The Washington times., 1901-07-05

! capaeuated for directing q campaign In
! a tropical country, and did not excel in
/ been considered as counterbalancing his
| unwieidy bulk. 1t is generally supposed
n anat ms selection was due to the person
al partialtty of General AIger. the Secre-
| tdry OF War, at the time 1t was really
! doing General Shafter an iSiustice. as
! Wen as doing the service Il wrong.-Buffa-
| 10 Commercial.
Mr.. Hanna's fine work in the Ohio State
convention may be taken as an indication
/ that he expects the Buckeye State to fur
nish the next President regardless of Mr..
Mckinley's declinatien.-Omaha World
Herald.
1t must necessarily be long before the
Cuban Republic can build navy of its
own, and If our southern neighbors are
wise they will welcome the sight of the
Stars and Stripes above the ready guns of
our cruisers These things threaten not
the Cubans, but their enemies and the
enemies of the United States.-Boston
Journal.
The great trouble with Cuba seems to
be that she is trying to adopt the Penn
sylvania plan of f-government.-At-
lanta Journal.
Young Mr. Thomas, who enjoyed brief
distinction as President of the defunct
Seventh National Bank, says that college
educations are quite unnecessary No
doubt the janitor of the Seventh National
will cordially agree with him.-Cleveland
Plain Dealer.
The word kopje has again crept back
into the African dispatches. Something
must be about to be doing.-St- Paul De
spatch.
There may be no trusts. but the name Of
NJ A. Hanna stands out conspicuously
among the names of parties interested in
the coal community OF interests. In
dianapolis News.
Possibly the terrific heat might have
been prevented had Mr. ]. p. Morgan not
been at sea out Of reach of either end OF
the cable.-Pittsburg Dispatch
Major General Shafter was mustered
out of the service without the aid of
blackboard, a feat of which the War De-
partment is justly proud--Chicago News.
The fact that Mr.. Heaths association
with the postoffice Department and with
the bank Ii recalled at this time by those
seeking to make political capital against
the Administration illustrates the unwis-
dom of appointing men like Mr. Heath to
responsible Government positions--Chica-
go Inter Ocean.
Communicating with Mars is unfmport-
ant. The burning question is how to get
word to Old Sol that he Is OVERRIDING the
thing, and for goodness sake to let up
faNSdS lily JOuIldi-
Great combinations cannot keep labor
from organizing They have set the ex-
ample Observation-Disclosures News.
There should be no harsh judgment of
Major Conger. On his return to Iowa he
was set upon by a horde of machine poll
ticians, and having been absent from the
State for several years he is to be excused
for having/ma a mistake. But judg-
ment cannot be too harsh of the men who
played upon him and misrepresented
things TO him, not in his interest, but sole
Iy in their own.-Des Moines Leader.
One of the first things to do In efforts
to give TO the Filipinos good government
is to erect over the islands at convenient
distances enough tall poles TO hang the
carpetbaggers who are quite sure to rush
in to exploit and loot these yellow people.
Galveston News.
There is real political Independence in
the South today. If in any Congressional
district there lives man so agsrieved
with existing circumstances that he feels
called upon to become a candidate. there
is nothing in his way. BY running he can
assert his personal Independence and by
failing TO vote for him the people can as
sert theirs We would commend this plan
to the eminent advocates of the plan OF
ndentisTn.-Atlanta Constitution.