The age-herald., 1900-11-18
Progress of Revolution.

The two bills designed to give the peo- ration have been passed and sent to Cover nor Johnston for his official signature. The people have said-offically said-that Will liam J. Sanford shall be Governor after December l, and in case he is unable to serve then that William D. Jelks shall be Governor. The two bills now before the present Governor are bills to carry the peo- pie will into effect
 And yet they may be vetoed. The court organs, one outside the State and one in its have already said as much. The home or gan Jugs in the reconstruction period in or der to find excuses for a veto Reconstruc- ton periods do not have to be provided against. The State has never in over 80 years known but one, and will never know another
 It would have us believe, too that the only bar to corruption and thirst for power is in an oath taken before the Legislature whole. The oath gives no title to the
 
 when the two houses canvass and declare the vote of the State. The real title is put in the ballot boxes, and is ascertained and declared by the two braches of the Legis- lature. The taking of the oath is mere formality that has very little importance in itself, and that in no manner affects the real title to the office conferred by the people and ascertained by the Legislature. The constitution plainly took this view of the case, and the bill now in the hands of Governor Johnston simply brings the code within the terms of the constitution. It re- lates, at the most to form and not to sub stance. It leaves the Legislature the judge and final canvasser of the vote, and no reasonable objections lie against it.
 The other bill relates to the succession in case the Governor-elect die before talk ing office. No one will claim that the con- stitution anticipates any succession in the executive office that has not been endorsed and made by the people. The people have elected in the present case through their constitutional representatives, William D. Jelks president of the Senate; and they ex- pect him to become Governor in case the Governor-elect cannot act. If the bill be vetoed, it means that the peoples choice Is to be set aside and an usurper forced upon the State. It means anarchy and rev. olution, unless indeed the Legislature, by
 
 to prevent such catastrophe to the State
 
 Professor Ross of the Leland Stanford University favored municipal ownership of public utilities, and he has been made to walk the plank a la Professor Bemis in the Standard Oil University The founders are making themselves felt.
 Governor Johnston cannot hold the two bills passed yesterday longer than five days, not including Sunday, before acting upon them. They must be returned by or before next Friday, or they will become laws without his signature.
 The allies want $500 OOO 900 indemnity from China, and the Prince of Wales wears his trousers without a crease. This is the sum and substance of recent foreign news Electricity is to supplant steam on the elevated roads of New York City. The peo- pie along the lines will miss their accus- toned smoke and cnders.
  The Republicans now say no one can have that full dinner pail unless he hustles for it on the terms of the trusts This is horse of another color
 When the Zuyder Zee is reclaimed and the American hemisphere cut into, it will be time to talk about an Atlantic tunnel. Mark Twain forgets invitations to dinner, and the diners have to go out and bring him il. dshab;lle, or words 10 that effect. Candidate Woolley crossed over into Canada, and Is making speeches right along. He is wound up and cannot stop.  Christmas boxes for soldiers in China and the Philippines will be carried free by the government from San Francisco.  The Republicans are heartily in favor of reorganization Of the Democratic party. No one else to speak of is.
 
 Italians are coming over in large num- bers and going to the West to make the country wish they hadn't
  The reorganizers of the Democratic party have gone back into their holes to slumber four years more.
 It now appears that the Kaiser and the Reichstag are two different parties.
 Webster Davis is still submerged.