The Daytona daily news. [volume] (Daytona, Fla.) 1903-1926, 1910-12-30

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cessor 1910 was only one s0f
the common or garden vari-
ETY. of years. 1t did not dis
rover the north pole. 1t did not have
eluster OF centenaries, and 1t did not
drive Abdul Hamid from his throhe.
Yet It saw the advent Of the Portu-
guese republic, gave the house Of lords
solar plexus blow In England and
put the standpatters to sleep In Amer
lea. These events and others entitle 1t
to our loving regard.
It also dew high In aviati0n-some-
thing over 10000 feet, to be exact. 1t
was an industrious year that did not
aspire to be q big noise and vet got
quite little done. To put it In classi-
cal language, it was not much on dress
parade, but was "a good booger to
work
Deposing Of King Manuel.
In the political world the big event
was, Of course, the driving Of King
Manuel out OF Portugal and the estAb-
lishment of republic. Compared to
the magnitude of the event this trans
formation was accompanied by q little
bloodshed. The affair had Its spice Of
scandal. as do most royal perform
ances. 1t appears that a Partisan
dancer of the name OF Gaby Deslys
took the youthful monarch's eye, with
the result that Manuel spent much
time in Paris and Gaby sojourned not
infrequently In Lisbon. Ordinarily this
might not have excited comment, be-
| ing quite the usual thing among kings,
| but inasnuch as Portugal was tired
Of monarchy anyway the gossip played
! its part. As result Mile. Gaby will
go down to history as the highest kick
err on record, having kicked off a kings
crown.
The year beheld the accession of
George Y. in England. an event that
had no influence politically and but
little in any other way. OF far greater
| Importance were the two British par
| liamentary elections. both resulting in
Liberal coalition victories by practi-
cally the same majorities. The first
Of these forced through the house of
lords the single tax budget. and the
second practically sealed the fate of
| the peers and decreed some form of
Irish home rule. Taken together these
two victories constitute the most sig
nal triumph for the progressive side
witnessed in England since the adop-
ton of the reform bill
China Also Awakened.
/ Perhaps the third event in impor-
lance in foreign politics was the meet
ing of the Chinese senate, definitely
marking the beginning of parliament
tary government in the Celestial King
dom, the last great nation that had
held out against the rising tide of de-
mocracy. When China has @ parlia-
ment and quits wearing pigtafls the
millennium will be waiting just around
the corner
Other notable political happenings
abroad were the establishment of the
fight to separate church and state in
Spain, the Mexican uprising and the
swallowing of Korea by Japan. The
Land of the Morning Calm is being
given such touch of high life by the
Japs that she is now the Land of the
Morning After.
| We have also had some politics al
home. 1t is almost brutal to write
about the elections of 1910, but it Ii
impossible TO give a full blown re
view of the year without them. Dem
ocratic and progressive victories were
generally the result. The progressives
practically doubled their representa-
ton in both houses and elected gov
ernors in California, Kansas, Mich
igan, Nebraska New Hampshire
South Dakota, Tennessee, Wisconsin
and Wyoming, although in the las
named state the progressive Repub
dican candidate ran on the Democratic
ticket.
The Democrats carried the nationa
house by about sixty, made such gain
In the senate that the progressives viii
have the balance of power and electet