The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-02-13

Great bPitatn'e ITish Poitcy me new hoSs
li,Republlcans' Little Csme-Conkling In
LIne-Immense Cost Of the Panama Ca
nal-George and McGlynn.
That Ia very thoughtful and sugges.
tive review OF the struggles OF Ireland
which Mr. OConnor Power gives In
other columns.
For about eight hundred years now
! that III starred island. with its ever green
fields and its sturdy peasantry, has been
the under dog In the fight. Or no other
people on the globe can 1t be said that
they never had a chance to show what
they could do And no other victor ma.
lion except England has ever framed a
policy for its dependency which origi-
mated In a persistent and apparently un-
comfortable prejudice against the dc.
pendent race. The Anglo Saxon hates
the Celt, or IT his hatred is ever tempered,
that milder quality which tempers il Is
contempt. When Irish troops are In lie
British line Of battle every EnglIshman
knows that they will render good &C
count of themselves. Wellington was
not over enthusiastic when he declared
that Irishmen make The best soldiers in
the world. Well, Parliament Is
in session once more. and we shall see
what we shall see The Tories are evi-
IDENTIFY Disguised with their own mani
fold imbecilties," as Emerson has
| il. The Liberal party is al skies and
sevens. as related In our Commercial
Gable dispatch, and afraid to move lest il
fall into a ditch, and the Radicals have
no plan except 10 push their cause and
see what will come OF it.-N y. Herald.
The Republican papers throughout the
State are Just now engaged in extollins
the excellent qualities of Governor Hill.
You might possibly infer that the Re-
publicans are undergoing change Of
heart. Not 90, however Ii is only
little trick 10 split the Democratic party,
making a Cleveland shell and Hill shell,
which would give them chance 10
swallow the oyster When successful 1t
is very interesting game to play "
Y Herald
You needn't tell me" said promi-
nent Republican leader TO me day or
two before this letter was printed, that
Mr.. Conkling Is not In line with the Re.
publican party. He always was. He al
WAYS must be ! can imagine, too a
situation which would bring him into the
| field during the next campaign, even II
Blaine were the national candidate. do
not say that he would speak for Blaine,
any more than he spoke for Garfield in
! 1880. He could omit Mr. Blaine at the
same time that he advocated the claims
of the Republican party OF the nation,
bnt more especially of the State. Mr
Conklirg is a master of this kind OF dis
imination-and for that matter | be-
lieye he Is less bitter against Blaine
than he was In the last ma.
tional campaign. / believe. too
/ | firmly believe-that he would like 10
get back into politics, with the object in
view, for one thing, of yindicating him
self against the claims and the tawning
OF the Democratic party. He Is very
proud man, and he will not be satisfied 10
remain in private life with the suspicion
attaching 10 him that he Is tTeacherous
10 the party which for SO many years did
so much for him "-C0rreSpoEdenee Albany
Journal
The Engineering Meas republishes from
Ii Geale Cal plan of the proposed
/ Panama Canal with locks, az approved
| by the consulting engineers or the COM
mission, with description and measure
ments NJ De Lesseps would have the
! ignorant believe that the canal will lie
carried down 10 the sea level throughout
/ the entire course except short distance
| in the Culebra division, but this plan
shows the first lock on one side only five
miles from Panama, and the first on the
other side only fourteen miles from
/ Colon. There are 10 be ten locks IN all,
not punched near the massive central
section" but scattered along through a
distance of twenty-four miles The sum
nit level Is 10 he 1902 feet above the
/ level OF the sea, If water 10 feed 1t can be
obtained The next level Is at height
| OF l24 Ga feet and water even for this can
/ BE procured only from the great Ieser-
voir which will be made by the erection
Of the proposed dam at Gamboa for the
regulation OF the Chagres. Water from
the summit level must be pumped up
from this lower level. 1t will be noticed
that the proposed canal with locks will
require the construction OF the huge DAM
whose cost was estimated blythe company
long ago at $25 1000, 900, and recently by
other authorities, according 10 the re-
port OF the Columbian agent, at more
than 800 ,00o, 000.-N J. Tines.
About the only event of importance in
/ local political circles last week was the
starting on different roads of those former
friends and allies, Edward McGlynn and
Henry George The statement made by
the former At Pythagoras Hall on Thurs
day night to the effect that that Henry
George would hereafter have to travel
his own way politically II re persisted In
his free trade ideas, was the overt declar-
alton OF hostilities which have for some
time been fermenting. While the Labor
party does not at this time cut very
large figure in either city or State affairs,
the possible closeness Of the presidential
election, of the State contest, and Of the