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Hawaii.

The latest news from Honolulu indicates
that Lieut.. ELLIOTT of the Marion has
been studying carefully the methods of de-
Tending that port against attack, whether
by land or by sea. This Is a timely inves-
tigation, quite as important intrinsically,
it seems to us. as the Bennington's exami-
nation Of Pearl Harbor, although the lat
ter, to be sure, has been made impera-
tive by an act Of Congress appropriating
500 for the task. If we annex Ha-
wall during the coming winter, its chief
port will be ours for immediate use, what
ever we may do in regard to making Pearl
Harbor also available and conceivably we
might be called upon to defend Honolulu
even before annexation.
There is a rumor current at Honolulu that
the Japanese are also making examinations,
presumably from the opposite point Of view,
that of facilities for attack. This would be
good practice for them, although just now
there seems to be nc ground for apprehend-
ing any purpose of aggression on Japan's
part. A Japanese attack upon Hawaii,
whatever its ground, would not only insure
an immediate American protectorate over
the islands, but also prompt annexation.
And in a contest between the United
States and Japan for the possession Of this
group there is little doubt as to where
the worlds sympathies would 60. The &C.
QUESTION Of Hawaii as the one Pacific out
post of the United States has been forecast
in European courts for years; and while, of
course, some nations might prefer Hawaiian
autonomy, they are generally quite recon-
ciled to annexation. But a Japanese at
tempt to acquire this commanding strategic
point would be quite another matter.
Mr.. G.. II. REID, the Premier Of New South
Wales, is represented as saying at Homo.
lulu, on his way back from the London
on which Occidentalism will have to meet
the wave of Orientalism and hurl it back.
Australia, he added. felt that Hawaii must
"either become a part Of the United States
or become the prey of influences that will be
her undoing." He was glad to see Hawaii's
struggle against japanese encroachmert+,
and the United States coming forward in
the moment of peril with a helping hand.
II seems to us that, with INV active rggrcs-
sion on Japan's part, this sentiment would
be widespread in other countries, and that
she knows it.
Much more probable than such an attempt,
therefore, Is the story that the opponents
of annexation in the islands are projecting
a great mass meeting Of natives against it,
to be timed for the visit OF Senators Nor
GAN and QUAY, who are members of the
Committee on Foreign Relations. And II
ex-Queen LII should happen to be on hand
to add to the dramatic spectacle, 1t would
surprise no one. But the friends of annex
alton are also alert and will try, 1t Is he,
lieved, to procure the ratification of the
treaty, on Hawaii's part, forthwith. OF
course, such a ratification would still leave
the treaty open to the Senate's amend.
ments, but 1t would show what can be
relied on from Hawaii. Reasons for annex
alton become more and more apparent.
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Japan and the Canal.

The rumor that the Mikado's Govern
ment has designs upon the Nicaragua
Canal and has even been secretly negotiat-
ing with "the Diet of the Create Republic
of Central America " on the subject is lead
ing to various contradictory explanations.
From officials of the Maritime Canal Com
pany, which is of course largely interested
in the matter, has come an opinion that
Japan has made propositions of some sort,
although 1t is added that no arrangement
based on them would be valid against the
Maritime Canal Company's grants from
Nicaragua and Costa Rica.
On the other hand. President ZELAYA Of
Nicaragua is credited with the statement
that no propositions nave been made by
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-09-04
Governor o'Ferrall's Hobby.

The Hon. CHARLES r. O'FERRALL, Gov
ernor of Virginia, would not support the
Chicago platform last year. In that respect
he was like a very considerable body of
Virginia Democrats. This year the Vir-
ginia Democratic State Convention was
not only straightforward but enthusiastic
in its avowal of the Chicago platform.
Where are Governor O'FERRALL and the
other Virginia Democrats who refuse to ac-
cept the Chicago platform to got Judging
from an interview with Governor OFFER
RAIL- published in the PHILADELPHIA Ledger,
the blind alley Of the Indianapolis or So
called National" Democracy is the only
political refuge which he sees. He is en-
phatic in the expression Of his hostility to
most Of the Objectionable principles of the
Chicago platform, and although he favors
"a proper income tax" by which he must
mean n tax on all incomes, without cxcep-
ton or discrimination, he would rather
see n thousand decisions against It's consti-
~tutionality than to see the highest legal
tribune in this land required to record the
will of a political party rather than the free
and untrammelled Judgment of n court or
make this august body tho football of po-
litical strife"
Some traces of Cl%evelandism appear in
Governor O'FERRALL's opinions, but it is
unnecessary to consider them here. We
are not seeking curiositics, but facts.
Governor O'FERRALL is strong in his oppo-
sition to the free coinage of silver, to Debs-
ism, to the packing of the Supreme Court.
The Republican party prevented those
enormitics. Only the Republican party
will stand in their way in 1900. Why,
then, does Governor O'FERRAIL not vote
the Republican ticket Apparently be-
cause he will never support a tariff plank
that does not declare for revenue only, or
deny in terms the right to Ia. the people
for protection purposes" Neither the Re-
publican party nor the Democratic party
will make such a tariff. The Democratic
party of the second Cleveland period would
not make such a tariff. 1t is as impossible
under conditions which 10Y exist or are
likely to exist in this generation as a visit
to the moon In a handcar.
Tothis impossibility Governor OFERRALL
is resolved to cling. He will not find a
great many Democrats in Virginia or else
where to cling with him. Something prac-
tical or possible is needed in a political
programme. For a thing impracticable
and impossible Governor O'FERRALL and
those who agree with him are willing to
cease to have any political influence, except
in so far as their refusal to join with the
one potent enemy Of the Chicago platform
helps Organism. a few rcsolute spirits
may consent to the state of political nonen,
tity which a devotion to the arifT-forrev
nue. only desert implies. 1t is probable,
however, that most of the anti. Bryanite
Democrats will either fall weakly into
regular Democracy or have the strength to
become Republicans.
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The Decadence OF Non.Partisanship

1t is about rs clear as anything well can
be in politics that in all the large cities of
the United States, more especially in the
very large cities, there is a strong Ievulsion
against what some of the local reforlncrs
have been pleased to call "non.partisan-
ship in municipal affairs" The force Of
this has been illustrated by recent elections
and in some of the responses made to the
invitation sent to the Mayors Convention
at Columbus. o.
In Chicago a straight0ut, uncompromis-
ing "spoilsman," rs the local rof0rmcrs Of
that town were pleased to call hin, was
overwhelmingly successful at the snrirr
election by n vote largerthan that of al his
competitors combined. In Philadelphia,
where there is II distinguished Committee
Of Seventy.five "Citizcns" for the promo
ton Of non-partisan government end for
the overthrow and dislodgment of political
parties from municipal station, the Quay
candidate for City Treasurer. Colonel Nc.
MICHAEL, was successful in the Republican
Convention by Il vote Of o14 to 60 for the
Citizens candidate, Mr.. MOORE, or fifteen
to one. Boston and Albany, among East
crn cities, have now partisan Democratic
Mayors; Cleveland and Buffalo have Re-
publicans. The voters of large American
cities have most forcibly expressed their
belief in the doctrine that "mun!cipal
government is business" though not in the
manner desired by the non.partisans.
In order to destroy the "cvils of political
bossism." say the non-partisans, II is neccs.
sary to elect a Mayor responsible to nobody
in particular. who "will carry out his
own views ia his own wav." without re.
gard to the views of anybody else, or the
views, rights. interests, and principles of
anybody else. He Is to he set up n
II sort of minor dictator, no. responsible
to any political party and getting his guild.
ancc solely from his own Conscience and
idiosynrr,sics. This totally nn.American.
un-Republican, and dangerous theory Ia
supplemented by the programme by which
a ~self-constituted and totally unrepresenta.
tive Committee of Fifty, or Seventy, or One
Hundred, as the case may be. will select for
the people the divinely inspired man to be
elected Mayor, and then proceed to divide
up among themselves the offices as divinely
commissioned su~bordinates.
AS between n responsible representative
OF a party 10000 strong and the boss of q
coterie of fifty or seventy-ive Pharisees, the
voters of every American city will be
against the boss every time and all the time |!
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The temporary Chairman Of the Nebraska
Fusion Convention lifted up q voice to which
prosperity had given no trembling. 81 want to
tell you" he cried, that whatever measure Of
prosperity We have has come from the increased
price in the products Of the farm. and is n com.
plete confirmation of tho claims made by the nd.
vocates OF bimetallism. We arc in favor OF q
f~fty.cent dollar" There 10 no weakening in
Nebraska or any other State whore the silver
men have been strong. But the Nebraska view
OF the value Of the dollar wanted does not agree
with that of the Hon. FIRED w. WHITE, tho
Democratic candidate for Governor OF Iowa.
Mr.. WHITE thinks that tho value OF tho silver
dollar may sink to ton cents. Presumably the
amount of ensuing prosperity will DO eighty per
cent. more than that conferred by tho ffty.cent
dollar. A dollar worth absolutely nothing
seems tho silver idoal.
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rHB TURNING Down OF nAnn,,-
The Knochout Blew Intended to Ipc,u,.
Cleveland and Pnttison ~ We'll.

PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 3.-The resolution n, ~,
Democratic state Committee, pas.oa Ivy n vo,.
of So to 20, and confirmed by tho State Conron.
ton, declaring that the Hon. William +. lIarri,,
was no longer n member Of the Democratic M.
tional Committee. and tho election o: James "
Guroy of Pittsburg to all the vacancy Tim,
rocklessly created. arc the most serious knock.
downs Mr.. Harrity has had In his most cy,r0.
ordinary political careor-R political care,,
probably without n parallel, with the single er.
ception OF that OF Grover Cleveland. in the hi.
tory OF American politics. And yet it Ia due IN
Mr.. Harrity TO say that It was not intended for
him alone. but was planned and executed asa
solar plexus knockout collectively for Grovep
Cleveland. the King Fisher Of Buzzard's Fay,
Robert Emory Pattison, the solemn sage al
Overlook. and William Il. Harrity.
From Marcus Hook to Erie, and from Homes.
dale to Waynosburg, Mr.. Harrity has been LONE
looked upon as tho personal representative Of
both Cleveland and Pattison, and every poll.
tician within these four corners OF the State Of
Pennsylvania, Republican, Democrat. Populist
or Bryanite, knew that II Harrity could control
the convention of 1893 he would make Pattison
the candidate for Governor for a third term
the Commonwealth. and with Harrity as polit.
ical manager, the State would BIO set up In the
interest Of Cleveland in 1900.
al tIlb 70 hiR q otu ONiipbO " NV
Cleveland and Pattison sun has taken places
and henceforth, for a time, Garman and Guffey
arc tho Democratic leaders of Pennsylvania,
There Ia euphony, II not horse sense, in the com.
b%ination, and the euphonious I lie may be about
all there is in the trademark: but while the new
combination lasts 1t will endeavor TO make
Congressman Ermentrout of Berks the next
Governor and Guffey of Pittsburg the successor
OF Quay in the Senate.
1t is possible that Ermentrout might carry old
Berks on a popular vote for Governor. on a cam.
paign cry among the Pennsylvania Dutch that
fhnv ware afil yDtinn fnT Annraw Iarkqnn Init
outside OF Berks ! do not know Of a single
county he could carry In the whole State. and
as there arc six Democratic holdover State Sen.
ators 1t is Just possible that Guffey might poll
six votes in the House and Senate for United
States Senator.
And It Is to this that Grover Cleveland-tho
only candidate for President that ever insti.
gated assassination In order to elect himself
President-has brought the Democratic party
of Pennsylvania ! The all-redecming feature
of the Garman-Guffey combine is that 1t has For.
eyer ended the political advancement of Grover
Cleveland in Pennsylvania. His pretensionQ
have been blasted by Garman and Guffey, and
for this We are d~evoutly thankful.
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Armed Peace and American Progress

In the very thoughtful article called "A
Twentieth.C Century Outlook" which Capt.
A. MAHAN contributes to HarpGr's Nag
uaine, there are several most timely snggcs-
tions. One of special prominence is that
the soldiers occupation is not yet gone
from the world, and that the nation which
proceeds on the assumption that it has, will
make a tremendous mistake.
1t is true that in Europe, of late years,
the disposition, for ntilitarian reasons, to
maintain the status quo, has become an
ideal, though in view of its practical M.
plication for the coercion of Greece and the
Cretans, Capt. MAHAN rcfrains from call
Ing 1t n noble deal But he regards with
the ~proioundest distrust the cry for univer-
sal disarmament. based on the deceptive
ground that there has hcen no great war in
Europe or America for many years. II
still remains true, for nations, that
"equity which cannot be had by law
must he had by force" Conflict is the
condition of national as of individual life:
and Communities which want and can
not have, except by force, will take by
force, unless they are restrained by force"
In m%illennial days we shall all have peace
with justice and with plenty but it is
dangerous to discount the millennium.
Apart from the tendencies of human
nature and the teachings of history, we find
a special reason for preparing against war
In the resumption. at this end of the cen.
fury, of the old outward impulse" or col.
onizing spirit Of great nations. Cant.
MAHAN lays great stress on this Z" forward
movement of political colonization by the
mother countries" and certainly we in
America are now feeling something of
that spirit, although this eminent STRAIT.
egist wishes that we felt more, and that the
spirit might have freer course. And, again.
the wonderful rise of Japan, the arousing,
at last, of the immense latent force in the
Chinese character, and an analogous deyel-
opment In India, which may be looked for,
are signs of a possible struggle of giants
between West and East, between Christian
and non-Christian civilization. Here the
question that arises is as to the relative
current progress of these two civilizations
The one ia far behind the other, as a whole.
but IT. is backed by a tremendous prepon.
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Kentucky W omen Advised to 60 Armed.

We remember when shooting matches
were INDUCED in by tie young men and mdidcns
Of every ncighborhood, and when matches Of
this kind were a feature at every barbecue.
They can be revived and can he made an olpo9.
their counting as We'll or better than on "a a cro.
quet g ound. II some ladies of prominence will
start the movement they will do society the
greatest possible benefit. and will do moro
for the protection and security of their daugh.
tiers than The average husband. and even Il
they make the best of matches, the use ot tho
pistol will supplement his protection ami siye
him a freedom OF action that otherwise he
cannot exercise, A woman IN her home by
knows how to use, is better protected than
she can be in any other way. She may often
become In this way the protector OF her hus:
band and render him u service not Ell cctod
and not contracted for at the nnptial altar.
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Our EatabIos ana Enxlapd,s.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE suS-Sfr: see in TODAY.
issue OF THE Sun an article signed by John Hickman
In which he says that after thirty i've years residenco
in this glorious country OF ours he has never tas,ed
the genuine flavor OF a strawberry. grape, sooseberrv
bacon. beer, sc. I think my English cousin IA either
on his trolley or very much bigoted. II is an ac.
knowiedged fact except by Britishers) that our fruit
In general 'urpasses the world. As good grapes as
ours I have eaten In France, and no doubt John nil
ate French GRAPES Instead OF the English production.
~ for bacon he has probably devoured some n, tho
famous vermont pork which we export er"rv year
dltiona flavor; The Eagllsh beef OF which Tnsiand
boasts so much Is our own good Texas cattle fat''
tened for "A few weeks In England I awa ,a.,
right here on Broad way a better slice OF beer than 7
eyer aye IN England. The beer in England yery much
resembles molasses,. II Is sticky and s~aa,. mueh
AUG. 81. uvu.
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A Belfast desnatch in the E,nn,b,c Inn,

nal makes known the fact. OF brcathlcss interest
TO tho gymnasium and the senate house. that
the Hon. join LAWRENCE SULLIVAN says no
weighs go pounds and cannot train for another
fight. but he means business in the boston May
orally fight At any weight he is n formidable
candidate. His petitions are signed directly from
the directory, an Improvement on the New York
plan. In some other respects he has bettered
the programme. II we are correctly informed.
he Is not only in favor OF municipal control Of
franchises. but he believes that everything
should be free. Free excursions in The subway.
.rce s'rsnDnri,la on tho piers. FREQ b asebnll, in
short, perfect freedom. Mr.. SULLIVAN appears
as n municipal reformcr ot great weight and tho
special idol of the Betting Element. His can
vass will be watched with attentive eyes by all
the friends of reform.
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We thrill with a new sensation when our
esteemed Mugwump contemporary. the Boston
Herald, breaks forth with such distinctly sound
sense and vital feeling:
at looks queer to see ApRAM s. HEWITT quoted a.
saying that Mr.. Low IL tho only man in Now York
who Is qualified to MI that great position under tho
now conditions that will exist after the INST of the
year. II 1t is really true that there is but one man in
the Greater New York who is big enough to become
Its chief executive ma ,'strate, the sooner that great
metropolis resolves itself into its constituent parts
and again becomes an aggregation OF small munich
palitirs the better"
There is moro absurdity in Mr.. Lows can
d!dacy than tho imaginary concentration In
him Of all civic virtues. He was opposed to tho
consolidation about to be completed. and in
favor Of keeping the great metropolis split up
in tho small municipalities that are about to
pass out OF existence.
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How much of a unifying force Mr.. Low
can bo he can learn to some extent from what
his eminent advocate, tho Tribune, could mus.
ter up courage to say the morning he accepted
the nomination:
"Some agreeable Indications were in evidence yes
terday that many politicians connected with the Re.
publican organization are not disposed to view Mr..
Lows nomination with tho irreoonrilable resentment
which 1t had been predicted they would cherish. II
Is not unnatural that the first expressions OF Repub-
lean politicians should have boon strong and even
bitter"
Tho agreeable indications wero painfully
feeble even to the strained imagination Of tho
laborinR Tribune.
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THE NORTH ATLANTIC FL EEE
Success or tho Carrier Pigeon Service Betweo1
tho Ships and the shore.

Duecess OF tho Carrier Pigeon Service Betweoa
tho Ships and the shore.
WARRINGTON, Sept. NAVAL officers on duty
hero are very much pleased over the success Of
the carrier pigeon service between ships at sea
and shore stations. Two messages were ro-
ceivod at the Navy Department to-day from
Rear Admiral Sicard, who is on the flagship
New York, anchored with the other vessels Of
the North Atlantic Squadron sixty miles east of
tho Virginia Capes. Tho pigeons few to the
coop at the Norfolk Navy Yard. and the mes.
saRes they brought were telegraphed to the do
partment.
The squadron will remain In what is known 40
the southern drill ground until Sept. L.. when
they will assemble in Hampton roads. After
coaling at Newport News they will proceed 10
the northern drill ground. between the Virginia
capes and Montauk Point. Both drill grounds
are Icy ~. The lanes takcn - coastwise com.
merce. so that target practice and maneuvres
can he INDUCED in without danger to merchant
vessels or to the waTships. Hampton Roads will.
as usual. be the rendezvous of the squadron this
winter. but occasional trips will be made to New
York to give the crews shore liberty.
Assistant Secretary Roosevelt will join the
squadron in the despatch boat Dolphin of the
with the biz vessels for "a few days. returning to
Fort Monroe in time to take the regular pas.
ee sspt s' g Tpl rGT "a" Ms RSoonr on the s,s eyen Wi1S
the sqN ldron the vessels will be put through
the lessons in tactical manpuvreing they have
learned on the present cruise. Mr.. Roosevelt 10
especially anxious 10 see how efficient the gun
crews are in target practice while under way,
and any other wishes he may have will DO car
ried out by Admiral Sicard.
1t is the purpose of the Navy Department to
assign 10 the fleet all the cruisers undergoing
repairs at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. At present
the squadron consists OF the ar,nored cruisers
New York and Brooklyn; the battleships Iowa,
Massachusetts Indiana, Maine and Texas. and
the monitors Puritan and Terror: all heavily
armed and armored vessels. The cruisers
Newark. Detroit and Montgomery. now at
Brooklyn. and the Marblehead, now in Canadian
waters. will join the squadron about Oct. !. It
is not the intention OF the department to send
the squadron south of Charleston.
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c. II. Underwood, steward o. the Rkoie Isl
and Yacht Club at Potter's Cove, a day or TIVE
ago became possessed of one Of the finest pearls
ever seen in these parts. Underwood was max.
ing a quahaug chowder at the time. and with o
chopping knife was cutting up the auahBuEa
thought was a piece of shell. lLc made an ez
animation and found a white and lavender
pearl. Tho gem was cgg-shapcd. of high g.oSS,
ana absolutely perfect. in fact, no pear. 30
far as known. has ever been found like il. NJ.
Underwood showed his tind 10 "A friend and on
the spot was offered a hieh figure. The finder
has opened u million quahaugs and this Is ;ae
only pearl above the size OF a pinhead that hO
jeweller and learned that 1t was nov Sly
which could not be duplicated in any Of lie
gem markets in this country. Ira &. Whit.
tier, the jcweller. weighed 1t, and ii tipped mis-
scales at 35k grains.
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Those friends of Mr.. Low who would like
to get for him the Endorsement Of the Republi-
can organization are not very squeamish. Mr..
Low has been nominated by a non partisan
organization which declares partisanship to DO
the worst of all evils. A partisan organization
cannot declare such a man to DO its candidate
without betraying It's trust and swlndling its
followers.
Tho only honorable way for the Republican
leaders or any other leaders to aid the Low
movement would bs first to declare their organ
ization disbandcd.