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xnm rvviCJfr-A-wHiEK TELEGRAPH :v f Twr* IKE MACON TELEGRAPH PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING AND TWICE A WEEK BY THE MACON TELEGRAPH PUBLISH ING COMPANY. 563 MULBERRY STREET, MACON. QA. C. R. PENDLETON, President THE TELEGRAPH IN ATLANTA. The Telegraph can be found on tale at the Kimball House and the Pied mont Hotel in Atlanta. MADE HUGHES HI8 STALKING HORSE. President Roosevelt has declined answer directly former Congressman IVadsworth's charge of being a "faker iiid humbug” for his removal of Archie A. s.'indcrs.collector of port for Roches :er, X. T., for no other offense than hat ne was a friend of Wadsworth's, out he authorized the explanation ;lven out on "excellent authority” that hTs purpose was to uphold the hands of Governor Hughes by giving the place to a Hughes man. But the President failed, apparently, to take Into account the frank and above-board character and policies of Governor'Hughes. "Now comes the declaration from Albany, also 'on excellent authority,’ ” says the New York Evening Post, "that Gover nor Hughes was not consulted about the removal of Sanders or the appoint ment of a successor; indeed, that he knew nothing whatever about the mat ter till the newspapers published the story. In fine, Governor Hughes ap parently does not care to be made tho scapegoat In this unpleasant affair. If Sanders Is Incompetent or otherwise unfit for the office, President Roose volt’s act has abundant Justification; but tho mere fact of Sanders' friendliness or unfriendliness to ward Hughes, Is, on any theory of honest administration, wholly lrrel- jvant. In this Instance. President Roosevelt has simply reverted to the spoils system, and used office to re ward his friends and punish his ene mies." CHRISTIANITY AND WAR. It Is rather startling to find a min ister of the Gospel glorifying war as such and a secular newspaper taking him to task and quoting passages of Scripture with which to confound him The Rev. Morgan Dix, D. D„ L.L. D., said at the Now York Peace Congress that war is "an ancient, honorable and necessary art.” To which the Wash ington Post replies: The Rev. Mr. Dix In that re mark harks back to Joshua’s cam paign on the farther side of Jordan. According to tho Good B'ook. the Gad of Israel personally ordered the Israelites to put to death the men. women and children or Ca- r.aan and seize and possess their estates. Be it remembered, how ever. that Israel’s God was Israel's only, the exclusive possession of the Hbrews. Let It bo borne in riled also that there Is not In the Old Ttestament the slightest recog nition or hint of the Idea of immor tality. Tho Jews were and are a greflt people, but the God of Israel, ns portrayed In the Jewish Scrip tures. Is not the Deity whom Christians worship. Christianity deals chiefly with the life to come. And the most illustrious Jew who has ever lived, the miraculously conceived Son of a Jewish maiden, drew the line between the old and the new by teaching the Immor- t illty of man and pointing out the road to eternal happiness. The Do, ilogue and the Golden Rule an tedated Christ. But Christ said: "A new commandment X give unto you. that ye love one aonther." Ho s i:d Love your onenjlos.” We are to ble.-s those who curse us. to render good for evil. Peace is the leading thought all through the teaching- of the Master Not one word thnt he said furnishes the shadow of justification for war, hut emphatic condemnation of war greets the eye of who roads the New Testament whenever he comes up'll w. r«i.- fr vn ;;|,, s of the Founder of Christianity. With what con latency can ad vocates of or participants in war repeat this p.tirlon: ’Forgive us our trespass, s awe we forgive these who trespass against us." Tho little word ”fl«" Is terribly sig nificant It is chastisement and not forgiveness that one asks when he makes that appeal if he harbors in his heart hatred, malice, or even lv.i’d anger t word anybody. Im agine two great armies facing each other In the field, expecting a bat tle the next day. .Imagine thnt on on. h -hie there ire thousands of praying men. and thnt the solemni ty of the situation prompts them to prayer. They recall the prayer that they learned ar their mother’s knee, the sublimely beautiful model left by Jesus Chri.-t. When they come to ’’forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who tre»p s- 'gainst us,” do not they present a shock ing incongruity? WANT ADVERTISEMENT. Wanted—A l°ader for the Democratic ; trty. Fifty thousand dollars a year, ail exp< . £■ s and luxurious quarters at the white H- as for one qualified for the place. Answers invited from forty-six States populated with eighty million souls, more or Ie«3. Applica tions to be made to the People in per son or it-, applicant’s handwriting, stat ing applicant’s political creed, whether In accordance with the Democratic faith or otherwise, and giving in his own language his understanding of the same. No trlflers need apply. IN THE HANDS OF THE INFANT PRODIGIES. ’’Famous brains are of four sort3,” says the Chicago Tribune. The Tri bune gives Hausemar.’s classification as follows: "The lowest group con tains the minds that aro stimulated greatly by alcohol, tea and other drugs and by Impressions derived from the senses; the second group contains the Infant prodigies, whose intellectual powers wane In middle age; the third group contains the pathological cases usually terminating in insanity; the fourth and highest group is that of true genius, whose powers remain un impaired until old age.” A study of these classes appears to furnish a key to the Ills, of the Democratic party at this time. It has fallen Into the hands of tho infant prodigy class and the Infant prodigies have reached middle age. THE LEGAL “SQUARE DEAL.” President Roosevelt replies to the request for a “square deal" made by the friends of Moyer and Haywood, who are on trial for their lives and whom the President characterized as "undesirable citizens," that he wants the "square deal” for them, too, and for everybody else ns well, and'he has no apology to make for his utterances on the subject We do not know the merits of the case against Moyer and Haywood. If they had any hand in the cowardly assassination of Governor Stcunenberg they richly deserve death. But they aro on trial and the truth Is yet to be established. The legal maxim is that the presumption of innocence attaches to the accused until guilt is proven. It Is hardly "a square deal," in the eyes of the law, to publicly de nounce an accused person before the legal evidence Is heard. from those inhabitants of the Atlantic seaboard whose chief aim In life is not to vary one hair's breadth from a cer tain monotonous level of custom.” Only four cities in Texas are larger than Fort Worth, and the census of 1900 gave it a population of about 30,- 000. The Telegram might persuade us that 29,999 of theae dress for dinner every evening in London style, and still we should detect a note of provincial ity in the anxiety to prove that only a few Texans are picturesque cow- punch ers, that all the rest hurry to get into evening clothes as soon as the clock strikes six, and that but few of the glorious State's punctilious sons would even be caught dead otherwise appareled after that hour. HOW MUCH BETTER OFF. FRIENDLY BRITON AND BOER. The character of the reception of Gen. 'Botha in London, and 'his own attitude as reported, seem to show that the Boers are a forgiving people and that the British nation knows how fc respect and honor a brave and fallen foe. According to a cable dispatch, at the present gathering of the Colonial Pre miers In London, Botha has received by far the greater share of attention and has been positively lionised, t» Iris own modest satisfaction and the delight of his daughter and sfster. An "enthusi astic roar” from the populace greeted the head of the Transvaal Government as he drove through the streets on Tuesday, and at the reception at the Guiidhall, in the presence of England’s most distinguished men, Field Marshal Earl Roberts nearly embraced him in his manifest Joy at meeting him in such altered circumstances.” Gen. Botha's own attitude was re vealed in these words of his speech: "The manly, courageous confidence shown by the British in the people of the Transvaal Is the best seed ever sown in South Africa. We will prove by our acts that we are worthy of this confidence. Our Government is as jealous of the honor of the British flag as any other colony of the empire. The message from the Transvaal is that she wants to strengthen the bonds of oo-operation and love and unity of the empire.” Less than half a dozen years have passed since the Boers were finally conquered by the B’ritish. Was ever a "pacification” as prompt, complete and apparently genuine? What Con federate general, for example, would have received such a welcome in the North and could have spoken such MISREPRESENTING MR. BRYAN. It Is natural for Republican organs like the Chicago Tribune to put the worst phase on anything smacking of radical utterance by Mr. W. J. Bryan, and some of our SJbuthern contempora ries appear to have accepted too liter ally and unhesitatingly the statement of its Washington correspondent that Mr. BVyan in his Brooklyn speech "not only declared for the initiative and ref erendum, but announced that he and the Democratic party would have to separate unless it accepted that doc trine with out reservation.” The Brook lyn Eagle printed a verbatim report of Mr. Eryan’s speech from which it ap pears Mr. Brvan did not make any such declaration, however much his words may be capable of being twisted into this meaning. What Mr. Bryan did say was this. "MACHINE” POLITICS THE ONLY WAY. Ex-Congressman Wadsworth, of New York, one among those of President AT THE RUBICON WITHOUT A LEADER. The headless condition of the Demo cratic party at this - time appears to us Roosevelts former warm personal and jjjg, mos ^ remarkable phenomenon in You may help It. you may retard it, you may defeat it, but one of the things that Is coming, that is Jef fersonian. that is Democratic, is the initiative and referendum for the control of tho Government. No man can make an argument against the referendum who is not pre pared to deny the capacity of the people for self-government. You may differ with me on every ques tion, but if you do not believe in the right of the people to govern themselves I will drive you out of the Democratic party, and If the Democratic party does not believe in the rule of the people It will have no trouble in driving me out of the Democratic party: but I do not think it is coming to the tesL The crowded condition In which ■ words from his heart in tho year 1870 many of the poor, especially the foreign or even in 1880? poor, live In the densely populated cen- The difference is so striking as to be tres of this country is almost beyond j almost startling. The policy pursued belief. Speaking of a house in Brook- j by the British conquerors in South iyn which a policeman entered in : Africa since the end of the Boer war search of an offender, the New York | and that followed in the South by the Times says. "He (Patrolman Carroll) radicals in control at Washington from reached the house early in the morning j 1865 to 1S76 were as wide apart as the when tho inmates were asleep. Most j po ies. The wise British policy has of the tenants were Poles. Carroll - been, not to punish and humiliate, but says he found an average of four beds to heal the wounds of war and to cul- ln a room, and that from four to five | tivate among the Boers not merely people were accustomed to sleeping in , resignation but real attachment to the each bed. lie says he counted 2G0 per- 1 interests of the empire of which against sons in tho house, and believes that j their , wJI i s the> - had become a part, there were others tucked into out-of- j Thls W iscr policy-ultimately prevailed the-way corners who escaped his no- j in the Unlted Statos aIso> but was Iong delayed.' tlce.” How much better off Is even the poorest Southern negro than miserable wretches herded together in this style. Even where a negro family lives in a log hut of one room, the room is a large one, and there is plentiful space out of doors, with fresh air, trees, reen grass, vegetables and—if out of town—the food-bearing growths of a farm. TEXANS DOTE ON EVENING CLOTHES. The Fort Worth Telegram takes up The New York Tribune says Presi dent Roosevelt is considering the ques tion of recommending that Congress appropriate money to pay the expenses of national campaigns, allotting each candidate a sum of money. He is al ways the "practical” man when the sinews of war are in question. Some substitute must be had for Harriman and his fellows who may refuse to bo "milked” again. It may be that Mr. Bryan in a way implied that the initiative and referen dum was Identical with the rule of the people and that to deny the one was to deny the other; but he did not In so many words declare it so. Of course there will be no dissenting voice with regard to his belief in the rule of the people and hence no necessity for drlV' ing or being driven out of the party. We are n'ot so much disturbed by Mr. Bryan’s new, or rather old and moth eaten Issue, as wo are pained at his apparently utter contempt and want of sympathy with the South, In spite of its loyalty to him. In his novel and sen satlonal utterances. His Government ownership bomb shell fell most severely as a blow against Southern ideas and Interests and now this control of tho national Government by initiative and referendum is suggested to a people who have for forty-three years been suffering from sectional legislation and oppression because of the superior power of the North under the repre sentative system. If the South has been practically elminiated from the benefits of Federal Government when the States have equal representation in the Government to some degree as States, what would be our fate if the national Government were adminis tered by the people in mass meeting and the voice of the more populous North and of the larger States alone were heeded. This is practically what Mr. Bryan’s national Government by initiative and referendum means. But we are not concerned about the issue itself, so utterly impractical and non sensical is it, as with the contemp Mr. Bryan manifests for any interest or sentiment the South ftiay have in his theories of Government. political friends to whom the President does not speak as they now pass by, has denounced Mr. Rbosevelt as a "faker and a humbug” because the President Is systematically decapitat ing the men holding office by Mr. Wadsworth’s recommendation, for no other offense than that they are the latter’s friends, In violation of the President's declarations that good men in office would be retained without re gard to partisan politics. President Roosevelt announced that he would make no reply to Mr. Wads worth, but "as a partial reply," we are told in the same breath, “it was given out yesterday in an authoritative quar ter that in the removal of Archie San ders, the collector of internal revenue for the Western district of New York, appointed through tho Wadsworth in fluence, and in the selection of his suc cessor, the President was actuated by a desire to strengthen the hands of Governor Hughes and see that Federal officeholders in New Ybrk were men who would support tho policies for which the Governor stands." After all there is but one way to play the political game, and all the virtuous professions of disinterestedness comes to the complexion of “machine” poli tics In the end. The Washington Post tells us "The In the above tho Rev. Dr. Dix is. in our opinion, very properly rebuked, hu» at the same time we think our Washington contemporary is inclined to be too literal. M'ar against invaders bent on conquest, for example, is not only just but “righteous.” We may forgive our enemies—that Is, refuse to permit our minds to be occupied with anger and hate—without allowing them to do open evil to us and to others. Ir. the true sense the kindest, most mer ciful. most charitable thing that can he done for an openly evil man (as well .as for society in general) is to stop his career of crime by putting re straint upon him. There is no incon gruity between the teachings of Christ ianity and the' just punishment of the the subject of dress suits in Texas, i President will make no reply to tho quotes some remarks of The Telegraph, charge of former Representative Wads- clips out its own editorial and sends i worth, of New York, that he is a ’faker it to us by letter. After all of which, j and a humbug,’ and that ‘the country courtesy requires a word in response. ] is fast awakening to the real character Says our Fort Worth contemporary: j of this bloody hero of Kettle Hill." We ' had feared for some time that the ex- j cesslve run made on the "Ananias” 1 joke would Interrupt the fun. Honest, now, Georgia, do you really believe that Texas cares what a man wears or that dress suits* are uncommon even in the smaller villages of the State? •Break away and come to the next cattlemen’s convention and we'll buy for every man ycu find in town for the meeting who isn’t better dres-ed than the average Georgia preacher. And as for dress suits? Bless you. they’re getting so common that lots of good men need forcible persuasion from their wives to keep them from donning full togs for dinner every evening. The white ties in Fort Worth would make a table cloth big enough for all At lanta at a single banquet, and the Iow-cul vests—but what's the use. "In one California town citizens are prohibited from carrying more than a i pint of liquor on the person at one j time.” says the Washington Post. The | inspectors must be experts who can tell from a man's breath how much he h-olds. THE CHANCE OF A LIFETIME. Those numerous Americans, who, after acquiring fortunes, are eager to secure an impressive supply of distin guished ancestors, should be cheered by an interest'ng announcement of the Marquise de Fonteno^-. This Indefati gable lady whose fount of knowledge is always on tap, and who in recent years has contributed many thousands of columns to American newspapers on the subject of the European nobility, declares In her latest installment that "most Americans of English or Scotch origin are of royal descent." Th-’s will surely gladden the trusting and hoping heart of many an American who Is determined to round up and corral tho necessary ancestors by any and every possible means, the only atom of bitterness in the cup of joy being the suggestion of doubt as to whether all this Is not really too good to be true. The generous Marquise figures it out thus: “How about our Oriental commerce? asked a reporter of Mr. James J. Hill the other day. "We haven’t any,” was Mr. Hill's reply. Mr. Hill overlooked We have already threshed out this j our Philippine account probably be- fubjcct (a former innocent Jest) with cau * e the baIanee Is on the wrong side fiery Texas "gent” who wrote to us ! tae lel ^ Ker - from Washington nearly a month ago, j and we cannot do better now than quote from the remarks addres-ed bim in The Telegraph of March 28. as follows: "Not at all. dear, infuriated, flre- and-br.'mstone-brer.th!ng Texan’ — not at alL We are aware that Texas is not wholly made up of ranches and cow- | ' | The opening < boys, although this L much the most ^ Hou , e of CommoI interesting and picturesque part of the j Lone Star State fr:m the out.-ider's Will Teddy Roosevelt please catch Willie Bryan when he next takes : bath and steal that new garment he has added to his stock and which he j calls the initiative and referendum? A grateful Democracy will be everlast- ! ingly obligated to him for the service. the budget in the is the most import ant parliamentary event in the British Empire, if not in the world," says the point of view. We never doubted that , „ . T . j _ l W ashington Post. It does not affect in Texas both prosperous citizens and ! pompous negro waiters vie with each j other in their devotion to low-cut vests 1 and string-tailed coats. We are. In { Mr. j acob Ri , s says one of Mr us nearly as much as the budgets of our two billion-dollar congress. I tact, quite sure that A Texan' himself i Roosevelt's maxims is, "Have ail the criminal or the driving back of the in- j !l3S ,:nff joined the common herd f Un that is coming to you.” Zeb Vance vaders of one’s country at the paint of j wbo >vear l ‘ ie democratic garments US ed to say. ’’Be virtuous and you will the sword—even sword. necessarily bloody The Third Term League is trying to ineoporate Roosevelt. Another Hearst idea appropriated. mentioned and has otherwise carefully j t*, happy, but you won’t have much suppressed all native flavor and indi- i ;un _" vidualitv. Except in his picturesque I > vocabulary and his inability to under- j The Louisville Courier-Journal says stand an editor’s Irony, there is nothing ; Mr. Roosevelt has a "mobile face." by which he could be distinguished j Some peopi* think ha has two of them. Starting from the obvious fact that every child has two parents and four grandparents, an easy cal culation will show that were It not for marriages between people more or less akin to one another, every person would be descended from no fewer than 3,194,302 ancestors in the course of twenty-one genera tions. or 700 years. Now. as the' population of the whole of Britain 700 years ago was less than 3.00P.- 000. every American of English or Scotch origin must be descended from the entire population of Eng land and of Scotland, respectively, at that time. This shows that by mathematical necessity everybody of English origin is of more or less remote descent from royalty. Fortified by this proof of blood rela tionship, furnished by so eminent an authority, what is easier for the an cestor-chasing American than to ap propriate the armorial bearings of some old British or Scotch king and form an overpowering combination of new dollars and ancient blue blood? In SURPRISING NEWS. According to dispatches from Talla hassee, tho upper house of the Florida Legislature, by a vote of 25 to 5, "has adopted a Joint resolution to declare the fourteenth and fifteenth amend ments to the Federal Constitution void." This seems so extraordinary that the reader Is at first inclined to wonder If the report is not a mistake. Surely the Florida legislators know that nullifi cation Is out of date. South Carolina tried it in 1S32, and though eventually she gained her object when the offend ing tariff was reduced, the experience was hardly such as to lead her to in vite a repetition thereof. Between the late forties and 1860 a dozen or more Northern States went even further than South Carolina when, through their "personal liberty laws,” they nul lified the mandate of the Constitution itself that fugitive slaves escaping into the free States be surrendered to their owners. But they belonged to. the most powerful section and had the sympathy of the majority—which makes a great difference. Not one of them would at tempt to nullify a Federal law now. If Florida wants the two amend ments repealed she must Induce both houses of Congress to pass the neces sary measure and thus secure its ratifi cation by the Legislatures of three- fourths of the States. It is true, that will be difficult—impossible, we might os well say—but there is no other known way to achieve the desired end. IS THIS TRUE7 Discuss'ng a Washington dispatch on the subject of "the' influence which President Roosevelt endeavors to exert over a number of the Washington cor respondents of the newspapers throughout the country," the Baltimore Sun says: In this country there Is one pub lisher who controls five daily news papers. each one of which repre sents the single thought of its pro prietor or the concerted thought of his executive staff, who are fa milial’ with his Ideas and policies. Mr. Roosevelt has hit upon the clever idea of cmitrollAig six times that number. When it is consid ered that Mr. Roosevelt brings to gether some thirty or forty cor respondents throughout the coun try and Impresses upon their minds his conception of public policies and measures, and attempts by one means or another to prejudice or bias there correspondents In favor of his measures and of himself, or poison their minds against certain men who are not friendly toward him or who do not represent the the same views he does, the influ ence which the papers represented by there thirty or forty correspon dents exert will have great weight, so long as it is betieved that 'the publishers are expressing their own views. As soon, however, as the Independent and discriminating readers of these thirty or forty pa pers have become aware of the fact that the views expressed by such papers are not the views of their proprietors, but represent theories and ideas of the President, who is syndicating his prejudices, these papers cannot help but lose strength sooner «r later, and will be regarded as party organs or per sonal organs of the President. The ultimate loss which these thirty or forty newspapers may suffer is rel atively a very unimportant matter. What is really important and greatly concerns the public is whether it is really true that the President domi nates the minds of that many corre spondents and thus pursues methods scarcely distinguishable from those of Mr. Hearst More definite and author itative information on this subject is desirable. Col. Henry Watterson says the Dem- these commercial times even the royal j ocrats might win under present con- Coilege of Heralds at London or at Edinburgh might perhaps be Induced end countenance to the engaging scheme, provided the fees are suffi ciently enormous. Charleston felt a slight shock the other day. That eighty-foot whale probably lashed the water from his tail as he departed. ditions "if cholera should break out in the Philippines, yellow fever In Cuba, and corn should go to 10 cents a bushel and wheat to -40 cents.” We would give a pretty to see Mr. Bryan or some other Democrat President, but we dare ; has recently sought to rally the Dem- nature and physics that has come un der our observation. Never before have we known or read of an instance lof the vacuum of occasion and opportunity being presented without being instantly filled, under the operation cf the laws of nature. The spectacle of a great cause or of a great party In a great crisis without a leader is unprece dented, so far a.s we knrow. The oppor tunity of the Democratic party today for making a successful fight has not been equalled since the war. The Re publican party, drunk with unre strained power and honeycombed with corruption that has permeated the ave nues of commercial life in every direc tion, has fallen apart in the greedy quarrels of its own factions over the spoils of power and pelf. A President elevated to office for a second term, with the aid of a corruption fund un paralleled even in Republican politics, has turned his eyes from the rotten ladder upon which he climbed to the pinnacle of his ambition and under the pretense of a virtuous indignation has attempted to kick it down and prolong his hold on power by making war on his allies and appealing to the people to witness the rectitude of his pur poses. The exposure of the Tweed ring and its extermination by Tilden was not a circumstance to the exposure of the corrupt collusion of the Republican party with the trusts, the big insurance companies and other institutions where the people’s money and interest were unblushingly made ducks and drakes of for political success and personal aggrandizement. Tilden, it Is true, rose to power and fairly won a Presidential election through his fight on the Tweed ring, but he went into the fight with clean hands and not as one who simply turned State's evidence on his asso ciates. Such is the relations of Roose velt with his party today; denounced as a traitor but feared and hated as a leader of men—with a definite purpose of prolonging .his power, if not of in' vading the third term precedent, which alone stands as a barrier between him and a power more absolute than many of the Old 'World autocrats. Here, then, we are, to all intents and pur' poses, at the historic and traditional Rubicon of free Republics. Intoxicated with national wealth and splendor and enervated with luxury and corruption, we await with apathy apparently the turn of events that shall decide whether we will go the way of Greece and Rome or not. Caesar has already crossed the boundary of his country's principles in his greed for power and debates with himself whether he will accept the crown. Napoleon sees his opportunity in the division and distrac tion of the people and deliberates be fore proclaiming himself dictator. Meanwhile what of the Democratic party whose virtuous principles and policies steered the young republic safely through the shoals the first half century of its career? It is a thing of laughter and contempt. The great par ty which has held together through un-, exampled stress and adversity and has always presented a brave, undaunted front to the enemy, is leaderiess and despised at this juncture. Having for years followed an ignus fatuus, a will o’ the wisp, under the fond delusion that the brilliancy of its light denoted the qualities of leadership, the old par ty finds Itself in a bog trying to follow a beacon that forever eludes it, and re duced to the condition of a target for the heels of every brainless ass that mistakes its bray for the voice of wis dom. The Telegraph has sincerely endeav ored to base some hope for the party under Mr. Bryan’s -leadership. It has hoped against hope when it has seen him without apparent aim or purpose repeatedly excite consternation in tho party by throwing the apple of dis cord in the shape of some new and unheard-of Issue atrlong the rank and file. 'But we cannot blind ourselves further to the hopelessness of a leader ship that will not lead. We cannot hope to get anywhere with a horse that will do nothing but balk. For some time conviction has been growing on us that Mr. Bryan has reason to know or believe after his two unsuccessful efforts that he can never reach the Presidential chair. The hold he has on the Democratic party, he evidently realizes can only serve as a personal perquisite to Continue him in the role of the uncrowned commoner, feted, flat tered and applauded by the proletariat, but never to hope for more substantial success. In the meantime novelty and sensation must be sought after and brought to the front to keep up the interest and excitement or even the eclat of the populace will sink into si lence. That this can only be done at the expense -cf dividing and distracting the party at a time when it should pro- sent an undivided front does not ap pear to weigh with him in the least. These are convictions which The Telegraph has had forced upon it by Mr. Bryan’s course, despite its earnest wishes to the contrary. Evidently we are not alone in this interpretation of the man. Col. Henry Watterson, who racy at the pres- nt time can see no "other alternative except Bryan. Nobody is being seriously consid ered except him. Nobody except him is seriously considering run ning. I sometimes doubt whether he himself cares a fig for the Pres idency. For I should think if he believed Democracy had a reasona ble chance cf carrying the country, and that ho might bo nominated he would be more circumspect and would show greater sense of re sponsibility than he seems to be showing.” Asked what he considered the most vital is-ue to be raised by the Democrats party. Col. Watterson said: "The one thing to consti tute a militant Democracy is that we must think together. So long as we don’t, there is no use pro posing any issue. The relations of franchise corporations to the pub lic and of capital and labor are the great economic problems to be worked out in the coming years. We are on the threshold of their rapid developments.” Of course there is no possibility of Democrats “thinking together” as long as they are dominated by a leader whose chief effort appears to be always to think along strange and novel lines at a time when tho party should be martialed and concentrated behind def inite policies and purposes. We are not surprised, under the cir cumstances, that Col. Watterson Is placing long shot bets on a Republican as the next President. A STRANGE SPECTACLE. A United States Senator contending for autocratic rule V>ver distant depend encies, and a high English official for liberal government in the colonies, on the same platform, the Americas speaking after the Englishman had been heard—this Is the strange specta cle that was presented at a meeting qf the Academy of Political and Social Science In Philadelphia last week. Who would have ventured to predict this a very few years ago? The American was Senator Bever idge. and the Englishman was Mr. ( James Bryce, the British ambassador. J Mr. 'Bryce showed that even in tho crown colonies, or those where the populations were made up of - the darker and less advanced races, the ef fort was to give the natives as large a share in the Government as possible, capable men being unhesitatingly ap pointed to high office. Senator Bever idge. on the other hand, complained that political clamor had caused the Washington Government to attempt to govern the Filipinos far more liberally than was wise', and he argued in favor of a purely paternai and autocratic system. We clip a period at random: Not sudden “self-government” for peoples who have not yet learned the alphabet '-of liberty . . . not the fiimsy application of abstract Governmental theories possible only to the most advanced races and which, applied to unde veloped peoples, work out grotesque and fatal results—not anything but the discharge of our great national trust and greater national duty to our wards -by common sense meth ods will achieve the welfare of our colonies and bring us success in the civilized work to which we are called. not wish for success based on public calamity. Private Secretary Loeb is now "shoo ing” the reporters off the White House “There is considerable difference of opinion as to the probable course of | lawn after dark. It Is presumed that the market during the next two or j the prohibition applies only to the three weeks,” says Wall Street Sum- | “conspirator” class. The “thirty or mary. The liquidation will settle all ; forty” elect doubtless have the entre the differences. »y the back stairs at all times. ocracy behind Mr. Bryan, appears to agree with us in this view. Arriving in New York after a trip abroad. Col. Watterson is quoted as follows: "Mr. Bryan Is an individual man with a certain foliowing," he said. "He Is not a law giver. He may be a law unto himself. It remains to be seen if the fragments of the Democratic party lying around loose can be united on a new pro gram. “I think that organized Democ- *We have no "abstract governmental theories” except those provided In The Constitution of the United States and those that are the outblrth of instinc tive American approval of self-govern ment. Even now, in the midst of new and strange developments, the average American, If let alone, would vote that the Filipinos be given a "fair show”— that Js, as much home rule as possible, even though they may make mistakes. We do not think the average American, even in these changeful times, is as pronounced an "imperialist” as is Mr. Beveridge, though the latter Is sup posed to be the mouthpiece of Mr. Roosevelt. The American who knows the his tory and remembers the principles of his country Is apt to be troubled a little when he finds a United States Senator, on the same platform with a British ambassador, glorying in the existence of our new colonial empire as a sign that we have at last really found ourselves and become great. Tf it was necessary to begin to imitate Great Britain’s career of foreign con quest in order to become great, then al! the Illustrious Americans of former times, from Washington even down to Clevelund. wero singularly deluded mem Secretary Cortelyou wants to reform the present barbarous method of going through the trunks of every passenger who lands in America, The New York Times says the present method- ii senseless, barbarous and Indecent.— Savannah Press v How would it do to use the X^ray on them? The Atlanta papers aro trying to crowd each other out of the Bryan band wagon. If the driver grows much move reckless each may be sorry later that the other did not succeed. The Thaw jury has effected a per manent organization. The members may yet reach an agreement on the case. 4 k "What is a Democrat?” asks tho New York World. How old is Ann? But, seriously speaking, a Democrat is a man who has exploded the theory that anything ever come3 to him who waits. Brain storm- are epidemic over the country. Ice should he promptly ap plied to the head at the first symp toms. "My God! Has it come to this so soon?” exclaimed the New York bank clerk who stole about a quarter of a million dollars before he was detected. Wonder what "limit” he was playing "If we could have a little patience we ould escape much mortification," says lime, de Sevign®. “Time takes away as much as it gives." L INDISTINCT PRINT