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Tho Memphis HanRman.

In his Boston eulogy Of lynching the
Hon. CHARLES JOSEPH BoNAPARTE es.
pecially recommended this form of murder
as a means of regulating public officers.
Once more we quote the views Of the Wild
Man from Baltimore:
"A few defaulting State Treasurers or doodle Al
dermen.' even one or two United States Senators.
who know more about the operation Of trusts than
they can hnd IL convenient to toll. hanging untried to
lamp posts would not be a wholly edifying spectacle.
but II would have q more wholesome effect on public
oficials than q long series Of quashed indictments.
disagreeing juries. forfeited straw reoognizances,
and varying phases OF legal impunity for prosperous
scoundrelism."
The Memphis Commercial Appeal makes
this passage the ext Of an approving and
most extraordinary comment. 1t will be
remembered that the Wild Man from
Baltimore has no objections to the lynch
ing of innocent men whom he regards
as not desirable members of society,""
Not merely Mr.. PLAT and other poll
ticians accused Of being bosses, but all
persons guilty of not being Mugwumps,
are regarded by the latter as undesirable
rate friend in Memphis is himself liable to
uc DondpdrGeu, uuueT INC ruling OI bONA-
PARTE LYNCH. ]. Let US hear the calm and
accurate one to the end Of his rope:
cit would have taken but very little encourage.
mont last year for the people Of Chicago to string up
the thieves who represented that city in the Legisla-
ture and who were disregarding the will Of their con.
stttuents. Indeed. at some of the mass.meetings
lynch law was openly talked of. No doubt this 10 q
severe remedy. but sometimes It would seem to be
the only method left for clarifying the atmosphere.
When horse thieves and other outlaws were manifest
ing 4 nervous activity In California the best citizens
organized the vigilantes, and q few hangings soon
brought order out Of chaos. The people SO far have
never been able to obtain redress against the ser.
wants who betray them and sell them out. We are
Inclined to think that q few such lamp-post specta.
cles a. Mr.. BoSAPARrE describes may not be improba.
BILE. unless the servants OF the people cease their de-
liberate betrayal Of their masters and who can say
that It would not have a deterrent effect on the on.
cial oriminal?"
We congratulate the Hon. CHARLES Jo-
sEPH BoNAPARTE. Memphis contains a
penologist ofhis own type, another believer
in the propriety of furnishing by murder
persons who disagree with him or are sus.
pected by him. We had not supposed that
there were two hopeless political and moral
epileptics in the country.
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r1rr rrAns OF rnEEDoM.
Hawaiian neneciieus Upon the Anniversary
or the Rnonnrehy's Overthrow.

From the Pacific Commercial Advertiser 81 Jan. H.
Five years AFRO to-day tho Monarchy commit
ted suicide. 1t throw itself on the sharp olaGe
OF the knife which the Toutonic races Keep.
though generally concealed. for self-dcfenco and
tho defence of law and order. The Monarchy
tried to kill itself in 1880. whom the advontnrer
Moreno was made the leading man In the Gov
eminent. But 1t pulled back when the blade
had penetrated only through tho skin. IL tried
to kill itself again in 1887. when IL drove itscit
once moro against tho Tcutonlc knife, and cut
itself badly, but not fatally. Tho Teutonic race
was m~erciful. sewed up the wounds. and nursod
them, and simply said to the Monarchy; The
knife never moves. Therefore don't jump Mt It,
In 'o3, tho Monarchy. once more, foolishly.
but naturally enough, throw itself against the
reluctant and immovRble blade of tho Teuton-
les with such force that It touched the heart,
and wat mortallv wounded. Thon came tho
Republic.
The entire process Of the revolution was natu-
raj, logical, and ns common in the worlds his
tory as It is natural and common to throw'away
q ragged coat, oven II It be cast Oft in sorrow.
because Il had been gorgeous and useful.
Curiously enough. able" men. horo and else
where, fail to SEQ how simple. and natural tho
movement was. Charles Nordhoff, an expo
rienced journalist, and the editors Of the Nation,
calling themselves leading thinkers on political
philosophy, saw in the movement only low,
criminal purposes and unholy energy working
blindly together. They did not see. strangely
enough, that the history Of the United States
furnished tho reason and example for all that
was done here. So. with absolute confidence.
they predicted a speedy restoration" and wore
bitterly disappointed because 1t would not
come. Then they got mad. just as the Siamese
astronomers get mad when they predict a
comet and IL doesn't turn up.
These able thinfors" ignored the facts. In.
stead Of studying the complex phenomena Of po-
litical facts here, they preferred. like josh Bill.
ings, to "eat pork and drink hard cider till mid
night and then prophesy the rost of the night
about the immediate restoration.
The work Of '93 stands to-day. 1t finds us
with more complicated problems. owing to our
racial and economic difficulties, than exist any.
where else, probably. in proportion to the in.
haoitants., Although this is true. we shall never
consider them seriously until they breed calami.
ties. II we suffer from calamitics, we shall
know it is "for our own good" and be thankful.
The acts OF 90 were a step forward. History
says there is no step backward. r
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President Dole, the nations guest, while
he pushes Lecturer DUBoIs out into open
session Of the Senate to do the personal ex-
p~erience and personal observation part Of
the h~usinessf
~PETTIGREw, too, has been In Hawaii.
He, too, has ascertained the conditions ex-
listing there, through n personal investiga.
ton. Why does he not recount his W
experiences there1 They were doubtless
very interesting. Besides witnessing the
hula.hula and participating at the lu.au,
PETTIGREw made the personal acquaint-
ancc Of the members Of the Dole Admin.
istration, the very men whom he Is now
maligning and abusing in a place where
they canno be present to reply to
his insults and ISLANDERS. He met these
men in Honolulu. we say. He had an op-
p~ortunity to study them, and they had an
opportunity to study him. He had inter
views with them and conferences with
them, and a plain, honest report Of what
happened, from PRTT1GREw's lips,
would make a public document much bet
ter worth printing for the information Of
the Senate thar DUBoIs's hula-hula lecture.
Moreover, President Dole is now in
Washington ready to confirm PETTIGREw's
story, IL PETT1GREw tells the truth.
We observe, by the way, that at the din.
ner at the White House on Tuesday evening
in honor of President Dole, the Hon.
RICHARD FRANKLIN PKTTIsREw Of Sioux
Falls was not among the invited. This is
singular. PErTIeREw knows President
DOLE. President DOLE knows PErTIaREw.
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MAYOR OF TRENTON ASSAULTED.
His Eye BIackenod By . Councilman In q Row
Over Dollar Gas.

w shto Nab@
TRENTON, N. j., Feb. 2.-Welling G. Sickel,
Mayor of this city, is at home nursing a black
eye. received early this morning at the hands Of
William H. Baker. member Of the Common
Council from the Eighth ward and one of the
Republican leaders in the Council. The fracas
occurred in the banquet room of the Trenton
House. and grew out of the fight in the Council
last night over an ordinance granting q fran.
chise to a new gas company.
Mayor Sickel is an advocate of the new com.
pany, which is headed by William L. Elkins. Jr..
OF Philadelphia. The new company was defeated
in the Council. MS an amendment was made to
the ordinance fixing the maximum price Of gas at
q: while Mayor siekel and his friends wanted
the Council adjourned both parties went to the
which time ,? Mayor r! sickei is said tit 70 have e eSfidiedd
Baker for going back on him." and threat;
financially. After some words the Mayor and
his party left the barroom and went to
Baker started two or three times to 60 TO the
room where the Mayor and his party were; but
frtsnSs 'n aSoas 3 o' eSsFinf ba tssF' broke %su' swa sS
fs0n a f eis 81 psf biy Sas 9 %sns H ae s sss Ms sSe M fSllST fo1
shaking hands with the Mayor. Baker struck
the Mayor in the face and ran out Of the room.
said that his LETT eye eSs is s' bad Gy! d iUcoHs; dam and bis
face swollen. Baker is the President Of the
tation as q sparrer. The affair is the talk OF the
city and the stories told by the friends of the
est is the fact that the Excise laws require all
bars to be closed and the barrooms vacated be-
tween tho hours of l and 4 O'Clock in the morn
ing. The ARRAY occurred at Q o'clock.
Both the Mayor and Councilman Baker ara
Republicans. tho latter being q leader of what
is known as the "City Hall crowd" composed
of local officeholders and their friends. to whom
the Mayor and his faction are understood to be
opposed,
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The Armor Factory Bids.

Although no fewer han twenty.nine re.
sponses, 1t Is said, came to the recent call Of
the Navy Department for proposals to con-
struct an armor-making plant, very few of
them really dealt with the terms.
In ten different States land was offered
In liberal quantities to serve as a site for
the factory. The Government can have a
large choice of free sites in Pennsylvania,
Ohio, Illinois, Michigan, Minnesota, Mary
land, Virginia, West Virginia, Tennessee,
and Alabama, and no doubt other States
would offer them. A bid from Columbus
included the land and the buildings, backed
up by the local Board OF Trades offer to
add a bonus of 100000. The Holland
Torpedo Boat Company proposed to do the
work " for a sum of money and within a
period less than that estimated by the
board" while one bid, that of the Chamber
Of Commerce of Huntington, In West Vir-
ginia, was for the entire plant at the fixed
price OF 1926, DOS. 40.
This last, then, lisa specific sum, indicat-
ing about what the Government may ex-
pect to lay out at the start, il 1t establishes
an armor factory of it's own. In the figures
presented to Congress some time ago,
founded on researches made in England
and France, 1t appeared that 81 500, 900, or
perhaps 81 800 900, should be taken as the
cost of such a plant. Thus, Secretary HER
BERT's report to the two houses, made
last winter, said that "the English es-
innate, we have seen, as amended by
Capt. SAMPSON, amounts to 81, 800, 900,
which would pay duties and freight,
and erect here a plant equal to those
in question. Doubling the estimate OF the
French Government. we nave 81 400, OOO
for q similar plant. houses, machinery, and
all. The average of the two estimates Is
e~l,b00s0OO." And, again, he said that
"ths present value of IN armor plant like
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1t would be unjust to the new Governor.
General of Cuba to say that he had hoped
to crush the patriots without fighting. On
the contrary, he has made his troops fight,
and kept them busy at it here and there,
although the consequences have sometimes
been disastrous, as in PANDo's campaign.
But he has undoubtedly relied greatly on
the fact that money may be made in a
double sense the sinews of war, n has
been testing it's purchasing power on the
Cuban patriots.
This, indeed, seems to be one of the dis.
tinguishing differences between his career
and his predecessors. Where WEYLER
tried brutality, he has tried bribery; where
WEYLER sought to coerce, he has aimed to
tempt and coax. The change Of policy may
have been partly due to personal tempera-
ments. and partly to the success which is
said to have attended the buying of insur
gent leaders in the Philippines; but per.
haps in the main it springs from the
scheme of autonomy itself, which rests it's
chances on persuading or compelling the
patriots in the field to accept it.
Thus far the plan of bribery has brought
very little fruit. In scattered instances, of
NSiy iitoiS importance ~ huo ioSuhOu thC
surrender of a few men, at which Madrid
has rejoiced. Blu on the whole the patriot
cause has withstood this temptation as
nobly as it has withstood privation and
peril. The campaign of bribery seems to
have eliminated in its most daring stroke,
that Of tempting GOMEZ, and the reply Of
the Cuban COMMANDMENT Chief will always
be one Of the memorable documents Of the
struggle. Our Havana dispatches now
record a like failure to bride Gen. RABI, to
be followed, 1t is thought, by the return Of
BLANCo to Havana without a battle.
If the widespread movement to tempt
the patriot leaders to desert their cause has
failed, on what else can BLANCo rely7 They
can easily withstand him in the field,
and even defeat him. With the bait Of
autonomy, reinforced by personal advan-
tages, rejected, it only remains for the
patriots to hold firm until the rainy season
once more comes, in order to make BLANCo's
career as palpable a failure as WEYLER's.
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CURRENCY
Tho House Committee to Decide Next Wedues
day whether TO Report a Bill.


WASHINGTON, Feb. 2.-An effort was made
to-day at the full meeting Of the House Commit
tee on Banking and Currency to agree on some
measure Of currency reform to be reported to
tho House. Representative Hill of Connecti-
cut moved that the bill providing for the adop-
ton of the financial recommendations in tho
Presidents message to Congress be taken up
for discussion with a view Of reporting tho
measure favorably to the House. A lively de-
bate followed. in which Representative John.
son Of Indiana declared that n o measure should
be reported which did not provide for a cOmpre-
hensiVs revision. Of the currency system. Mr..
johnson. was asked whether he would vote 10
report the measure .embodying the Presidents
broader measure could not be agreed on, and hs
replied In the affirmative. Mr.. Fowler of Neg
Jersey, another member who has not generally
agreed with the majoritylof tho Republican mem.
bers regarding a currency measure, made tho
same promise.
Tho result of the meeting was practically TO
gain two votes for reporting the measure emf
bodying!Pr Nj Kinley' Recommendation.
In case no broader measure can be agreed on.
1t was voted to decide the question one week
from to-day. A Republican member OF The
committee said that eleven of the twelve Re-
which emhodies these recommendation OF Tho
President. ~ Reducing from $4,000 TO SO.
600 the minimum capital stock required for tho
establishment of national banks; t2) increase OF
circulation to par value OF tho bonds held ~
reimbursement OF tax on circulation, TO be fol-
lowed by supplementary legislation.
Tho same member said.that he was satisfied
that nothing, much more comprehensive II, tho
way OF a plan OF currency reform could bo
agreed upon by the committee.
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A Grotesque Guerrilla Movement.

The new enrolment which the lonesome
F~Ifty.three have undertaken for their
amusement was begun under adverse me-
neurological conditions IN Tuesday night,
and the announcement has since been made
that there arc no arrangements to receive
reports :" that three or four Of the officers
were kept from their posts by illness, and
that the few cases Of absence Of enrollers in
such forbidding weather was proof that
"the movement was started to grow
The absurdity of the whole proceeding is
its only distinguishing feature. The Re-
publican party of New York, thoroughly
and systematically recognized under a
plan carefully matured under the direction
of thirty of the most truly representative
Republicans in the city, elected a Repub-
lican nominee for Mayor in the first year
Of the trial of the plan; under it, in the
next year, for the first time in the
history of New York politics, a Republican
candidate for Governor carried the city
again, In 1897, in spite of obstacles the
most serious. the Republican organization
withstood the severest assault ever made
against it's integrity, and under it the
party must now prepare for a momentous
Ddbblc vi udtlOud lihCo IL 1000 AhS ohAy
trouble confronting the Republicans of New
York is q guerrilla assault by these fifty.
three malcontents who are calling upon the
already enrolled party to "enroll."
These so-called primaries are to be carried
on, 1t seems, for two nights more, though
the paucity of enrollers and of places Of
enrolment has already been made clear.
In the Twenty fifth Assembly district, for
instance, there are twenty-five election dis
tricts, in each of which the Republican
party, organized in conformity with the
laws OF the State and with the approval
and sanction of the Republican State Com
mittee and the last Republican State Con.
v~ention, holds district primaries at the pre-
scribed time. The ffty-three enrollers,
however, have "bunched" their simulated
primaries into three places, the first de-
scribed as a seed store, the second as a shoe
store, and the third as a bicycle shop.
In the Twenty-seventh Assembly district
the disgruntled and spiteful are called
to arms at the Windsor Hotel, at the
Murray Hill Hotel, which is something of q
Democratic headquarters at a vacant store,
in a shoemaker shop, basement" n the
like. In other Assembly districts, barber
shops, q cigar store, a butter and egg store,
o bird store, ga room upstairs" are pro-
vided by the inspectors.
The enterprise, however, is notable only
because of its ~grotesqueness. 1t cannot
have any serious Importance, for no Repub:
lican who is impressed with the grave duty
resting on his party at this time, when the
preservation of national and private credit
10 committed to it, will give any counte.
nance to men who are working first for
personal qualification, and indirectly in the
interest Of the party Of Organism.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-02-03
Seven Fair Questions.

In view of the sullen hostility shown by
some baseball magnates toward every sug-
gestion for effectually freeing the national
game from disorder, THE Sun recently pre-
pared a set of seven questions, designed,
when submitted to League mel of the afore-
said kind, to obtain answers that would let
the public know definitely where the OBJ.
structionists stood.
Disorder arises from disputes between
players and umpires. Inasmuch as playing
the game, not interpreting the rules, causes
ninety-nine hundredths of all issues raised,
the questions bore upon play only. They
were these:
"Do you favor having questions Of play. such as
bali or strike fair ball or foul out or safe
decided by the players themselves or by some other
court2
"If the players are not to decide. shall theirs be an
umpire?
shall decisions be rendered by the umpire alone.
or by the umpire and players in concert?
lin case the players are to take part In tho do.
cisions. shall the umpire and all players have each q
vote. or shall the umpire and captains vote?
lin case tho umpire alone ia to decide. shall ho
decide on his own Judgment. or shall he first hear
argument by the players?
"If argument Is in order. shall every man speak.
or only the captains?
"If you believe In letting the umpire decide. ana
are against permitting the players to argue. are you
not ready to Join in q movement to stop argument and
to forbid players from wrangling with the umpire"
The President of the New York Club,
up to date, has persistently refused to take
sides with brother magnates who have
evinced a genuine desire for reform. He
declined to answer these questions.
Blunt as they are, however, they are
not only warranted but compelled by the
disorderly state into which the manage
ment of baseball has permitted it to be
transformed. And they must be answered
by the coming League meeting. Either
the old-time method of playing baseball
with the umpire as the absolute judge
should be restored, or some sort of order
and system had better be evolved from
the senseless chaos which to-day makes the
game a ~disreputable anomaly on the list Of
sports.
II the institution known as the umpire il
unsatisfactory, as several magnates declare
it to be, what shall be set up In it's stead =!
Some sort Of tribunal Of decision must be
devised, or the profession Of baseball will
go from bad to worse, IL not to extinction.
And what shall that tribunal bea II 1t is to
consist Of the umpire, u rule will have to
be drawn that shall put his word beyond
the players power of challenge. If it is to
be composed of the umpire and players, as
practically 1t has come to be, the better
way will be to cure the hubbub by a system
of voting, so regulated that the argument
shall be decent and the decision prompt
and peaceful.
And after baseball shall have been thus
rid OF its rowdyism what a spectacle it
will remain to the eye of Sport! All other
games are ruled by umpires.
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TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUS-Sir: In that great en-.
cyclical. which We call the Declaration OF Independ.
ence. especially in its citation OF the unlawful acts of
q ~despotic ruler. the right of a people to change the
form of Government is declared. and an armed re-.
sistance against the authority OF tyranny is Justified
as a patriotic duty.
The agonized cry OF "Cuba Libre comes to US
from q suffering people; they have protested against
the despotism OF a foreign Government. and. unable
to secure q peaceful arbitration of their grievances.
have fearless!y assumed the responsibilities OF pa
triotism. and under the wlse and heroic Gomez. arc
enduring all of the cruelty Of a brutal warfare.
Murder" is the name given to this warfare by
THE Sun In the editorial OF Jan. 20. and the indict-
ment Of the Government OF Spain is warranted by the
facts printed therein.
What 10 the duty Of the American people. "by tho
grace OF God. and tho sacrifice OF heroic lives " now
free and independent, toward the people OF Cuba.
who. accepting the principles OF tho Declaration OF
Independence. are now struggling to secure for them
selves and ~posterIty the right OF sclf-government?
Shall we send to them a Lafayette. a Kosciusko. .
steuben, or a R~ochambeau. De Kalb. or Pulaski?
Or shall we say to them
" We see thee weep, and thine are honest tears.
A patriots for his country; thou art sad
At thought of her forlorn and abject state.
From which no pow'r of thine can raise her up.
Thus fancy paints thee. and, though apt to err.
Perhaps errs little, when she paints thee thus.
She tells us, too. that duly ev'ry morn
Thou cimb'st the mountain top, with eager eye
Exploring far and wide the wat'ry waste
For sight OF ship from America. Evry speck
Seen in the dim horizon turns thee pale
With CONFLICT of cOntending hopes and fears.
But comes ~ last the dull and dusky eve.
And sends thee to thy cabin. we'll prepar'd
To dream all night of what the day denied.
Alas, expect IL not. We md no bait
To tempt us In thy country. Doing good,
Disinterested good. Is not our trade"
CHARLES FRANCIS MCCULLow.
RpnnKI YA- Y Y.Inn. 40.
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The Century Magazine for February opens
with Jacob RiIs's Heroes Who Fight Fire" an
article which no New Yorker need bo urged to read
for II tells OF tho New York Fire Department. Mr..
Jay Hamb!dse drew the pictures printed at intervals
in Mr.. R!is's story. Other articles IN the number that
may be mentioned are: DR., Mitchell's 'Adv'nture'
Of Francois; - Mr.. II. J.. WhitnArBh's The So rage
OF To-Day" MY Bedouln Friends by Il. Talbot
Kelly; an article by Capt. Smith. L. S. II. G. S.. on the
UNITED states Revenue Cutter ssrvIce;' Mr.. cuyler
RsynnldS's Manuscript OF Aud Lang syne.' and
sara Y. stsvsnson's account OF MaIimilian in Mexico
There TIRE other articles As well a. these. which can
not be nAnsd. but can be real with pleasure.