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THE ATLANTA^ GEORGIAN. wmm t The Atlanta Georgian. JOHN TEMPLE GRAVES, Editor. F. L. SEELY, Preiident. J Telephone [ Connection*. Subscription Rites: One Year $8.50 Six Months 2.50 Three Months 1.25 By Csrrier, per week 10c Published Every Afternoon Except Sundsy by THE'GEORGIAN CO. at 25 \P. Alibimt Street, Atlsnts, Gs. V matter April 28, r art of coorrcai V FnfcrM aa ttcood-claaa Atlanta, Ga.. nod* iM. at tba PoatoflNco at of March 1 1179. \% THE GEORGIAN COMES TO GEORGIA AS THE SUNSHINE % God's goodness hath been great to thea; Let never day nor night unhallowed pass. But still remsmber what the Lord hath done. —Shakespeare, Saturday Evening. The apples of Istakhar were “all sweetness on one si lt’, and all bitterness on the other." This real or fabulous fruit bos been employed on many occasions and In many ways to point a moral or adorn a tale, and yet Its adaptability remains fresh and new. The world It full pf men—and even gallantry cannot deny, of women, too—whose dispositions are like the apples of Is* tukhar. In the politer circles of the ontslde world, where they stand In the public gate, they are as sweet as tho )»>ney beos of Hybla. The veneer of courtesy, the shadow of urbanity mark every word and gesture. They stand before the world as Admirable Crichtons. They are “all sweetness on one side." But It Is the other side of this fruit of Istakhar that reveals Itself as soon as they cross the threshold where, In reality, their very soul should unfold "like a Illy with a heart of flame.” That hypocrisy which vice rendors to virtue Is thrown oft as a garment and the Alclblades of courtliness becomes a very Caliban. All tho pettiness and meanness In his nature rises to the top, and we discover that the exemplary cltlxen Is after nil a deception and a fraud. The apple of Istakhar Is "all bitterness" on the oth er side. And the experiences of human life—they, too, are like the apples of Istakhar, "all sweetness on one side and nil bitterness on the other." We pity from our hearts the pessimist who feels that all his days are spent In the valley of the shadow, and yet who would deny that "There's not a string attuned to mirth tlut has its cord In melancholy.” We know that every highway Is Indifferently strewn with thorns and roses, and yet on the other hand we are compelled to realise that tears endure for a night, but joy cometh with the morning. To no human heart Is sticA security assured that the sunniest dreams may not be overcast, nor yet has the Slough of Despond over been so wide and deep but beyond It stretched a smiling valley of peace and sweet content. It Is after all In the Horatlan “golden mean" that men must look for the greatest happiness Is this varied and particolored world. The prayer of Amir rises spontaneously to the lips of every man who has sat at the feet of wisdom: "Give me neither poverty nor riches." Was It not Socrates who gave us a variant on the Impressive theme when he asked that the gods would give him "that which wua best for him, though tn his Ignorance he should not ask for It; and withhold from him that which was not licst for him. though In his folly he should ask for It?" Fagan philosophy, at least, cannot offer us a nobler senti ment. He must be a sophist Indeed who can argue success fully that In civilised society men and women can attain to the hlgheat degree of usefulness through abject pov erty. In a thousand Instances It Is but the result of condi tions which he has brought upon himself when In this busy world, with all Its teeming possibilities, the man of Intelligence cannot graap the hem of fortune's garment and wrest a competency from the list of fortune. He who has suceeded In acquiring at least this competency finds himself obviously better able to contribute to the amelioration of the hard conditions he finds around him and to scatter sunshine In substantial form along the highway of the deserving. It would be a foolish Agur who prayed for poverty. And yet wealth Is not the ultimate goal of human life. The dinner of herbs, and contentment therewith la, we are told, preferable to the stalled ox and dissension. Diogenes ssked nothing of the world's great conqueror hut to stand out of his sunshlno and leave him to his all- sufficient tub. while the gourmet, Aplclus, slew himself lest the remnant of his fortune, still colossal, should not suffice to gratify his luxurious tastes tor the remainder of his days. Better Indeed might he have uttered the prayer of Agur that riches be not vouchsafed to him. They cannot buy buoyancy of spirit or tranquillity of mind or length of days. Happiest of all Is he who has neither poverty nor riches—neither the gripe of moneyless vfexatlon In which "Though six days smoothly run. The seventh will bring blue devils or a dun." Nor yet that abundance of wealth which breeds de generacy and insolence and a disregard of the cardinal virtues of human Ufe which blinds and hardens us to the delicate amenities and the liner joys which no man knows unless he lives dose to the great throbbing heart of the world. Few, Indeed, there are who feel disposed to temper i their wishes to their welfare and restrain their ambition within the bounds of reason, but to Dives and Laxarus alike wisdom and experience commend this world old prayer of Agur: "Oive me neither poverty nor riches, lest 1 be full and deny thee, ... or lest I be poor and Meal.” The Birmingham Age-Herald says It would be "cruel to fussy Atlanta" to Intimate that the population of the Alabama city would be 100,040 tn ten years, but calculates that It will be true. Just the same. Yea. and Alnaator. the barber's fifth brother, calculated that he would sell his basket of glassware, and multiply the profits and aaarry the vlsler’s daughter. But Just then he kicked thi basket and waked up. Bryan Against Roosevelt! What Then? It would be a strange contest between William Bryan and Theodore Roosevelt If the fortunes of politics should fling these two to the front of the political parties which must grapple for supremacy In 1908. Theodore Roosevelt represents all that Is democratic and popular In the Republican party. He was projected by Providence Into tho destinies of this country through the medium of a tragedy that shocked and startled the world. He was the heir and tho successor of the mlldeBt and most pscific president who has occupied the White House during the present quarter of a century. The man to whose station and politics he was tho legateo was, conservative In temper, orthodox In bis Republican creeds, keenly devoted to the business Interests of the country after the theories of Mark Hanna and tho capital lats. and was orthodox to a degree In the advocacy and maintenance of all Republican doctrine, saving only bis independent expression of fraternity and fellowship which so powerfully Impressed the republic. As the heir to this man, Theodore Roosevelt pledged upon the coffin of Ills predecessor his fixed Intention to carry Into execution both tho spirit and the policy of William McKinley. As a fraternlzer of the sections, ho has done fully as much as tho great peacemaker him self, and re-established good will and good fellowship between the sections of the country. Saving only his Invitation to Booker Washington to dinner, and his In sistence upon the appointment of certain negroes to office In the South, no man can deny that the trend of his administration has been broad, generous and fraternal toward the South. Rut he has been a very “bull In the china shop" of the Republican policies. Before the close of his first administration, and from the very day of his second Inauguration, he has been tho aggressive reformer within tho lines of capitalistic prlvl lege and corporate selfishness which the Republican party has so carefully and fully enthroned. There Ib not a Demo crat living today, with tho exception of William Randolph Hearst, who has done so much to unsettle tho tonure of the trusts and the grasp of the corporations as the Republican president of the United States. He has failed In the completeness of many of his plans and has seemed to surrender for policy’s sake at some points of the battle In which his opponents believed that his consistent obstinacy would have won a com pleter victory. This was notable, say. In the railway rate regulation bill, and In the beef trust. But with all this said. It cannot be dented that the Republican president has shaken the foundations of the trusts and the cor porations so distinctly and so definitely that he will be recognized and written In history as the redoubtable opponent and a redoubtablo reformer of his times, To run'such a man as the Republican candidate for the presidency would undoubtedly antsgonlxe In large part the spirit and the traditions of the great organiza tion which elevated him to power, and It Js a serious question how fsr this opposition, whether expressed In fatal apathy or In direct antagonism, would cripple his candidacy and destroy his chances of success. H But It Is also true that beyond the lines of partisan* ship, the attitude of the president upon these economic and corporate questions, as well as the sheer dash and courage of the man, has won to him thousands of Demo cratic votes who might be tempted by his presttgo from their loyalty to the organization which they have fol lowed so faithfully through so many disappointing years. Ten years ago William J. Bryan waB looked upon as the Incarnation of radicalism that stretched almost to anarchy. The mention of his name lifted hands of hor ror all over the conservative East. In the realms of flnsnee mothers frightened their children to obedience by the mention of the name of this Democratic ogre, and there were Democrats of the sound-money school who held him In as holly horror as did the stalwart partisans of the Republican camp. Even In the South, tho alleged wildness of his financial views established an antagonism profounder than any which bad ever been chronicled before In Democratic ranks since the civil war. And one strong and prominent Democratic editor In the state of Georgia denounced him In editorial prominence as the sum and Incarnation of civic and political heresy and villainy. Without any apology to the American republic, and without a slnglo confession of error In his previous views, without an apparent change In his political creeds, and with no open recantation of his political faith, the country haa simply progressed toward an appreciation of Bryan's character, of hfk motives and of the justice of his views, which Is little short of a miracle. It may be truthful to aay that Bryan himself Is not more responsible for this growth or alteration of public opinion than other great forces which have moved along, side of and collateral with the great Nebraskan. eight great newspapers of William Randolph Hearst and the enormous personality of that great execu tive In public affairs have been the mightiest of educators along the lines of tho popular Interest and the popular demands. And these forces have educated so rapidly and so powerfully the mass of American sentiment that they have swept public opinion almost In a tidal wave against the entrenchments of prejudice and ultra-conservatism, under whose cover the trusts and the corporations have grown fat with tha-fullnesa of spoils and of special legls- i ^|Tho triumph of Hearst In New York, the triumph of Dunne In Chicago and the triumph of La Foltette In Wisconsin have struck terror to the entrenched castles of privilege all over tho country, and In the thunder of the people's ballots they have come to look with appre hension upon any definite and popular champion who might be chosen to lead the people tn the tremendous and fateful campaign of 1448. , It Is the very terror of the unknown. It Is the very apprehension of the vast popular upheaval. It Is the shad ow of Hearst and Dunne and La Follette which has frightened the utra conservatives, and even some of the moderate conservatives. Into the eager search for a moderate champion of the Inevitable reform. H^They recognise fully that the people are In the sad- die In this fateful period, and that the people are going beyond doubt or question to win some sort of victory In the coming presidential campaign. And so the su preme concern of these vast organised forces of privi lege and of power Is to break the force of the Im pending blow by giving of thetr vast resources and ener gies In both parties toward the choice of the Iwwt ob jectionable and the most acceptable of the various pop ular evangels out of whom the next president must come. It Is at once the strength and the weakness of Mr. Bryan that, with one accord, this element seems to have been drawn to him. It Is his strength because these men are mighty to save In political elections, and while they might not be strong enough to carry their own creeds and their own champions to success, they would be almost omnipotent It they joined their strength with the conservative element of the popular revolution. It may be set down as true that It these men should throw the weight of their money and their Influence upon the Issue of Bryan's nomination, that the result would be almost Inevitable, and that his final success would depend only upon the question of a choice between him self and some more radical man. Upon the other hnnd. there Is a very grave and se rious danger that tho almost unanimous Indorsement which this element of American politics Is giving to the Nebraska statesman may create In the minds of the people a suspicion that he is not so definite In his alle giance to themselves. One thing may bo understood In this campaign, that the people are awake, that they are Intelligent, and that they are resolved, and If the Impression Is widely disseminated throughout their ranks that the syndi cates, the corporations and the ultra conservatives are too eager for Bryan's nomination, then It Is not yet too late for the people to rise In rebellion and to crown with their leadership tho leader who stands definite and clear and beyond even the suspicion of the favor of the syndicates and the fat of the trusts. Nothing less than definite democracy and a definite leader will satisfy the great mass of the Democratic peo ple of this decade. The Battleship Georgia. It Is ontlrely fitting that the finest and fleetest battle ship In the United States navy should bear the name of the Empire State of the South. Testa recently made on this’ new fighting machine reveal the fact that this Is the case. She has already developed a speed on her trial runs which more than meets the requirement of tho guarantee under which she was built, and there can be no doubt that when she Is ultimately launched she will be the queen of the seas. This launching of the new battleship will be made an occasion of considerable ceremony and great rejoic ing, and will take place within tho near future. The presentation of tho customary Bllver service, which, of course, will not be ovurlooked, will be another notable event, and our people must bold themselves In readiness to rise to tbo occasion as tho country expects. We are proud of the Georgia down this way and we are ready to bear substantial testimony to tbe fact. time a man who embodies the qualifications for the direc tion of the State University. If not. then, of course, It Is the duty and the obligation of the trustees to find some where that man who In their best Judgment combines the qualities both didactic and executive who will min Ister most largely to the growth and the prosperity of this great school. The one plea which we enter before the judgment and the conscience of the trustees Is that, tn the decision of this great matter, no possible temptation will permit the spirit of politics or tbe spirit of personal trading to enter upon the deliberations of the university’s friends, We may Invoke for that spirit which' has been the curso of the university for so many years, a long period of suppression and repose. No reward of friends, no pun ishment of enemies, no “strengthening of fences," and no purchase of Influence ought to enter for one moment Into the selection of one who stands In the highest and the most sacred office of the state. May tbe spirit of wisdom and unselfish patriotism guide the university trustees In their serious and mo mentous work. * The University Chancellorship. The time Is now close at band when tho trustees of the University of Georgia must select an executive head for that great Institution to succeed tbe lamented Walter B. Hill. Tho canvass of names knd of personalities for this great and responsible ststlon has been wide and com prehensive. The editor of The Georgian has contributed Irom various sources suggestions which filled his mind with regard to tho place, and we have had hearty things to aay of many eminent gentlemen whole names have been mentioned In tbii connection. We desire here and now to enter a warning against any apathy or indifference In thla great matter. It will not do to defer final action until the last moment and then hurriedly and Impulsively-select aome man for the place who may be abundantly fitted or who may Juit aa likely be lacking In the elements of success. It requires brains, Judgment and tact In no small degree to choose a proper head for the University of Georgia, and we earnestly trust that the trustees even now are sitting up at nights taking thought of this Im portant duty which devolves upon them. We have no particular name to offer for the con sideration of our fellow alumni boyond those whoso claims and qualities we have already exploited In these columns. Wo do feel like repeating once more the proposition that. It a teacher can bo found In the teaching rank of Georgia, strong, able, tactful, sufficiently equipped, and with executive ability for tho work, that this teacher should be promoted from a lower station to this exalted place. Wo do not feel that anjrihlng short of extraordinary emergencies should justify the planting In tho chancel lor's chair of a man unfit for tbo position by tempera ment, by training, by tact, or by record. We feel that It would be Just aa proper to put a teacher at the bead of a great mercantile establishment ns a great merchant or a great banker In the chair of the university. Great callings require special training, and no science Is moro carefully, and rigidly developed In this day than tho practical aclence of teaching. We have In our minds no particular teacher In Georgia whom we desire to suggest In connection with tbla high'position, and wo are simply debating a general proposition, to which the trustees may or may not give their consideration and regard. It may be possible, although It should not bo so, that the teaching rank of Georgia does not furnish at this The State of Oklahoma. Only the stroke of a pen remains In order to create a new state and add a new star to the constellation of American commonwealths. On Thursday the house adopted the conference re port admitting Oklahoma and Indian Territory Into the union as one state, and at the same time permitting Arizona and New Mexico to vote separately, at the next general election, on tbe proposition to come Into tbe union as one state. Tho delegates from tbe two last named territories feel very bitterly on the subject, and In the course of the debate Speaker Cannon was severely attacked by Delegate Smith, of Arizona, for having, as the delegate alleged, “log-rolled" to keep the territories out of the union as separate states. In the meantime the people of Oklahoma and the Indian Territory are lighting bonfires and holding public meetings, marked by great rejoicing, over tbe fact that at last they are to enter Into'the sisterhood of federal states. The public In general will share In this rejoicing. The two territories together have a population of two millions and a half. They are a thrifty and Industrious people. It seems only a few days since Oklahoma was opened up for settlement and places which are today magnificent cities were a. tented field. The soli and cllmato are well adapted to the highest development and the now state will be one of the most magnificent in the union. The Indications are that tbe two senators from the new state will be Democrat* and that the alx repre sentatives' who will enter congress nnder tbe reappor- tlonment will also be of the same political persuasion. If the people generally approve of the admission of tbe new state we believe that, aside from ajl passion and bitterness, they will confirm the wisdom of not ad mitting Arizona and New Mexico as separate states. It Is doubtful If much more thap half the people In the latter territory can yet speak the English language, while In both territories together there are not more than 300,000 Inhabitants. Such, at least, are the figures given out by Speaker Cannon In his defense on Thurs day, and It this bo true It Is quite sufficient to allow the two territories to vote on the question of admission in Joint statehood. • Congressman Lester’s Fatal Accident. The entire state Is unspeakably shocked and grieved at the announcement of the fatal accident sustained by Hon. Rufus E. Lester, member of congress from the first district, while tbe circumstances of this melancholy event lend to It an additional pathos. Congressman Lester la In his sixty-ninth year, and for eighteen years of that time he haa been a member of tho lower house. Previous to hts election to that body he had distinguished blmsolf at the bar, on tbe battle field during tbo porlod of the civil war, and In state politics. In each and every walk of life ha had proven him self worthy of the high trust reposed In him. He was a man of strong convictions and devoted loyally to his constituency. Aa a member of the rivers and harbors committee he rendered excellent service to our common country and enjoyed tbe respect and esteem of all hla associates. Thp tragic close or his long and useful life Is deeply deplored and there will be sincere mourning throughout the state and country. GEORGIANS IN GOTHAM. By Private Leased Wirt. New York, June 18.—Here are some of the visitors In New York today: ATLANTA—H. Sawtell. C. a North- en. \V. E. Borne, T. D. Thornton and wife, W. C. Warfield. AUGUSTA—E. G. Ferrell. SAVANNAH—J. M. Denton, H. S. Coldlng, Miss Wylley. IN PARI8. Special to Tbe (Isofgtsa. Parle, June It.—Joseph O. Magglonl and Mrs. N. C. Osaola, of Savannah, and Joseph May, of Atlanta, registered at the office of the European edition of The New York Herald today. The Traveling Man’s Poeitlon. Atlanta, Ga.. June II, 1148. To the Editor of The Georgian: The editorials of The Oeorglan and of the few other dally papers who have written any In behalf of the ef forts of the Travelers' Protective As sociation of Georgia to secure an In terchangeable mileage book of 8,000 miles tor 3tn, le appreciated by the members of the association and the traveling men generally. There le a mistaken Idea among the publle regarding the membership of the Travelers' Protective Association. The railroads themselves think that only traveling men belong to this army of over 81,404 In tha United States. Hundreds of manufacturers, wholesale and commission merchants, as well as their buyers and salesmen, are mem- ben from New York to Oregon and from Canada to Mexico. These men represent millions of dollara and are the people who create freight and pas senger business for tbe railroads and steamship lines of the nation. The writer has come to the conclu sion that the main reason the South ern, Central and Georgfh Southern and Florida reads won't Join the present Interchangeable agreement Is purely trall-headednees on the part of the Southern. This great system has the opportunity of a lifetime to lead off with a 3,040 mile book for StO, ask ing all trunk lines in the southeastern territory to Join, thereby bringing about the solution of the passenger rate fight and making frl.nd- of the men who route the freight sad who have been giving It to other lines when pos sible. The Travelers' Protective Assoc It lion le not trying o» drive any read Into the I-cent agreement.. It has been pa tiently waiting for six years for a gen eral Interchangeable book for $35, and asks the roads to sell a 3,404 mile book for 344, good over all trunk lines In the southeast. Different roads In tbe state sell trip books at leas than 3 cents per mile, even down to 1 cent, we have been told by holders of these hooka Why Is It done? It must be to Induce peocle to ride more. It Is all right to do this, but Isn't It asking even less of the roade when the Travelers' Protective Association offers to Invest 840 In ad vance for a book at 3 cents per mile, which will be ridden out In sixty days by the average traveling man? The roeds know that the traveling men muet ride on their trains. If they sell their goods In the territory they work. They know they have them at their merry and reruse to aell to the men, who are traveling freight agent* In a sense, books of a larger denomina tion and at a higher rate than the trip books referred to. Suburbanites can many times uae a street car or have more than one railroad on travel—a difference. It several thousand tra work Oeorgla, and ea at least 4,004 miles of able book each year, 10,444 miles, and the advance fer these boo a large sum of mom dollars of which the for several months wli fore the books are ride Take the traveling i and the freight basin. A merchant would not often or buy by mall now buy* from tho who call dally. The filled every day. The about aa many paasen haul comfortably, so t the state being too to allow thla reducU rates won’t do. Any i In travel would necesal end It costs no more train than on* half fu Mora than two year made the prediction 3,004 or a 1.400 mile per mil* Interchanges! east was placed on would have to face a f fiat rate In thla entire K tla baa led off and w next. On June 30 1 Tana Association con ta. and no doubt thl will be aettled on* wi THIS DATE IN HISTORY.' JUNE 16. * 1288—Edwanl I of England bom. Died July 7, 1307. 18*7—Battle of Stoke; lost great bat tie on English soil. 1520—Luther excommunicated by the 1048—Henrietta Stuart, duchess of Or leans, bom. 1722—John Churchill, duke of Marl borough, bom. 1802—United States treaty with Creek Indians. 1815—Napoleon defeated Blucher at Ligny. 1623—Sir Henry Raeburn died. 1830—Eruption of Mount Etna. 1846—Cardinal Maatal-Kerettt elected .... P 0 ”® wl,h ,h * ,l,le Plus IX. 1868—Grant repulsed at battle of P* tereburg, Va. 1871—Triumphal entry of victorious Germans Into Berlin. If*?—:Pau! RaJou, artist, died. 1*48—Attempted assassination of Pre .eat 5}'* r ,C rl *P | - Of Italy. 1 895—Third Avenue theater, New York, burned. 1897— Hawaiian annexation treaty signed. 1898— Bering tea award paid. 1908—General Rohrtkoff, governor gen* eral of llnland. assassinated. A Reasonable Deduction. P"You were a long while at church," •aid Subbubs, who had remained at home aa usual. Til bet the minister gave you fir* and brimstone today." "He did. Indeed," replied Mrs. Sub- hubs; "how did you know?" "I just thought he would. I eaw their girl going down to the station with her trunk Just after you started for church.''—Philadelphia Press. It will either go as the Travelers’ Pro- *- t J T *,A" oc 's<t 0 « wishes, and more than 81,444 men In one of the best m**"**?* onO strongest associations of Its kind, financially and otherwise. In the world will see their patience re warded and this fight erase, or It will be against the roads' best friends and a fight to the finish. Tbe association can w|n In tbe legislature*, aa It has always won, but that la not what It wants. It wants a peaceable settle ment on June 30. W. \Y. HYATT. tup: right to vote. An Open Letter to John D. Moss. Mr. John D. Moss, Athens, Oa.-Mv Dear Sir: During the recent eo„ve„! tlon of manufacturers of cotton good, held at Asheville, N. C„ y ou w, * among those who spoke on the !„ c ! of labor in the cotton mills in tha South, ami in evory_other Industry ,! which our people are engaged ' ° The Associated Press reported that among other pointed remarks pertinent £u th .:,d Q U“ ,, ° n under con^era^ ttclnns, and It Is our fault" the P 011 *, Your speech Impressed me deem. Its very essence was contained In sentence I have quoted. in About the time your convention engaged m the discussion tn which v™ took an active nnd highly credit. 5 ** part, the senate of the United s had In hand a bill amendator? of th! general Immigration law of the couj! The fact which you emDha«(7*.i » strongly was clearly brought m the d!? bate In the senate. ne d# - The moment I read the synopsis of your speech, I determined to write v™ an open letter for the reason that thX time Is opportune te make an effort tJ arouse the tax-payers who have l, r « Interests at stake, and to win the tentlon of good citizens who are not .ax-payers to an appreciation of their fo r'ote. " ,, °' , " e " ed « ‘he right Circumstances which have attended elections In this state and In other states were of a character that bernt disgust In the minds of men who prU, above gold the right to vote 1 ” Methods .which have obtained is quite every canvass preceding elec, tlons. and methods alleged to have been practiced at the polls, have had tho effect of disgusting a large , steadily increasing ntTmber of m2 electorate. ln * Tho result is that gentlemen, espe- dally young gentlemen Just arrived at the ago when they should not onlv mnnlfest but take a lively Interest In the nffalrs of the state, the county, the municipality, the ward, declare that they will not have anything to do with politics. Taking this view of the riues- tlon, they refuse In many Instances to register, or, having registered, refrain from voting. The primary-, or nominating election, la practically the election, and Is so ac cepted, exceedingly Jew votes being cast at the regular election. The primary may, therefore, be taken as a guide In the matter of interest shown In 'an election by the people Regardless of Issues, hundreds refuse or neglect to vote. Oftener than otherwise. It Is a clear case of refusal to vote. Are there many who resolutely adopt and religiously adhere to this mis taken policy? Let us see: Take the primary election held, not long ago, for members of the legislature and for county officers ln the counties of Ful ton, Muscogee and Richmond. In Fulton, 7,733 citizens registered and were qualified to vote. If there was no opposition to any countv offi cer, there was a sharp contest for senta In the general assembly of the state—a contest vigorous enough to in terest and rally voters to the polls, and yet the highest vote cast was 4,- 305. Nearly one-half of the qualfled vot ers did not exercise their great fran chise. In Muscogee .county, the same con ditions prevailed aa In.Fulton. Three thousand four hundred and one cltliens registered, snd were In 'position to vote. The highest vote cast was 2,777, so quite 740 electors failed or refused to vote. In Richmond county, 5,562 citizens registered. The highest vote cast was 4,893, so nearly 700 qualified electors refused or failed to vote. It may be set down as an Incon trovertible fact that those who remain ed away from the polls on the occasion referred to did not belong to the class of voters who can be kept In "pens over night” or whose votes can be con trolled or purchased. They are of those who Insist they want nothing to do with politics. The men who can be penned up and on the morning of election led to the polls, like dumb-driven cattle, are never among those who neglect to vote. The men who, forgetting their manhood, will sell their votes, are never among those who refuse to vote. In the three counties Instanced, 16,- 696 dtzens became qualified voters, and 4,755, or 38.4 per cent, refused or fatted to vote. To my mind, the foregoing facts pre sent a very serious situation. It Is • situation so allied to the best Inter* est of all tbe people. It must be promptly met and successfully com* passed. , How may, this be done? By appeal to the best people In every community —the men who nro proud of American cltxenshlp nnd who value above rubles the highest privilege Inherent In Amer- , lean cltlzenshp, the right to vote; the I ballot which, cast according to the dic tates of one’s judgment and conscience, shall be a weapon of defense or of. finw as circumstances may demand. Away with the suggestion that poli tic* should be tabooed by the best citizens—by the young men of sny community. This Is a government oi the people—presumably by the peo ple. When every qualified voter, pre- serving his manhood, shall take suffi cient Interest at every election to vote ln favor of the best measures and tor the best men. It will be a government actually "by tbe people, for the peo P, Thl* being true a* to the character of the government under which live and struggle to be prosperous, use ful and happy, politics Is an essential pert of every citizen’* life-work Demagogy and demagogues are be avoided, not politics, not the gr«‘ clvc duty of duly exercising the_elecj f tlve franchise for the prelection an advancement of the best Interest of ,h ?r’public speakers. If ministers of the gospel. If the presa would take up thl* Important subject and dlspa^" ffVS.I-d.T'SK.VSj"”"? I Inaugurated and eetabllshed. ” truly and respectfully, _..... MARTIN V. UAI.\ I* Augusta, Ga. "Straw Hat* Day at “Pannsy " "Straw hat" day at the University Pennsylvania caught many dealers u aware*, and aa a result there was most a famine In summer headgear j Saturday. There la an unwritten •* at tha un 1 u " **••» atmw hats mu be worn . Saturday 1 lajr. Tncre is an r university thxt strew hats mu r for the first time on the fir ‘ ln May. and all students ah X find their last-year hats mo for the business center to bk — Many of tbe hatters were supply the demands msu« ft!iDt>* enterprising ^'^ Inserted an advertlsemen The Dally Pennsylranlam the studcn newspaper, and landed • he I J'£K!|pnia the college hoys' trade.—Phllsoeipn*- could not s rush ft. new ones, unable to _ upon them, however, f— The Dally mm