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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN-
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Entered •• second-elana matter April », IttC, at the Poatotflca at
Atlanta. Oa., under act of eonfreaa of March t. 1171.
Fairbanks Glorifying John Brown.
Three weeks from today the vice president of the
United States and presiding officer of the upper house
will participate In the glorification of a man whose
crowning work was thus characterised by a select com
mittee of the United States senate, appointed at the
time to Investigate It:
"The Invasion (to call It so) by John Brown and
bis followers at Harper's Kerry . . . was simply the
act of lawless ruffians, under the sanction of no
public or political authority—distinguishable only
from ordinary felonies by the ulterior ends con-
tefbplated by them.”
Until these historic words, signed by a majority of
that select committee, are expunged from the files of
the Congressional Olobe, and the truth of history Is offi
cially made a He, the vice president of these United
States, who so recently was the recipient of Southern
hospitality, might be doing something better than thus
entering Into fellowship with. treason and felony and
stirring the slumbering embers of a sensitive sectional
ism.
That John Brown, of Osawatomle, was a felon and
a traitor no sane man can deny In the face of the ver
dicts of the courts and the summary punishment vis
ited, upon him for bis.crimes. It Is not a matter of
opinion. It Is a fact of official record.
In the opinion of a more tranquil and conservative
poeterlty bitterness hss In a large moasure given place
to a cynical pity for his civic obliquity, compounded as
It was of malice and madness. He Is looked upon by
the dispassionate thinkers of today as a dangerous Don
Quixote whose self-imposed and chimerical task ended In
his own undoing as the Inevitable consequence of his
fanaticism and folly.
The rancor with which his name was once dis
cussed has passed away, but hta wisdom and foresight
have not grown upon the world.
That he was a madman and a firebrand, and that
he brought reproach upon the honest and well meaning
Iieople who differed politically from the South Imme
diately before the war, stands undisputed and Indis
putable.
Three weeks from today will be the fiftieth anni
versary of that military fisticuff known as "the battle
of Osawatomle.” On the twenty-first anniversary of
that event a monument was erected on the scene of
the contest, out there on the plains of Kansas. In the
dedicatory speech of that occasion the orator of the
day declared that John Brown “dared to be a traitor to
the government that he might bo loyal to humanity."
His loyalty to humanity consisted In part In the cold
blooded murder of flvo men who dared to differ with
him and his followers as to the form of government
which the state of Kansas should adopt.
His treachery to the government Is not denied.
We might well Imagine that somo such sentiment
as "treason to the country that they might be loyal to
humanity” would have risen spontaneously to the lips
of August Spies, Adolph Fisher, George Engel and Al
bert Parsons as they walked to the gallows 20 years
ago for their part In the slaying of seven policemen and
wounding of twenty-seven more because those officers
of the law had attempted to disperse an anarchist
meeting In the Hsymarket square of Chicago. They
were glorified enough, God knows, and nothing they
could have said for themselves would have sounded
more grandiloquent than "treason to the government
and loyalty to humanity."
It would have been a reign of anarchy. Indeed. If
John Brown and hts misguided followers had succeeded
In acquiring any momentum when they captured the
government arsenal on that 8unday night of October,
1859. It would have set a precedent for murder and as
sassination Infinitely worse than organlted warfare.
The determination to make a hero of this shiftless,
thriftless fanatic—the unsteadlest product that ever
came out of the "Land of Steady Habits"—has Inten
sified the bitterness between North and South
thousand fold more acutely than the meeting of brave
men on the battlefield, where each rendered willing
tribute to the skill and courage of the other. It has
brought forth more bomb-proof rodomontades and cor
ner grocery bitterness than Gettysburg and Manassas.
It has been the text of a world of “envy, malice and all
unoharltableneas" which North and 8outh alike would
do well to forget.
John Brown Is dead, and bis soul, so far as there Is
any satisfactory evidence, has long Slnco ceased to go
marching on except to stir up occasionally, even as It
did when It Inhabited the flesh, needless rancor and
recrimination.
At any rate the Iclcular Mr. Fairbanks, who la at
present Important chiefly because he Is vice president
of the United States, could be engaged In many things,
or even anything, more timely and In .better taste, than
participating In the glorification of John Brown and his
guerrilla warfare of treason.
[IngS regularly appointed where the public and Interested
parties may be assured of an attentive bearing.
Third, the committees of the bouse and of the senate
should have regularly appointed days and hours of meet
Ing from which there should be no variation except by
public notice backed by substantial reasons. It Is an
expense sod an annoyance to the public and those Inter
ested In special legislation to have to visit the capitol
and wait for a hearing..
Fourth, the rule covering committee meetings should
be such as to secure the attendance of all of the mem
bers of these committees unless there be a valid excuse
for not doing so.
Fifth, the chief reason for the stxealled lobby Is In
the fact that unless matters of great Importance are pre
sented to members with a personal Interview and within
a limited time, they will be delayed and quite often
legislation Inimical to the best Interests of the state may
be enacted,
The legislature will do a wise thing In passing this
bill. There has been too much lobbying and too much
of personal Interest of an unworthy kind. But no body
of honest legislators can forget ..that commercial and
personal Interests have a right to be heard fully and
freely on all sides of every public question, and that It
Is a duty to avoid a one-sided or prejudiced hearing of
public questions.
It Is very clear that only by the most liberal treat
ment of public and private Interests along these lines,
and by the putting up of the most careful safeguards for
the proper hearing of advocates, can the legislature
Justify the admirable reform Instituted In the Wright
bllL
The rush of the Roosevelt renomlnatlon Is not so
violent as It was a month ago. Has Taft, who “sat on
the lid," now also blocked the llnef
me
thi
lei
Curb the Lobby But Be Fair to Vested
Interests.
Perhape no bill passed by the present legislature
will meet with more general Indorsement and approval
than the anti-lobby bill presented and advocated by
Hon. Seaborn Wright, of Floyd.
It Is yet to be tsken In band by the senate and
there can scarcely be any doubt that the senate will
pass It as emphatically as the hone has done.
The public will applaud this bill in every section
of the state. It Is aimed at an evil which has too long
existed, and which has for many years been a source of
annoyance and Irritation to the voters of the state.
But If the legislature passes this bill there will de
volve upon that body certain self-imposed responsibili
ties to the large vested Intereste which are represented
In legislation throughout the state.
In the first place as It appears to a newspaper seek
ing only the right thing. It should be the duty of the
members of the legislature to personally Investigate all
the bills they vote upon.
la the second place, the committee having In charge
legislation of an Important character should bava hear.
We Join the Red Cross Society.
Surely there ought to be some one In this Ume of
bitterness and trial to play the part of peacemaker and
to moderate so far as possible the bitterness of the
ballot.
In every war there follows after the mailed battal
ions of the warrior the ambulanee and the Red Cross
brigade. And In this wild war of words where missiles
of discussion fill the air with their mission of III the
civilisation about us ought to furnish some element of
reconstruction, of reorganisation and of healing.
As The Georgian Is a noncombatant In this strife
of clttsens, we propose to Join the Red Cross brigade.of
relief and so far as In us lies to heal the wounds of the
battle and to preach the peace which ought to follow
as Its aftermath. '
Men all over Oeorgta are thanking God today that
this bitter and remorseless campaign Is drawing to Its
close. It has been without a parallel In the history of
the state, and Its casualties In character and In repute
wilt outnumber the actual destruction wrought among
the combatants most nearly engaged.
For It has come to pass that not only do the candl-
lates themselves through their organs belabor each other
with uncoaslng venom, but If a citizen of any age or any
station or of any character, sees fit to exercise bis civic
liberty In declaring In public for one or for another of
these candidates, he becomes the Instant target for the
abuse and malediction of the organs of the other side,
and every small and trivial criticism that has been made
In the past Is Instantly raked from the records of other
years to reflect upon him and to prejudjee publlo scntl
ment against his Influence and his name.
No pert of this campaign Is more lamentable than
this. Surely men without malice who entertain and ex-
press their preferences for one or another of the op
posing candidates In this election, are not the legiti
mate targets for the criticisms and the abuses of the
organs of the candidates opposed. In most Instances
these men who take a stand for one or the other of the
aspirants for gubernatorial honors do so holding
In their minds and In their hearts the kindest feeling tor
the others, and the decision of the ballot Is reached
In most Instances purely on public and economic reasons
and with no personal discrimination between the various
gentlemen Involved.
And yet for this simple exercise of personal and
civic right these mon are criticised and assailed as vio
lently ns are the candidates themselves.
So that out of the noise and the bustle of the pens
and the papers, the tongues and the tempers, the com
mittees and the caucuses, the methods and the mass
meetings, the air Is thick with arrows, each with a pois
oned tip, and the hospitals of our fair repute are filled
with the wounded whose minds are sore and whose
characters are aspersed.
Surely the time has come for the relief corps of the
hospital and for the evangels of peace. And so, without
any other than a self-appointment and with no commis
sion beyond the Impulse of general good will, Th'e Geor
gian has pinned the Red Cross upon the arm that moves
the pen and we will seek so far as In us lies from time
to time to soften the asperities of a malignant war with
the mission of relief. We will seek to show that many
of the men whose hands are now at each others' throats
are not natural enemies and may yet be friends. We
will seek to show that many of the eminent Georgians
from whose garments drip the Ink and mud of opposi
tion ramps, are neither traitorous nor dishonored. And,
that within six weeks from this blessed day, when tbs
storm Is stilled and the tempest Is over, they will each
and ail abide once more along the tranquil waters of a
serene and "placid period enjoying the rest and receiv
ing the blessing and the salutation of their fellow men.
/ Unless all precedents are broken, unless all tradi
tions are deetroyed, and unless history for the first time
refuses to "repeat Itself,” the next six months must and
will record not only the rehabilitation of character, but
the restoration of the entente cordial betweed the fierce
and heated combatants who now have the state In a
steam and the people In a stew.
Pave Peachtree Before the Fair
The whole community Is becoming thoroughly
aroused over the delay In repaving Peachtree street
There was every reason to hope that this work
would be takeu up and authorised by the last session of
council, and It Is putting It mildly to say that, there was
a general feeling of disappointment when this wss not
done.
There are a hundred good reasons why this work
should be hurried to completion and not one, so far as
we are aware, why the delay should bb continued.
One of the strongest considerations Is that the State
Fair will be held In this city next October. That time Is
rapidly approaching. Little more than two months now
remain before the gates are thrown open to the public.
There will be visitors In the city not only from all over
the state, but from the country at large. It Is a matter
of some Importance that this leading thoroughfare of the
city should not be found In Its present condition when
those visitors come. They win be disposed to Judge
Atlanta as a whole by the condition of this chief high
way, and In that event, unless something Is done, we will
not create a very favorable Impression.
And yet this Is not perhaps, after all, the strongest
reason to be advanced for hastening this work. The
condition of Peachtree Is undoubtedly a menace to life
and limb as It now stands. The holes and abrasions
make travel a positive danger and very far from a
pleasure.
The effort to secure united purpose on the part of
the abutting property owners and the street railroad
was regarded In advance as a difficult, undertaking, and.
In point of fact. It was not easy to accomplish, but this
co-operation has long since been secured. Those In
terests are agreed, and the amount which the city will
be called upon to pay Is very small. Under these dr-
cumstnnres there s-ems to be no good reason why the
work should be further delayed. It Is conceded by all
concerned that the present asphalt Is actually and hope
lessly worn out. It wouI£ be Idle to talk further of re
pairing It or adopting any kind of makeshift
Give Peachtree a new pavement, and let us have It
completed before the State Fair begins.
The official police of the Jameston Exposition will
be called the "Powhatan Guard." Good. Now see to It
that the uniform Is either Indian or Colonial, and that
the taciturnity of the Indian Is freely relieved by the
friendliness of the Colonial, and a wholesome willing
ness to surrender Information.
Growth and Progress of the New South.
Under this head wilt appear from tlma to time Information lllnatratinf tba
remarkable ileTeluianent of tb« South which deaenrea oometblnf more than pas*-
lag attention.
How Southern Spindles Multiply
The song of the looms and spindles In the South already Indicates that
this section of our common country Is enjoying a large degree of pros
perity, and the rapidity with which those vehicles of Industry are multi
plying gives great promise for the future.
Everybody thought the South was* doing remarkably well when 110,-
000 spindles were added or contracted for In Southern mills during, the
first quarter of the present year, but the second quarter did even better,
for It brought out the announcement that a still furthsr number of 387,-
000 spindles had been added or-contracted for during that period of time.
It Is even predicted by those who are In the best position to know that
the Increase In the number of cotton spindles In the South during the
present year will amount to practically one million.
Georgia Is holding her own In this Increase. That excellent trade pub
lication, "Cotton," In presenting the figures, says that North Carolina's
enterprise Is easily first this year, her additions In April, May and June
aggregating 167.280 spindles and 2,870 looms. South Carolina comes next
with 101,804 apindlee and 1771 looms, and Georgia follows with 44,100
spindles and, 176 looms. Mississippi added during the second quarter 1,000
apindlee, asd Virginia Installed 8,082 spindles. '
Alabama has a record In the second quarter of 4,082 spindles and 24
looms, thus outdoing Tennessee and Texas. . The new spindles In Ala
bama are to be placed, not In new milts, but In old mills at Sylacauga and
Girard. In the Bylacauga mill 8,186 spindles are to be placed. In the
Girard mill 806 spindles.
In this connection we reproduce the following timely and Impressive
paragraph from The Cleveland Leader:
When the veteran editor Henry Watterson delivered an address be
fore the students of Brown university at Its commencement exercises he
advised the young men who were seeking for opporluntles to go South. He
knew whereof he spoke. The lend beyond what was once Mason and Dix
on's line has at last awakened Industrially and the people are beginning
to gather in the fruits. In New Orleans the building under way represents
810,(loo,000. During the last year the building Improvements In San An
tonio, Tex., cost 81,081,000. The year's record for Chattanooga Is about
81,600,000. During (be seine month for Louisville, Ky., they cost 8496,000;
for Atlanta, Oa., |587,000. A significant feature of this record Is the fact
that some of the best new buildings are railroad stations. Atlanta has a
fine new passenger depot and Birmingham, Ala., Memphis, New Orleans
and Little Rock will soon b* similarly provided. The Southern states are
surely coming Into their own.
COMMENT OX REVELATIONS
IN COTTON ASSOCIATION
WHAT IS THE DESTINY OF THE NEGRO RACE?
EXTINCTION
By DR. WM. EDWARD FITCH
In the working out of the problem
of the survival of the fittest the hand!
cap Imposed by nature upon f he black
race Is slowly, but surely, telling
against the negro. Hts little knowl
edge end his Indifference to the re
quirements of sanitation compel him
to suffer the Impost of a heavy penalty
In tho form of disease engendered by
bis surroundings. Torn from his
moorings by the tide of war, the negro
In America Is drifting steadily toward
oblivion and will eventually disappear
below the sociologic horlson, following,
but more slowly, the North American
Indian Into extinction. The race prob.
lem will eventually solve Itself, pos
slbly In lees than a century, for the
negro In America has servsd his pur
pose and must now move on to give
place to the resistless Anglo-Saxon,
whose manifest destiny Is to control
the world.
The coming of the negro to America
was the result of ths needs of condi
tions than existing and the necessity
for their fulfillment In the develop
ment of the country, and particularly
of the southern half. With the termi
nation of thsss conditions by war, a
new er% In the development of the
Southland was Inaugurated In which
the dark-skinned race le but little
available and ss a free agent the ne
gro Is left to work out his own des
tiny. That hs will play any- part of
Importance In the future development
of his adopted country la Improbable,
and as an economic factor may be
Ignored, for as a race he has fulfilled
the object which made his presence
necessary, and It now a discarded bit
of the mechanism of the world's ad-
vanesmeot.
Their gregarious tendencies have
caused them to gather Into towns and
villages In largs numbers and to sxlst
there under conditions far less favor
able to their existence than In the
country districts. The urban life of
this hapless race Is accurately de
scribed by Dr. Seals Harris, of Ala
bama, In American Medicine, who
states that "they are poorly fed, 1m-
jroperly clothed, end their homes are
ocated on the lowlands In the suburbs
of tbs towns, where the dampness of
itmosphere predisposes to tuber
culosis and where all the filth and Im
purities of the towns drain directly
nto their wells and streams, contami
nating their only source of water sup
ply."
Harris furthsr adds that "with such
surroundings and an uttsr lack of re
tard or appreciation for the laws of
health, they become very susceptible
to all forms of disease, particularly
typhoid and malarial fevers and tuber
culosis: and for the same reasons their
(Issues, having lesa powers of resist
ance to the ravages of disease, they
fall easy victims to the felt destroyer."
Hybridisation among the negro race
Is an Interesting subject from an
anthropological standpoint. It Is a
well-known fact In horticulture that
If. for Instance, cantaloupe end pome
granate seeds are planted side by side
they will hybridise, and the fruit
borne on the respective vines will not
be either a Juicy cantaloupe or a fra
grant pomegranate, but s hybrid par
taking of the nature of both, and unfit
for use. Seeds tsken from the fruit
of each vine and replanted will pro
duce a fruit of an Inferior quality, the
seeds after being planted again will
fall to germinate and the hybrid be
comes extinct. We have an Illustra
tion- In animal life that hybridisation
leads to extinction. The ass crossed
with the bone produces an animal
which Is neither horse nor ass, but a
mongrel hybrid—the mule, which Is
Incapable of procreation.
An Interesting side-light could be
thrown upon the general question of
the Increase In the negro population. If
reliable statistics were obtainable as
to the numbers of full-blooded negroes
and the numbers of mutattoes. An at
tempt wan made, In the census of 1890,
to classify the negroes In proportion
to the purity of their blood, but the
results obtained were so unsatisfactory
that nothing of the kind was dons when
the last census was taken.
About ten years ago Professor
Bloomfield, of Johns Hopkins Uplver-
slty, wrote a remarkable series of ar
ticles, In which he discussed the race
question from the standpoint of a
naturalist and anthropotlglit and
reached the conclusion that the per
centage of full-blooded negroes wee
gradually decreasing. Professor Bloom
field believed that the Darwinian law
of natural selection was working In
the negro race, and that In accordance
therewith there was a constant tan-
dtney on the pari of both. men and
women to mate with those of lighter
color than themselves. As far as there
may be fresh Infusions of white blood
Into the race, the bleaching out pro
cess would be accelerated, but, of
course. It would require many cen
turies to po far sllmlnate ths negro
blood as to make the race aa a whole
lose the distinctive characteristics of
the negro.
One who has observed the negro race
In the Bouth must admit that It Is ths
tendency of both sexes to mate with
mulsttoes lighter In color than them
selves. Ths fruits of such marriages ts
small fsmlllss—two, three, or perhaps
four, children, whereas In ths full-
blooded black families from ten to
sixteen children are oommon.
In order to give our readers the
status of the death and birth rate of
the negro race, we quote from the last
census report:
If this Is true, there ts no doubt that
the negro population of the cities, If
not recruited by new arrivals from
the country, would rapidly diminish.
Out of fifty-six cities reported by the
census. In all parts of the country—
North, South, East and West—the
death rale among the negroes Is found
to be greater than the birth rate In
fifty cities. The remaining six cities
are nearly all places with very small
negro populations, where the small ex
cess of the birth rate reported might
be accounted for by an accidental fall
ing off In the death rate for that par
ticular year.
There Is no part of the country In
which the registration of vital statis
tics Is so nearly perfect os In New
England. For this reason the figures
for Boston are particularly Interesting.
They show that during the census yeat
there were 81,981 births and 11,877
deaths among the white population,
making an excess of 2,714 births.
Among the negro population of Bos
ton In the same year the births num
bered 240, and the deaths 887, making
the excess of deaths 87.
In Greatsr New York there were
94,164 births and 70,289 deaths among
the white population, making ths ex
cess of births 16,986. Among ths ne
gro population there were 1,870 deaths
and 1,480 births, making the escess of
deaths 640. In Buffalo there were 9.-
227 births and 6,167 deaths among the
white population, making the excess
of births 4,070. Among the negro pop
ulation there were 89 births and 60
deaths, making the excess of deaths
81. In Chicago there were 42.098 births
and 27,622 deaths In the white popula
tion, mak'og an excess of births 16,666,
Among the colored population there
were 189 births and 679 deaths, making
the excess of deaths 290.
In St. Louis thsrs were 18.9*0 births
and 10,880 deaths among the white
population, making the excess of births
8,640. Among the colored population
there were 694 births and 1,166 deaths,
making the excess of deaths 661. In
New Orleans there were 6,224 births
among the white population and 6,977
deaths, making the excess of births 847.
Among the colored population there
were !,72S births and 8,210 deaths,
making the excess of deaths M76.
Mr. Jordsn on Futures.
From The New York Journal of Com
merce.
There is nothing strange in the feet
that Mr. Harvle Jordan, president of
the Southern Cotton Association, sup.
ports with such vigor as he is capable
of the bill which has passed the lower
house of the Georgia legislature pro
hibiting contracts for the sale and fu
ture delivery of cotton, grain, provls
Ions and other commodities, or of
stocks, bonds and other securities, or
what Is commonly known as “dealing
In futures.” Mr. Jordan has shown on
so many occasions his limited know)
edge and understanding of comihercial
and economic principles, and such an
Incapacity (or clsar reasoning that any
vagary Is to be expected of him. The
only thing that makes what he says
upon such a subject of the least con
sequence le the position he holds as the
head of the Southern Cotton Associa
tion and editor of what assumes to be
the specie! organ of the cotton Industry
and trade of the South, and the oppor
tunity this gives him to mislead the
minds of those whoso understanding
may be no better than his own. Wha;
Is to be regretted Is that the legislature
of any state should at this late day be
misled by the fallacious arguments
used against speculative dealings on
the regular exchanges In commodities
or representatives or value for which
systematic distribution and stability of
markst price can be established and
maintained In no other way. Mr. Free,
man, whose reply to Mr. Jordan's At
lanta article we published yesterday,
put the general case forcibly; but the
matter needs to be pressed home espe
dally to those the market fur whose
product would be constantly In confu
sion except for dealings In futures upon
the cotton exchanges.
Cotton Is a product with which the
advantage of constant buying and sell
ing on contracts for future delivery le
especially conspicuous and easy of
comprehension. It la a commodity of
which about three-fourths of ths
world's supply Is produced In our
Southern states and two-thirds of our
product Is sent to foreign- markets. It
takes half the year to prepare the
crop for ths harvest tlrut begins about
September 1, and the natural tendency
would be for It to pile Into the market
In about three months after that date,
though the demand for It Is a continu
ous one throughout the year and year
after year. Efforts to adjust supply
and demand at a fair price for producer
and consumer Is a difficult one at best
on account of the uncertainty of the
crop, owing to cllmatlo-and other con
ditions. But whatsver may be the re
sult of such sfforts, so far as a season's
output la concerned, the value will be
determined by the relation of supply to
demand. The most Important thing Is
so to distribute the marketing and de
livery of the product over the yesr as
to have that value represented for sell
ers and buyers by a price es nearly
uniform and stable as It can be made.
The effect of wide fluctuations will be
disastrous to selling producers and
buying consumers alike, and profita
ble only to middlemen and speculators
for Immediate taking and delivering,
which need not be simultaneous or In
close succession. When the product
cornea Into the market under such con
ditions competition to sell will depress
the price and men with capital may
capture much of the supply to hold for
higher prices, and spinners cannot tell
what to calculate upon.
Ran With Hsrs and Hold With Hounds
From Ths New Orleans Item.
The committee of five who have been
Investigating tha charges made In the
Georgia legislature, to the effect that
Richard Cheatham, secretary of the
cotton association, baa been dealing
with bucket shops, report that the
charges mads against him are true. He
owned stock In what Is known oa a
bucket shop. He bought and sold un
der assumed names, and he often
signed "secretary” after his own name,
to glvt credence to the Idea that Jil*
operations were for the association,
whereas they were exclusively for him
self. The committee, while admitting
that there Is no law against buying
and selling futures,, condemn Secretary
Cheatham for using his official position
to speculate In a bucket shop, a part of
the stock of which he was An owner.
That Cheatham knew that he was do
ing something Improper Is shown by
the fact that he opened accounts In
fictitious names.
This report will be forwarded to
President Jordan and acted upon by the
executive committee, w hich meets Sep
tember 6, at Hot Springs. A singular
feature of this affair Is that the charges
against Cheatham were made by nts
bucket shop associates, who discovered
that Cheatham was using his Influence
before the legislature to secure the
passage of anti-bucket shop measures,
whan a man runs with the hare and
holds with the hounds, he Is apt to be
caught. The wrong In this case was
that Cheatham made use of his knowl-
edge of the condition of the cotton crop
to bull or bear the market at pleasure
for his own profit. He did exactly
what he so vehemently denounced gov
ernment officials for doing.
Should Probs Furthsr.
From Ths New York Commercial.
The Investigation of the affairs of ths
Southern Cotton Association should not
be stopped where It le. There le a
whole lot of thlngsyet to be brought
out, and the probe should be sent to
the bottom. There was a great chance
of a great deal after that famous New
Orleans meeting, but unfortunately
there was a mlacua somewhere.
8hort on Peat, But 8trong on Futures.
From The Amerlcus Tlmes-Recorder.
Secretary Cheatham may not deal
largely In the pest, but he Is certainly
there with the goods when It comet to
dealing with the futures.
Living Down His Ntms.
From The Rome Tribune.
"My Deer Dick" Cheatham was, per
haps, merely trying to live down hts
name.
His Earnad a Rest.
From The Amerlcus Tlmes-Recorder.
The Hon. Hervle Jordan hes gone to
New York upon a pleasure trip. The
mixing of that barrel of whitewash.,
By Private Erased Wire.
New York, Aug. 9.—John D. Rocke
feller’s fondness for oil has at last tri
umphed and he has given his consent
to have his picture painted, wig and alL
Nerval H. Busty Is the artist who la
to go Into the history of American art
as the only man who ever "done John
D. Rockefeler In OIL" “
It was a portrait of Samuel T. Todd,
l ho retired general solicitor of the
Standar Oil Company, done by Mr
Bussy, which gave Mr. Rockefeller the
Idea of having hie wig painted. After
seeing the portrait of Mr. Dodd, he call,
ed at the Bussy studio and asked ths
artist how he thought a portrait of him
wearing a wig would look. The artist
with supreme frankness replied'.
"It would be a great Improvement
Your expression would not be so stolid
and hard."
"Well, suppose you begin right
away, said Mr, Rockefeller, and Mr.
Bussy began. The famous portrait
n1U be ready for an admiring world
before long.
The strenuous highway comlsslonera
of Oyster Bay have been foiled, for a
Ume at least. In their crusade against
the encroaching plans which they de
sired to clear away. An aged lady.
Sirs. Frederick R. Coudert, put a stop
to their work of demolition. When
Commissioner Hawkhurst led a gang
of men and began to tear down ths
pier, Mrs. Coudert who Is 73 years
old, ran out from the house and order
ed them to stop. They paid no atten
tion to her and ripped a few planks
from the structure. Then ths old lady
ran out on the pier and dared them to
pull It down and let her drown. She
was Joined by Mrs. E. Q Whitney, a
friend, and ths two women defied the
commissioner.
Mrs. Coudsrt ordered her servants
to bring camp chairs and the women
made themselves comfortable. Com
missioner Hawkhurst called for them
to come down, but like Cassablanca,
she refused to leave her post of duty.
Hawkhurst finally turnsd on his heel
In disgust and went away.
"No, I don't fight women," said he
as hs went Then gathering his men
together, he told them to follow. At
they turned the bend of the beach they
saw two women standing on the pier.
One wee waving a Handkerchief.
Hungarians In New York are prepar
ing today to select a committee to at
tend the unveiling at Budapest, on Sep
tember 16, next, of a monument to
George Washington. ' The movement
for the monument was started several
years ago by Hungarians In America.
GEORGIANS IN GOTHAM.
New York, Aug. 8.—Following are
among the visitors In Nsw York today:
ATLANTA—Miss Dubois, W. M.
Richards, R. B. Sey, 8. L. Leers, Mrs.
Rosenbaum, A. Wellhouse, R. O. Camp
bell.
AUGUSTA—D. L. Green, V. F. Mc
Carthy, J. J. Tarleton.
SAVANNAH—Mrs. Fltsgerald, W. P.
Powers, J. P. Lyons. H. Small.
MACON—J. H. Crandall, Jr, J. C.
Holmes. '
THIS DATE IN HISTORY.
1611—John Drjrden, po«t, boro. Died 170L
187*—New York lurremlerod to tbe Dutch.
1767—Port William Henrj aarrendertd to
Montcalm.
1806—Nonimportation act proclaimed b y
President Madison.
1813—Battle of Btonlngtoa, Coon.
18*0—Lonia^ Pbtllppe proclaimed king of
1*41—Steamer Erie burned on Lake Erie; 17*
Urea loet.
186#—Mrs. Charles Matthews, actress, died.
1861—President Lincoln called for *00,000 men
far nine months.
1*71—Celebration of the Sir Walter Scott
centenary at Edinburgh.
1183—Dynamite conspirator! at Liverpool
sentenced to penal aenrltude for life.
1803—Serere earthquake shocks la Callfor*
18M—The yacht Britannia beat tbe Vigilant
at C
ii mm
1803-Pope Plus X crowned.
•gS
died. Born December •» loja.
The Association Must Act
From the Charlotte Chronicle
The Georgia legislator certainly
made good his charges of bucktt shop
ping against Messrs. Cheatham and
Fairchild, two officials of the South
ern Cotton Asoclatlon. Mr. Fair-
child lost no time In resigning. Mr.
Cheatham holds on under censure.
This may be well. The Chronicle Is
not one of the papers that call* for his
resignation. It Is perhaps best for the
>Te matter to go to the executive
whoh .. .. „
committee and from that body to the
association Itself. About the best thing
that could come to pass would be for
the association to take account of af
fairs, which It probably will do at Its
next annual meeting.
Wants ths Whole Truth.
From the Washington Ossetic.
They are smiting Harvle Jordan hip
and thigh on the bucket shop and
cotton future business. We have a
very high regard for Sir. Jordan and
hope he will come through without the
smell of Are about his garments, but
nsvertheless w* want to see ths whol*
truth Come out no mattes who It may
hurt.
No Explanation** Will Satisfy.
From The Maletta Courier.
It seems that XIr. Cheatham, of the
Southern Cotton Growers’ Association,
has gotten himself Into a very ember-
rasing 'position. No explanation that
he can make will satisfy tbe public.
Jordan’s Poor Selection*.
From the Way cross Herald.
The Bouthern Cotton Association
seems to hare received a black eye.
Mr. Jordan doss not seem to be Im
plicated, but he should have been more
cartful In selecting his associates.
Ths Psoplt Psy the Psnslty.
From ths EUavlUe News.
It actually looks as If the Southern
Cotton Association had gone Into the
gambling business. Away goes another
reform move In the Interest of the dear
people, and money was tb» cause of It
