The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-07-11

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Cold Shoulder to Hayward Girls.
4 Il "a pathetic story was related In The
Times Dispatch OF yesterday, concerning
ID thirteen yenr.old girl who was taken
Ito the Police Court on the charge Of va-3S
sgrancy. This girl Is said to be incor-
/ rlgibio, and 8her, father asked Justice
fCrutchfleld to take some steps to reform
her But we are told that the court
was powerless ana there was no alter
native but to send her to jail. "3 She was
placed under security IN the sum sum Il OF
+ 500 for six mon tbs. ii {. XII q, Isl 4
Virginia that there skno public institu--5
ton for the care and reformation Of
swayward girls. 81 Time and again, Tho Tho
Times Dispatch has received pltlful CONF
.municatlonsfr from cores ondents. asking
what to do with girls OF this char. !
actcr but no satisfactory reply could
be made. Tho State provides refornl'al--
tories for hayward boys Of both races.
but the Wayward girls must shift for
themselves. II It Is a cond ton that We as
an enlightened people, cannot permit to
continue. II, 81, 1, 53s Il AZ
VT Is known Of all men thnt Harry
Tllnw shot down Stamford White without
the shadow8of a legnl Justification. " hat
grievances OF another sort he may have
had & is not 50 well known, and they
are not material to O fair trial Of his
cnse. & ~ Al
But the Thnws have mllions to try
to save Harry. These efforts carly took
the form Of holding up Stanford White
as an awful example Of bad man.
Hired liars eagerly rushed into print to
blacken his 81 charac tcr. Tho M Courier
Journal has8no brief to defend him. lie
may have been a bad man, In spite OF
the fact THAT his numerous friends
thought otherwise. But It to- be remark
cd thnt, 50 far. not one 5of the charges
made against him has been found to BIO
supporteds If there Is any evidence ex-
.cept that of suborned witnesses to es-
tabish{ them. 1t mas been carefully kept
from the blic.-Ioulsville Courler-J our
nal. ia BBs$@5 X. ii5 ft5i
Il White may be as black as he Is paint
ed but he was murdered without a mos
ment's warning, and is not here to de-
.fend his character. The public should
at least be charitable enough to abstain
from denunclation until the evidence pro
and con has been heard in court. That
is the course The Times Dispatch has
adopted. II i
Democratic Organizations III in various
parts Of the country have already COM
mltted themselves to the candidacy Of
William Jennings Bryan in 1905. This
they have done without knowing what
the issues Of that campaign Will be. But
Mr.. Bryan has already made one Issue.
He has already said that It is necessary
for the government to, control the rail-
ways. Mr.. Roosevelt has said the same
thing. The Republican party Is already
committed to that policy. What will
Mr.. Bryan do. II he is to lead the Demo-
cratic torces7 VIII no come out fat
footed for government ownership? q
has that appearance at this writing.
The prompt concurrence Of the Board
OF Aldermen In the giving OF an entire
square for the new High School is highly
gratifying to all friends OF popular sedu-
cation. The approval, OF the Mayor is
assured Now let the preliminaries be
gotten through With in MI haste, that
the work Of building may, begin.
man named Green, who was orig
.inally pink, Is now turning white. Fle
Is, as has doubtless been Inferred. a col
ored man. Or, for the Joke, call him 80
.parti-colored man,
Mr.. Roosevelt Is also to go TO the Pans
ana Canal, we do hope and trust that
the secret service men will see to It that
he doesn't fall in, 4 Il X Il
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X. Tho fact that we hear nothing OF the
Cars tennis nowadays suggests the hor-
rible thought that he may have taken
IN casino II. n
list ticket simultaneously. most OF tho
rest Of us will be walking all over 1t,
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II is to be hoped that TINT fertilizer
inquiry Is not TO be conducted behind
closed windows. n N "A Il Il "a
Those Bryan cheers were not Just the
sort Of nourishment a young Taft boom
requires.
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stll. whenever Mr.. Bryan runs, he