The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1900-07-13

Macarthur was right, and after TIVE
, days conference, Secretary Root an
nounced that no more troops would b'
sent from the Philippines to China
The plain meaning of this is that il il
necessary to keep the big army we
now have in the Philippines, per-
manently there in order to maintain
our authority over the Filipinos. That
is little more than the most rabd
imperalist bargained for, and is GER
tainly more than the people Of this
country will stand for. What possible
benefit can we derive from the Philip
pines that will compensate us for the
expense in money and American lives
that will be necessary TO keep an army
Of $4,000 soldiers over there. 1t seems
that the world Is about to witness the
revival Of the era Of the mercenary in
vading army, which was familiar to
Europe few centuries ago. The other
great civilized governments, including
our own, have hired an army of Japan
to go to China and fight the Chinese.
and after the Chinese are licked into
humbleness, they are to be made to
pay back the money IL will cost to
lick them, with usurious interest. 1t
is not considered honorable for an in
dividual to hire professional tugs TO
obtain vacarious revenge upon his
personal enemies What then makes |
such a thing honorable on the part of |
nations?
Hon. Adlai h. Stevenson is the only
man ever nominated TO Vice President
who had previously demonstrated his
fitness for the Office by serving one
term therein, and can be truthfully
SAID that no vice president was ever
more popular than he was. True, Mr..
Stevenson didn't have much influence
with the President under whom he
served, but nobody else had either.
Mr.. Cleveland was not President TO
recognize infunce, and he seemed TO
make a specially ofgetting at outs with
eaders of the Democratic party. But
turing the four years, Mr.. Stevenson
lad and deserved the confide nee OF the
democrats in Congress, and lost no op-
'ortunlty to push party interests that
lie could with proprlety have taken
dvantage of. Adlai Stevenson is a
good fellow, a good DEM
crat, and in every respect worthy
unning mate to Col. Bryan, and Bryan (
nd Stevenson is ticket to win with. G
If the Civil Service Commission
al sand enough it could make a whole !.
It of trouble for the administration on =
count Of numerous and glazing viola S
ons of Civil Service law in the interests o
Republican political workers. A
Ise in point. is that ofH X. Chenowith.
rmerly of Cleveland, Ohio. While
was internal revenue collector in
rlzona, he opened sealed envelopes
ntaining questions for Civil Service
Examination, in advance OF the Ex- Is
in order that his wife. his :!
other-in-law and his cousin, who were =
take the examination, might post =;
and pass, which they sub ca
Iuently did The case was so clear. hi
at ChenOwith was removed from the
sition Of internal revenue collector to
q a prosecution instituted against ne
II by the Department of Justice. III
though that prosecution is supposed -
be still pending, pigeon-holed in m
lily, Chenowith was put back on the ra,
pay rolls as a special agent
the Treasury Department, and he VIC
still there, and the Civil Service VIC
is afraid to do more than ioi
dly protest and ask what is to be JUS
lie about the prosecution of Cheno-
h for violating the law. tn
getting the other fellows half scared
death, be good politics, then the
nsaas City Convention must be
lifted with much good politics, for II
Republicans are badly frightened
They figured on big Democratic
at Kansas City, but found that
cad ola row, the regular Democrats.
'e who called themselves gold DEM
is in 1896, the silver Republicans
the populists are all enthusiastically
Bryan and Stevenson, and
Kansas City platform. These
tents working tremendously
Their believed, even by Republicans
strong enough to carry the coun- :