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Ala., as second-class matter.
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ter or length, should be written on only one
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sent to the Editorial Rooms.
It is now in order for the Cleveland
worshippers to score Uncle Henri Wat
terson for his sacrilegious abuse of the
president.
The Princess of Wales is desirous of
setting the fashion of wearing demi
tollet at the theater. For a good while
past she has appeared in the royal box
arrayed in a high bodice, with sleeves
reaching nearly to her hands.
The Boston Herald thinks that. T. B.
Reed is too much of a humorist to make
a president. It is true that the country
does not want a clown for a president,
but somehow or other Mr. Reed has man
aged to.be taken right seriously at times.
Kentucky and Tennessee kept close
company in the partisan divisions of the
past half century and over, both being
whig throughout nearly the whole life
of that party, then democratic In 1856
after the whig party died, constitutional
unionist in 1860. and usually democratic
ever since until recently.
Ex-Senator Kellogg, who Is taken for
something of a seer, and who predicted
the panic of 1803 nine years before it be
gan, comes to the fore with an optimistic
prophecy now. He says that 1807 will
witness the most prosperous era for bus
iness of all kinds that, this country has
ever known.
The Montgomery Advertiser nan an u
could stand under when it endeavored
to trip the State, and followed this up
by turning its full battery loose on the
State Herald. It now proposes to double
its load and deal Captain Johnston a
death blow for the democratic nomina
tion for governor. This last straw will
break the camel's back. _
The engagement of Miss Elite Fisher of
Klchmond. Va„ to Mr. James Macauley
Higginson of Albemarle is announced.
Mr. Higginson is the youngest son of the
late Sir J. M. Higginson, K. C. B., and
I,ady Higginson of Connellmore, County
Kildare, Ireland, and nephew of the sixth
Duke of Sidney and Duchess of Man
chester. He owns a line estate in Albe
marle county^_
The past season has been the most
prosperous one for years for the Fall
Uiver factories, and in spite of the fact
that it was a year of depression and
stagnation in business, the mills made
better dividends during the hard times
of 1X95 than in 1892, when the country
was supposed to be enjoying the maxi
mum of prosperity. The reason has al
ready been given—the low price of cot
ton Several industries—among them
cotton manufacturing—prosper during
eras of depression, because the hard
times reduce the price of the raw mate
rials which they chiefly use In manufac
turing.
Senator Morgan complains that Sir Ju
lian Pauncefote has criticised his
speeches in the senate. In the senator’s
own phrase, the ambassador has “ar
raigned" him for opinions uttered in de
bate on the floor of the senate. This he
thinks "a. piece of presumptuous arro
gance on his part." Unquestionably it
is so. The British ambassador's bust
uess is to speak of the views of this gov
ernment and not of the opinions of indi
viduals who are in congress. It was
simply impertinence for Sir Julian
J’auncefote to arraign the senator from
Alabama for words spoken in debate.
Sir Julian's business is with the admin
istration and not with members of con
gress. _
i ne riuy-iuuMH -..
hesitate to act favorably upon the presi
dent’s recommendation to issue $500,000,
ooo of bonds to retire the greenbacks and
treasury notes on account of any appre
hension that the obligations cannot be
readily floated. It is reported that the
gold standard advocates in Alabama
have already organized a syndicate for.
the purchase of the entire issue. The
Montgomery Advertiser and Mobile Reg
ister are said to be the controlling spirits
in the movement and will absorb at
least two-thirds of the bonds. There Is
no little impatience among the members
of the syndicate that there must be a
necessary delay of a few weeks before
the transaction can be completed.
To maintain a gold reserve on which
the sharpers of Wall street and else
where may make runs and thereby cre
ate panics at their pleasure, and for their
profit, by the heating down and destruc
tion of legitimate values and bus
iness. the people of the United
States within about twenty months
have been loaded with an in
creased Interest charge of $6,496,000 per
annum. Mr. Cleveland in his message,
which Is a plain confession of the failure
of iiis financial policy, proposes to add
t.i the burden from $16,000,000 to $20,000,
p(tO more per annum, tlie Interest on $500,
On -.iiOO of bonds to be used to retire the
f*h-rman certificates and greenbacks in
oilier that the banks may use them as
a means for monopolizing and controll
ing she currency at will and gorge them
e- Ives by the plunder of tile country.
Alabama’s share of the principal of this
indebtedness of about $660,000,000
would be at least $15,000,000, and
the annual tax to pay the interest
cm it somewhere about $600,000! And^thls
Is Mr. Cleveland’s only and wonderful
remedy for the "ills of our critical finan
cial plight.'*
WATTERSON ON CLEVELAND.
Henry Watterson, who has been one of
the staunchest supporters of Cleveland
and his administration, finds himself un
able longer to play cuckoo. The fact Is,
the able editor of the Courier-Journal Is
not adapted to that role, and his recent
utterances are no surprise to those who
have known him as a bold, fearless jour
nalist, holding the principles of democ
racy and the success of the party on
those principles as of far greater impor
tance and moment than the fortunes of
any man or set of men.
Although Mr. Watterson has been ap
parently blinded by the light, that has
flashed from the "throne” at the White
House, the scales have fallen from his
eyes, and in a recent editorial in his pa
per he unburdened himself of his long
pent-up feelings as follows:
“It may be that Mr. Cleveland has
been ail that the needs of the country
have absolutely required. But he has
been a woeful scourge to democracy. In
the minor details of administration ha
has certainly displayed uncommon ap
titude. He has transacted the business
of the executive office as if it were his
uwn private property. His domtnancy of
character is Indisputable. To the extent
of his very limited range of intellectual
vision he sees clearly and thinks accu
ratcdy. If his knowledge were equal to
his intention, which, though deriving its
substance and strength mainly from his
own conception of his own interest, sttll
looks upward and not downward, he
would at this moment find himself at the
head zf. a victorious army, moving fnr
wa d upon lines of thought consistent in
themc»lves and propelled by a great pop
ular Impulse.
"Unfortunately Mr. Cleveland possess
es no original opinions or Information
upon any economic subject. Getting ev
erything at second hand and by absorp
tion. he is as likely to go wrong as right
as far as his own unwarpod judgment is
concerned. He half-learned his tariff les
son, and as a consequence he has been,
ever since his message of 1887, the most
potent obstruction to tariff reform in the
United States.
"When one recalls how it was he who
sent Gorman and Scott to the St. Louis
eonvention^ln 1888 with a cut-and-dried
platform Ignoring and repudiating that
message, and none other than he who
sent five members of his cabinet to the
Chicago convention In 1892, headed by
Vilas, to work for his nomination and
to foist upon the party the protectionist
gibberish which the convention threw
out—when one recalls how, after the
miracle of his election, he was entreated
to allow a tariff measure consonant with
the platform to be brought In and that
all the shortcomings and misadventures
of the Wilson bill were fully foretold and
set forth—and that he himself forced the
fighting on that line—when these things
are recalled, what a travesty not merely
upon statesmanship, but upon fair deal
ing, seem his belated and bombastic let
ters to Wilson and Catchings and his os
tentatious refusal to sign a bill for which
he, more than any other human being,
\irna rncnniKjIlilnl
"But why cry over milk that Is spilled?
What boots it now what were Mr. Cleve
land's ulterior purposes? If he meditated
the disruption of both the republican and
democratic parties and the construction
of a Cleveland party, as his enemies al
lege, he perpetrated a grievous miscalcu
lation. The party which thrice honored
him with its nominations and twice elect
ed him president Is left with the hag to
hold, and a very empty bag it is. He
has had his day—to him full of glory and
renown—to his party full of disaster.
Presently he will go out of place and
power, carrying with him the curses of
some, the adulation of others, and the
average opinion that he was an average
president, who, if he did no great good,
did no great harm—marking time, as it
were, and leaving the public service very
much as he found it, albeit, for the time
being, wrecking the cause which the peo
ple fancied to be embodied. In his per
son.
“Mr. Morton's illustration of a bank
and a hank president, with reference to
Mr. Cleveland and the government, sixes
up Mr. Morton's master perfectly. Mr.
Cleveland has. had no higher ideal. The
image which the people have constructed
out. of their own generous and confiding
beliefs, sotting it upon a pedestal, label
ing it ‘Cleveland' and extolling its vir
tues has never had any actual existence
_hut in its stead a dull, plodding bank
president, suspicions and grudging, des
titute alike of imagination and sympa
thy, and far—very far—from a hero of
any kind.’*
CUBA.
Poor Cuba, is left in the lurch by the
president. He has nothing to say either
for or against the recognition of the bel
ligerent claims of the patriots who are
desperately asserting their right to in
dependence and political autonomy.
Whatever he may think and fee! person
ally on the sublect, the president con
fines his observations to the necessity
for maintaining a strict neutrality un
der existing conditions. This is the only
branch of the subject that has received
any attention from him. Whatever con
gress may determine to do in relation
to the proposed recognition of belliger
ent rights for the Cubans must be done
upon the prompting of that profound
sympathy which affects the entire body
of the American people.
Tne IN PW UrltHIIB ..
that "the attitude of the administration
in respect of Cuba will not be palatable
to any considerable section of the Ameri
can people. That attitude Is prnctically
a repetition, in a less offensive form, of
the position assumed in Attorney-Gen
eral Harmon's letter, in which he scolded
his countrymen for expressing Iheti sym
pathies with the struggling Cuban pa
triots, and tnhl them somewhat bump
tiously to stop these sympathetic, mani
festations on the ground that the ad
ministration would otherwise be embar
rassed in maintaining the International
obligations of the United States to Spain.
President Cleveland might have learned
from what has taken place since the date
of the attorney-general's letter that the
administration was 'out of touch’ with
the American people In this matter, but
he has not learned that lesson. At any
rate, he does not show that he has learn
ed It, for he disapproves the Interference
of the United States government In any
way In the Cuban Insurrection, the duty
of maintaining our International obliga
tions being still apparently the only as
pect of the case to which he Is alive. It
is not unlikely that congress, once It
shall have settled down to work, will also
show him that his attitude on this ques
tion is not approved by the legislative
branch of the government any more than
by the people."
—
LAME ABGUMENT.
The president's reasoning is lame and
impotent. The statistics show that in
eleven years, from July 4, 1879, when
specie resumption was consummated,
[ down to July 14. 1890, when the treasury
I notes for the purchase of silver were au
thorized, there had been drawn out of
the treasury for the redemption of green
backs only 128,000.000. But in a little
more than live years, from July 14, 1890,
to the present time, there has been wlth
1 drawn {375,000,000, or since the date of
I specie resumption more than $400,090,000,
or four times the amount of the gold re
serve, and yet the greenbacks and treas
ury notes are In circulation, ready it all
! times to be used to drain the treasury
i of Its gold.
The Bland-Alllson bill for the coinage
of silver had been running from lS?8 to
1892, and yet there was no drain Upon
the gold reserve even when President
Cleveland In 1884 sent his anti-silver let
ter Into congress.
The late financial crisis which produced
the present hard times, the president at
tributes to the coinage of silver. He
necessarily finds it very difficult to ex
plain how the silver purchase act, which
went into operation In 1878, should have
taken so long to produce a crisis, the
country not feeling the effect of It until
fifteen years later. He seeks to explain
this weakness in his argument by attrib
uting the crisis to the act of 1890, which
increased the amount of silver pm-chased
annually by the government.
"If thatactwas the cause of the crash,"
says the New Orleans Tlmes-Demoerat,
"It ought to have had some effect
Immediately, but it was three years be
fore it was felt. That the purchases of
silver had nothing to do with the crisis
can easily be seen from the very similar
crash which came In Australia, w-here
there was no purchase of silver, but
where a gold standard prevailed. Com
pelled to recbg'nlze that the trouble came
from the exports of gold and the raid
On the gold reserve, Mr. ■ Cleveland at
tributes that raid to the purchase of
silver, and bases on it an attack both on
silver and the greenbacks, instead of
seeing that the trouble lay in the unwise
policy adopted by him and his secretary
of paying out gold for treasury notes, in
stead of gold and silver, as France does
and as our own law commands. Mr.
Cleveland admits that his secretary of
the treasury violated the provision of the
law, which in allowing the payment of
gold and sllvpr for these notes practically
ordered that they should be paid in both
metals, so as to prevent a famine in
either."
•'Behind barred doorR." The door was
wide open to ail invited visitors.—Kolb's
Tribune.
ine above Is one way to cover up the
truth. The State Herald reporter was
politely invited to step out of the Rep.
Pop. meeting of last Saturday, to which
the above refers. To a gentleman such
an invitation is ever equal to “barred
doors" in its liberal sense. And again,
Kolb’s Tribune recently referred to Edi
tor Nunnellee of the Selma Times, former
business manager of the State Herald,
as the editor of the State Herald—anoth
er intentional honesty on the part of the
Pharisaical editor of Kolb’s Tribune—
hoping thereby to impress the fact that
there was a disagreement as to the pol
icy of the State Herald. “Dead Qock"
Kolb could spend his time to great ad
vantage for years to come by running
down the mote in his own eye.
How does Mr. Cleveland's proposition
to convert th«l non-interest bearing debt
of the government, consisting of green
backs and treasury notes to the amount
of $500,000,000, into interest bearing obli
gations to that amount for the purpose
of maintaining the republican financial
system now in force, please the advo
cates of the single gold standard? The
expense in the way of Interest would
amount to only about $15,000,000 to $2p,
000,000 per annum; a small sum, to be
sure, in view of the immense prosperity
that has prevailed throughout the coun
try under the Influence of that system.
Every populist and republican, if they
speak sincerely, would lie delighted to
see Captain Johnston put forward next
year as the democratic leader. It is al
ways foolish to follow ttie enemy’s pref
erence in a battle. The democracy of
Alabama will not do it next year any
more than last.—Advertiser.
On the contrary, every populist and
republican would be delighted to see a.
man nominated who cannot draw their
mep away from them. In 1894 they
worked against Captain Johnston be
cause they believed him to be the most
formidable man against them.
Ex-Senatbr Edmunds, who is under
stood to have superseded Sherman ns the
republican adviser of the administration,
talks against annexation at every oppor
tunity. In his latest speech he declares
that it would be J‘a great mistake” for
us to “make into citizens great numbers
of persons who have no understanding of
things which we have for 100 years stud
ied and wrought for and inherited."
RAILROAD RACKET.
Tho Southern Railway company has
announced the following appointments:
Southern Railway Company,
office of the Traffic Manager,
Washington, Ij. C„ Dec. 1, 1895.
General Order No. 8.
Effective this date the following ap
pointments are announced:
Robert L. Simpson, soliciting agent
Southern rallay, headquarters at Bir
mingham. Ala.
Charles Barham, soliciting agent
Southern railway, headquarters at Rich
mond, Va., vice Robert L. Simpson,
transferred.
W. C. Stephens, soliciting agent South
ern railway, headquarters at Chatta
nooga, Tenn.
D. M. CULP, Traffic Manager.
Approved:
W. W. FINLEY, Third Vice-President.
A. G. S. R. R. Co.,
Office of the Traffic Manager,
Washington, D. C., Dec. 1, 1895.!
General Order No. 5.
Effective this date W. C. Stephens |s
appointed soliciting agent, Alabania
Great Southern railroad, headquarters
at Chattanooga, Tenn. j >
D. M. CULP, Traffic Manager.!
Approved: \
W. W. FINLEY, Third Vice-Pro?tdrid,
Mr. Simpson, who Is to be soliciting
agent of the Southern at this point; is
transferred from Richmond, Va., where
he has for some time held a similar posi
tion with the same road. He succeeds
Maj. W. A. Moody, who resigned abotiV
the 1st of October to accept a position
with the Howard-Harrison Iron cbm
pany of Bessemer.
Mr. Simpson is said to be a splendid
soliciting agen, and he will receive ia,
warm welcome to Birmingham rallfpad
circles.
A Police Justice in Trouble.
Detroit, Mich.. Dec. 5.^L Blair Simp
son, police Justice, who was arrested
last night charged with criminal assault
on Maud Wentland, a 14-year-old girl,
was arraigned In police court this even
ing. He pleaded not guilty and was re
manded for examination. Bail was fixed
at $6000, which was furnished late this
evening. ___
travelers^Trotective association.
There will be an important meeting of
the Alabama division at the Morris hotel
Saturday evening at 8 o’clock. Every
member Is requested to be present.
AND GOIvD!
The cherished hope of the people. The pampered pet of patricians.
Or Even Your Old Linen Done Over as
G-R-E-E-N-B-A-C-K-S,
All have an equal value with us—that value One hundred Cents’ worth of first-class, well-made
FURNITURE AND CARPETS.
We are not offering you Two Dollars’ worth of goods for fl'in money, but wo are 1L„°
come nearer doing bo than the man who telle you he does. Step in and look at our crov l
Four floors stocked full of choice goods—the best on the market. It Is an old tale, but seeing p
positive, and that is one reason for offering the UNAPPROACHABLE VALUES.
This season’s stock has never been equaled and the variety of beautiful designs unsurpassed^
With the approach of Christmas we want to remind you of the advisability of making an ear 3
tiou. We will place it r.side for you. jjgg^Speciftl attention to mail orders.
WHAT MOSELEY SAYS.
The Assets of the Populists, Horse, Foot and
Dragoon, Turned Over to the Repub
lican Party.
Washington, Dec. 2.—(Special Corre
spondence.)—If there is a deluded Jeffer
sonian democrat who has followed Reu
ben Kolb in his vain ambition that does
not think the recent meeting in Birming
ham was a complete turning over of the
assets of the populists to the republi
cans let him read the following inter
view with Bob Moseley, which appeared
in the Post of Sunday last:
"Dr. R. A. Moseley, editor of the Bir
mingham Times, the only ropublican
newspaper in Alabama edited by a white
man, is at the Metropolitan. He has
been chairman of the republican state
committee for the past eight years, and
last night he gave a Post man an inter
esting account of political conditions in
his commonwealth. Dr. Moseley is a na
tive Alabamian, fought in the southern
army vigorously and was a democrat un
til Horace Greeley was named for the
presidency. He preferred General Grant
to the famous editor and ever since he
has been a republican.
“ What we hope to do in Alabama next
year,’ said he, 'is to have the republicans
and populists Join hands, as they did in
North Carolina, and thereby defeat the
democratic party. I prefer to use the
word co-operation to fusion, and if this
eo-operation is effected it can’t help but
succeed. Alabama has really been re
publican since 1868. The democrats have
stolen the elections systematically. Gov
ernor Oates got ills majority last year
in the black belt, though only 5 per
cent of the 90,000 colored voters of that
section were registered. Their votes
were counted for him all the same. Next
year this counting-ln process will hard
ly be attempted, because the majority
will be too overwhelming.
" ‘Another bright feature is the Inter
nal dissensions of the democracy. They
are hopelessly split on the financial ques
tion. and whether the free coinage men
or the Cleveland sound money faction
triumphs the bitterness will be so great
that it will insure a loss of thousands
of votes. Under these conditions It is
certainly a wise policy for the republi
cans and populists to unite in overthrow
ing the common enemy, and this I believe
they are almost sure to do. We wilt
carry in all probability not only the state
ticket, but what is of equal consequence,
elect a legislature that will pass an hon
est election law. The legislature would
also have the naming of a senator to
succeed Mr. Pugh. I don’t know who
would be chosen in that event, but Capt.
R. F. Kolb, who was twice elected gov
ernor, and counted out both times. Is re
garded as a candidate,’
“ ‘Whom do the Alabama: republicans
favor for president?’
“■ ‘I can only say for myself that Tom
Reed Is my choice, first, last and all tho
tline. I believe he will have a majority
of the delegates from my state. McKin
ley has a number of friends, and some
favor Allison, hut altogether there is no
doubt that the Maine man is in the
lead.' ”
RUTI/EDGE.
Trctrncted Meeting—Anri mil Conference at
Troy.
Rutlpdge, Den. 3.—(Special Correspond
ence.)-The Rev. Mr. Morrell, a noted
evangelist, is carrying on a series of
meetings at Luverne, three miles east
of Rutledge. He holds In a large ware
house, which is almost full at every ser
vice.
The faithful pastor of the Methodist
church. Rev. W. 9. Street, will leave In a
few days to attend the annual confer
ence to be held at Troy. The probability
Is that Mr. Street will be moved to an
other work next conference year, which
will be sad for the people of Rutledge.
He and his accomplished young wife
add much to the culture of the town.
Mr. C. C. Turlington of Ozark, while
on his way to the grand lodge at Mont
gomery, came by Rutledge to see his step
son. Prof. R. O, Meek.
Mr. W. T. Mahone. a carpenter and
contractor, who has been at LeOrand,
came down one night this week on busi
ness(?) The joke is that his girl, not
knowing he was coming, left for a visit
the next morning after his arrival. Mr.
Mahone Is still in Rutledge, and will be
for several days.
Don't take any chances. Take Hood's
Sarsaparilla, the one true blood puritier.
ALABAMA EDITORS.
The Huntsville Tribune Is heading Its
editorial columns with Bible quotations.
Its last is as follows:
"Scornful men bring a city Into a
snare, but wise men turn away wrath."—
Prov. xxix, 8.
Editor Comstock of the Sheffield Reap
er goes Editor Lane one better:
"Sie aber lauern selbst auf ihr Blut,
und stellen ihrem eignen Leben nach.
“Also gehet es mit alien, die dem Getz
ar.hangen; der nlmmt das Leben seinetn
eignen Herrn.—Prov. 1, 18-19."
On the Run.
The John Sherman echoes are on the
run In Alabama.—Montgomery Journal.
Will Be Indorsed.
Our friend J'l'Klrk Jackson is making a
most able and efficient secretary of state.
That he will be indorsed there is no
doubt.—Ozark Star.
Will Result in Immigration.
If Capt. Joseph F. Johnston is elected
governor we predict a larger immigra
tion upon his inauguration than there
was upon the Inauguration of Mr. Oates.
—Sheffield Reaper.
May Make Some People Believe It.
The Montgomery postofflee and the Mo
bile postofflee say there''can be no har
mony. if they continue to harp upon
this string they may succeed in getting
some people to believe it after awhile.—
Montgomery Journal.
Ought to Sleep by Himself.
The bachelor editor of the Wiregrass
Siftings remarks:
"A man who will make his wife get
up to make the fires these frosty morn
ings is a cruel old sinner, and ought to
have to sleep by himself.”
What are you going to do when the
baby is crying and there is no milk in
the bottle—shake the kid or make the
tire?
Enjoying the Spoil* Already.
One of the most amusing features re
sulting from the late elections Is to see
tile perpetual office-seekers of the g. o. p.
smiling around at the encouragement
of their hopes in securing a piece of the
government pie. They believe this elec
tion secures a republican president next
year, and naturally their mouths are wa
tering. Their party is for the spoils, and
has no regard for the people.—Double
Springs Herald.
If the records are to be believed they
have been enjoying about all the spoils
under the present administration.
^ Sad it Serious.
What has come over the spirit of Ed
itor JelksV For several Issues the edito
rial page of the Times was devoted to
telegraphic news to the exclusion of
-wind and weather splitting” editorials.
—Columbia Breeze.
What has come over the spirit, etc.?
What, indeed! Come up Friday, and we
will show you that we are splitting wind
and weather every day, and lots of tt.—
Eufaula Times.
If the Times editor means by “splitting
the wind” to be "phunny,” it is all right;
in fact, Is real laughable. But if he is seri
ous in what he says and Is actually bel
lowsed it will be sad news to those who
have so long enjoyed his “phunny” say
ings. _
Quit. Prodding Joe.
Editor Joe Adams of the Ozark Star
enjoys the fruits of being the postmas
ter in his prosperous town and is grow
ing weary of the Montgomery Journal's
continued prodding of these officials:
•The Momgomery Journal and others
of that kind are continually prodding at
the postmaster editors In this state and
aCcuslng them of disloyalty to the party,
when the truth is. they hold their pest-.
Hons at the hands of a democratic pres
ident!. given them in recognition of parly
service The Journal, if It really desires
harmony as much as some of its editori
als would indicate, could do much
toward harmonizing by stopping
suoh references to democratic Journals
who have proven themselves true to the
partv in every particular.”
:'HE COMMITfiE MEETING.
The Chfccgi J’ews gives the following
graphic account at the trouble in the
camps of the Cook County Democratic
club, noted In a special that appeared
in this paper yesterday:
“The gathering of the democratlccoun
ty committeemen last evening was at
tended by some remarkable phenomena.
Mr. Walsh, we are told, "made a flying
leap over a dozen men’s heads,” while
Colonel Donovan stood by “pale” and
angry. Assuredly nothing less than the
spectacle of a brother committeeman fly
ing over the heads of twelve other com
mitteemen could ever cause Colonel Don
ovan’s rubicund cheeks to become sick
bed o’er with the pale cast of anger.
“The other proceedings of the meeting,
while not lacking In sprlghtllness and
variety, were by no means such as would
induce the unwonted phenomenon of pal
lor In Colonel Donovan's sturdy jowls.
If a gentleman of the colonel’s constant
experience with political gatherings
should go pale merely because a few
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committeemen call a few other commit
teemen liars and thieves and throw the
furniture about, he would be pallid all
the time, his habitual complexion would
be the chalky hue of the opium eater.
Neither would the ruddy tinge of health
forsake the colonel's chops because Mr.
M. C. McDonald asseverated that the
Hopkins machine was and Is an lngeni- -
ou» contrivance for blackmailing candi
dates and their friends, nor beoause he
alleged that said machine In the last
eighteen months had collected $240,000,
of which no account had been rendered,
nor because he declared that under the
Hopkins regime a few committeemen do
the voting for the party. These things
are the commonplaces of polltlcaglo mm
are the commonplaces of political gossip.
Colonel. Donovan must have heard them
before. They could not contain that ele
ment of surprise which would blanche
hts cheeks. And ns for the slugging and
gouging, that is a mere incident in a po
litical gathering. Depend upon It, the
wonderful leap was what queered the
colonel.
"Aside from Colonel Donovan’s pallor
and Mr. Walsh's record-breaking leap,
the meeting was not of special import
ance. Mr. McDonald's charges against
the Hopkins ring are tolerably familiar
to the public In one form or another. As
for the purely business part of the p"ro
Ctt dings, Mr. Thomas Gahan was elected
chairman In place of Mr. Johnny Pow
ers. Mr. Gilhan knows more about poli
tics lhan Mr. Stuyvie Peabody does and
is preferable on other grounds to Mr.
Johnny Powers. He Is not an ideal di
rector-la-chlef of a great party In a great
county, but this Is not the year of Ideals
in politic*.”
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