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Newspaper
Atlanta Constitution
Location
Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jan 21, 1904
Page
21
A sprawling column surveys politics and foreign affairs with Tim Johnson, Colonel Bryan, and a panoply of figures including Morgan, Hanna, Roosevelt, and Smoot. It weighs Panama versus Nicaragua routes, Senate maneuvers, and public officials amid a fevered 1900s political milieu.
An essay argues civilization and progress are misdefined by material comfort and wealth. It condemns equating progress with luxury, warns wealth alone does not equal civilization, and urges returning to moral ideals where money is well spent and benefits all. The piece critiques modern courts, scandals, and the divorce of civilization from ethics.
The Baltimore Sun diary piece discusses Bishop Kerley’s letter about the Sharpsburg battle and McClellan’s imagined peace plan, praising Lee’s duty over ambition and noting how the episode reflects public duty. It also considers how New York’s Independent views state legislatures instructing U.S. senators on the Panama treaty, arguing such inquiries resemble plebiscites and should influence Washington’s action.
The passage argues that state legislative resolutions cannot bind senators or act as official instructions. It notes that legislators are not instructed by constituents and their actions remain individual. In special cases like Louisiana and Mississippi, senators may sense urgent public opinion but cannot be forced into binding directives. The piece favors methods that keep representatives in touch with constituents' will.
The Atlanta Constitution announces Joel Chandler Harris known as Uncle Remus resumes editorial duties. Readers nationwide welcome his return and celebrate his health and vigor after retirement. Harris gains broad praise as Georgia’s famed writer and humorist.
Jackson Mississippi January 20 special The lower house unanimously approved an annual Confederate pension appropriation of a quarter of a million dollars an increase of 100060 over last year The chamber also enacted a Jim Crow street car segregation law paving a segregated transit system for races with separate cars and other requirements
Richmond January 20 A House of Delegates bill calls for every theater and public amusement venue in the state to have doors at least feet wide, opening outward and kept unlocked during performances lectures or entertainments to ensure egress for audiences.
The body of George Francis Train, who died yesterday, was moved from Mills Hotel to a mortuary chapel for a public farewell by thousands of children who admired him in life. The funeral is private and the interment will be at Greenwood Cemetery.
A collage of dialect poems and diary-like vignettes contrasts Georgia winter with mythic summer labor, rural scenes, and a satirical author’s column. It blends verse about freedom songs and harvest toil with a courtroom line and notes on publishing life.
Judge Brown declares the so called anti jug law, previously framed to cover four counties, effectively governs every county in North Carolina. The ruling bans liquor shipment to prohibition territories within the state and broadens its reach. The decision was appealed.
Kentuckys House considers a nearly million dollar appropriation for a bold new state capitol building in Frankfort as lawmakers debate construction plans and funding.
The Baltimore Sun prints a Savannah bishop's 1904 letter recounting Civil War intrigues. General McClellan sought talks with Lee after Antietam. Longstreet believed McClellan aimed to end the war, while Lee declined. Longstreet urged a meeting to clarify aims, but events and secrecy muddied copies and originals after the war. Bishop Benjamin J Kaile y notes Longstreet’s death and recalls war reflections.
The Southern Interstate Fair Association plans to reorganize and maintain an attraction at Piedmont park this fall. Directors, led by EC Peters, discussed affairs in a noon meeting and will issue a public statement in a few days detailing their exact plans.
The Southern Press notes progress on Wade Hampton monument funding with Col umbia reporting gifts totaling $32,000 and a near start of work. It also notes the deaths of ex governors Gordon Brown Bushnell Foster within a week, prompting tributes and concern over leaders declining health. News items on Panama policy and corporate trusts highlight public accountability and a call to battle against crime and greed in business.
The president today submitted nominations to the Senate for second lieutenants in the Marine Corps. William P. Upshur of Virginia, Livick P. Pinkston of Texas, and Tilman Bunch of South Carolina were named.
January 20 budget committee of Telchetag approved an additional 50 000 for the German exhibit at the St Louis exposition bringing total to 875 000. The report notes the death by own action of Bud E Keith in Alabama City on January night from a morphine overdose.
The Atlanta fire department prepared to dispatch Chief Joyner and trained men to Barletta to help fight a Marietta blaze, but delays in securing a special train and a later message stated the conflagration was under control and no visit was required. The blaze reportedly consumed one entire block, with the rest of the town not threatened.
A January 20 remembrance in Anniston honors Robert E Lee with a courthouse ceremony. Confederates and Daughters of the Confederacy attend with Camp Pelham veterans escorted by Calhoun Elites and the Anniston Rifles. Joseph J Pelham delivers the principal address as crosses of honor are presented to veterans F B Brewer Georges W Jones and others.
In Americus Georgia on January 20 a large Ladies Memorial Association meeting favored the state taking custody of Confederate graves in Oak Grove cemetery. Deeds to the property will be made if the city council concurs. About three hundred Confederate soldiers are buried there, each grave marked by a marble headstone, with a Confederate monument erected by the Memorial Society and the Daughters of the Confederacy costing $2000, opposite the courthouse.
The Kentucky Senate concurred with the House joint resolution inviting Senator Fianna of Ohio to address the General Assembly. A separate resolution invited Senator Gorman of Maryland to address the legislature.
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