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THE ALBANY HERALD —BY THB— HERALD PUBLISHING COMPANY. B. M. McI»tosh, PBUIDIVI ABO BDITOB-I»-OHI*». Every Afternoon Except 8unday. Weekly (B page*) Every Batnrday, TBBMB OF SUBSOBIPTIOII. i At7 lUmld, one year.. KM Lallv Herald, six months.. 110 Dtllr Hamid) three month* IK w tealy, eliht p*(«•. one reer. 1 M THE HERALD IS THE j&SgySSSSN-, gon of Georgia tor the Moond Oongreutoaet All lubeorlptloa payable In advene, ino ■sorption to this rale In favor of anybody, "advertising rates ressonnble end nude k (£71° of fianlSt r*K&«Uon* ot respeot and onttnary notions, other then those wbloh toe Editor himself uu (Wens s metier of nows, will he oheriedforet the reM of Bee "'Motloesof ohnroh end sooletyend ell other enterwiument from whloh e rsTenne is to he derived, beyond e brief ennounoement, will bo ■ horsed for et the rate of five oents * Ornon op stelrs, west side of Washington treat, between Brood end Pine streets. Telephone No. 60. The Herald deals with advertising averts by speelel contract only, end no ailta Hieing agent or agency Is author ised to tahe contracts for advertise plants to be Inserted in this paper. If you aee It In the Herald it’s BO. If you advertise in the Herald ft *oes. SATURDAY. JULY SO, rv-jjjrt'.iiiswe—ra - 1901. Thla 1« evidently not going to lie siuidMii for big watermelons. Tim backbone of llie hot wave was effi-fltuaby broken In tills bailiwick last jiiglii. ___________ Havana has one newspnpor, La Lnohu, that favors annexation to tho United States. __ , People ont 111 Kansas and Missouri have gone to holdlug prayormootlngB gnd praying for rain. The strikes throughout tho oonntry are delaying work on the now warships for the ITultod Stall h navy. The Herald Is proud of the faot that Albany has not yet booome a mendicant for anv part of Mr. Carnegie's millions. Oolouel Bryan confirm^ tho story that Agnlnaldo offered to ooutrlbnto »100,- 000 to the Demooratio national oampalgn ftind. The pension grabbers uever will for give Ponslon Commitstoner Evans for turning that $6,000,000 snrplns back into tho treasnry. The newpapers that are abusing Bryan now are the same ones that either sulkrd or desorted the Demooratio party in 1000 and 1000. Governor Honied, of South Dakota, hag appointed A. B. Klttrldge to All the unexplred term of tho late United S ate* Senator Kylo. Poor old man David Nation, husband of tho said Carrie, the smasher, has gone to live with his daughter and "spend his deollnlug years in peaoe." A movement is on foot fortbe curtail mem. »f the ontpnt of Southern yarn mills In order to avoid overproduction and a deorease in the price. The St. Louie Poat-Dispatoh says that nearly every patient taken to the otty hospital In that plaee, prostrated by the heat, is a steady drinker. Ex-Governor Richard Bennett Hub- bnrri, of Texas, died at Tyler ou Friday last. He was a nativo of Georgia and a graduate of Mercer University. Clmnnney Depow is now in Paris and is, of coarse, still talking, and thoro are newspapers on this side that are willing to pay cable tolls on his sayings. The Boers uro not only harrassing tho British troops in South Africa, hot are compel! .ag the British government to borrow money to keep the war going. Tile hot wave appears to extoud pretty well over- the entire country, but the Sooth is having fewer prostrations and deaths from it than any other section. The Augusta Herald says that the Chicago woman who offers $1,000 tor an honest, man has a safe proposition If she loses, provided museum privileges go along. Ohsucoey Depew says that money making is a microbe, and Andrew Carnegie soya it U a gift Those of ua who have neither don't know whloh fpthority to believe. A QUESTION OF POLITICS. In the Macon Telegraph of yes terday we And an article from Mr. J. L. Barnett, of Leary, criti cising the Hrrald for the position taken by thie paper in a recent editorial on the subject of a Southern man for president. The artiole with which Mr. Barnett takes Issue has been extensively published, a number of enr exohanges having reprodnoed it, and his Is the A ret unfavorable comment we have seen upon it. We reproduce Mr. Barnett's artlole in another oo<amn and would have gladly published it if he had sent it to ns direet, The oolumns of the Herald have never been oloeed to those who differ from it and want to take Issue with Its views on questions of pnbllo interest or party polioy. Mr. Barnett is badly mistaken when he aoonses the Herald of "ridionliag the idea of a Southern man for presi dent." From our position and view point the snbjeot is not one for ridicule. It Is a question of politics—polltios of the cold-blooded, practloal sort, at that, and one whloh had os well be divested of all sentiment and considered with dne regard for existing conditions. Tho conditions are not of onr making, nor are they such as we would have 'f we had any ohoioe In the matter. And right here is the only real difference that wo soo between Mr. Barnett and tho Herald. He takes his hearings and views tills question of practloal politics from oundltions ns he would like to Imvo them, while the Herald looks at It and considers It with the conditions that really exist and which mnst be met. Whoro principle nlono is involved, we oan be content to contond for wlmt we oonootvo to bo right, and lose without beomning discouraged. Indeed, we liars been fighting and losing on this lino ever siimo the war betweou the North and South. Bat great political lssaea and questions of party polioy in onr national polltios nro settlod by con ditions—roal conditions, not Imaginary onos. In the War Botwoou the States the conditions favored tho North, and tho North won. If the South had been vlotorious in the great straggle between tho two seotious in the Sixties we would have taken tho constitution and the na tional capital and then it would have been tho North that would have had to "uome hack" into the Union, and tho reconstruction that followed would have boon ou different lines from those tliut were laid down. Bnt there were more of tho Yankees than there were of us, and there are mnro of them yot. And so long as they oan out vote as they are not going to elect a Southern man to the presidency. "The war is over,” on paper, at tho big industrial and oommerolal conven tions and at the reunions of the old soldiers, bnt it is still on in natlonnl pol itics, and the time has not yet eome, In our humble opinion, when the Demo- orals would have a ghost of a showing with a Southern man for their presiden tial oandtdato. The South lias plenty of men worthy and oapnble, and the Herald repeats that the South Is today the oltadel of the constitution and the stronghold of the best type of American oitlseushlp. Bnt the people of the North are not yet ready to admit this nor have they yet reached the point where they oan rise above sectionalism and the prejudices of the past and honor a Sonthern man by eleotlng him to the presidency. That Ohloogo paper whloh Mr. Barnet quotes tells ns the oandld troth, and it 1b useless for us, in the weakness of onr numbers, however righteous our oause may 1 e, to try to fool ourselves with the idea that the peo ple of the North are going to give us anything in the way of political honors and emoluments that they oan reserve for themselves. The only possible chance that the Democratic party has of electing a pres ident is in ohosing a candidate who oan carry some of the populous Northern states whose votes amount to something in the eleotoral oollege. All of these states, suoh as New York and Illlnios, for iustanoe, are doubtful in a national campaign, even when a Northern man or one of their own oittaens Is nomi nated by the Democrats, and with a Southerner for its pandidate the Demo oratio party would not oarry one of them. This la politics; suoh are the conditions. Had we not then, viewing the matter as a question of polltios— and that's what It la—better be content to take a Northern man with a fighting chanoe to win? The fellow who invented straw hats for hones and mules is probably getting rich. The hate an ■eonon the dray and hack bones and mules in every city in the oonntry. A Sonthern Man tor President. From tho Macon Telegraph. To the Editor of The Telegraph: A few days ago we read an article from the Albany Herald ridlouling the idea of a Sonthern man for president. The argument of the Herald in anpport of this position was self-contradictory. The Herald says: "We are as 8onthern as anybody in all that the general ac ceptation of the term implies, and would like to see a Sonthern man eleoied to the presidency, but when it comes to politics we have learned to look at things and conditions as they are rather than as we would like to have them.” While it is true we mast learn to see things os they really are, it does uot necessarily follow that we are to accept things just as they are. We wonld then challenge all right to progress. We are frank to say that the South can furnish as true and patriotic statesmen as any seotlon of onr great country. We have as good presidential material as the North, East or West. We agree with the Herat that "The Sooth Is today the aitodel of tho constitution and the stronghold of the best type of American citizenship. It 1h also true that the Sooth is tho heart ot the Democratic party. ” Now, it does seem that If the above qnotatlou be trne that no seotlon of onr country could claim the right to en gineer the Demooratio party bnt the South. The Herald says the North and the Wost could not be rellod upon to support a Sonthern man, and conse quently we coaid expoot nothing bnt de feat with a Sonthern man at the head of onr tloknt. We might saggost that since the war we have generously given oar support to the North, and with oao exception the ticket has gone down in dofeat. Wo Sonthern pooplo have not been manly enough to commaud the reaped of the other sec tions of onr country. If we are going to acoept "conditions jnst ns they are," at tho same time wc surrender all hope for independent political thought and action. In other words, we surrender ourselves unconditionally to the rale of tho Northern wing of the Democratic party. Wo quote ugniii: "With a Southern Domoornt as tho nominee, sectionalism wonld at otiop bo revived at tho North, and tho same old Hob that have been told on ns for thirty-odd years in a Bpirit. seo.louallsm for political purposes wonld he told again and a great majority at the North would believe them because they want to believe them." Ever since tho war betwoen tho States wo have been grossly insulted time after time by Northern newspapers, Northern statesmen, and Northern officials, ami even today, we uro told by Northern people that wo are very mndh lacking in Industry, intelligence, and business sense. They toll us wo are Ignorant, iazy, slothful. This point Is nicely brought on*, in an uddress delivered Dy Rov. O. H. Purkhurst, . . before his Madison Square congregation, New York City. Bnt with a great deal mor» force by a Democratic paper of Chicago of last November. This dipping was taken from Wednesday’s Telograph : "Without nrroganco, withont malice, without departure from tho truth in the smallest degree, it should bo said and said plainly that the people of the North are better fitted by character, by intelli gence and by industry than those of any other seotlon to rale this government They have rated It for forty years and nothing is more impressivoly written In the book of fate than the faot that they are to rale it for many generations to oome.- "Tho people of tho North have their faults, as every people mast have, bnt suoh as they are, with the light given to them,' they are the people to whoso judgment all questions of polities must be referred and to whose deoisian all parties must bow. "In the mala these people are honest, jnst and generons. They are pre eminently progressive, energetic and ambitions. They are sagaoions and far- seeing. They are self-reliant They are prond. They are Ailed with a mighty faith in themselves in their oonntry. They are brave and high- spirited. They may be grasping, they may at times be avaricious, they may on occasion forget and Ignore the rights of others, but they are well grounded in all that is best in the civilization of their time. They are uot afraid of any re sponsibility wliioh rightfully falls upon them.” Saoh quotations as the last, although it be from a Demooratio organ, is enough to almost curdle the blood in every true Southerner’s veins. We are Southern ers in every sense of the term. We wnut to see a Southern man head the Demooratio tioket, and if we go down iu defeat, lot it he said that it was a Demooratio defeat, and not a Demo-Re- pnblioan defeat, nshered down by the Populists. We sincerely believe that suoh action would develop the strength of the pnrty in every seotion. It wonld oloar the party of a number of Repnblioans who stay in it for office only. It would reooncile the South and West into one solid Demooratio phalanx, wipe Popu lism off the earth and fit the Demooratio party for clean and fair fighting, on purely Demooratio pnnoiples from now till "dooms’ day.” When there are harsh things to be said about the South, we feel that the North should say It and not the Sooth. We do not believe that the Herald meant to torn the book of its hand on its own aeotion, bnt the Inference par taken of that nature. J. D. Barnett. Leary, Gft.» July 12,1901. lira. Jefferfon DuTis is ill at Fort* tend. Me. THE GROWTH OP POPULATION IN CITIES. A bulletin just issued by the census bureau contains sortie interesting infor* mation relative to the urban population of the country. It shows that of the in habitants of the United States, 28,411,- 008 people live in cities of more than 4,000 popnlation, or 87 .3 per cent, of the total. In 1890 the urban popn ation was only 82.9 per cent., there having been in ten years an increase in favor of the cities of nearly 5 per cent. £ About one half the urban popnlation is contained in cities of more than 100,- 000, thirty-eight cities having a com bined popnlation of 14,208,847. Of the per centage of population in cities, Rhode Island leads with 01 0, and In dian Territory is at the foot of the list with 2,5. Georgia’s percentage is 18.0. In 1880 there were in the United StateB 580 places with more than 4,000 popn lation. There were 889 in 1890, and 1,158 in 1900. The Colombia has again beaten the Oonstitntion. That gives each of them two races to her credit. The Columbia’s wins were by small margins, while the OouBtitntion's were .large ones. It ap pears, therefore, that while the new boat shows np a shade the bettor, that shade is not yet conclusive. The Inde dependence, too, has got people guess ing again by her improved sailing, not withstanding she has been beaten in every race. Some days ago It was hinted in a dispatch from London that Sir Thomas Lipton was having the Shamrock II held back in her races with Shamrock I, so as to keep her real speed hidden and thus "fool the Yankees.” May it not be just i ossible that the man ager of the Constitution is having a lit tle jockeying done with that craft, so as to "frol” Sir Thomas Lipton?—Sa vannah News. The Knights of Pythias are after the officers who have committed offiuses against, the endowment runk of the order with a sharp stick. The supreme lodge, in spssion at Chicago, has ac cepted tho resignation of John H. Hin- sey, who was president of the endow ment. rank, and has directed the supreme chancellor and hoard of control to prose cute civilly aud criminally all persons who may be responsible for the present unfortunate status of tho endow ment fund. The Kuights of Pythias declare their intention to stick together and place tho endowment fund again on the strong basis it formerly occupied. An ordor of the war department pro vides for anotlur increase of the artillery under the last army law. to take effect on the first of the fiscal year, .Tnly 1. The arrangement provides that the increase shall be made as fast as the enlistments are completed. For con venience, the total iucreaso is divided intosixths. The new order, authoriz ing an increase on the first of this month, is for one-sixth, amounting to abont 1,800 men. As the increase is made in tho nntr.ber of enlisted men there is also an increase in the number of otfioers, and a number of promotions of artillery otfioers will resnlt. TRY ONE OF THOSE Blue plame Oil Stoves SOLD BY The Cook Furniture Co. They save Fuel, and Vexation, and positively make Cooking a pleasure. ;lectrig FIXTUR] We are prepared to take orders for IE 2. ZEO'-L'-bsIO IEI22I , II?TTIE?IE£3, Wo are agents for tlie_ largest and best manufacturers, and any one needing ~F!, „EO- TTSXO FIXTURES, Glassware, etc.,, are invited to seo us. Largo stock of Joooo always oti hand Tho SlIELBY is the best That’s a, . fact. WE SELL IT—THAT’S AITOTTIEH E’A^CT. ALBANY ORUO C©<§ pMesall® aisad Rofeil!, ALBANY, - (5IB©K(SIAo ALE, BARRELS- APPLE VINEGAR FOR KEEPING PICKLES, ETC. W. E. GANNAWAY. Cotton Faotor and High Grade Fertilizers, HLBHNY, GW. The Herald's hog, hominy and hay campaign has given the editor a noto riety as "an authority on hay" that is getting to be a hit tronblesome. Letters oome from nearly all over the South from (armors who want information abont hay-mnking. It requires consid erable time and labor to answer all snoli letters that coma to the Herald. Next, year tho Herald intends ! to have a "gross patch’.’ of its own. We will make it a sort of experimental hay farm and publish a report on it, 1 giving the mode and expense of prepar-! ing the ground, the yield, the number of cuttings, cost of harvesting, baliDg, eto. The trampling on Bryan's picture at the Ohio Democratic convention appears to have been onpremeditated and un intentional, bnt some ot tho ultra gold- bug and republican papers are trying to attach some significance to the incident. If it had been done intentionally, or if it was done intentionally, it was a very uncalled for pleoe of dirty work and should forever damn the Demoorats of Ohio in the estimation of the party. The registration and lottery plan for the division ot the Oklahoma lands among settlers seems to be a great im provement over the method heretofore employed by the government ot throw ing the tend* open tor • general rash of homeeeekers. , The vagaries of lightning have often been remarked upon und discussed by learned men, bnt probably the most pre posterous vagary of any holt of light ning on record waB that of the one whioh attempted the conqnestof a Ken tucky negro's head, nearLexingtcn, the other day. The negro was standing un der a large oak, for shelter from the storm. The lightning strnok him sqnaroly upon the top of the head, rico cheted nud hit the bole of the tree, which was rent in twain. The negro was stunned for abont two minutes, then got tip, rnhbed his pate and asked if anybody had thrown a brick —Savannah Press. Tho Philadelphia Record says that Boar marksmanship has convinced the British war authorities that swords, lances and bayonets are of little nse as weapons of modern warfare, and that a soldier who can’t shoot straight is en tirely useless except as a target for the ballets of an enemy whose soldiers can shoot better. Hereafter the British sol diers will be drilled in long distance marksmanship as the most essential item ot their military training. Sword, lance and bayonet exercises have been abol ished, and the soldier who can shoot will be the soldier of the fntnre. It has taken a long while, and cost a heap of money, to get this sensible idea throogh the British cranium; bnt the idea is evidently there to stay at last. The Louisville Oonrier-Jonrnal says: "Gen. Gomez says the Unbans jnst want to feel freedom a while before annexa tion to the United States. Bnt why,not oome into Unole’s Sam’s family and feel freedom permanently? There is not a state in the Union whioh is not free— certainly none which is not freer than any of the so-called republics of Span-, ish America.” While those who were unfaithful to the Democratic party in 189(1 and 190(1 are chuckling over the "Bryan incident” at the Ohio convention and congratu lating themselves, if not the'Demooratio party, upon the platform adopted, hero is what Dr. R Reum'in, president of the Ohio Association of Democratic Clubs, says about it: “Ohioago plat form Demoorats will not stand f or what the Democratic convention did. One of two things must occur—either a Demo cratic ticket mus- be placed in the fleid, or we will vote the Rapnblioau tioket. When Bryan was dragged in the dirt, it was a principle millions of Demoorats held sacred that was defiled," The trustees of the Christian En deavor societies presented a silver loving eup to President Clarke, the founder of the organization, and drank his health iu water. This tame performance dis gusts the Atlanta Journal, as witness this comment: "Think of drinking water ont of a loving onp. Bnt, aB for that matter, think of drinking water!” Judge Day, of Ohio, the president’s close-friend, says that the Bryan in cident at Colnmbns will cost the dem ooratio party in that state many votes, and help make repu' lican success cer tain. It was a silly and unbecoming performance. Lord Kitchener states that he is abont to forward to the war ofiloe sworn siatesments of British officers and men to the effeot that wonnded British sol diers were ruthlessly slain by the Boer* at Ylookfontein and other plaoee. What the Alabama constitutional con vention seems to be driving at is to dis franchise everybody who can't be de pended on to vote the straight Demo oratio tioket.