
He, the noble, uncomplaining hero,
wholly without malice, yet with sub
lime oourage looking down from his
mental and moral height on the petty
political narrowness of his country
men. Would that we had a fearless
Horace Greeley to this day to pay trib
ute of respect to his name. None but
a lifelong political opponent could do
such a character justice, such as Web
ster’s eulogy to Calhoun. Mr. Greeley
did more—be sacrificed much of his
lifelong earnings to free our hero from
Fortress Monroe. I will not go into
detail, but I well remember the eir
cumstance. It is right and just for us
to remember and pattern our lives
after the deeds of the great and noble
let the little and mean be forgotten.
If any one thinks I exaggerate the
quality of Mr. Davis’ voice, I will ask
the skeptic to read Charles Schurz's
remarks upon his first meeting with
Jefferson Davis when Secretary of
War of the United States. This man
who wrote his reminiscences late in
life, after unusual familiarity with the
highest culture of the courts of Eu
rope, especially mentions what so im
pressed me years before Schurz, his
political opponent wrote his reminis-
censes. It is a pleasure indeed to find
one individual opinion formed on per
sonal observation supported years sub
sequently by the best equipped Eu
ropean mind. The voice is the truest
representaive of the culture and moral
of the man. to the Northern mind,
since the War 'Between the States Jef
ferson Davis has been the apotheosis
of disloyalty to the general Govern
ment. standing to the uninformed for
sectionalism. His love for the whole
country appears most conspicuous
during his official life in Washington,
and I have no doubt that in the future
New England will proudly claim him
as national hero. His life belongs not
alone to the South, but to the nation.
One must have a local habitat. We
of the cotton States claim him locally
by adoption. Still, he is the more ours
than if he were horn here. Our home
is our own choosing, our birthplace the
selection of the parents. The acquire
ment of Davis’ mental equipment may
be a lesson to us, and is similar to that
of many of the world’s heroes.
Mr. Davis was horn in the centrally
located State of Kentucky, neither
quite Southern or Northern, educated
at central New York, resident in the
cotton growing State of Mississippi
during his national career, and closing
his long life as a resident of Lou
isiana,
Himself financially not able to own
all the books needful in his literary
work, he chose wisely to live near the
old histoic cultured city of New Or
leans, with its universities and libra
ries accessible.
Myself an adopted son of Georgia,
my point of view before and since my
coming is, of course, affected by my
education. I see now and I always
have seen Mr. Davis, even when I dis
agreed with him. as a true representa
tive of the constitutional claims of
the South. But I see and feel more
than others have ever expressed in
speech or writing, the burden carried
by him during the Civil War. Sym
pathy has gone out from the whole
civilized world to Mr. Lincoln for his
burden borne during the trying years
of his Presidency of the United States.
The Northern President, with so
many millions of Northern and West
ern soldiers at command that he could
not accept them all. With all Europe
to draw upon for men and the whole
world ready to advance gold on the
bond issue of the country, the freedqili
of the oceans and the world's com
merce. all he needed was successful
officers for that largest of world
armies.
The other President in Richmond,
isolated from the civilized nations of
the world. His own ambassadors to
Europe unable to win sympathy or
support, because of the existence in
the South of the outgrown feudal in
stitution of slavery, which knowledge
Mr. Davis must in the nature of <he
ca^e keep from publicity, for its moral
effect on the army and the whole sup
porting Southland. This one fact must
have been a crushing blow as he read
the personal confidential letters of Ma
son and Slidell from Europe. The
great money-producing crop, cotton,
shut off from means of reaching the
clamoring factors of Europe. No great
shipbuilding establishments or Iron
foundries properly equipped existed in
the South. An agricultural country
without manufacturing resources was
the Confederacy.
The "people may not have known
their lack of preparedness for war. but
Mr. Davis not only knew but bore the
knowledge alone, without the under
standing. the sympathy and the proper
■■•upport of his Cabinet and his people.
Called on as he was to meet the mil
lions of men with men he could not
supply to furnish arms and army
equipments he could neither make or
buy: yet to acknowledge the -South's
poverty would have been the undoing
of the South's cause. All this Mr. Da
vis bore without the South’s under-
standing-the great wealth of the North
and the comparative poverty of the
South. Human
used In his farewell address to the | shape of a protest from large marm- ' Ayres, the wife of Maj. Charles
Senate more instructive, interesting
and satisfying than any tribute we
can possibly pay to his memory. I
will read only extracts from it on this
occasion, as it is accessible to all
readers. "Will it be possible for any
sensitively organized man from Maine
to Florida, when prejudices shall have
been forgotten, to read this address
without a sublime respect for the per
son who uttered these beautiful words
of farewell forever to the great Ameri
can Senate?
To you ladies. Daughters of the Con
federacy, by whose invitation I am
present to testify out of the fullness of
my admiration of Jefferson Davis, I
beg to say my gifts of expression are
so inadequate to put into words that
which I feel our country owes to you
that I ask you to let me use those of
the one to whose memory this day is
set apart in the calendar as a saint’:
day. The beloved President of tho
Confederacy, there can never be an
other, has said of you:
'To the women of the Confederacy,
whose pious ministrations to our
wounded soldiers soothed the last
hours of those who died far from the
objects of their tenderest love; whose
domestic labors contributed much to
supply the wants of our defenders in
the field: whose zealous faith in our
cause shone a guiding star undimmed
by the darkest clouds of war; whose
fortitude sustained them under all pri
vations to which they were subjected:
whose annual tribute expresses their
enduring grief, love and reverence for
our sacred dead, and whose patriot
ism will teach their children to emu
late the deeds of our Revolutionary
sires.”
That you have done all that women
of-any age, land or clime could have
accomplished is well known to all. but
realized and expressed in fullest meas
ure by him who felt the deepest for
the woes of his beloved country.
Among all the Southern heroes claim
ing our admiration, his name leads on
the roll of honor.
Cut in Rates
Continued from Page Two.
A. B. & A, Increases Capital Stock.
ATLANTA, June 8.—The Alanta,
Birmingham and Atlantic Railroad Co.
today secured from Secretary of State
Philip Cook an amendment to its char
ter under which it is permitted to in
crease its capital stock from a total of
$24,351,400 to $35,000,000 of which $10.-
000,000 is to be preferred and 325.000,-
000 common stock. This increases the
preferred stock $1.S19,300 and the com
mon stock $8,829,300.
The company decided,upon this In
crease at a meeting of the stockholders
held in Atlanta on June 6. Of this in
creased capitalization $2,000,000 of the
common stock will be Issued at once
and will be given to subscribers to tlie
company’s bonds, of which $8,000,000
are to be floated for the purpose of se
curing funds to complete the road.
There are now 7,000 hands employed j
on the work of completing this line
and it is being pushed as rapidly as
is possible. Many concessions have
been made the company in Alabama,
and it has before it a bright future.
Merc*r Confers Degree of Doctor.
ATLANTA. June 8.—The trustees of
Mercer University at Macon have con
ferred the degree of Doctor of Divin
ity upon the following well known
Georgia Baptist ministers: Rev. B.
W. J. Graham, editor of the Christian
Index; Rev. J. A. Ivey, of the Baptist
Church at Dawson: Rev. B. H. Ivey of
the Baptist Church at Warrenton and
Rev. J. S. Hardaway, of Newnan.
facturing Interests which do not want ] Avres. Eighth Cavalry,
to be subjected to city taxation. On the day mentioned in the cortv-
A committee of these manufacturers j plaint. Mrs. Avres attacked the corn-
appeared before the city limits exten- I mandant of cadets in the area of the
s;on committee and showed that any i cadet barracks with the most oppro-
extension which proposed to take in ! brious epithets and in an undignified
tfnese large manufacturing plants manner. In addition to this she has
would really be deleterious to the city’s written to certain New York news-
interests. i papers making such outrageous at-
that a $600,000 cotton | tacks that the papers would not print
mill, the building of which had been them. Moreover, in speaking to me
contemplated on the outskirts of At- about writing to newspapers, criticls-
TI 8 ® recently carried over into . | n g officers, she declared her purpose
South Carolina because of this agita- to write whatever and to whomsoe\*er
tlon for the extension of the city limits, i s jj e pi ea sed
A representative of the Atlanta Steel sh £ has " never , my knowledge,
orks stated cO the committee I pu t>ll c l-v- criticized mo personally, and
i that » » n C nT£ an r, was I7rep ‘l r i e t t0 P Yi this is mentioned to show that I am
in a $200,000 blast furnace which would not actuate d in writing this letter by
♦i 6S ^ i ®e > £ I ° y ? le K t : any personal pique; but sho did not
tional number of hands but the project he ' Jt £ e to denounce Gen. Mills last
would have to be abandoned if it were
. . „ ... . ... i year. I am told, on the hotel porch so
recklessly as to call forth a rebuke
taxation. Similar reports came from
outskirts*mfd^^the 0 ^territory Dron'wd Shq is endeavoring now to make ar-
to be «ken In bfthe SsloS I rangements to pa??; the summer here,
mittee.
The people of Brookwood. a suburb
out Peachtrpe road, also entered an
where her actions have been patiently
endured for a year. They are. In my
opinion. In many Instances harmful to
St &&$£»££ «&«
the el tv oonir? rfvn them- tint if thov I endured no longer. M bile, no doubt.
it would be competent for me to forbid
her entrance on this reservation, this
reason
that she Is tho wife of an absent offi
cer.
Furthermore, she could, under those
circumstances, quarter herself where
she now is, at Highland Falls, outside
the city could give them: that if they
were taken in they would not get any
Are envine hn„o-> I ner entrance on mis resorvat
nre engine nouse, any schools or any . - .
police, and that the only object would ' ,s deenje<J tna<J ' *’ able for
be to tax them. To this they do not
propose tie submit without a protest.
Assessing Corporations.
ATLANTA, June 9. Comptroller- I c f {jjjg jurisdiction, and continue her
General W. A. 'Wright will bo ready to undignified clamor In the press, in-
announoe early next week his assess- jurious alike to the academy and the
ments upon practically all of the larger I army at large. If. however, the War
corporations in the State. He had de- Department should call upon her hus-
termined. ns has been stated all along, band, who is soon to land at San
to make large and general Increases In Francisco, according to her statement,
the tax valuations of corporate prop- to remove her from West Point, and to
erty, throughout the entire list, and j cause her to cease the3e undeserved
has only been waiting to lay a good and undignified atacks upon his fiel-
foundation upon which to build. This low-officers in the public press, the rc-
he has secured in the recently an- suit would, in my opinion, be for the
nqunced increased assessment of the best interests not only of his family,
Georgia Railway and Electric' Compa- but also of the Government and all
ny and its alUed properties. concerned. Sincerely yours.
The affect of this agreement between H. L. SCOTT. Supt. U. S. M. X.
the comptroller-general and the offl- It seems that Col. Howze was much'
rials of the Georgia Railway and Elec- displeased at the publicity given the
trie Company is going to be most far- affair, and the comments of the press,
reaching, provided there is no legal and. It Is charged, stated to a New
interference with the policy which the York reporter that Mrs. Ayres was re
taxing officer proposes to pursue. This sponsible for the matter having been
company has voluntarily submitted to given to the newspapers,
an assessment of its property for tax- When Mrs. Ayres heard of this rharpo
ation at more than double the amount asrainst her she went imedlately to Col.
of Its original return—a return which Howze at his Z'llZ
was some $250 000 in excels nf ito j plainly told him that li,s statement.
;; aa lone excess or Its re- £ ntniP nnd ungentlemaoly. Thercunon
turn for 1906. Mrs. Avres wrote her version of the affair
It is the purpose of tfhe comptroller- for a New York newspaper, and followed
genera! now to compare the gross j it bvs ih isoml letter to President noose
earnings and capitalization of every
street car company and gas company
In -the State with those of the two At
lanta corporations upon which an
agreement has been reached, and In
velt, asking that she he protected from
such charges on the part of an array
official. . . , •
In due course Mrs. Ayres’ letter, togeth
er with the eounter-chnrgcs of Capt. Oli
ver and Col. Howze asninst her. were
Petition for Change of Syrup Rate,
ATLANTA. June S.—The railroad
commission has set for hearing on
July 11 the application of the Atlantic
Coast Line Railroad Company for s
revision of the syrup rates in Geor
gia. particularly on syrup in cans.
This petition involves the raising of
the syrup rate from Columbus about
half a cent a gallon and the Iowerin;
of the rate from about twenty other
Georgia points. The Central of Geor
gia put in an extremely low syrup
rate from Columbus, much lower than
the rates prevailing from the syrup
raising centers in South Georgia. Per
mission is now asked to raise this rate
and at the same time to lower rates
from the other points.
The commission will likewise take
under investigation a number of com
plaints which have come from various
sections of the State about the closing
up of Southern Express offices. The
express company has no right to close
any office without the consent of tho
commission, and this section will be
inquired into.
Fifth Regiment Off for. Jamestown.
ATLANTA. June 8.—The Fifth Reg
iment Infanry. under command of Col.
Clifford L. Anderson, left the city to
day in two special trains for the
Jamestown Exposition. There were
ten companies in the party, including
nearly 500 men and officers. The reg
iment will form part of the escort to
President Roosevelt on Georgia Day
and will remain at the exposition dur
ing the rest of the week.
Members of the Atlanta City Coun
cil. the firemen's drum and bugle corps
and a large number of prominent At
lantans also left today via the Sea-
hoard Air Line to be present at the
Georgia Day exercises.
the proportion of gross earnings and turned over to Co1. Mills, who was de
capitalization will the tax assessments I nve ^tiFate tho affair and -make
be fixed. For example, if a street rail- U coi. ynu P visited tho academy, tnter-
rond In some other city shows gross viewed all DartlcFi concerned and made his
earnings of 40 per cent of those of the report to the War Department, and upon
Georgia Rail wav and Electric. Company that report the department order against
with capitalization in proportion. Its MnL Ayres Is said to have boon issued.
V„ in r,-_ - The difference between the Ayreses and
tax assessment will be 40 per cent of Academy authorities have been the
the Atlanta companj's valuation. The chief tonic of discussion for some time,
result of this method will be to raise both in West Point and Highland Falls,
by a good round ettm the taxable val- This interest was intensified on bust
uation of every property of this class Saturday when Col. Ayres arrived from
in the sttate the Philippines. It was believed by some
„ , , . who are well acquainted with his fighting
The comptroller-general Is busy now proclivities that he might become so on-
figuring out the assessment of the At- raged when Informed of the slight put
lantic Coast Line Railroad which, when upon his wife that he would disregard
arrived at, will be used as a basis for army ethics and make It a personal mat-
the assessment of all the other steam mo ...i. ..i
i 1 rfifl.sia ir» -rv’"K? 1 rx t,._ I HOW6V6F, FllS D^nrillgT SlTlCG fllS flillVElI
r ailroads in the State. W hile he has ^ as t, een dignified and self-contained. Ho
not concluded his work upon this com- I jjas made several visits to the post, and,
pany’s returns, it is intimated that its strange to say, on none of his visits has
valuation will be increased from $12,- he come face to face with any of ms
800,000 to approximately $21,000,000 and brother officers whom he might be Justl-
that in the. same proportion the Cen- of affalrs " 81 seVercly f ° r condlUon
tral of Georgia will probably be in- Those who have been cognizant of the
creased from $16,500,000 to something inside workings of the affair have keenly
like $21,000,000. watched and waited for Col. Ayres to
•Of course all this is going 1 to cause make known his Intentions, and a siffh of
the*eomiitroller the ™ MendsVheT inffTnmri ttWhf
the comptroller-general Is firm in the would only carry the matter into the clril
view he has taken, that the corporation courts.
values nre far too low. He proposes A civil suit In a matter of this character
not only to raise them but to equalize Is almost unprecedented. Usually a court-
them. Then if they do not want to ac
cept his figures they may appeal to ar
bitration.
If there is no interference with the
the policy of the comptroller-general
in this matter the result will be a total
Increase in the State tax returns from
corporations alone of at least $50,000.-
000, and with the increase .ini general
returns this year, if they hold up as
they should, a total increase in the
State’s valuation of $100,000,000 may
be counted on. This would put the to
tal taxable values in Georgia up to
nearly $740,000,000, or nearly $70,000,000
in excess of what tihev were in the
wealthiest year Georgia has ever
known, just before the war when the
slaves were property, and the high-
tide mark of $672,000,000 was reached.
One of the chief complaints which
corporations make against increasing
tfnelr tax'returns is the tax valuations
of general property or private property
is far below its actual market value.
This is undoubtedly true all over the
State, but there appears to be a grow
ing sentiment in fevor of legislation
which will equalize the tax returns on
all classes of property. The coming
Legislature will undoubtedly give the
matter careful consideration. Should
action be taken in this matter, Geor
gia’s tax values would go up with a
big bound and the tax rate would be,
consequently, considerably lower.
martial would bo demanded and the mat
ter threshed out in that way. However,
since It is to be taken into tho Stn">
courts, where publicity cannot be pre
vented. some interesting details of army
life and army methods may be expected.
HESTERS WEEKLY
The Roads Will Fight.
ATLANTA. June 9.—It is already
practically assured Chat the railroads
of. the State, with possibly one or two
exceptions outside of those whose rates
have been reduced below 3 cents per
mile, will go into the courts In opposi
tion to the Railroad Commission's or
der reducing passenger fares.
The 3-cent roads, of course, will not
fight. Practically all of them are now
charging 3 cents per mile. Vice-Pres
ident Horace Smith of the Nashville,
Chattanooga and St. Louis stated at
the hearing before the commission that
no matter what the decisiott_was, the
"Western and Atlantic’ would not con
test it. The other roads whose rate
was cut below 3 cents are expected to
enjoin the commission and carry the
question through the gamut of the
courts, so that in any event it will
probably be a year or eighteen months
before the people of the State will en
joy the reductions, provided the courts
then uphold them.
The policy of the railroads, the ma
jority of them at least,, is to fight at
The Seaboard Air Line
Social War
Continued from page two.
Total
receipts ....... 29.919
nil lx nnd Canada 13.201
r '.! ukincs. .-=1 26
stock interior towns. 23.665
ar. year.
55 47i
10.397
graduate of West Point, as were most
of the great generals in both contend-
armies. He could have gone in the
-.230 the authors of that instrument in- j Southern army with the rrestige of a
justlv renowned veteran of the Mexi
can War. and of revered Revolutionary
stock. As such his training and qual
ities would doubtless have put his
name among the great on the roll of
military honor, along with those of
every step.
ympathy. that great j Railroad has just gone to the United
solace to one finely organized, was : States Court for an injunction against
denied him. nnd for four agonized i the commission’s order reclassifying it
years no ruler in the world’s history and thereby reducing its maximum
-before or since ever bore such a bur- freight rates about 10 per cent. Thus
den of suffering as did the President five of the roads reclassified to this
of the Southern Confederacy. j effect are now holding up the commis-
Mr. Davis was an army officer and sion’s orders in the United States
tended it should be interpreted. No
<x.90o exa juration Whatever as far as I
can judge to plead his own side of a
Last ! question right. Right was evidently
Into
The father of William H. Taft was j
og vmloent lawyer of the Cincinnati |
bar. He was of New England 't -ck [ Port
on<* bad ce-ved ’he republic as A*’or-
rey>-Generr.l and Secretary of War in
Or ''.rant's Cabins:. The sen was
kora in OaclnnaU fifty years ago,
cipts
To -nTs and Canada.
Son — r: taking*, est.
1 r. 1. slock ex. Sept 1.
43.4 c
« 75,759
1 overrent.
9*4
7.^4.m
1.156,633
9>\«S7
2 055 O'M
liOO
126,953
:fi3.45S
right with Pavi? and required only to
be brought to the \ttention cf honest
men to be accepted.
Mr Davis once in his congressional
career was put on a committee to ex
amine the charge against Daniel Web
ster of misappropriation of secret ser
vice funds. Mr. Webster was exoner
ated. but couil we possibly change the
position of the men? Could you. Con-
! federate veterans, conceive of any op-
i ponents of Davis—and he had more
Court. The Atlanta, Birmingham and
Atlantic is the only one which has
agreed to abide by the board's action.
Just what effect legislation to be
adopted this summer will have on the
situation remains to be seen. That
there will be a measure passed increas
ing the powers of thee Railroad Com
mission. there is no question. It will
likewise surround that power with cer
Washington. Lee, Jackson and others. ! tain penalties the object of -which will
Even the opposing North would have ! he to make the railroads l_e=s eager to
emed him instead of singling out
this great Southern representative for
all sectional malice. How infinitely
preferable a life amid the exhilarating
and stirring scenes of war than In. the
qu'et of the Presidential .mansion, with
go to the courts. What deterrent ef
fect this may have remains to be seen.
Struck a Snag.
ATLANTA, June 3.—Atlanta has
_ truck a sort of snag in tier efforts to
a heroic endeavor to accomplish the i increase the -city limits and take tn all
imbessible. I of the outlying creation. The principal
I believe Mr. Davis's own language J snag In this direction comes in tha
Mrs. Ayres’s manner and speech
were of such a nature that the Cadet
Officer of the Day closed his office door
to prevent hearing any more of the
conversation.
In view of the above facts, aside
from the insult to me presonally, I do
not believe that it is to the best in
terests of the discipline of the corps of
cadets to have an officer, as closely
connected with them as I am, subjected
to criticism from a person who employs
such language and means to show her
disrespect as Mrs. Ayres has, and I
respectfully request that some action
he taken to prevent a future occur
rence of It from this source.
Very respectfully,
L. W. OLIVER.
Assist. Instructor of Tactics.
On this letter Colonel Howze, com
mandant of cadets, made this indorse
ment.
“The conduct of Mrs. Ayres has been,
and still Is, more reprehensible and in
excusable, and should no longer be
tolerated.
"Her whole influence here and her
advice to cadets, which is indiscrimi
nately given, are inimical to discipline,
and tend to neutralize the best efforts
of those in authority'.
Her criticism are directed against all
in authority, from the President of the
United States down.
Her language to officers and In ref
erence to them, and, at times, in the
NEW ORLEANS, La., Junex7.—Secre*
tary Hester’s weekly cotton statement.
Issued today, shows for the seven days of
June, a decrease under last year df
26 000 and a decrease under the same pe
riod year before last of tiLKTOtt. For the
280 days of the season that, have elapsed
the aggregate is ahead of tho same days
of last year 3.479.000 and ahead oft the
same days year heforo last 690,000.
The amount brought into sight dprtag
the past week has been 56.376 hales
against $3,303 for the same seven days
last year, and 121,097 bales year bdfore
last.
The movement since September 1 shows
receipts at all United States ports to?bb
9.671.909 against 7,548.493 last year: ovee.
land, across the Mississippi. Ohio and
Potomac Rivers to Northern mills and
Canada. 1.159,913 against 939,331 last
year; Interior stocks in excess of those
held at the close of the commercial wear
143,360 against 129,717 laid year: Southern
mill takings 2,099,000 against 1,877,360 1 last
year.
These make the total movement wince
September 1. 13,074,182 against 10.59(4,891
last year. Foreign .exports toh the week
have been 73.645 against 84 205 last year,
making the total thus far for the season
8,102,834 against 6,023,802 last year.
The total takings of American mills.
North, South and Canada thus far for
the season have been 4,585,835 against
4.280.861 last year.
Stocks at the seaboard and the 29 lead
ing Southern interior centers have de
creased during the week 80.977 bales
against a decrease during tho correspond
ing period last season of .71,247.
Including stocks left over at the ports
and interior towns from the last orop.
and the number of bales browgift Intb
sight thus far from the new crop, th#
supply to date is 13«371.962 against 11,*
039,422 for the same period last year.
World’* Visible Supply.
NEW ORLEANS. La., June 7.—Secre
tary Haster's statement of the world’*
visible supply of cotton. Issued, today,
shows the total visible to be 4.073,278
against 4,181.095 last week and 3,691,010
last yeaf. Of this the total of American
cotton Is 2.677.275 against 2.817.095 last
week and 2,158.010 last year, and of all
other kinds including Egypt. Brazil, In
dia, etc.. 1,396,000 agalnet 1,369.000 last
week and 1,463 000 lost year.
Of the world’s visible supply of cotton,
there is noa afloat and held in Great
Britain and continental Europe 2,521,000
against 1,822,000 last year; In Egypt 106,-
009 against 83 000 last year; in India 753,-
000 against 984.000 last year, and in the
United States 693,000 against 732,000 last
year.
Comparative Cotton Statement.
NEW YORK. June 7.—For the weeld
ending Friday, June 7:
3907- 1906
Net port receipts 31,009 54,72®
Rects. since 8ept. 1 8,671,909 7,557,1#*
Export* for week 69.9S9 85,25®
presence of cadets ’is so remarkably j ^§^ l s T?. c i B p^i g ^;;; 8, 4°M,015 S ®0«
vicious that it is almost unbelievable. g t0 ck all int. towns 2is,3So 297,44?
The characterization of the conduct of
Mrs. Ayres within and in his indorse
ment is by far too mild.
In the views here expressed the un
dersigned is sustained by every officer
on duty in this department.
ROBERT L. HOWZE.
Commandant of Cadets.
Accompanying this letter, which was
forwarded to Washington. Col. Scott,
superintendent of the academy, on
April 24. sent the follwing letter to
Adjutant General Ainsworth:
Sir—-I enclose a complaint from an
officer on duty here against Mrs.
Stock at Liverpool.
Amn. afloat for G. B.... •
Pope G. -Barrow Dead.
GRIFFIN, Ga., June 9.—Pope G.
Barrow, the 22-vear-old son of Hon. B.
W. Barrow, died at the Barrow home
near the city at 8 o'clock Thursday
night, after an illness of three years
of consumption. He was an excellent
young man whose death ts the source
of gTeat regret. The Interment took
place at Oak Hill cemetery this morn
ing, Dr. R. R. Acree conducttag the oh*
seqn*.