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The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-12-06
The Great Canal.

With the departure of the gunboat New
port for Greytown a new epoch seems to
open for an enterprise hat has been In the
minds of men for generations and ever for
centuries Capt. CRowNINsHIELD, in the
North American Rerie,c, aptly calls the
piercing Of the Isthmus "the dream of nav
igators," and declares that the Nicaragua
lanai will build up our Pacific coast
States as they must be built up, if we are
to properly face the Orient. 1t will add
immeasurably to our naval power, and it
Will increase our influence not only far out
Into the Pacific Ocean, over the islands and
waters of that vast region, but also ever the
Caribbean Sea and adjacent waters"
The hopes of the country go with the
party of engineers in the Newport. Their
Investigations will be patiently awaited
for our Government, warned by the expert.
ence of France with the Panama enterprise,
will not invite a similar scandal and dis
aster. But when the path across the 18th
mus is determined, a powerful public senti
ment, we think, will push forward the great
undertaking, and the dream of navigator
will become a wonderful everyday fact.
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rrblican ~situation which they desire 90
mucb. but the ~mallgnity Of his purpose is
AZ obvious to Republicans as to Demo-
Gratis, and consequently his paper Is now
recognized by them throughout the State
"a an enemy Of the Republican party. Its
circulation has been reduced to paltry
dimensions, for Republicans will not have
II in their houses, and Mugwumps and
Democrats arc unable to tolerate its dull
ness and feebleness.
Meantime the Reid Milholland effort to
break up the Republican party in this city
In Without any real consequence. The
Tribune and It's fellow Mug wumps of the
Near York Times and the Evening Post are
doing their best to give it an appearance Of
siRnlicance, but actually it goes on amid
the complete indifference of the great
body Of Republicans. They are tired Of the
whole petty and spiteful business, and there
Ia no sentiment in the party, outside OF the
little knot of disappointed politicians en-
gagged in the intrigue, to which 1t can ap-
peal. The Republicans Of New York do
not propose to make themselves q laughing
stock and a catspaw for their political enc
mics in order to CRAFTY the vindictiveness
Of REID. Very few of them read his paper,
and fewer still care . rap for his wounded
vanity and sore spirit.
The Mugwumps and Democrats who arc
taking heart because of his spiteful demon
strations are founding their hopes on q de-
fusion. He is powerless for mischief in the
Republican party. WHIrELAw REID and
the New York Tribune are no longer in the
Republican party for either good or i'll.
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The Power OF the Speaker.

We shall now see illustrated again the
immense influence which a Speaker Of mas.
terful personality can exert upon the course
Of legislation.
Mr.. REED held pack the House OF Repre-
ssutativcs Of the Fifty.fourth Congress
from possible follies which might have i'm.
perilled the success of his party at the Pres
idential election OF a year ago.
He held the House Of Representatives Of
che Fifty.ffth Congress, at the extra ses.
sion. rigidly to the work of matchmaking.
There were kicks and outcries, but the
Speaker was memorable.
His present task as a party leader, hold
ing an Office which gradually has been az.
grandized until it's powers and RESPONSE
bilities are enormous, will be 80 to direct
the events Of the session as to insure q Re.
publican majority, instead of a Bryanite
majority, In the House of Representatives
Of the Fifty-sixth Congress. The nomina.
lions for the next House will be made in
many cases before the present session ends,
The elections will be held only a few
months after the adjournment of this SEES.
sion. The political effect Of what is lone
or left undone at the present session will
decide the complexion of the next House.
We observe that some of the Democrats
Of Maryland are urging ex-senator Con.
MAN to run for Congress next fall. in order
that he may become Speaker In case the
Republicans are thrown from the control
Of the House by the result of the Congress
elections in November.
We learn. likewise, from our esteemed
contemporary, the Brooklyn Eagle, that it
IL suggested at Washington that the Hon.
DAVID BENNETT HILL ought to run for
Congress in the Albany district, now rep
resented by Congressman SouTHwIcK, o
Republican, In order that Mr.. HILL, too,
may be q candidate for Speaker, IL the Re-
pubiicans are ousted.
Whatever foundation there may be for
these reports, they signify the great impor.
lance now attached to the Office which Mr..
REED holds. 1t is a post which a states
man of the first magnitude may be proud
to occupy. And the results of the present
session will decide whether Mr.. HILL or
MIR. GoRMAN or some other Democratic
leader Is to mount, two years from now, the
steps which to-day creak under the Hon.
THOMAS BRACKET REEDS r~esolute tread,
and to preside over the deliberations of a
Bryanite Congress during the last half of
President MoKINLEY's term.
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example, would regard with complaeency q
permanent German occupation Of O rood
Of Chinese territory. How England would
regard such q conquest IL is not difficult
to surmise when we recall the fact that after
the so.called opium war, in 1874, England
composedly squared accounts with China
by accepting an indemnity Of $21, OOO, 900
In cash, the session Of the island Of Hong
Kong. and the opening Of Ave principal
ports Of the empire. England has made
her conquest In China. In any future
division Of the spoils. the biRness Of her
share must be considered.
The conduct Of the recent war between
China and Japan proved that any irst-class
European power could break China into
fragments with a very few weil-directed
blows. Ifthe Eur >pean Concert, which Lord
SALISBURY has compared to a steam roller
moving slowly but with resistless power
land fiattening all In Its PATH, should remain
stationary while any one Of its members
should begin the act Of conquest and dis
memberment, the doom Of the Celestial
Empire would be sealed. The numerical
strength OF China could avail nothing In
the event Of such an attack. When It 10
made, II IL ever 10 made, we shall behold
once more such q spectacle as that now to
be seen in Africa, where 1.-THE powers Of
civilization" are calmly dividing among
themselves a continent in which they lave
no rights, moral or legal.
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Their Day Is Over.

Very naturally, WHITELAw REID and
his confederates in this city are receiving
aid and comfort from the whole Mugwump
and Democratic press OF the State in their
spiteful efforts to disorganize the Repub-
lican party and embroil 1t in a bitter and
destructive war of Infatuated factions.
Articles in the Tribune, written with a
view of stirring up such strife, are copied
into them generally for the delectation of
the enemies of the Republican party.
Because OF this conspiracy the Kingston
Leader, a Democratic paper, announces
jubilantly that the Republican party is
now In a condition bordering on disrup-
tion.' Another Democratic paper, the
Troy Press, feels sure of complete Demo.
cratic success next year, as a ~equ
OF REDS malevolent activity. "Disorgan.
ization and decentralization describe the Re.
publican party in the State" it says, and
"as it stands to-day the Republican party
Is already beaten in the coming contest
with a platform ringing with sound Demo.
cratic doctrine and a candidate of unassail.
able character and ability, the Democrats
will sweep the State by a rousing majority
next November"
In that opinion the Democratic papers
generally agree, and the Reid-Milholland
trick to set up the semblance OF an indie.
pendent and disturbing Republican organi,
cation in this city strengthens them In it.
They hope to see the plot worked through,
out the State, SO that by the time the next
campaign begins New York Republicans
will be so much absorbed in tearing their
1 nm ri " IN nfnraa NhaN kha. ILL l-- -
Democrats free to march onward to alb,
solute control of the State and of it's dele,
CATION in Congress.
They exaggerate REDS power for mis-
chief, however. The wish with them ID
father to the thought. Undoubtedly. he il
laboFing indueriously to produce the Re
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-12-06
PuiitseP and Lawson's Great News Trust Be-
fore the Courts-

EToWtt ~ "oTCC4tGE "
THE criminal monopoly for tho suppression
of news" known as the Associated Press, re.
ceived a staggering blow in the Federal Court
of Appeals at St Louis and st. Paul early In the
week. 1t places that concern in the class Of
trusts organized for plumber, and not for news
gathering and distributing. The Associated
Press has had no friends for a long time. Its
own members and newspapers that have been
forced TO hire Its service have all been robbed,
and have received nothing but unreliable fakes
and such valueless articles OF news as the man
ayers saw 1T TO occasionally place on the wires.
Misrepresentation Of political situations, at
tacks on people and measures. were among the
least OF the crimes. Holders OF newspaper fran
chises were threatened If they sought to get
news Of their own, while unfortunates. who were
merely purchasers of service. got nothing except
bills and insults. At last a paper was found bold
enough to stand I'D and fight, and i, easily got a
decision that the Associated Press Is a trust. and
that 1t cannot be legally permitted "to create
and perpetuate a monopoly of the news by limit
ing the service OF news reports to q single news.
paper N a large city. and placing 1t within the
power Of the proprietor Of such newspaper to
prevent other newspapers from having access
to the same source Of informa ion."
1t is q decision that will please every newspa-
per man. and 1t is a decision that will help do
stroy the Associated Press.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-12-06

Our. esteemed contemporary, the Baiti-
more american, hears that wearing nightcaps
10 said TO prevent dreaming" The value OF this
recipe must be determined by oneirologers. but
the testimony for or against 1t must com from
the wearers Of nightcaps. In this part Of the
country, and presumably in many other parts,
the niEhtcap is usually applied internally, not
externally. The external nightcap, however,
In said to linger In some of the most interesting
and original towns in the United States. nota-
bly, In Baltimore, in Philadelphia. in Nashua,
and In Chelsea. Doubtless many Of the inhab-
itants OF those comfortable places will DO glad
to contribute Information as to the power Of tho
flannel nightcap to mufio the ga ties Of ivory and
horn.
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The Same Old Kickers.

The observation-disclosures squad of Mug
wumps took the trouble to meet in Lyric
Hall on Friday night, although its member
could have been accommodated, without
crowding. in the Hon. WILLIAM BROOK
FIELDS library or Gen. WAGER SwAYNE's
front entry. But the bosslets of the little
machine are wealthy and generous. So
they hired a hall too large for their present
or future needs and proceeded to fill it with
this resolution:
THAT 1t is the sense and Judgment of this confer
ence that under the existing conditions the only solu.
tion Of the situation Is the forming of an entirely
new Republican organization in the city and county
OF New York; and that we procsed at onoe to carry
out the provisions OF this resolution"
The squad has not won any unusual
amount of renown for either sense or judg-
ment in its political expeditions, and it is
not in q position to carry out the provisions
of its Lyric Hall resolution.
The men who assembled-if there were
enough Of them to constitute an assembly
in Lyric Hall and sonorously resolved to
form IAN entirely new Republican organ
ization" are the same lonely and unhappy
men who have had for some time a Repub-
lican organization of their own. 1t has
been the leanest of skeletons. They pro-
tested against the enrolment made by the
regular Republican organization, but they
could not get Republicans to come and be
enrolled in theirs. They remained and
remain q ridiculous minority, a toy ma
chine, a set of leaders with nobody to fol.
low them.
Whatever reorganization and re-enroll.
ment of the Republicans of this town is
desirable, nothing can come of the pre-.
fences Of the poor little Brookfeld- Swayne
concern. Its weakness is too well known.
Even If new blood and new methods were
needed by the Republican party here. they
could not be had from that decrepit little
humbug, the Brookfeld- Swayne phantom
organization.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-12-06

The City History Club OF this town is doing all
that II can do by en-, rgetic aud well considered Efforts
TO awaken the interest of New Workers In the history
and traditions OF Old New York. Last winter forty
general classes for systematic stud! were In opera
ton In different parts OF the city. with q membership
Of nearly seven hundred. The excellent series Of
monographs known as the Half Moon ssrss." pub
lshed monthly for the club, will be continued through.
out 1898. Cudsr the auspices Of the club and for the
beneht OF ita most conlmendable enterprise. Prof.
Woodrow Wilson OF Princeton University, a very In
terestinS speaker and now one OF the foremost author
itieS on colonial and Rsvo utionsry history, will lee.
ture ON Friday evening at SherrJ's, hh subject being
"PatFoIiim Brgins n Home" Tickets may be oh
tained Of Mira Robert Able. the President OF the His.
tory Club. At II Hest Fifteth street; OF Mrs. FTancks
u. BoswoEth. Al Park avenue; OF hn- Charlrs
Ravens BoJea. 1875 East TWsnty-hrst streets o. A.
PutnAHCE book store.
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A Washington despatch to the Buffalo
Commercial ASSERTS that the Hon. ROWLAND
B-LENSERHAssET MAHASY ~ willing TO take
the Buffalo Postmastership next summe lin
order TO harmonic the different candidates and
their respective hackers" No soul capable of
producing or hearing the higher harmonies will
doubt that the Hon. ROWLAND BLESSER-
HAssET NAHASy is full OF them all and ready
to play them at any and every moment
in quantities TO suit. But the aspiring blood OF
the Hon. ROWLAND -BLEESERHAssET MAHASY
will never stoop TO a Postmastership. Two
posts Mr.. MAHASY might accept. and only two.
He might consent 10 be President for the sake OF
rounding out his career. He might consent to
be Speaker OF the House OF Representatives for
the sake OF triumphing over the Hon. THOMAS
BRACKET REED.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-12-06

The Hon. WILLIAM f. DRAPER, Amer
lean Ambassador to Italy, writes to a New
England friend that he is trying to do two
things worth doing for his countrymen in Italy.
He is trying to induce the Italian Government
to rescind an order (which aims to prevent
American dentists from practicing in Italy
and he is seeking q permit for American
bicyclists to enter the kingdom without paying
duties on their machines" There are 70 den.
lists like the American dentists and there are
no bicycles like tho American bicycles. They
are tho best, and both the Americans and the
Italians in Italy should be allowed to have them
without let or restriction.
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He was q waggish fellow who has blown
across the world the story that pierre LOTT"
has resolved to retire from the French Navy
and give all his time to literature. NJ. Lori"
writes about a book and a half q day ct present.
Some persons who used to feel q desire to
keep up with" contemporary French liter
ature have long since concentrated their
efforts upon tho works Of NJ. Lori"
Pleasant enough reading, but the sense
Of duty soon predominates in the reader.
He comes to read for the sake Of completing the
record. In some towns there are Lott Clubs.
The members of these clubs complain OF over
work already. But they will read everything
their much wandering little hero writes even il
they do no other work and play no other play.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-12-06
Consention scenes In Boston.

1t Is dincuit 70 conceive how q political convention
could be more disorderiy and disgracefui than Wss
the Democratic Aldermanic Convention which met In
Bumstsad Hall last night. The convention held In
Faneuil Hall earlier in tho evening was bad enough.
but that convention was not dishonored ty a resort to
actual personal assault. In BImStead Hall men &c
tuaiIy struck each other. and II 1t had not been for tho
presence Of a large police force there would have
been q riot.
From the Daily Adrertissr.
After q turbulent and disorderiy convention In
faueuil Hall. at which Mayor Quincy was renomL
mated. the delegates to the A~ldermanic Convention
assembled in BumsteRd Hall and nominated seven
men. after one Of the most diSEraceful scenes eve9
witnessed in a political gathering In this city. After
. ballot had been taken, the votes were destroyed IN
Q genuine riot.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-12-06
The Hon. JERRY SIMPSON has brought

The Hon. JERRY SIMPSON has brought
from his plutocratic ranch one megaphone,
twelve largo red flags. q box Of cannon fire.
crackers. and his usual collection OF voices.
Down with the tyrant,'' says JERRY as he pol
ishes his silvermounted bicycle with q
silk handkerchief. II am bound to catch
the Speakers eye this time. and il 1
can't I shall appeal to his ear" Mr..
SIMPSON has brought from home q very attrac-
tive invoice Of statesmanship. and he means to
exhibit it at any cost. The country has strenu-
ously resisted the opportunity of being served
by the soekless SOCRATES, but can the country
hold out much longeri He can. He will never
stop.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-12-06
An Aasl,,ous rropo.,,,os for ,ue1Ioo.
From the XerIcan Herald.

FROM The Xcr5cdN Herald.
Tho best solution OF the Cuban question Ia 70 piaos
the island under the Jurisdiction OF Mexico. the lead
ing spanish. Amer!ca republic. The Cubans say thas
they prefer annexation to the United states, but
surely. when they reject on tbs matter. they must
come TO SEQ that Cuba. entering the Mexican Union
as an integral part of the federation. will gain In dig
nifty over American annexation. IL is time for men
OF atin-Ameri race to join together In . common
effort TO make themselves q political force in tho
world. and Cuba. NeTicana is q sensible way TO begin
the building up OF a great spanish-A american republic,
which shall make OF the Gulf OF Mexico and the great
sea below Cuba q New World Medite ranean.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-12-06

Hom the Kansas CITY TIme,.

New York society girl Is visiting Abilene. and she
10 unhappy. Before leaving for the West somebody
told her that The people OF Kansas were very poor
and that II she took her best dresses with her they
would think her proud and stuck up and her visit
would be UNPLEASANT. She acce pied the advice and
left her swell clothes At home. Now she 10 in Abilene
and Is In rags compared with the girls Of that town:
and the worst of IL all Is that her cousins are so fat
and healthy and buxom compared with her that her
puny form would get lost in their dresses II she hor-
rowed EN-. She has telegraphed home for her best
clothes and Is In bed with prstended sickness await
ing their arrival.
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Does Education diminish crime ElSe1 York
World.
Certainly not the sort of education that is OBJ
tanned in the Pulitzer Academy.

PETER is a thrifty soul. and curing his six
years in the United states Senate laid by a goodly
store OF this worlds goods.-St. IuuI DfSpGtch.
This iIlustrious Kansas economist. who has
exiled himself temporarily from politics that he
may have more time 10 brood over things in
general, deserves high praise for his frugality,
which. however. never reached his speeches and
his bills for the salvation OF the republic. He
believes sterniy in irredeemable paper money,
absolute" money, As the Middie-O -iSe-Road
brethren call it. Knowing. as h. knows. how 70
make out OF nothing but printers ink and paper
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The missing bottle Of Kentucky whiskey
which figured in the great battleship case 10
accounted for in an unofficial communication
from Secretary HERBERT to Miss HARRIET BAN.
BRIDGE RICHARDSON. Mr.. HERBERT wrote;
Please accept my thanks for the bottle OF forty.
~nve-ycar Old vhiskey. which came safely TO hand
and Of which President CLEVELAND shall taste when
l give my Csbinet dinner"
Miss RICHARDSON did not get the ship. but 1t
seems clear now that tho Cleveland Admlnistra-
ton got the whiskey.
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From the 81. Louis Globe Democrat.

Fron the 81. Louh Globe Democrat.
sAs ANTONIO. Nov. c9-The gre stest huntress in
Texas Is Mrs. Al LAdner OF Maverick county. She
went out yesterday TO get mea, for . Thanksgiving
dinner. She returned in a few hours with three deer.
all killed by herself. The most remarkable feature
was thai she killed two deer at one shot, with a shot.
gun loaded with bucEshot, The other one was alArse
buck. and Mrs. Lidner had quite a time with him.
She wounded him W tn a load OF b~uckshot. but he
would have escaped had she not cut his throat with
Q knife which she carried.
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Thle,ss Aaa on Iar. but xo Morslaaa.

From the Hon1 Kong Weekly Pres
Pour robbers have teen caught in the district q
Houn. in waichow prefecture, where . proeessioa
was taking place. The robbers were caught in a vey
curious way. as they had all hidden themselves In
the oil barrels belonging 10 al oil shop. They were
sent TO tn local magistrate. who sentenced them 70
death by stTAngulAtiun.
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he hes not yielded 70 THE temptation to b IN.
t~rayagunt. some rash spirits. possessed Of his
remarkable knowledge OF money making, would
scorn 70 take home n salt nsh unless Il was
wrapped mp In notwithstanding bills. The
Hon. WILLIAM ALLEN PKYFER is MONTE CRIsro
for his country. Poor fCuARD for himself.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-12-06
Showing what He ,ssIa Ne.

From the Indianapolis Journal.
"Clever idea OF mine." said young Mr.. Fits, ..sena.
ing you atype"ritten letter; wasn't it. dear P"
was she pretty ~ Ar. Fits demanded.
"Who?"
"The typewriter girl"
"Er-Ehy-yes."
81 thought so The love passages in that lettss
seemed absolutely Inspired"
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-12-06
Girl. Pa.. tn. Plates In Church.


FroBI ths Philadelphia Pres.
TaESroS. Nov. si.-The Rev. Maurice Penneld Yikes
OF the Hlrt Baptist Church has Introduced I'm hia
church a novel feature in the form OF girl usheu
Last Sunday was the INST time that the experiments
was Tried. IL was necessary to set chairs in the aisiea
to accommodate the crowd. When the girls started
for the money they got IT, When counted there waa
nearly $500 TO add TO the treasury Of the church.
The innovation made by Pastor Fixes does not, how
ever. meet with the approval of his brother preachena.
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she UAatsa = Hustler.


"FNVV" TFVETF-'
RapturouS fouth-Mildred l would ask for no hap
pier eternity than TO be permitted 20 sit by your side
and prrss your hand ONE in a great, great while.
MIss Miidred-weii. you're entirely TOO lazy a lover
to suit me.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-12-06
a GsOrElA Paper with Every AauI, ,ps.suu.

Bring your 'possums TO the ~ rd d ONCE. We will
give you a years subscription .or ysry adult pos.
sum aud two years SUI crlption for eyey fuIl.AFowp
male member OF the family.