The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1904-07-08

Dut 3WOulHs Dy inc HHeel loi Se VI iAs ~
sonalIty, give the University that dlrec-
| ton and concentration which 1t needed
The University Of Virginia. It's board OF
| visitors ard Its alumni all appreciate the
\ pressure that has been brought to bear
OH Or. Alderman to keep him at Tulane
They appreciate his high attachments,
| his lofty Ideals and Ills capacity for adj
tninistration, and with this appreciation
Is bound UP a hearty and faithful desire
and Intention to support and aid Or. Al
dcrman In Ills task. 1t Will not be n
simple matter to convert a confederation
OF autonomous chairs Into a republic With
q powerful executive head, but undcr
such circumstances as those which con-
fronted the University Of Virginia, and
with such d leader as DR.. Alderman has
shown himself to be. tho change Should
be accomplished with the least friction
and the greatest efficiency. g
we congratulate tho State Of Virginia
on pr. Alder1nan's acceptance. and as
sure Dir. Alderman that he will BIO well
coined by all who are interested In tho
University Of Virginia and given full and
cordial support In his high and important
duties. 33e 4 IL Fl
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Tho Philadelphia Press comes TO us
piofuscly illustrated with cuts made from
onapshot photographs, and showing the
.enraged New Jersey farmers armed with
shotguns pistols and rifles, out In the
brush, hunting for q negro named Aaron
tTimbers. who q few days ago criminally
assaulted Mrs. Charles Biddles. a white
woman. OF Burlington county. Even III
tho absence Of the lengthy story ac-S
con1panying tho cuts We could easily tell
Ii ON the pictures that had the enragcd
white men found tho negro, tnerc would
have beef, no trial By jury. Judge Lynch
would promptly have attended to Timbers.
The pictures look very much like some
of those we have seen illustrating hoy
Texans and hrississipplans and Nirglnians
sometimes hunt for bad negroes. Here
is your object lesson that tells OF the
quality OF white mons blood and how
1t is thicker than sentiment and that
geography cuts Figure when tho pad
negro makes HIS ideviish encroacl,rnenitJs
upon tho white mans social domain.
Tho bad negro and the nameless crime
call for session Of Judge Lynch's court
gust as promptly IN New Jersey or l'cnn-
sylvania or Massachusetts as In Texas
or Mississippi or Virginia.
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Tillnlan had to be heard and II was.
perhaps, well enough that his text was
SO harmless a. thing as the white man
rlank, Everyboy except Gilman Is dis
lrosed to laugh tho Niger plank. Ill Mr..
Roosevet's platform. off the stage.
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Cutting hay OH the Hudson and cut
ting considerable Ice OIL the upper wa
tors of the Mississippi at one and the
same time. is the double let Judge Parker
took part in during the last few days
righteousness
The virginia delegation took the bit
IN it's mouth and Instructed itself for
/ arker at rapid rate; that is TO say.
while the train was making about fifty
miles an hour
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The Hon. John II. Reagan. tEA only
surviving member Of President Davis
I c Confederate Cabinet. 10 q conspicuous
member OF the St. Louis Convention.
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As far as we have been able 10 dis
cover, nobody at st. Louis showed a
determined disposition to throw a tow
line to Colonel Bryan.
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Many OF the statements Of some Of the
st. Louis special correspondents CAP we'll
be taken with a big Western granaly
of allowance.
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"A Philadelphia man was run over and
killed by hearse. Phlladelphia's ruling
passion, slowness, remains strong even
unto death.
Lightning struck the Governors office
esterday, but 1t was not Of the political
lind, and the Governor was out of town.
too.
I
The market stalls and fruit stands OF
Richmond fall to show any evidence OF
the brevlty of the peach crop O. this
year
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II intend to reach the pole, says Lieu
tenant Peary, and the same sounds IKE
an expression borrowed from a race
horse.
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John Sharp Williams and Elihu ROOT
we suppose. will go down in history as
the keynoters Of 1904.
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The Roanoke town COW has at last
been ordered to SO way back IN the pen
end sit down. 4,
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The Argus-eyed Vlrginians Will take IN
and SEQ the World Fair as well as the
convention.
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More than one tow line seems to have
suffered a little over stralnlng At st.
Louis
DR.. Theodor Herzl, the Famous
Zionist. Dead.