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Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-04-01

The Philippine Commission has begun
operations by Outlining a plan Of gov
eminent" before 1t leaves Washington.
When the commission reaches Manila
there will be nothing to do but sit down
and walt while the Filipino adjusts
himself to the plan. 1t would have been
unstatesmanlike to have waited until
first-hand study of conditions had put
the. commission in possession of the
facts and then to have evolved n plan.
1t would also have been troublesome to
the commission, The ready-made plan
is the thing. 1t leaves the Filipino to
do all the worrying and leaves the COM
mission free to draw its salary.
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-04-01

vlrginia's lynching season has op-
ened unusually early this year. The
Old Dominion is evidently trying to
get ahead of her neighbor States
Mail and Express.
This from q newspaper that is pub
lished in New York city. where poison
Is the approved method OF getting rid
of an antagonist and where the pois-
oner is a public hero; where a non-res-
ident political boss farms out the pub
lie service and where a species of tor
ture is still resorted to to eXtort con-
fessions from prisoners: where public
sentiment Is the plaything of the yell
low newspapers. and where the Mail
and Express has not only been toler-
ated but actually supported for many
years.
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-04-01

If there was no thought of not allow
ing the people to pass on any amend
ments of the constitution made by a
convention. 1t is strange. indeed that
those who have uniformly attempted
to thwart the people. and who never
in the peoples judgment, were so VO-
CIFEROUS for amendments by con-
vention. and SO SILENT as to giving
the PEOPLE whacll at what the con-
vention might do. And the change of
front came only when 1t was made
plain that the issue of the submission
to the popular vote of the amendments
to the Constitution could not be
lodged.
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-04-01
WE MUST GET OUT THE PHILIP.
PINES"
National Watchn,on

Ex-Judge Dunbar of the Massachu-
sets Superior Court who is member
of the committee which will frame the
platform for the approaching State
Convention Of the Republican party.
thus declares his position as to the
Philippines:
We never should have paid that SeO,--
100000 for them. 1t was a great mis-
take. We should never have bought
them, but having done so we must de-
termlne what we shall do with them.
We have them on our hands and must
do something with them, but I believe
that just as soon as 1t is possible to do
SO We should get out; that is, when we
may be able to leave them with n sta
Bile government. 1t never seemed to
me that We had any right, l mean
moral right, whatever our legal or con-
stitutional rights may be. to buy terri
tory from Spain and then hold the
people as vassals against their Will. I
doubt If 1t would be we'll to sell them.
1t Is question which nobody, per
haps. is wise enough to answer Just
now. haven't seen any solution yet
that think the people would be salts
fled with. But I feel that the time
will come when people will say: we
must get out! whether in the ideal way
or not!'"
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-04-01


1t is we'll that the authorities at En-
poria should want the lynchers punish
after 1t has been broken. cannot con-
ceal the fact that conditions were de-
liberately misrepresented to the Gov
ernor of the State that free opportuni-
ty might be given for the breaking to
be done. This phase OF the matter
should be kept in mind by the constit-
uents of the authorities in question. to
the end that their places may be filled
with men whose hindsisht Is not so dis
proportionate TO their foresight.
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-04-01

CongressmantPayne, of the Ways and
Means Committee. asserts that 1,soO.-
600 of the s2,0oO,OOO paid on imports In
to the States from Porto Rico, and
now placed in the Presidents hands to
be spent on Porto Rico. was paid by the
Sugar Trust. But he carefully neglects
TO add that the Porto Ricans received
Just that much less for their sugar
than If they had had free trade with
us. and that the Sugar Trust will re-
coup themselves for the full amount
out of the American consumer.
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-04-01

One result OF the storm raised by the
proposed tax on Porto Rlcan products
is to be another junketing trip by our
own Emperor Bill.who will travel about
the country and arouse enthusiasm by
permitting the populace to look at his
corntenance and holler. 1t is on the
cards for him to attend the meeting of
the National Educational Association,
which convenes in Charleston. S. c.. in
July. OF course. other places will be
visited en- route. and it Is expected that
a wide swath will be moved through
the very heart Of those who still hold
to those Anticipated documents, the
Constitution and the Declaration of In
dependence.
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-04-01
HON. WEBSTER DAVIS RETURNS.

The Hon. Webster Davis has returned
countrymen and to personally attend
to any accumulated increments In the
way of salary. The Hon. Webster
went to South Africa to settle, as was
thought, the misunderstanding now in
progress there, and. If we may credit
his deliverance to the reporters on the
pier. Presidents Steyn and Kruger, and
indeed the whole of the federated re-
publics, rose up and declared that they
were pleased to meet" him, and 9TH
erwise put rufhes and furbelows on the
occasion.
And yet the Hon. Webster is not
| wholly pleased. though he was trans
ported In Dom Pauls private car and
was permitted to see from afar General
Butler scooting back and forth across
the -Eugela4-There is one small fly i'm
ibedded in the amber, and we are as
s&red that the Hon. Webster became
indignant almost straightway he had
set foot on his native soil. Some pes
tiferous reporter had assumed to talk
for Hon. Webster during his absence
and had made him say things IL have
not given my views to any one on the
state OF affairs in South Africa" said
the returning one; from which it Will
be inferred that Hon. Webster comes
with a burdened bosom.
The modesty OF this unique, but po-
tent pacificator Is as great as his dar-
Ing and originality. While everybody
knows that the chief mission OF the
Boer delegation now on its way TO this
country Is to sit at the feet OF Hon.
Webster and learn what his bidding
might ibe, all efforts to detain him hav-
ing proved Intellectual. he procIaims
that nowhere In the wide world has he
met any of them, nor does he know
what they desire.
Withal, this weight OF care slts
lightly on the Hon. Webster. He
tells us that the whole matter
has been rest and recreation for him.
He thus sets forth the cause of
his. migrations. "The Ohio campaign
was a severe strain; so I asked for
leave of absence" This makes It plain
indeed why Hon. Webster went. He
prefers q little less strenuousness and
noise in his combat. and after the Ohio
article the Transvaal affair was doubt
less mere playfulness.
Meantime, until his views are segre-
gated. let us be happy-we have the
Hon. Webster Davis back. OF that
bliss nothing can or shall deprive us.
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-04-01

The Democratic Congressional Con-
vention OF the Fourth district did not
daily with imperialism. Resolved,
That We are opposed to imperialism
and mllitarism and the acquisition of
distant and foreign territory" Such
are the instructions Major Lasslter will
carry to Congress from his constitu-
ents. When the Democratic State
Convention meets here it will speak
out as clearly as did the convention of
the Fourth district. and to the same
purpose.
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-04-01
THE NEW REGISTRATION Is Law

Y The act passed by the last General
/ Assembly amending sections 81 and Il
5of the Code. which relate respectively
to the appointment OF registrars OF
election and to q new registration OF
voters makes only few changes In the
old law, but these are Of sufficient i'm
portancel to warrant notice and exam
ination.
The new act provided that regis
Strars were to be appointed prior to
April LIST. 1900 (to-day), and that here
after registrars shall be appointed prior
to April.1st every year instead Of prior
to March list every alternate year as
heretofore. OF course under this pro-
vision registrars hold for one year only
instead Of for two years as previously.
This is the only change in regard to the
appointment of registrars.
In section II Of the Code, which pro-
Svides for the new registration Of voters,
there are two changes and one omis-
sion. That the difference in the old
and new laws may be clear we print
the clause from the Code herewith Civ
Ing the changes in parentheses after
the words changed and the omission
In capitals: THE registrars shall give
notice of the time and place OF regis
tration by printed or written hand
bills posted at not less than five places
in the election district at least sixty
(thirty) days before the day of regis
tratfon. and shall sit five (three) days
CAT THE VOTING PRECINCT FOR
WHICH THE REGISTRATION IS TO
BE MADE) for the purpose of register
Ing all qualified voters who may apply
for registration. and be entitled to vote
at such precinct at the election next to
be held after such registration"
The effect OF the omission Of the
words capitalized above is apparently
to give the registrars the power to elect
at what place they will sit, whether or
not such place be one that is con-
yepient or well known to the voters. for
the words Eat such precinct" appear to
apply only to the voters and not to the
registrars.
While registrars may not take adj
vantage of this failure of the Legis-
'lature to fix the place of registration,
what good purpose the omission can
serve is not clear. When taken in con-
junction with the shortening Of the
period during which voters may regis
ter, 1t lays the new act open to the In
depreciation OF being intended to make
registration more difficult than under
the old law. While In theory every
voter in precinct can go to any place
In the precinct and register In three
days. In practice such would not be the
case, If an out-of-the-way place were
selected. And the men who would fail
to register would be those whose votes
are usually cast on the right side of
public questions.
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-04-01
HYPNOTISM IN A NEW ROLE.
Mobile RegisterO

Hypnotism has had a new denlonstra
ton In Chicago. where a negro charged
with Inert held up policeman by MAX
ing n few passes of the hands before
the officers eyes. The policeman came
to arrest the negro. but the negro was
too quick for him. and in twinkline
got the officer of the law under the IN
huence. and made him stand at atten-
ton. Fortunately second policeman
happened in at this interesting part OK
the play and hypnotized the negro by
grasping him by the collar and batting
him over the head with club,
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-04-01

~ : *
with a passion so evidently vast. 1t
may be prefaced that Salmon Is q
grocer and probably dashed them or
In purple moments snatched from less
romantic but more remunerative trans
actions. But let US to the letters:
Two o'clock Tuesday: Darling-If
1t was not for you would be glad to
leave this earth. know my. family
will all love you for your own sweet
sake"
Five p. m. My Darling-It ia hor-
rible to love as we are loving and yet
be separated. hope soon can say:
This Is my wife,"
"For the third time to-day I will
write you. / love you more than
tongue can tell. Darling. no liquor
has passed by lips"
Note the appositeness and tender
poesy of that final phrase-the solicit
tude to disarm suspicion ere 1t could
strike. Are we to infer that Salmon
had tendency to rush the can," and
that his darling was .advertent thereto?
Perish the unworthy thought! Twas
but the delicate Salmonic way of say
ing that great as was his pain he had
not yet been driven to drink; that
Cupid, not Bacchus. was the bubbling
fount of his inspiration.
We shudder. then. to think what Sal
mons soul must have suffered when
he was hauled into court to hear these
sentiments uncorked by prosecuting
attorney who fixed him with a cold and
fishy eye while he asked for $4,000
damages. No wonder that Salmon
turned red about the gills at this all
too clinching proof that he had once
been hooked.
We trust that the jury dealt kindly
with Salmon. even though he had re-
fused to be landed The verdict should
have been that he escaped through am
ateurish Keeling.
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-04-01

How can anyone question the plain
duty" and patriotic purpose which re-
quires Mr.. McI<inley's presence in San
francisco In July at the launching of
the battleship Ohio. And If the people
VIII compel him to address them along
the northern route going over and the
southern route coming back. how can
he prevent it?
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-04-01
CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTION.
Savannah News.)

Chairman Richardson, Of the Demo-
cratic Congressional Committee. is
much gratified at the way contribu-
tions to the campaign fund are coming
In. He says the receipts are better
than since 1892. That no doubt in1i-
Gates a popular feeling that the De-
mocracy has better chance Of win
ming In the next election than 1t has
had In eight years.
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-04-01

If General Wood forces the taxation
of idle Cuban estates, whose owners
are living abroad. he will be doing an
act Of simple justice to the Iandless,
and be giving further proof that he Is
the right man In the right place.
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-04-01

The vice-president Of Mr.. carnegie,s
company has broken the record in get
ting from Los Angeles to the scene of
action. The vlce-president was doubt
less afraid that he might be mistaken
for an ordinary citizen when the new
trust begins to do good.
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-04-01

The administration recognition of
Taylor as Governor of Kentucky indi-
Gates that the propensity to do fool
things at the eleventh hour still per-
sSts.
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-04-01

|. Here is another man, Representative
Powers. of Vermont. who says he voted
for the Porto Rican Tariff bill lat the
request of the President" Why keep
up the silly pretence that the President
Is still true to his message and "our
plain duty?"
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-04-01

If the investigation should prove that
Macrun's mail was tempered with, 1t
Will give Mckinley an opportunity to
give the lions tall just enough twist to
enable him to look pious and say, "Who
said secret alliance?"
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-04-01

And now it is announced that Car
negie and Frick are only reconciled in
their business relations. Perhaps Car
negle cannot forgive the fact that Mr..
Frick managed to extract $4,000 600
from the reconciliation.
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-04-01

1t is indicative of the progress which
economic thought has made that the
two political parties taking shape In
Cuba consist. speaking roughly, of the
landowners and the workingmen, re-
Spectively
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-04-01

Uncle Dom Paul Kruger is certainly
the original Mr.. Wiley from Wiley
fontein. 1t appears that he has been
doing most of the fighting heretofore
with Free Staters. holding the Trans
walters in reserve.
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-04-01

Senator Berry has offered an amend
ment to the Army Appropriation bill
providing against the purchase of army
supplies from trust when they can
be had elsewhere. This is another mean
attempt to knock the head out of Hon.
Mark Hanna's campaign barrel.
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-04-01

The plain people perceive Instructive
~ what the greedy politicians never
can-that 1t Is morally impossible for
America to have any possession not
eligible to statehood. The political
party that attempts to ignore this is
doomed
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-04-01

A plot to kidnap the president of
Brazil has been exposed. The Hon.
Mark Hanna is, however, entitled to
priority in this industry.
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-04-01

The Washington Posts effort to
prove that the President has not
changed his mind about "our plain
duty" has collided with the facts.
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-04-01

Bill 10 the Senate: Gentlemen. If you
~ on burying starved fellow citizens in
Porto Rico. you'll succeed in burynG
me again In Canton.
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-04-01

A Congressional Committee investi-
eating Mr. HannaS memory and con-
science in regard to that Porto Rican
tariff campaign fund deal would be dis
tinctly interesting. not to say amusing.
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-04-01

An Austrian count. who served under
Cronje. says the British are badly Of
ficered. Perhaps he also noticed that
the Beers were doing their best to re-
move this defect
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-04-01

cronje. at st. Helena. suggests the
reflection that Napoleon. in his whole
career never struck English prestige
one-tenth so hard a blow as did the
doughty Boer by his long fight at odds
OF ten to one
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-04-01

Some Of the English are wondering
whether they really want an empire
which Is kept sticking together only by
generous use OF their own blood.
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-04-01

And now Turkey has shut out Amer
lean pork. The plain. ordinary Ameri-
can hog stands no show at all these
days.
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-04-01

1t cannot be denied that the $500
Americans and many thousands OF Fill
ipinos, murdered by Mckinley in the
Philippines. are "benevolently assimi-
lated" in death.
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-04-01

Mr.. Dewey's little Manila demonstra-
ton ought to relieve us from the
necessity CT any further displays OF
force in the East for some time to
come. Let the others make a bluff if
they want to.
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-04-01
TIE UNAPPRECIATIvE FILIPINO.
(f'rom the Springfield (Mass.) Republic.
CaD0 '4al.l17

A friend in one Of the university
towns or the West recently reported to
me the following choice bit Of I'm.
periafstic' literature: A clergyman,
In the course of a discourse warmiv
commencing the military style of mis-
sionary operations. struck out in an
apostrophe like this: Oh, unhappy Fill
ipino. If thou couldst but appreciate the
blessings which we are seeking to in
'roduce into thee! The proposition
seems most happily chosen to express
the new method of instillng religion
and civilization-through punctures in
,ne anatomy OF the subject made by
improved modern projectiles.
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-04-01

The American people owe Otis debt
Of gratitude for demonstrating so con-
clusively that free speech and i'm
perialism cannot exist together.
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-04-01

Were those flags of Porto Rico
searched? How can Mckinley be sure
they didn't carry the Constitution over
with them?
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-04-01

They cry harmony, but they fail to
realize that only a Republican func-
raj march will harmoniously chord
with the Porto Rican dirge.
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-04-01
THE FIRST LESSON.
washington Post.)

One of the New York evening yellows
has department in which it tries to
teach it's readers how to eat 1t should
begin In instructing them to keep their
feet out OF the trough.
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-04-01

Get license from Secretary Root t,
dig sand. and you'll have a gold mine
And that's no joke.
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-04-01

Being caught in the act, the Repub-
lican party Is not quite sure whether
1t would be safe to go on and complete
that Ship Subsidy steal.
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-04-01

Olivier to French: Thank YOU. my
health does not require an ocean voy-
age just now.
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-04-01

There are some people so unfec' ing
as to criticise Mr.. Andrew Carneges
latest streak of wholesale bonevolence
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-04-01

Senator Hoar is right in insisting
that the Supreme Court Justices, the
guardians of the Constitution. should
have higher salaries
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-04-01

y 1t Is said that great numbers of Kan
sos farmers will trek to Kansas City
TO see the Democratic convention and
/ take their rations along. The Kansas
farmer is evidently not disposed to
lower his colors to that hotel octopus
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-04-01

1t Is little hard on MI Hanna that
his denial has not affected popular be-
lief as to that Porto Rican tariff cam
paign fund deal.
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-04-01

|Iit.: for we bell eve that Il the people OF
virginia are 81 ven the assurance that
they shall have an or tunlty to vote
on the revised Constitution they will
authorize the revision by q decisive ma
jority. g. IS (
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-04-01

Russia. having cleverly secured to
herself England's former option on
Persia. will be apt to opt" at an early
day.
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-04-01

Can 1t be possible that the two sides
in Kentucky have employed the Hon.
Jim Corbett and the Hon. Bob Fitzsim-
mons as coaches?
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-04-01
ANNOYING.
(ChicaSo Record.)

The cashier of the Vermont bank who
appropriated to himself s145.000 of the
bank funds probably will be annoyed
by the courts for a few years before
no Is allowed to settle down to enjoy
the results OF his thrift,
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-04-01

They are not going to haul train
loads of patriots to Canton this year.
Taking their cue from Bishop Potter.
they are going to run excursions to
Manila,
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-04-01

Mr.. FricN has the stock, but some
body else will regulate the size OF the
dividends he gets.
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-04-01

The foreign military attaches are now
supplying the English with that we'll
known brand of off-hand criticism that
was so pleasing to Americans.
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-04-01

Doubtless President Mckinley con-
siders it his plain duty to run for
a second term.
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-04-01

We trust this renewed split OF the
Delaware Republicans will give us
something better than Kenney.
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-04-01

Tom Watson added so much to the
gayety Of nations when he ran for sec
ond place in 1896 that his refusal to en-
ter for first place this year will &C.
casion real regret.
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-04-01

"our plain duty message OF that he
changed his mind afterwards? Guess!
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-04-01

President Havemeyer. announces that
for the present the Sugar Trust will
"lay to-" Ordinarily Mr.. Havemeyer is
an ardent advocate OF laying on.
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-04-01
A NEW TWIST IN IT.
washington Starr

II Governor Taylor were to be arrest
ed the question of where the pardoning
power rests in Kentucky would be more
complicated and interesting than ever.
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-04-01

With Cronje CAPTURED and Joubert
dead. the Jackson and Lee of the
Burgher struggle for independence are
lost to the Beers.
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-04-01

The fellows who have been trying to
chop down the Chicago platform have
discovered that 1t was built of lignum
vitae
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-04-01

Poor Philadelphia didn't know until
she had gulped down that convention in
one swallow that it was half castor oil
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-04-01

1t seems that Charles, of Portugal.
with Delagoa Bay 10 hook. passed by
the inviting gold balls of both Uncle
Joe and Uncle Paul