The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1890-09-21

Inc present VIII CONSIST OF au cle0aQI suTTS
and handsome span of ponies, with silver
mounted harness, robes, and everything com
plete, the whole beautiful equpage costing
upward of $3.50.
Full particulars of the manner in which the
present will be bestowed will appear in next
Sundays HERALD. Get it, and prepare to
answer the question, 'Who is the most popular
boy or girl in Washington ?''
Mr. FRANK HUME has yielded to the solicita-
ton of large number of Democratic voters of
the Eighth Virginia District and announced
himself an independent candidate for Congress
in opposition to Gen. w. H. f. LEE, the sitting
member. The causes which have led to this
action on Mr.. HUME's part are already pretty
we'll understood by the readers of THE HERALD.
From the utterances of individual citizens of
the Eighth District and the tone of Demo
cratic newspaper comment it has for some
time been evident that serious and widespread
dissatisfaction had arisen with Gen. LEES
course as a Representative in Congress. This
dissatisfaction was not lessened by the methods
which Gen. LEES lieutenants adopted to force
his denomination few weeks ago. Those who
desired the selection of another man assert that
unfair advantages were taken of them, dele
gates were chosen irregularlv in Gen. LEES in
terest and other practices were resorted to
which good citizens could not patiently en-
dure, and which man worthy to sit in the
halls of Congress should not countenance
A large number of voters of the district resolved
they would not submit to being deprived of
their rights as Americans and Virginians in this
way, and decided to pptan Independent can
didate in the feldy gNfr!s FRANK HUME con-
sented TO stand, and has entered the fight with
an enthusiastic following behind him, and with
a determination to win if hard work can do it.
Mr.. FUME is well known to the voters of the
Eighth District and to the people of Washing
ton as a successful man of affairs, broad minded,
public-sprited, and thoroughly familiar with
the needs of his people and the duties of a Rep
resentatiye in Congress. He is a Democrat,
thoroughly in accord with his party on all the
questions of the day. and if he is elected he will
speedily make a name for himself On an
other page The HERALD to-day prints an edi-
torial article from the Fairfax Herald, Demo
cratic paper published at Gen. LEES home, in
which that gentleman is severely arraigned and
his shortcomings as a Congressman fearessly
pointed out.
Mr. REEDS rules may have been adopted for
the purpose of preserving order in the House
of Representatives, but his rule certainly has
had the effect of provoking more disorder dur
ing the present session than has been known
before in this generation. And yet when you
come to look into the facts, Mr.. REED is not to
blame. He's all right. he works like sixty to
make things run smoothly, and he would sue
ceed admirably if properly seconded in his
efforts by the other 1926 members of the House.
But what can any man, big, bold, and brainy
though he be, do with 325 stubborn fellows who
foolishly insist on having opinions of their own
and thrusting them forward at inconvenent
moments 1t is really sad TO see how little
appreciation of Mr.. REEDS imperial force and
splendid talents there is in the House of Repre-
sentatives, especially on the Democratic side.
Mr.. REED would almost be justified in resenting
this obtuse irgratitude byresigning and retiring
to some country where he would be better
appreciated-Russia or Persia for instance.
CHAUNCEY DEPEw has been travelling along
the line OF his railroad endeaVoring to dissipate
the angry feelings which were engendered by
the recent strike But it is hardly likely that
CHAUNCEY's eloquences will be found as de-
lightful by his fellow-citizens who have been
denied the rights OF Americans and shot at by
PINKERToN detectives as it has been in the past
by the sumptuously dined and expensively
to it. Many of those he is now called on to ad
dress have not dined at all, and it is doubtful il
CICERo's eloquence would evoke much enthusi
asm from an empty stomach.
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The Democrats of RANDALL's old district will
make great mistake if they allow the Hon
RICHARD NAUX to be superseded in the next
Congress. No other in the district car
possibly command the attention which Mr.. VAUX
commands when he rises to address the House
He is always listened to with interest, and he usu
ally has some good Democratic doctrine tc
enuncate in q style that causes it to make
permanent lodgment in the minds of those who
hear it,
Tomorrow the army Of Washington school
boys and girls will begin another advance
movement on the ramparts of learning. They
90, not like sHAKEsPEARE's school-boy, creep
ing like snail unwillngly to school, but witt
springing steps and ringing laughter, for they
are intelligent modern youth, to whom intelli
gent modern teachers in the great majority o.
cases make the acquisition of an education &
pleasure instead of an irksome task
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II really begins TO look as if the English gov
ernment could safely be relied on to blunder al
the most opporune moment for the Irish