The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1889-10-30
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CURRENT COMMENTS CLIPPED
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William The Presidents Private secre-
tary-0pen and shamsiess-ywe - One
Other Topics OF Interest.
Do THE PEOPLE NEED MAsTERs?-
Senator Edmunds is sometimes states
man. He is at all times partisan.
1t is as a partisan that he has recently
expressed himself in favor OF the gas
sage OF law giving the National Ad-
ministration control over what are ar.
roneously called Federal elections W
namely. elections of members OF Con-
gress. The choice Of Presidential cleo
tors is so exclusively State concern
that the Constitution expressly leaves
to each State the manner Of their selec-
ton. There need not be any popular
election for President in any State
which choose TO appoint electors by the
Legislature.
OF course Senator Edmund s idea is
that, with GUY and Dudley to super
viss them, Congressional elections could
be made to 20 as those gentlemen think
they ought to 90. regardless of the pre-
| iudices Of voters. and thus a good
working majority could be secured for
the Republicans in the Fifty second
Congress. AS partisan he should
consider also the fact that at the last
election there were 100000 more Demo-
cratic than Republican votes cast, and
that DemoWatic successor to Mr.. Har-
rson il at least a possibility. In that
event Senator German aud Mr.. Eugene
Higgins might replace Quay and Dud-
/ lev. with disastrous results to the Re
publican plan.-N. Y. World.
EMPEROR WmLIAM.-Emperor vii
liam's journeyings for the present year
are not yet ended. but already he IS
making up his schedule" in base ball
phrase. for 1890. The Gar has invited
him. 1T is said. to witness the Russian
military review next summer: and the
chief significance of this invitation IS
it's indication that the Russian monarch
does not intend to go to war with GEL
many at present. Meanwhile. the scene
of interest will soon be removed from
Athens to Constantinople, whittier,
after a tour Of the Peloponnesus. En-
peror William will betake himself, aud
where the political part Of his journey
will be played. This may create far
more anxious interest among the dlplo-
mats than the pompand splendor OF the
nuptsl ceremony at Athens. But the
Greeks. who are excitedly watching for
the fulfiIment OF the prophecy. now so
much quoted. that the Mosque Of St.
Sophia. III Constsntinople. will be re-
stored to Christian worship under the
rule Of q Greek Emperor named Con-
stantine. with a wife named Sophia,
will have plenty of time to get COOL
Ne,c York Times.
WHY HE DECLINED Whether il wa
illness or some other cause that induced
Mr.. Blaine to decline the Presidential
nomination last year is of very little in
terest to the general public now He
undoubtedly had his reasons. Tempo
rary i'll. health may have been one Of
them, but there were others Wash
ingtOn Post.
| An IRIsnMAN DID iT.-Geperai But
terworth threatens to knock out CO.
| lnmbus as discOyerer Of America. lie
SAYS ali Irishman struck America some
where about A. ID. 900. He was an abb
bot. If General Butterworth will kind
! w forbear till the So 900 900 guarantee
fund is fully subscribed for he will con
fer favor. There might be citizens
" 40 would refuse to subscribe if Co
lumbus is withdrawn.-Ne,c York
World.
NEWS TO HOME FOLKS The fact that
an Independent Republican ticket has
been placed in the field in Virginia
knocks out the last shaky prop from
under General Malone. and he falls TO
the ground with a thump that is both
hard and joIting. Everything indicates
that next month the little General will.
| in political sense. be buried so deep
that a ramrod will not be long enough
to touch his breast buttons -Neic Or
leans Sunday States.
The PRESIDENT PRIVATE SEcRETA-
RY.-The Private Secretary must, as
things are constituted now be man Of
marked capacity for work, of system
ATTIC habits. of mental acuieness, OF
some diplomacy, and a great deal OF
executive and business capacity. 1t
| has not always been SO, but 1t is so now.
/ Mr.. Cleveland thoroughly realized ii
and picked his man. The Office has a
salary of So, 900 year. and that ought.
| ii may seem, to be sufficient 10 secure a
man with the qualifications. properly
combined and developed. Mr. ClevC-
land, however. apparently realized that
1t was not enough. and he gave his Sec
rotary an additional $4,000 out Of his
own salary. He chose a newspaper man.
not certainly for amy conspicuous ser
vices lie had rendered as q journalist.
but for his qualifications. Ia getting a
successful newspaper man he was sure
of getting one with the necessary quail
fication Of genius for hard work. He
was also tolerably certain Of obtaining
one with an aptitude for the duties. III
Mr.. Lamont. Mr.. Cleveland secured a
man who possessed the necessary quail
tications TO an unusual degree. lie had
business capacity not always possessed
by experienced and successful journal
lists. The truth of this is shown by the
busln, IS engagements that Mr. Lamont
has obtained since March 4ih. to Say
nothing of the reputation he made in
the same direction while at the White
House. -Proridence journal.
a BIG BRlDGE.-NeW Ork Will have
the eighth wonder of the world when
the plan for bridging the North river,
the story of which has been told in our
columns. is cOnsummated.
There is no need of limitations Of the
Eitfel tower to express the daring ge-
mus OF American architects when they
are capable of such feats as bridge
span twenty-eight hundred feet in the |
clear.
With such spans, and with piers 500
feet high. the new bridge would COM
pletely dwarf its prototype which now /
unites New York and Brooklyn.
Ii the New Yorker of the future is a
glddy creature, the modern architects /
who make him spend much Of his time /
in the tops of thirteen-story houses. on |
aerial railroads, and on bridges swing
ing above the city S highest monuments,
will be to blame.
But he will probably be level-beaded
then, AS he is now.