The age-herald., 1901-08-06
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BY JOHN p. FOLEY.

ment building in the world now stands. the Capitol. That was pure land specu- lation on his part. possibly 1t was patri- otism, but his avariciousness defeated it. self, for he held the remainder of his farms, cut up into city lots, at so high a figure that the young city ran away from him to the northwest and left him alone in his agricultural wilderness. It Is not very generally known that Thomas Jef- ferson had more to do with the laying out of the capital that even that French en- gineer. Major L'Enfant, who has recefv- ed very nearly all the credit for 1t. Jeff ferson 1t was who suggested the width of the spacious avenues, the blocks of a certain size, and the glory of the political metropolis. Under the Jefferson admin istration the young city received the doubtful gift of a municipal administra- tion, and 1t continued along in that gov- ernmental groove until 1871, when con gress bestowed upon it the territorial form of government. Three years of that kind of rule developed many scandals, real and imaginary, and in 1874, the com mission system was revived. But with all
  ial form that the genius of Alexander R. shephedd made the opportunity to create the new and splendid Washington of to- day To paraphrase an old Roman say ing, Shepherd found the city mud and left 1t marble.
 If the city of Washington can be dupli- cated in the far Asiatic seas it will be a glory to the Mckinley administration. Made up of cosmopolitan population the proper and honest government of it is most difficult of solution. Jefferson found similar problem before him New Orleans was acquired with all the splen- did Louisiana territory out of which so many great states have been carved. He. in that emergency, fell back on the com mission plan, and thus laid the foundation in it for popular government, going through the evolution of territoryhood and, finally statehood. Beyond all ques- ton this is now the best thing that can be done for Manila. It means peace, or- der, good government the suppression of faction, progress and development. The greatest city of the Philippines should not be torn and rent in pieces by the selfish rivalries of bloodthirsty demagogues of the ex-Spanish or Philippine brand. Good government must be established there, and no better model can be found on which to base it than is that of the city of Washington, the capital of the republic.  before it reached the jail; they made them again on the way to the jail; they even put their arms around the necks of the mob's leaders and implored them to halt. Judge Stevens and MT. Hill appealed to them as tenderly as a moth CT would entrat her wayward children.
 Steadily the mob kept on it's way to the jail
 What a spectacle have we here The officer in whom the law lodges the pow CT of sitting in judgment when the ques- ton is life and death, the district attor- ney who has taken his oath to stand up for the state against crime, with their arms around the neck of leader of lawlessness 'imploring him to hale" Not o word of command or menace-no de- nand upon the sheriff to do his duty! The surrender of the law, the emblem of statehood by their sworn and paid defen- ders, was complete and absolute.
 Our Jackson correspondent yesterday quote the Governor as saying, he ten dered the militia in ample time and it was not accepted. He found at least nine-tenths of the people of Carrollton out of sympathy with the lynchers and that the mob was made up of the ire sponsble, ragamuffn element and could have been opposed by the officers if the proper show of resistance had been made. For this scandalous dereliction the sher- if is primarily responsible Surely the legislature should so amend the statute as to empower the governor to suspend and bring to trial sheriff who refuses to make call for troops under such cir cumstances.
 All reports and circumstances go to prove what the Governor has said-that with even "a proper show of resistance instead of a literal lay down before the mob of irresponsible hoodlum murderers 'by the officers it would have been dis persed. And to complete the shameful farce the coroner's inquest was held and a verdict of death by persons unknown rendered, where the judge, the district att torney and dozens of leading citizens knew them; and ought to have gone be- fore that jury and named and denounced them. Poor Mississippi!