The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-07-02

the people anything IKE what mas Dsen
claimed. $4,000 was dirt cheap price
to pay for a new Constitution. How
ever, let us wait and see.-Norfolk Vir-
ginian-Pilot.
The taxpayers will save In reduced
taxation each year far moro than the
entire cost of the convention. That re-
duction could just as well have been
made by the Legislature. but the fact
remains that the convention made It.
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AN HOUR WITH VIRGINIA EDITORS
According to the Norfolk Dispatch mo
green bay tree has ever grown and -four
ished more vigorously than this years
crop of stray canines"-in Norfolk.
The Newport News Evening Telegram,
commenting on the scramble for the city
Offices within the gift Of the new Coun-
Gil. heads its article Let Us Pray" and
closes the same with this remarkable
petition: while the dealing is in pro-
gress let us pray and hope that the city
will bet a good hand"
The Twin City Index, a new sixteen
column weekly, published at Bristol by
colored men. practices what it breaches.
It says: why not unite all forces of
the various societies of this town and
establish company store.' The Index
seems to have united all the forces of
the various societies to establish q
paper. 1t has five editors.
What a dear restful old placs Will
laimsburg must be. The Gazette. of the
ancient capital, says: college has
closed. For three months the town will
take a nap, at least LAT is the general
CUSTOM
The Fredericksburg Free Lance, after
studying court records, is surprised ito
learn the number of people who are d.
vorced in Virginia each year, and that
the number is steadily increasing" This,
it thinks, is something new under the
Virginia sun, and suggests as one rea-
son for it may be several reasons, and
one of these may be that the Legisla-
tti . IDS 81 e1uudliS IcIlueItu TIC oUldiIt-
ing of divorces easier than in the time
gone by. The very frequently of such
cases has a tendency to modify the SEN
timent which once existed against them
Volume l., No. l, Of the State Repub-
lican, published at West Point by b w.
Edwards, is on The Times table. The
Republican is, as its name would imply,
outspoken in its advocacy of the doc
trines and policy of the Republican
party I'VE hold" it says, that the
principles of the national Republican
party are best suited to the needs and
resources of our State, and it is our
citizens are being held in system of
political slavery and bondage to the
Democratic party against their better
judgment" The State Republican has
entered row that will be hard to weed.
The Norfolk Virginian Pilot is per
suaded that if the Democrats desire to
win this fall they will put the main en-
phass upon the tariff and trust issue,
which cannot be beclouded or obscured,
and which, withal. comes close home to
the pocket-books of the masses.
THE full dinner pail, it continues,
'be it said, will not appeal to the work
man as an emblem, either, when beef.
etc, is out of reach and a Republican
Congress has refused to afford relief"
The Newport News mes-Herald takes
hopeful view of the Democratic out
look for this year and for 1904. After
per says: 1.-THE basic principles of De-
mocracy are few and are as imperishable
as the sun. These clearly enunciated
and logically brought to bear upon pres
ent conditions. with strong, high man
to enforce them. will appeal to the voters
of this country with an irresistible force"
The Roanoke World says: Second
only in dignity 20 the convention which
framed the new Constitution will be the
Legislature whose enactments will put
1t into operation. The people are to be
felicitated upon the fact that the mem
bers composing the latter body were
elected With the idea that this work was
to be committed to them"
The Danville Register will soon have
a home of its own. 1t has purchased
lot and will proceed at once to erect
l,c convenient. modern office.