The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-01-14
CREAM OF THE PRESS.
THE ESSENTIAL AND STRIKING
IDEAS or YESTERDAY Y.

Postal Telegraph os. Chandier-Aiso the
Ship ChandIer-Business Men and the
strike--"son Of the Thunderer"-Ire-
lands Home Rule.
Many persons who do not approve Of a
! Government telegraph take very radical
views of the relations which Congress
should assume toward the private lines.
They urge that the Government hould
boldly step in and regulate the rates. III
Congress had the constitutional power to
do this-which Is dOubtful-we might well
drea the assumption OF such an author
ity. Bad i'm itself, 1t would be the prece-
den, of worse things. 1t is for the inter
est of all corporations and individuals
engaged in commerce" between the
several States to check the tendency TO
too loose an Interpretation of the right
of Congress 10 regulate" that commerce.
And there isno necessity of going TO that
extreme. A commission, similar to the
one already put over the interstate rail-
roads, would prove a real publ; benefit
if appointed TO supervise the interstate
telegraph lines.
Notwithstanding what we have said OF
the aversion Of the public to the estab-
| lishment of a Government telegraph, no
one can say how quickly a sentiment in
favor of it may sweep over the country.
II the monopoly should give the screw
another turn or two and make its charges
a shade more i,.supportable, that act
might be the means OF starting an agita-
ton all over the country.-J0urHal Of
Commerce.
Mr.. Chandler knows that under no pos
sible construction of the Constitution,
would the Senate, or the Congress, or the
Executive, or all combined, have any
right TO go into a State TO inquire into
the circumstances attending an election
for city officers. He knows that it would
be lust as regular for the Federal author
itv or anv branch of it, TO inquire into
the voting for q church deacon in Con.
cord, n. H., a Sunday school superinten.
dent in Boston, Mass, or the president of
a base ball club in Detroit, Mich, as to
investigate the election of q mayor or
clerk in Jackson, Miss.
But, knowing all this as well as he
knows the alphabet, Mr.. Chandler pro.
poses such an investigation and makes a
speech in support Of the preposterous
proposition Washingt0A Post.
Senator Chandler in his sell. assumed
role of Republican leader Of the Senate,
! cal.ed up and secured the passage ycster-
day Of his resolution for an INVESTIGATION
of the alleged Acknowledgement OF the
colored voters at the late municipal cleo
ton in Jackson, Mississippi. Senators
George and Walthal of the latter State,
while entering a dienified protest against
the right of the Senate to investigate To-
cal elections in any State, took a manly
course in declaring themselves anxious
that all the facts should be given TO the
public.
The object of the New Hampshire Sen
ator in introducing the resolution was
doubtless to prejudice the case of Mr..
Lamar and prevent. if possible, his con-
firmation. The debate, however, showed
that this attempt was doomed TO signal
failure, as Riddleberger openly sided with
the Democrats, voting against the reso-
luton and declaring that he should vote
for Lamar's confirmation.-Phaa. Times.
With regard to the attempt of the bust
ness men of ~Schuylkill county to per
suade the miners not TO ally themselves
with the railroad strike, the New York
Times says:
They could not do a more sensible
thing. As The Times has repeatedly
,,ointed out, the managers of the company
are absolutely debarred, in honor and in
law, from treating with the strikers on
the railroad, or with anybody who repre-
sents them or whose demands are in any
way involved with theirs. II the miners
continue to regard the two cases as one
the result must be a deadlock that can
be opened only when the strikers are
starved into submission. If the appeals
of the business men can induce the miners
to state and plead their cause on its own
merits, the business men will deserve the
gratitude of the community in general,
and of the miners in particular"
There is one fact of grave importance
to the Republican party which that or.
ganization ignores or seems ignorant of
possibly because 1t is q fact-and that
is, its mortality. 1t is doomed to die soon
or later, and is liable to death at any mo-
ment. This condition of mortality comes Of
necessity from its mortal structure, and
is the history of all parties so constructed,
from the adoption of our Constitution to
the present day. The old Federal party
died, and was followed by the Wing
party, that hourished for a season and
then, folding its cloak OF protection about
its feeble form, lay down to die. The
Republican party had the same seeds OF
death deposited in its corpus, and is wax
! ing old and feeble.
This condition comes of the fact that
such party is, Of necessity, based OF the
claimed privileges of property, against
the rights of the citizen, and is a deadly
antagonist to the spirit and progress Of
true republicanism. Ingeniously con
structed, 1t may, for a brief period, re-
tard the stream but the stream gathers
strength from the obstruction itself, and
ends by sweeping it AWAY Y. Sun.
The announcement that Colonel Henry
Waterson, the Boanerges of the South.
west, Democratic leader, free trade
prophet, and editor of the Courier-J Journal,
! has heen pazetted Inrd in Waiting 10