The Appeal., 1902-02-15

boy ii the employ Of d newcomer to com.
naen.ial in adviser TO :. Boss Brady is traced
must t1berestiEng baes detail by the author who
Ierranean methods of the ward boss. J.
Deyiin, better known as Jimmy, = / finally
Ssa Mii ana noftv aP oawn his
and wrings concession after concessinSS
ITO from his erstWhiIe boss, 2 all the time
f. gSroWng n popularity with the ''heelers'
brutality Of Boss Brady. ,,i ppos1te = .ne
Brady employed .bruisers'' to wreak his
personal personal, vengeance upon his enemies.
and 4l herein came the cause of their split,
Years went on, and with them ..Jimmy,,s
e gfe fha N local local power until he became
political destiny of the city.
The author shows that the successful po1.
ltlclan must have2a heart within his body,
not OF entirely foreign to his mission.
me sturdy character of Jimmy is
shown sn,es III In his reliability in financial mat
aers. where Y M as the president Of a bank he
saves It from ruin by putting up his own
personal securities. s.
dralsaa The + Jimmy linn Of this story is one who
the author, "he had seen neat attire gain
to speak. ''s
There is love story in "Jimmy's'' life.
which for tenderness and pathos has rarely
been surpassed by writer's of fiction So
The Civil War and the Constitution. By
Of political science and constitutional law
In Columbia University. Two volumes. So.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons.
Ihis is work showing profound histori.J
ton to the political literature of the excit,
ing RsEiod Of our national history from 1850
S. s., In the opening chapter of Vol. 1 the au-
thor says; The Kansas Nebraska Act, the
8Dred Scott decision, and the anti-Leeomp-
country into "a nebulous condition New
centers of cohesion must be developed
around which the yapors should become
dicting forces might appear distinct IN
principle and purpose. it was a situation
which iL! required the advent of strong person
appeared They were Jefferson. Davis.
abraham Abl;a !, Lincoln, and Stephen Arnold
Of each Of this celebrated friumvirate Of
tne e most nos critical ! period in our history.
remembered rem mi that the Republican party was
anti,slayery extension party, and became
gradually an Abolition party through the
experiences a and necessities of war" His
description of the creed and tenetS of Sc
cession is both lucid and simple: =
Ihe theory upon which they claimed
r1ght OF secession was based was that the
u
erelgnties connected with each other by an
agreement, from which each might recede
at its own pleasure. It was held that Sc
right. In support Of the view % that it iega was
a sovereign right, they argued that q soyer-
elgn is not subject to law, and that there
ereign's right :, -, -
These two volumes cover in 2masterful
manner manner the entire range Of political and
ral1 military y M questions of that period and take
opio
treatises. ~ a- !. = -
!, Aguinaldo, Luna and Pana, the ablest of
the military leaders, are complimented in
e1iina ea1Gglstlc terms by the author as are the
IN that insurrection, justifabie because Of
the treachery of Spain in breaking her
pra1t promises OF reform and resorting to extreme
cruelty against; the Filipinos, DR.. Rial, the
wildly told: DID, 'O . important foie' wnlch is
The same men, however, who were pa
trlots in their struggle against Spanish op-
preston, become misguided leaders of their
people in their contest against the United
S5afes 81 tes I'd The same men who Were eulogized
condemned in the succeeding chapters.
= a very interesting description of the
dasdribna MatiRpnan organzation is given. which is
sonry.' The author says that early in 1i fhe
sixteenth century in an unguarded moment
knesp Inc spanish m authorities for best
at Manila and initiated a number of lead
ing ,11s 80 half-caste al Filipinos: Shortly after
Wards there sprang up all over the islands
fin finally became knownzas .t.,rhe Katipunan,''
or or %,,halaastaasen Kagalanga1ang Katipu-
nan,Lyery mhla exalted and honorable union.
This is particularly interesting, and per
maps maps the first admission by an American
that the Katipunan organization traces its
origin , to Free Masonry. -
- one OF the most interesting chapters in
f9e Tie;1o 9ook IS one which takes up the leading
E1llplnos and describes them individuai1v
Luna, who was assassinated by order of
!AAgulnaldo, is described as the greatest mil
'lIary Hy leader in the revolt against the United
states. He had visited the leading mill
tary nations of Europe and had made q
Close fens study @ Of their plans Of attack and de-
nea tense, and that he was ambitious to have
one pitched battle with the American army
ana stake all on the outcome. 10 this
Agaiinaldo tHgai,. lido dissented, and here commenced
their estrangement, which finally culmin
ated in his assassination.