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for the fashion In which b Governor mas
| acted toward the man who works at the
polls.
sHe has made us feel that he has no use
for us lust because we are workers. said
one man whose party work has earned
respect rather than criticism In this city.
That this sentiment Ia genuine and exists
In many quarters 10 undeniable. Yet there
wal not the slightest suggestion from this
man that he would not support the Gov
ernor with perfect loyalty; no was not talk
ing privately or publicly Of any revenge.
On the contrary. like about all the Repub-
lican workers big and little In this county,
he had accepted the fact that the Governor
was to be renominated-and reelected.
After all there is nothing moro sigpsacant
in the local situation than the fact that 1t
is identical with the situation in counties
having a similar population In widely sep
arated regions. In Broome. In Genesee. in
Jefferson. IL 10 the farmer who predominates;
it Is, moreover. In the main the rural dis
tricts which give the Republican party its
majorities. Hence the evidence In these
three counties that the Governor Ii the
overwhelming choice Of the majority seems
10 answer the claims Of the hostile party
l0hu0fS buht tno HlhJoIity u ~
party arc against the Governor.
Nor Is It less significant to find that there
Is nothing but ridicule here for the notion
that alleged Federal Interference Is TO bring
popular resentment. On the contrary on
all sides there is to be found intense salts
faction that tho denomination OF the Gov
srnor has beer made reasonably certain.
II there il resentment II is directed against
the politicians and would-be bosses who
produced tho situation which called for
outside interference. Above all else there
is manifest the fact that a majority Of the
Republicans in this county desired the
denomination Of Governor Hughes and are
now satisfied because they believe 1t has
beer insured.
cit has given new life TO a dead national
campaign" 10 the local politicians YER
dict. Add to this the universal convio-
ton that a foolish party fight has been
settled right. and the point Of view OF his
section of Republican New York Is made
adequately clear.
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FRANcE TODAY.
HmpressIons Of o travelling Student Of
Society.

Society.
To THE EDITOR OF TIE Bun Sir. Tia
writer has spent the last two months travail
ling through France, and has carefully noted
the habits and conditions Of the people. Tia
separation law came none too soon; that IA.
II the priests and Bishops use discretion and
energy In bringing about reforms and cor.
recting evils that have accumulated through
out the ages. There seems to be good mate
rial to work on. and q few Bishops Of the
American stamp could do much in q eenera.
ton to redeem France to the Catholic causs.
The Latin, however, priest or pagan. In
not an Anglo-Ssxon: m Just as the pagan
to-day "a putting tho screws on the priest. the
latter would undoubtedly return the pressure
were IL In his power to do 90.
Liberty 10 o m~isnonner In this so-calsd
republic. The Socialists control tho nation.
although Catholics inform me the former
comprise but q ANAL percentage Of the popu-
/, iation. This In due to the fact that Paris IA
the pivot aroun which r~evolves the repub-
lie. An English Protestant. living IN Paris
thirty years. vi outspoken regarding the
low class voters who control the elections.
The Premier 10 the absolute ruler OF almoei
every petty oficial from corner to corner Of
the State. The men In the larger cities are
merely nominal Christians; The women as
Glaze s1ss seer seem 1,s yirtSS scIsr s99q gu e. v H1Esy re- ssx.
tafiate 81 saying that the soclaifsts. are Try
ing to kill religion. The question, therefore,
Is .knotty one for a foreigner to unravsL.
The writer however. believes that the
whole shair wiz remain az " 10 while Paris
e ehs n paf. sfs q e pIsss Srs'h in al .Rfi@ ee ebssss Sve1 IT, e
81 esP pss f fsr% MSai g. t sRe sSes e S1 sS az d Esad nc:
produce q few half naked women at each
performance In not calculated to live.
In the provinces conditions are better, but
the capital exerts great Influence all over the
while thinss are es they are: Sunday q gen.
Americans treat q general holiday, Although
the provincials are apparently lax In their
religious duties, many OF the men seem well
disposed toward the Church. and II the priests
are sagacious they may In ,time, bring them
sS Hs w 70 ssf ssain sor at oe MaiSf sh'i sut fa sssrs
are grave doubts in my mind regarding ths
ability OF the Latin priest to bring order out Of
the hmentable chaos in which France Is
laundering to-day. The Partisan wants no
Church and state: the provincial wants It and
there the matter rests. But the State must
do something 70 save itself from destruction.
adoat: otherwise the nation & doomed.
Whether the officials of the two ~institu-
only time will tell. Paris, however, must
cease TO b a hotbed OF evil. autonomy must
be given x the various departments and the
children OF the rising. generation must be
taught morality. not imm9raiityi Then
: eFs sElis %'{ bs sass ss: y * ~ sas sas tss','a title
PARs, France, August la. ~
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Republican Nursery Tales.

The Hon. AIBERTJ HOPKINS, a Senator
In Congress from Illinois, seems to
have learned anything and a never
have had very much to forget. II the
wrath OF Pig Iron KELLEY or ROSWELL
G. HoRR could be evoked and made to
speak It could emit no follower, out
worn and now meaningless patter than
HOPKINS has been churning out at Hot
Springs, where he seems to have gone to
impart misinformation to Mr.. TAFT:
The record Of Mr.. BAYAN az q FREQ trader.
The Wilson German free trade measure.
-under The Mckinley law and . Republican
administrator there was not an enforced idle man
In America.
The Wilson. German bill parslyzed the indus.
tries Of the country. destroyed the market for all
farm products and psupcriSed labor
Does Senator HOPKINS, who Is 30 ap-
preciated In his home town Of Aurora
that It voted against his denomination the
other day, suppose that Mr.. TAFT Is to
be strengthened In Illinois or anywhere
else by this ancient humbug about the
Republican protective tariff as the source
OF all prosperity, whereas a Democratic
tariff, soaked deep in protection as the
free trade Wilson tariff was, Is the in
evitable mother Of panic and poverty
That sort OF 1ubdub used to work. 1t
will work no longer. Many Republicans
in the Northwest and in Massachusetts,,
for example, are at least az strong for
free trade" as Mr.. BRYAN has ever been.
The country saw last year a Republican
panic which the blessed Dingley tariff
could not avert. 1t will be. necessary for
the Republicans. il they are to talk about
tariff revision, &c Nintroduos Q little in
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The record Of the riot ut Portsmouth,
Va, appears to be closed. That riot oc-
CURED almost simultaneously with the
affair at Springfield, ILL.,, yet 1t seems to
have been disposed Of already and not
through the agency Of loud talk and
Pickwickian demonstration, but by very
drastic and decisive measures.
1t will be recalled that in the Ports
mouth q q large mob assembled for
the purpose Of taking from the jail and
lynching q negro who had murdered a
policeman in cold blood. The attempt
was unsuccessful, but q very formidable
riot was precipitated, and 1t became
necessary for the authorities to take
active steps. Major REED was the head
and front Of the enterprise, and he pro-
oeeded with swiftness and despatch.
OF the leaders who were identified and
brought before him nine have been fined
500 and sentenced to sixty days in jail.
Four were fined $40 each and imprisoned
for ten days. Another was fined 500
and costs for carrying concealed weapons
in addition to the 500 fine and sixty
days incarceration for riot. II must be
considered also that the mob made nd
attack upon the negroes generally, in
ficted nc devastation a regarded the
race a. q whole and disclosed not the
slightest effort to harm the innocent or
drive the colored people from the town.
The rioting consisted wholly In an at
tempt to get hold Of one negro who had
foully assassinated q policeman.
Among the prisoners when they were
arraigned two. it appears, were negroes
themselves. Another who had carried to
the Jail the rope and noos with which
to hang the murderer was a negro. One
OF the prisoners was an enlisted mar
Of the Marine Corps. A chief witness
against the criminals was the wife Of the
jailer. Apparently she was not at all
frightened and did not lose her head even
when some OF the mob, fully armed
made their way into her bedroom and
demanded the keys.
All things considered, the Portsmouth
riot was very well handled. It was not
Q race conflict in any n Of the word,
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mo Code Bonaparte and tho standard OH
Case.

Case.
To THB EDITOR OF The SUN Sir: 1 no.
ticed In THE Sun Of August ~ the statement
that the Attorney-Generafs onics intimated
that It might be able to get the United States
Circuit Court OF Appeals for the Seventh
Circuit to certify the ease q the se4ndard
oil Company of Indiana versus the United
States to the Supreme Court and thereby
get 1t before that court more speedily than
by applying for q writ OF certiorari.
II the Attorney Generals once 10 reported
correctly, ii Is a new idea to me that after
the United States Circuit Court of Appeals
has handed down It's decision the defeated
htigant can have the case certified 70 the
Supreme Court. Section o of the act estab-
fishing the United States Court Of Appeals
p~ropounces as follows:
The judgments or DEGREES OF the Circuit Court
OF Appeals shall be ANAL In all cases In which the
Jurisdiction Is dependent entirely upon the oppo-
site parties 10 the suit OF controversy. being aliens
sud citizens Of the United States or citizens OF
different States; also In all cases arising under
the patent law. under the revenue laws and und or
the criminal laws and In admiralty cases. excepting
that in every such subject within Its appellate juris-
dicticn the Circuit Court OF Appeals At any time
may certify to the Supreme Court OF the United
states any questions or propositions OF law con-
corning which II desires the Instruction Of shat
court for It's proper decision.
1t is obvious from this that the Circuit
Court Of Appeals for the Seventh circuit can
not at this time certify any question In this case
to the Supreme Court. 1t has decided the
ca GO and has lost jurisdiction Of 1t 90 far
as asling the Supreme Court for any instruc-
lions on any OF the questions involved In the
case IL concerned. II. Of course. = rehearins
h granted on the petition dled by the sttor-
neys for the Government, and after the case
10 reargued, should the Circuit Court Of Ap-
peals desire Instructions on any Of the aues-
lions involved In the case Il could then oer-
tify such questions to the Supreme Court.
But It seems highly improbable that the
circuit Court OF Appeals will ask any instruc-
lions In this case. for It has mado its de-
cision and Il would be practically saying
that 1t did not understand the questions when
Il decided the case. II II had desired any
Instructions from the Supreme Court II would
undoubtedly have asked than when the case
was argued and will not now. even though
II grants Q rehearing. certify any question
to the Supreme Court.
JAMES D. DEwRLL. JR.
NEW YORK. August 20.
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Tho Lamp Of Light.


We begin to take an almost affection
ate interest in "the great organization
bearing the Lamp OF Light to every
nook and corner Of Free America" as
MACK, WETMoRE & HASKELL say in
their more than beautiful letter Of advice
and direction to Bryaniac editors. Now
"from the fireside of the patriot who
loves his country for his country's good
good in bold type-as distinguished
from the greedy possessor Of swollen
fortunes who loves his country only for
his country's goods-"goods' in bold
type, please-come letters full OF heart
and dollar bills. Some Of these letters
are almost as justly dear to US as the
Lamp of Light epistle itself, which was
dictated to an Eolian harp by the honey
bee Of Ardmore, Governor HAsKELL's
master in song and music, Colonel HAM
BEE. Hear the Hon. ". j. GROOM OF
Wharton, Tex:
say. hurrsh for BsxAH. the greatest man the
American continent has ever produced. except
wAsHnofog and JEvsnRsos DAvrs. and we must
and win elect him President"
May the hand OF Providence steer
him safely into that Office and thereby
save the people from peonage and OPP
preston and restore unto our beloved
country Justice cries Mr.. BRYAN Of
Giddings, true to his peerless name.
"A reputable negro Of Memphis sent his
collar. no neo Dottor DO respectapie'
- At-A-I -----
MIR. BRYAN won't take tainted money.
The fervency OF Oklahoma needs no
ulustration. From Kansas, hat brings
t.rt;arv nj Tana;ro the Hon Tr,RNRR
NJ p.n,,s ~r...ino th.t w;Il
-
NO '"A"poSn o''
.on the sist Of last month ! caused q to bs cent
you a. q contribution to the Bryan campsin fund.
and by this letter you win sec that / an . convict
am moro than that too: ] an Asrue born Amcri-
can. being Q Cherokee Indhw from Eastern Okla
homA. ! read the pspcp and my heart beats in
harmony with Mr.. BarLa's principles. I see that
As m 80 ~.s.as $50, ~.
,r,su,,oo. frorS ,ra,,. and oorDor.,,ous: therefore
I feel 1, the su,y of All truth loving and GOD fearing
people 70 unite With votes and dollar bills and elect
p, ssidsn, of tho United States. BY go doing
you <sfsas the devr-ior II is the devil to monopo-
hse-snd tho Republican party has sought sno Is
seeking TO monopohs' our GOO given sn'-ior
vne" ouf sh0e'.o,s i :.
~ :. .,,ou.s 49, 80. .nd M. NV NM.
v.,. .o,,o,.uon. Am, hs, they ar, n.,nr nm ON
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the old line enabled the new company to
reach the heart Of the city.
The article In the Quarterly from the
pen Of Mr.. e. W. BEMIs states that Mayor
JOHNSON early In the summer Of 1905
proposed to the City Council the pur-
chase Of the Cleveland Electric by a hold
ing company at q specified price with
fixed interest rate. The company re-
jected the proposals., but after Mr.. JOHN
sons election in 1907 a conference was
arranged In which Mr.. JOHNSON APP
peared as the representative Of the City
Council and Mr.. F. H. Corr, q promi-
nent and highly respected attorney, rep
resented the company, with full power
in the settlement Of the controversy.
After months OF discussion and public
hearings, reviewed In considerable de-
tail by Mr.. BEMIs in the Quarterly, a
settlement was reached. 1t included the
sale Of tho properties Of the new lines
to the old company, the passage by the
City Council Of the so-called guaranty
franchise to the Cleveland Electric Rail-
way Company, and the lease Of the en-
tire property and rights to a new organi-
cation known as the Municipal Trac-
ton Company. A new franchise was
given, covering a term Of twenty-five
years, the limit under the laws OF the
State, with right reserved to the city
to purchase the lines together with
all additions or extensions thereto at
the termination Of the grant, q provided
1t have tho power to do So at a price
then to be agreed upon.
By q practically simultaneous process
the Cleveland Electric Railway Company
reduced its capital stock at the ratio OF
100 to IS. took over the Forest City and
Low Fare companies, surrendered all
It's old franchises in accordance with the
new arrangement with the city, and
signed q lease to the Municipal Traction
Company. The capital Of this company
is only $4,000, held by less than half a
score of owners, most Of them residents
Of Cleveland and all Of them men Of
recognized standing. They constitute
In effect a board Of managers for the en-
terprise. The traction company is to
pay 9 per cent. on the stock Of the railway
company. II there are profits beyond
that rate they win be devoted to extern
sions, improvements, reduction OF fares
and the Improvement Of the condition and
wages Of employees.
There are many incidents OF interest
and Of Importance in the now arrange
ment, but they r too numerous and too
elaborate for brief recapitulation. II
will be some time, probably several years,
before the process and It's results a
fairly justify either approval or criticism.
About all that can be said ut present is
that a group Of Ueveland's prominent
citizens has undertaken the management
and operation Of Cleveland's street car
service in the interest Of the city and Of
their fellow citizens.
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telligence and, II possible, q little sim
certify into their remarks.
What Senator HOPKINS says Is Of little
consequence enough. He may be en-
tirely honest in his tariff formulas. Prob
ably he is. He repeats from habit a
charm which no longer works. Hunkers
of his kind can do Mr.. TAFT nothing but
harm. 1t is an older, wiser, much dis
illusioned people that will hear or 60
to sleep over tariff revision. The old
Republican bogy tales won't do.
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the Honers or Peace to President nutlsr
e In poria.

Little more than q month after the friends
of arbitration and Of International peace en-
Joyed themselves at q Joint demonstration In
Paris organized In honor Of representative
Of the American republics who visited Paris
In behalf Of the same interests q published
account Of the chief functions comes In the
form Of q souvenir pamphlet. with detsfs
Of the reception Of President Nicholas Murray
Butler at the Palais Bourbon by the French
Parliamentary group favoring international
arbitration and of the dinner given By the
French international Peace Society In honor
restaurant In the Champs Ulysses. The
Parliamentary group n the peace sooiety
Joined hands. as they ave done before. b
give q new impetus to the common Gauss for
which they are working.
At the Palais Bourbon q quartet Of Sen
ators and Deputies escorted President Butler
to Q seat beside the president Of the roup,
the Baron d~'Estournelles de Constant. who
welcomed the American with the wish that
he might find himself 40 much ut home in Paris
as his French oolaborersh had found themselves
in America.
President Butler won prolonged applause
In his reply. in which he formulated the same
thought which Prime Minister Clemsnoesu
has many times uttered. although carrying Il
further than Preside Butler did. the thought,
namely. Of the power Of N idea. President
Butler declared that the world had learned
from France that q country owes It's rank
less to physical might than TO the foros Of
ths idea. Even the president Of Morningsids
Heights. however. added the concession that
some force was stu necessary. W needn't
chase m illusion he said.
At the dinner next day IN the agreeable
SURROUNDINGS Of the Champs Efystes Foreign
Minister Pinohon. the American Ambassador.
Henry White. and other representative Of
oficiai dignity were present. After the ever
active apostle Of peace, Baron d'Estournsues.
had spoken. followed By Minister Pfnohon
and Ambassador White. President Butler de-
llvered another address. In which he declared
that the IDEAL to which the paoinsts had
more implant itself among men and nnish By
becoming the power rssnant Of the world.
The polite and devoted a~ssemblags beneath
the chestnut trees paid ColumbiA's president
the tribute Of long CONTINUED Applause.
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Cseveiand's Now street Railway Plan.

Oevotsndb NOW beroot Railway H1an.
Thus far the Cleveland three cent car
fare experiment has not bean a success,
but Il ID not altogether safe to declare
It q failure. MI. JOHNSON, the doughty
proponent and advocate Of cheap trans
portation, is in no way disheartened by
the n~on-success OF his scheme. He says
that ne IL mot afraid Of the future
He asserts his conviction that every
thing will come out right in the end.
On August IS the Cleveland lines aban-
doned the three cent scheme and charged
. ave cent cash fare, but sold tickets
on q three cent basis. It Is semi-ofa-
cially intimated that the five cent rate
will not be continued later than the end
Of the present year.
Meanwhile Cleveland Is trying m In
teresting experiment In street. railway
control and operation. The Quarterly
Journal OF Economics for August con-
tains a summary Of the history OF the
present undertaking. Until two or three
years ago the Cleveland Electric Rail.
way Company had practically q monopoly
Of the street car service Of the city and
was strongly intrenched in its position
and it's policies by the laws Of the State.
In his campaign for three cent fares
Mr.. JOHNSON realized that effort to COM
pei the Cleveland Electric to reduce its
charges was hopeless. During and after
a royal battle with the old company a
competing line was installed on pre-
viousiy ~unoccupied streets, and a legal
rieht to the use Of some OF the tracks Of
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There were no wholesale prosecutions,
no destructive oonfiagrations and no
signs Of a disposition to eject or even to
interfere with the negro residents Of the
town. Moreover, the ~ringleaders have
becn punished-somewhat gingerly may
be, but after all as severely perhaps as
might have been expected in the case Of
q fruitless outburst.
We are still awaiting the upshot in
Springfield, Ill.
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1t L. rot easy to understand now the
theetre promised us by a wealthy woman.
formerly q popular actress, is to succeed
in all it's purposes. Her reported intention
is to build and conduct q theatre "to help
and encourage young playwrights and play
ers by giving them a chance to write for
It and play in it. and to devote the theatres
profits to the needs Of sick and superan-
nuated actors
Surely an amiable intention but some
how it lacks promise Of holding out in the
end. II the patroness produces plays to en-
courage authors. that 9 plays rejected
by regular managers. else the authors would
not lack encouragement. She is to cast
her plays with actors who have failed to
find employment with regular managers.
else they would not look to her FOR engage
ment. Excellent, 80 far; but where are the
profits to come from to fulfil her further
purpose. the relief Of sick and needy pro-
~fessionsls2
Commercial managers are eager pur-
ohasers Of plays the public wants. which
will make a profit; commercial managers
bid for the services Of players the public
wants to see. who viii help draw audiences.
The plays and players rejected and neg
lected by commercial managers may serve
an altruistio design as 1t Affects their own
worldly condition. but beyond that the
amiabls intention indicated laois promise
Of realization.
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History ~ She 10 Writ.

TO rn EDITOR OF TUE suH--Ss' In the interest
paragraph from an article on sunny Jim Sher-
man In curosra Literature for August. page 49,
IF Sherman doesnt get the Indian vote q win
be incomprehenstbie. Not only 10 he q DESCENDANT
OF Schooicraft but his wife claima direct descent
from pooAhontss. and her mother q
lock OF hair which her grandmother had from the
head Of AdIutsnt Rosa ldol. ths husband Of Poca.
hontss IN whose arms General Wolfe 10 said To have
brcathed his last upon the Plains oi Abraham"
WASHINGTON, ID. C., August - G. I. d.. w.
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In serbnsrs Mseastas for scptember NJ. Bcnjss
min Brooks describes the work OF the modern con.
s~tructins engineer with the aid OF flfustrssons.
A life OF Richard NanSneld 10 begun. Mr. VIII II
Lows Interesting "Reminiscences are continued and
Professor Henry van Dykes drama IN verso comes
90 an end. The short stories are by Elizabeth Jor'
dan. w. r. Hereford and r. A. Stevenson: Mr..
John feA. Jr.'s. serial goes On. and Md. D. Don.
noily.s IN oonciuded.