The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1905-08-10
Editorial Symposium
Selected from the Colunns of the Leading NswsPa-
pers of America.


New York Times The report that
the president intends to install AS
sistant Secretary Loomis as success.
sor to Minister Griscom at Tokyo,
who may be transferred to fll Mr..
Loomis's present equivocal position
in the state department, should be
discredited. If this we're true the ex-
pected promotion of Mr.. Takahlra,
the Japanese minister at Washington,
to the rank of ambassador when peace
negotiations are completed, would by
a reciprocal change make Mr.. Loomis
our first ambassador to Japan. The
Japanese peculiarly pride themselves
upon the fact that their nation 10 as
yet unaffected with graft" MIR.
Roosevelt will have neither the
temerity nor the desire to introduce
to the pure court of the mikado the
diplomat of the Mercado claim and
the Venezuelan refunding ten-million-
dollar loans.
GOOD METHODIST CANDIDATE.
Zion's Herald: Two correspondents
in Ohio advise our readers In this issue
of the peculiar political situation in
that state. A battle royal is on, and
the friends of civic righteousness, of
temperance reform and of freedom
from "boss" rule have a lighting
chance" to win in this overwhelmingly
republican commonwealth. From
what our correspondents say, as we'll
as from personal advices and informa-
tion from general sources, we are
hopeful that all good citizens, of what
ever party, and of no party. will COM
bine and rebuke the "boss" and all
that goes with him by electing Hon.
John M. Pattison and in defeating
Governor Herrick. We are not at all
moved to desire the election of Mr..
Pattison because he Is an able and
honorable Methodist layman; we
should ne just as anxious to see him
elected If he we're connected with any
other denomination. 1t Is because he
IL what he is as a man and because of
what he stands for that we trust the
honest yoemanry of Ohio will use him
to wipe out the political practices,
corruption and disgrace of the noble
Buckeye state. There is one sure
remedy for political abuses in this
country, and that lies in the assertion
of the unconquerable sovereignty of
the people. When things get really
unendura BILE, as they are In Ohio, then
the people rise in their might and de.
throne their false leaders. We
believe that hour has struck in Ohio.
WRONG PLACE.
Cincinnati Enquirer Secretary
Bonaparte, when a member OF the
Baltimore Reform league, secured the
investigation of a federal onice-holder
by talking the opponents of the reso.
luton to sleep. He did this by re.
peating his speech many times over
till day was dawning. Mr.. Bonaparte
should have gone to the senate in
stead of the cabinet.
THE COUNTRY PRESS.
St. Albans (Vt.) Messenger: The
truly representative country press,
the small city dailies and the village
weeklies, come closer to the lives of
their readers, serve more of their i'm.
mediate personal interests, and serve
them, on the whole, better, and
actually have a part in the lives Of
more people the whole country over,
than all of the great metropolitan
sheets together. They serve the In.
terests of their constituents better
simply because they tell the day.by.
day story of life rs It actually 10
around them. They are not hunting