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IHE TWICE-A-WEEK TELEGRAPH FRIDAY, JUNE 21, 1907* IHE n IEEGMFH PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING AND TWICE A WEEK BY THE MACON TELEGRAPH PUBLISH ING COMPANY. 563 MULBERRY STREET, MACON. OA. ; other scheduled orator* are boil ing over with That they rail :he ‘ Impudence of. Roosevelt. In the lat- I ter • lass tire the Georgia mayors. not one of -Them was allowed to 1 speak, and John Temple Grave.-, ! whose specialty Is spefehtnaking. but wr.o went down before the Roosevelt cry of "Cut :i out!" , Wo presume this correspondent 1 bloodshed in most [Georgia should calmly submit to an in- fever from Havana and made the ter- pro’portion In their I fringement of the most secred right of !rible canal zone habitable,” expressed free and un- 0. R. PENDLETON, President GOOD WORDS. At the annual commencement of meant to say. not that certain of the Bryn Mawr College the ether day Mr. Georgians were "boiling over with James Bryce, the British ambassador, what they call the Impudence of Roose- suggested two fields cf activity which velt,” but boiling over with wrath at| bc . regarded as peculiarly appropriate what they consider the Impudence of j women. He first recommended the the gentleman named. No man can | cultivation of the love of good books boll over “with" another man's irapu- : and the acquisition of a thorough deuce. But as a matter of fact the knowledge of and a fine taste in liter- Presldent and the Governor have de- ; ature. “Reading light and ephemeral nted the story, and we must accept, novels soon becomes wearisome,” reads their statements about it. If, however, la summary of his utterance, "and then there was foundation for the story, we: the woman who knows nothing of good may re3t assured that there was a good • books nor cares for them must find crease of crin of the e-iunlii uni Dors and the number of arms andja Georgian—tie right amount of ammunition furnished limited speech." tnrm.” ' What is the use in kicking? "The ■ King can do no wrong.” or if he does, VAINGLORIOUS NIPPON. According to a news article in the Washington Post, "there is a deeply imbedded Impression in the minds of men high in the Administration that the Japanese people have misinter preted the kindly sentiments expressed by President Roosevelt In his message ideal of boiling. When a man has pre- ! SO me other amusement. The faculty of to Congress last December, while treat- ! pared a speech and utterance is denied j entertaining herself has not been ac- ing of the Japanese school questi>n, him he feels robbed of an inalienable i quired. and she becomes dependent and construe his eoncilitatory words as [right and he smarts almost as If with upon others for that diversion which an evidence of fear of Nippon. For this reason, it Is thought, the idea may have been Inculcated In the minds of certain Japanese that tha United States is actually afraid of Japan and should humiliate Itself In order to prs- vent a rupture of friendly relations.” There were Americans who feared something of this sort at the time, be lieving that the President’s ‘Tclndly sentiments” were too conciliatory Where Japan was concerned and too unmindful of California's rights of lo cal self-government. The Telegraph so expressed itself. A misconstruction In Japan is not surprising, the people of that country being Intoxicated by their success In the war with Russia. Anorher cause of Irritation in Wash ington is the premature and totally unexpected offer of mediation on the part of France, and no wonder. Ban Francisco hoodlums smash the win dows of a Japanese restaurant, radicals at Toklo talk of war, and France ten ders her good offices for an adjustment of the difference! The plot of an opera bouffe Is suggested. The authorities at Washington are said ti be taking stock of this nation's defenses and It would seem to be about time. A comparison of the two navies is given as follows: ' physical pain. An orator, for example, must have spent the worst quarter of an hour of his life if it Is true that the President’s cruel "Cut It out” caused him to crowd back his flowery periods and let them suffocate unut tered In his throat. The desire to make speeches Is a widely prevalent detire In America, and statistics could proba- ibly be presented to' show that those who delight to orate are more numerous than those who really welcome the op portunity to listen. As for the President's alleged dis she. should be able to afford herself. This is where gossip and tittie-tattle and character-shredding have their origin. Few things conduce more to happiness and content than the habit of reading good books.” Mr. Bryce also urged that women should give their attention to the min istrations of charity, reminding the Bryn Mawr girl graduates, that the meaning of the word "lady” is bread- giver, and that she finds her tradi- j tional field in good works. Though the average American girl it must be passed over with an ap proving smile. The "great Georgia minstrel,” of all people, would appear to have the least right to complain. If, as he virtually contends, no Demo crat Is fit to be President, and our par ty should therefore nominate Roose velt, then no Democrat is fit to speak in Che presence of the Great and Only. Mr. Graves may contend that the .ban is removed from him by his leaning toward the Independence League, but we shall not venture to let him out in ihat way until he authoritatively makes the announcement for himself. In this connection we might add Chat the editor of this paper is in receipt of a private letter from a friend who says: "If you want the inside of Geor gia Day get (when you see him) to toil you about it. It is funny when you know it. After the himself as follows: "I am Inclined to think that the advances made in recent years in tropical sanitation will have a much wider and more far-reaching effect than freeing Havana from yellow fever or enabling us to build the Panama canal. I think that sanitation can now show that any population coming into the tropics can protect itself against disease by measures that are both simple and inexpensive: that life in the tropics for the Anglo-Saxon will be more healthful than the temperate zones; and that gradually within the next two or three centuries tropica! countries, which offer a much greater return for man’s labor than do the temperate zones, will Se settled by the white faces, and that again the centers of wealth, civilization and population will be in the tropics. a-= they were in the dawn of man’s history, rather than in the temperate zones as at present.” This is a rather startling suggestion, but why should not history at last re peat itself in this particular as in others, and the cradles of all the an cient civilizations again become the abodes of the more vigorous and pro gressive races of men? Would the effort to keep cool during the heat of the tropic day require any greater ex penditure of energy than the effort to keep warm during six months of the year throughout almost the whole of [ the north temperate zone? Artificially grand stand speech the President ex pected; a general reception open .to all Georgians at the Georgia building— the Bullocfh Home. But Atlanta snob bery barred out all except special few from the-feast. Even the distinguished Mrs.. Felton, ‘near Cartersville,’ was barred. It is too funny when you know ^ c00led h0Uies wiU P robabl - v not Present courteous behavior. It may be said in j in search of a "career” may regard extenuation that an embarrassment of i these two activities as rather "slow” riches in the form of too many (and old-fashioned, they are #not only Typo ot vessel. u. a. Japan. Battleships 21 11 Armored cruisers . 8 10 Protected cruisers . 43 19 Torpedo boats 82 .77 Destroyers 16 54 Submarines 8 7 Coast defense 11 S The number of vessels to be built under existing appropriations nation la as follows: by each Type of vessel. U. S. Japan. Battleships 8 3 Armored cruisers . 4 4 Protected cruisers . 3 1 Destroyers r. Submarines 4 Japan la better prepared for war as to land forces, but is only the fifth naval power while the United States speeches causes a weariness of the flesh and much vexation of spirit. Nev ertheless It Is the part of the philoso pher as well, as the duty of the public man to "grin and ibear" under such circumstances. As it was Georgia’s day, the Georgians selected to speak should have been heard, and not even the President's eagerness to hurry from a few remarks appropriate to the occasion into a long-winded political speech was sufficient to justify turning them down. A man with whom speech making at all times and on all sub jects Is a necessity of his nature should be more considerate of other orators. Is the third. As, in case of war, It would be largely a struggle at sea, and as the United States has never yet been defeated, the victory-drunk men of Nippon would do well to think twice before they allow the smashed windows of a Japanese joint In San Francisco to upset their reason com pletely. SOME DIFFERENCE. The Boston Herald, an Independent newspaper which pins its political faith to the Democracy of the Jeffer- son-T!lden-C!eve!and brand, finds It difficult to distinguish between Roose velt Republicanism and the dominant Democracy of the hour. It says: "Some of the old-time Democrats utter a feeble squeak against 'cen tralization and in favor of State's rights. But there are no more pronounced Federalists In the country than the dominant men of their party, with Mr. Bryan at their head. Thomas Jefferson and* Samuel J. Tllden would not recog nise the Democratic party of today If they were to revisit the glimpses of the moon. The trouble with the Democratic keynote# Is that they are all pitched for a different tune, or so nearly resemble the tone given to Republicanism by that versatile and maaterly political an gler, Theodore Roosevelt, that few people can distinguish the differ ence.” Roosevelt Republicanism and Bryan Democracy are Indeed as one on what are supposed to be the "burning” issues of the hour. Roosevelt and Bryan are also as one in their indifference to the tariff question, ulthough the first named Is on record as a tariff reformer THE RECORD OF THE TWENTY- FIFTH INFANTRY. In the defense of the negro battalion dismissed by President Roosevelt much has been made of the long service and personal record of Mingo Sanders, one of its members. Too little has been heard of the. unsavory record of the Twenty-fifth Infantry, of which the dismissed battalion was a part. That record Is now set forth by Stephen Bousal In the North American Review. We learn from this account that the ’’shooting up” of Brownsville was alto gether characteristic and of a piece with much that had gone before. Ac cording to Mr. Bousal, in 1885 the men of the Twenty-fifth “shot up” the town of Sturgis, Dakota, killing several men. In 1898, on the eve of the departure of Shafter’s army for Cuba, a corporal and several soldiers of the Twenty- fifth, having been on a murderous fo ray In Key West, and being charged with-assault with attempt to kill, were arrested and committed to jail. At mid night forty of the negroeeg of this reg- emlnently respectable and worthy but may be productive of much quiet sat isfaction and happiness as well as of use to others. The objection that many young American women mignt justly raise is that these two pursuits are not sufficient, because they are not remu nerative in a pecuniary way. The breadwinner could follow them only in the hours of leisure. But Mr. Bryce was not addressing breadwinners. Speaking as an Eng lishman of the upper class and at a j college attracting the daughters of the 1 wealthy, he naturally discussed pur suits supposed to be appropriate young ladies belonging to. families means. With this in view his sugges tions are seen to be as practical as they are excellent. How much better to occupy much time In these two ways than to live for the mere social round and for expensive pleasures of a sensu ous sort. The needless and ostenta tious display of wealth,” the summary goes on, "is not only vulgar, but harm ful. and perhaps has contributed Us part to the growth of anarchy and so clallsm. When a man who has a wife and a family of children who may be crying for bread reads of a dinner given by one of the new rich which oost enough to feed several families for a whole year it sets him to specu lattng upon the inequalities of fortune and opportunity and fosters unrest and discontent. Of course, it is to the pub lie advantage that people who have large incomes should spend freely. But there are various methods of spending —there is a decent method and an in decent one; there is a respectable way and a vulgar way. And among the most vulgar of all the practices of the American smart set is the habit of as everything in dollars and how it all was.” It rs also stated that these gentlemen who were running things until Roose velt kicked it to pieces disdained to wear the "Georgia” badge, but sported long streamers with “Atlanta” printed in box car letters on them. But why vex the "Atlanta spirit?’ imenL carrying regular army rifles, surrounded the Jail,' overpowered the' sesslng jailer, released their comrades, and al- j cents. .If a house Is decorated with most demolished the flimsy structure j flowers It Is announced that so many In which they had been confined. Then [ dollars’ worth of flowers are used the outlaws sailed away with Shafter’s j a dinner party Is given, the cost is an army, and were never brought to trial, j nounced at so much a plate: if . one of much less visited with the punishment j the set is married It Is necessary to they deserved. i announce the cost of the bride's dress When this same negro regiment was [ and often of the wedding presents.” on its way to the Philippines in 1899, i The British ambassador's words are a trainload of Its men stopped at Win- [wise, and, coming from a distinguished nemucca, Nevada, for supper. What [English gentleman, they may not be happened? Mr. Bousal states that the j altogether wasted. It is well for wo- negro soldiers raided the restaurants,! men of wealth to learn that real cul- took possession of the saloons, shot a •barkeeper and terrorized the town. They preserved their conspiracy of si lence, as usual, and the authorities were unable to Identify and punish the guilty men. Four months later ne groes of the same regiment assaulted peaceable Indians In Arizona, and Gen. Merriam ws.s compelled to ask that they be supplanted by white troops. The regiment was sent to El Paso. Texas. Two of the soldiers were ar- ture. fine taste, and good works are more queenly than indulgence in the pleasures of the senses and the grati fication of every caprice. and the latter has ibeen frequently re- rested for violating some State law minded of thl» cardinal doctrine of his adopted party. But there is this dif ference: Roosevelt has not yet come out for fhe Government ownership of public utilities and seems to bo con tented to see Bryan the sole advocate of the Initiative and referendum. The difference may be regarded by some as slight, but we venture to say that It Is sufficient to Influence a large number of vote*. THOSE 6TILLBORN SPEECHES. The following is an Interesting and typical specimen of the “specials” that flew over the wires to many distant points after "Georgia day” last week Special to the Washington Post. ATLANTA, Ga., June IS.—Be cause of the strenuoslty of Presi dent Roosevelt on Georgia day at Jamestown. Governor Terrell and the other Georgians who were •cheduled to make speeches re turned home with the orations on which they spent weeks of work undelivered. According to Gover nor Terrell, Roosevelt was opposed to any one speaking bbt himself, and whenever a speaker was an nounced, the President would cry: “Cut It out!” or “Cut It ■hort!” The result was that the sched uled orators were silent under the gatling gun fired from Roosevelt and their orations were not un loaded. Even when Governer Ter rell was Introduced Roosevelt cried: ("Cut the speeches short; cut them out” and the Governor obediently cut his address down to a coupls of paragraphs. Govsmor Terrell takes the mat ter good-naturedly, but soma of tha and were placed In jail there. The ne gro infantrymen took their rifles from the racks, attacked the Jail and killed a policeman who was on duty. They were repulsed, but returned later in the night, and with guns and axes at tempted to rescue their comrades. Missing rifles gave a clue to the iden tity of several of these rioters, and they were punished. At Nibrara, Neb., before tbe end of the same year of 1899 negro soldiers [ of the Twenty-fifth engaged in still another murderous raid. Even so faith ful a Republican as the chairman of the district congressional committee described this outrage as a “wanton and cold-blooded murder.” NOT THE FIRST "CUT IT OUT.” It appears that John Temple Graves and the other Georgians were not the first orators to ‘be mowed down and laid aside by the President’s Imperial and terrifying "Cut it out!” Discuss ing the tragic affair, the Washington Post says: "It is now asserted that a similar incident occurred at the recent un veiling of the McClellan statue In this Capital. Gen. O. O. Howard had begun a speech which, judg ing from the mass of manuscript in his hand, was to-be longer than the moral law. If the tale of the witnesses is to be believed the President was extremely fidgety while Gen. Howard was getting under way. When the speaker stopped to pour out a glass of water Mr. Roosevelt turned and whispered a word to the presiding officer, who nodded and instantly gave a mysterious signal. As Gen. Howard replaced the glass and cleared 'nis throat the brass band struck up one of those stirring, fine old battle hymns of the re public. which so entranced Gen. Howard that he stood spellbound, and finally took his seat with his speech undelivered." The Post pointedly adds: "If the AS TO PROH.stITION. Discussing the prohibition campaign now on in Lowndes County, the Moul trie Observer, printed in a neighboring county, says: We have seen a few writers who strongly presented the side of the open saloon. One of these is the present editor of The Macon Tele graph. Col. Pendleton has opposed prohibition for many years and for many other reasons than business advantages gained by saloons. Years ago he championed the open saloon In the columns of the Val dosta Times and held his own against all comers. Since he went to Macon he has parsed through a memorable campaign and .he wrote a series of articles signed "Charles Rittenhouse” tha't at tracted attention throughout the State. Col. Pendleton has a worthy suc cessor in Valdosta in the person of "Old Timer,” who has recently contributed many articles to the Times of that city. He doesn't waste space abusing prohibition ists but writes In splendid humor, asks pertinent [ questions. handies prohibition speakers with ridicule, and occasionally presents some verv sound thought. The Observer is a prohibition pa per, first, last and all the time, but it has respect for the man who can control his temper, confine himself to reason and contends for what 5ie honestly Relieves to be right. The editor of The Telegraph has never defended the abuses connected with the open saloon, and never will. He never apologized for the low dog gery or dive, and never will. But he has for a number of years contended that the open saloon, wit'h God’s sun shine falling upon the doorstep, is bet ter than the blind tiger and the speak easy which crawls around In the dark, Experience has shown that this posi tion is correct; at least experience ‘lias shown it to those who are willing to open their eyes and look the question squarely in the face, which some other wise brave men will not do. Another thing which has governed tils course. On the occasion, referred to above—in fact on several occasions— he put the question squarely: -Do the Scriptures teach prohibition? No one has yet pointed out the text. But the Scriptures are full of admonitions against the abuse of liquors, and warn ings to those "that giveth his neighbor drink—that putteth thy bottle to him and make him drunken also—that thou mayest look on their nakedness." The excess is forbidden. The act of giv ing it to him to make him drunk, so that one may see his nakedness, is for bidden. It is so from Genesis to Rev elations. But there is no prohibition of the manufacture and sale, and mod erate use there. On the contrary the moderate use. even on social occasions, as at the -wedding feast of Cana, Is commended by the example of the Lord Himself. Blot out the record made in the Book and then the editor of this paper may or may not become a pro hibitionist in the absolute sense. This much would not have been said here now. If the matter had not been brought up by another. We have read some of "Old Timer’s” articles, and so far as we have read them we are con- inced that he takes the proper view of the question. The prohibitionists make the mistake of not directing their plendid energies in behalf of the reg ulation of the saloons, a thing more easy to be done than to trap the blind tiger, or run down tbe speak-easy. This previous record, which has so, tried the patience of the public, ought President had procured the playing of to -be taken into consideration by the.'Dixie' at the moment before John Senate Committee on Military Affairs'Temple Graves was to speak the great which Is still hearing testimony in the [Georgia minstrel might have ibeen con- Brownsviile cise. The Senate commit-j tent to 'bottle up his impassioned tee would al»> do well to consider the j strains, or to do his best in that direc- atrocitles perpetrated by negroes with tlon. But to be corked and stoppered army guns 5n their hands thirty-two j by a rude 'Cut it out!’ is more than years ago. It would be profitable to human nature can stand any greater difficulties in the future than artificially heated houses by mod ern methods in the past. However this may be, and whether the tropics ever again become popular pUices of residence or not, it is safe to predict that the time is to come when the milder and more equable cli mate of the Southern States will be generally preferred to that of the States of the North and the provinces of Canada. During the past backward spring very many of the people of those sections have doubtless asked themselves more often than usual why they should face the struggle to keep warm during so many months of the year when a more Inviting climate full of industrial opportunities Is within reach. THE LANDS OF SUN AND BLOOM. A former generation contended that only people imported from tropical Africa and their descendants could with Impunity labor in the fields under the sun of our Southern States, all of which are in the north temperate zone. But that absurd notion—originally manufactured as an argument in favor of the slavery institution—has long Something 1 been exploded, and now it is even look Into South Carolina’s records, for [serious will come of this—see if It [stoutly maintained that white men can example, in which State the white i doesn't. John Temple Graves will I surmount the climatic difficulties of military companies were disbanded, | either withdraw his suggestion that 96,000 negroes being then enrolled and J Bryan nominate Roosevelt, or his next kept under arms at a great cost, and,' speech will be twice as long as It as la shown Oy Republican testimony! would have been, or some other dire la ex-Secretary Herbert’s "Why the j consequence will mark his resentment. Solid South," p. 94, “an In- [It la Impossible that the bobolink ot the tropics themselves. For example, In his address at the graduation exercises of the Cornell University Medical College last week, Col. William C. Gorgas. of the United FORAKER’S GOLD BRICK. Senator Foraker must surely begin to suspect that a gold brick was palmed off on him wften he was per suaded to take up the cause of tha ■Brownsville rioters as a means of se curing the nomination for President. During the three months of official in vestigation between thirty and forty reputable citizens of Brownsville, some of them people of high standing, have testified that they saw the negro sol diers firing their rifles, some from the gallery of B Company’s barracks, others over the fort wall and others In the 'streets of Brownsville, some of the witnesses having even counted the ne groes as they passed through the streets. Moreover, expert testimony has established beyond doubt that the bullets fired could Slave come from no other weapons than the new rifles in the sole possession of the soldiers. The voluminous testimony as summed u seems conclusively to establish the following facts: Certain' members of the Twenty-fifth | Infantry, identity unknown, were seen on the night of August 13 to fire their rifles from the gallery of B. Company’s barracks and from the wall of Fort Brown toward the town of Brownsville. Certain of the negroes then jumped over the low wall surrounding the fort and ran up the alley, shooting at va rious houses and citizens. They went up an alley a distance of little less than 950 feet, their ob jective point being Tillman’s saloon, where the negroes had not been per mitted to drink at the same bar with white men and a separate bar had been established. Here they shot and killed the bartender as he was attempt ing to close the gate from the alley to "summer garden.” They also shot at man standing in the door of the •sa loon, the shot going through his coat, but not injuring him. This man tes tified that he saw the negro troops shoot at him and kill the bartender. The entire fort was practically in charge of negroes, the officer of the guard being a negro non-commissioned officer. The sentry at the gate gave the alarm by discharging his rifle three time's. The officer of the day, a com missioned officer, was sleeping so soundly that he was the last man In the fort to be awakened. A negro soldier gave the order for the call to arms immediately, after the sounding of the alarm by the soldier, and this threw everything within the fort into confusion, released the guns from the gunracks, led to an order to put out all lights, and made it possible for the soldiers who had run out into the town to return under cover of darkness and fall into line in their re spective companies before they could •be identified by their white officers, who were, moreover, unsuspicious, be cause they believed that citizens had fired on the fort Against all 'this direct testimony stands only the denial of the accused men and their comrades’ "conspiracy of silence.’’ Foraker is likely to find this issue a poor investment. "What he gains by it is apt to be more than offset by what he loses. POOR TEACHERS OF DEMOCRACY, taristlcs of the majority of the Sena- After emitting the summer throne tors from the Northern States, room at Oyster Bay Mr. John T. Times have changed, the almighty Graves declares that "it is doubtful if • dollar rules, and the strongest men in the country ever had In fifty years a i our time are found in business life, better Democratic President than The- j That is why only a minority of men odoro Roosevelt” ! of the first rank are n-ow found repre- This leads the Chattanooga News tojsenting any section of this country in remark that “Democrats all over the the political field. country will search in vain to see! ” where President Roosevelt ever de- ; HIS OWN BOSS, dared fer a revenue tariff, the cardinal Chancellor Day, of Syracuse Unlver- tenet of the Democratic faith. They ) sity, attempts to trace a connection be- can find no place where he ever signi- • tween the death of John Hay and the fled any sympathy for a number of ‘progressive” politics of Mr. Roose- other old Democratic doctrines, such i velt. ''Before the death of John Hay, as State right's, individual freedom and ! he says, "President Roosevelt was corn- equality before the law. President j paratively safe and sane because he Roosevelt is the archangel of war and allowed himself to be guided In a large the devotee of power. The mailed fist j measure by that truly great statesman. Is his emblem and mightiness in battle Since then he has been a wild engine— his daily song. That is not Demo- you know what a wild engine is!" cratlc. It is not American. President! "But,” pointedly objects the Fhila- Roosevelt is not a Democrat: he could [delphia Record, “one of the most start- not be and continue to hold the policies I ling and characteristic of all Mr. for which his administration has be- , Roosevelt's acts, and one of the most come famous. If Alexander Hamilton j difficult to Justify by any processes was a Democrat, then Theodore Roose- except those expounded by Machia- velt is one. If Thomas Jefferson was a j velli, was the partition of Colombia Republican, Mr. Roosevelt is a Demo-'and the creation of tho republic of crat. On the great fundamental prin- i Panama out of a dozen conspirators, ciple of the party. President Roosevelt I mostly foreigners and several of them Is against us.” j Americans. That was done either 'by A man who was nominated for i or through John Hay himself, and he United States Senator last year in a not only engineered the transaction, or primary In a Southern State on one j executed the President’s purposes occasion thereafter volunteered ad- ' therein, but he went on the stump in vice to another Senator who expects to } the Presidential campaign •following stand for re-election, something like ! and defended it as a particularly bril- , this: "Don't bother about constitu- ; llant piece of statecraft.” tional question? in your canvass, or : The Record is right. Mr. Roosevelt 'tho greit fundamental principles of J has been his own boss from the outset, the party.’ Get on to some practical and the member? of his Cabinet have issue. What do the people care about; never influenced'him against his own the Constitution or ‘fundamental -prln- i wishes unless It was In the matter of cip!es?’ In my State I worked up the i stopping the tariff agitation to pacify farmers on a proposition to make the ! the growling standpatters. Particu- United States Government work the ; lariy after the election of 1904, Mr. roads, and relieve them of the burden.” j Roosevelt has seemed to act on the That is the spirit that animates the j theory that the people have given him politicians of that cia'ss. To the dogs | carte blanche to do whatever he with "fundamental -principles.” Get ■ wishes. Cabinets, Constitutions and on the (blind side of the farmers and j even statutes to the contrary notwlth- pander to their natural desires and i standing. whip up their prejudices: but teach j r them "fundamental principles,” doc- j A PRECEDENT, trines of Democracy and the science of Tf tho Roosevelt Democrats should Government—no.vrr! The truth Is j decide that the nominee of their party, those fellows do not know themselves, I if not Roosevelt himself, must be like and therefore cannot teach: but they ; Roosevelt in every particular, including know how to get hold of the public [ even the most complete knowledge of teat and swing to it like a young ’pos- 1 animals and the ability to knock out ■urn to its mammy’s mammals until it j the “nature faker?,’’ they can at least away. HUGHES AND HIS VETO. As the Washington Post views it, Governor Hughes’ veto of the 2-cent faro (bill has -prut him distinctly in the running for the Presidency. Says the Post: Here Is what the G. O. P. Is now meditating: The Republicans can win without New York: the Dem ocrats must have New York to make any show at all. Nominate the Republican who has New York nailed down, and the November election will be a cake walk. Hughes has made good; he has delivered the goods. ' He Is a re former and he is that marvelous combination, a reformer who is also safe. The veto of the 2-cent fare bill was a brave thing to do, and the Governor’s argument ap peals to every conservative man in every State. Grover C'eveland never did a braver thing. His veto of the bill to reduce the fare on Jay Gould’s elevated roads front 10 cents to 5 cents made him Presi dent. The measure wa? extorted from the Legislature by public clamor and was the fruit of polit ical cowardice. Governor Hughes certainly could ‘11 terested in ornithology. A letter to Alexander Wilson, an American pio neer in this science, written .by Jeffer son in 1805, thus reads: As you are curious in birds there is one well worthy your attention to be found or rather heard iu every part of America & yet scarcely ever to be seen. It in all the forests from spring to fall, and never but on the toy3 of the tallest trees from which it perpet ually serenades us with some of the sweetest notes. & an clear as those of the nightingale. I have followed it miles without ever (but once getting a view of it. It 13 the 4 size and make of the Mocking bird, I'ghtly thrush colored on the back, & a grayish .white on the breast & belly. It is said that this tree-top bird has —strange to nay—been identified with our “ground robin.” Jefferson is also quoted as saying of Daines Barrington, who denied tho American origin of the turkey, that “the arguments -he produces are such as none but a head, entangled and kinked as his is, would ever have urged.” This !■» comparatively m!!d, but It have had no thought of .promoting his ,, , ... . . _ , _ .. . i could be pointed out as a precedent for the Olympian wrath that has thun dered forth from the White Houso against our* modern “nature faker.” j and it gives the enthusiasts a great It would be interesting to know what the wild waves were saying at Oyster Bay. William Johnson was the Harry Or chard of Atlanta. You can't lose that town. political fortunes by this particular act. but If it has tbe effect to inform the! public mind of the fact that there is a ; right way and a wrong way of re forming things it will prove valuable!^, more opportunity to flnd somo _ whether it makes him a Presidential thing .*j effersonian .. in Roosevelt than candidate or not. i has ever before been within their TIMES HAVEi CHANGED. [reach. Discussing the choice of John Hollis: The Sava nnah Press is converted to Bankhead to succeed Senator Morgan [ tbe ben eflt of eating a light breakfast, the New York Sun rather acidly re- : In fact H says .., t is bet ter to begin marks: "To the gentleman and the [ the day wIth an empty -stomach.” It scholar, to the sta tesman of great at- i appears about lbe onIy p]an of evci tatnments and patriotic spirit and pur- | beat i n g the meat trust. pese, succeeds the politician whose! only recommendation is that he can I ‘T am not only opposed to a third make robustious stump speeches and [term but a second.” says Mr. Bryan, as a member of Congress obtained fori Yes. but how mans’ runs is your limit? his constituents a fair share of appro- . That is the question the country is priation pork—a contemptible succes- [ worried about. sion, indeed! Intelligent and patriotic} New Yorkers may deplore it all the ; " Back t0 the Constitution.” says Col."- more because for the time being New 1 Wotterson, but some folks think John York's Senate seats are occupied by Temple Graves’ slogan. Back to the -pie such wretched effigies.” counter, is more inspiring. The Baltimore Sun finds in this "an ! Implied recognition of the honorable | part which tbe Southern States have j played in making tbe Senate a power ful and distinguished factor in our | Government.” Indeed, It says: "The I resentment which some of our North- I a woman’s organization in Sweden is ern contemporaries display because the j called the "Dammklub.” The women gentleman who may succeed Mr. Mor- [ [ n this country mentally apply th!s gan in the Senate is not of -Mr. Mor- ! name to the organizations their hus- gan’s type is a gratifying tribute to the; bands belong to. South. It seems to suggest that the! country expects the South to keep up. A member of the Japanese embassy the standard of excellence in the Sen- , in Washington remarked, "There la a ate, even If other parts of the country I yellow journalism In Japan as well as show signs of decadence. ‘New York’s America." Some of the people over Senate seats,’ says our contemporary, j there actually appear to .he yellow. ‘are occupied by wretched effigies for, the time being.’ Why, it asks, should • the South make the grievous mistake i Henry James has written a novel en titled "The Prevaricator.’’ It is well for Henry that he writes in a language that President Roosevelt nor anybody else can get a hold on. Win President Roosevelt please I classify the faker who started the cam- . . ... .. „ . “ „ . , - ; paign rumor that somebodv wanted to of substituting Davis, of Arkansas, for „ . . , c. assassinate Fairbanks and Foraker? Senator Berry, or Bankhead for Sen- , ator Morgan, when it might send to the Senate men who would reflect credit I la the b’g stick mightier than the snickersnee Is a question looming up States army, "who banished yellow [tor the future to decide. "Col. (Eryan Is one of the greatest lecturers in the world." says the Dal- upon the South, and add to its Power L News Another ]ec turing President as a political factor in the nation?” | wouId certainly ,- oe t00 mucb for th? Perhaps the (best way to answer this j coun t ry question Is to ask why the North has i long since made the 'same "mistake?” in the piping times of peace some of As the Baltimore paper Incidentally ! the naval officers. It appears, turn their observes, "mediocrity, political sagac-I talents to smuggling and swindling ity and wealth" are the ohief charac-^the Government that feeds them.