New-York tribune., 1908-03-25
According to q dispatch IN Ih'

., o.. O. disnatch In THE New YORK
,,s ....,,- tba views Of German navai
officials considerable astonlsnmeht 10 ~
manifested by them over tho "iiiihsn
president Roosevelt and other American n -
"experts to permit Admiral Evanss Aoo.
! "encircle the globe without a long p.,..I p
"rest" The Germans forecast the prac.ioA
,,se,e..n.ss" of the great fleet upon its return
n American waters, and they point WIN p''O.
- their own policy of assembling thelr oea'
sbins IN home ports, never permitting phe
and dangerous practice cruises "o c"'i
pathize with the poor fellows "ho' do
n,c+ured ara penned up for life IN the prosaio
harbors of the Baltic. IL such Is the,r Id'o, -
wonder they think the Yankees da1y
before they pronounced the grapes 80 49,,
might It not have been well to observe no"
generally a transatlantic liner can dispehso
With "a long period of rest without going 10
tho iunk heap? Or are battleship engines anu
huIls less able to endure prolonged traVei thdii
the corresponding parts of passenger steaihoi''
There are no hard times knocking at tho
door In Denver. That opulent city has JUS.
paid 100000 In cash for the mere privilege OF
entertaining the Democratic National Conven-
tton and dispatches from Indianapolis say tnat
the head of tho Democratic National Commit
tee is heartbroken because he did not raise the
euarantee fund limit to S15O,OOO or 100000.
There is no accounting for tastes. But Denver
certainly holds the record reckless In
vestor in luxures of the evanescent and vola-
tile sort.
We note this curious report of conditions IN
Virginia in a recent dispatch from Richmond to
our neighbor THE New York Press:
The Sth District is the only one of tho six
which have held their conventions that refused
mated in this. but they elected their own dele
gates and they are bound secretly 20 Taft
If THE Press's" correspondent is right, the rep
resentatives In Virginia of 1.-The Baltimore Sum-
1.-The Washington Post" "rhe Richmond Times
Dispatch" and other newspapers In that region
have been wofuIly msled According to their
united testimony, of the five Congress districts
which have elected delegates to the Chicago
convention four gave no instructions and one
gave instructions for Mr.. Taft. There should
be dispute among authorities on such mat
ters of plain record.
New York is to be congratulated it's
cepton of the new "pay-as-you-enter" cars. A
pessimistc notion held that the city would
resist the innovation; that it so welded to
the ancient custom of having street car con-
ductors not overclean. jam their way down the
crowded aisles collecting fares that it would
have none Of this newfangled system that
makes for decency and comfort But apparently
the city has welcomed the change in sensible
manner. 1t is hopeful sign.
Is it entirely right and kind for "The
Brooklyn Eagle to print stenOgraphic record
of the words of Metz and Coler at their most
recent encounter? With such announcement
as this, who knows what will take place in the
verbal line at the next meeting of tlAse two
clustering Brooklynites? The gentle art of
suppression is one of tho newspapers most i'm
portant services to the community