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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN. Tuesday. august n. inon. The Atlanta Georgian. JOHN TEMPLE GRAVES, Editor. F. L. SEELY, President. Subscription Rates: I Published Every Afternoon One.Tesr 94.50 Except Sunday by Six Months 2.50(1 THE GEORGrAN CO. Three Months 1.25 at 25 V. Alabama Street, Ry Carrier, per week 10c Atlanta, Ga. Eatered •• second-class matter April SI, IMS. at the Poatofflee at Atlanta, Ca.. under act of consreaa ef March i. 1171. The Reign of Terror for Southern Women. The appalling crime attempted and partly executed on Monday almost within tile limits of Atlanta brings to a tocus the recognition of a torrid wave of lust and fiend- Ishness on the part of the negro criminals of the state. It is dtfflcult to discuss with any tranquillity or with any reason n crime like this. The mere suggestion of the allghtest familiarity on the part of a black and filthy negro with a refined and gentle woman of the Cau casian race Is enough to stir the blood to fever heat, but the monstrous and unspeakable horror of the more seri ous and brutal assault, simply wakes to a frenzy and will always stir to frenzy the Caucasian blood. In the discussion of this great question In tlmea past, the editor of The Georgian has passed through all atages of feeling from reason to hysteria, nnd we have thought enough and seen enough and left enough Of this fearful shadow upon our civilization; to hat-e gome ideas that are distinctly definite nnd that- ought to be essentially practical. The people of this great republic who are disposed to criticise the South scarcely renllze that Its jieople •re living In a atate of constant siege and danger. The Women of this Southern country to whom no age or civil isation has ever produced a superior and scarcely an equal, are prisoners to danger and to fear. The women In the North and In the East may walk after nightfall from street to street and almost from township to township without an escort and without nlarm. But it has come to pass In the slow process of this Increasing terror that there Is not a woman, wife, mother or (liter who would he permitted In thfi South to walk after sun- get unattended through the quiet street! of suburban towns. And even In midday, men who leave their homes unguarded, leave with apprehension nnd provide evory means of protection and self-defense which care and ap- ■ Inn Mh' rf.vla. . I prehension rah' devise. This state of affairs Is frightful and appalling and it cannot and must not endure any longer In theee atates which have won the right to better things. Here for inatance In the very center of the South's best civilization, right In the heart of progress and devel opment, in the open suburb of Georgia’s capital city, and the metropolis of the South, we have had five open and monstrous attempts -at rape within the last four weeks. No dark region, no benighted portion of the state. no'swamps nor morasses to bide the offender, no turpen tine camps or sugar plantations to gather the lawless and I the negro, then we might hope to witness a change In earnestly and Intensely do arraign' the leaders of the negro race, their preaciierf and tbxlr public men that (bey have not themselves cooperated to suppress this crime. They have met In conventions, they have passed resolu tions. they have ora'.-nl fiercely about Inch law an.ltbe, have denounced Sontbtrn men a id methods, but the have been shamefully and criminally silent In making their voices heard In stern and persistent denunciation of the crime that produces lynching. Many men and In dividual members of the negro race who magnify the lawlessness of lynching above the crime that produces it, have even aided the confeksed criminal against the virtue of our women by secreting him from the ofllcei of the law, by providing change of clothes and by con nlving In every way to aid In hla escape from the out raged agents of society. Upon this basis we arraign the leaders—the teachers, the prqncbers, the bishops anfl the editors of the negro race as partleepa erimlnla and co-crlmlnals with the rapist when they fall to co-operate fully and freely with the white race In the swift pun ishment of this awful crime. Until the negroes are taught from the pdlplt, from the teacher's chair nnd from the printed page to help the white man to hunt down the scoundrels and the crim inals of their race, they are themselves guilty in part of the crimes which we revenge. They make the negroes think that every black criminal who Is lynched is a mar tyr to the prejudice of race. They Inflame the minds of the inferior race by their fierce diatribes and pro- teats against lynching. But neither their pulpits' thunder nor their presses' spout preachments against the crimi nal and the crimes which mako lynching possible. We are getting tired of these one-sided Jeremiads. We have no patlenco with such hypocrisy. The negro must help the white man to Intimidate the negro crim inal. Here then we get down to the core of the matter. Let us have less of these fierce denunciation^ of the mob and let the negro preachers and the negro editors and the negro teachers get busy with the vigorous use of their lungs and their lead pencils against the crime which, If not suppressed, will ultimately destroy their race. For there Is growing steadily in the minds of the Caucasians of the South a stern determination to be freed at any cost from this element of terror which covers the women of our people. We have bought with our blood and with our brains a continent which we have redeemed from the wilderness and made the greatest nation under the sun. We have built out of the ashes and desolation of war n country that In beauty and devel opment has come to be a wonder and the admiration of the world. We are doing our part In ail of the great movements that make our country glorious and the age illustrious In achievement. And we are rapidly reach ing the point where we wilt not permit ourselves much longer to endure In this Southern country a siege In which our women are the prisoners and In which every Southerner is an anxious sentinel at tho outpost of his fireside and tho shrine of his home. If these uegroeB who are making themselves so bla tant In their public speeches and conventions—it tho leaders, from Booker Washington down to the bishops and the preachers and the smallest editor would lift up the banner of a great united crusade against the Infamy of rape and would pledge themselves to bunt with even fiercer vigilance than the white man, the despoiler <>" our homes and (he deadliest onj'ny to the hop>a of to develop the criminal Instinct, but right here under the shadow of Georgia's capltol and in the very heart of the South's highest intelligence these monstrous crimes have had fast and frightful recurrence. Every one of the fiends who has been apprehended has been dealt with swiftly and sternly by an outraged society that could not and did not wait for the alow pro- ceases of the law. Every rapist that has been caught has been shot or hanged without hesitation and without remorse. , And yet with the open blazon of this swift nnd fear ful punishment the crime has been repeated or attempted almost before the echo of the last outrago had died •way! Does lynching prevent rape? It wpuld seem not. Within twenty days after the burning of Bam Hose at Newnan, Gn., there were three attempted assaults with in a radius of an hundred miles of his monstrous crime and Its swift nud awful punishment! It becomes evident that we must find another rem edy than lynching for the suppression of these outrages upon the women of the South. Now mark you, the rrlmo of rapo Is confined nlmost exclusively, if not exclusively, to the negro race. The lust of the white man makes no menace of vltwont expression toward the women of the South. The, negro has n mo nopoly In rape. If the negro were no longer n pnrt of our population, the women ot tho South would he freed from their state of siege and would be nt liberty to go where they pleased and when they plensed. But under the black shadow of the fiendish passion ot these ebony devils our women are as completely slaves ns If they warp-In bondage to a conquering foe. They do not dare to enjoy on foot or on horseback the liberty of move ment and freedom of action to which they are entitled under the great and progressive civilization In which they live. What can we do then to halt this terrible and appall ing crime? What reasonable experiment can wo try to put a atop to the mad career of these Infernal fiends who haunt every sequestered nook and corner around our cities? Killing, shooting, burning has ceased to ter rify them. But we have never triad any other remedy. We havo never experimented with any other inoda of punishment. Why can we not establish then some new form of punishment whose very spectacular method and terror will eliminate the foulest crlmlnnl Instincts of our time. In the past the editor of The Georgian has advocated the personal mutilation of the rapist as u deterrent force, and wa believe yet resolutely nnd fearless!.' H.nt the experi ment Is worthy of a trial. Let It be understood In ad vance that every negro Who commits this crime will en treated to tills punishment and let ua see at least tor a twelvemonth what effect the new punishment will hare upon the old end frightful off-.-iao. We have suggested In time past that some new nnd mysterious mode ot punishment—the passing over n slen der bridge into n dark chamber where in utter dark ness and In utter mystery the assallan tof woman's vir tue would meet a fate which his friends would nevei know and which he himself would never tome back to make them understand. Darkness, mystery, uncertainty have always been deterrent Influences upon the minds of this Ignorant and s-u oratltlous ra-J. We Insist that th'4 experiment Is also worth a trial for what It is Worth—to ba perpetuated If it is successful and to be abandoned It it does not accomplish Us puriiose. Heaven knows that a desperate disease demands a trial of every des perate remedy which tact and theory and self-defense can dictate to a |H-ople who havo borne too much and borne too long the horrible ahadow which rests upon our society and upon civiUzatlon. these conditions and a suppression of these crimes which provoke that fiery terror, which, however lawless anci howover depiomb'e. Is the only Uelotrort of tha rapist and the chief defense of woman. There Is no excuse for apathy here. Time and again the Rppeal has gone forth for co-operation along these lines. And in the memory of these unanswered arpeals we sterniv arraign the resp-.-z.ijIo memoirs ef the negro race for the silence and Inactive apathy which they have shown. For the future wo refuse to heel their protests or to consider their statements uptll they get themselves busy along the only practical line on which they can be of service to themselves and to us. If they do not do this and If all other expedients fall, as thoy are falling, the. time may come when the dominant and triumphant civilization of the South will rid Itself of this awful terror In a more radical and a more revolutionary way. Patience la growing frazzled In Caucasian hearts. And after patience conies the deluge. Robinson Crusoe's Island Destroyed. Among the Incidents of the recent earthquake which wrought such havoc along the coast of Chile, ac cording to reports which hnve just been received, was the destruction of the Island of Juan Fernandez. From n sentimental point of view, this Is the great est of all the sad features of tho disaster. The struc tures of brick and mortar constituting tho cities de stroyed will be replnretl on n more splendid scRle; even the death of the Inhabitants will chiefly affect their friends and relating, who will find consolation ns the years go by. But the civilized world will for all time deplore the fact that Robinson Crusoe's island has sunk Into the sea from whence It came. This Island was the largest of a group of three known to be of volcanic origin, nnd differing greatly In fauna and Horn from tho mainland of Chile, 350 miles nway. It was sparsely settled, even at the tlmo of Its destruction, and whllo the soil nnd climate wero fertile, the Inhabitants made but little effort to develop It. To all appearances It differed but little from what It was when the buccaneer Scotchman, Alexander Selkirk, was put nshore there 200 years ago. Selkirk had quarreled with the cnptaln of the pirate vessel on which he sailed nnd at hla own request was left alone on the island. Here he spent four years and four months, In the beginning of the eighteenth century, and here he underwent those experiences which furnish ed the basis of the most universally populnr story In the English-language. He was rescued In 1708 by Captain Woodes Rogers, of the Increase prize-ship, and after wnrds rose to be a lieutenant on H. M. S. Weymouth, on board of which he died in 1723. Four years after^ Selkirk's rescue Captain Rogers imblished his "Cruising Voyage Round the World" and In the same year appeared Captain Cook's "Voyage to the South Sea." From these two books Deroc drew the materials which were woven into the fadeless story of Robinson Crusoe." , What child has ever grown to man'a estate with out becoming familiar with the life nnd adventures of Crusoe and his man Friday, his imagination kindling at the patience, the resourcefulness nnd the unfailing cour age of the castaway and his one lone companion. And what youth, on an appropriate Friday afternoon, has not declaimed that equally immortal ballad, "I am monarch of all I survey?" There were not many pilgrims to this island shrine. In the boahm of the Pacific, but It was a satisfaction to nursery, at least, will refuse to be comforted now that the island of Juan Fernandez "sinks, like seaweed, into whence It came." Jacksonville, Fla., seems to be rich In cltlxen Charles U Bonney, of tha board of tarde, and of the Half-a-MIIUon Club. From all appearances he Is a lire and vital force and the Inspiration of much of tbs best work done In Jncksonjllle. know that It still ezlstcd, practically as It was when Bat at this time and in this hour we come forward 1 Crusoe kept bis weary vigil for a friendly sail, and the Remember the Issues, Forget the Men. As our fire armored political candidates ara about to p tiA their arms for the last time before the stern and eventful battle of our five-barreled Democracy, we real ize that the time for preaching is over. The time for exhortation la done. The argument is exhausted and the appeal now goes to the ballot box. Once more In the quiet, which is the calm before the storm, we desire to Impress both the candidates and the voters with the fact and with the expression of our faith that Georgia will never tolerate another campaign like this. The revulsion of the people against tha scan dalous personalities of this time Is settling steadily into a stern determination to nip in the begibning ,ln another pampalgn this expression and to put the heel of disappro val upon any candidate or candidates who come peek ing our suffrage under the aong of abuse or the jargon of vituperation. When The New York Evening Post speaks of Geor gia as "the Pennsylvania of the South,” when it de clares that Georgia makes the slums of New York hang its head In shame, when It asserts that the candidates in this imperial atate of the 8outh have "broken the records of all billingsgate and familiarised the Infant voters of the commonwealth with volleys of vituperation and epithet which they never knew before. It Is time indeed for men who love the state and who are proud of Ha Ideals, to join steadily and firmly and sternly In the determination that they will use their batlotg to rebuke the aspirant who seeks their favor under such disrepu table phases of ambition. For the rest, we stand now face to face with the ballot and with tho Issue. And to all free and Intelligent men the Issue at least is clear. The things upon which Georgia will vote on Wednesday cvr.eern our economic Interests as they are wrapped In our transportation linos and In our social and political future as it Is thwarted and handicapped by the negro race. Never were Issues clearer and never was necessity greater for a definite and decisive answer from the peo ple to the ballot box. The regulation of the railroads and of the corpor ations Is a recognized civic duty from Maine to Callfot. nia. From the senate and from the house, from the national government at Washington through each of the states and to each congressional district, there is not man who does not know that the public opinion of these times positively demands that every Independent and self- respecting state should pronounco a definite verdict upon this question at the polls. There Is no demagogy In this claim because It Is too urgent and too self-evident and general in Its recognition. It la a vital necessity that the people should tell the railroads kindly nnd firmly that This la a popular government and not a corporate government, that It la a government of the people, by the people and for the people and not a government of the corporations, for the corporations, and by tho corpora tion!. This Issue Is evident to every man who Is intel ligent enough to vote. NAnd the population of Georgia which has never failed to rise to the measure of Its duty and Its opportunity ought to answer this question In the right and proper way on Wednesday, i The question which Is higher even than this eco nomic one Is the great social and national issue whose menace and whose terror receive a fresh and emphatic emphasis with almost every day that we live. If It were not for the imminence of the election we would be dispos ed to say that the present agitation of the negro's rights and privileges, and the apparent alignment of a large faction of our people upon his ride ot this ques tion has had a full part and share In the Increased ag gression and In the Increased crime of the -negro at the present time. Once more we assert without hesitation and with out reserve that the supreme necessity of this ballot la to let this commonwealth speak In thunder tones its ver dict upon the question ot a permanent white supremacy and of a permanent black subordination. That issue is up, clear, distinct and thrillliig. It cannot be answered in a half-hearted way. If It la answered so It might as well not be answered at all. The only way In which it ean be safely met and answered In this campaign Is to put it definitely, clearly and emphatically before the people and to the full comprehension of the inferior race, that this Is a white man's government and that by all hazards and by any means the white race Is going to rule It untrammeled In .the preservation of the sanctity of Its homes and In the purity of Its politics. Georgia has never fronted an election like this. Sho has never stood face to face since the war with an issue mo ciear, ao thrilling and so vital as these which front her In the election of tomorrow. Beside these Issues all personalities crumble, all prejudices fall and all personal prejudices should be trampled under foot. The Issue should be supremo and the man should be forgot ten. And, the Georgian, standing as It docs today steadi ly and consistently upon a platform on which its editor planted himself fifteen years ago, and to whose principles he ha* pledged himself In season and out of season, North and South, appeals to the honest, thoughtful and liberty loving people of this great commonwealth to vote for railroad regulation and for the negro disfran chisement as their highest duty to the present time and the best hope of the future of the state. GOSSIP By CHOLLY KNICKERBOCKER. By Private Leased Wire. NeW York. Aug. 21.—Mrs. Stuyves. ant Fish Is arranging a quiet little din- ner for Saturday night for about loo of bar friends. It will only cost about *1,000, so It can be seen It Is only » small affair. It Is reported that Mrs, Fish has cornered the Newport lobster market for the lime being. Whether this refers lo clawed or clothed lobsters does not appear American society people now form no inconsiderable portion of the pasron- ger lists of incoming steamers. They are coming home with many new and Interesting Ideas for the approaching RADHIin Ralfah, the royal Bengal tiger net of the little folks at the Bronx zoo Is to be treatad as no other captive man eater has ever been. He is t 0 have regular exercise to regain his health and strength. A famous ch|. cago naturalist examined him a few days ago and said exercise was the only cure for his drooping spirits. The zoo directors have hit upon a plan which Is to be carried Into effect for the first time next Sunday. Rui- fuh has been measured for a steel inut ile, fitted with strong leather strain. Immense leather boots with toe dip* of steel will also be made to cover Ids wicked claws, A stout collar nnd sixty yards of steel chain will complete the equipment for the exercise. A spot has been selected In Bronx park, u h-re there Is plenty of grass and shade, and if the tiger takes kindly to the fresh air cure tha outlnga will occur dally. Armed guards will be on duty while his highness suns himself. That great exponent of Addisonian English, The New York Sun, concludes a recent editorial with the follow ing: "'TIs not In nature to command auccess; But we'll do more, Sempronlus, we'll deserve it.” Of course, every school boy knows that Mr. Addi son’s Cato anys: "'TIs not In mortati' to command auc cess," etc. But the Fountain of Light prefers to be Its own Addison. Thirteen of the best known man in Derby, Conn., are congratulating themselves upon having escaiied deaih by drowning In the Housatonlc river, while returning from a pleasure cruise on Long Island Sound. They owe their lives to the coolness of two women and their companions In another launch which happened to pass shortly Hfter they had all been thrown Into the river. Their launch struck a submerged tree trunk nnd was wrecked. Tltetr cries attracted the attention of Mr. and Mrs. Frank C. Thornton and Mr. nnd Mrs. George Mechtcrsheimer, who w ere In' a launch. One ot the women tip, ermlng the launch, started It In the di rection of the cries nt full siieetl and they were soon alongside of the now thoroughly exhausted men. One after another they were all pulled out of the river end then the little launch, weight- ed almost to the gunwales, started fur the city. In the home of William E. Harris, at Trenton, the oddest of double weddings took place. Miss tiara May Blotch- ford and William Keough, of Cam bridge, Mass., were married. After the ceremony the beet man. Walter Blutch- ford, and the bridesmaid, Grace E. Keough, decided to get married and did Growth and Progress of the New South Ing attention. How The Georgian’s Views Impress Canada. The Information furnished from tlm* to time .in this department, Il lustrating the growth and progress of the South, Is attracting wide spread snd favorable attention. The echoes have been coming In from various sections of the South, and now cornea one of the leading papers of Montreal, Canada, which makes one of these articles the text of a leading editorial. The facts which have given rise to this significant editorial are of •nch Importance that we make no excuse for reproducing them here, In summary. They are an Inspiration to the people of the South and show a degree of progress which the mind can hardly comprehend. It was shown that the Increase In the manufactured products of the South, taken year by year for the fifteen years from 1890 to 1905, aggre gated $8,000,000,000; that the increasa In tha value of farm products in tho South, taken year by year for the same period, aggregated $4,000,000,- 000; that the permanent value of farm lands In the South increased $1,- 500,000,000, while the deposits In banka and trust companies were $600,- 000,000 greater in 1905 than In 1890. These increases show a grand aggre gate of more than $12,000,000,000, which Is more money than there Is In the world! As a rooord if fifteen years of prosperity In the South the figures are simply beyond comprehension. In a subsequent article we showed that while the amount of capital Invested In the United States during the first five year* of the present century showed an Increase of 42 per cent, that ot tho South alone showed an Increase of 65 per cent; that while the Increase of the coun try's products during the same period was 81 per cent, that of the South alone was practically 44.5 per cent, and that no other section of the coun try could show any. such marvelous Increase. These were telling figures. . They made every reader sit up and take notice. The fact that tho capital Invested In tho South had Increased sixty-five per cent while that of the country as a whole Increased only forty-two per cent showed how far behind we were leaving the New England states which were once the home of the manu facturing Industrie* ot the country. Tht* led one thinking man to make a notable and absolutely Irresistible deduction, vis., that the South was thus prospering beyond the dreams of avarice under a system of free trade. It was not the free trade of which we are acustomed to think —that Is to say, free trado betweatf this country and other countries, but free trade between thla section and other sections ot our own country. Mr. J. J. Dooiing, who wrote the communication to The Oeorglan, pointed out that Industrial New England was not falling to undersell us on any sentimental grounds; she was simply unable to compete with us In our magnificent Industrial development. , A robber tariff exacted tribute from the consumer on the ground that tho poor down-trodden Industries of the United 8tatcs had to,havo pro tection in order to compete with the other commercial countries of the world, though in point of fact these American Industries wore able to ship their products abroad and still sell them nt less than they could be mado for over there. Tho fallacy of protection was brought home by the fact that Southern Industries, without any protection against the old and well established Industries of tho East, were prospering and underselling theso concerns in their own territory, without any bounty or protection of any kind, and it the 8outh could thrive on such competition as against other sections ot tho country there was no reason why tho whole country could not thrive without protection ns against the competition of other countries. AH /these facts appear to have come to the attention ot The Mon treal Dally Witness, one ot the largest and meat Influential papers In Canada, and are characterised by that paper as "sledge hammer logic,” Commenting on the argument. The Dally Witness says: "The free South wants to be freer. Originally there was a sort of compact between the South and New England that each would respect the other's peculiar Institutions. Free trade was at all times admitted to bo to the Interest ot the South, but that section consented to protection on the understanding that slavery would not be Interfered with. The con ditions on which that early bargain was baaed have long passed away, and the South, which has always been an advocate of free trade, Is beginning to renew Its demand for It We have over and over agnln*shown that the United States has prospered because of free trade, and not because ot protection, as United States producers possess the greatest free-trade mar ket In the world. We find a writer In The Atlanta Georgian Insisting up on the same facts with sledge-hammer logic. He premises that some ot the readers ot the paper may fancy that the South la prospering under protection, Instead of which it Is actually prospering under free trade. Factories and mills are springing up everywhere throughout the South, nnd Southern Industrie* are said to bo multiplying a* If by magic. The fact la, the writer declares, the South la thriving under fre« trade and in full,competition with the highly-organized: aggressive and unsentimental Industrialism of the North. He emphasizes the term unsentlmentalism to mark the fact that Southern Industries are not thriving because of the pity, indulgence or toleration of their rivals. Certainly no Northern manufac turer says: " 'The poor, struggling Southern manufacturer Is my fellow country man. I will not undersell him.' Protection In this case, at least, Is abso lutely lacking. Tho North la able to undersell the English manufacturer In his own market and yet is protected from him In the American market. The South thrives In competition with the North, nnd yet is presumed by protectionists to need protection against tha manufacturers of Europe who are undersold by the North In their own markets! To show the re markable recent activity of the South, The Georgian says that the amount Invested in manufacture! ha* Increased by 86 per cent and the value of manufactured products more than 44 per cent during the past five year*. There are abundant signs, Tlie Georgian declares, that free trade versus protection will be one of the leading features of the next presidential campaign, and that the people throughout the country are awakening to the truth that protection la merely a machine to make the rich richer and to give birth and nourishment to trusts and monopolies. Anyway, If the South can actually beat the North in open competition without bounties or protection to her Infant Industries, and If the great steel works and other enterprises can compete in Europe, selling their products actually cheaper than they are sold at home, surely, as The Georgian concludes, protection Is a fraud.” TO VOTE IS A RELIGIOUS DUTY. To the Editor of The Georgian: On Wednesday, the 22d Inst., the Democratic voters of Georgia will have the privilege of participating In one of the most Important primary elections In the history of the state. I say that advisedly because of the Issues In volved nnd the Intensely active nnd bitter campaign which has been waged In every county, of the state the past ten or twelve months. No one can truthfully say that the Issue has not been joined. On the hustings and through the columns of newspapers every phase of the "para mount Issue" of the day has been pre sented to the electors. On Wednesday, the several guberna- GEORGIANS IN GOTHAM. By Private housed Wire. New York, Aug. 21.—Here arc some of the visitors In New York today: ATLANTA—8. Berner, W. B. Hud son. C. F. Cantrell, C. R. Collier, .Miss I. Schune, M. Slattery. AUGUSTA—W. H. Barrett, W. J. Hollingsworth, E. A. Pendleton. F. R- Clorr, Jr., J. P. DU!. MACON—M. Lasarus, T. J. Wright. SAVANNAH—J. Paulsen, G C. Schwarx, I, Stoddard, H. D. Twlgg. IN PARI8. torlal^candidates will give place to the Kpcclnl to The Georgian. > • — """ ' Paris., Aug. 21.—Alias Eleanor Shot- qualified voters. The latter arc to de clde the contest between the five dis tinguished gentlemen who are ambl tlous lo be governor of the great stale of Georgia. The men who are quali fied to vote have Interests, more or less Important, nt stake. They are to exer cise a franchise the greatest known to American dtlxenshlp. They nre to name a man who will become not only governor of a stale, but governor of A great state—one of the greatest In the American union. Let each voter bear that fact In mind while he Is preparing his ballot, then cast It according to the dictates of his calm judgment, with an approving conscience. The exalted privilege he will exercise when he ensts his ballot demands this of him. There Is still another view of the sit uation I would respectfully present. It Is this: It Ir the patriotic, the relig ious duly of every qualified voter that he should vote. No citizen has the right, on a great occasion such as will occur on Wednesday, the 22d Inst., to refusrf or neglect to go to the polls and cast his vote for the candidate whose election he sincerely believes will be for the best Interests of all the people of the commonwealth. No citi zen has a right to abstain from voting on the plea that he Is not a politician and that he wants nothing to do with politics. This la a government of the people and In the truer,' higher sense of that term, every good oltlzen Is and ought to be a politician and ought to take an active hand In politic*. When thla policy la observed, the people will be said to rule. MARTIN V. t'ALVIN. Augusta, Ga., Aug. it, 1906. ter, of Savannah, Ga., and Miss Mar- garette Klrkcaldle and Miss Anna B. McLester, of Atlanta, Ga., registered at the office of the European edition uf the New York Herald today. -THIS DATE IN niSTORY. AUGUST 21. 1667—Ht. Fronds DrKnlwi l>orn. 1777—American roltl from New Jerrey bito Stilton Inin ml. 1810— Mb rutin I Hernndotte of France *Ii**>»*o prince roynl of H woden. 1SS1—Iii»iirruction In 1’ortugal In fa'" r ot tho queen. 1849— Koftsuth, the Hungarian pntri<'f. '** p4|kn| (mm Austria. lttl-Orent Hot In Now Orlean*. ffrnwltif out of the t'ntniii expedition. lSSe-Thc historic Charter Oak. llartf.T.L Conn., foil $1 tiring n ■torn. 18*0— General Uimeorniin arrived In fr*‘ nt ChnttnmMign, Teiin. I860—Mnrrlngo of r«Mtimodnrc Vanderbilt nml Mina Frank Crawford, at Iami'H Cnitntln. . 1SS3—Brltlah occupied Fort 8fll<l nud »le**J Hnet onnnl. 1888—Rtortu nml fltmd fronted grt*nt il.itn.tiT In Went Virgin I n. 18KKInt«*r«*at mi money In New York r.10 np ($» IJ per cent a month. ISK-Mneotu ntntuc lu Edinburgh