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The Atlanta Georgian. JOHN TEMPLE GRAVES, Editor. F. L. SEELY, President. Subscription Rites: One. Year $4.50 Six Months 2.50 Three Months 1.25 By Carrier, per week 10c Published Every Afternoon Except Sunday by THE GEORGIAN CO. at 25 V. Alabama Street, Atlanta; Ga. la now doing the best work of his life. Hla hosts of friends throughout the country hope for his early re covery. BstarM as saeeod-elaaa matter April 26, ISOS, at the Poatofflee at Attanta. Ga.. under act of eonareae of Uareh S. lift. We Nominate a Mayor on Wednesday. It is not to be forgotten In the absorbing whirl of state polities that the next mayor of Atlanta will be chosen also on Wednesday next. And to the people of this city the selection of the proper man for mayor is Just as Important as is the choice of a governor for the commonwealth of which At: lanta Is the brilliant and beautiful capital. It Is to be regretted that the calm of municipal poli tics has been Invaded to any extent, even a limited one, by the evil example of the gubernatorial campaign. It la much to be regretted that the personalities of state pol itics have gradually tempted the candidates In municipal affairs to enter upon a personal criticism of one another. Surely the gubernatorial example la sufficiently repel lent and sufficiently unpopular to have deterred and made wise the two' excellent gentlemen who are competing for our ballots for the executive chair of tills municipality. It would have been difficult when this campaign was announced for an outsider to have conceived on what particular line Messrs. W. R. Joyner and Thomas H. Goodwin could personally abuse each other. Two cttlsena of excellent character, of tranquil lives and of apparently blameless records might have been expected to go through the campaign upon a very broad plane without Indulging In the least personal reflection upon each other. For the two gentlemen who are opposing each other (or this responsible office The Georgian has the kindliest feelings of good will. Captain W. R. Joyner has been for many years per haps the most popular man In the city of Atlanta. Hla long and Invaluable services as chief of the Are depart- ment and the preserver of our homes and firesides from the fiend of the flame, hna made hla name a household word both with grown people and with the little children In every nook and corner of Atlanta. Beyond this Cap tain Joyner has been a vital figure In almost every local public movement of the last twenty years, a foremost and focal force In a thousand gentle charities and a hun dred public enterprises, member of the chamber of com merce, an executive figure In state and national fairs and expositions, a nabob of Atlanta’s popular baseball club, and In his "Little Red Wagon" the absolute Idol of every rfmall boy In Atlanta—"without distinction to race, color or previous condition of servitude." Mr. Goodwin la a younger man than hla opponent, but has ably demonstrated the fact that be Is an active and vigorous factor In public affairs, having been an ef fective and useful member of the city council, an Inter ested and Influential figure In many phases of our public affairs, a young man of character anu Integrity, and, as Is now evident, of unusual energy and of a vory definite am bition. The campaign between these excellent citizens has progressed happily and hopefully on both sides up to the last ten days, and although the burden of prophecy and the bulk of the betting Is heavily In favor of Captain Joy ner, It Is undoubtedly true that Mr. Goodwjn has made a remarkable race and has demonstrated his capacity to win friends and to hold them. If Mr. Goodwin does not win In this election hs Is young enough to expect preferment at another time, and hla vigorous and vital canvass make an easy prophecy that he will be honored In some future campaign by the triumphant ballots of hit friends In the city of Atlanta. The Illness of Two Notables. Two distinguished men have been 111 within the past few days and the whole country haa felt solicitous. John D. Rockefeller was to have received a delega tion of pasaenger agents at bit summer home. Forest Hill, a few days ago, hut when the visitors arrived they were Informed that Mr. Rockefeller was III and conld not see them. They were escorted through the grounds by hli brother-in-law, Vho showed them every courtesy and all the places of Interest. It develops now that the cause of Mr. Rockefeller’s illness was too much of that delicious Southern product, the watermelon. It Is n tempting dish nt any time nnd for anybody, hut when a man has just come home from France, where a citron or a gourd are the nearest ap proach to Oeorgia watermelons. It Is no wonder that he should have been led Into Indulging too freely In thu succulent rattlesnake or the luscious Kolb gem. We have always been proud of the Georgia water melon. As a rule they nrc harmless and well behaved. Taken in anything like moderation, one of tlioin “doeth good like a medicine." But for the sake of the fair fame of the atate we hope that It was not one of our own product which had the bad grace to make Mr. Rockefel ler III. He was just beginning to look upon life with a more Indulgent eye. lie had found that there was some good even In newspaper men and magaalne writers, and the world wat beginning to visualise before him In couleur de roae. He may lapie Into hla old cynicism and isolation as a result of this experience. Another great man who Is on the sick list ts very different from Mr. Rockefeller. Colonel James Hamilton Lewis, of Georgia, of the state of Washington, and now corporation attorney for the city of Chicago, Is an octo pus hunter of tlie moat pronounced type. He came into office under the municipal ownership mayor, Dunne. Recently he haa been out gunning for the tax dodger. He has succeeded In unearthing millions of bark taxes due by evasive- millionaires. The Marshall Field estate was the first to be run to earth, but that was like the tiger’s taste of blood. Colonel Lewis sturted In then to make the Yerkea and other estates come across with the millions of back taxes due the city. Jt was strenuous work and tt soon became evident that the strain was too much for hla physique, which has never been of the strongest, in a recent conference ho was taken III and bad to go to his home. He made a brave effort to re sume his duties at once, but he found that he would b«ve to take a vacation and consequently he has gone to A hospital for rest and recuperation. In all serlousuess. Colonel Lewis is a man of whom th* state of Georgia Is justly proud. Few men owe less to outside influences than *hc. In the strictest sense be Is a self made nmn. and he made a mighty good job of It By hla own efforts be has risen to eminence and How to Vote on Wednesday. Let the man who thinks Hearst can’t make a speech read that brave and clear cut utterance at Old Salem. Ills., on Friday last. There was no Arthur Brisbane there to suggest or aid. The invitation was given one day and the speech deliv ered the next, c And If there has been a braver and a timelier mes sage sent to the people In these eventful days of graft and greed and patriotism and reform, we have not heard It. No lesson more saving and more vital to the republic and to good government can be tanght In this tremen dous age than the gospel of Individual Integrity and Indi vidual responsibility in the ballot, tt fa the hope of the people, and the last promise of a real democracy. This blind unreasoning mob of partisans who follow unknowing and unthinking behind every fallacy that cabals voice, and every leader that trading caucuses pro ject, is neither the Democratic party nor the Republican party, but a rout of spoilsmen or a procession of tools. Their blindness and their subservience Is at once the weakness and the menace of republican Institutions. Parties are not organisations of men. They are organisations of policy and the men are merely banded to achieve these policies In government When parties are mere .organizations of men they are conspiracies of the ambitious—syndicates of spoilsmen, trusts of selfish office seekers. Parties have Integrity only as they are true to the principles that formed them and parties only deserve the loyalty of men when they are absolutely true to the principles for which men joined them. There can be no answer to the logic of this proposition. This Is the creed which Mr. Hearst has not directly voiced, but It Is the creed In action by which he has grown to be the greatest and most popular of the' Democrats of bis generation. And this creed applies to Oeorgia today as It ap plies to New York, or Wisconsin or Missouri. What Georgians are Interested In Is not men but measures—not personalities but policies, not the Smiths nor the Howells, nor the Russellf, nor Kstllls, but railway rate regulation and the supremacy of the white man In the South. The way for Georgians, to vofe on Wednesday Is to forget for an hour every name that haa been mentioned In the canvass—to bury every bitter word ahd every scandal cheated prejudice, and to get busy In the honest minds with the policies they are voting for. Put all the candidates under the table, and put the principles on a pedestal. Then when the honeat and patriotic voter has made hla choice among the platforms and principles which pulse the campaign, let him reach under the table nnd drag out Hoke or Clark or Dick or Jim Dr John, and put down a big mark opposite his name ns his choice to execute the policies he follows. That’s the way for a man and a citizen to vote. Tha{j8 the way for a Georgian to Illustrate hla love for Georgia. That’s the way for a patriot to provide for the future. A plague on all your factions! What the people want Is government—under which they can live and prosper and be free and Imppy. If tho time ever comes—and may God apeetj It!— when the free man of Americn shall go to the ballot box carrying that little white slip of paper ub the voice of his conscience and tho pledge of his patriotism, there will be no problems ^that need alarm and no real dan gers that will threaten the republic. May the aoddess of Liberty fill the clear minds of Georgians—and their gallant hands—with the Incarna tion of this truth on Wednesday. Eloquence in the Legislative Close. Words spoken nt conventional presentations and re sponses are usually formal, seldom enjoyable, often stilted and never funny; though faint attempts at humor sometimes relieve the oppressive solemnity of eulogy. And yet, with all these difficulties of performance In the way, the remarks of speakers during the last hours of the closing session of the legislature when officers were remembered with appropriate tokens, were so fit ting, so graceful, and beat of nil, bo well deserved, that many visitors felt repaid for their long wait—past mid night—to hear the conclusion. Boykin Wright's brief nddress to the speaker waa fine enough to satisfy the critic of rhetoric, earnest enough for a Spartan, yet delivered with that tone of feel ing In restraint, not In tumult, pathos suggested, not vented, which graces a high and noble speech. The same may be snld of Speaker Slaton's response. He spoke front no notes, but the words. Impassioned in feeling, eloquent In delivery nnd graceful In diction— not only front the speaker but from others on the same occasion, reminded one of the time when oratory flour ished and flowered In the' lives of almost every Southern public ntnn. John Bolfeulllot, whoso strenuous work nt the clerk’s desk forced him to rend In loud monotones piles of dreary statutes, dropped nimbly from the desk to the rostrum nnd surprised those who did not know him with rounded sentences, beautiful sentiments and graceful action. That such things—conventional nnd commonplace— should furnish a real trent to those who believe In elo quence and feel Its charm, la enough to wnrrant this con gratulation, nnd to Justify the belief that the growing In fluence of the dally newspnper nnd the Increasing cyni cism of the ngo have not robbed oratory of Its voice nnd scepter. The Disaster in Chile. The details which are coming to light Indicate that the earthquake along tho coast of Chile, which wrought the greatest damage at Valparaiso nnd Santiago, was practically as destructive as that of San Francisco. Tho fact that the houses In' those stricken cities are low, the tallest not exceeding five or six stories, mado such wholesale destruction ns that of tho California city practically lm|K)ssihle. They were built with an Idea to just such disasters ns that of Thursday nnd Friday and the events go to show that they Imlldcd wisely, but for some reason the fatalities In Valparaiso and Santiago ap pear to have been greater than those of 8an Francisco. Final figures give the mortality In San Francisco at less than a thousand, while present reports Indicate thnt the number of killed In Chile will reach at least 5,000, while twice or three times that number Is not Improbable when all tho outlying districts are heard from. Many of the same harrowing scenes which marked the earlier disaster have been present In accentuated form In the Chilean cities. Again fire broke out and tho horrors of the enrthqunke wore Intensified by the terrors of conflagration. The ever present ghoul was on the scene, robbing dead bodies and looting buildings In the very midst of the general pandemonium. Troops called out to gunrd the ruins had no hesitancy In shooting down the thieves and plunderers without a word of warning. Thousands of frightened people are camped In the streets, while every hour brings a fresh visit of the demoralizing tremors. „ The Interest In seismic disturbances will be stimu lated by this new disaster. It la confessed that we know but little of the subject, after all, but it-becomes increas ingly evident that these visitations are confined, to a large extent, to the coast. Lisbon, Caracas, Charleston, San Francisco and now Valparaiso, all of which have been victims at more or less remote periods of great earthquake disasters, are on the coast, and In fact It la almost uniformly the rule that these shocks occur on or near the seashore, so that such cities must be be pecu liarly subject to such convulsions of nature. ' It Is hoped that further details will show that earlier accounts of the recent earthquake were not so destructive to life and property as at first reported. Chile Is one of the most prosperous and enterprising countries of South America. Extending like a narrow ribbon more than half way down the length of that half of the hemisphere, It has all the variety of climate from the equatorial to the antarctic. Valparaiso—which means the Valley of Paradise—is all that its name Implies. It is one of the most charming and attractive cities in that section of the world, and the suffering inhabitants have tbs sympathy of the entire world in this sad calamity. LEAVING WELL ENOUGH ALONE. To the Editor of The Georgian: Accepting your general Invitation I beg to Indorse your editorial of today touching the vital Isaue of the campaign and to -,u!>mit these suggestions: Georgia politics has but fallcA In line and yielded t the demand of corporate greed and consequent power. One week from today will mark the destiny of our atate for bad "enough” continued, or for better conditions. So great a fight for civic righteousness has not been made since the bitterly accepted negro suffrage, for tho evil has been accumulative and the ableit talent of the atate Is leading the fight. So If this Is denied Its Just success then bad "enough" will move smoothly along In the same old easy way. * The citizenry of the state protests against “ring rule.” The ring cries "There Is no ring. If so. where Is it? Put your finger on It” Well, ring or not, the diabolical Influence exists, and powerfully so. But If "ring" ts dis pleasing, suppose you dub yourselves au all-hands ’round, while your prompter "gingers up" the performance with the call, "Pass around the bottle and we’ll all take a drink." Now, seriously, fellow citizens. If the railroads, as the servants of the people, are doing the fair thing, why the unjust discrimination In our freight rates? Why have recent agitation* caused freight rates generally to be re duced 10 per cent? Isn’t U rather significant that the cor porate Interests of the atate are fighting the reform forces? They prate of prosperity. Boah! the sustained high- price of cotton has brought prosperity to Georgia. And what baa "well enough” to do with the price of cotton? The ebb and flow In the tide of state and national prosper ity conjee usually at periodicities, and comes as a result of a series of economic forces, and Is not the work of a set of jumping-Jack-stand-patters. “Well enough" has main tained our high tariff. "Well enough" has rotted our state politics, and “well enough” will some day beg bread rrom the Bad Man’s barn. Gratefully yours, C. J. TAYLOR. Buena Vista, Ga„ August 15, 1906. _ HEARST ON THE BALLOT A Great Speech by the Bravest of American Democrats Congressman William Randolph Hearst, of New York, in an address on Friday, the ftth, at Salem, 111., the early home of Abraham Lincoln, to the Old Salem Chautauqua Association, pointed out tpe harmfulness of blind party allegiance, and argued for In dependence In voting. His address was i follows: My Friends: I think we will all agree that this American system of govern ment waa founded to express tlje will dt the whole people and to be controlled by a majority of the voters. I maintain that blind party allegi ance tends to Interfere with these alma and objects of our government, and Is oday. maintain that these evils will never be remedied until the people vote care fully and discriminate!)- for good men and good measures. Irrespective of par ty prejudice or political bias of any kind. If a very large proportion of the people vote blindly for one party or the other, the control of government Is really left In the hands of a small mi nority or balance of power that trans fers Its vote from one party to the other according to Its Ideas or Its In terests. Determining Factor in Elections. This variable vote will always be determining factor Jn elections. Certainly, therefore, the conditions demand that |his Independent vote shall be as large‘and as representative us possible, In order best to carry out the admitted objects of our govern ment. The more nearly universal It Is, the more nearly It-will express the will of the whole people. The more restricted, the more It will express merely the In terests of a small and perhaps selfish minority. Let us take a concrete example. If in this community there were 201.- 000 voters, anil 100,000 habitually voted the Democratic ticket and 100,000 hab itually voted the Republican ticket, the decision of all matters would lie In tho hands of the 1,000 voters who. through Inclination or Interest, voted now with one and then with the other. If these 1,000 were all of the highest type of citizens, moved only by the most patriotic and unselfish sentiments, we would still have a condition of mi nority rule foreign to the plans of the fathers and contrary to the principles which underlie our American system. On the other hand. If these 1,000 were selfish, scheming, unscrupulous men. using their balance of power for their own Interest nnd aggrandizement, we would certainly have In them n dan gerous menace to our Institutions and a powerful Influence exerted In opposi tion to popular rights and liberties. You can easily see that the bose of a political machine would not long con sider the hundred thousand that would vote for his party under any circum stances, but would devote his time to securing the support of the one thou sand that might be Influenced to de cide the election hie way. If the 1,000 were grasping and greedy and wanted special privileges, they would get them. If they wanted the people's franchises, they would get them. If they wanted discriminating tariffs, they would get them. If, under the effect of this polltlcn! partiality and patronage and protec tion, these favored few should grow enormously rich and odd the corrupt ing power of great wealth to their un due political influence, they might conte to control the machines of both parties, name the candidates of both parties and conduct the whole government In their own selfish Interest. Exact Situation Today, can follow clearly enough what would happen In our own little commu nity of 201,040 voters, and that condi tion. which we have merely reduced to round numbers and stated In simple form, Is exactly what has prevailed In a larger nnd more complex manner throughout our w*hole country. The result has been the concentre tlon of power In the hands of a small but Shrewd and active minority, work ing Incessnntly for Its own Interest and Ithout regard for the public welfare. We saw In New York that the life Insurance swindlers had contributed to the Democratic party one year and to the Republican party the next. We know that Ryan ami Rockefel ler and Morgan and Belmont have no party prejudice, but conduct their poli tics for their own pocket and accord ing to the maxims laid down by Jay Gould. Mr. Gould said before an Investigat ing committee: "When I am dealing with Republicans I am a Republican. When I nm dealing with Democrats I nm a Democrat. When the district Is doubtful I am doubtful. And all the time I am an Erie Railroad man,” We have seen Walsh, the hank ..rocker In Chicago, label his publica tion Democratic ono day and Republi can the next, but all the time conduct for Walsh’s benefit and In opposition the people's Interest. Two Purtinunt Questions. Should the people stand by. and see the power of their number* nullified by a slavish devotion to a party ma chine that doe* not consider them, but only their enemies? Shall the people not take a leaf out of the corporation books and vote for their own Interests and their owh friend*, regardless of party loyalty? 1‘artv loyalty Is n fine thing when a great Issue ts at stake and when one HEARST BUYS LINCOLN HOME FOR NATIONAL PARK SITE By Private Leased Wire. Springfield, III., Aug. 20.—The site of the Now Salem Mill, famous because of Its association with the early life of Abrahkm Lincoln, haa been bought by William Randolph Hearst and present ed to the Old Salem Chautauqua As sociation. New Salem was the home of Lincoln for six years. The property presented by Mr.’ Hearst, he provides, must be main tained forever as a national park. It for a great rj’orm. So It was when Abraham Lincoln led the. Republican party against the entrenched power of slavery. But even then It was a new party that made the fight. The old parties ?iad been too timid to do It, or too corrupt to do It. Today there are great Issues, the same Issues that have divided people since human society was formed. Lincoln snld: "There are two prin ciples that have stood face to face from the beginning of time; and .will ever continue to struggle. It Is the same principle In whatever shape It devel ops Itself. It Is the same spirit that says, ’You toll and work and earn bread, and I’ll eat It.’ No matter In whnt shape It comes, whether from the mouth of a king that seeks to bestrldo the people of his own nation nnd live by the fruit of their tnbor, or from one race of men us nn apology for enslav ing another rare, It Is the same tyran nical principle." 8am* Issue Exists Today. The same Issue exists today in trust domination, trust oppression, trust ex tortion. There Is still a class that says: “You toll and work and earn bread and I'll eat It." But neither of the old parties distinctly represents either side of the Issue. There are trust Republicans and Lin coln Republicans. There are trust Democrats and Jefferson Democrats. No longer does the word Democracy define any definite doctrine and the word Republican express any parties lar principle. Under such conditions party devo tion only divides the people's strength and fortifies their enemies who are uni ted against them. , Let the people unite In their own Interest. Let the people vote Independently and for the public good. Let them vote for honest men and honest ipeiisures, Irrespective of party, and they will soon find themselves once more the great power In the republic that polltlclana will regard and even organized wealth will respect. It Is most gratifying and encourag ing to find thnt this fact Is being gen erally recognised and that Independ ence In voting Is Increasing with ev ery election. In Illinois nt the last election, when the state went 300,000 Republican, the people of this district had the dis crimination to return to congress a Democrat, the Hon. Henry T. Rainey, who has served them with conspicuous fidelity nnd ability. In Pennsylvania, In the present cam paign, the sincere Democrats have re pudiated the unspeakable Gulley, and have unfled with the Lincoln Republi cans In a movement which represents the character and conscience of that community. “Breud of Ysltow Dogs Toe Poor.*' From New York to California, the people arc realizing that the success of popular government depends upon the care and conscientiousness, the Intellt genre and Impartiality, with which ev cry Individual vote Is cast. A man can no longer take credit to himself for supporting a yellow dog that happens to have been nominated by hi* party. The breed of yellow dogs has become too poor and the marks of the corpora tion collar are too plainly visible around their mongrel necks. But the Independent voter, with the best Intentions often meets with much difficulty and deception. He sometimes finds that the msn he haa trusted has been captured by the corporations. Unhappy examples of such cases are Grover Cleveland, In his second term, anil District Attorney Jerome. The people supported each of these men, believing him to be true and their friend, and the corporations added their support, know ing him to be their chat tel. contains 40 acres, for which *200 nn acre was paid. The grounds are adja- th « camp grounds of the Old Salem Association, which Is one or the oldest and most prosperous o£ Its kind In Illinois, and It agreed to comply with the spirit and letter of Mr. Hoarst’s proposition. The New York congressman made an address to a large gathering Friday at the Chautauqua, and was received with a great demonstration of w elcome. elected mayor at that election and a corporation Republican governor at the next. A third party was straightway start ed to restore to the American citizen his freedom of choice. The Independence League has since formed ns a permanent organization to meet such situation and to protect the political rights of the citizen. Speaking nt Albany of the league, endeavored to define It as follows: "The fundamental principle of the Independence League Is Independence— Independence of boss rule, Independ ence ot corporation control and Inde pendence of any party subject to boss rule and corporation control.” Our Idea Is to revert to the first prin ciples of the Declaration of Inde pendence, which Jefferson, the found er of the Democratic party, wrote, and from which Lincoln, practically the founder of the Republican party, drew his every Inspiration. Lincoln, speaking In Inde; Hall on February- 22, 1861, sal_ ”1 only say that all the political sen timents I entertain have boen drawn as near as I have been able to draw them, from the sentiments which orig inated In, and were given to the world from this hall. I have never had a feel ing politically that did not spring from the sentiments embodied In the Dec laration of Independence." Fight te Sustain a Fro* Ballot We believe that these broad and fundamental principles offer ground upon which Jeffersonian Democrats and Lincoln-Republicans can unite to defeat the machinations of machines In the Interests of a privileged few and to maintain a government for the greatest number. We will enter upon a campaign this fall In New York to sustain the sa cred American right of n free ballot and a fair count. In the last election the people of New York were disgracefully defraud ed. We can convict the machines of fraud. Our opponents, by their nctlrtn, admit fraud, and seventeen convicts sent to the penitentiary prove that fraud. But both parties have entered Into a criminal combination to deny to the people of New Yorlfcan honest count of the bnllots actually cast. By CHOLLY KNICKERBOCKER. By Private Leased Wire. New York, Aug. 20—A remarkabl, suggestion Is contained In a dlspatra from Cleveland In today’s papers ?. 1* to the effect that John D. R„ cke . feller Is considering a project to en. dow a home for chorus girls, and th«a he has signified his willingness, tent” lively, to give *100,000 for this praise- worthy purpose. e Th« project was planned by Man* ‘he actress, and through a , sssaafasr 1 ” —s^a: The Idea appealed to him. It Is said HI* donation will be conditional ' like amount being raised by MIm Cahifi and those Interested with her 8,1 The home will serve a two-fold por ts* In agreement writh the pi a „. m-.n? 0 ’*., L h .n havt 8 ‘ a ried the move, ment. It will serve as a place when chorus girls may be trained and edi! rated for their work, and also ns * home, should Illness or age preveiu fe*sTon fr ° m contlnulng ln ‘heir C- Rudd, brother-in-law of Mr ockefelier, was asked last night ment her h ® hB<S hear<, of the mo «- I h*ve heard nothing of It, nor " f „ Mr. Rwkefeller’s Intention to aid It, he replied. "The -report might be Ron | t a ., t h ou *h 1 am Inclined to q U e s ! There Is a large contingent on Broad, way also who prefer to suspend Judg ment until more definite news conics out from Cleveland. Stenslands are cropping up all over the country these days. Here In New York Detective Sergeant Duggan felt sure he had nailed the missing Chica go banker. “Hello, Paul: bow’dy leave every, thing out In Chicago?” ‘ «’■* ‘he way Duggan greeted " llllam Keogh, an actor, as he was dining on Broadway. “Guess again,” replied Keogh. -Tm not Paul.” "Sure you are," Insisted Duggan You're Paul Stensland, the Chicago banker, for whom there Is a reward of $5,000.’” Then he started to arrest Keogh, hut •Eddie" Dunn, who knew Duggan, res cued the actor. THIS DATE IN HISTORY. AUQU8T 20. 1592— George Vllllers, duke of Bucklnchn horn. of Coventry i Charles of England. 1701—Sir Charles Bedley, poet, died. 1776—Fight In Ilndaon river between Amor- Imu Are ships nnd British meii-vf- war. 183-Cope riuw VII died. 1829—Adrln nopit* token by the Russians. 1833-ReuJamln Harrison. twenty-third president of United States, ln»rij. lU»d 1901. 1847—Battle of Churubuaoo, Mexico. 1862—Mteamer Atlanta loet on Lake Erie; 250 perched. 1866— Final proclamation of cessation of hostilities In the civil war. 1886—Bight Chicago anarchists acnteaced to death. 1892—Queen Victoria's carriage flopped Inr nn lusane inun, who threatened to kill her. -Lord Curxon resigned the v|cero/«fc}j» of Judin; tho earl ot Mlnto succeeded him. shared the responsibility for such rev olutionary acta. I«et them ahare the responsibility before the people this fall. We have complete confidence In the Integrity and Independence of the peo ple. We depend not upon party preju dice, but upon patriotism and public spirit. We.call to our cause the living words of patriots (lead, of Washington, who snld: "Beware of the baneful effects of party spirit and of the ruin to which Its extremes must lead." Of Jefferson, who wrote; "If I could not go to heaven without a party, I would not go there at all.” Of Jackson, who wrote: "In every section party and party feeling should be nvolded." Of Lincoln, who said: "The party lash will overawe justice and liberty." Our greatest Mtatesmen, our national heroes, teach us that there is a senti ment higher than party loyalty, nnd it lx patriotic duty; there Is a purpose no bler than the success of a political clique, and it Is the welfare of the whole people and perpetuation «f a government "of the people, by the i*eo- - They have | pie nnd for the people.” Growth and Progress of the New South Under this hood will appear from time to thus Information llliislratlns ta- rcmnrknlils development of tbs South wbicb deserves something more lliau pass- This betrayal of public confidence is a grave danger to which even the most conscientious voter Is exposed, and to guard against tt a candidate should be carefully weighed and Judged, not by his professions alone, but by hls associations ns welt. Axiom of the Corporations. It may be set down ns An axiom that the corporations never support a inan that they do not expert to use. Again, the Independent voter frequently finds little opportunity for a Judicious vote, the machines of both parties having combined against the people and unit ed In the corporation service. Such a situation existed In New York last fall. The machines of the two old parties had apparently Mitered Into a "gentleman’s agreement" for a division of the spoils, with an understanding farty clearly represents a noble effort that a corporation Democrat should be Extending Small Railroads. We have pointed out more than once in these columns that the de velopment in railroads in this section Is one of the most notable features of the growth and progress of the South. • It has been shown that there Is almost a famine In plg-lron, so great Is the demand for structural Iron throughout this section, and the demand for rails alone would largely account for this fact. These, lines are to be used In developing and handling the output of industries such as coal min ing, lumbering, phosphate mining, the gathering of naval stores, etc. The Manufacturers' Record points out that there Is scarcely a state in the South In which the building of small lines Is not In progress In a num ber of localities. In the mountains of Virginia, West Virginia, Kentucky and Tennessee much of the construction of small lines Is done by the trunk roads as feeders, although not a few Independent pieces of work arc un der way. In the states named a large proportion of this new building Is on account of coal, although lumbering figures in the situation to some ex tent. Farther south, in North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, and even beyond In Arkansas and Louisiana, the de velopment of timber land and the products therefrom Is mainly responsi ble for the building of many short railroads. This type of construction is particularly active Just now throughout these states, and how useful It be comes In the Inter development of the country Is now shown by the utili zation of several small lines In Georgia, by meant of connections, In mak ing a through route from Augusta to the Gulf of Mexico. Continuing, The Manufacturers* Record says: "The activity of this variety of railroad work Is Indicated by the reports of new Incorpora tions received by The Manufacturers' Record, hardly a day passing with out one or more companies being chartered to build such lines. But It does not always happen that the first building of one ot these lumber mads, or even of coal lines, Is of small extent. For Instance, the Good year line In Mississippi, a lumber road, Is to be lOtNmites long from the beginning, construction for that amount of track belng N already under way, ln addition to the trackage of the line previously built and which was purchased to form the nucleus of this railroad. On the other hand, the Tidewater Railroad, which will be over 400 miles long In Virginia and West Virginia, ls*an example of what an influence coal mining may havs upon the developing of ji new line. "The construction of small lines of railroad promises to continue In definitely throughout the entire South, the riches of the country In both mines and forests being so great that none can now see the end ot their development."