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==="' 1 • —■ —- 11 . 1 . ...... .. L ... 198 Peachtree Street. - ATLANTA, GEORGIA THE PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN. (The Nashville American.) Old Hickory named his successor, but the Big Stick is not Old Hickory” Martin Van Buren was vice president during Jackson’s second term, and Jackson made him his successor. Per haps if Roosevelt would assist Vice President Fairbanks, the latter might succeed. Hayes tried to name Sher man as his successor, but failed, Ar thur tried to nominate himself for a second term, but failed. The attempt to nominate Grant for a third term, after he had been out of office for a term, failed. Roosevelt feels that he is popular enough and powerful enough to name his own successor. If he does not recede from his position, it is going to be a beautiful fight in the Republican party. Foraker has already stripped for the fight. Taft is in training, with Roosevelt as his man ager, while Fairbanks has been lay ing mines for many moons. Then there are Cannon, Beveridge, Shaw, LaFollette, Spooner, Root, Hughes, Guild and Knox, who are more than mere spectators of the game, and all of whom must feel more or less re sentful over the president’s attempt to dictate the nomination, while de claring that he does not want it him self The next fifteen months is go ing to be a mighty busy time for Theodore Roosevelt —and this means that the Republican party will not have any more harmony among its leaders than is needed for home con sumption or family use,. TARIFF TRUCE WITH GERMANY. (The New York Tribune.) The agreement will remove sources of friction which have been more an noying to German commerce than the Dingley duties themselves and will do no injury to American producers. Away will be opened for the enlarge ment of our trade with Germany on terms of amity and natural advant age. THE NIGGER IN THE WOODPILE. (The New York Press.) In New York, New Jersey, Ohio, Indiana and Illinois the loss of the colored vote by the Republican party would give all of those states to the Democratic candidate. Any Democrat who carries New York, New Jersey. Illinois, Ohio and Indiana will be the next president of the United States as surely as the election is held. Farmers, Will You ....Join Us? Watson’s Weekly Jeffersonian and The Union Guide (Pell city, Ala.) Official organ of The Farmers’ Union of Alabama Both One Year $1,450 WATSON’S WEEKLY JEFFERSONIAN. TAFT WAS A REPORTER. (The New Orleans Picayune.) Like Chief Justice Fuller, Secretry Wilson and other men high in the public service and confidence, Secre tary Taft began his career as a news paper man. The first money earned by him after being graduated from Yale was as court reporter on a Cin cinnati paper, the old Commercial Ga zette, then edited by Murat Halsted. Mr. Taft started at $6 a week, and when he quit had worked up to twenty per. All the time he was thus en gaged he was studying law at night under his father’s direction. Necessi ty did not drive him to work, as his father was a man of ample fortune, but the secretary chose it because it was the readiest entrance to active employment that brought him daily in contact with lawyers and court proceedings. The secretary likes to discuss newspaper work with report ers. He uses the shop terms with a familiarity denoting his former expe rience in the business. WHERE DOES MR. ROOSEVELT STAND? (The New York World.) In the course of his Monday lecture at Yale Secretary Root said: “Doubtless there may have been abuses in raising and applying cam paign funds, but in the main there is no more useful expenditure of mon ey from the public point of view than this, which in the last presidential election, according to official state ments, amounted to only about three and one-half cents per capita for the people of the United States on one side and probably somewhat less on the other, for the great bulk of It is applied to the political education of voters.” On notable occasions Secretary Root has appeared as spokesman for the president. Do his remarks at Yale reflect Mr. Roosevelt’s views? The Weekly Jeffersonian AND THE COMMONER TOM WATSON’S WEEKLY and WM. J. BRYAN’S PAPER Both One Year for Only $1.50 Mr. Bryan is the most conspicuous figure in American politics today. He is more —he is a World Figure. His views on men and things are awaited with interest in foreign countries as well as at home. THE COMMONER is his medium of communication with the world; but it is more than a per sonal organ, for it covers the whole realm of political thought. Hence, no one, whether a follower or an oppo nent of Bryan’s doctrines, can fail to be Interested in the columns of this famous paper. Address The Weekly Jeffersonian ATLANTA, GA. Is Mr. Roosevelt satisfied to let the CHARTIER SHORTHAND makes HIGH CLASS stenographer in < to 12 WEEKS. Why spend 6 to 12 months on out-es-date systems? Our pupils learn to KEEP BOOKS exactly as they are kept in business. FOUR MONTHS, saved on a combined course. DORMITORIES furnish wholesome discipline and BOARD at ACTUAL COST. A POSITION is secured for every graduate. WRITE TODAY for new and attractive catalog. matter of campaign contributions rest as it is? He hesitated a long time af ter the 1904 election before urging con gress to prohibit corporations from contributing to campaign funds. Does he favor secrecy in collecting and dis bursing them? Do Secretary Root’s remarks mean that in President Roosevelt’s mind no more safeguards are needed against political corruption? Is this all the administration has to say? Is there to be only praise of the “useful expendi ture” of campaign money and no fur ther practical steps to secure publicity of receipts and expenditures? Does Mr. Root, and does Mr. Roosevelt, think that “turning at least 50,000 votes,” in E. H. Harriman’s phrase. Bu^ies Runabouts Surries Shipped direct from factory to you AT WHOLESALE PRICES We guarantee safe delivery to your freight station. We have Vehicles from $32.50 up Ten Days Free Trial to thoroughly examine and test our Vehicles. OUR TWELVE MONTHS GUARANTEE COVERS EACH AND EVERY PART It is to your advantage to investigate the merits of our vehicles before buying elsewhere. Send for our 1907 completely illustrated, Free Cata logue, which fully explains how we save you from S2O to S4O on the purchase of a High Grade Buggy, Runa bout or Surrey. MaJsby, Shipp 6 Company Dept. F. 41 S. Forsyth St. - - - ATLANTA, GA. could be called a “useful expenditure” of the money Harriman raised in 1904? Did Mr. Harriman mean by that phrase the “political education” of those 50,000 voters? Where does Mr. Roosevelt stand? TILLMAN AND BAILEY. (The New York Tribune.) Senator Tillman is a critic whose lance knows no brother. He is re ported as saying of Senator Bailey: “‘Bailey got into bad company and was found out.” Yet only a year ago he and Mr. Bailey were posing as the innocent twin victims of a misunder standing with President Roosevelt on the question of railroad rate regula tion. PAGE FIFTEEN