The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-12-27
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I E;psnts 81 The III desk
Under Brief Review.

tGevenlS q W6 WeSh
Under BRET Review.
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Events 81 the week III Chicago, where
strikers :; have been preventing The bury
Ing Of the dead unless !he funeral carr
rlages ana horses arc driven by union
men, have aroused Indignation all over
tho country. The indianapolis News com.
tnehts OH those events as follows,
Chicago IL simply renplng what she has
all Unless we resolve that there Is d fun.
chtnl question, oflrght involved, and
measure invnsions Of It by itse and
not by tho fact Of whether 1t interferes
With some ones comfort convenience
or moncy-tnnking. Wo have, Il, other
sncrcdness Of law us law, and take our
stand On It's defense and preservation, or
tho things that have happoned In Chicago
iii the lust year will be prophetic Of q
timo Of turmoil out " which we shalt
not como without severe wounds to our
national character, and possibly to our
! national civilization
Whom Colonel Bryan returns from 1cu-
!, rope no will find something doing right ut
home. Last week the Jacksoniun Club.
OF Omaha, one Of the first Democratic
organizations of the West to support Mr..
1ryuns aspirations. by unanimous vote
| has rcinstated forty members whom 1t
expelled seven years ago Tor rebellion
against Mr.. Bryan's peculiar theories on
/ the currency.
y Tho resolutions 70 admitting these gold
Democrats TO the Club declare them
Il to have been equally loyal to tho
cardinal principles OF tho party with
tho Bfyanites who sought to deny them
/ any tights to bo called Democrats. In
| other words. tho Bryanites, and not tho
gold Democrats, arc doing the repent
Ing and apologtzing.
| The Hartford Times undertakes to cx.
plain the denomination Of General Black
and his acceptance Of office under Mr..
Roosevelt,as follows: II,
WHEN tho last national gathering of
the representative men OF the. Grand
Army OF tho Republic, at San Franclsco,
after passing resolutions complimentary
to Lieutenant General Nelson "A Miles.
elected an Illinois Democrat ohm G.
4 Black, to be its comander-in-chief for q
year, II looked q little as II tho G. a. r.
was neither enthusiastic nor solid In
favor OF tho nomination OF the Hon.
| Theodore Roosevelt as tho Republican
candidate for the presidency In 1901. But
! tic gentleman In the White House took
1 note OF tho situation, and It cannot be
dencd that he Z has made the best OF It.
i General John G. Black has now accepted
i the appointment offered to him BY Mr..
I,o0Rcv cit OF Civil Service Commissioner
to I'LL the vacancy caused by the Death
of Mr.. John r. Proctor With Black on
the Federal payroll again--he was Mr..
CleveIand's pension commissioners from
1883 until lsS9-who will doubt that tho
Grand Army will be all right for the G..
o.. p. in November, 1902 5
The contest for the possession Of to-
original manuscript OF Milton.s Para
disc Lost, is becoming quite an Inter-
national question. says q London dispatch
to tho New York Herald. a report that
an Ama.ican Is prepared to offer $780,
OD0 for It has created something akin to
i alarm. Many arc the Indignant CORE
i e,ondcnts who write to the papers In
1 plnrm at the nation allowing the manu-.
i ,crlpt to go to America. 1t Is suggested
that, failing In everything else. ma
4 tIonal subscription OF slxpcnces be raised
to retain this interesting relic IN the olo
country and make It the property OF the
nation, beyond the reach OF foreign curio
hunters.
III Down in 4AIabamn they are experiehc.
( Ling d season of indifference In the mat
ter Of poll tax paying. as IN Virginia
\ Using some remarks OF The Timcs-Dis-
patch as a text the Montgomery Adyer-
1 tser preacher sermon that applies az
j we'll in Virginia as In Alabama. fiere u
an extract: a;f.
4 It h idle for a citizen to- talk about
good government, about tho kind of laws
| that should be enacted. and about the
4 character of the men who should hold of
tlcos II they are not willing to do some
4 little part towards getting the right kind
! Of officials The time for registering Will
close on the first day Of next February,
\ and the reports show that there are yet
many thousands who have not qualified
Ito vote II Will be a shame and re.
proach IL they do not qualify themselves.
i It viii be ali their own fault, and they
4 cannot BIO proud of such record. Lot
i them reflect on this matter and resolve
10 avail themselves OF the opportunity
yet open to them to become fully quail
fled citizens OF Alabama.
lanta to the effect that Judge Parker will
accept the presidential nomination and
that Tammany will be for him. all OF
which leads the Savannah News to re-
mark
There is nothing in his political ca
reer that would Justify an intimatlon that
i Tnmmany wouldn't support him Il he
were nominated by his party for PresI-
dent An announcement that Tammany
i would support him for the nomination.
would besnews. That matter Iammany
z no doubt has now under consideration.
! II It should decide in his favor his chances
for being the Democratic standard bearer
next year would DO greatly increased.
Tammany Is going to exert a great In
3 fluence In the making OF the ticket, for
!. tho reason that It'll specifically admitted
that the Democrats must carry New
Il York II they win tho election. and tho
i carrying OF the State depends largely
4 upon Tammany.
That organizations choice OF candi-
A date will proba bly, be known within a few
s weeks. The impression prevails that It
is even now giving the matter considera-
ton.
y General Lew Wallace. now visiting In
New York. says that he spends most OF
his time In his library at Crawfordsyille,
Ind. busled on "a work which WIN 20
submitted to public consideration in the
near future,"-but what 1t Is he will not
say at present. The sales OF ben Hur"