The Washington times., 1901-07-14
POLITICAL COMMENT.

lacking In shrewdness or exceedingly Gym
ical Or is it possible that in some way
ne got Mr.. Bryan confounded with MARI
Hanna ?-Chicago News
The platform adopted by the Demo
| Gratis OF Ohio is the first comprehensive
statement OF Democratic principles un-
mixed with the vagaries of Populism and
socialism which has been made in this
| democratic Republic in more than nve
years--Chicago Chronicle.
Austria sends an Ambassador to Mexi.
co-the first since she tried to send an
emperoT.-Des Moines Leader
Hon. Lyman Gage has Indicated his
purpose to go right on licking the Gar OF
Russia out of his boots. Don Quixote dc
IA Mancha was "A person of fine discre-
ton as compared with Hon. Lyman ].
Gage.-Norfolk VirgiEian-Pilot.
The news regarding Prince Tuan'.
| preparations sugge~'s that the imaEina-
! tive correspondents 4 Shanghai have re-
! land Plain Dealer.
! The Ohio Democrats have entered the
campaign on much the same ground that
! they occupied in the old Cleveland days.
when they carried the State IL would be
folly for Republicans not to recognize
t .nat they are much more formidable in
TINS campaign than they have been in any
-'''A~N 4oSV.-koNtAdip Express.
The President could take a Joke from
Depew, but when the prosaic old Gros-
venor tried to get funny he had To he
called down--Minneapolis Tribune.
Mr.. Carnegie declines the Republican
invitation to run for mayor Of New York.
lie is not that anxious to die poor-At-
Ianta Journal.
London stock brokers have made an
nth1lcia Ell
the war. But how many of them are in
tsrested enough in it to give up their
business and go to fight?-Bunaio Ex-
press.
Strange. with Senator Beveridge in
Russia, that tariff controversy could not
be speedily settled.-Manchester Union
The Governor of South Carolina was
not obliged to call out the troops to in
duce the Senators to take back their
resignations.-Augusta Herald
Uncle Sam to Minister Leishman: Wen
dunned. good and faithful servant!'-Bos-
ton Globe.
In the event of the removal of the chief
or the Weather Bureau the candidates for
the vacancy ought TO be required to sub
NIT samples with their applications
Louis Globe-Democrat.
Mr.. Babcock is the rag baby of the Re
publican party.-Atlanta Constitution
Suppose the Weather Bureau is rather
costly. Nobody ever thought of looking
for prophet in it.-Philadelphia Times
The Britons learn slowly, but his head is
pervious TO ideas when sufficiently ham
mered- The Beers have hammered il into
the British military head that the effec-
tive range OF a Mauser IS superior to that
of bayonet and that the sword is not
a deadly weapon in modern warfare.
Therefore Lord Roberts has decided that
British soldiers must learn to shoot and
waste no more time in sword. lance and
bayonet exercises Philadelphia North
American.
The publication of the Otis-MacArthur
correspondence suggests the question,
What office is Otis running for now?-
Philadelphia Ledger.
The transport Rawlins, for which Uncle
Sam paid s475,0o0. is to be sold at public
auction at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. after
being appraised at s250OOo. Thank heaven,
the shrinkage in her value is nothing to
speak Of compared with the shrink ages in |
the valuations for assessing purposes of |
the holdings of Pierpont Morgan. Russell |
Sage, Senator Depew, ct al-Detroit Free |
Press
The boys have all got together in Ohio. |
If they keep up the march, they may |
head the procession in 1e04.-Atlanta Con-
The Boxers are said to have been doing
some looting in China But they have 1
waited long for their tuFn--Boston Globe.
Lord Roberts has decided to abolish the
ance in the British army So the good
that was talked of at the be-
ginning of the war is considered ineffective
as well as inhuman?-BufalO Express.
1t is said that Secretary Wilson, of the
Department of Agriculture, has just be-
-un work on a model farm of 400 acres,
lear Washington, and it is believed that
within a very few years it will be one
f the great sights of the National Capt.
al 1t may be. but It strikes us that
secretary Wilson will have to send of
omewhere for soil for that farm, prob
bly, down among the green maris of
he North Carolina coast, because about
he toughest soil to make anything out of
hat we ever saw is that red clay around
Fashington.-Salt Lake Tribune.
The spectacle of Senator Allison endors-
1g Governor Shaw for a Presidential
while Governor Shaw is en-
orsing Senator Allison for the same
hing is very fetching. but it would at ]
ract more attention were ii not for the !
act that an Iowa man stands no show |
Presidential nomination as long as |
owa goes Republican with practical ,
q
tate.-Omaha World-Herald. {
Seven States will hold elections this fail.
lessed are the other thirty-eight that J
i'll have nothing but their crops to at
nd to.-MinneapoliS Times.
Hon. John Wesley Gaines is now on the
bling deep. Rock him gently, oh, ye ;
"a, and. We winged winds, watt him !
%iftly TO see the waiting Tagalogs- :
ashville Banner. :
The great civilizing, forcefuI, world I
peoples of this age are those I
hich use soap and water freely The .
great unwashed' are being left behind =
the race for power and position. Long c
inge guns will not avail a people who Il
aglect hygienic laws. As rule the ! S
ealthy mind will be found in the healthy d
Ddy. and intellectual VigOr is not to be
Cpected of peoples who ignore the teach
gs of sanitary science.-Richmond Dis [
Itch. I
Carnegie's $2s0OO.OOO would build a ma c
OnaI highway from the Atlantic to the }
acific. or it would endow floating hos c
tails like the one in Boston for every b
rye seaport city in the country. or it s
ould construct the Cape Cod Canal and | I
ave enough left over to lay out count
SIS parks in the United States or it =
ould-but perhaps you can suggest a ?
Sc for il yOurself.-Boston Globe. = =
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