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The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1900-08-17
ENROLMENT OF DmocRATs.
Remarkable Growth ia the Member
ship of Political Clubs.

SNIP OF GotiIfcNt Clubs.
NEW YORK, Aug. 1.-THE Secretary of
the National Association of Democra tic
Clubs reports that the total membership
of the association has already reached the
remarkable figures of 2184. 226
Since the headquarters at Thirty-seventh
Street and Broadway has been opened
1G2,578 names have been added to the roll.
a remarkable showing in less than four
weeks. This membership represents 800
newly organized clubs.
During the last four days club organiza-
tions have been reported at the rate of
thirty-fve day, and within the next SIX
weeks 1t is expected that the membership
OF the association will aggregate fQu. 600,
o. GaIlnost two-thirds ccs ne total Demo-
<T-e,@e,c vote cast four years ago for the pa-
tional ticket.
The president of the association hopes
that on election day at least IS per cent
of the voting Eemoerats Of the country will
be enrolled.
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1900-08-17

Since the emirent R. Fitzsirnmons, esq.
has entered tn ring as an after-dinner
speaker, We wonaer if it would not be pos
sible to arrange match for him with the
present champion, the Hon. Chauncey N.
Depsw, who has successfully defended the
chestnut belt for quarter of a century.
A go of about twenty rounds for scientific
points in unquestionable antiquity. would
draw an enormous house, the winner to
take everything.
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1900-08-17
Necessity in the Philippines.

There is no question about an Immediate
withdrawal from the Philippines. No one urges
that Having shot TO pieces all form and sem
blRnce OF a native Government, it will be neces-
sary for us to remain until a new native Gov
eminent can be ests5 ished. But an immediate
declaration from the American people that indie
peEdence shall be the Filipino possession as soen
as a native Government has been established to
receive IL viii stop this reign OF blood and an
archy, and that is the first and paramount consid-
Grafton.
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1900-08-17


New York on Wednesday was one OF those
things which are totally indefensible from
any point Of view, and deserve the strong
es; condemnation. of all intelligent people.
It was probably an echo of the New Or
leans race war, being aroused as that was,
by the fact that a policeman had been
killed by 2 negro Now, policemen have
been knitted b. white rufians Of all nation
alities in New York, now and then, ever
since there was police force, and the fact
that this time it happened to be a negro
who committed the crime was of no con-
sequence one way or the other. No negro
was likely to be the more criminal for that
incident. ner were the lives of white peo-
pie jeopardized in the least by it, 1t was
simply a case of a criminal resisting arrest,
and should have been dealt with by due
process of law ON that basis. Yet it is re-
ported that a mob took possession of
Eighth Avenue for several blocks. and
beat and maltreated unoffending negro men
and women, even pulling them off the
street cars. This sort Of thing is dis
grace to any city which even pretends to
civilization.
II cannot even be alleged that the peo-
pie who formed ,t,his mob were actuated
by any definite janti-Ethiopian prejudice,
though some of them may have been. It
was simply an ebuIIition of unreasonins
fury wreaking itself on the first object
which happened TO offer an excuse for NAL
treatment Such a mob would, in other
days, have spent its vicious rage as readily
in drowning or burning a witch. in a
political free fight, or in stoaing advo>
Gates Of woman suffrage. It is composed
OF precisely thar hoodlum element which
has in the past, as now, been impervious
! to the appeals % reason, and bent only on
/ giving way 10 its own thoughtless IN
! disciplined, and uncaIIed for abusive i'm
! pulse.
! Such mobs should be restrained sternIy
/ and peremptoriIy whenever they dare 10
! make themselves obstreperous for any
reason whatever, They are just as likely,
/ if their passions are once excited, to try
/ TO burn whole city as to maui iROffensiYe
| colored people.
| The South African tragedy drags its
weary way 10 an indeterminate end. Steyn,
! the orc popular and respected President
Of the I@te Orange Free State. is reported
/ dead Of his wounds. De Wet has slipped
through Kitchener's fingers again and is
of to join Botha The latter is fortifying
! himself in the mountains of the Barberton
district, where it may be possible for him
to give Lord Roberts a hard and pTotracted
fight. Kruger is said to favor surrender
but is overruled by Botha and De Wet, and
it looks very much as if the war would
celebrate the first anniversary of its birth
. before quitting.
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1900-08-17
How About American Commerce.
{From the Philadelphia Ledger.)

With the relief of Americans in China the
United States will have no further interest in
Chinese affairs. except its desire to act as peace
maker In obtaining Just settlement of such
claims fer damages as may have arisen from the
revolt of the Boxers. The incident may be cloz-,
within a week, save for the diplomatic :,eeotia-
tons. ii the Chinese Government should be amen
able to reason; otherwise it may develop into S
great War; the outcome OF which no man can lore
see.
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1900-08-17

It IS explained. in defence Of the de-
struction of the fine shade trees on Fifth
Street between 7 and G, that the street
in that block is ten feet under proper
width. and that. in order to widen it, so
as TO conform TO the dimensions OF the
ihoroughfare elsewhere, it was necessary
to sacrifice the nine or ten splendid pop
lars in question. We are still uncon-
WINGED. The widening Of Fifth Street al
that particular place would better have
bsen postponed indefinitely. than to make
the Improvement al such cost now.
Technically speaking. the excuse disposes
Of the charge of vandalism
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1900-08-17
4 FATHERS ALLEGED CRUELTY.
Nan Charged With Causing the
DeatI. of Four Children.

CHARLOTTE, n. G., Aug. 17.-News has
been received here of the arrest in Nash
county. \. c.. of George Griffin and mis-
third wife. for causing the death OF Crit
It & alleged that :. The children were i'm
prisoned in an clubhouse and were allowed
to die from starvation and lack of atten-
ton. One of them, it is said, escaped an /
managed TO reach its father, who was at
work In the field, but was whipped b. him
and died on reaching the house
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1900-08-17

The official bonding industry, so cIeverIy
and opulentIy developed by the Hon. 7. c.
Plat, seems to appeal TO other Republic
can politicians as desirable avocaticn- Il
is reported from Havana that the Fidelity
Security Company of Maryland enjoys a
monopoly OF the business IN Cuba, and
that its irsuier branch is presided over by
an Illustration OF imperial nepotisrn-a
statement which we accept with some re-
serve.
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1900-08-17

Woodruff Looming UP.-TEe roIy-Doly
form OF the Hon Timothy L. Woodruff is
silhouetted upon the Republican storm
cloud il New York The mighty Mr.. Plat
has acknowledged at last that Woodruff
is net an imDrobabfHty." which would
seem to indicate that if the boss has aban-
doned the idea of forcing the gubernato-
rial nomination upon OdeH he very gladly
viii turn to Woodruff as second choice.
PIatt's SON the thrifty Frank, has been
Woodruh's guest in the CatskiIls for
week or two, and he has sent word down
from his mountain retreat that Woodruff
is the nan to nominate. In view of these
late developments it Is beginning 10 dawn
upon the befuddled inteIects of the excit-
able C0thamites that it has been Platts
scheme ali along to nominate Woodruff
for Governor-provided. of course the
masses wouldn't stand for OdeiI-and that
this was part OF the deal by which Roose-
welt was nominated for Vice President
Several weeks before the Republican Ma
tional Convention met at Philadelphia
The Times exploited this scheme and has
never lost faith in its early surmise
Events are rapidly conspiring to show
that the welI-lafd scheme to boost Wood
ruff into the Governship is working salts
factorfly to its promoters, Mr.. Hanna and
the national managers are opposed 10
Woodruff, but Mr. Plat is not controlling
his machine shaping his purposes to
suit the wishes Of the national managers.
The Hannaite opposition to Woodruff is
due mainly to the fact that the Root-BIiss
crowd in New York would not get control
Of the lobby at Albany if he should be
elected Governor. While it is generally
conceded that Woodruff is not the great
est statesman of his time, yet It is ad-
=
New York a better and more honest ad-
ministration as Governor than could be
hoped for if one of the numerous host
of greedy money grubbers among both fac
items Of the Republicans should be elected.
Woodruff has already accumulated a large
fortune by his own exertions has never
been accused of converting his political
opportunities into cash, ana seems to have
a sincere desire to make an honorable
name for himself in politics
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1900-08-17

thinks about the matter The platform
demands the abolition of the press and
cable censorship in the Philippines, 50 that
the American people may learn what is
going in that satrapy. 1t remarks,
very pointedIy: we are entitled to know
the truth and we insist that the powers
which the President holds in trust for US
shall be not used to suppress it. On
the whole, we fancy that the record of
proceedings at the Liberty Congress viii
not have conspicuous place along with
the family Bible and Bakers Saints
Rest.n on the Hanna parlor table.
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1900-08-17

people will subject themselves to bad health
II tbev drink beers brewed OF cheap and Inferior
materials and OF improper age The greatest care
and skill are employede toi'make Heuriehs Mser-
Order a case by 'phonibg 63s. Arlington Bottling
60. and your health xiii be benefited.
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1900-08-17
A Correction.
From Puck.l

.sWe haven't any cults in Chicago. as lar as
know said the Chicago girl, ingenso,isIy
--Nonsense!', replied the Boston girl. Chi
csgo is cult unto herself
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1900-08-17
POLITICAL NOTES AND GOSSIP.

Pooling the EIRnnaites.-That the
action of the Anti-Imperialist Convention
at Indianapolis was disappointing TO the
Hapnaites is true in a double sense. 1t
goes without saying, of course. that the
ringing endorsement given Mr.. Bryan
by the Anti-Imperialists is disappointing 10
the Republicans in general. but there IS
excellent reason for assertin. that it was
especially disappointing TO Mr.. Hanna. MIR.
Mckinley. and the campaign managers.
The Mckinley managers thought they had
shrewdly matured a plan to capture the
convention in the sense of preventing en-
d0Tsement of Bryan and condemnation OF
Mckinley and OF having third ticket Put
in the field. The evidence on this point is
too plain to be doubted. Mckinley sup
port ers in disguise were responsible for
what appeared a short while ago 10 be
a SPLIT il the ranks Of the Snti-Impe-
rialists- These men called a convention
at Indianapolis after the real Anti-Impe-
rialists had called theirs The Mckinley
agents looked to Indianapolis by the score
and talked braveIy about the 'Ga 3ger
threatened the country by both Bryan and
Mckinley. They defined the Bryan dan
GER as direct and the Mckinley dan
ger" as indirect" Wherefore it became
their patriotic duty TO nominate d ticket
OF their own, ignoring the plain declaration
in the Democratic platform that Imperial
ism is the paramount issue of the cam
raign. Some of them played their game
out TO the end at Indianapolis as shown
by the fact that four or FIVE votes
were cast against the endorsement of
Bryan and the condemnation of Mckinley.
II is pOssible-indeed. it is quite p potable
that some of them voted for theE Tesoiu-
lions. and even that some OF them VIII get
on the committees that Will manage the
Anti-Imperialist campaign, ana Gfttr Sh lie
find excuse" to bolt Bryan and. support
Mckinley. This form of treSchery and
sneak politics is as old the game OF
politics itself. but il still continues TO fool
a good many people-the most of whom.
of course. want to be fooled, The most
! significant feature of the endorsement or
Byan is contained in the political records
of the men who formed the Committee on
Resolutions. The resolutions ware written
by a lifelong Massachusetts, Republican.
and were subscribed 10 before being pre-
scented to the Convention by seven men
who in 1895 voted for Palmer and Buck
ner ten who voted for Mckinley, seven
who voted for Bryan, and one who did not
vote at all If this IS a fair representa-
/ tion of the change that is going on it can
ne1 be doubted that Mr.. Bryan will WIN
the election by a larger electoral and pop
ular majority than Mr.. Mckinley received
four years ago. The Mckinley agents who
! failed ANONYMOUSLY in their game at In
dianaPolis viii hold convention in New
/ York, September 3 1t is expected they VIII
nominate a third ticket. II is suggested
/ that their logical candidate IS the Hon.
] George Frisbie Hoar o. Massachusetts,.
and that their platform ought to real some
! thing like this We are opposed to i'm
! peTiaiism except on election day-and then
/ we are all Hannaites.
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1900-08-17
CHAIjTAtjOIjA BEACH

formerly Bay Ridge. Coolest. most delight
iul sumner excursion and family resort On Chesa-
pcate Bay Best bathing. boating, grabbing.
fishing Hotel rates IS and up Beautiful build
Ing lots ard stock Ior sale on easy terms.
See this paper B. < o tine table for trains.
auIJ-tf
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1900-08-17

Confusion in Sew York.-R David
Bennett Hill has lost all his cunning. If
Richard Croker and Hugh Mclaughlin
have formed a pact, and if that pact can
control the vote OF Kings county-then it
appears evident that the Hon. Bird s.
Coler will not be the Democratic nominee
for Governor of New York. This plainly is
the situation as developed at the meeting
of the Democratic State Committee yes
terday at Saratoga. Hill was voted down
in the committee on all important propo-
sitions by very narrow margin Three
men. he declares, went back on him al the
last moment, or he would have won. The
result of the committee meeting means
that there VIII be fierce fight between
Hill and Croker from now On until the
State Convention meets at Saratoga Sep
TENDER IL with the chances slightly ia
yOrinZ Hill, in view of the not remote
possibility that Mr.. Bryan may personally
interest himself in behalf of Coler's nOmi-
nation. If the national leader does not
thus project himself into the canvass it is
more than probable that Croker viii pre-
vent the nomination OF Coler. and that
some upstate man. whose identity is not
yet known, viii be nominated In this
view Of the situation Judge Parker seems
to be the most likely candidate. Il is be-
lieved that the party could be more thor
oughly united on him than on anybody
else, and that next TO Coler he would
arouse more popular enthusiasm.
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1900-08-17

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The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1900-08-17
I he Housekeeper List is
Crowded with Big Specials.

Only for Saturday at these prices The
We want 10 count smaller tomorrow night,
I0apiece Dinner SETS. that VIII answer
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The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1900-08-17

THE MORE YOT- VALUE : DOLLAR
PRIVILEGES THAT INVENTORY DAY.
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The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1900-08-17

oy teF s5fsg gss The very small otd the oorge lots III
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1900-06-23
QUAlL-HUNTlNG IN EGYPT.
Half a Million Year Ensnared by
Natives.

Half a Million a Year Ensnared by
Natives.
Much has been said lately of the cap
ture of quail in Egypt, touching the
protest made by Frenchmen against
carrying the birds across French terri
tory for English use. Until this mat
ter rose nobody seemed to know that
quail existed in Egypt, but they do
by the millions.
The passage of bands Of quail over
the coast of the delta of the Nile, from
Port Said to Alexandria, begins in Sep
TENDER and lasts a month and a half.
the birds arriving in little groups and
alighting on the dunes.
Generally the chase Is made by means
Of nets of five meters high, which the
natives extend on cords fastened to
poles, in the fashion of curtains Gid.
ing on their rods.
In reality the net Is double. The FIRST
near the side of the sea is of meshes
very large and loose, but on the back
Is another net where the bird will real
ly come and perch itself In the folds.
formed by this second net of small
meshes. There is another method of
capture which is more picturesque
Rows of dried branches are placed ON
the shore. At the foot of each branch
is disposed a tuft of fresh herbs. In
the middle of which is arranged an
opening which ends in a snare. The
quail, tired by its journey, takes refuge
in the branch, without figuring to itself
that 1t Is going to put itself into a trap
where native will surprise it and kin
1t. With these perfected means of de-
struction, 1t is not astonishing that each
year more than half a million of these
poor little birds are taken.-St Louis
Post-Dispatch.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1900-06-23

THAT is the eighth boy" said the
matron of a city employment bureau
recently, who has come to-day to en-
gage a cook, laundress or parlor maid.
Moreover, each one has made a good
selection, stated his requirements clear
ly, and finished IN half the time his
mother or sister would have occupied"
The new boy is as distinct a product
Of the age as the new woman. He can
make his own bed, sew buttons on his
own clothes, manage a bachelor estab-
hshment for his father and himself,
make out the menus and do chatting
dish cookery, all without losing his
rank in school or his prestige among
his boy mates.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1900-06-23

There are two facts which will make
the year 1900 an epoch marker in hui
man events: l. 1t will be the first
time in the history of mankind that
sixteen millions of freemen have voted
in the choice OF their national Chief
Magistrate. 2. The man whom they
elect will be the first American Presi-
dent inaugurated in the twentieth CEN
fury, and from his Inauguration the
progress of the American people will
be reckoned during that century. There
is indeed no way of indicating the
growth of this nation that is more
striking than to state the record of
few Of its Presidential votes. Abra-
ham Lincoln received popular vote of
less than 100000 in a total vote Of
4,6S0,193. That was only forty years
ago. Garfield was elected in 1880 by
vote of 4,449,053 in n total of 9,2O9,416.
The President chosen this year will GER
tainly poll a popular vote of 100000
or thereabOuts-four times as many as
were cast for Lincoln and nearly twice
as many us were cast for all candidates
in 1880.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1900-06-23

In recent divorce suit in the Dis
trict of Columbia the wife was given a
decree and alimony, but her prayer for
the custody of their children was dis
missed and the father named as GUS
todian instead. The decision was upon
purely economic grounds. The Judge
held that n father Is the guardian that
the law recognizes and the one that the
law holds to be responsible for proper
support and education, and in diScharg-
ing the responsibility that the law
places upon him a father should not be
hampered In deciding what is the best
for his charges. 1t is an unWelcOme
precedent. Nature intended mothers
to be the rearers as we'll as the bear
ers of children. No judgment that a
father may possess can compensate for
the loss Of parental direction inspired
by maternal love, love born with and
growing with the child. There are eX-
ceptiOnS that prove the rule of course
The legal responsibility that influenced
the novel decision could have been re-
moved by awarding the custody of the
children to the mother and requiring
that the father pay stipulated sum at
regular intervals for the proper sup
port and education of the children. He
will have to pay much more for in
feror attention. To say nothing of nat
ural or acquired disposition or capacity
for directing the steps of the children
that fathers do not possess and of
which mothers have an Overabundance,
fathers are required to absent them
selves from home pursuing their voca-
lions. The attention that they can not
give. even if possessing the aptitude,
needs must be purchased. Considering
only the welfare Of the children. the
only consideration that is entitled to a
hearing, how much better it would
have been for the court to have ordered
that the purchase of this attention
should be from the mother. by giving
them into her custody and command
ing the father to contribute to their
support. The laws responsibility would
have been discharged and natures OBJ
ject furthered.