The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-02-19

ing tho subject Inst fall wsre grutcsquo
and would liayo boon Amusing but Tor tho
iaorioua nature of the ayil, Ha exhausted
tho Pharnnoopla Of financial remedies
without avail, Among Intelligent poopio
tnoro 10 no possible oscapo from tho com
cluhion that tho ten per cent. tax upon
state banks must DO removed Its pas
object was not to raise but to destroy
revenue. There Is no longer any neoessi-
~ for the tax and "Rauone cessante lex
cessat." The cumbersome Sub.Treasury
Sill exists and ties up the customs re-
ceipts when Of all times on earth LEY
are most needed and to-day, It is beyond
the power OF any man to give any good
reason reason Tor It's continued existence and
there Is no reason why the bank reserves
should be confined to the bonds OF the
United States when first mortgage rail-
road bonds OF established Trunk lines are
equally as good and far more available,
It is indeed fortunate for us, that ls for tho
Democratic party that the Republicans
have the Executive, and control OF both
Houses OF Congress. They cannot es.
cape the responsibility OF their own legis-
latlon. Now who ought to be the next
Democratic Presidential nominee? Who
nils the bill? "Hlc labor hoe opus est"
This Is the momcntous, the great ques-
ton. After the most careful survey OF
the whole field 1t seems TO me that all
the signs point to one man. He stands
like Sahl Of Tarsus among the Apostles.
His equipment us unexcepuonable He
knows men," he Is able to grasp meas
ures however great their scope;'' he has
judicial temperament" "a trained in
tclligence;" he does not suffer from
mental strabisrhus" and has the polse of
conscious strength" That man Is Arthur
F. German, OF Maryland; he comes from
the right locality. midway between sec
tons and he has the confidence of the
people and by the people, I mean all the
people the "Oi Pollol." the common peo-l
pie, the middle class, and the higher
class lie is not an extremist; his private
character is unsullied. and he is both a
speaker and writer of high ability. Hls
position on the Tariff and n finance is In
accci dance with the traditions and the
best elements OF the Democratic party,
and he has always retained the respect
and confidence OF his associates through
the gbeneficent mutation OF human events
the Democratic party has got rid Of the
5.Old Man Of the Sea- Grover Cleveland
who dug his spurs deep into his own par
ty. and rode 1t with more cruelty and fe-
rocity than the Old Man did Sinbad. the
sailor. 1t has got rid at least for the
present OF William Jennings Bryan that
meteor who blazed up in a moment and
shot athwart the sky to electrify man
kind but now like the 'lost PLEADS in
the darkness OF the night he has faded
to be seen no more perhaps forever.
A kind Providence has saddled the Re-
publicans with leader 50 filled with
vagaries." SO possessed with mental
strabismus." that stupendous events fol-
low each other with such lightning-like
rapidly that they almost shake the very
foundation Of the Republic itself; men
look ashast and whisper to each other
In silent tones what Is to happen
next?" No pent up Utica contains him;
one day he shocks mankind by having
negro at the table Of the Executive
Mansion; on another he orders his Fidus
Achates Doctor Evelyn Wood tn use
public money to shape popular sentiment
in Cuba: (thank Heaven he stands alone
Of ali the Presidents in doing this) on
another he invades the State of Utah
and attempts to dictate who shall be her
Senator in Congress-; on another he
gives helping hand to Edward Addicks,
the desperate adventurer who has at
tempted to debauch State: who uses
the tactics Of the highwayman and says
to the Legislature OF Delaware Stand
and deliver;'' who attempts with but
seeming disguise to use the State of Del
aware as political State Senate: again
he turns deaf ear to the respecta bility,
the wealth and refinement of the city OF
Charleston. S. c.. and confronts them
"
he knows that ntne-tenths OF the BUSH
ness of the office has to be transacted
with white people: not satisfied with this
but by dash of his pen and without
any warrant or authority for it in the
Federal Constitution by an imperious
and high.handed act, he closes the post
office at Indianola, Miss. and places
great community to much loss and in
convenience simply because they are
attempting to maintain the dignity and
the supremacy of the Anglo-Saxon race.
He seems to revel In tanning the flame
OF sectional hatred; good men OF all par
ties shocked by this action have learned
to fear. what a day will bring forth. He
has as much right to remove the New
York postof1ce to Albany as he had to
move the Indianola Office twenty-five
miles distant. He scouts precedent, he
defes authority. and laughs at trad-
tion He goes abroad through the land
like roaring hurricane, hunting with
no uncertain words at the Governmental
ownership of railroads and telegrapE1,
and II he does not mean Socialism he
breaches something so nearly akin to 1t
that II there Is a distinction 1t is dis 1
tinction without difference. I publish
ed recently his language taken from 1.-THE
Outlook his obsequious organ, which en-
dorses and approves his action and
hence will not republish 1t. Indeed 1t
seems to be sweet morsel to 1.-THE Out
sioohf- " PuDnSll ci1lI IIdhc ldNOTdDle Gull
ments upon his appointment of negroes
to Office, and one is almost at loss to
know whether Booker Washington or
Doctor Lyman Abbott is the editor of
that paper. Even that paper however.
whose power OF intellectual digestion and
approval Of the acts OF our President Is
equal to that of the ostrich, has had
some sick qualms brought about by the
Delaware episode.
The reappointment of Mr. Byrne, the
tool OF the political highwayman E. Ed
ward Addicks, seems to be pill which
1t is difficult for 1t to swallow. How
different is Theodore Roosevelt from his
gentle and level-headed predecessor in
office, who added to a splendid Judgment.
the most lovable qualities of human ma
ture The name Of William Mckinley is
forever enshrined in the hearts of his
coun trymen; 1t is made more brilliant by
q contrast with Theodore Roosevelt.
Take him all in all and few men the
equals OF William Mckinley have ever
lived. He was a man of broad gauge;
having been an actor in the war between
the States OF this Union he knew how
to destroy the flame of sectional hatred.
and the scene Of the Confederate badge
Mt Atlanta was one Of the brightest and
most pathetic in all the pages Of history.