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Evening star., 1900-10-06

Palmer or those which will be cast for the
first time this year.
Are the issues such that this feat can be
accomplished? Save for the injection of
the anti-imperialism and the antitrust
cries, the issues are the same as in 1896
New York is believed to realize most fully
of any of the states the menace of free
coinage. It's substantial business interests
have most at stake. They are guarded by
men who vote in large measure according
to their selfish concerns. On the sound
money issue alone the voice of Greater New
York is already heard in virtually the same
volume as in 1895. when party lines were
forgotten and the bankers, merchants, man.
ufacturers and other users of capital plant
ed the standard of honest currency high
above all others. 1t Is being loosely stated
by the Bryanite managers that the gold
democrats who in 1896 supported Mckinley
are returning to the fold. There is nothing
substantial to sustain this assertion. But
even If enough do support Bryan to give
him the 100000 promised by Croker in the
city, there is no ground for belief that the
republican pluralities up the state will be
reduced to the vanishing point in the final
count. Mr.. Croker must proselyte more
than 135O00 voters in order to deliver the
soouS. Ills cohtfoi over Tammany Will not
help him do this as far as that organization
is concerned, for he is always sure of its
votes. 1t will assuredly not aid him in in
fuencing the substantial business men OF
New York, whose every interest 1s opposed
to the Tammany process of government. 1t
cannot bring him prestige and votes in the
upper regions Of the state, where his defeat
of the Hill machine is keenly resented 1t
is impossible at this time to see how he can
carry New York.
Evening star., 1900-10-06
VILLA ms and His Threat.

In reply to Senator Lodges account of the
riot at Victor. Col. George Fred Williams
threatens to divulge some damaging infor-
nation respecting Governor Roosevelt and
his party on their western itinerary. Just
another word from Mr.. Lodge on the sub
ject. and the awful threat will be exc
cuted.
Mr.. Lodge was present at Victor and wit
messed the disgraceful episode. His de-
scription OF 1T does not differ from the un-
disputed press descriptions. 1t was such a
proceeding every man Of decent in
stincts would condemn without reserva-
tion. Nobody Of any consequence defended
it. There was. for party purposes an ef-
fort made by some OF the democratic lead
ers of Colorado to break the force Of 1t by
an explanation that Senator Wolcott's pres
ence caused the outbreak and that the in
suits offered were intended for him. But
that did not relieve Victor Of the disgrace
Such an affront to a United States senator
from a portion of his constituents betokened
in itself an extremely low element in the
population residing at that place.
Mr.. Lodge fixed the responsibility upon
the managers of the democratic campaign
in Colorado, and this has moved Mr.. Will
Jams to his deliverance. Let US hope that
draw this man out. What is 1t that Mr..
Williams puts so much store by? What
information has he which If spread abroad
would cover the republican candidate for
Vice President with confusion? The coun-
try knows Theodore Roosevelt pretty well.
His credit is high both for character and
ability He has been in the public eye for
some fifteen years. In all that time his
daily walk has commanded the respect
and even the admiration, of all his ac-
quaintances. So against this stone wall of
established reputation what is it that Mr..
williams has to hurl?
But X Mr.. Williams had been other than
he is he would not have put himself in
such an attitude. He pretends to hesitate
about injuring Governor Roosevelt. when
as he knows. his insiruations allow full
play to any hostile imagination. His inten-
ton was to injure by this very outgiving
So let us have the full manifestation OF
this noisy featherhead. with a taste for
tittle-tattle, and let him see not only how
impotent he Is. but how cordially the real
leaders of his own party despise the meth
DDS of the sneak and the scandalmonger.
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Utter DiscOuragement

l am sitting all a-tremble
While 1 hear this campaign roar
Is is useless to dissembie;
l was ne'er so scared before.
For these orators debating
All my hopes conspire to dash,
/ am sitting still and waiting
Till the country goes to smash.
If one party Is elected
There will be the deuce to payt
And we'll all be left detected
II 1t goes the other way.
All are said to be alert In
Things unprincipled and rash.
And it's on the books for certain
That the country goes to smash.
1 have left my occupation
And I've sat me down to muse,
Till these wreckers of a nation
Go to work and light the fuse.
If both sides the truth are stating,
Well go skyward in a flash.
So I'm sitting still and waiting
TIL the country goes to smash.
Evening star., 1900-10-06
Our WelI-Behaved Soldiers,
From the Providence Journal.

Either the correspondents in China glori-
ously deceive in favor of the American
troops or the officers and men Of our force
are as the flower Of chivalry. According
to the reports they neither loot nor mur-
der. The Russians lead in doing both. The
nations supposed to be most friendly to
the United States, Great Britain and Japan,
are not entirely free from accusation, but
they almost escape. For one day, it is
said, and that only, the British soldiers
looted. The Japs commit outrages only
when out of sight of their officers. No
American Is allowed or takes the smallest
license. This repudiates some yarns from
the Philippines.
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still Up to Mr.. Bryan.
From the Philadelphia Public Ledger.

Gov. Roosevelt has answered Mr. Bryan.
questions respecting his attitude toward tn.
ice trust, and. in return, has asked Mr.
Bryan the direct question whether, in tn.
event Of his election. he will pay the obi
cations Of the nation In gold or silver. Tn,
people of the United States. without regard
to party, are interested In direct answer
to that inquiry.
Evening star., 1900-10-06
His Task.

Il suppose you have to take care to be
absolutely accurate in your calculations" :"
said the man who was watching the statis-
tician work.
No" answered the man Of mathemat-
les. "These figures are for campaign pur-
poses. What is expected Of me is to be
convincingly Inaccurate"
Evening star., 1900-10-06

1t is feared that the Chinese will hire in
nocent people to be used substitutes for
the real cuiprits, when punishment is meted
out to the offenders against civilization. The
spirit of absolute equality has not been de-
veloped to anything like a degree which
makes all Chinese look alike to the powers
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Trust Worthy.

'1s he a trustworthy patriot?" asked the
earnest citizen.
Il should say so,'' answered Senator
Sorghum. "A man that can make money
as brilliantly as he can is worthy Of all the
trusts he is able to control"
Evening star., 1900-10-06

The anxiety of Europe that this govern
ment shall remain active in the Chinese
situation shows that nations. like men, al
ways feel more friendly and sociable when
they have trouble and need help.
Evening star., 1900-10-06
SHOOTING STARS.
A Deserved Tribute,

you have a wonderfully quick eye for
the detection of weakness in an opponents
logic
"A quick t. answered the campaign ora
tor who was thinking Of other things "Oh,
yes. l guess 1 can crowd more flrst-person-
singulars into one sentence than any other
man In the business"
Evening star., 1900-10-06

Every now and then some millionaire
arises to assure the world that money can
not buy happiness. This seems to be one
OF the great sad truths of life which can
only be learned by experience, and every
body insists on doing his best to make a
personal test of the matter.
Evening star., 1900-10-06
New Use for the Camera.
From the New York Tribune.

In Baltimore a novel use has been found
for the kodak in politics. Snapshots are
taken by party watchers of voters about
whose right to register there is any ques-
tion. 1t is expected to identify thus with
greater certainty men registering under
two names or at two different polling places.
The mere knowledge that his photograph
has been taken will, of course, deter many
wouId-be repeater" from attempting the
ri
Evening star., 1900-10-06

The coal area in the province of Use
Chau, China, is estimated TO be greater
than that of Pennsylvania. However, there
is no danger that the American operators
will in the next few years feel called upon
TO protest against Chinese cheap coal.
Evening star., 1900-10-06

Aguinaldo is still maintaining his efforts
to hold corner In Filipnos in the hope of
unloading them at 81 a head
Evening star., 1900-10-06

Millionaire Clark and Millionaire DAILY
might vary the contest by getting out into
the open and throwing gold bricks at one
another,
Evening star., 1900-10-06

The campaign orator Is much in demand,
but he has not yet been able to make his
voice yield the rey>zue which comes to a
frst-class opera singer
Evening star., 1900-10-06

Mr.. Bryan asserts that the Indians are
growing fewer and fewer. There are many
people in the west who will refuse to re-
gard this national calamity.
Evening star., 1900-10-06

The dog-owners' association can now take
plenty of time to lay plans for a defensive
campaign next summer
Evening star., 1900-10-06
Visited Headquarters First.
From the Kansas City Star.

1t was quite appropriate that Senior Lo-
peg, formerly Aguinaldo's secretary. should
proceed TO Boston the day after he landed
in the United States.
Evening star., 1900-10-06

Spain is not exhibiting the slightest anx-
iety to send over a fleet and take hand in
the glory getting in Asia.
Evening star., 1900-10-06
November Z.

Whichever side may win or lose,
When once the vote is cast,
IT'S an assurance sweet to muse
That peace must come at last.
To sorrow We will not give Ger.
Well wait that joyous day,
When campaign glee clubs sing no more
And bands have ceased to play.
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-12-22
a PATRIOTIC NOTE.
Baltimore SUM-

Colonel Tullock, an English officer
who commanded an expedition sent TO
attack a body of Chinese revolution
aries near Pekin recently, quotes q
wounded Boxer as saying: "You may
XIII me, but you cannot kill the Boxer
movement as long Us n foreign devil
remains alive in China" This may be
the utterance of murderous fanatic
out 1t is closely akin to what in other
countries under the same conditions
which prevail in China would lie np-
plauded as patriotism. Barbarous as
the Boxers have been in their treat
ment of foreigners. they have been
inspired by II purpose which. within
proper bounds, is not only justiiiable
but even laudablc. China has been for
many years at The mercy of European
powers. on various preteXts. mostly OF
a ilimsy character, il has been robbed
of territory. The foreigner has de-
manded a share in the goeernment
has obtained valuable concessions by
force. has treated the Chinese as If
they had no rights whitn ought to be
respected, and as If the empire were n.
mere province held in trust by the pow
ers Tor purposes of exploitation. If any
OF the European nations which have
interests in Chino were subjected 10
the treatment to which the Chinese
have been compelled TO submit. the
people would have risen in arms
against the oppressors and the world
would call them patriots. The China
man who reVolts against foreign ty-
ranny Is denounced as n oodthirsty
fanatic 10 whom no quarter should be
given
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-12-22
WHEN TO EAT FISH.
(St. Louis Star)

Fish eaters who have become alarm
ca by more or less groundess scares
about ptomaine poisonings are assured
py New York Fulton market dealer
that nothing is easier than 10 Ell fresh
iish Here's the remedy: IF the fish
IS so firm that that il will not be dent
ed by pressure from the fingers. if the
eyes are fun. if the scales are bright
II the fins are stin, if The gills are of
me brightest color neither pale nor n
dark olive color. and if there IS M
odor about the fish, you are all right in
eating H.. saws this expert. IF your
cook knows how 10 properly prepare
and serve it," This collection OF ifs is
however. enough to make timid pis-
clvorods animals decide that they will
Wy 10 Eet along without fish until they
get to places where they catch it them
selves.
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-12-22

of the Board of Trade took no action.
They, no doubt. with unimpeacnable
logic. concluded that if they proposed
to do nothing it was not worth while
to adopt resolution to that effect. All
that was necessary was to do nothing,
and this the Board Of Directors of the
Board of Trade did with ease and thor
oughness.
The only difference, in effect. of
adopting the resolution or of tabling it.
was that the resolution gave as n rea-
son for doing nothing that an endorse
ment OF the plan for a Mutual Tele-
phone Company would involve injury
to vested rights, to-wit: The Bell
Telephone Company; while by tabiing
the resolution the Board of Directors
OF the Board of Trade gave no reason
at all for doing nothing. Their position
is, therefore, as inconsistent as If the
resolution had been adopted; for. hav-
ing begun the fight against the extor-
Tomato charges OF the Bell Company,
the Directors of the Board of Trade
now ''lie down" when 1t comes to ac-
tive measures to secure competition
and reasonable rates.
The question was not at all one of
endorsing or rejecting MIR. Creecy's
plan for n Mutual Telephone Company.
The question was whether the Board of
Trade should take action to remedy
what it had itself declared was an in
justice ana hardship to the business
men of Norfolk. If the Directors, or
the Committee named by them, did
not like the plan submitted they could
have formulated another. II the Board
of Trade is not to protect and advance
the business interests of this City by
securing united action. where united
action is necessary, what, may we en-
quire. is the Board OF Trade for? This
is a case requiring the united action
of the business men of the City; the
Board of Trade does nothing. That is
all.
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-12-22
she was not in position to take it
any other way.
GENERAL PRESS COMMENTS.
AN OBJECT LESSON IN SUBSIDIES.
(New York Worldly

Forty years of experience in govern
ment is worth a century OF book read
ing, said Thomas Jefferson.
France has been paying ship subsi-
dies steadily for twenty-five years She
Is nov paying SL500.000 year for
them. u
Norway pays no subsidies to her
ships and has never done So
Here then is Jeffersons test of Eek
perience, and what does it show?
why. that while France. paying out
subsidies larger in proportion TO her
population and wealth than those MIR.
Hanna wants the United States to pay.
mas only increased her total shipping
tonnage 200 per cent. since 1875 While
within the same Quarter-century pc
ROD little Norway has increased hers
by almost AGO per cent.-twice as fast.
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-12-22
ALL IS NOT HARMONY.

1t seems to be pretty well authenti-
Gated that the chances for a glorious
row in the Republican party are ex-
cellent. though that party's unparal-
eled facility in harmonizing differ
ences and keeping the door to it's sllel-
eton closet shut may pull it through
without n serious clash. The subsidy
bill is the immediate occasion of the
infelicitous condition in the "innards"
of the s. o. D., but the cause. it would
seem, lies far down in the substratum
of personal politics, jealousies and an
imosities. If usually well Informed au-
thorities at Washington are trustwor-
thy. certain influential Republicans, to-
wit: Fairbanks and Allison. are op-
posed to the bill--not so much on it's
own account as because ii is SIR. Han
mas pet measure. If his pet measure
We're something else they would not be
worrying over the ship subsidy bill. In
other words, it is more Hanna than the
subsidy bill they wish to defeat. They
do not wish MIR. Hanna to be in posi-
ton TO dictate the presidential nomina-
ton in 1904, and are we'll aware that
the defeat of a measure to which he is
sidy bill would be blow to his innu-
ence from which he would not easily
recover. 1t is strange that Mr.. Hanna,
with all his native shrcwdness, should
not have foreseen a situation from
which it will be impossible for him TO
escape without humiliation and tre-
mendous loss of prestige, if his enc
mics within the party-and it goes
without saying that he has them-are
disposed to use their advantage to the
full The lesson Mr.. Plat and Mr..
Quay taught him at Philadelphia does
not seem to have made a very deep
impression on the Cuyahoga statesman.
BY his advocacy of the subsidy bill
Mr.. Hanna has put himself in a posi-
ton where men who are jealous of his
dictatorship can humiliate him without
any sort of risk to themselves. On the
contrary, il viii strengthen, rather
than weaken, either Allison or Fair
banks with their constituents TO defeat
the subsidy bill They are far more
skilled in the legislative game than
Mr.. Hanna, and can throw innumera-
bic obstacles in the way of his measure
without exposing themselves either to
his fury or to party discipline: Mr..
Hanna's mistake was in forgetting
that Napoleon had his Waterloo. Mr.
Hanna's usefulness is chiefly n matter
of the past; his leadership must be ex-
tremcly irksome to men who were
leaders in the Senate when he was a
Cleveland coal dealer, and who are of
. different kidney from him. Under the
circumstances. he IS peculiarly vulner-
able; it is to the interest of any man
who can do ii deity TO take fail out
Of him. The country will watch the
developments in the situation with in
terest.
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-12-22
THE WORLD ONE HUNDRED
YEARS AGO TODAY"
Copyrighted, 1900. by r.. e. Hughes.
LouisVille.)

The Rhone. the largest European
river flowing directly into the AIedi-
terranean, in an attempt to make it a
hHVlsabie channel from the sea, per-
picked this generation, as 1t had hun
dreds prior TO the dawn OF the Nine
teenth century, when even passenger
boa.s were hauled up the river By tow
ing ropes. The laying OF continuous
chain all the way from Lyons to Aries
was discussed, but found impractical
bic through the shifting character Of
the bed. Several methods We're adopt
ed, however 10 overcome the di.hcul-
ties of ascent. Some boats advanced
by means of long jointcd levers which
caught into the ground.
After steam was introduced the YES
sells had TO be specially constructed to
make head against the current. In one
system the boat was made To grip the
river bottom by means OF two con-
tinuous chains perpetually sunk in
-fiHAf4t nd emerging hahind
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-12-22
TW ELY & PAGES.
SATURDAY, DECEMBER %. 1850.
THE REAL DANGER.

The Charlottesville Progress, some
ring politicians, and officers and attor-
neys for corporations should be ex-
cluded from the Constitutional ConVen-
ton. In reply to question of the
Virgnian- Pilot as 10 how this is 10 be
done (seeing that these classes control
the political machinery of the State),
the Progress says:
1.-THE question to be decided is
whether those who control the politi-
cal machinery control the voters as
well. or whether the people are vet
able to dictate to the leaders. Unless
the three classes named constitute n
majority of the voters in Virginia, 1t
will be the fault of the people them
selves If they do not select such rep
resentatives IS will promote the gen
eral good OF the whole, rather than the
special interests of q selfish few
Theoretically, the people are always
able to dictate to their leaders; some
times when they are especially aroused
on a definite question they do actually
dictate to their leaders: more often the
leaders dictate to them, because the
leaders know exactly what they want
and how to go about getting it. while
the people are often trine lazy as TO
both.
OF course, the three classes named do
not constitute ten per cent. of the peo-
pie of the State, butt every man OF
them has his personal followlng,' Who
cannot be detached from him. Ere
quently, he is personally popular with
1.-THE people," who do not believe that
he would do anything prejudicial TO
their interests in the constitutional
Convention or elsewhere. In other
words, you cannot (when it comes 10
practical politics). segregate the people
from the three classes named. And
nobody knows it better than the three
classes.
And so, as n practical question.
keeping ring politicians. ofIiceholders,
and officers and attorneys of corpora
lions out of the Constitutional Con
vention is impossible. The most that
can be done is OF keep them in a min
GRITTY, and prevent them organizinG
and controlling the conventions There
is no objection to limited number Of
each OF these classes being chosen TO
the convention indeed half dozen
of each, if the convention consists Of
100 members, might be OF actual ad-
vantage; because they would make the
body more representative. The State
does not want to do anybody an injus-
tice, and there is no objection to inn
portant interests being represented on
the floor OF the convention. But such
interests should not be allowed
to dominate it. THAT IS THE
REAL DANGER, AND ONE THAT
THE VIRGINTAN- PILOT IS RY
NO MEANS CERTAIN THE STAT
WILL ESCAPE. OF one thine
our Charlottesville contemporary car
be assured the pipes arc already
laid to that end. If there is not very
much more vigorous opposition mani
tested to the plan to pack the conven
tion in behalf of special interests thar
has yet appeared, the plan will sue
coed. For instance. will not Albemarl,
send down to the Convention n man
who will wear a corporation collar?
-
The Hon. Stephen Grover Cleveland
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-12-22

Some mountains may be gloomy. but
there is consolation in the fact that
they do not cast u SHADOW on bo.h
sides at once.
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-12-22

on the whole England seems to have
taken the demolition of the Hay
Pauncefo;c treaty more gracefully
than was to have been expected This
may have been due to the fact that
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-12-22

1t is harly probable that Mr.. McI[in-
ley. viii tender Cen. Ben. Harrison a
nomination 10 either OF those $2Oooc
Supreme Court judgeships in tie Phil
inpines.
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The Hon. Stephen Grover Cleveland
praises virtue, but fails to practice H.
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-12-22

1t is announced that a Eu.opean
author is writing history of mankind.
lie should call il Volume of Errors
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-12-22


The thoroughbred horse, Messenger,
the fountain head of American trot-
ting, completed his twelfth year in the
stud in the vicinity of Philadelphia
and New York TO which place he had
been imported in 17aS from England,
then in his eighth year. lie was serv-
ing a number of thoroughbred mares,
hut far greater number of cold
FLOODED mares and in the progeny OF the
latter the trotting instinct was almost
invariably developed. while his thor
oughbred sons. who became scattered
over the country. were also noted for
transmitting the trotting instinct.
Messenger continued in the stud for
eight years into the nineteenth con-
fury. but it was years after his death
before the fact that he had paved the
way for the great irotting horse indus
try of the United States became appar-
ent. the first public trotting race meet
ing not being held until 1918, when the
gray geldng. Boston Blue startled the
country by trotting mile in three
minutes.
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-12-22

Whislley may be said TO be the key
to an unsteady gait