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CIIAItLOTTE DAILY OBSERVER, MAY 31, 1903. JtJNS 3. 1803 .One tlaodred Ycajrs Ago th President of the Con federate States of America. Was Born. 0 0 H lEFFEBSOtf DAVIS, first and only pml drat of the Con federate 8tates o( America, was the moat conspicuous figure on to losing Ida. of the moat spectacular war la human history. In to -the eighty-one yea re of bla life en tered a ranch : ro mance, honor, trag edy and pathos as (. f , -. . sny-individual ca reer boa known since the world began Mr; Davla was born June 8. 1S0S, In Christian .' county, now Todd county, Ky, endled Deo. 6. 1889. In New Or leans. Eight months after bla birth not many miles sway In the same state was born Abraham Lincoln, who was to "play opposite Jefferson Davis dur ing the four years of civil war which made both of them historical person ages. Each in bis respective' sphere serred as a helpless target for tha darts of rltnperatloo and abuse from those -who on the one aide or tbe other, held that the war could bare been bandied better, r Practically 1 an through bis service at tha Confederate president Mr. Darts was charged with Incompe tency by a Richmond newspaper print ed so close to" bis official chambers that jhe could almost smell the Ink. ' The 'Ice president of bis own government, 'Alexander n. Stephens, wrote a letter 'declaring his belief that President 'Darts aspired to become a dictator and in substance that his object. Instead of jflghtlng for Independence, was the sub-1 version of human liberty. ' As seen through historical perspec tive fifty years from now, when all tbe j count la made up, when prejudice and i passion shall bare given place to calmer HOME Ijndgment the likelihood Is that Jeffer ison Davis will be regarded as ono who idld nobly and ably what It waa pos isible and Imperative for him to do la ja time that tried men's souls. For tbe present in connection with tbe cen tenary or bis birth, it is sufficient to set forth some of the salient features ef bis career as a man, aa a soldier, as s statesman and as a scholar. It Is con ceded that bla' service to tbe United 8tatea aa soldier, ss lawmaker and as cabinet minister , were highly credit able. Mr. Davis first went to congress from Mississippi In 1S4& John Qulncy 'Adams, the "grand old man" of tbe bouse, who bad been president of tbe , United States; listened attentively to .the first speech of tbe young Mlsslsslp plan. . ."' ' - r' ' - '.That young man," be said, "is bound s tnsilrab hla m m tt . v aMHsov aai0 aajsaa aw , Less than two years later tbe young msn made his mark aa a soldier. He bad resigned bis seat in tbe bouse to enter the military service in the war ,wltb' Mexico, being a West Point graduate. He was elected colonel of tbe -First Mississippi volunteer riflemen. In tbe fierce battle of Buena ; Vista, though . severely wounded, ha, saved -the dsy by an exploit wblcb won tbe warm praise of the venerable Duke of Wellington and other noted military men of Europe- That was the famous . V movement Colonel Davis formed bis. forces In the shape of a V open toward an advancing boat of mounted Mexican lancers much superior in num bers.. Wben tbe lancers rode down .In . to tbe V, tbe American riflemen cangbt tbem la a withering fire that mowed them down like weeds before a scythe. A few years later Sir Colin Campbell. at Inkerman. V shaped bis forces sod .repulsed a beery -body of Russians. taking, bis cue from Colonel Davis of - A dosen years before, wben a young lieutenant 1n the army, Davis bad loved and won a daughter of Za chary Taylor, bis immediate commander, at tbe time. The marriage- was practi cally an elopement . Mrs. Davis died a few weeks, after tbe event her hus band having resigned from the army and retired to plantation life in Missis- , - -A Transparent Fakv . GrenvHlo, S. C TCews. - A report was sent out from Fayette vlll. N. C, the other day to the ef fect that Secretary Tsft was denied the privilege of th dining car on an Atlantic Coast Line train N-caui he insisted upon having negro dine with blm. Tbe News and Courier i a . rf 'jjnte was, $ &j 'I Davis Cesi - . -. slppl. la 1845 Mr. Davis remarried. Until the battle of Boena Tuta there wirta estrangmeot between Da via and bis 1 first t ather-in-law- , General Taylor was in command 'of the army there. . After the , brilliant success of the .V movement the - old warrior clasped Colonel Darts In, bis anna and aent to tha war department a report In praise of tha young colonel. -. After bis return from Mexico Mr. Davis waa appointed "United States senator by tbe governor of' Mississippi to fill a vacancy. Ha waa unanimous ly elected when the legislature met In 1850 he was elected to a full senatorial term, which be resigned the next year to run for governor of bis state aa the "state rights" candidate. ' He was de feated by a small vote. Mr. Davis soon returned to -Waahlngton, however, be ing made secretary of war in tha cabi net of President Franklin ' Pierce, a post which he filled ffom 1853 until 1837 with signal ability. Probably no abler war secretary ever beld tha port- IOUO. , .- . J ... . , r 07 JEPFESS0N DAVIS AT BZAUT0TJL Mississippi would not let Jefferson Davis rest on his plantation. Ho was sent back to the United States senate sbortl after his retirement from the cabinet After serving four years of his third fractional term as United States senator be resigned and passed forever out of official connection with the government of tha United States. Davla was tbe Democratic leader of the Thirty-sixth congress. He opposed Stephen ; A. Douglas' "squatter aov erelgnty'' proposition, but upheld the John C Calhoun doctrine of the right of the states to secede. : Mississippi seceded on tbe 9th of January, 180L Senator Davis was'of- flclaUy notified of this fact on tbe 24th, and that day x be announced his resignation In a notable speech. Davis was an orator of the Ciceronian school. nia addresses were literary produc tions. His' arguments were expressed in clear, concise, forceful English, de livered with the austere dignity of an old . Roman. Ilia tall.,.- spare form loomed in the senate like tbe figure of Sn ascetic who in fasting and solitude bad given deep consideration to the question at issue- In all things he was a serious minded man, almost to solemnity, and totally' lacking In that saving sense of humor which upheld bis executive antagonist at Washing ton, tha story telling Lincoln, in the years of sore trial In bis farewell speech Davis defended the south in Its declaration of withdrawal from the Union, denied tbe right of coercion and begged pardon of all tbose whom bt might. have offended during his senatorial career. , - . ' - , With bis military education and service and bis long experience as war secretary, Mr. Davla naturally was ambitious to lead, the armies of the south. Before teaching bis borne be bad been appointed - commander In chief of the army of Mississippi, but on the 0th of February tbe Confed erate congress at Montgomery elected him provisional president of tha new government A year later be" was elected, president of the Confederate States of America for the full consti tutional' term of six years. Shortly after taking the- executive helm Mr. promptly . branded the report as a falsehood,- taking the ground . that It knowledge of Mr. Taft precluded even a possibility, of usch. an occur rence. Kow the report is denied by Mr. Taft himself, who says It was. a falsehood - out .of the whole - cloth. We felt as did The News and Courier about it but attached so little im JUNE 3. 1908 The Romance, llonor, Trag edy and Pathos In pis Re maskable Career tvs Sol dier and Statesman. 1 0 , & - .,, ..... .....1 , . - , ,. i . . . , Davis urged that the Confederate cap ital . be v removed : to Richmond, and when this waa dona be removed thither and took up bla residence In tbe fine old mansion near the statebouee which la now a Confederate museum. . In bla first message to the pre visional con gress be made bis f amove statement aa to tbe attltade of tbe south. "All we aak la. to be let alone," but be promised to resist "sobjugatlorf to the utmost The world knows what followed. Aft-, er four years of obstinate and heroic resistance. Jefferson . Davis . waa - a fugitive, then a captive, confined for two years In Fortress Monroe, man acled, for several", days, indicted on charge of treason.: never brought to trial, finally liberated and at length Included In the amnesty. .; . 't ' 5V Most of tha remaining years of Jef ferson Davis were passed in bla mod est homo at Beau voir. Miss. There be wlte'i BIstbry of the Cohrederacy and from time to time, made dignified re plies to attacks upon bis official career. 8o great was bis fame that nobody ever visited that part of . Mississippi without going to see the executive leader of "the lost cause.' The, hospi tality of Mr. Davis was unbounded. He entertained in fine southern stylo all who. came. Tbe consequence waa that most ef tha surplus yielded by bla plantation waa eaten up by American and European admirers, and in-his latter years bo was in financial straits. Friends devised several bene fit schemes, all of which Mr. Dovis dis countenanced. He was content to suf fer with the rest of the south, hoping that the royalties on his book would bo sufficient to rescue bis estate from embarrassment' Even in this he waa disappointed, the publishing arrange ments proving unsatisfactory, Tbe human aide of Jefferson Davis has been presented by his daughter. "Winnie" Davla, and by many intimate friends. Miss Davla, in a long article written shortly after her father's death, laid particular stress upon his innate kindness of heart - She told bow when she was s little girl ber father re proved her for stepping on a beetle. "Is there not room in the world, lit tle daughter, for, yon and that harm less Insect too?" bo said. The daughter also related that Mr. Davis' tenderness extended even to trees snd planta and that he bad been known to tend a bruised sbrub long and patiently not because Its preserva tion enhanced tbe beauty of tbe land scape, but because ba pitied it The wide range of knowledge which Mr." Davla possessed waa a source of constant wonder to those who had tbe privilege of bearing him talk. He seemed to be Interested in all lines of human endeavor. He loved poetry and music, and he knew good poetry, from bad poetry and good music from bad music. Hla tastes were exalted. He was In all essentials above vulgarity. History, quite naturally, was one of bis favorite topics of study. But be did not confine himself, to tbe study of mere human development All life In terested him. as baa , been indicated. and It ia said that one a noted sports man who believed himself to be an authority on dogs visited Mr. Davis. Tbe venerable man talked dog to bis visitor, thereby proving his unfailing courtesy. : "After about an hour," admitted the dog finder, "Mr. Davis bad told me more about dogs, their history, develop ment naes aud racial characteristics than I ever bad Imagined before.". , In -person Mr. Davis al wars was scrupulously neat It Is related tbat upon one occasion, when be was not feeling well, dinner was announced at bla borne, and Mrs. Davla urged him to sit at the table In bis dressing gown. He declined, though no "company" was present ; "I know no one for whom t bsve mora respect than yourself." ba said to Mrs, Davis. "I hope I shall not take cold, but, 1 cannot alt at dinner with yon in my gown." -r , . .. i ." , LOVE. portance to the report that we didn't think It even necessary . to express our disbelief. -. . Early In the Field. , " . -Spartanburg, & C, Spartan. - There are eleven prospective can didates for the Spartanburg postofflce when Bryan ia elected. Tts Fiftfcg of tne fetrini i ..(Continued irom Page Four). ' v- with a glance that appealed. to my anxiety. ,. - . The boats were ready in the -water. - John dropped Into the first. "Tumble In man If you're coming," he- commanded. v ' Manning obeyed"., barely in time to fall into, the second, boat.. - The col onel wss there to receive him. Both boats were moving, before we knew it they were around' the bow, in full sight of the Katrine. , ' She was no more thsa a quarter of a mile from us. In spite of th ex ctUmtnt my 4teart was In my mouth. It was not of Clarke Irwin I was thinking, v 1 knew John would be in the thick of any fighting. -And who knows what a single blow may dot -Then- I saw . with the glasses that our boats were being v watched from (he deck of the Katrlna. and that two of ber officers had rifles. - Her crew were ready. . Bha came, closer and closer as the channel narrowed. . -la our boats I could see J(in and the Colonel. . But I. could not see Manning. ' Was he concealing him self? - . - . ! - In the few minutes that followed everything was frightful and confused to my eyes. I saw the captain of the Katrlna with his rifle levelled at John. John was stajidin erect in the bow of his boat and shouting through his bands. .Our boats went on. The Katrina's raptain yelled - and again John answered. And still the boats went on,-,- Then the-life went out of me, for the captain of the Katrlna had flred. The sickness of terror got hold of me. . With a flash a figure hurled itself upon the Katrina's com mander. . The two fell. The mate turned. Thank Oodl . John was still standing. I heard the Colonel's voice. He needs no megaphone. "Come out of there! Show your-setfr- Berry-Manning! he-yeied. - It brought the eyes of the Katrina's crew upon blm. " In the Instant of their surprise our men were up and at the rail.. clinging on anchor chains and even apparently on . nothing, meeting the flats above them with wild assurance. They had been battered about In these miserable desolations tbo long to spare the enemy. The Colonel's yell had twisted the Katri na's mate about as if he had been clutched by a titan. He saw Man ning. Manning signalled. What his sig nal said none of 'our men knew. It did not stop the tight. Then Captain WaHy, again on his feet, fowled an order and I saw knife blades that caught the sunlight and blinded me. The Katrlna was near.. We could hear and see everything. The strange figure that had struck 'down the cap tain of the Katrlna was Clarke Irwin. Even then, in the midst of my horror i at the knives, I was amased that I had been rlht. The yelling and the hard breathing came over the water j plain as the motion of the writhing, pounding, clubbing bodies. ' Then, without a warning, the fight atopped. The men fell apart. The Chlcola's people dropped into he boats and rowed quietly away. What did it mean? As the boats came on I could see Clarke Irwin. Manning was not there. Clarke was talking' to John I had forgotten Kate. I had thought oi no one Dut Joan, save for that In slant of shock when I had recognised Irwin. Now I realized that the girl stood Deside me. - It-was not like Kate to stay where Clarke's nrst sight of her would be In the presence Of others. She bad for gotten the others. in. her face could see- the radiance and thankful nesa. the fear ' that it Was'U'dream, which -cornea to us when' our prayers The boats were close tor the Chicola when Clarke glanced un. No one had told him Kate was with us. The sailors, quick to guess the meaning of ner iook, turned their heads toward him aa his eyes found her. From the boats and the deck burst a shout that must nave rocked the Pole. Lin tjoara me cnicoia. Only a Day Out From St. Johns, Before the tide, that came rushing to a terrinc neight In that strait had torn the Chloola from the place where she had thrust her nose Manning's luggage naa Deen transferred to the Katrlna and he and his boat were gone. It was in an absent minded daae that Clarke had walked aboard the Katrlna that day In New York harbor. He was thinking of Kate. I suppose The Katrina's launch had been wait ing at the pier, the crew seemed to expect nim, he noticed the mono grammed caps so like the Toshl's; he did not discover his mistake till he was on Manning's deck. He suspect ed nothing till he found the boat was moving. So far all had been most plausible. Manning had expected Carter Jenckes, but Jenckes must have failed him. The courteous sur prise of the man's welcome had been convincing. Now he merely refused to interrupt his cruise to set Irwin ashore. If a man walk on to your Doai uninvnea it is not kidnapping to carry out piana not suited to his con venlencei However Manning Would consider this If Irwin would promise absence and silence for six months as far as Kate was concerned his in voluntary host would land him. There were no locks, not at flrst no unlawful restrslnt. But if Clarke attempted to go on deck lie was con fronted with an order for passengers to stay below; If he tried force half a dosen sailors psmiively opposed blm Beyond St. John's the deck was free to him and during the storm .he might come and go as he chose, so long aa 7ie oia not speak with the crew. At the last he bad been hur riedly penned in a cabin and the lock turned. ' There had been no time to secure him better, or they bad no fear. If Kate had suffered for her evasion at their last meeting ha had endured .no less, carried about the north seas helpless, ridiculous, like a box or a bale, while Kate waited for him to claim his answer and his rival profited by his absence. In his rage, grown with every moment of the voy age, he could have burst heavier locks than broke under his blows., ' The Colonel says Manning's fsce when -Clarke appeared on the Katri ne's deck it pleases him to remem ber. .Even then the man hoped for concealment but when it grew cer tain that Clarke bad been seen by John and by the Colonel there was no longer hope. - If the Katrlna were to ?et away we shouldStilt know that Clarke was there. - It was then that Manning had called off the flght. The colonel advises John to sell the Chicola and live a peaceful life. "If Cells were confined to land," an swers John, "there would be inter national complications; we .might end our davs in Siberia." ' Resliy the blessedneea of Clarke and Kate Alls us sit with at wonderful content. . The white ocean seems to glow with the happiness of these days. . WA R AO A I NHT CONSUMPTION. AH nations ere endeavoring to check the ravages of consumption, the '"white plssue" that claims se many victims ch yesf. Foley's Honey and Tsr cures coughs and colds perfectly and you are fn bo Sanger of consumption. Do not risk your' h Kb by taklnsr some - as known preparation when Foley's Honey snd Tsr is safe and certain ta results. Aak for Foley's Honey snd Tar and In 1st upon having tt. R H. Jordan a Co. and W. U Hand A.Cew . 77-A8 WE GQ BOATINQ. It msy be a rest, or a slow boat'; . ' But always I do love a 'boat. For eut on the river-a- pale, boat . On white wings Is flying; a boat' For noise and for smoke, the supreme boat - - : - Of course, is the clamorous '""boat. . Beside it a dingy and glum boat ' Is stopping; the huckstering boat. All -cats dislike water.i but that boat. -. Aa every one knows.. Is a boat. . ' Whllo if there was ever a mouse boat ' No doubt 'tis the fast-anchored boat Of war vessels there Is but, one boat ' In sight: tt Is only a "boat - ? That rough-looking timber and slat boat, Resembling a raft is a boat; And near It the lumbering great boat i Is surely a lighter, or "-boat. But there goes a man In a swell boat; - The daintiest paper-made -boat. And here eomes , the - clumsiest known boat. - ' They use it on dry land; a -boat. But Just for the winter, a nice boat ' You'll nnd if you try. is an .-bq-U. "7-;":- MAWNEft' CIS CELEBRITIES IN DISGUISE. We all went to, AMERICAN LAND SCAPE PAINTER to-day as a legate of the ENGLISH POET was to preach. He wore whits vestments with a NEW YORK PISCICULTURIST stola-on the front but I could MYTHICAL SWISS HERO but little what , he said, aa he seemed to AFRICAN EXPLORER in Latin yor . Italian. Hla AUTHOR OF WALK8 IN ROME was turning EN- GLISH POET, but his eyes were dark FAMOUS ABOLITIONIST. Ws tried to join in the music, for MAKER OF FINK CUT GLASS la a great MAKER OF SEWING MACHINES, but Tom, though a cheerful ENGLISH ARTI&T cannot sing, though a IRISH NOVELIST of good singing. Ws sat on tha back PRESBY TERIAN CLERGYMAN AND NOVEL IST of pews, and came out CONFEDER ATE GENERAL. There was a very sweet OWNER. OF TELEPHONES In the tha church, or rather a chime. . I saw my ONE OF THE PRESIDENTS there, and remembered that I owe him a bill, but I think he will ANOTHER PRESIDENT me a little time. M. B. D. 679 CHARADE. The business COMPLETE Is all right For those who from morning till night For business TWO ONE; But for those who in idleness wait For buslneaa to knock at the gats What lii to be done? The hustler finds plenty to do; "Keep your shop and- your shop will keep you." (If It's only well done). So If in your business you'd thrive, Be alive, my friend, be alive, ; And on the TWO-ONE. E. E. C. 1 OS HIDDEN PRESIDENTS. Several children were playing around a pier, celebrating the birthday of their brother John., Mart hurt his hand' while gathering an armful of hsy. Espying Jack so near, he, laughing ran to him for sympathy. Soon another oame. and said excitedly. "O! Jadk, the dog that Is man I son our porch." A little girl came and asked what they should get for supper. He jokingly replied: "O! feed them on roe shad." Their mother, who was watching them, said, "John's on the go from morn till night for those children." 8. W. SMITH. 481 DOUBLE LETTER ENIGMA. The wheel that TWO from day to day, In grandma's early ONE. Stands In a place of honor still, though sll Its work Is done. But when we turn Its banded rim, a voice serenly low Goes singing to the spindle ss tt used to long sgo. Soma quaint old words seem mingled with the gentle murmuring sound. And pussy purrs responsive as the wheel goes round. "HANDS that work, snd hesrts that feel OPEN doors to worth and weal, . MUSIC of the aplnnlng-wheel; ENERGY and hope and seal." Tha times bsve changed (exceedingly, since granflma tu oi yore. And those who still wear COMPLETH, must buy It at the store. I know a piece where splnnlng-wheels, the great wheels of to-asy. Go singing to the spindles, in a very mod ern way. 1 put my fingers in my esrs to modify the sound. The fearful rlaah snd clstter. ss tne wheels go round. M. C. B. asj-pECA PITATION. Do ' you seek aurcesse from care and from the "needless that ao wounu the spirit?" Then come with me into the open fields, Blade of grsss snd of flower will speak to you soothingly. Or go to the ocean's shore snd sit on some rock snd commune with the spirit of the deep. Be yourself end not any one. These suggestions I can recommend - from my own experience. which has been of some years thst of of a large conference district I stilt take the greatest plessure in viewing the flush of the dawn In the . and feel all the better for tbe early rising. E. 8. I SKI ENIGMA. I'm the last of my kind. . And you'll keep me In mind As long ss a mind you possess. ' In duty I'm bound, ' To abide In the ground, And I'm alwsys In dreadful distress. In dark deeds I bound, r And I'm frequently Sound n dare-devils drunken affrays; nidow deep I help make. . Though my station I take At the very commencement of day. . k FI REG LOW. SM-COMMUN NAME.' Each group of four distinguishes per sons has , a common surname. Do you recognise the Individuals? L Founder of the London Royal Insti tution (17TU-lfc4h American philanthrop ic (ltn-lSfl). American poet and novelist 1X44-mt). Congregational divine and Egyptologist Ill-l!fTl. American astron omer and discoverer of two famous bod- tea of the Solar Sysism (1O-1S07). Arctic explorer O&Tl-ttTl), .English Congressional clerfcyman and advocate of American Ub erty In the Ctvtl War 1S14-1C), Americsa gslog1st H11-1. a Oovernor of Mas sachusetts l7&M&$t. pulpit orator and Bishop of Massachusetts l3s-USf). Eng lish-Americas astronomer 1M4 ). Massa chusetts poetess T7!-IM. 4. Adventur ous American general 17Ut-1790. Ameri can publisher UU4-U72). Maseseaasetts naturalist and - archaeologist CW-. Librarian of Congress ISO) . - " - . -. .BENNDZ.. ' SIS-TRANSPOSITION. - - : . There, Isn't, the FIRST In the days of TWO. ' .- " i ;.. ' That there IS in the month of June: - -For , tbe blustering winds ; make much to do, ' '-.)-'":-''.-.. - Whistling- the same old tune. ' - But the perfect days that we love so wet. When bobollng sings his song. - 7 Are full of FIRST. In the leafy dell. So different from TWO winds strong. ' y v . ' rVv--;-.' -- it e a' answers.';.'.-" "xC:. Mlss-ts-slp-pt AS L Halve, havre, harvest f Pew, pure, -purist. J. Mole, moler, molest' 4. -Teach, teacher, tea-chest ; & vt 70 -Learn, earn. - -j , ACinnims' : BY SAVOV.UU. " The other day I saw on the side walk' George". Gray, of Delaware, tl had not seen him since he left the Senate, nine years ago. He is of that order of statesmen ', who command the confidence of all and get the sup port of few for first place in tbe land. They are a numerous tribe John Forsythe, John M. Clayton., William L. Marcy, Thomas F. Bayard, 1 Levi Woodbury, James Guthrie, Salmen P Chase, John G. Carlisle, John Sher man. William B. Allison. Allen G. Thurman, Edward Bates, Thomas Ewing, Felix Grundy, John J.. Crit-. tendeh." Reverdy -Johnson. - Richard Olney, Judson Harmon, Philander C. Knox, Thomas A. Hendricks, Horatio Seymour, HowcfT Cobb, and numerous others. Of all men In the world the Presi dent of the United States ought to be a man of Judicial temper and en dowed with a capacity for sound thinking. He ought to be a man de voted to the constitution and able to Interpret it according to its plain meaning. Jie ought to be governed by certain fixed prlnolples and im movable in his adherence to them. The American people are hero worshipers, and they are never sat isfied till they set up an idol to fall down and worshlo. and sometimes Ihelr Idol is made of rather poor clay. Henry Clay was one, and a very superior man, a real plumed knight, who had tne most aevoiea following any American ever com manded. Thrice he was a candidate for President and voted for la the electoral college, and thrice he was defeated. In 1(40 more than 10 per cent of the Whigs demanded his nom ination. He was refused the honor, and the man the party did nominate was elected. Precisely the same thing happened In 1S48. The party demand ed Clay: the cool heads, wno iiks- wlso preferred Mm to all other' men, . nominated Taylor, and Taylor was elected. Why? Because Taylor could carry New York and Clay could not. An episode In Mr. Clay'a life was as follows: A Kentucklan and a neighbor who worshiped him, and a very rich man for that day, proposed to devise- him a large sum of money. It came to Clay's ears, and he served notice on his friend that he could not accept the gift.- I have somewhere read of a certain great statesman of our time made of less immaculate clay who allowed a guest undr his roof to benueath htm 160,000, but this ta a commercial age, and po lltlcal Idolatry is now become an as set of pounds, shillings and pence, Indeed, as I now recollect, this great man with his own hand wrote his guest's will bequeathing him the sum of 150.000. I believe there was a lawsuit about It and the court award ed the money to the widow Instead of to the host. While Mr. Clay was yet alive, Stephen A. Douglas succeeded to the chair of popular Idol. He was a very great man the first debater of Sen ates that contained Toombs and Ben jamtn, Davis and Crittenden, Pugh and Green, Fessenden and Sumner, Seward and Chase, Collamer and Trumbull. He stood intermediate antagonizing the radical North and the radical South. Had he prevailed, had the people supported him, the big war would have been averted and slavery would have died a nat ural and a lingering death. A few years after the pasalng of Douglas the groundlings found an other popular Idol. James- O. Blaine. He waa a very able man, and even more brilliant than able. Had he not been a most extraordinary character. magnetic and forceful, - the publica tion of the "Mulligan letters" would have done for him what the credit mobllier did for Schuyler Colfax sent him disgraced to private Ufa. 1 was at the Republican national con vention in lilt, that waa on its bead to nominate Blaine. Indeed, the nomination waa postponed - at least forty-eight hours by his friends, who kept the ocean ' cable hot the mes sages were said to have .cost 110.000 begging him to allow the conven tion to nominate him, but Blaine had a clear head, and knew that he could get more applause than votes. He did not believe that he could be elect ed, and hence he steadfastly refused to allow the convention to consider his name. Ben Harrison was nomi nated, and James O. Hliane elected him. A thing exactly, like that could happen on the Democratic aide of the hedge this very y ear of 1 90S tf William J. Bryan were aa great a man aa James G. Bis tne. But the man who shall beat Mr. Bryan for the nomination this year - will, , If elected at all. achieve the thing In spite of Mr. Bryan, and it ia that very feeling pervading Democratic lead ers at the South tbat wilt nominate Mr. Bryan If he is nominated. The word la "nominate him, and beat him worse than Parker was, and we wiU be rid -ot him." Not long after Mr. Blaine's death, William J. Bryan got to be the pop ular idol and went up and down the earth getting more applause than the rest of the statesmen together. Hla gospel waa that forty-seven cents is a dollar, and that it Is criminal to be rich. Strong men got hysterics when he came around, and one fellow was blasphemous enough to strive to touch the hem of hla atpaca sack coat, that virtue might issue to htm thence. The country waa in a frenty, and it hasn't got out of it yet. But in ltet a greater than Bryan appeared. He. too. was a popular IdoL and, unlike all the others, he was the most successful vote-getter our country has yet produced, with the single exception of George Wash ington. He has done and ia constant ly doing things that would have for ever damned any other publie man of eur history, with the exception of bis rival idol. Bryan. If Andy John sm had done anv one of a dosen things Theodore Roosevelt has per 7I ISMrKearyTV. ef France: Edict ef Nantes. 1: DormtUan, Emperor of Rome. ' I0M: : Norman Invasion. 21: Callguls, Emperor of Rsme. U42: English Civil War; Puritans vs. Cavaliers. Key Republican., . .. '; STS Bar-on-age. V t . '.'' 7J t Ward. 1 Beads. 3. Mann. , 4. Hayes, t. Moore. . Harte. 7. Payne, t Roe, j- -':-.- - .- i- ; ;. 74 Setma. Dayton, Norfolk, Macon, Troy. Salem. Utica. Augusta. Lowell. Dover, Dallas. - '. ;r , ; -.i 75 t John D. . Rockefeller. 2. Charles E. Hughef . S. Ignaee PaderewskL 4. Ed ward Everett Hale, a Edward H. Har rlman. 4. Joseph Benson Foraker. 7. James Whltcorab Riley. 4. Mary Baker Glover Eddy. L Hetty Green., to. Charn cey M. Pepsw. li. Grovsr Cleveland. 13. Luther Burbank. .- . CTS Benumbed. Ana AGm5 petrated to hurricanes of applause, the. impeachment would have been accomplished and Andv hurled from office., Roosevelfa interpretations of the constitution are those of the usurper, t He has already nullified the tenth amendment. For examples It is the right of the sovereign Wtate of California to provide that Japs be admitted to the common schools of San Francisco. California failed, and refused to do that. Roosevelt' inter posed snd forced -Jap children into those schools. Mr, Roosevelt -announces that when a State neglects or declines to exercise Its reserved powers. It is the right and th duty ot the Federal government to do so. And. touching child labor in the Btalaa Mr knan i-nrillallv endorses the heresy of hla co-idol. This curious phase Is presented Mr. Bryan has given Mr. Roosevelt a certificate of good statesmanship, and Mr, ltoosevelt has declared that what he has insisted on was to save this - country rrom the diabolical statesmanship of Mr. Bryan. Mr. Bryan says mat Kooseveltism is very good. Mr. Roosevelt says Bryanlsm is simply horrible. On one thing they are in perfect accord, and that tne augmentation of governmental power at Washington. Thirty years ago our country was a republic; to-day It la a bureaucracy, with hundreds of thou sands of civil service agents. Unless the Democratic party comes out of the hypnotic trance Into which It fell In 1814, when it abandoned Cleve landlsm for Bryanlsm, ere the new century fulfills Its fifth lustrum there will be on the Federal pay roll 1. 000,000 civil service officials, and every cltisen's conduct will be put under the scrutiny of a bureau at Washington. This Is not Idlo speculation. In the Nebraska platform, written less than six weeks ago by Mr. Bryan, it is de clared that no corporation shall con trol SO per 'cent, of any product. What Is Mr. Bryan going to do with the Patent Office t That establish ment. ip to three years ago, had ssAk .A YelatR'f Haarkl nt a mnnnnAliM every one private. Now, I make the assertion that the Inventive gen ius of this people, rewarded by let ters patent, establishing unequivocal monopolies, has been of Incal'table blessing to the American peopiVand especially to thaX class . Mr. Eryan has In such affectionate ward- the farmers. It is hardly extravagance to say that the Patent Office, the sole mission of which is to create private monopoly, has done as much to make our country great aa cheap- bread and meat ever did. If no corporation Is to control more thsn SO per cent, of a product, what corporstion would know how msny hands to employ, how much material to buy, how large a plant to erect? And then again there would be ne cessity to create another department at Washington, preaided over by a secretsry of production, with thou-, sands and thousands of special agents running up and down the earth in vestigating private affairs. Spies would be everywhere and business would be chaos. Mr. Bryan cannot -find terms too extravagant to eulogise Abraham Lincoln for freeing the ne gro, who waa made to produce alt he could, and here he Is advocating a despotism that limits the production of the white man. The old South would have stood that for about a quarter of a second. God help us the old South Is now but a fond and revered memory. - I have made a thousand predlo- -tlons, moot of them discredited by the events, but that shall not deter ms now. Taft will be nominated. Bryan will be nominated. Hearst'a plutocratic friend. Hlsgen. will be nominated. It will be a whirlwind campaign. The Democrats will make the noise, the Republicans will mske the orgsnlsatlon, and the Hearstites will make fences for 1111. . h ainla of October, or a- little later. Teddy wilt take the stump and his crowds will dwarf Bryan's, while the noise they make will drown . tbat of the Bryan meetings. The result In -the electoral college wtn he the same. Then the .North ern Democracy will be shipwrecked and Hearst will gather the salvage. And. all because the old South. that feared God and nothing else, is , desd. J (Copyrighted, 190S. by E. man). W. New- THK CALL OF THE SOUTH. A Hook of GoikI Sense of the Nesrro Rni T-arkmff Lit- JUKI yu-i- - - - erery FOroi and Good l-ngUsh, Oakland (Cal.) Enquirer. The Call of the South." The Odor of the negro la all over tnia noo. Is a story ef the peril of the dark skin, the recession of type from' the ming ling of bloods. - ,' The publisher calls it a "novel, but It is not -It 1" hardly a story. It Is one of those disquisitions or sermons which disguise, themselves v as siorws - for sugar-coating. . Indeed, there are thirty pages r an imaginary uuiw9s to the nubile in which the writer elab orately voices hla contention., it is good sense, too. on me negro rsciai question, but in a story, snd. a for- , irt M a novel- it would by an laws of art be condensed Into a paragraph. The book la written irom tne bouu ern viewpoint. The reader must not look for lltersry form or good English. Southern writers are not in the habit of subjecting themselves to the severe training which alone gtves these at tractions, but : it contains unusual sense from this source on blcx-mlx- Ing. Pity the Southern young men nsa not found its truths eut years aso'. v There are aome new and original descriptions in the book, one or a football game is especially fiery. Too Washington darky a class by him self Is described to the life- On tha whole the book is a noteworthy .con tribution ; to the library of argument and fiction now being produce.! on the negro problem. Author. Rnfceit Lee Durham. ' (Illustrated. L- Faje & Co., r ton).
The Charlotte Observer (Charlotte, N.C.)
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