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"Beliairs."
The name OF the assailahs Of GoverEo
TAFT and the culogist OF Gen. LEoNARl
WOOD does not appear in the New Yorl
Directory, Neither the Brooklyn Di
rectory nor that Of Jersey City contains
II. II is unknown in Hoboken. II II
not included among the contemporar,
citizens mentioned in Who's Who ir
America No BELlAIRs has found Z
place in the seven volumes Of the 'Cy'
clopedia Of American Biography
These circumstances do not prove that
BELLAIRs is a pseudonym, but they IL
lustrate the exceeding rarity, in this
country, OF the name which appears on
the title page Of As 1t Is in the Philip
pines tho book recently oontrived for
the purpose Of pulling down the reputa-
ton Of Governor TAFT and exalting
Gen. LEONARD Woop as his foreordained
successor.
There is q sound and there is a swing
about Captain BEIlAIRs which recall
| to mind the adventurous young gentle
men In the plays Of CoSoREvR and
WYcHERLEY. Yet the name is actually
that Of an old and distinguished family
in the county OF Norfolk, England, the
BELI-AIRs Of Mulbarton, whereof the
most eminent living representative is
Sir WILLIAM BEILAIRs, X. C. NJ. G.,
G. B., now q retired Lieutenant-G General
Of the British Army. Sir WILLIAM has
not only seen much fighting in the crimea.
In the Kafir and Zulu wars, and in the
long struggle with the Beers, but he has
also been Administrator Of Natal, and
his career and experience have pecu-
LARRY fitted him to judge Of colonial
conditions and to pronounce upon the
comparative merits and success Of civil
and military rule In the case OF newly
acquired territory.
This, however, Is nothing more than
Q coincidence; for it is absolutely impos-
sible to suppose that Sir WILLIAM BEL
LARS is the author Of As It Is in the
Philippines the censor Of TAFT and the
boomer Of WooD. In the first place, IL
Sir WILLIAM had gone out to study con-
ditions in the Philippines, his published
observations would have proceeded from
the avowedly British point Of view, and
not. as in this case, from a professedly
American point Of view. In the second
place. il Sir WILLIAM had for any reason
desired to conceal his own identity
when taking service under the Asso-
ciated Press in order to facilitate his
investigations, he undoubtedly would
have changed his whole name, not
merely tho first part OF it.
Nevertheless, the existence Of q real
BELIAIRs Of great military and colonial
experience Il not without significance
in relation to the book we are consider
ing. II removes from the pseudonym
If BELIAIRs IL in this case a pseudonym
its superficial aspect OF nero comedy
lightness derived from association with
the stage adventurer and nimblewit Of
the early eighteenth-century drama. 1t
is a solid and respectable name which
an Englishman, and particularly an En-
glishman Of Norfolk county extraction.
might naturally choose for a pen-name
TO be used in writings OF military and
critical character. when he deemed IL
expedient TO disguise, at least tempo
rarily, his own personality.
Trifling as the geographical indication
may appear, We are inclined to regard
the circumstance that the unusual name
OF BELLAIRs is an old Norfolk family
name as not without some value In any
effort to solve this interesting problem |
Of authorship.
That the origin Of the book ought to be
traced and its true purpose ascertained,
we do not hesitate to affirm. II the con-
clusions Of Captain BELLAIRs are
those Of an honest and competent judge
of the situation in the Philippines, Gov
srnor TAFT ought to be removed from
of6ce with the utmost speed Of the electric
and Gen. LEONARD WooD ought
10 nnd his commission awaiting him
when he arrives at Port Said and be-
lore his proposed conferences with Lord
cRoMER on the philosophy of the sue
,essful government Of Orientals.
But II, on the other hand, II is true, as
10 have had for some time good reason
% suspect, and as the Evening Post last
light assured US, that CHARLES BAL
lRNTINE Is the real name Of Captain
sDGAR @. BELLAIRs. late Of the Surrey
the attack on Governor
TAFT and the elaborate effort to boost
zen. WooD into TAFT's place assume an
ltogether different complexion.
For II BKLLAIRs is CHARLES BALLKN-
INK, formerly Of Norfolk, England, and
ately the extremely serviceable friend
{ Gen. LRoNARD WOOD. we need 90
owhere else for his credentials than to
age 100 Of that Who's Who In Rascal
om.' Inspector BYRNEs's encyclopedic
reatise on the Professional Criminals
I America Here we find BALLEN-
INES portrait. numbered SAC in the
ogues' gallery, directly beneath the
kencss Of LIZZIE MYERS, alias MARY
AD and Queen LIE, shopliftsr, and
longside Of THOMAS Z. HARpMAN,
adger and Swindler'
In such company Is exhibited No.