The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-12-12
CURRENT TOPICS.

Now that the election Is over, several
Democratic papers which gave the Demo-
cratic ticket cordial support nre speak
ins out plainly about the blunders of the
campaign. The New York World says
that there we're vital issues in the cam
paign, but upon none of them We're the
People permitted a. square vote. because
Mr.. Bryan, with fatal fntuity, interjected
the money scare into the campaign. Nor
is It as though this years was the first
verdict of the people upon the silver que5-
ton. The advocates of is to /, who were
beaten in the Democratic National Con-
vention in 1892. joined hands with the
Populists and Free-Siiver Republicans the
very next year, and the fusion and the
folly waved stronger and heccer eacn
year until the climax of hysteria and
iunacy in the Chicago Convention OF 1895
I'm seven successive elections the Dem
ocratic party has been beaten on this COM
pound of ignorance and dishonesty, each
time more disastrously than the last I'M
til now-after the competest Waterloo,
when its candidate received only thirteen
electoral votes outside OF the Old soma
South-Mr. Bryan hobs UP with the
serenely sapient remark that the Demo-
cratic. party must be consistent
This is simply stark folly, OF the kind
that no amount of braying in mortar
will eliminate from its possessor. And we
think the Democratic party has had
enough of 1t.
Rudolf Dodge special commissioner Of
the National Association of Manufactur-
ers to Venezuela, reached Philadelphia on
Monday, says the Record, accompanied by
Dr. Alberto Smith, formerly minister of
q here
10 place contracts for structural steel and
other building material to be used III re-
i.uilding the portion Of Caracus destroyed
by an earthquake on October 2sth
Among the contracts beng placed are
some for Government buildings and others
for large business houses.
The outlook for the .rou and steel trade
is most promising. pes.sim.sts to the con-
trary Notwithstanding.
Colonel j. II. Estill, editor of the Savah-
nah News tells u marvellous story OF the
fight OF u buzzard from New York TO
Charleston in four hours. There mad
been a lot OF talk said he, about the
time which would be acquired for one oil
these
agreed one day to box up a tine looking
spec.ment and ship it to New York. There
was a great deal of interest in the test OF
speed and the man who received the
swift bird of the air was instructed TO re-
lease it at a certain hour and to tee-
graph the moment the buzzard shifted the
free air The message came here that the
bird, Ill properly marked Tor accommodations,
had been released from its box and
watchers were stationed in Market street
to time the moment of ARRIVAL. Various
time allowances had been suggested ny
the interested crowd of watchers, and the
prevailing idea was that the buZZnrd
could not get back home for a day, IL at
all But this is where The people We're
wrong, for, as ] remember it. the buzzard
poked its nose toward Charleston as soon
as it was set free, and the trip to Charles
ton WIS made in four hours. The old bird
appeared to be very much the worse Tor
wear when it got in, but record had been
made and all the pools made on the flying
l time were upset.