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Nelvs and Vie Ins 'From All Around HITS HARD AT LYNCHING. (The Chicago Post.) In the United States District Court at Montgomery, Ala., Judge Thomas G. Jones recently set forth in a de cision a judgment to the effect that the Federal government has the power to punish lynchers who are indicted for conspiracy to injure, threaten, op press and intimidate prisoners, who are in the custody of the officers of the law of any state. The decision was rendered in the case of Robert Powell, who was indicted for having been a party to the lynching of Horace Maples, a negro who was held by the Alabama authorities on a charge of murder. The case and the decision are of immense interest because of the bearing that they may have upon the future of lynching in this coun try. THE NEGRO SOUTH. (The Richmond Times-Dispatch.) If the negroes did not like the South they would move away. But they do like it. They know that there is no danger of lynching so long as they do not commit brutal crimes, and as for the “Jim Crow” laws, if the color line is to be drawn at all, the negro wants it to be well marked. In the South his exact status is fixed and he knows where he stands. In the North his po sition is doubtful and equivocal. Nat urally, he prefers the frankness and sincerity of the Southern whites. The case has been taken to the Su preme Court of the United States on a writ of error and probably it will be argued next fall. If the Supreme Court uphold the Alabama jurist, the path will be made clear for the Federal authorities to punish lynchers who in vade the rights which are guaranteed to men under the thirteenth and four teenth amendments to the Constitu tion of the United States. A BAIT TO THE SOUTH. (The New York Tribune.) Our neighbor, The New York Sun, a day or two ago presented the Hon. Charles A. Culberson, of Texas, as an ideal Southern candidate. Mr. Culber son has made a creditable record in the United State Senate. He is intel ligent, progressive and capable—on the whole, as admirable a representa tive of the younger Southern genera tion as can be found today in public life. The South would do well to put aside the tradition that its own lead ers should renounce all claims on the presidency in favor of Northern Dem ocrats. That idea is antiquated. Yet the sentiment behind it is responsible more than anything else for the South’s spiritless acquiescence in Mr. Bryan’s third candidacy. THE DRUG TRUST WILTS. (The Washington Herald.) Hon. Joseph B. Kealing, United States district attorney of Indiana, has about .finished his work in the pro ceedings against the drug trust. The trust apparently thinks discretion the better part of valor, and surrenders to Uncle Sam, as represented by Mr. Kealing. In other words, it will go out of the trust business and stay out. * - TfeDDY WILL NOT SERVE. President Roosevelt declines to be come executor of the will of Captain James H. Hooker, of Irondequoit, N. Y., in which $250,000 is left to the Uni ted Stages government. The president was named as executor, and the money was tol be used to establish a military academy at Galesburg, 111. 0 % * y WATSON’S WEEKLY JEFFERSONIAN. V 1 'V \g--> 07 zf » B < ?/ ' | IL 4/ I -A • -ttiw 1 ■I? & ' ' tS' ' Bar I I ft * - M Ii f / • p*r**—w W£>'‘ **’ ’ j> ’’ STATUE OF GENERAL HENRY W. LAWTON, STORM CENTER OF A MEMORIAL DAY CONTROVERSY. AVERY unfortunate disagreement involving President Roosevelt, Govern or Hanly of Indiana, the Indiana Grand Army of the Republic and the Lawton monument cmnn.Ksion has arisen over the plan to dedicate a bronze statue of General Henry W. Lawton in Indianapolis. Old soldiers are much Incensed over the fact that the date for the unveiling of the statue has been set for Memorial day. which heretofore has been given over exclusively to the regular Memorial day exercises. General Lawton, who was a civil war veteran, an Indian lighter and a conspicuous participant in the Spanish war and the Filipino insurrection, was killed by a Filipino sharpshooter near Ma nila on Dec. 19, 1899. He.had been a soldier for nearly forty years. Lawton's Farewell From McKinley At the time when the presidential re view. of the First Army Corps, at Ma con in 1898, had been concluded, Pres ident McKinley and his entourage re turned to their private cars. I chanced to be seated in conversation with Mrs. McKinley and Mrs. Secretary Alger, in the president’s car, when General Hen ry W. Lawton entered to bid adieu to the party with which he had come that far. With President McKinley he ap proached and spoke a few words of earnest good wishes for Mrs. McKin ley and said: * “Good-by, Madam. I shall hope to see you again some years hence in Washington.” “Why, where are you going, Gen eral? Why cannot you go on with us?” asked Mrs. McKinley, as she looked up into the bronzed features of the great soldier. Before ho could answer, President McKinley said gently: "My dear, General Lawton must go. He has been ordered to the Philippines and goes at once. But, General, our hearts and prayers go with you, and we will expect great good news of - - THAW’S TRIAL JUDGE. James Fitzgerald, judge of’ the Su preme Court of New York, who pre sided at the Thaw trial, has been much in the limelight of late. An in timate friend says of him: “His key note is force. There is force in his straight stare, his firm set jaw and even in the insistent bristle of his clipped mustache. And yet his gen tleness —that certain adjunct of all true justice—has more than once moved the admiration of the specta • tors of the late nerve-wrecking drama and the women of the trial have had resaon many times to be thankful for his native courtesy. Perhaps this trait springs from his Irish birth, for he was born in Ireland in 1857.” THE WIDOW OF TALMAGE. A leading favorite in the literary circles of Washington is the widow of Rev. T. De Witt Talmage, the cele brated Brooklyn preacher. Since the death of her husband Mrs. Talmage has spent much of her time in the capital. She writes for magazines and newspapers, generally verses, but al ways under a nom de plume. BRYAN ON THE TARIFF. Waterville, Me. —“We have been raising and lowering the tariff for about 10 Oyears and I think it about time to tinker it again, - ’ said William Jennings Bryan, in his most emphatic way, when near the close of his ad dress on the “Value of an Ideal,” de livered to an audience of 1,200 people in the Waterville City Opera House re cently. The remark was greeted with great applause. It was not until near the close of his lecture that Mr. Bryan said anything that savored of politics. He declared that he believed in the right of people to have the kind of government which they wish. ABOUT OLD VIRGINIA. With Jamestown so much in evi dence just now, Little, Brown & Co. have acted wisely in adding to their excellent editions of popular fiction a new and attractive edition of Maud Wilder Goodwin’s “The Head of a Hundred.” This novel, it will be re membered, presents a fascinating pic ture of the colony of Virginia in the early seventeenth century and is alto gether a stirring romance of those pio neer days. AFTER OKLAHOMA SENATORS. Washington.—“We are going to make a fight to win everything in sight in the coming election in the new state of Oklahoma next August,” said Chairman Griggs, of the Demo- f cratic Congressional Committee, re cently. “Our fight will be for the*, legislative ticket, which will elect United States Senators, and for Jv’ ' five members of the National > of Representatives. We are assi'^ : « of three Democrats in that delega T ) ’ with two in doubt, and we w-t them all.” r * your service and a happy return, to your family and your grateful ooun-, try! Farewell, my comrade!” ’ v Tears were in the voice of McKin-' ley as he finished and real tears .stood in the eyes of General Lawton Si lently he took both the extended 1 mds hands of the president, pressed dieq; tenderly and left the car. The admir ing eyes of a score of great me; fol lowed him with a wordless. “Hou. speed.” S. W 9 ’’ PAGE THREE