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Europe Fortunately Busy.

1t is not to be denied that under some
quite conceivable circumstances the
Continental powers of Europe might
feel like taking greater amount of in
terest in the settlement of the Philip
pine question than they are now in
position to. Indeed. we may be reason
ably sure that, If there were a perfect
understanding between the nations of
the Old World as to matters like Egypt
and the African and Eastern questions,
it might be necessary for us to enter
into coalition with Great Britain and
Japan before assuming sovereignty
over so splendid a territorial posses
sion as the Philippine archipelago.
The conditions which might give rise
to such necessity do not exist. The
most recent tone of the Russian press
is evidence enough that the European
governments have quite enough to do
just row to meet questions and issues
among themselves. and are not likely to
tempt Providence by doing things to
compel a triple alliance between the
great Western Republic and the two ISL
and empires. We may be sure, there
fore, that If any disposition is shown to
interfere with the acquisition of the
Philippine Islands by the United States,
it will only happen in consequence of
such an invitation as once before in the
history of our relations with Spain was
extended from Washington, and then
through the influence of the Admins
| tration Spanish bond syndicate.
There is not a solitary reason for ex-
pecting even protest from any Euro
pean cabinet in connection with our
formal taking over of the imperial pos
session won for US by Dewey in the
battle of Manila Bay. This does not
mean that there may not be difficult
ties in the way of our peaceable occu-
patton. It is notorious that Spanish in
fluences, and the shrewd policy of some
of the evicted religious orders, are at
work in the Philippines TO make trouble
for US with the natives, just as Blanco
and his host of myrmidons are creating
unpleasantness in Cuba. Such things
were to be expected in connection with
an Administration policy. the end and
aim of which-i is to treat all the valuable
and convertible results of the war as
the proper and necessary loot of the
gang which has taken, in tolls of one
sort or another, very large share of
the money expended in the war.
But all these things are as passing
breezes. The American people at last
will not be robbed of everything they
have won with blood, wounds, and the
needless sufferings of their soldiers
They will have chance to punish AL
gerism before long. and they will see to
1t that the bond sharks are not fatten-
ed by the Congress of the nation. And
| they will keep the Philippines, among
other things. not as a purchase, but as
a moiety of the war indemnity it is
their right to exact from Spain.
The times., 1898-11-08
Piece of Inner History.

In the November number of Nc
Clure's Magazine is published an article
which purports to be THE Inner His
Now, this is a thing which the pub
lie has been very anxious to learn,
and the article will, therefore, re-
ceive, without doubt, a considerable
measure of attention. The average
reader will lift his eyebrows on reading
the sub-head of the paper, for it says
that this history is based upon the
official dispatches Of the Secretary of the
Navy, Admiral Sampson, and Admiral
Schley." AS all the world knows. Schley
spent but little of his time in writing
dispatches during that campaign He
was chasing Spaniards. The most of
the correspondence with the Navy De-
partment was carried on by Sampson,
Secretary Long doing so little of it that
it might almost be said that Sampson
was communing with himself and the
sad sea waves. The inference must
then be that this Inner history is the
history of Sampson. and nobody but
Sampson: and that fact renders the
article little less interesting In antici-
patton.
But the reader who assumes that
there is nothing fascinating in this
paper because it is the work of Samp-
son will be wrong-utterly and COM
pletely wrong. 1t is one of the most
remarkable magazine articles of the
year. The author, W. A. NJ. Goode,
simply sets the heroic admiral of the
North Atlantic fleet up on pedestal
and proceeds to cover him with sweet
things from top to toe, so that at the
end of the process he looks like that
statue of Columbus in caramels at the
Worlds Fair. This must, of course, be
embarrassing to so modest man as
Admiral Sampson. but, after all. he is
only sharing the fate of Columbus
We are first Informed that it was no,
Simpsons fault, but the fault of
the Navy Department that Havana
was not bombarded early in the
campaign. 1t was in obedience to
orders from Secretary Long that Ma
tanzas was bombarded insted and
Long, and not Sampson, caused
the death of that Matanzas mule.
If Sampson had had his way
the mule would now be alive and Gen.
eral Blanco would be dead It was also
the fault of the Navy Department. and
not Of Sampson. that the feet spent sew
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Platt and Roosevelt.

People who do not see the New York
newspapers and hear only faint echoes
of the noisy campaign in that State,
would hardly credit truthful state
ment of Candidate Roosevelt's appall-
ing egotism and of the amazing claims
made for him by some of his associate
campaigners. 1t is rather creditable
TO a mans good sense to doubt that
anybody could be so audaciously con-
ceited. To one who has read disinter-
ested accounts of the capture of San
Juan Hill, the address issued by the
Roosevelt League. which is based on
the candidates own assertions, must
be convincing proof that no report can
exaggerate the expressions of his van
ity. Here are the exact words of one
paragraph:
An officer at the head of his regiment it was he
who in the critical moment insured success. II
we had had Roosevelt at Santiago. and if we
had been defeated in action there, who knows
whether today we would be in a position to con-
slider terms of peace?
It is not surprising that writer in
Harpers Weekly should ask whether
Ninth and Tenth Cavalry. and why
General Kents official report fails to
recognize the superlative value of
Roosevelts work, but gives the chief
credit to an obscure general of the reg
ular army, one Hawkins, who COM
manded a brigade and captured the
place with the Sixth and Sixteenth reg
ulars.
1t is TO be hoped that the election will
parable and wearisome egotist and
make his unique style of campaigning
as profitless as 1t is odious, so he may
have no imitators. Be the decision of
the voters what it may. we shall at
the least have temporary rest from
the recital of his alleged achievements
We are not all able to extract the same
amount of fun out of it that Senator
Platt probably does. 1t is folly to think
he was ever enamored of Roosevelt He
distinctly repudiated the colonel when
the latter was at the head of the police
board. He is too used to seeing am
bilious '.reformers come to him
when they want cffice-as Roose-
velt did when he wanted to be ap-
pointed to a place in the, Navy
Department-to take any great pride
in Roosevelts application for his sup
port for the Republican nomination
The fact is that Senator Platt has felt
from the first that the record of the
Black administration in relation to the
canal money made Republican sue
cess impossible. The nomination of
anybody for whom Plat really cares
would have meant pain as well as de-
feat But it was exactly the year to
dispose of Roosevelt. Senator Platt
could have bit of fun out of the cam
paign and the defeat. since defeat was
inevitable.
1t is nonsense to say tina. Senator
Platt could not have prevented the
nomination of Roosevelt il he had been
disposed to do it; and it is unreason-
able to suppose he would not have done
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- > q Q - 4 =
eral weeks in fox-chasing up and down
had his way Cervera would have come
up meekly as a lamb to the slaughter
and surrendered. Sampson was sure
from the first that Cervera would go
just where he did go. but the incon-
siderate Navy Department would not
listen. Sampson sent out scouts to
hunt for Cervera. and they would
have found him but that Secretary
Long ordered them back. All this
time Sampson was enduring har-
rowing anxiety, not only because of
the contrariness of Secretary Long,
who refused to listen to any sugges-
ton. but on account of the unruliness
of Schley. who positively declined to
send any news as to his whereabouts.
1t was enough to turn a mans hair
white. But owing to this timely vindi-
cation the world will now understand
that whatever mistakes were made in
the Santiago campaign were due not to
Sampson, but to stupid Secretary of
the Navy. who muddled things. and to
an assistant by the name of Schley.
The next point which Mr.. Goode
makes is that Sampson, and not Hob
son, originated and mapped out the
Merrimac plan, and that Lieutenant
Hobson merely acted as his proxy. 1t
may appear by subsequent information
that Sampson, and not Hobson, was on
the Merrimac, but this is not positively
asserted. is-ssssl.si.s = -s.---
The last and most important point
made by this Boswell of a latter-day
lexicographer-for the work of Samp-
son is voluminous enough to fill at least
one NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. forever settle
the question who deserves the glory of
the capture of Cervera'sf feet From
this article it appears that not only
did Sampson plan that capture, but
that it was his doing, and his alone.
Mr.. Goode says:
The steady glare OF the searchlight, that never
moved from the Moro for many nights, tried the
souls of the Spanish sailors and soldiers who
blinded that neither from the castle top nor
from the harbor below could they even the
huge shadows OF the ships. The blockade
was not dramatic and decisive like the naval
battle, but a good deal harder work.
The destruction of Cervera's fleet.
then, was due not to Schley with his
squadron, but to Sampson with his
searchlights. The hypnotic power of
the lights blinded the Spaniards so that
they could not fight. Sampson did that.
therefore Sampson-Svengali Sampson
lis the hero of Santiago, II is grand
and overwhelming thought. Peace be
with it,
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How Wa. America reopled.
(Appleion's Popular Science MoaihIy.)

(Applet0n's Popular Science Monihly.J
There are two propositions involved in the
controversy as 10 the Asiatic origin OF the Amrri
can race; the one is that America was peOpl6d
from Asia by invasions migrations in pre-
savage pre-glacial times; the other IS ttat The
peculiar civilization q Central America in
duced BY Buddhist monks who travelled from Asia
to Mexico and Central America in the fifth CEN
tury of our era Those who sustain the flst thesis
are without exception mcn trained in :he sei.nce
OF anthropology; those who sustain the second
thesis are with few conspicuous exceptions travsl
ers Biographies. snologues. missionaries and the
like II Asia should ever prove to DC the cradle
of the human race, or il any portion OF II which
had advanced well beyond the creature known as
Pitheeanthropus erectus, then inquest stonahly an
Asian people may be accounted the prosenitors Of
the American Indians. ANY effort, however, TO
establish an identity at this stage would take us
far beyond the origin of speech the ability 10
fabricate an implement.
The times., 1898-11-08

John Bull has given Brother Jonathan
a lesson in dealing with the high-handed
Blanco at Havana. An English subject
was arrested by a Spanish officer for
wearing an offensive badge, beaten and
sent to jail. The British consul went to
the palace, demanded the release of the
prisoner-which was refused for a time by
Blanco-and declined to leave the place
until he should be placed at liberty.
Blanco clustered. but the steady persist
ence of the consul won. If there is any
thing We need to copy from the English
government it is its policy of protecting
its subjects the world over.
The times., 1898-11-08
NapoIeon,s Drummer hoy.

tfrcsl tne tnicaSo Evening foSt
Joseph Herbert, who died on Thursday nearly
100 years Of age. was drummer boy in Ma
poIeon's army Herbert was born at Three Rivers
Quebec, December 80, 1l9s. At the age of four
teen he was imbued with the idea that war
lust the thing fer him, and accordingly. after OBJ
taining his fathers consent. he enlisted in Ma
poleon's army. He was with the great general
during the four years in which he engaged in war.
and often in later years gathered visitors around
him to whom he would recount his trials and sd-
ventures during campaign life under Napoleon.
After Napoleon's final defeat at Waterloo. Mr..
Herbert returned to Canada and engaged in fam
ing upon his fathers large estate, and il is to
the rugged life he led during his years as
farmer that he attributed Lis ripe old age. Mr..
Herbert left two brothers and two sisters living
near his old nome in Canada. He was the father
Of ten children, four of whom living. He
came to Chicago eighteen years ago. and since
then lived with his daughter, Mrs. Chenier. Mr.
Herbert often remarked that he well remembered
the time when he and bis father visited Gen.
Washington.
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fured that the apostles of reform are
silent. because they see no way to do JUS
tice to the subject. There is nothing they
can do. and anything they can say must
be weaker than the apparent facts. Mr..
Carl Schurz is too busy fighting against
the desires and demands of the American
people to note the violations of his pet
laws, though he may express his indigna-
tion at the next meeting of the few sur
vivors of Dorman Eatonism
The times., 1898-11-08

The Advertisers Guarantee Company. of Chi
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The times., 1898-11-08

Governor Pingree did not sleep a wink
his mind to reply to the sympathetic in
quiries of Secretary Alger, who is not
less concerned about the. result of the
election than Pingree himself. If it
transpire that the President has shie d.
ed an unpopular Cabinet officer who can
not carry his own State. even with
barrel of the size of Ayers. it will be a
shock But there may be several shocks
before the day is over.
The times., 1898-11-08
The Only One of Her Kind.
(From the Cincinnati Enquirer.)

v s''e ~1''e'''f'''tf
Mrs, Amanda Purcell of Portsmouth, Ohio,
who died three years ago, aged seventy-three,
was the only woman who ever hired a substitute
and sent him to war when there was no claim on
her whatevere to do so. Her husband had died
in 1855, and when the civil war came on her
sons were small boys. She believed, however. that
it was her duty to contribute to her country's 8
cause the best she could. She therefore paid
$500 to man to go to war, with the provision
that she was never to know his name or his fate
Her nephew secured the man, paid him the $500,
and saw him off to war. Mrs. Purcell died in ig-
norance Of the soldiers name or fate.
The times., 1898-11-08

A Republican newspaper says Senator
Plat shows no concern about the result
of the election why should he?-He con-
sented to the nomination of Roosevelt
onIE-after he had made up his mind that
the canal record of the Black administra-
ton would be fatal to his party-thinking
this would be a good year to dispose of
the ambitious warrior. z
The times., 1898-11-08

The Chinese Emperor has been entire
ly forgiven by the Dowager Empress,
according to a Pekin message. Probably
he has renounced the company of the
English and quit smoking cigarettes. In
other words, he has abandoned his re-
form ambitions in favor. of the good old
Chinese heathenism.
The times., 1898-11-08
Color Anect. strength of the Eyes.

That the color of the eyes should affect their
strength may seem strange, yet that such is
the case need not now be proved, and those
whose eyes are brown or dark-colored should be
informed that they are weaker and more sus-
ceptible to injury from various causes than gray
or blue eyes. Light blue eyes are generally the
most powerful, and next to these are gray The
lighter the pupil the greater and longer continu
is the degree Of tension which the eyes can sus.
tain.
The times., 1898-11-08

The poor clerks who have had to whack
up for Republican campaign expenses
may have the satisfaction of knowing
that their voluntary contributions have
been used to some purpose. They have
been distributed throughout New York to
bet against Democratic money in order to
give an appearance of Republican conf
dence.
The times., 1898-11-08

The Republican orators who have been
bowling in New York that Sagasta and
Weyler are sitting up night figuring on
the prospects OF Rooseveit's defeat will
retire after today until the public forgets
their blithering idiocy.
The times., 1898-11-08

However the election may 60 it must be
a great relief to the people OF New York
to have the voice of the Incompatible
egotist stilled for time.
The times., 1898-11-08
Virginia.
Representatives in Congress only
Washington.

Virginia
Representatives in Congress only.
Washington.
Two judges of the Supreme Court and
legislature will be elected, the legisla-
ture to choose a successor to United
States Senator John L. Wilson. Republi-
can. The Democrats, Populists and Silver
Republicans combined their forces, and
nominations were also made by the Re
publicans and the Prohibitionists
Two constitutional amendments are
pending-one to permit woman suffrage.
and the other to empower municipalities
to determine, by vote of the ci liens. what
class or classes of property shall be taxed
for municipal purposes-thus opening the
way to the single tax.
Nat.
Req. Dsm. Pro. Dem.
1895 (Pres-)---.-...... 80 l5S 5l,6i6 9Ss les
1891 (Congress). ....... 34,sl2 I4,le0 -. 2i,93
West Virginia.
In West Virginia one-half of the State
Senate and house of representatives
will be elected. the new legislature to
elect successor to United states Senator
Charles ]. Faulkner, Democrat
Wisconsin.
The governor and legislature are to be
elected and the latter is to choose a
successor to Senator Mitchell. Democrat.
Rep. Dem Pop Pro.
1896 Pres ,l35 l65 523 -. 7,5O1
1894 Cow 1876. .i52 l42, ,l45 25,6l3 -.
Wyoming.
All of the State officers will be chosen
in Wyoming, and a legislature, which
will elect a United State senator to sue
ceed Clarence D. Clark CRepJ. The Re-
publican ticket is antagonized by the
fusion nominees of the Democrats and
Silver Republicans.
Reg Dem. Pop Pro.
1896 (Pres.) 1o.oT2 1885 ls6 159
1894 Cow )......... 1O,ls9 69S5 2,l76 -.
The Territories of Arizonia, New Mexico
| and Oklahoma viii elect delegates to
Congress.
The times., 1898-11-08

Nothing Spanish is to be trusted. Even
a captured and reconstructed cruiser. still
under Spanish name, is treacherous.
The times., 1898-11-08

Spain asks for damages from this coun-
try. As though she had not enough. al
ready.
The times., 1898-11-08

Communications intended for publication in
THE TINES should be tersely and plainly written,
and must in ali cases be accompanied by the
munications will not be preserved, and only
uscripts OF obvious importance will be returned
10 their authors
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CIRCULATION STATEMENT.

THE TINES in all its editions. Morning, Even
Ing and Sunday, will be mailed TO one address
for FIFTY CENTS per month. Addresses changed
as often as desired.
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Readers Of THE TIMES who may at any time
be unable to procure copies of it at any news
stand or railroad station or on railroad trains,
will confer favor upon the management by send
ing to this Office information of the fact.
The times., 1898-11-08

A judge of the Supreme Court and
legislature will be chosen, the legislature
to elect United States senator to sue
ceed Frank ]. Cannon (Silver Rep.)- Nom
nations have been made by the Demo-
Gratis. the Republicans and the Populists.
OF several pending constitutional
amendments the one of more than local
interest would prohibit the governor
from appointing TO office any one who, at
the previous session of the legislature
failed of confirmation to that office, and
would empower the governor to fill va
cancy in a State office or on the bench re-
shifting from death or rss;ppaf fjo,1
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will choose United States Senator to
succeed William N. Roach. Democrat
A constitutional amendment to be SUBJ
mitted would admit to the suffrage civil
lied males of Indian descent. who have
not been in tribal relation for two years
preceding an election. and would require
the legislature to establish an educational
qualification for the suffrage, and to .'pre-
scribe penalties for falling, neslecting. or
refusing to vote at any general election
Rep. Dem Pop Pro.
is96 tPres) .26 1856 20.eS5 -. 3js
ioei tSov. .)..-.....--....2 .23,s23 s,1ss 1854 -.
Ohio.
Ohio will elect n secretary of state. a
judge and a clerk of the Supreme Court
a dairy commissioner and a member of the
board of public works and representatives
in Congress.
is9. is Cow )...-... .42e,9l5 4GA75o e.s5i 1865
ls9o Ores. )-........-.52 .525.99I 44s,2 2,6l5 506s
Pennsylvania
The election in Pennsylvania will be of
a governor, lieutenant governor. secretary
of internal affairs. two judges of the su-
perior Court. one-half of the State SEN
ate. and the house. the legislature to have
the choice of United States Senator to
succeed M. S. Quay, Republican. and rep
resentatives in Congress. Seven tickets
have been nominated-the Democratic. the
Republican, the Prohibitionist. the Popu-
list, the Socialist. the Peoples party and
the Liberty party. The Rev. s. C. Swal-
low. the Prohibition nominee for governor
whose platform is the eighth command
ment, Is the candidate also of the Popu-
hsts. the Peoples party and the Liberty
party.
Nat.
Rep Dem Pro. Dem.
1877 tIreas. -...... .3s2. AS 2I2,73I 1ls.G6o -.
1919 tPres-)..-...-,7.6,99s i22,o5i 1924 u,oOl
Rhode Island.
Representatives in Congress only.
South CnroIipa.
A complete set of State officers and
legislature will be chosen in South Caro-
lima There is no opposition to the Demo-
cratic nominees for the State officers, and
little to the nominees for the legislature.
Rep. Dem. Pop
ise6 tPrls)-----.------.... '9.3l3 5s,SGl -.
1881 AtpN. .J.JJg lI.24-
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each county one representative, and each
county having population Of one and
three-fifths times the ratio or more. two
representatives, but not more than two.
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Connecticut.

In addition to the State officers already
chosen, Connecticut voters will elect an
attorney general, that position having
been created by the last legislature. The
tickets nominated are those of the Re
publicans, the Democrats, the. Prohibit
tionists and the Socialists majority
over all is necessary to the election of
State officers. A legislature will be
chosen, which will elect a United States
senator, to succeed Joseph r. Hawley
(Rep.)
Rep. Dem. Nat. Dem Pro
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Colorado.

gained official standing in colOradO-the
Republican: the wolcott Silver Republi-
can identical With the Republican. except
as to the nomi4ee for auditor: the Demo-
cratic, the Teller Silver Republican, the
Populist tthess three in fusion on the
same nomineas); the Prohibition, the
Western Republican. the Liberty Union.
the Business Yenef the Taxpayers' Ghe
last three having the same nominees as
the fnsionistsf ard the Socialist. A
house of representatives and one-half of
the State senate Win be elected.
{, Dem. and