The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-02-11

NEWS: SUNDAY, T.
against the Republican currency plan and
I the administration pro-Boer policy. Per
haps that's why he gets so much more
than his share of ill-nstured comments
I've always noticed that the Democrat
who serves his party most loyalty gets the
hardest usage from the press.
Which. by the way reminds me of a
story that Senator Tillman told George
Fred Williams. They are both hard and
effective fighters for the Democratic cause,
and both have had to stand hard pound
ing from the press, not only the opposi-
ton newspapers but from some of those
Democratic papers which seem TO believe
all the stories told by opponents about
Democrats. Williams spoke in melancholy
resignation about his fate, which had, he
said, compelled him TO relinquish his re-
spectability in the minds of people who
form their opinions from newspaper re-
ports.
well. Williams" said the redoubtable
South Carolina Senator, who had suffered
somewhat that way himself. when | was
boy | discovered that l could always
| tell while walking though an orchard in
midWinter just which trees bore good
fruit. There wouldn't be any apples on
the trees at that season, of course, but
under the best ones | found the ground
covered with sticks and stones 1t puz-
zled me at first bH l quickly found that
only the trees bearing good apples suf-
fered the attacks of the small boys with
missiles. And in the same way you Will
find that the men whose work is bearing
good fruit attract the sings and arrows
of detra ction."
Congressman Lentz of Ohio was sum-
marty suppressed by the committee which
engineered the disbarment of the poiyga-
mist Roberts, when he tried to secure an
inquiry into the charge that the President
mad appointed polygamists 10 federal Of
fees in Utah, knowingly and after protests
mad been filed. The protests 1T appears
had strangely disappeared from the flies
and 1t could not be shown that Mr.. Nc
Kinley had knowledge of the character of
his appontees. Perhaps he did not know
either that the chaplain appointed for
certain regiment-an unusually high-class
regiment-enlisted for a special service to-
ward the end of the war a Mormon
and preached Mormonism until the soldiers
refused TO attend meetings, and even
| threatened to duck the reverend gentle
man in the neighboring sea. But the war
department knew it and the story in all
its details, not yet printed, will come out
in time.
Speaking of war, Gen. Otis announces
now that the Filipino war for independence
will be ended in thirty days. Which re-
minds me of a melancholy experience.
Just year ago 1 finished a book on the
Spanish war and had dispatched it 10 the
publishers when my eye encountered what
seemed to be the very reasonable state
ment in New York review that
the war in the Philippines would be end
ed in month. Knowing something of the
relations of the editor of the review with
IL .l-l
there was something in the estimate, and
wired my publishers 10 hold on and we
would have the full story of the supple
mentary war as well Result, the book
was late for the Christmas trade, when 1t
should have had the spring trade of the
same year, and, but that we gave up in de-
! spair would not be out yet. 1 put little
! confidence in the thirty-day theory after
that experience.
A gentleman who has frequently con-
| tributed to the publications of the Demo
cratic Press Bureau sends me this very
piquant comment on the situation in Ken
tHcky:
| (Time, 1900; Washington, jefferson, Jack
son, Lincoln, all dead-McKinley and Mark
Hanna managing the funeral of the re-
public)
| (Place-Sovereign state of Kentucky.
Contending Forces-Executive, legislative
and judicial. Legislature endeavors to
| perform its functions-judiciary seeking an
undsturbed place to pass upon constitu-
tional questions)
CEnter militia general with orders from
defendant in proceeding, who finds things
going against him.
Legislator-Dont shoot, General; don t
| shoot!'
General-I won't shoot unless 1 have to-
| (Smiles benevolently)
Legislators, omnes-We wish to enter this
| building to perform our functions.
| General ordering up Republican army to
enforce the constitutional rights of the
| Republican party)-You cannot pass.
| Speaker of Assembly-Then the Legisla-
ture will adjourn.
Republican Armed Forces, omnes-Ha!
| hat ha
Supreme Court of Kentucky-We de-
cline to sit while the mountaineers and
militia are here, for we apprehend that
| we shall all be ASA ssinated.
Epilogue-Who shall dare haul down the
flag ?-McKinley.
very laudatory article on Paul Lei
cester Ford in this months Bookman con-
tatns this curious statement:
There is no doubt that a great deal of
the popularity of The Honorable Peter
Stirling was due to the universal recog-
milton of it's hero as a portrait of Mr.
Grover Cleveland
On this two comments are to(be made:
One. 1t is most fortunate fer Mr.
Ford that his novel was published before
the end of Mr.. Cleveland's second term
Second. Mr.. Ford himself says that he
| had not the vaugest thought of Mr.. Cleve-
land in his mind when he wrote the book
and was not then familiar with his ca
reer.
One odd thing about Peter Stirling-and
| it is a book well worth reading-is that
while it purports to be a political novel,
true TO life in ali details. it ignores alb
| solutely the question of patronage in po-
| litical management. And the scene is
| LAID in New York city, tool Mr.. C.eve-
land understood politics better than to
| make that error.
People who are interested in the liter
! airy side of poiitics-or. perhaps, l would