The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1898-12-15

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isn't any more eager to come home and
see us than we are to see him. His
turn will come in good time, and what
time it will be!
People who lose thousand dollar opera
glasses cannot expect that they will be
always found by honest persons and
returned by the police. Mrs. Cor
nelius Vanderbilt is lucky
The New York Herald was one of the
earliest and most imperative of the
annexationists. Is it now squirting at
the Panama canal route and joint con-
troll by the United States and Great
Britain?
The blue ribbon societies viii now be
ready to believe all manner of evil
Of Commissary General Egan. He ad-
vises adding beer to the army ration,
Judging from his remarks. however,
it cannot be said that ne stands in awe
of such benevolent antagonism.
The World finds that it costs about
$15 ballot to count the votes of the
1863 soldiers accredited to New York
county. Furthermore, the soldier vote
will not affect the election of a single
candidate. Manhood suffrage always
comes high in the Empire state.
Well it does seem queer to read of
Gen. Jacob Coxey proclaiming prosper
ity throughout the land and to all the
people thereof, and aiming William
Mckinley for another four years in
the White House. The commonweal
army must have been mustered out
Whenever there is q vacancy in the
administration, somebody Immediately
proposes Whitelaw Reid as q candi-
date. Naturally he IS "the probable
successor to Cornelius n. Bliss as
secretary of the interior But Plat
is yet to be heard from on this point.
OF the thirty mayors elected this
month in Massachusetts cities, all but
eight rank as republicans, though by
no means all of these ran on straight
party tickets. The distinction is of some
significance. In Boston, Mayor Quincy
holds over. and North Adams does not
elect till next week
A short time ago it was the fisheries
question that threatened the success of
the Canadian joint high commission.
Now it is the lumber trade. When the
lumber trade" is mentioned in connec-
ton with Canada, a few monopolists of
the northwest are meant The rest Of
the country doesn't count.
Maine congressman and senators have
been menaced with opposition" before
this. but somehow, when election time
comes around, the same old men are
returned to the same old offices Prob
ably the little bonfire started in Eugene
Hales backyard for the purpose of
booming Ex-Governor Cleaves does not
scare the senator. He. will continue his
opposition to annexation as Of yore.
The eXpansionists receive Cushman
K. Davis proposal for an Anglo-Amer-
lean Japanese alliance with much
equanimity A few months ago the
! same men and newspapers would have
sneered at it as impossible or de-
nounced it with superHuous vigor. Now
they accept as not only possible, but
even desirable and perhaps inevitable.
Oh, yes, things have changed very fast
within the last half year.
Col. William Jennings Bryan has
seen enough of war to convince him
that the proper time to oppose annex
alton is after the treaty has been rat
flied. Obstacles to ratification by the
present Senate are being removed. one
by one. AS for annexation. it does not
look as if the Bryan influence would
be strong in the next Congress. The
colonel might as We'll subside Some
body else may block expansion, but not
he.
Sir Vernon Harcourt resigns the lead
ership Of the British liberal party with
disparaging remarks concerning dissen-
tons, personal disputes and, the i'm
possibility Of leading with credit to
himself. Nevertheless, there is an i'm
preston that he has aged rapidly and
become very difficult to get along with.
He is an able parliamentarian but
testy As for dissentlons, nobody need
be told that Harcourt and Morley have
wasted no love on Lord Rosebery.
If the conclusion Of the war with
Spain, during which the north and the
south fought side by side, left any lin
gering trace of sectional feeling. it dis
appeared when President Mckinley,
speaking before The Georgia Legislature.
in connection with the opening of the
Atlanta peace jubilee said: The time
has now come in the evolution of sem
timent and feeling, under the provi-
dence of God, when, in the spirit of
fraternity, we should share with YOU
in the care Of The graves of confederate
soldiers.
The Rev. DR.. A. H. Plumb didn't help
matters much by his speech at the
alumni dinner in Boston. where he said
| that Andover seminary had lost the
confidence Of the people. He quoted
certain rueful Congregationalists as
| saying that Andover was going to I'M
speakable bow-wows, and he warned
professors and students that they must
mend their WAYS if thew exnected The