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TUESDAY, JUNE 11, 1907* THE TWICE-A-WEEK. TELEGRAPH " 3^ r 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*.
