Mexico weekly ledger., 1899-05-11

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be will win the presidential Derby In a
eanter.
That Manley will swipe the entire
Mexican delegation may be taken and
accepted as a fact, for have not they
transmogrihed him from plain Mr.. Jo-
seph into Senior Jose, thereby making
him their very own2
A Pointer For Hanna.
Mark might head off Senior Jose with
Z, 1000 Malay delegates from the 1000
Philippine Islands, which, Of course,
are 9 200 embryo Philippine territories
and states, but in order to get them to
the national convention he will have to
lasso them, and just at present the pros
pect of accomplishing that feat is not
particularly rosy. Even If he could
catch them, if all the Filipinos are as
treacherous and as constituencies as
General Grosvenor declares General
Aguinaldo to be, they would most prob
ably leave Mark in the lurch and adhere
to Senior Jose, which would be as un-
seemly a performance as John Sherman
charges to General Russell A. Alger at
Chicago in 1SS8-namely, buying Sher-
mans negro delegates away from him.
John seems to be so guileless as to be-
iieve that a Republican delegate to a
national convention, having once been
bought. ought to stay bought. On that
question of ethics, however, according
TO Johns own evidence, General Alger
and the southern negroes differed with
him toto cplo. They appear to have
adopted the theory enunciated by Hon.
Webb Flanagan Of Texas in his famous
interrogatory, "What are we here for"
which went to the marrow of things
and which will go laundering down the
/ ages. II Mark is addicted to the poets,
when he reads this, and in his minds
eye sees Senior Jose's 1, 800 Mexican del
egates tramping into the convention
hall and realizes the utter impossibility
Of lassoing his [, 1000 Philippine dele
gates by that time, he will exclaim;
o star eyed science, hast thou wandered there
To bring us back the tidings Of deapairf
The Senatorial Question.
The people appear to be getting in
| earnest-dead earnest-about electing
senators Of the United States by popu-
lar vote, and when the people undertake
a thing in dead earnest they usually
succeed. Not long since / referred to
what appeared to be a systematic effort
on the part of the legislature of Penn
| ~sylvania to accomplish this much desired
reformation in our politics; also to the
pregnant fact that ex-senator John
| James Ingalls, of Kansas had begun a
crusade for the same purpose. The fol-
lowing dispatch shows that old Vir-
ginia, the mother of presidents, pro-
poses to lend her potent influence in be-
half Of the good cause:
RICHMOND, April 1.-THE coming Demo
| cratic convention for the determination of the
/ question Of nominating United States senators
In this state by primary is thought to be the
beginning Of a movement to have senators
elected by the people. The Richmond conven-
/ ton, which is to meet here on the 18th Of May,
Il 80 ~ eAAJ N1AaA AZ A1NSA - 49, A-A-AA
ton Of senators by the people, but will adopt
resolutions demanding that the two senators
from Virginin shall eomiuit themselves in ia
| yor Of the adoption by the senate Of an amend
ment to the constitution allowing the people
to elect the senators by popular vote.
The Democratic leaders, who are behind the
movement In Virginia, are perfecting the most
thorough organization to the end that this
fight shall be successful. The newspapers Of
| the state are almost unanimous in giving their
| approval TO the plan Of electing and nominal
ing senators by the people.
As l have stated before, there can be
no valid argument urged against the
election Of senators by the people, for
the closer to the many we get the better
of we will be.
A Fortune Unclaimed.
All honest men without regard to
party creeds or affiliations ought to ia
! vor some method Of electing senators
which will prevent nauseating scandals
like the one described in the following
editorial from the Washington Post:
A fortune Of so, 900 in 90 bills Of the demon
nation Of tl,O0 lie in the hands Of the state
treasurer Of Montana. quietly awaiting the ar
rival Of q claimant who can prove his title
clear. This IL not wealth beyond the dreams
Of a~varice," bat Is a greater fortune than the
average citizen can hope 10 possess, no matter
how hard he strives. Fifty years ago there
were prosperous states not q dozen Of whose
citizens owned as much rs $4,000. Today there
are millions Of prosperous and thrifty farmers
and mechanics who are esteemed we'll 70 do,
whose sons ana daughters are being literally
educated, but whose entire estates are not
worth 1900. The citizen who, in the product
i've period Of his life, can lay by 500 a year Is
| especially favored Of fortune. II would re-
quire s great many years with his savings
safely invested 10 pile up $4,000.
Ard yet there are those 30 bills, each good
for tl,00 in gold, lying idle in the custody Of
the treasurer Of Montana not turned into the
| public e1chequer because the state does not
own them. II not only does not own them but
1t has failed in sundry efforts to find out who
Is their lawful proprietor. II knows the man
from whose hands the money came into its
possession, but he says it lie not his, and he
cannot prove that he got it in the way he says
he did.
when the long and bitter senatorial fight was
on, = few weeks ago, a legislator charged that
an attempt had been made to buy hts vote and
that Of two other members far $1,000 each.
This v~irtuous Statesman declared that the at
tempted bribery was In the interest Of Clark,
the multimillionair candidate who finally car
ried on the prize and Is senator elect TO the
Fifty-Eixth congress. OF course there was an
Investigation, at which the member produced
the s9.00, declaring that he had taken il In
order 70 entrnp the Clark party. One of the
other two were 10 divide the pile confirmed
the statement. but the third gave it q total
and emphatic denial Then tho grand Jury
took . hand In the inquiry, but failed 10 indict
for lack Of evidence. And there the matter
was dropped.
Bot The money was still On hand. Mr.. Clark
declared that It did not belong and never had
belonged % him. OF course be could not ~
csive -. His theory vas that his opponent
had furnished thu 5000 10 pat up e lob on
him. The member who turned In the wad
e0uid not take u hack without virtually con
arming Cark'a explanation.
We have sen u pointed cut q hundred times
o. . disEraos 10 the country, bat "a is nothing
Il the Kind II is . Ecsndalous affair and
W0uld brand The Fuiity PARTY with infamy u
be could b. idsutiEnd, bat II does NOT t1unh
the hnnor u the nation.
Harmony on the Surface.
Evidences accumulate Of that skin
deep Harmony" which prevails among
Republicans and which must cause
them 10 think o. frost every time they
contemplate the campaign of 1900.
Chauneey Ives fillsy. the erstwhils
king Of Missouri Republicans. was ruth
lessly discrowned b Marcus A. Hanna
In 1895, but Uncle Chauncey is not dead
by a jugfuL Ne int sven sleeping.
he il not saying much, but after the