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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-04-23
Roosevelt and Parker.

The nomination of Mr.. Roosevelt at Chi
cago will be new departure in our politics,
No man who has entered the White House
through the fundamentally of death has
ever been nominated to succeed himself.
The fortunes of war have always been
<agsinst him. OF the small number Mr..
Arthur best deserved success. and came
near to achieving it. but even he had made
enemies while In office who opposed him In
the national convention and helped Mr..
Blaine to his triumph Mr.. Roosevelt,
however has his battle won. practically
without an effort. He will break the rec
ord and have an opportunity to solicit at
the polls verdict on his presidential stew
ardship.
AT the same time the nomination of
judge on the bench for President will also
be new departure in our politics. Neither
party has ever gone to the bench for its
presidential candidate. The names of
prominent jurists have often figured in
speculation relating to the White House,
and now and then a lightning rod has
plainly protruded above the neckband of the
black silk gown. Chief Justice Chase was
an open and anxious aspirant for the demo-
cratic nomination in 1868, and Justice David
Davis had strong hopes some years later.
Justice Field had friends whom he encour-
aged in several national conventions. But
the politicians could never be induced to
go to court for the man, but have sought
him either from among their own kind or
in the ranks of the soldiers.
Now. however, 1T seems likely that the
bench is to be drawn upon. Not the high
est bench. but a very high one, and the
man picked out is an honor to his court.
Judge Parker is very much respected by
everybody who knows him. His manners
are popular. and his decisions carry weight.
He is in the prime of life, well born well
read. well-to-do. The stock is good and
wholesome He has made his own way, and
has mounted pretty high. This for the pres
ent should silence those who are afraid
that, because he has not rushed into print
with his views on every conceivable subject,
he has no views outside of his profession.
The probability is TO the contrary.
This then is to be the year for a new
departure by both parties in the matter of
candidates. And added to the interest of
the situation is the fact that the two men
who will contest for the highest prize are
personal friends and cherish for each other
a cordial good will The race in every way
promises to be of unusual interest.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-04-23
Mines at Port Arthur.

What Russia most needs at Port Arthur
is not a new naval commander. but an in
structor in the use of explosives. The Rus
sian education is undoubtedly deficient in
that line. 1t is wonder, indeed that any
thing of hers is afloat there when We con-
slider how necessary mines have been in
her plans, and how little familiarity with
them her sailors have shown. Evidently
the sea is not Russia's strong suit. Japan
Is much better on the water-so very good
there, indeed, as to challenge a high de-
gree OF respect everywhere. Admiral
Skrydloff is brave man and an educated
sailor, but he is going to scene where
the morale of his forces must necessarily
be at low ebb, and his opportunities for
good work extremely limited. Mines in
Russian hands are almost as dangerous
as jack-knives in the hands of small boys
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-04-23

IL the government were required to pay It's
rust proportion of the cost the price of the
whole would be raised or the share of the
beneficiaries would be lessened, and that
in order to avoid any embarrassment to the
government that partner in the capital en-
terprise should simply slide out of all re-
sponsibility in the premises and leave the
issue solely between the District and the
property owners.
Here is a bit of the debate which Illus
trates the dogmatic attitude of the House,
leading to the overwhelming viva voce vote
by which the conferees were instructed to
resist the Senate's contentious:
''Mr. Butler of Pennsylvania: Why should
the government pay quarter?
Mr. Payne: Nobody is able to state why
the government should pay quarter"
That was the fact. Nobody seemed able
or willing to state the Districts side of the
case. Yet the matter has been threshed
over so long and so often and SO thoroughly
that the wonder is those members of the
House who see clearly on ordinary occa-
sions should not have been ready to stand
forward and make the necessary explana
lions and advance the few simple but
cogent arguments to prove that the gov
eminent. in not undertaking to bear it's
street extensions, is recreant to the trust
undertaken by it in 1878.
For the benefit of those members who
are genuinely in the dark as to this point,
The Star will repeat briefly the view of
the case taken by those who believe that
the organic act means what it says. This
is a measure of capital development and
maintenance. 1t is as much a proper
charpa IIpop the artperShin as the pro-
vision of school houses in the suburbs, the
providing of policemen and fremen, the
laying of sewers, The law of 1878 provides
that to the extent to which the estimates
for the District are approved by Congress
that body shall appropriate one-half of the
property out of the federal treasury and
the other half shall be raised by taxation
of the property of the residents of the
District. That Is an absolute, specific d.
rection that all the expenses of the capital
maintenance and development shall be
equally divided. The act does not author
ize Congress to discriminate between items,
to make two classes of estimates or. ex-
penses, but requires that the line be drawn
straight through the budget, cutting 1t into
two exactly equal parts.
The Supreme Court of the United States
has rendered an opinion, cited recently In
connection with the research as to the
eligibility of an appointee to a District
position. to the effect that the organic act
of 1878 is the Constitution of the District
of Columbia Congress can, Of course, re-
peal or amend that constitution by direct
process, but the District has always con-
tended that it cannot in justice amend and
materially modify it by this indirect method
of ignoring it's provisions whenever it SUITS
the houses or by shifting issues and es-
tablishing arbitrary precedents. Certainly
such weak showing of alleged reasons
why the House should not recede from its
amendments as was made yesterday does
not justify this insidious process of sap
ping the foundations of the Districts con-
StitutiOn
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Hearst Spikes a Gun.

Mr.. Hearst yesterday spiked one of the
enemys guns. His democratic opponents
had been charging that he couldn't make
speech. At any rate he had not made one
IN the role of statesman. and his silence in
the House had been used to his disadvan-
tage in his canvass for the st. Louis nomi-
nation. Yesterday, upon invitation, he APP
peared before the House committee on the
judiciary and made an argument in sup
port of his position in the matter of the
anthracite coal trust. He talked clearly
and very much to the point. 1t is not
necessary to support his whole contention
to be able to concede that he handled him
self very well in the circumstances He is
no mute. Put him on his feet in the open
House and. barring possible stage fright
he will hold his own with all but the
trained orators and experienced debaters
He is a new hand at the bellows, and of
course has good deal to learn. Mark off,
then, the charge that Mr.. Hearst has no
tongue.
Another charge is that Mr.. Hearst has
no pen. Many changes have been rung
upon that. His newspapers, we are told.
are run and written for him not by him.
There are good people who believe that the
editor Of a newspaper writes everything in
plain things to them is time wasted Equally
useless is 1t to reason with those who hold
that man capable of directing the for
tunes OF a successful journal is unable to
write for 1t. John Delane, the greatest
editor the London Times has ever had If
not the greatest editor in the history of
daily Journalism in the English tongue,
rarely wrote line. Not that he could not
write. but that he did not have the time
He presided over all the work; cut II out
and put the parts together when they were
finished. His talents We're displayed in
the selection and direction of his staff; and
influence.
Mr.. Hearst's 'fuency'' in the matter of
his check book is not only conceded by his
opponents. but made much of. No man
should enter a defense of the lavish use of
money in our politics, because it is indie
feasible. 1t is demoralizing to the last
degree. But Mr.. Hearst is not the only
offender In the premises. The trusts, bid
ding against Mr. Hearst. are seeking to
control the st. Louis convention, and if
they succeed in that will then attempt to
buy the election. They are enormously
rich, and in comparison with them Mr..
Hearst is but "a poor boy at a frolic.'' In
morals. what is the difference between his
some of his most savage critics are trust
newspapers.
MIR. Hearst will not be nominated at st.
Louis But he is entitled to a fair deal.
Why not give him one?
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-04-23
The House "Instructs."

The District was in a truly deplorable state
on the floor of the House yesterday when
the conferees for the House on the street
extension bills asked for Instructions
To- yielding or insisting upon the principle
of whole cost on the District which that
body has written into those measures. Not
a voice was raised to state the funda-
mental principle involved further than the
few words uttered by the chairman of the
District committee in explanation of his
presentation OF the case. He did say that
the contention OF the Senate was that the
government should pay its quarter N,2f the
cost of street opening, where the whole
&C st is not laid upon the property owners
directly involved and he did refer this con-
tention to the basis of the organic act, but
he did not fortify this proposition with the
great array of facts and equities which rem
der It impregnable as matter of absolute
justice.
Nor were the words of debate uttered In
opposition to the Senate's contention argu-
mentative or persuasive. The House was
told that for ten years 1t had been doing
this thing in this way. and that sufficed
There was some talk s>e-t ssa danger that
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-04-23
A Clear Title to the Canal.

Yesterdays transaction in Paris, almost
unanimously ratified at today's meeting of
stockholders in the Panama Canal Com
pany, puts the United States in possession
of it's clear title to the properties of that
corporation at Panama. Thus another OBJ
stacle in the way of the undert taking of the
work is cleared and this government is
nearer IN consequence to the task itself.
There has been some fear lest these Paris
formalities might be delayed or tangled,
but the failure of the suit instituted by Co.
lombia to prevent the transfer gave an indi-
cation that the French courts were not dis
posed to bubble over technicalities or to
give undue weight to pretentious claims
now that the United States has, by per-
fectly proper course of conduct, presented
itself as ready and eager to dig the water
way.
The case now stands thus: The title to
the physical properties and the franchise
vests absolutely in the United States; this
government also holds sovereignty over the
canal strip. and is in the last stage of the
course of formulating a statute providing
for the proper government of that strip;
the canal commission is on the ground ex-
amining 1t in detail to ascertain the precise
steps to be taken to clear away the rubbish
of the French failures and to plan the gen
eral campaign for the letting of contracts
the sanitation of the strip and the organi-
cation of an effective government. and.
finally. the money is in hand for the salts
faction of all claims upon the United States
for the canal strip and the canal property
Considering the difficulties that were re-
Gently in the way. and the disposition that
plainly existed in influential quarters in
this country and elsewhere to delay and if
possible defeat the construction of an 18TH
milan canal at all hazards, this accomplish
ment within half year has been remark
able. Six months ago the Hay-Herran
treaty was pending before the Colombian
congress. with no sign of its ratification.
The act of 1902 required the President, in
the event of unreasonable delay, to turn
to Nicaragua. The Colombian congress
adjourned without taking action. just as it
had intended to do all along, Immediately
Panama proclaimed it's secession from Co
lombia and asked the United States for
recognition. Events favored the Panamans,
and this government was under treaty and
moral obligations to grant the request. A
feeble attempt to prove that this govern
ment had been in collision with Panama
to the end of secession failed. and the pres
ent verdict OF the worid is that the Oniteo
States has acted honorably in the premises.
The factors inimical to the piercing of the
isthmus died hard. however, and continued
to struggle feebly even to the end of in
terposng obstacles in the courts. Mr..
Wilson of Illinois filed his celebrated suit
against the Secretary of the Treasury, PRO
bono publico." But the government has
gone on. carefully, yet speedily, and today
stands ready to begin digging just as soon
as the engineers say the word. 1t Is a
performance altogether characteristic of
the nation.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-04-23
Knows His Subject.

From the New York Sun.
With the eye and mind of sincere and
honest man, practical and clearheaded
Judge Taft has studied the Philippine ques-
ton in all its phases for nearly four years.
No other person knows the subject as he
does, and those who wish to be right will
do well to heed his words and adopt his
views. Reduced to a brief expression, his
address of April 81 gives as the key to the
solution of the Philippine question the prop
ositton that the Industrial welfare and
prosperity of the people is the measure of
the success of an administration. There
fore, in successful solution of economic
problems, the entanglements of political
problems will disappear.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-04-23

buildings has been much improved, through
the cultivation of beds of blooming plants
and the preservation of the lawns. But
the work has gone further in that 1t has
led to the establishment Of backyard ana
front-yard gardens at home. The children
are encouraged to buy cheap packages OF
flower seed, and they take much more In
terest In the work thus undertaken at a
trifling expense than if the materials were
furnished free. Some of the schools re-
port that every child has something grow
ing at home. in can or pot or a box, or
in the ground. Pitiful stories are told of
the efforts of the little children of the poor,
living in places where the sun rarely creeps
and the ground is numbered with refuse, to
preserve tiny patches of earth for the
propagation of a few plants. There is the
heart of the whole subject of nature love.
Every child who has had that wonderful
experience of producing something out of
the soil, who has acquired that first-hand
acquaintance with the natural forces, gains
new point of view toward all the growing
things in the world. The small boy who
previously romped and raced over his
neighbours parking and tore up his vines or
stole his flowers will not engage in such
mischevous pranks when he has thus had
his eyes opened and his heart warmed to
the real beauties of the plants. He may
forget himself once in a while and in his
play trespass again, but he will commit no
wanton destruction For he has become
landed proprietor and the pride of the soil
has entered into his soul and he has fell
low feeling with the harassed householder
who has struggled to keep his lawn neat,
and to cultivate his blooms. Such boy
is not the less wholesome youngster for his
flower love and he will make the better citi-
zen. This work by the public schools will
go very far toward relieving Washington
of its present anxiety about the parlkings.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-04-23
The school-Garden Work.

The work that has been done during the
past season or two in the cultivation of
school gardens has undoubtedly exercised
a beneficial influence upon the attitude of
the small boys of Washington toward the
property rights of other people. This ex-
cellent enterprise which has been fostered
by the officials of the Department of Agri-
culture. has given the children direct
sense of responsibility toward the growing
plants and the trees. The appearance of
the surroundings of many of the school
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-04-23
A Typographical Error

Some one made a big mistake,
dunno who it is.
De sky is gettin' cloudy
An de wind begin to whizz
Oar ain no gentle breezes
Nor flowers a-smilin' fair:
It's April in de paper.
But December in de air.
My head has got de mis'ry,
An my bones is in distress;
rs gettin' tired o trouble
Fun dis white folks foolishness.
rs ready to go fishin'
An rs got no coal to spare.
But it's April in de paper
An December in d. air.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-04-23
Wedding Gifts.

NNERY rich things, expensive
HI or inexpensive, as you wish.
W Many are unique; some
without duplicates. Bric-a-
Brac, Marble Pedestals. Marble
Busts and Figures, Bronze Busts
and Figures, Luneville, Teplitz,
Cloisonne, Royal Moriage. Cobalt.
Royal Bonn, Sevres and Salvini
Vases; Austrian Glass Vases. Gale
Glass Vases, Electroliers, Hand
painted Miniatures, Cabinet Orna-
ments, Clocks in French Gilt. Mar
bic, Onyx, Porcelain, Vienna
Bronze; Sumptuous Leather Goods
Silverware for the table and toilet
use, in sterling and quadruple plate /;
Rich Gut Glass, Dainty Chinawarc.
Artistic Lamps and scores of other
beautiful things, practical and orna-
mental, for wedding gifts, affording
many possibilities for the enbellish-
ment of the new home.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-04-23

The sultan is very much pleased with
his new cruiser. He has had occasion
from time to time to inspect so many
visiting warships that he ought. to know
q good one when he sees 1t.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-04-23

If General Grosvenor cared to look up
the record of every man who has seen fit
to change his opinion within the space of
four years he could produce some inter-
aStinp data
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-04-23
SHOOTING STARS.
No Sympathy,

You don't feel any sympathy for the
colleague who was convicted of grafting?"
Not the slightest" answered Senator
Sorghum; This lack of honesty was equaled
only by the primitive insufficiency of his
methods"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-04-23
Evidences of Effort.

HAS your association ever accomplished
anything noteworthy
Yes. indeed" answered young Mrs Tor
kins. You just ought to see the unfinished
business it has accumulated
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-04-23

The disasters at Port Arthur have not
even the didn't-know-it- was LOADED" .ex-
cuse that usually accompanies accidental
explosions.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-04-23

Some of the opinions accredited to the
Chicago University create a suspicion that
Mr.. Rockefeller ought to look after his in
tellectual investments little more closely.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-04-23

1t is thought that the title to the Pan
anna route has been transferred in a man
ner that will give the lawyers of the flu
ture very little encouragement
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-04-23

Japan may be disposed to defer opera
tions until it sees just how much dam
age Russia can do to it's own forces on it's
own account
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-04-23
The Dumb Candidate,

From the Chicago Tribune.
Thus far no newspaper has published
what could be called speaking likeness
of Judge Parker
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-04-23

Herculaneum is to be uncovered and
American multimiilionaires can make ready
to bid on an Indefinite supply of art treas
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-04-23

St Louis should be required to, guarantee
that The Pike will not turn adrift on the
country any such collection of freak amuse-
ments as the Midway Piaisance developed
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-04-23

Tammany cannot understand why such
nice man as Judge Parker can associate
with such a person as David b. Hill.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-04-23

The wild west has practically disap-
peared from the map. 1t is no longer
necessary to go any farther than Chicago
to find an abundant supply of bandits.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-04-23

Senator Nelson will not be asked to con-
duct a series of straisht-from- the-heart
talks for the Congressional Record.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-04-23
A Melancholy Transformation.

What mighty changes bring dismay
When Mars looks down with threatening
brow.
The battle ship of yesterday
Is nothing but scrap-iron now.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-04-23

Russia has more soldiers than Japan.
But it also has many more miles to travel
before reaching the scene of action
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-04-23

In organizing another jury for the Wat
son case, 1t may be well to require a ply
siclan's certificate from each juror.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-04-23
New Books.

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History of the Republican Party. by G,
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-04-23
Looks That Way.

From the New York World.
Carrie Nation is a dime-museum freak.
Is the dime museum degenerating?
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-04-23

Mr.. Bryan speaks disparagingly of money
but does not waive his interests when it
comes to the collection of fee.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-04-23
Extremes.

From the Baltimore American.
In Utah marriage is as much of a popu-
lar pastime as diyorcing is in Sioux Falls. /
s. d.