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The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-05-14
rrr rlrcrroN or SENATOR'S.

The Senate of Massachusetts killed
the resolve favoring the election of
United states Senators by direct vote
by majority of exactly two to one.
After the vote was taken we are told
that the lobbyists around the state
House exclaimed. lodge is saved"
That is very bad, to be sure: but
there are worse things even than
Lodge. If the method of electlng Sem
ators is TO be changed. why not also
change the basis of representation in
the Senate. making 1t population. as
In the case of Representatives. in Con
Eress? In that event, some Of the
smaller States would not have any
representation in the Senate and that
in some cases that might he named
would not be an unmxed evil If this
plan should he adopted. 1t might he
permitted for several of the political
States to pool their issues and have
one Senator among them.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-05-14
soLAcE FROM THE co,1MoNEn.

After all, there is no Democratic
paper, like the Commoner 1t has
done wonders for the party and ii has
contained marvels of revealed politi-
cal wisdom that have fed the wcared
spirits who wish to follow in the
trail of the Peerless One through long.
years of waiting. The very name Of
this hand-organ was Inspiring, because
1t meant that the party of the Con-
stitution was the party of the common
pee-pul and that the man who led the
party was 4 commoner. We liked
the name from the first. 1t reminded
us of Pitt the Younger and Of Glad
stone, those two great aEnglishmen
who. refused knishlhood in order that
they might remain the champions of
the poor man. That was what BRYAN
did in effect and that was why VIC
loved him and his paper.
The Commonor in It's last ssre
however, has done u far greater scrv.
ice than at any other time in its long
and honored career. AS we read the
other day, It's handsome pages so full
OF news, and reminding us more of
Home and lfireside' than of noli
teal paper. we were refreshed as from
fountain in a dry and thirsty land.
Faithfully following its EXAMINATIONS
we found in the last issue this re-
markable sentence: "Hc (Rryam cX
poets to continue IN politics during
the remainder Of his days"
That settles it and settles i, in the
best possible fashion, We had hardly
hoped for so much because we knew
that however willing the spirit Of the
Leader might be the flesh of the party
might be weak, and we have been
trembling in our shoes lest our nomi-
nation Of Bryan until 1920 would be
rejected in the councils of a party so
uhsfatetnl as to look from Bryan TO
Jefferson, from Populism TO Democra
ey' All these doubts. have vanished.
MI Bryan SAYS that he expects to re.
main in politics and what AIR. BRYAN
says goes with us. If he expect 10
remain in, politics, in politics we ex.
peet to remain with him, and II he
say ne do NOT intend 10 retire we will
not retire, either.
rms announcement is really rbc
best news Of the year % the opr,v
that has hoped for better things n
means more thftn /. hro..i
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-05-14
UPLIFTING THE rpLIprrn.

d. a. Tompkins says in The Uplift:
IF 1t should be proved that the meet
ing ascrbed to May goth never took
place, still would the Mccklenburg
spirit of independence in advance of
that of the rest of the country survive
We thank this great upifter for these
words, because they have caused the
esteemed Virginian-Pilot to open on
him with its twelve-inch armor- pierre
ing battery. and the fragments that it
leaves would not fiji a hamper basket.
In advance of that of the rest of
the country" indeed! The virginian-
Pilot notes that the Battle of Lexing-
ton was fought April IS. 1875. and was
so much of victory for the patriot
arms that the colonists thought there
would be no further resort TO hostili-
ties.
In New York the patriots set the
royal officials at defiance and seized
the munitions of war: New Jersey and
|. pennsylvania rejected ali overtures OF
! reconciliation and began to train their
| militia; Governor Dunmore fed from
the Infatuated people of Virginia and
from the far South the voice of Geor-
Gia joined in the general chorus. More
over, on May 10, ITS. exactly three
weeks after the Lexington fight, and
ten days prior to the NIecillenburg
meeting ascribed to May goth the fine
English fortress Of Ticonderoga. which
guarded with its hundred guns the
watershed between the great valleys
of the st. Lawrence and the Hudson.
was captured by Ethan Allen with less
than u hundred Green Mountain Boys
in the name OF Jehovah and the Con-
tinental Congress-"
Besides, the socallcd Mecklenburs
Declaration has been proved over and
over again to have been myth. The
spirit of the North Caroiiuians was fine
and their service was good; but they
never thought OF making a Declaration
until years after the war was over.
The only true-true Declaration was
drafted by that Incompatible Virgin
Thomas Jefferson. But Tomplsns
doesn't care anything about that He
knows the value of good advertising
asset, and that, but for the Declaration,
Charlotte would be in the class with
Greensboro and Wiston-Sulem
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ORGANIZING AGAINST CHAMP
CI ARK

1t is said that there will be strong
opposition TO Champ Clark for Speak
er of the House If the next Congress
shall DO Democratic. The opposition
will come, 1t is reported by the New
York sun. from the Democrats, a
prominent member of that party hav-
ing declared that "the Democratic
party is full of ambitious men" We
have known that all the time, but the
strangest thing about this story is
that the real opposition to Mr. Clark
by faction of the minority is based
on the fact that he Is a close personal
friend of William j. Bryan and is n
radical" That must be a mistake. OPP
posed to Clark because he is a per-
sonal friend of Bryan Perish the
thought and likewise the thinker who
would think such thought.
Some better reason must be found
than this, because as Mr. Bryan is to
be the next President, the fact that
Mr.. Clark is his personal friend would
make it all the more important that
he be called to the chair. What We
want and shall insist upon is that
the Legislative and Executive wings
of the Government must flap together
when William Jennings Bryan is
President and it would be wise to
give the Legislative wing two years
start so that everything Will be ready
when Our Candidate assumes the rein:
of government Therefore. we are fo1
Champ Clark. first, last and some o
the time. He can't be too radical TO,
lection that he does not understand
"the technicalities of parliamentar!
law as we'll as some others is puerile
since the rules have been changed and
the Speaker does not count for any
thing after all. Look at Mr.. Cannon
and what sort of a figure does he cut
in the business of the House since his
wings were clipped and he was de-
prlvcd of all his peacock feathers.
Why should anybody want to he
speaker, in the circumstances?
Besides, tho immediate business in
which all good Democrats should be
engaged is devisng ways ant
means of defeating the common en-.
en1y. 1t will be time enough to dis.
pose of Mr.. Clark after a Democratic
Congress has been elected
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IN THE uANps OF rnE POTTER.

The Atlanta Constitution has an
idea; but we don't know what it is.
Starting with the postulate that ''in
Iowa, once the most rock ribbed of
Republican States. tho other day, the
Insurgcnt Senators Deliver and Cum
minis aligned themselves squarely and
decisively against the policies OF the
Republican party as construed by the
majority Of its representatives in
Congress- and taclting on to 1t the
hypothenusc that "in America. poli-
tics is in the hands of the potter and
the potter is tho composite will. intel
iigence and conscience Of the Weakened
American people" it proceeds. with
capital letters and black type in
spots. to say:
And the spectacle of these anti
podal types (the Cummins and Dol
liver Republicans and the Aldrich and
Cannon Republicans) lighting oster-
sibly under one flag is a monstrous
anomaly only comprehensive as 1t
heralds the REIMBURSEMENT of dividing
/ lines swift approaching"
Not content with this clear cx-
| position of the political situation. and
with its well known disposition to
treat all alike" our obfuscating con-
temporary makes this conclusive and
compelling statement
THE pouring of American politics
| into the melting pot and the impend-
/ ing repourng into molds and forms
! radically new. has been foreshadowet
| since the vanishing of the era wher
! soctionalism and divergence of Amer
| lean thought made necessary the ole
inheHibility of the parties now being
riven.''
In order, however, that. there may
be no mistake about it and the quan.
tity that must be taken at dose
the Constitution informs its readers
and the great general public, which
| does not read 1t and would not un-
\ derstand it If It did, that the direc-
/ tions oi4 the bottle must be followed
to the letter. At least. we under
| stand the following to mean some
| thing like that: To-day, the muzzle
| OF party loyalty has lost potency. I'M
| less it justifies itself in morals and
| intellect. OUTLYING its function, it
| Is obsolescent." And having done the
best it could, it leaves the rest to the
Democratic primaries.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-05-14

out of work and trampcd halfway
across the continent to ask for some-
thing they could not get Some or
them arc dead, OF course. for sixteen
years Of rough, weather and freight ao-
cidents play havoc even with hardened
hoboes; but the chances are that most
of the survivors arc trailing about the
country now, stealing where thcy can
not beg and riding blind-baggage
where they Will not walk Wanderlust
is In their souls and laziness Is In their
bones. Society can do nothing with
them. for It has tried a thousand times
to reform them and has failed: but II
they could be assembled 1t would be
a fine object lesson TO lease them,
without charge, to Farmer Coxey for
III
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-05-14
TIE FALSE POINT or VIEW.

10 a bright young man who has
ANYTHING in him, college course is
not necessarily fatal to success.
There is always question as to
whether the average student will SUR
ViNc the spelling effects of a college
course" This might have come from,
Mark Twain, We're Mark still in the
land of the living, but at present it
could come from none other than orr
old friend, Joe Cannon and must be
discounted at the start
Mr.. Cannon INDUCED in this bit Of
irony, or sarcasm or humor. or what
ever II may be called, in an open lette.
to the Yale News. a student newspaper
which seems to be carrying sym
postum on the reasons why the coll
lege man fails TO make success III
the business world, There is much
more of Cannon's answer in the same
strain, but the passage quoted is
TO make the Speakers
meaning clear. The question. he
thinks, is not what good may come
from college education hut how to
be good enough to overcome the inevi-
table evil, The struggle of the college
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-05-14
FARNIER COXEY NOW.

IT has been long time since the
country heard anything of General"
j. S. Coxey. who led his famous army
OF lagamuflins to Washington during
the troublesome days OF 1891. Coxey
| sprang into prominence in a day and
was forgotten in few weeks Gath
ering his army of hoollums al Massilon,
Ohio on March "a, 1894, he started for
| Washington, and reached the Capital
with his gallant company on May /,
1894 When the police threatened to
detain the whole mob as suspicious
characters, IT vanished like smoke, and
CoNeS. after spending twenty days in
Jail disappeared as though the earth
had opened and swallowed him
CoNey now rcappcars from some
where in the West. stripped Of his an
ciont splcndor and no longer guarded
by valiant men-at-arms. He has ceased
trying 10 show other people how to
attend to their business and has prob
ably forgotten how to abuse the Gov
ernment in good parliamentary terms.
He apparently docs not care what hap
pens in Washington and would
probably kick one of his former SOL
diers down the steps If he CHANGED
along and asked for a hand out; for
CoXey has gone TO farming in the West
and Is doing finely, He owns his prop
erty We are told, has 1t Well stocked,
is getting fpe urirns for. his prnduCpe
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-05-14
MURDER APPROVED BY, LAW.

The Georgia Court of Appeals has
established . dangerous precedent, if
the published report of one of its re-
cent decisions be correct. 1t appears
that Frank Rossi, of Rome, Georgia,
was convicted of killing Frank Harris
and was sentenced to twenty years in
he penitentiary. During the trial, it
developed that Ross had attacked
Harris because the latter had jnsulted
Rossi's wife, The .lower court, in in
structing the jury, declared that the
nature of the insult which Harris of
Tered Mrs. Rossi could not affect the
verdict. An insult, ii held, could not
Justify murder in the eyes of the
law.
When the case came UP on APP
pca1, exception was taken to this
:harge, and the Supreme Court over
ruled the lower court, holding that
such charge was unwarranted by
The law and uniustified by the facts.
Rossi is to have a new hearing, un-
der conditions. defined by the upper
court, which practically assure his
.scauittal By the "unwritten law"
This is the report, but we accept IL
with some hesitancy as printed, be-
cause 1t is difficult to see how n
Court which stands for the law could
Justify lawlessness. 1t is hard to see
how lower court could be over
ruled simply for saying that an insult
10 mans wife did not legally Justify
homicide, when a contrary instructions
by the lower court, would have Ii
censed murder.
@ The "unwritten law as ii is called,
us one of the most pernicious legal
@puihbles which has ever been devised
TO cheat Justice Justified in sense,
by the opinion OF a part Of the people,
and ennohled IN the eye of some, as
hiyairy'' homicide under the I'M
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-05-14

! cratic triumph than everything else
combined. If Mr.. Bryan remain, tho
rest Is assured.
We do not like to cast even a
shadow Of gloom across the picture
our happy minds have painted OF
tho days when Bryan shall sit
in the Seats OF tho Mighty and shall
carry through all those paramount
Issues which he has been saving
up for happier days ever since
Free slycr was rejected by the un.
gracious and unappreciative American
people At the same time, there is II
little note of uncertainty about Mr..
BrSan's uttcrance which makes lis
tremble. He doesn't say that he will
remain in politics. If he had said so,
that would have settled the matter, be-
cause when Bryan wills, tho party
bows. He merely says that he expects
his days. That is all right so far as
1t goes. but 1t does not 80 far enough,
because
loft expectation fails and most oft
there
Where most II promises"
Something may happen to prevent
the fultilment of Mr.. Bryan's expec-
tations, but far be II from us even so
much as to suggest what that Some
thing" will be. 1t certainly cannot be
the Democrats. for we cannot believe
that Democrat in this country will
ever be so ungrateful as to forget
that Mr.. Bryan has led them so suc-
cessfully for fourteen years and so
worthless as to turn traitor to him at
this late day. The Something" can
not be the Republican party, certainly.
because Mr. Bryan has shown over
and over again that nothing the Re-
publicans do can keep him from
swimming in the political whirlpool
Something may happen and all
our expectations may fall to the
ground, but, nevertheless, we stand by
Bryan until the polls close and the
last vote is counted on November o..
1920, the same being the day for the
choice Of the presidential electors in
all the States of this Union
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-05-14
KING ALBERT SELLS
HIS CONGO HOLDINGS

Ter, the Hon. Charles Rowlcy Hay.
colonel OF the Scots Guards. took
despite the protests OF the Hon Al
listair George Hay, assumed the name
OF DriImmond in conjunction with that
OF Hay. and has intimated that at hIs
instead. OF reverting either to the carl
dom OF kinnoull or 10 the present
earIs second brother, Allistair.
CromiN originally belonged TO the
once powerful Prelatic family OF
Chisholm Jane Chisholm, last OF her
line. daughter and heiress OF sir James
Chisholm OF cromltS, married james
Drummond. Lord Maderty. and thuz
brought the Chisholm property IN
Pcrthshire into the house OF Drum
mond. Her grandson was created Nis-
count stra,hallnn and Lord Drummond
OF Gromlin His favorite daughter
Elizabeth, became the wife of the sixth
Earl of Ninnoull.s This first Lord
Strathallan was not only extremely
fond OF his daughter, Lady lSinnoull
bur likewise OF her children. and know
ing that her eldest son would inherit
Dupplin Castle. and the estates attach
cd to the cardom of kinnoull, he de-
vtsed the CromliN property in such
fashion that 1t should 80 TO her second
son. aud should always constitute the
appanage OF the second son of tlit
Earl of kinnouL, STIMULATING that cach
new owner Of Grolnltx. on entering M
to possession thereof. should assume
in addition 10 his own paronymic
OF Hay that of Drummond. as we'll as
the arnoria bearings OF the Drum
nonds That Is how the present owner
of Cromlix, although a brother of the
late Lord kiunoull, bears the title OF
Colonel Hay Drummond.
or course, the history Of CromliN is
associated with the neighboring city OF
Dunblhne and with its cathedral. IN
Vulnerable Chishons of CronliN filled
the Office Of Bishop OF Dunbianc. and
the Chisholm crest boars head, Is TO
be found carved all over the cathedral.
one of tho bishops William. was
fayoritc Of Mary Queen OF Scots. was
much employed in her political missions
lat foreign courts, and was so closely
identified with Cardinal Bcaton that
Knox described him as one Of the
principal supports of the "Papistical
Kirk" His son was tho Sir James CHS
holm whose daughter Jane married
James Drummond.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-05-14
An Ofrcr for the InnurnhIe..

To the Editor of The Times Dispatch:
Siri--Your short editorial, "How to
Lend to. the Lord" has been read with
interest, and should commend itself
to our people. This most worthy char
ity, the Home for Incurables, should
appeal to the good people Of our city.
The writer has contributed TO It's main.
tenance for many years Occasional
benefActions, sporadic donations, do
not meet the eHigencies of the ,neces-
stiles of the institution What 1t needs
is either an endowment or regular an.
.nual contributors. Tag days are get.
ting too frequent, and II continued
will become a nuisance, i will be one
Of zoo to give $50 or one of 400 to
give $25, or one of 1000 to give $40
per year to place this noble charity
above want and to enable 1t to con-
tinue to administer to the helpless in.
curabiss dependent upon charity. Tho
above offeris conditioned upon the reoul-
site number of subscriptions to COM
surmate the contemplated object,
j. STAUNTON MOORE.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-05-14

and IL II be correctly reported. an
othor outbreak of murder, protected
by the "unwrittcn law" may be en-
pccted shortly. We hope the Geor-
Eia Courts decision has been iniscon-
strued, or. If 1T be correctly stated,
that it viii be ovorruled by the SUI
nremc Court. The majesty OF tho law
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-05-14

King George has, unbeknown to most
Oh ms subjects. strain of Bourbon
blood in his veins, and can. like Alfonso
MIL. the Duke of Orleans. Don Jaime.
and tho prctender TO the throne of Ma
pies, claim descent from st. Louis OF
France. George V. is. as we all know,
descendant of Mary Queen of Scots.
She was herself a granddaughter OF
intoinettc dc Bourbon eldest daugh-
ter of tho Comte dc Vendomc, who de-
scended in the male line direct from
Robert Count dc Clermont, sixth son
of st. Louis, Aptoinette dc Bourbon
married Francois de Guse. and one of
tho daughters of this union. Marie by
name. became the wife of James v. OF
Scotland, and by him tho mother OF
Mary Queen of Scots There are many
who were wont to insist that the feat
ures of Edward VII were distinctly
Bourbonian, while certainly his charm
of manner his readiness of wit and
his courtesy werc Gallo rather than
British. and might he accounted for by
his Bourbon ancestry.
Downright. 1919. by the Brentwood
COmDany)
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-05-14

The Chicago Tribune says that Mr..
Taft wants cook. the lady who filed
this important place in his domestic
establishment having gone off and
married policeman. If he could only
get one of the oldfashioned Virginia
cooks Care there any of them left?)
he would astonlsh all his guests.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-05-14

Professor Alcssandrini. of the Uni
versity of Rome. has discovered that
the bacillus Of pellagra does not
originate in corn. but In water. Great
are the uses Of Science. Down in
Texas and out in Peoria they won't
care where IT starts so long as it does
not start In linnnr
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-05-14

+
I The Columbia State is trying to poke
fun at the announcement: Bath and
other specialtics. armory at 1870 A
NJ, which appeared in the daily rro.
srammc during the all too brief stav
OF our Connecticut friends in Richmond.
1t has the impertinence to ask: "And
can 1t be that Il bath Is a speculative
in Richmond. and why is 1l:3n A. A.
the bathing hour in Rchmond?" We
know that in Columbia the hour is
later. along towards sunset, when all
the ladies have gone home to prepare
supper. IS 1t is then that the hest
men in that rural community can he
found almost any evening in the hot
weather vending their way to the
canal, whore they wash" as the say
ing goes in the country of South
Carolina, In the winter season--well,
we have always heard that 1t is not
good manners to speak of the pecu-
liarities of people. We would say as
to the question which has been
asked about the bathing hour in Rich
mond during the visit of the Foreigners
this week that If the fault-finder in
Columbia had been here, and had been
up all night the night before and the
night before that, he would have
thought that the hour was deuccdly
early. don't you know, AS for tho
"specialties' that is none of It's bus-
ness.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-05-14

The Richmond Light Infantry Blues.
we are informed, need abou. $500 to
make them all right with the world,
and they ought to get it.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-05-14

If Brother John c. Kilgo will make
as successful Bishop as he has made
a College President, the Conference
ought to elect him by rising vote
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-05-14

4 Teachers Position.
Please tell me 10 whom must write
In regard to obtaining position az
primary teacher in the counties OF Viz
GINA, preferably in Western Virginia.
PETERSBURG
If You will be more specific as to
where you wish to teach we may be
able to help YOU
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-05-14
Lcrnl Eor,n..

Your reference to me az authority on
legal form books Is causing ne much
correspondence. Please say thar. so far
as ! know there Is but one Virginia
Form Book now In print. that OF George
G. Gregory, OF the Richmond bar 1t is
an excellent book, bu; more adapted
to the use Of the profession than Of
those who desire business forms only.
yet containing a good many practical
business forms valuable to an intelli-
gent user Of them. ", w. SCOTT.
State Law Librarian.
Did we not know Mr.. scott's readi-
ness to give information to all seekers
after light. we should feel keen regret
at giving him this annoyance: hut w"I
know tho man.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-05-14

1t is hoped, however, that the dis
coNery of The Roman professor will
not DC urged as a reason why men
should discontinue the use of water
for drinking purposes