Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-06-13
TWELVE PAGES.
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 10, 1900.
THE PSYCHOLOGY OF A
POLITICAL LIE.

Now that the first session of the Fiji
ty-siXth Congress Is at an end. 1t is in
teresting TO note how completely the
restoration of Republican control in the
national government has been justified
by accomplished results. The record
is one that every patriotic American
can contemplate With pride ana salts
faction. 1t constitutes = distinct ana
honorable chapter in the history of
federal Legislation. adding new lustrc tn
the achievements of American state
craft and responding in the broadcast
measure to the high obligations of the
Republican party.-New York Mail ana
Empress.
1t is not the politics of this gem OF
English and imaginative fiction, but its
Psychology to which we would direct
attention. When 1t is discussing any
subject foreign to politics or the race
question the Mail and Express Is both
fair and able. 1t does not depend for
q living upon a gutter circulation.
After the Evening Post, 1t perhaps has
the most intelligent clientele of any
afternoon newspaper in New York OF
course IL has no extensive field. Few
intelligent readers in a large city con-
fine themselves to any one newspaper,
especially To an afternoon newspaper.
it is safe to say, therefore, that nirc-
tenths Of the readers Of the Mail and
Express read at least one other news
paper. They are bound therefore to be
3n possession OF the main facts as to
the administration of the national gov
-ernment- by the Republican party. This
being the case-and the Mall and Eek
press. OF course, knows it-how does IL
come that the above excerpt was pen-
ned seriously and printed for the de-
lectat!on of intelligent readers! 70 say
that even stalwart Republicans will
not accept 1t as true statement is TO
utter a mere truism. Wig should the
Mail and EXprcss-or any other news
paper--tcll its readers that the record
of the session OF Congress which has
just adjourned adds new luste. 10 th,.
history OF the Federal Hesitation -,
From the men who composed that Con-
gross down. there is probably not one
single intelligent citizen of this renub
lie who VIII accept that sentiment ms
true There is not one who does no,
Know that the late Congress did not
respond in the broadcast measure to
the high obligations OF the Republlcan
party" MIR. Mckinley himself is an
thority to the contrary. for Congress
notUriously refused TO do what he
pointed out as its duty, both as to-
Porto Rico and as TO trust LEGISLATION
I'VE have it from Republican sources
;shat Republican Congressman ana Sen
intors were fevcrishly anxiou, to adj
5ourn because they felt that the blum
ders of the session had icopardiycd the
chances of the Republican party in the
nutumnal elections and that every dov
the session was prolonged the Hcnub
aican party WAS being weakened before
the people. Not within the memory OF
knan has any Congress PASSED a meas
ure that provoked so nearly universal
condemnation ana donunciation as the
Porto Rican tariff measure adopted by
the recent Congress-. So strong was the
feeling against it among Republicans
that nothing but Mr.. Mcliinloy's ab-
ject surrender of his own emphatically
expressed views aVertcd q fight that
would have disrupted the Republican
party. SO fearful were the Republ-
cans that this measure would not stand
the test of the courts that they have
allowed 1t to be trampled on rather
than have its validity brought In ques-
ton. Is this the sort of thing that
adds lustre to the achievements OF
American satecraft?" Somebody has
said that the way to win in politics is