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THE WASHINGTON POST TUESDAY OCTOBER 30 1900 un- I 4 F The Washington Post YEEKLY EDITION ffourrl at tt rwt Ote at Waialncton u iMoaf- rclit matter 7ESUI or WEEKLTrOSTAaC PREPAI0 lit swettt cwrt- iUMnl as ealtita will U peM ork- rw as seMlal prltttuta till U altowtd to put ff WIn TKkUS 67 DAILTroaTAGE PREPAia DAILY Ms BMXtl- BJUfcT twt KXDAT ca yttr DAILY 4 8CJTDAT U irccUss- DAILT atd SUV0AT ee metis- Brarit V ran r e r ordtr Wlita- ttMttr tka t a i a4 to a cey a- iU i MtK t r lT l AH maty at risk f M4 r IB ctdtr U Js r UrotI c tofetcrttwrs- ihi c i tr 44m ffcmrt nmt i l tfctfr W- at M i fur D adorns W will always atop w4l g tht f hra tlt tint for wbl h U ti p M- In xp4rcd ao tSat to a oM Bluing aey n abra aN isoalfl rtfi AWreta la alt caMx THE rorr Wulilniua D C Eleciioii Hofiee In order to give our sub scribers the election news of Tuesday November 6 The Weekly Post will be issued next week on Wednesday Campaigning In Chicago Fer tho last throe days of this week Mr Bryan will campaign In Chicago pre sumabiy with the hope of carrying note in the election of Tuesday To roppoee that the managers of the Demo oratks campaign or the candidate himself would be making so Immense an effort as they are putting forth In the great city of the Middle West If they were net buoyed up by hope of victory would be to discredit their intellectual capacity Mr Bryan canvassed Chicago during the week before the election of 1S9 It was claimed Just bofore tho voUng began that his speeches In that city had won 90000 votes But when the votes were counted it was found that Chicago Cook County and the State had gone for McKInley In some thing like that profane way in which Maine went for Edward Kent in 110 It was on the 27th day of October that Mr Bryan in Chicago spoko as follows Now there is ono safe principle to go on when yea are dteuselcg what la going to happen and that principle la that people art net going to do anytblns injurious to their Interests II they knew It I shall U In this city for a number of days and I am going to talk to the people themselTM not tfl their employers to bargain for the delivery of the Totes of the people I have been taught to believe that the ballot was given to an Individual for hla own use Therefore In this campaign I wmt to address my arguments to the Individual voter nt fl railroad or the boss of a corporation When our opponents are driven to the wall on the roeaey question when they hue tailed In tho attempt to defend themselves before the American people they attempt to turn tho decision of this campaign off frota the money question onto other matters but I give them notice that for one weal more they hive got to march up to the money question Woll they did march up to the money question and contributed their full share to Its settlement They and the friends of sound currency in other States won the victory through which the Republi- can party In Its national platform of 1900 was enabled to make the proud claim that the stability of our currency on a gold basis has been secured Had the Democratic party accepted that settle ment as final and gone Into this campaign with a conservative candidate on a con- servative platform It would have lost Us Populist allies but It would have gained very largely through Republican oppos tlon to the administrations Philippine policy and through the disaffection Inev itably resulting from the dispensation of patronage But Mr Bryans candidacy could not be shaken off and taking him the Democracy was compelled to take his platform- It remains to be seen whether his 1900 of Chicago will be more success that of 1896 He must face every day his predictions of four years ago and the undeniable proof that all of them mis- carried He is perhaps the only American of hisitime or Indeed of any other time capable of making splendid displays of oratorical ability capable of proving him- self a consummate master of rhetorical eloquence able to draw and to enthuse vast crowds while standing amid the utter wreck if his prophecies theories and arguments with which he won his unexampled vote of four years ago a vote greater than any Presidential candidate prior to that time had ever received Al most anything Is possible In election re- sults There is always a large element of the voters whose choice cannot be ascer- tained Many of these are not lacking in intelligence but they prefer to keep their own counsel Instead of talking they saw wood There is a more numerous class who really have no convictions or even opinion They are controlled by what they believe to be the popular tide The side which makes the strongest show- ing not In argument but In public demon- strations gets their votes They are nu- merous enough in some States to tute the determining factor We there are many thousands of them in hence the determination of both parties to make every possible demonstra- tion of strength In that city this There Is No Analogy- Is it good policy for Republican news- papers to needlessly offend that large intelligent and eminently respectable con- tingent of Mr McKlnleys supporters who are quite as much opposed to his Philip- pine policy as the most earnest supports of Mr Bryan If all the men who regret the sew departure that finds us fighting Immrottnls in tho Orient were to vote against McKInley If all who eurneetly flditot and hope for a deliverance of this roiMibHo front the responsibilities of ov irofgnty In the Philippines wore to vote tit way we suspect there would be bad news for the Republicans in the election warns Had the trouble now have on our as the result of that sovereignty foreman who Huppects that tho treaty of piece would han substituted the tJnittd States for Spain in the Philip ptow It Is In the highest degree Jmprob- abl that if the President could have INked Into the future for a few months ha would have sent to the Senate a treaty involving what that glance would have revealed will get the votes of mill- ions who datpty regret that we are In and many who carnostiv hope for Hmo way out of those islands There are a of Republican papers ayerr a POst n atl p CtlU tO rH Ju a 0 a n fUN ot eu I rOte t a Fr luM amt 2ut Ill t not I not to the a or the I canvaS const I I week J I we hRs I t honor e one Pib1te1 tu17 1 7e Ut11 4 de TI L toO DAfl1 ttt 4 e I td4rrd k41 p IIAa Ill 4 and head president ci- a J lie < < > ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ of which Is tho Tribune that prafoas or affect parallel be- tween the Insurrection in the Philippines and our cnly groat war between the sit- uation that confronts the country in this Presidential year and that of ISM be- tween the stream that Lincoln was croMtag then when he referred to w- pfg hones and the path that lie before President McKinley To Mich organs cft- posltton to expansion and the policies as Mctated it is the same as opposi- tion to In I8H Of that ts noaaonso but it is And the that it insults the avenue outrages the seasttotli of nwajr of the PresWcnfa friend ought to have prevented its It Is the atltiratt as well as Botttte phase of the campaign There ta- no more analogy between our trouble In the Philippines and the war that was on m- thta land thirtysix years ago today than there to between the manufacture of soap and the rendition of greed opera The Infamy In South Africa Apropos of the widely expreseod opinion in Kagtand to the effect that Lord Roberts should b instructed to resort to the very sterncit measures against UM rebels in Sottth Africa a special dispatch from to the New York gives an in summery of French sentiment in th same connection We quote the dispatch In full Oct St Tfce Teaip awl Jennwl tr t tke refeeteg ta LMM TeNTS tke City Leafed Vetwiteers tke Deer Tke Jeered ak whr Oa total Secretary ChtMser Uta leaves Bwgtaftd e the eve tke trfcmpbMt return tke vsf4er a4 4e fare that there oraat be s me wliMwa r- fer Ms aMien- Tke Matte ear that tke aaaexattak ef the TraMvaal by the brllMi ta hraCeettve aM Tke Mtrr It hectare haa at been tke user seldlere are sit refcetc AMecattMi M a staiple pretext vMattag the laws af elvlHzed warfare sad far eMiMlUtag crimea f every ktsxl What the Matin says is of chief Im- portance It Is a feature of Englands policy to invade weak and friendless ter- ritories annex their property destroy their liberties and then brand all who re slat piratical enterprise as rebels or insurgents This furnishes a pretext for any cruelty that may be deemed necessary Proceeding upon such an Ira pudent and wicked hypothesis the British authorities are burning farm houses per- secuting women and children devastating whole and districts violating every warfare and re- viving the most detestable practices of the Dark Ages By the slmnle process of denouncing as rebels the South Africans whom they cannot subdue they license themselves to indulge in the most shock- Ing forms of barbarism They proclaim a conquest which has not been effected and In the same breath belle their proc- lamation by admitting that tens of thou- sands of soldiers must be kept there to maintain oven the Insecure footing they have attained The finale of the war upon the South African republics If indeed that finale be yet in as Infamous and brutal as was Us prelude In avarice nursed in greed with a sordid and abhorrent lust It is now maturing under the vilest and most Inhuman auspices The fact remains however that the British have not conquered the Boers that they are no nearer to a genuine sue cess than they were in that hideous win- ter when Washington and his followers starved and bled at Valley Forge Now as then they resort to every possible ex- pedlont of savage cruelty Now as then they practice the worst and ugliest forms of persecution But the Boers are still in the field They still defend their lib ortles as our forefathers did theirs a cen- tury and more ago and they are entitled to the sympathy and admiration of who honor patriotism courage and devotion the tragedy will move on to conclusion In the days of our struggle against British tyranny there was a France to come with gal- lant hearts and magnificent selfabnega to our rescue Today there is not a government in the socalled Christian world to lift a hand for freedom In South Africa But the Boers friendless alone beleaguered and at bay the Boers stand In a heroic light before mankind and their destruction will taunt the conscience and accuse the honor of humanity for all time to come But It Is a New Departure In The Pest of the 27th instant an at- tempt was made to show What There Is in Imperialism In the course of the edi- torial under that title The Post stated that there Is a new departure in the Paris treaty not only In that It gives us sovereignty over 10000000 of people on the other side of the world but In the fact that for the first time in the history of expansion Wft acquire territory without Intention of creating States out of it Noting that assertion a correspondent suggests that in making It The Post mist have forgotten Afaska and the Sandwich Islands He thinks that in acquiring Alas- ka there could have been no intention of converting it into a State or States as it was not even converted a Territory but was hold under military government The acquirement of the Philippines and of Alaska says our correspondent would cppear to be nearly on all fours It might perhaps have been more strictly correct If Instead of saying that for the first time in the history of ex- pansion wo acquire territory without any intention of creating States out of it The Post had said that for the first time we acquire territory with a distinct determi- nation not to convert it into States with a treaty provision that the political status of its inhabitants shall be fixed by Con- gress But our original statement was a sufficiently close approximation to the facts of the case for all practical The provision In the Paris treaty relegating to Congress the determination of the political status of the Porto Ricans Filipinos and the Inhabitants of other odds and ends of Insular dominion In- cluded in that compact was new and radical departure from precedents Oat of that has come the Issue of imperialism- and It Is a very Important Issue It was raised In Congress by the Porto Rican tariff It was edited out of the Republican platform by cxCongrwsmon Qulgg It was virtually edited In again by Mr In the Democratic platform it is declared to be the paramount issue But after the campaign Is over It will be finally settled by the United States Su- preme Courtfettled just as it would have been if it had not been heard of In politics since the Porto Rican bill w passed t is belorc the court not as a po- litical but as a legal question In a suit brought for commercial purposes As to the acquisition of the Sandwich Islands there is no analogy between that and tho Paris treaty That Statehood for Hawaii is contemplated as a probability of the more or loss distant future Is olear ly Indicated by the fact that delegates from Hawaii took an active part In the national conventions with which this campaign was inaugurated Nothing but the adoption of a constitutional amend meat confining the family of States to j Chic wit ere fat I ext 1 Pal eve Ill tel her I 1 province sightIs Conceive Doubt s3 I I I an nto pur- poses I a Int lie dee m i t s i Son Peril el with retest eeeo i 1 at fir all- en ion M- cKinley s ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ this continent can render It certain that U vote of the State of Hawaii may not at some time decide a Presidential elec Uon or determine the political complexion of the United States Senate or House of Representatives There ii no parallel between Alaska and the Philippines either In tho manner f Uteir acquisition their population their treatment by the United States or gov ernmeatal policy toward them Nothing in the Alaska treaty leaves or proposes to leave the political status of their Inhub Itants to Congress It is not contended that they are oataWe of the Constitution and subject to the Imposition of duties on their exports to or imports from the Unit eel States And if as now seems bet sueT not be impossible Alaska should peseoas the requisites of State hofed she will come into the family But who wants or wIll over want the ten mil Mona of Filipinos including the Sulus to take pert in governing the United States The Agricultural Vote There If much said these days about the farmer yOU It la supposed to be drifting toward the Republicans Much was bests about it also In 19G6 Then the Democrats were pinning their faith to this vote to elect Mr Bryan Walt until the country districts are heard from said the hope- ful sliver enthusiast when the big vote for Mr McKInley In the cities appearad Then the aspect of affairs will be chang- ed But the Democrats waited in vain The rural districts dill not alter the verdict of the municipalities There was ao uprising of the agricjlturiats for Mr Bryan no wholesale desertions on their part from the Republican party and in the very nature of things they cannot furnish the votes to save Mr McKInley if he be in danger now And this condition of affairs this selfevident truth must assuredly beas apparent to the Repub- lican managers as It is to the casual of political events Unquestionably there was some defec- tion among Republican farmers in the last Presidential campaign but It was marked and really appreciable only in those States that had previously shown tendencies toward Populism Kansas was deeply affected of course and the Da- kota likewise offered a fruitful field for sections of Indiana and Illinois where the greenback Idea had taken root Mr Bryan found Republican supporters But these accessions save in Kansas and the Dakotas were infinitesimal as compared with the wholesale Democratic defections to Mr McKInley The farmers as a class are not easily moved politically Campaign after cam- paign they exhibit a fealty to the party of their choice not to be found in any other element of the voting population The strictly agricultural counties Repub- lican and Democratic alike give approxi- mately the same majorities regardless of issues The farmers become a factor not In being carried with the tide but by it as was evidenced in Ohio last year when they refifccd to be swept off their feet by the Jones movement The factors in this campaign in the doubtful States in our opinion are not the farmers but the Democratic business- men of the who reluctantly supported Mr Bryan four years ago but who having shared in the prosperity that has come to the country under the pres- ent administration will follow the exam- ple set by the business men of the cities in 1S05 by voting for Mr McKinley And moreover we think when the votes are counted It will be found that there ha been no such heavy defection of the labDr vote as the Republican managers now an- ticipate Prosperity will be the mighty agency In shaping the result next month As we have frequently remarked before It Is the Republican trump card In this campaign Stumping for the Presidency Mr Bryans notification speech at In- dianapolis at the beginning of the cam- paign was admirable In all respects Had he contented himself with that wellcon sidered effort and retired to his home permitting others to speak for him as the representative of the combined opposition- to the dominant party we have no doubt that the prospects of the combination would have been more assuring than they appear to be at this stage of the can- vass That his stumping tours the large audiences he has drawn many places have strengthened the opposition more than the combine is a conviction shared by many of his dis- creet friends And It as now seems prob- able his star goes down a second tim6 on the 6th of November those friends will not hesitate to avow that belief in pub- lic as freely as they have been expressing- It in private conversation for some time pest No candidate ever has attained to the Presidency of the United States by stump- ing the country It may well be doubted that the future vlll show an exception to this rule There is a widely prevalent sentiment in opposition to such a method of seeking that office a position which tjie American people rightly regard as the most exalted on earth The popular conception of its dignity demands a digni- fied demeanor on the part of a candidate that is incompatible with personal stump- ing Even if such a campaigner invaria bly addressed himself to the reason of his hearers scorning appeal to passion and prejudice avoiding the acts of the demagogue and keeping on the highest plane on the mountain ranges of thought his appearance in the hustings would still be of doubtful expediency But Mr Bryant has not done that He has conspicuously failed to keep up to the standard of his notification speech He has given ground for the charge made by distinguished goldstandard Democrat that Mr Bryan is preaching the gospel of hate Voicing that he appeals to the en- vious the discontented the Improvident the Incompetent and the unworthy idle Sometimes ignoring at other times de- nying the stupendous fact of such as neither this nor any other saw before Mr Bryan goes whirling through the Stnjes making speeches intended to array class against class the poor against the rich the ageworker against the employer Seemingly unaware that time and events have annihilated all the theories of his 1S86 campaign and swept away all of the predictions he made In advocacy of tree silver he now appears with other theories still more untenable other prophecies even more sinister Speaking to the fanners who have certainly had their full share of the prosperity of the last three years he says The man who drove black slaves years ago is not halt EO merciless as the man who drives white slaves today with his mortgages Mr Brytn ought to know that since ISOiJ there has been an Increase of over 10000000 in the amount of individual in national banks and that the farmers oarn their of it He should know that In the same period the in- crease in savings banks deposits has been over 323000009 to which may be added an increase of deposits Ic mutual savings Institutions aggregating about 174000000 lie should size know that the number of j I j Improb- able I I I ob- server re- Sisting j I townsmen notwIth- standing I I I a pros- perity coun- try I de- posits share e ever ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ k depositors In savings banks Is 321 greater than It wits four years ago when he was foretelliis calamity as the cer- tain result of McKiBtey8 election As naming that Mr Bryan Is not ignorant of those facts and of other official data that prove the of an allpervad laS and abounding prosperity why does he make such remarks as these which are taken from his recent speeches aaa eaat 1 blamed If be U MBpeiled te lep Mi MM oa the grlDdsteae nit be OlD be Ma f4 tt k s Ms rxrse en the grintan of his a Mri- Tke are cento to the Deaacratfc party sSWe tee a pew SMS If leek tenrard t Uw wfcNi fce ea be as tefaptaient man aad haft oaMgh laY by rim a mar day It can never be profitable to preach calamity to people who are In possession of prosperity it is certainly unprofitable- to the Democracy forjMr Bryan to chal- lenge comparison of present industrial and financial conditions with those of tour years ago And when in doing that he tries to excite claaa animosities lie gives convincing proof of the unwlsdom of his stumping tour Has Mr Roosevelts stumping boon more helpful to the Republicans than Mr Bryans to the opposition In one re pct at least the Democratic leader has toured above ihe Vice Presidential can of the party Under great provocation the Ntbraskan has kept control of his temper Under similar or less exasperating circumstances the gov- ernor of New York has made mortifying displays of anger The result of the Roosevelt stumping Is a full confirmation of the Judgment of those Republican leaders who opposed and regretted and sun regret his nomination Idiotic Antics of on Organ Our more or loss esteemed contempo- rary the New York Sun has not yet ac- cused Mr Bryan of the murder of Mil- lionaire Rice or Insinuated that he con- cocted the Pa erson N J tragedy but It has charged him with nearly every other crime committed within the past two years and Is ready to multiply Its speci- fications at a moments notice The Sun In fact has become so rancid within the fortnight that It Is ready to blame Mr Bryan for the Filipino hostilities and to allege that Aguinaldo Is now fighting us In Luzon by Mr Bryans orders and for the sole purpose of helping the Demo- cratic cause in this campaign The last press report from Manila describing a disaster to our forces Is thus headed by the frantic newspaper under discussion Aguinaldos Orders to Aid Bryans Campaign Obeyed Of course this Is idiotic It discloses an intellectual condition that would disgrace a tenyearold schoolboy in Oklahoma And emanating from the New York Sun as it chief organ of the Repub- lican party for the present It certainly warrants the Inference that the Sun and Its followers are alarmed The proposi- tion strikes us as being supremely child- ish The successes recently achieved by the Filipinos arc not at all calculated to weaken the administration If there be one thing which above all others can be safely predicted of the American people- It Is that they will stand together as when the nations dignity and pres- tige are at stake and sink their party differences In the presence of a common peril Only a fool would suppose that Filipino successes Involving the slaughter of our soldiers in Luzon could injure the administrations cause and help the cause of Bryan The assumption is too silly for serious notice It Is without support either In reason or experience If Aguinaldo were to achieve any substantial triumphs and so menace the safety of our army and the integrity of our occupation the voters of the country would stand by the government almost without exception All of which prompts us to believe that the Republicans so far as they are rep- resented by the New York Sun havo fall en Into a condition of disreputable panic These frenzied and hysterical appeals can be explained in no other way The discharge of laborers at the Brook- lyn Navy Yard on tho eve of the election Is not Indicative of apprehension on the part of the administration There was a time In the history of the country when the navy yards were manipulated for vote malting purposes The socalled Burchard incidents are played out as vote changers The public always demands something novel in that lln The Baltimore Sun provokes the Hon John K Cowen to such an extent that he rates for his communications Americans will build the new railroads- in South Africa as soon as the shooting Mr Croker wants a check placed on the administration Then there are those who want stripes placed on some of Mr Crokers followers The Democratic editors are finding fault because President McKinley remains The Republican editors dont com plain because Mr Bryan Is talking Taking It altogether yesterday was what might bo termed a good day for news Note Teller Alvord made the mistake of going to Boston where everybody knows everybody in town The New York Sun has arrived at the paddedcell stage of the campaign ahead of some of Its contemporaries It Is sincerely hoped that the heathen Chinese have not been reading the from Paterson N J 3Ir Bryan heard one of Dr Parkhursts sermons on Sunday Mr Bryan dearly loves excitement There are those who profess to believe that Mr Cleveland regards all campaigns- as distressing when he doesnt happen to be on the ticket Rev C M Sheldon Topekas sensa- tional parson is operating In New York That is Just the town for Sheldon The settlement of the coal miners is what might be termed a good Job of I placing the dollar before th man Secretary Long has arranged to rear platform his way to Colorado Chairman Jones advises the Democrats send their money to him instead off betting it on the election Jones Is deter- mined to keep up tho collections to the very finish A member of the Georgia legislature spurned the orthodox way of extinguish- ing the gas and is now in the hands ol the coroner We are beginning to under- stand some of the Georgia legislation The shrewd spellbinder should carry a nina along to ask easy questions We fear Mr Sothern is not an ideal Hamlet The melancholy Dane would not have permitted a little happening to hla great toe to cancel an engagement A Nebraska editor has declared for Bryan In a threecolumn editorial it it difficult to understand how a man who writes editorials of that length could ever have been for anybody but Bryan It would seem that Embezzler Alvord madd a mistake in venturing outside of NewYork Of course wo will have to catch the FHJnos before we can apply thfc clvll- seiVice rules to them j A Ira peer the D tIe party wants to make it pes Republican doesthe Ameri- can engages In a controversy and pays space eases si- lent dis- patches strike to I dt m presence keep es oar ate con- an I ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ THE BRITISH ELECTIONS Will the Result Incline the Comer to Take Up Liberal Reform The closeness of the recent ejection In Groat Britain by which the aiarquls of Salisbury will find himself supported In new that meets today by the same majority he had at dis salution eLona an Interesting steadiness In the electoral opinion At on September 2 there were in the House of Commons 3S9 Conservatives and TJnlpn tats and 2il Liberate and NatioraJists- llrtoh party a majority of m Ir the government on the main lasurs The tion lasted less then a mjnth nil constituencies having ben poPes by Oc- tober 17 and in the new House of Corn mona Lord Salisbury will have l tel lowers Conservatives and Unionist while the Liberals and Nationalists eouut up somo Ml the Ministerial majority being 132 This Unionist majority as it Is call Is not as large as Lord Salisburys in IMS which amounted to 352 but the net gain of two members satisfies the leaders and gives them a free band So far as the effect of the Boer war goes those who were for the govem- nwnts pulley at the beginning of it pine tically remained unaffected by either the blunders or the scandals and they voted ftr the war advocates with remarkabl unanimity There was no landslide either toward or away Irons the Conservatives and the Liberals barely held their own being themselves divided muh as to policies In England proper the Unionists hold 339 seats to 126 for the opposition In Scotland It Is 37 to 35 In Wales 4 to 26 Liberalism having a stronghold In this rugged region while in Ireland there are but 21 Unionists and one Liberal to SI Nationalists The change In the general distribution of Unionist and Opposition seats so slight that maps showing the political complexion of tife United King- dom in September at a glance do not look unlike those lepresontirg the re suits of the recent poll The tendency seems to be moving to- ward Unionist polities In the cities and boroughs while Liberalism holds the country districts The workers are for the government the country folk against it London is overwhelmingly Unionist its 50 now as in 1S03 being 51 for the Unionists and only 8 for the Liberals In 1802 the Unionists had 34 and the Lib- erals 25 seats which represented serious Liberal inroads on the IS Tory and 11 Lib eral London districts in 1ES6 London as a Tory center seems to have come to stay and this Is also true of the boroughs the Unionists having 127 seats to the Opp- ositions 40 a net gain of 5 for the Unionist cause which however really brings back the boroughs to their alle glance of ItsSJ when there were also 17 Unionist boroughs Today in eleven great towns outside of London there arc but 10 Liberal seats to 41 to be repre- sented by Unionist candidates Backed up by the substantial majority it is unlikely that Lord Salisbury will turn the tables on the Liberals by carry Ing out certain refcrma they have been urging and so deprive them of certain grounds for attacking the government As premier Lord Salisbury has found this method effectual before and as he has no Gladstone to rally the Opposition his task is likely to be an easy one As he Is but seventy years old he has If he lives up to Gladstones record a long ca- reer ahead of him since Gladstone was just In his first premiership at seventy while Lord Salisbury if he Is In office next spring will beat the Victorian rec- ord for length of service as the chief uf government The of the From the York Press Secretary Roots reserved attitude as to the future of the army will be shared with public advantage by his party col- leagues In his Canton speech the head of the War Department pointed out that the whole question of the size of the military establishment was a business one of the countrys needs which Con- gress would consider with an eye main- ly to the natbre of those needs at the time of consideration Specially bel- ligerent Congressmen will ask for too many troops said the Secretary spe- cially economical Congressmen will ask for too Somewhere between the two demands it Is safe to say that a right conclusion will be reached No political orator and no political com- mittee can say more than this None need attempt It No one In country Is really perturbed about the size of the army No one Is desirous that it be treat ed as any other than a business ques i No one can pledge Congress to treat It otherwise In the now generally conceded event of the reelection of Pres Ident McKInley It will be advantageous to be able to look back to the statement of his Secretary of War as outllnlr the position of the Republican adminlstra j and party at the close of the cam- paign AlTvnm Bargain From London TitBits London street boys are on the make whenever the opportunity offers and they go about it in a businesslike way Not long ago the wind picked off a gentle mans fine silk hat and whirling it aloft left him bareheaded on the pavement Here boy he called to an urchin near- by get my hat for me What are you offerin inquired the boyI want my hat exclaimed the gentle- man Ill give you twopence Whats It worth the boy Inquired Its u i sw silk hat that I just gave 17a- 6d for Ill give you a threepennybit If youll run and get it for me I think not replied the boy turning away I aint in the business of furnish- ing gents with seventeen bob hats for threepence Lets have 10 per cent on the value for salvage mister and away I go Ow doc3 that strike yer and the boy stood expectant till the gentleman nodded Dreary From the Journal The Current Conception of a Society Girl cried softly to herself Now that the automobile has done away with the coachman she was moan- ing whom am I o elope with Naturally the future looked very dreary holding as It did nothing for but re- spectable marriage or a career Ait Impertinent Qncitloii From the Cbttago TimesHerald j What became of that uncle of yours that you used to think so much of j Hes Died one day when he was j all alone Nobody knows just hov It happened Poor old man How did he lose money ot a L borinBcln Expert From PUCk a professional burglar arent you Prisoneratthebar yer honor I aint makln no business o stoalln yer honor Im a decayed gintlemun yer an I lea took it up as a fad THAT OPEN DOOR la tl en Salstary scatted bit to tit Kilitr oiled In these era Chinese tfotai ire moat battle Ida br aide Thea hap w ta lespercr aa oMfa out U ad- He Well stIck Ucttbcr tV well tire Us- So or Ealatarr aealo An nr abut ta Jt does ns teed sari Vflllaa t know that tkr are ye s Then or Ealibiry salted more Aa ow- tfaeat ta Well dMp I tlaws tV Kaiser asr aa efcatt Ira Jo his lair Aa ov about ta Yankee hirer Sribarr tia exclaims E wat e 6t W KaiKr aar Wotk- la Utile james Were la ta an door Safitwr t DIN WVf it lor as two Says Dill You bet we will CtmUaA Yule Dealer j f- F tM Pb11a41Ia Frau th House al- most dfsol Uon he ed ma- jority I I I I I lze Army ew the Detroit her dead his JudgeYoure 1 i I hon- or a an utheA lloAc uY Rex Burt keep pea t t m e dee sea nut few ion ion Makers says Been once wed ass open ears ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ > AHEilICV3 SCHOOL AHMY Relation of the School to the Stability of Hepnbllcau ln iitaloBS From the Karaia CIty Stat The fact that nearly 17000000 pupils are enrolled In the schools of the United States as reported by the Education should dispel the fears of those who have forebodings for the fu- ture of the republic Almost onefourth of the whole population Is receiving in- struction In various branches from the primary department to the university By tar the larger proportion of the younger generation Is thus learning the fundamental principles of good citizen- ship Illiteracy Is one of the chief sources of danger to a popular government There might be danger of imperialism were there a large falling off la school attend- ance At the end of the civil war the govern- ment had to face a question of great on account of the lack of educa- tion among the negroes Then oome an influx of illiterate foreigners in the years of excessive immigration during the TO and SOs The importance of the problem was understood School work was at once pushed by private as well as public organizations and during the decade from ISO to ISM some headway was made in r ducing the amount of illiteracy Ten years ago the census showed that the number of illiterates above the age of ten was only 133 per cent of the popu- lation By far the Jarger proportion of those naturally were negroes Educa- tional work In the South has now been undertaken in earnest In secondary as well as elementary schools With the de- velopment of the resources of the South- ern States their school systems may expected to show corresponding progress The work of education among the should advance during the next decade as never before In a government by the people the edu- cation of the masses who are the real rulers of the nation is essential Russia can get on with a high percentage of illit- eracy because the Russian peasant has little to do with his government a state of affairs In a republic would be fatal to good order It Is the illiterate vote that offers the most fruitful oppor- tunity for corruption Men without edu- cation are the most prone to follow an unreasoning but eloquent speaker Even If n boy does not go beyond the age of fourteen he has the foundations on which he can educate himself He Is able to read the newspapers and if he does that he is in a position to defend his rights With 17000000 children and young people In school the liberties of the nation are se- cure Every year a part of this great army assumes the duties of citizenship These graduates of American schools may be depended on to safeguard the institu- tions handed down from the fathers Leave Well Enough Alone From the Atlanta Constitution The practical decision of the Prohibition leaders to avoid a campaign upon that is- sue during the term of the present gen- eral assembly Is a wise one It is a fact of history that the friendi- of a given cause are often its most invet- erate enemies They fight for a form of official recognition and power without a moments thought of the progress of the Ideas which they wish to extend There has been a constant growth of temperance sentiment all over the country and ever those who still drink have abandoned the worst features of the old condition Where Intoxication used to be the rule it is now the exception and this condition is back- ed up by a strong public sentiment which cannot be defied In all the great lines of trade liquor drinking constitutes an In ellglbllity for employment and heartfelt conviction has established sobriety as the normal condition In no State of the Union has the reform been more marked than in Georgia In- stead of trying to make unwilling con- verts by the coercion of State law the leg- islature wisely gave to each munlclpllty which had been educated up to the higher standard the power to defend Itsel through local option A system which has met with constant anti effective success is not to be hastily sot aside for one which In other States has not stood the test of experience The DanIel West Indies Prom the Boston Advertiser From St Thomas comes the news that intense adverse feeling has been excltod by the renewal of the report that Den mark intends to sell the Danish West In- dies to the United States Meetings been called to voice the protest of the colonist against any such tate Judging from the popular clamor the United States by Its action in the case of Porto Rico and tho Philippines has gained a- very ugly reputation throughout the civ- ilized world Otherwise the people of the Danish Antilles would feel it nn honor to belong to a world power like this coun- try rather than to a onehorse principal- ity like Denmark Still this hysteric agl- taticn at St Thomas may as well quiet down This cotntry has no intention of buying the Islands especially since it was discovered that a noted lobbyist at Washington might have a claim on the Danish government In the event of the sale of the islands to the United States Tactical lauder Frorn he Chleagi Tribune Has Mr Goodcatch been to see you lately asked the girl in the pale blue taffeta shirt waist Not since a ago last night re- plied the girl in pink Ho said our par- lor was so brilliantly lighted It hurt his eyesAnd didnt you tell him to turn down the gas Xo I didnt think of that Well thats precisely where you your watermelon From the Detroit Journal The Intrepid explorer accosted the Ant arctic Eskimo In all confidence You look just like the Arctic Eskimo said he all the difference In the worM between us Interposed the Antarctic Es- kimo with a loud laugh although ht had never before como in contact with civili- zation As for the explorer his chagrin know no bounds upon discovering thus that this wellknown Joke was quite Intuitive Dangerou From the Chicago And was it etiquette that kept you from taking the second piece of ak ed the host Xo replied the candid youngster it was papa He had his hand all ready to pinch the minute I reached for the pie 3InI locSure From the Se York First Lady off for a Journey I hope weve got the right train Second asked seventeen train- men and ninetythree passengers if this train went to Blankvllle and they all said yes I guess wre nil right raleolalvd toPleaac Tiara lodtaepci Jurnal Dolly I your jiew young man Intelll Well pa hei Just about right he doesnt understand puBlics any better than I do Ubnt It Jltant ptas the Chitago Xtvt Bender your wife aays Js prepared to meet you What that mrtm If shald prepared it m anh hash flat iron in oneeh curtain cole In osher A be WbreU Go Hound Train tine chicago re Judge Why did you steal this watch PrisonerBtcausft I was pressed for time your honor Judge Well youll wind up In Jatt A Vleilw From Chleato Xws at the cburchKHow do you feel old chap QroomFlne 1 as happy do when Im am la u crowded Mrter Coml1 8lon r- ot mag- nitude be hav week drop- ped Intuitive but- T 1ere1 Iore New pie kit LadyI so the t ate she hand the Usher feed su c negroes But- ch gent sine does ws Willing nl she ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ < ¬ MEN MET IN HOTEL LOBBIES lion John W Yerkts of Danville KrH who AS Rcfwbtican candidate for RW- ernor In the Grew Common K H is the osHtrttl ttre ta a hated cam came to Waohtngta lam evening i registered at the Rhoes House u leave today after attending t Tfrffnt private buxinoM bavin speaking fciux yet at Lnuis Thursday evening others at G town and In the southern part I do not count on tho State ii k r 1 Kentucky ahead of Mr Kir a Roosevelt saM Mr YeHres wh u a tall spi MlMllr Wit KM of k affable In eonversatfm I am ana1 that some gentlemen differ with m n that retard but It must be that a greet wary rf our people i it i on support of their Hal candidate as the first principle of party loyalty in Kentucky if men tee for the canrt dates of his party on the Stat ti k there is a feeling that ran be nin tome latitude In votintr when it residential There ar to b sure many mn who voted for Mr Rrv an four years io or who will r him this year and will vote for iviR- epubUcan outdMatos Mr Br an speech In Louisville however Injured hir greatly in Kentucky He wtterM t ne sentence which irritated many pro ocrats That as his statement that h hoped to see Mr Boekham el t 1 CAT ernor of Kentucky It revived th f Ing against him on the part of Democrats who resented his previous u- tterances in favor of Goeb l and Ooebrl Ism Mr Yerkes says h Is confident Pint the Republicans will have a majority m Kentucky on both the State and the rv- tlcnal tickets I prefer he in answer to a ouestioe as to how mu h th majority would he to leave of estimating the vote to the manap TJ- of the campaign Col L Victor Baucbman f FrederlrV one of the active leaders In ih Democratic politIc of that State a at the Halelgh yesterday He t Washington to arrange the details t- cloainsr meetings in western tier f counties Col Haughman realizes 1 the Republicans are a despcrat carry Maryland I have said he every confldenre in th honesty of those who have been Intrustd with the tInseL management of the ram- p gn and do not believe the people themselves to be influenced by money bribes In this great contest Baltimore I naturally a city and the people are at heart a I- mllltarj and imperialistic ten f- cdenclea a now evidenced f wlv i from every standpoint opposed to The ri fl gantlc trusts which have such verenl in tho outlay of evry fc r and every householder The pie feel the continuation of the war la- the Philippines far more than those In an- thority dream of Every stamp on en express receipt on deed and gages and the hundreds of other things upon which stamps needed are fon ble reminders that the war still continue I These with the dally accounts of from the Philippines have causal our people to wonder how far the military spirit will take them 1 Maryland is a conservative State her people believe In the of the Ye Maryland should be regards a J safely in the Bryan column if tho people were left untrammeled tiiM would be no question as to the outcorm J Many of our most prominent citizen laugh at the Idea that dIsaster will ov r take the country In the event of Mr Hr- yans election They regard him as a fr safer man in the conduct of our govern mental affairs than thw erratic ltoot ev t Why should Mr Bryan want to stop th wheels of progress He is as good an American citizen as Mr Henna and must be Interested In the succors and welfare of the people as much as Mr McKInley ExGov W P Kellogg of LouMatn who resides the most of the tim In tlu city 13 back at tine Shoreham after a tri broad of over three months With Mn- on the Journey were Miss Mary Well niece Miss Sallye Faulkner daughtr- exSenntor Faulkner of West VIrglnM and Miss Alice Burdette of this rlt They first made a tour of Sf otlinJ whence they went to London antI cro d to the continent where they visited a dozen or more notable cities inelu nR Brussels Amsterdam Cologne Brlin Lucerne Milan and Venice At Oberun mergau they witnessed a performance f- tho Passion Play which attracted a large number of American tourists this year All over Europe where I went said Coy Kellogg I was able to keep In touch with American polities The Paris editions of American newspapers were al- most always accessible and I was aiiij to get all the important American new including the results of the elections ins Maine and Vermont the substance r t- MtKlnleys letter of acceptance of Hrs ante letter of acceptance and of Bryan s comfortable and at Lucerne eaperiaiiy V had a most enjoyable time The f nui 1 there Is the son of a Louisiana juig who was my Intimate friend which ii hanced the pleasure of my visit as hi extended to us nanny courtesies Coy Kellogg for a few fri New he saw the demonstration of Saturday evening ar i conversed with ieaaer the Eastern headquarters He says he ex- pects to see Mr McKinley r elacttd I Delegate John F Wilson has with f drawn from the Congressional race leav- ing his predecessor Mark Smith of I Tombstone a free field among the Lrn i corals salt Dr W J Murphy of Ph nix Mix last evening at the Nation While this removes much of the eauv Democratic friction it seems to m v fC5 Ron K O Murphy the Republican 4 J dfdute stands a of eiectl l The of Arizona ar v united anti were among the first in t belt of sliver States and Territories stand fast for sound The great development of the mines K ono of the features lately of industrial prosperity Dr Wl son We are now mining con idera onyx which come lang from Mexico Increase of copper rnii lag In the territory has also irr motes rue UnlUd Vorde Copper Mir at Jerome odd p r cent l wr J Senator W A Clark of Jl ara paid 8WCOO In dividends last year t earned about Jl 0000 bertdea of in Arizona 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