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tV.-iehln_r.on Bureau.. aM-* Munaey BulldlnR.
W_.nche.ter Bureau.,."M ??? Street
P.tenjbur*. Bureau.10 N. STycamora Bt
t.Viichhur? Bureau.?5 Klghth St.
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BT MAIh. One Blx Tliroe One
rOBTAQB PAID. Year. Mob. Mon. Mo.
Pallf wllh Bunday...??.oo .5.00 .1.50 .BD
J_miy -Wltheut Sunday l.OO 2.00 1.00 .35
Bunday edltion only.. I.OO l.OO ,B? .35
Weekly (Wedncaday.. 1.00 ,60 .25 ...
By Timea-ni.pateh Carrter Dellvery Ser
vic. in nichmond (and suburb.), Mnnchca
t.t ?nd retersbum- ^ ^ Qno ^ j
Dally wlth, sunday...." "nts ; .?.bo
"Dally wlthout Sunday..10 centa 4-B0
Sunclliy only .?> cent? 2*30
(Yoarly .iibsc.-lptions pnynblc In odvnnoe.l
.Entered January 27, 1303. nt nielimond,
Vn? 08 _ec0n.l-cl.1ss mntter under nct of
Congress of March 3, 1879.
INFANT I'lIKNOMEVON.
J5EMVER. COU, July ?.?Oklahoma
hns inspired tho Democratic convontion.
Oklahoma hns given its hlessins to
the Democratic convontion.
Oklahoma will write the platform
of the Democratic convention.
Tho hlstory of tho forty-elglit mem?
bers of the Unlon offers no exnmplo to
eoual thls State's prccoclousnesg.
BEtiATETJ fOfltAOE.
Rlphtly or wrongly, thc Guffey fight
et Denver tool. shopo yesterday as a
strugplo between Bryan and ?ntl
Bryan. Jn vlow of the amenitles that
had passed between the two men, to
support onc came to mean. to dlscrcdlt
the othor. To seat Guffey, coticeding
ron.onablc ctoubts as to hls rights to
a fioat, wns to rebuke Bryan, who
has du.bed hlm a bushw.iacker and a
traltor.
Yot thlrteen States votea* for this
rebuke. seven States of the South,
-tvhere Mr. Bryan's entrenchment was
snld to be secure. beffig among thom.
The State of Virginia was among
them. Poubtless thls took cnurage,
ror the fear of the political niorgue is
not llg-ht and ls omnlprcsent. We sa
lute courage wherover wo find it, es?
peclally where Its nbundant presence
has not boen suspected. But under
tho circumstances, what is tho use of
Ihls cournpe here and now? Why
phould a Virsintan, member of a ilclega
tion fast bound to support Bryan for
the aoTiinatlon, have wlsheu. or ven
turcd. to admhiister a robuff to him
Where it could not posslbly do nny
'???_. od?
.The hold inino'-ity vi.to in favor ot
the man who threw c.own tho gaunt
let to Mt. Bryan cryytalllzes its senti
Brienl Too late. The open split in ilie
Georsria delegatlon, wlth the anhbuhce*
riient that twenty-three out of lts
tv.enty-. i.t vote.? nre opposed to Mr.
Eiryan, entnes too lrte. Thc ci^rtty
Bev'en-Tnlnute demonstr.it ion yesterday
Uid -omcthlng irr.ro than t.rea'lc all
rocoids. It shoved h?.w utterly Mr.
Bryan rnfl Mr. Bryan _ prlnclples nre
now in the ascciu'nni ln the Doni'.
cratlc party. It nieaiit for'tho comlng
campalgn n radlcal plntform under a
radlcal candidate. Conscrvativc cour?
age is belatcd. Tho best this elemont
can hopo for now Is to perfect and
develop It.1- organlzation with the grlm
resolvo to reassume control of the
raf'y in .m..
THR l'lUMARY AND A MAJOIIITV
[1 VOTE.
Mr. Robert XV. Wlthers seems to take
|ft very gloomy view of tlio efficacy of
tho ballot-box in maklng its results
Un*_wn. IIe tolls us in hls letter thls
itibl'hlng that lt requlres two weelts, at
the very least, to determine whelhei
a candidate bus recelved a majorlty i;
a -primary. .Jjitd .inigbt reqiiire six
Wuh no dbslfe **tQ'.be satlrical, we art
curious to Know' why he limited hlm
Self t0 six weeks. Would not sl.
?months have been as nearly aecuratt
?jiiil r^isonable?
?Our impresslon Is that in the ordl
J'-ary primary results nre conclusivel:
#nown within forty-eiglit hours aftc:
tlie closlng* of the poll... Tho posslbli
?fr.eaks of the one-hundredth case nee<
?not act as a mtllstone round the neck.
or.tho nlnety and nlne. A second pri
mary within four or nvo days, or eve:
a week, of ilie flrst ono, would affori
little chancc for those further expens
budeets -which Jlr. Wlthers rightl;
t-bjects lo, and whlch we ourselves ar
_ndeavoriiv_r to elltnlnat'c. Posslbly al
campalgning and eampalg-h expendi
tures for any primary could be tcrml
ynated by la\v with tho flrst appeal *?.
tlie voters.
At aio- rnte, In sumnioning th
bogey of "o third or fourth, or eve
a fifth, day primary,'1 Mr. Witlier
3eems to have falled to grasp the tcrui
of our suegested plan. UiiUer thls idc
it would be ImposHlble to have moi
tlian two electlons. for uo matter ho
inuny cantli.liiirs w.-re ln tlie neld, tl.
i two highest only would be eliglblo 1
tbe seconu. K such a plan !s not lden
lt ls at leaat as fair to one cundlilai
as another, an_ we see no ground i
lt for our torrespondfnt'.s eharge .
Ui.ustlco. ln tho somewhat extraord
hary liypothetlca.l easy whicli ho clt
H can hardly be deiiled that the vol
? of A. when h-i is dropped, are at lea
as llkely to go to V and B as to B ni
V. Indec-rl, hy the law of proportlo
thc two Icailipg cimUidates?cv
t'lough tliey lt-ad here by alniQit i
conceivahly narrow marglna?ivou
get the larger percentage of the i
Jeaned yotes,
T*lio de^lro of ihi.H paiier Is to ?!
tho iiomlitatlii_i power wholly to i
primary, because, in our correspor
ent'a own word, ll Itf. thore conclusl
'tlian any other cj.tho*. In this des
we have iu mlnd xully the vulue
maklng tlio ivill of tho peoplo isno
'- through a? absolute majorlty, But i
' plain fact of tha * matter ls that
r ?.YNtet.i, however compllcated, can c
_it>' a miijorily wliero thero ls no n
iurtty, Ntlther prhnury nor eonvi
.'.llon wan wQilt mh'acle--, aiid lt Is i
wlce to dlseai-d the moat cffccMva and
dcfliil.te uf all systctns hccauso it fntts
to do whnt no system can do, Whero
no popular majorlty cxlsta the alm
should bo to accuro a? near a popular
majorlty as is prnotlcablc?popular,
not dolcgatod, mltid. All candidates
recclvc nn equal ohance ln tho flrst up
peal to tho voters, but two of thom
push aheaii nnd como closer to attaln
Ing a majorlty than any of their rlvnla.
II seems to us fnlr enoug-h that any
further trial of Btrength should be be?
tween theso two alone.
WIL*.. GEiniAIVY TAX HEM BACHE
1.01*1 ST
In comlng out boldly ln favor of a
bachelor tnx, Kalser Wllhelm' has
shown himself .fully nbreast with tho
modern spokesmon of advancod lotaf.s*
latlon. He cannot, It ls true, clalm any
ospecial orlglnallty for hls Idea, slnco
so many nations?most of them no"w
dead?havo been before hlm In experl
montlng with it. Yet Germany, whern
the indivldual Is more or less thor?
oughly "managed" for thc good of thb
state, would scem to bo a promlslng*
flold for such a law, as would tlie
hlghly organlzed Japan of to-day.
The Athenlnns wero rather dlfferent.
Snlon gavo them laws whlch made
ccllbacy a crime, but publlc sentlmont
In Athens was for Indivldual freedom,
nnd tho laws lnpscd. Sparta,-on the
other hand, cared nothing whatever
for the indivldual. The I.ycurgan laws
against celibates were enforced rigor
oiisly, and at certain fcstivals the Spar
taii women gave the bachelors a very
unlinppy time of it indecd. Thc He
brews vlewed marriage as a duty, and
Itome had her I-ex -Tulta. Great Brltaln
has often penalized the unwed, though
nppnrently with an eye, to revenue
rather than to social nnd mornl postu
lates. Thus the tax of l6f>5 upon bach?
elors and wldowers wns exprossjy de
scrlbed as belng, not to defeat' the
eontemptlblc .tactlcs of race-suicidcrs,
but "for carrying on thc war agalnst
France with vlgor."
In thls country various States wlth
radlcal leanlngs havo nlbbled at the
bachelor tax idea, but usually wlthout
concluslve results. However estlmabia
theoreUeally, the plan has never proven
popular in actual practlce. Penallzlng
celibates on the theory that, having
no famillcs to support. thoy are ablo to
bear a larger share of government ex
penses might be well enough; hut pen
alizlng them to club them into mar
ringe agalnst their own Instlncts is
not attractlvo to most clvillzed mlnd.***.
Hcnce tho Kaiser's proposal is llkely
to prove a severe strain upon the pub?
lie spirit even of the Vaterlnnd.
TOE WAS NO I1EAST.
Tho wcaKiTess of tho estecmed News
l.eader's positlon in regard to the pro?
posed memorial to Poo could not he
better shown than in tho fact that, In
delonse of it, lt has been unhapplly in
t-plred to suggest a comparlson between
the Amerlcan poet and Oscar Wlldc.
No suggestion could well havo been
more unfortunato and unfalr. Wilde
was a social nnd moral leper, whoso
very name wns for years Vinmention
jablo in pollto soelety; That name
stantls to-day, and will stand for a
long time to come, as the vivid sym
bnl of unuatural pervcrslon and vlle
and shamefbl vlco. Wilde's ltirldly
vontilated crlmes so far outwoigh his
talents that they would always occur
tirst to the mind; nnd a monument to
him would uccessarlly be an affront to
common decency. Would thc Nows
Leader, upon calm reflectlon, really
say thnt thc revoltlng sta'ins whlch
dlsqualify Wilde from publlc honor
apply in any measurc to Edgar Allan
lJoe?
We nre sorry to' see a newspaper in
tho city most c.loscly identlfled with
Poo's llfe. consent to blacken hls name
With so loathEome an assoclatlon. Nc
one donies that ''English speaking. peo?
plo" regard gross and notorlous per?
sonal ? lmmorality as a bar to publh
trlbute, whlch seems to bo the Nows
l.eader's rather fceble contontlon. Bui
what has thls fact to do wlth Poo*
?'Cold, black ingratitudo" and "turn
ing against tho ltindly and nffectionati
hands" whlch have fed and nourlshe.
are certalnly serlous faults. But It h
Dlto'gethor unworthy to link them foi
a moment with tho unspcakable crime*
of bestlal degenoracy.
Hon. George, B. Cortelyou says tha'
tho deficlt In/the Treasury is only ai
apparent deffcit eaused by an obsolet.
system of bookkeeplng. Wo havo al
ways understood that Hon. Goorgo go
a good tralnlng- ln the manlpulatlon o
flgures when he was engaged in fryin
tlio fat out of the Republlcan corpo
ratlons,
A Peniisylva'iila newspaper declare
that the -Plttsburg mlllionalres hav
made their own money, whlch ls wel
enough as far ns it goes. The klcl
Is that. they give so much of lt fc
Broadway.
A Chlnese house proposcs to Issu
a liistory bf Bmperor Kuang. Hsu, i
GI7 volumes. Kven If it does" lt, th
cha'nTp loh ship wlU stlll rest wlth Joh
Wesley Gdllies'a Speeches ln th
llouse.
Mr. Roosevelt Is devotlng n lot v
tlmo to studylng up on Afrlca, In pro
pai-atloii foi* hls hunt. Sinuiltaneousl,
we doubt not, Mr. Taft is devotlng
lot of tlme to study ing up on the _V.fr!
cans, in preparation for hls hunt;
An exchange notes: "A safo and sar
Fourth ts the best kind, after all
Yes, Indeeil, After all tho fireworl
uiul some of tlio chlldren have be.
(.xplod.d,
The modern buslness man off fort
so avers the. London bancet, often dl<
of stupidity. in that ease, how do tl
pollllclana llve lo a green old age?
Stlll, a stroiif,. ttstlmonlai from
clean,.shiivcn JIm Sherman ought
bo worth Bomothlne to tho safety-raz.
peoplo.
It ls up to tlie Ueinoerots to prc
that the old euitli can lumg togeth
'wlthout tlio utt_iiUi.il. of Wllllam ho,
Jr.
A |ot of men ure not at Donver wl
ought to be, and vlco vorea,
?nM lt seems to ho n rnee between t
ju-I thoi'iiionioteiB und tlio coat ot llv...
Borrowed Jingles
I,T..?tT WIS KOUGBT.
Wo'vo Patll's tours ot fond tarcwcll
? And Bryan's candldntlng stuntsj
Thei'o'n July's nntitml totrld apoll,
T. i_oosevelt'fl dovastatlng htinta,
Tho wlntor's booat In prlce of coal?
And Peary's scramble for the pole.
Comea Carrle Natlon wlth tho nx(
And prohlbltion candidates:
We seo tho ild man getting lax;
The Standard 011 puts up Its rates:,
Just now tho hepf trViat levlos toll??
Whlle Peary tlashca for the pole,
An actress loses Jewela rnro;
Each year the olrctis comes to town;
Tho peach crop falls In Dolawaro;
' Tom Llpton wrltes n. ehallonge down;
TIton Wall Street grabs somo trti.tlug*
roll?
And Peary stnrts to flnd tho pole.
Tho "highest building" nears the skios.
A song hlt rlpples through tho land;
Como fashlons, shsath and olhorwlse;
Tho tnrlff (jttcstlon comes to hand;
A panlc puts us ln the'hole?
Still Peary htints tho blamod old pole.
? ?Now York "World.
MI-'REIiT JOKIN'O.
A Multial Wlab.
"I wish I were nn ostrlch," sald HIcks.
nngrlly. as he trlc.l to ent ono of hia wlfo's
bisc-ults, but couldn't.
"t wish you were," returned Mrs. IMtks.
"I'd get a fow feathers for my hat."?
Olobe.
SoUttule.
Here is an extract from the prospectus of
a botel In Swltzeilund:
"Wolssbaoh Is tho favorite place of resort
for those who aro fond bf sollturtc. Porsons
ln scarch of aolttudo are, In fact, constantly
flocklng here Irom tho four quarters of the
Elobe."?Homo Hcrald.
I.ooldng Alirml.
I thought you had money enough for your
dash to thc pole."
"I hnve," replled tho arctlc explorer. "It's
the expedltlon for my reliet we'ro nsklng
f.i'dn for now."?Philadelphla Fubllc Lcdgcr.
Tbe J.aod.ord's Fl.-..
"r cftnnot llve but a weeh longer winout
you!"
"Renlly. Duke? Now how can you flx on
a speclflc length of time?"
7.a landlord flx on ll, miss; not I."?
I.oulsvllln courler-Journal.
Itonl 1,1 Tc.
"Cheer up, my boy. Tou're bound to glt
the glrl ln tho end."
'I'm afraid not. Llfe aln't no jnclo
dinmn."?Plttaburg- Post.
And tlio Enst Shnll Bo Elrst.
"Pa, what Is a polltical leader?"
"A mnn who Is nblci to seo whlch way the
crowd i.i going, nnd follows wlth loud
whoops in that dlrectlon."?Home Herald.
0B8ERVATI0NS BY
THE PARAGRAPHER.. I
THET have produced a serlous charRe
"agalnst Brynn at lnst. They sny he
woro whlskers whlle at college, nnd wo
nre left to wonder If thlrty years of clcanly
ohaven physloRiiomy Is not sufflclent
atone for lt.?Houston Post.
What Is fame 7 Nothing. we tnko the
evidence of tho London Mall, which hns in
formed Its rcaders that tho probable Demo
crutlc nominee ls one "Mr. J. 11. Bryan."
Ualtlmore Amerlcnn.
A new book recently Issued, depictlng thu
Amerlcan glrl, frnys her educatlon has glven
her a "'thlrat for things unobtainable."
Which Is loo bad, of course, but there aro
lots of grown-up men in thc South who are
troubled in the same way.?Washlngton,
Post.
"I feel sure thnt my race wlli asslst ln
your trlumphant eleetton," wrltes Booker T.
Washlngton to Mr. Taft. "My race!" lt
retms to bo contaglous!?Washlngton Her
ald.
The "expert" swlmmer who overrates his
prowvss is alrendy appearlng ns star per
lorrner in the dlsaster news.?Washlngton
Star.
?It Is very well menning of the R. P. O.IA.
to seek a nolsele.s rlfle wlih .whlch- to"!
daughter cattle: but lf wo were a cow we;
would ns soon be struck between the horns
wllh a hnnimer as shot wlth a nolselcss gun.
?New York Etenlng Sun.
.V conteinporary assorts that il is almost
Imposslble to Hnd nny dlfference between the
two great polltical partles to-day. One no
tlceabl. dlfforonce, however, Is that tho
Democrats wnnt tho offices nnd thu ltopuh
IleiinH will not glvo them up.?Washlngton
Post.
TKItSONAI. ANI) GENERAL.
Tho elcphant has only eight tcoth.
Tho total seatlng capaclty of the theatres
and music liallK of London ls -27,000.
In eleven years tho coal output of Japan
has Increased from 200,000 tons annually to
U..00.000.
A new unlon station Is to be built at Win
ntpeg for Uio Canadlan Northern nnd the
tirand Trunk Paciflc rallways, It will re
qulre three years to complete lt.
Thero aro 26.78 miles of railroad llne In
the Unlted States for evory 10,000 inhabi
tants, as agnlnst ... mlles ln Germany 5.5
lu tho United Klngdom and 7.1 In Finnee.
A chatned "Broeches" Blble, bearlng the
date of 15S_, has beon restored to Coddlng
t-on Church, near Chester, Eng., from.whlch
congregatlon lt was soUl by thc wardens Iu
H*"_.
King Edward has hls own distillery, whero
whlskey Is mado for consumptlon among
members of the royal famlly oniy. No
whiskey is put on the royal table that is
not at least tlftecn to twenty years old.
According to Mltchcll's Newspaper Press
Dlrectory. thero aro now publlshed ln the
Unlted Klngdom alono no fower than .,3113
nawspapers, of which London contributes 404,
hicludlng- thlrty-ono daliles.
Vlscount Fone haa loft Tokyo to rolleve
Prlnco Ito, who Is returning to Tokyo. and
will reach thero on July 13th. Prince Ito
probably will remaln ln Japan, but will noi
relax hia control of Korea. though Vlscount
Sone will nct ns restdent general.
John W. Rlddlc, the Amerlcan ambassador
at Bt, Petersburg, who Is convalesoiug from
n threatened attack of pneumonla, Is grad
ually progreaslng toward recovery and is now
allowed to sit up, He would be able to
leave the hospltal wero the weather favor
abie.
Franeols Coppee, says the Matln, Uke
many artluts and ncto.s. was oxcecdlngl.
rond of oats, und foi- years he hnd ln hts
liouno In the Rue Outllnot and In the beau?
tlful rose garden back of the houso a num?
ber ot iine specimens, includlng severai val
uahh) natlves ot Persia.
Tha emlnent Brltlsh ?u,rgeon, Slr Vlctoi
Horslcy, not only etijoys the roputatlon ol
being ono of tho leadlng pathologists, but ht
I.i also known for his wlt.' Enterlng hlt
club, ihe Athenaeum, one day, a friend saUi
lt. hlm: "llelloa, Horsl.y, can you tell u
what whlskey Is yet?" "Thu most populai
poison ln the -world, my doar, slr." was tlu
prompt reiori. ^
Miss Katherino L. Cralg. ,of Colorado
wus tlio only woman elected a? vlee-presl
dont oi the N. 10. A., she being tho twelftl
on the list, Mrs. (.'. C. Bradford, who' U
t.ulte promlnent lu Colorado, ls ono of thi
delugntea-at-largo of th_ Democratic con?
vention, and altogether the women of tha!
KiHto liavo had hunoi-s tlnust upon thom o
True UuNelflshuvsn,
"Alert?" ropeated Sonntor Hopkim
when questioned concerninr. ono of hlt
cdlloagues. "Why, he's a. alort nm!
elevor as tho Aurora brldegroom 1
heard or tho other day. You lenow hov.
briao_rooins t_tn.Un_ off on tholr hon
eymooua huve ti wuy of forgetllng al
about thelr brldos and buying llckots
only for themsolves', AVell, thut's w hm
thls Aurora brldegroom dld. And wlion
hls wife said to hlm, 'Why, John, yoi
only bougrht uno tlcket,' ho unswero.
withoiU u nioment'H hosltatlon; 'B}
Jovo, yoil'ro rlght, deiir! I'd forgottoi
niy'&ol. ontlrely!'"?Kverybody's Maga
zlne.
Tlie I'rlnoo Pays IIU Hotel Iltll,
Prince Ilello de Hiignii snld afto
th. ceremony;
"YOii. I um qulto hnppy. 1 appre
clato 'ho ivay tho Amerlcan nowspu
i..-r cpriespondonts hav? ti-fatod ni
durluK my stay lu London. and ?yo
imiHt Huy 1 thlnk tlio Savoy tlie fine.
hotel in tho world, nml thut Pr.i_.oi
iho ic'.ulnl manuger, han looked ufle
mq very well.?J3voi?ln_ Tolegrmn,
a <*_ o _> 5 a ? 3
weComisofEuroper
Lti MarQuise de lontenoy
M
Concernlng the Cl-arendori Eninlly.
LORD CLARENDON, , who at tho
ngo of alxty-two, hus Just
marrlod tho Hch and fasclnat?
lng Wldow of tho Hon. Ed?
ward Bufko, son of tho fifth
Earl _layo, Is ono of tho best
known flgures of English court llfe,
having boen for . niitny ycara Lord
Chamberlain, and having ln thls ca?
paclty boen called upon to tako an ac?
tive part In tho presentatlon of most
of tho Amerlcans durlng the closlng
years of; tho relgri of Quoen Victoria,
und tlio flrat six yoars followlng the
nccosslon of Edward VII. Ho Is a wld
owor, hls flrst wlfo having boen Lady
Cnroltno Agar, ,oldest daughter of Ihe
thlrd Earl of Normanton, nnd hns by
her two chlldren, nitmoly, a son, Lord
Hydo, marrled to tlie sister ot the
sixth Lord Someri.,' and a daughter,
Lady Edlth Vllllers, Ho is tho son
of that Lord Clarendon who played
so Important a role u'ndor Quoen Vic?
toria ns Secretary of State foi* For?
elgn Affalrs, and was rcsponsible for
the frlcndshlp between the Brltlsh
relgnlng houso and /the French Em?
peror nnd Emprbsa.
It wns brought about in rather n
curloua fashion. Napoloon III., who
hnd a hlgh opinlon of hls own mili?
tary nbllltles?ho was a theoretlcal
strnteglst of no menn sklll?had an?
nounced hlH dotermlnatlon to proceed
to tho Crimea for the purpose of ns
suming eommand of tho allied French.
English, Sardfnlan nnd Turkish nnnlcs,
then besloglng Sebastopol. Hls own
iriinlstei's wero complotely dlsmnyed by
hls projoct, whlch they regar.tod as
perllous in thc extreme to his dynastv
and to hls reglme, whlle the English
government wus equaliy opposed thoro
to. dlsliklng tho Idea of cornpolllng a
Brltlsh nrmy to serve under the lm?
medlate eommand of any forelgn sov
erelgn. All ndvlec and argumonts sub
mittod to Napoleon wero wastcd, nnd
to mako matters worso, ho was en
couraged ln hls lntentlons by Eugenle,
who was onxious to enjoy the oxer
clso of siiprcme authorlty as regent
durlng his absence.
There Is no 'knowing what wouhl
have liappened had not tho lnte Lord
Clarendon, tlien in offlco as Secretary
of State for Forelgn Affalrs, come to
the rescue of tho English. French and
Sardlnian CablnotB, by Induclng Queen
Victoria lo dlspatch an Invitatlon to
Napoleon and to Eugenle, to vislt hor
at Wlndsor, at a date flxed for two or
throe months after tho tlme whlch the
Emporor had determined upon for hls
departure to the Beat of war.
Now, If there was ouo thlng more
thnn any othor for which tho impcrlal
P'rencli couple yearned just then it
was for recognltlon of thls kind from
one or another of tho great powers of
Eurnpe. They hnd been vlrttiully boy
oottcd hy all forelgn court*, tho relgn?
lng houses rcscntlng the sanguinary
and lawless manner by which the Em?
peror had obtained possesslon of hls
throne, and nlso dlsapproving of hls
selectlon of a consort, not only by
reason of her doubtful and non-royal
blrth, hut also in consequence of her
antcccclents. According to mnny. Eu?
genle was. in fnct, n nnturnl daughter
of Lord Clarendon, who as a young
mnn had been one of the most devotcd
adinirers of hor mother. and whoso
affeetlon for the Emproxs prior to her
jinarriiifjo hnd alw-ays been rnarked by
|a certain parental tendomess. Queen
Victoria wus known to be most utrlct
on the subject of morality, and to have
jtfiinsformed the English court from
thc most profllgate into the most "1
trarcspectable In all Europe. She her?
self was renowned as tho very pattern
and model of proprlety, ptished even
to a purltanlcal degree, and both Na?
poleon nnd Eugenle reallzed that for
her to recolve them In state at Wind
sor Castle as honored guests, nnd/as
fellow sovorclgns, constltuted a recog?
nltlon of Inostlmable value, which
would put an end to tho ostraclsm to
whlch they hnd boen snbjecled, and
would be followed in due course by
thelr acceptanco, hy the remnindor of
the relgnlng houses of tho Old World.
Called upon to chooso hetween go?
ing to tbe Crimea as commander-in
chlef of the allied armics and pro
ceedlng to England as the guest of
Queen Victoria?that England where
he had llved fev so many years in
penurlous exile, and frowned upon not
only by royalty, but even by soele?
ty?Napoloon selected thc latter alter
ndtlve, urged, of course, thereto by
Empross Eugenle. And whon thelr
vislt to Wlndsor had taken placo?
it lncluded a state progress through
London to break bread wlth the Lord
Mayor at the Ouildhall?thero was, of
course. tho return vlsit of Queen Vic?
toria wlth thn Prince Consqrt and thelr
chlldren to Paris, which was to follow
a couple of months or so later, and
for which all sorts of elaborate prepa
ratlons had to be mado. So that noth?
ing moro was heard of the Emperor's
departure for the Crimea.
Although Victoria had been bltterly
projudiced agalnst Napoleon and hls
wife, especlally agaln3t the former.
thelr vislt to Wlndsor ontlrely changed
her eentlments toward them. She was
charmed with them altogether, espe?
clally hy tho dlgnifled deference whlch
both dlsplaycd In thelr attltude toward.
her, ancl became thelr warm friend. Sc
great was the Intlnmcy whlch exl.ter
that when Eugenle was about to glv.
blrth to tlie Prince Imperlal, Queer
Victoria sent over her favorite lad.
in walting, the "Marchloness of Ely
who had been with her at the blrtV
of hor own chlldren, to rohinln wlt.
tho Empross. On two subsequent oc
casions, when Eugenio was led bj
jealousy to leavo her husband, and t(
go to England, it was Victoria whe
intervened, and who induced her t*
return to Parls before any publlc scan
clnl had enstied; and when Eugenh
lost In turn her throne, her husbanc
and her son. it wns from Queen Vio
toria that sho recelved the most sym
pathy and affectlonate consideration
manlfostod in a thousand dlfferen
ways. , , ?
The present Lord Clarendon is th.
fifth of hls llne, and ls a cadet of thi
Houso of Vllliers, of whloh the Ear
of Jersey Is the chlef. The actua
Earldom was created by Oeorge 111
in 1776, ln favor of Wllllam Vllllers
a vounger son of tho second Lord Joi*
?ey, who had marrlod tho granddaugh
ter and hoiress of Honry Hyde. th.
last Earl ol* Clarendon and Rocheste
of tho Hyde famlly. To the lattor. I
may be renieiiibeicd both Quoen Mnr:
and Queen Anne belonged, througl
tholr mother, who wus Lady Ann
Hyde, daughter ot Lord Clarendon
Lord Chancellor of England, and wlv
was' the first wife of Klng James II
She dled, as Duchoss of Vork, hofor
his acca.alon to tho throne. Hia see
ond wlfo waa Mary of Medlna, who be
camo hls Queen. .,
Lord Clarendon has two places i
the country; ono of thom tho now oom
plotoly ruined castlo of Kenllworth, s
famlltar to all tho readers of AMUte
Scott through hls popular novol o
'{thnt namo: whilo tho othor, whevo th
1 Earl mukes lila home.. ls known a
1 "Tho Orove," and ls sltuatod noar vs at
J rord, not far out from London. U l
. of the Quaan Anne stylo ot archltec
' ture, dating ln litv prosont oondltlo
' froin tho flrst yeara of tho olghteent
" century, and was purehused somewnev
about 1768 by tho flrst Lord Clarondo
of the proaent llno. It la said to b
luunited by tho ghost of the thlrd Loi
r Douarailo, who wns ono of Uh fornie
owners, and. whoso appoarnncea on
? ghohtly horso, nocompiuiled by a pac
. nf tinoctftl hounds, chasliiK u phnntqi
r, fox. aro snld lo constllule a pijnisi
,, menl for tho sln which h? eomnilrte
, in builillng tho kltchon on tlio bM
"? aml foundatloiiH oC tlie ohl-tlmo cliapo
?'> whloh ho dostroyod foi* ll.**-. purposo,
i* wns tho Hcuno ot mau.v Jinpurtaiit pc
llll.al conferences durlnB t??t*, l"011"
of tho late Lord Clarendon, Bnd fre
qtient roferonce to It la found In the
celebrated "Memolrs of Charles Orov
llle," which show that many a Cablnet
wns made and tinnindn there.
It Is full of all sorts of magnlflcent
pictures and hlstorio rollcs; among
thom tho orlglnal gold koy of Hyrlo
Pnrk, presonted by Klng Charles I. lo
jhfs Lord Chancellor, Clarendon, whon
ln 1636 he declded to sncrlflco hls own
iplenstirc*. of tho chase to tlio welfare
'of hls peoplo, antl abollshlng hls gamo
'preserves -ln tho Park of Hyde, threw
lt open to the publlc, glvlng the gold
koy of tho gates to the domain, to tho
Lord Hlgh Chancellor, ln token of tho
Iccsslon. Tho peoplo cannot lie sald to
ihave shown thomselveH graleful foi*
.the glft, since shortly afterwards ttfey
roso against hlm, and deprlvod hlm
Inot only of hls throne nnd of hls llb
orty, but also of hls head. Another
rellc is tho portralt of thc Infonta
C'atherlno of Porttigai, Whlch was sent
over to Charles II. for hls Inspectlon,
and whlcli so capllvated hlm that ho
mado hor hls wife.
(Copyrlght, 1908, by the Brcntwood
Compnny.)
THB LAWS DELAY.
Nothing to Knvor II t All Hoiihoii
Agnlnnt It.
If ono wero to bo asked In what re?
spect we had fallen farthost short of
Ideal condltlons In our whole govern?
ment, I think ho would hc Justlfled In
answoring, ln spltc of the glarlng dc
fects In our system of municipal gov?
ernment, tliat it Is our fallure to sc
cure expedltlon and thoroughness ln
the enforcetnent of publlc and private
rights In our courts.?Wllllum tl. Tnrt.
Wlth thjs slgnlflcant oplnion Mr.
Taft begins n recent article In tno
North Ainorlcan Revlcw upon the de
lays and defects ln law enforccment ln
oui* country. Tho opinlon ls not po
cullar to Mr. Tnft, but is held hy an
lncreaslngly large number of thought
ful Amerlcans. In thls fact alone Is
hope foi* tho evontual curo of nn cx
tremely serlous evll.
It is to bo hopod so dlstlngulsh.cl nn
advocacy of law reform will do much
toward brlnglng to lawyers a more
udequate sense of thelr responslblllty.
lf the legal professlon through Its
many nssoclations would more practi?
cally und porslstently bestir Itself tha
chief defects of our Judlcial admlnls?
tratlon could bo corrccted before many
years.
The .complexity of our system nnd
tho ovll of tcchnlcnllty does not rest
upon grounds of popular favor. Amend?
ment Is unllkcly to bo opposed by any
lay prejudlce or policy. It Is true
that with all tho popular tpipatlence
over the law's delay there prevalls the
fallacy that technlcallties nnd inultl
pllcity of trials and retrials are. in
some way not understood, a safegunrd
of substantlal rights, nnd especlally a
protectlon for tho poor sultor. The
contrary Is, of course, true, and It
would not be dlffictilt to show the
lay publlc that technlcallties are tlie
luxurles of those who can afford to
pay for appeals and retrials.
Thoro ls indecd no sufflclent realffa
tlon of what our "cumbersome, and
slow, und oxpenslve machlnery" of law
enforccment means to the lltlgant and
to the taxpayers. If there weve. the
matter would be taken out ot the
hands of tlie professlon.
Thls Is not a constimmntlon to bo
wlshed. Tho initlatlve of reform in so
hlghly special a reform resldes prop?
erly in the legal professlon. and under
its guldance reform should be formu
luted" and established.?Chieago Trib?
une.
CLOTHES ANO MAN'.M-'n*?.
Where I" the Ocatlllne Ilct-rrcen Com?
fort nud Deeorum.
The hot wavo brlugs up anew th.
questlon of mldsummor iiogllgcc. T<
what extent may conventlonallty li
clothes bo disregarded for comfori'
The refusal of the management of i
fashionable hotel to servo a guest Ir
hls shlrtslcovos was un Incldcnt o
yesterday'.. news. At tho congress o
wllist players a Southerner of the ol<
school rcmalned true to tradltlons o:
respect for the presonce of ladles an<
sweltered In broadcloth, while th.
other players sat coatlcss.
Where l? the deadllne of decorun
to be drawn? A generation hns wlt
nessed extraordlnary concesslons t.
comfort ln summer clothes. Sults o
llnen ancl duck and secrsucker dat
from before the war, but It Is onl;
since tlio elghtles that unslarche.
shlrts and low-cut shoes of tan o
patent leather have come Into genera
use. It Is durlng that period tha
outing clothes and the "two-plece*
sults of thln fnbrlcs ancl washuble ma
terials havo galned thelr great liol
and thc belt unlversally replaced th
suspendcrs. "Athletic" underwear, s
calledj is of very recent adoption.
Tho inroad of negilgee on manner
ls a serlous phase of the questioi
The shirtwaist man is endurable 1
hls place, but that place ls clcarl
not at a publie dinner table or
formal publlc gatherlng, nor yet I
an automoblle. The questlon of tahlrt
sleeves on the stroets Is a moot oni
But does th& slight galn In persont
comfort compensate for the necessar
loss of self-respect? The llne of pro
prlety In sumni6r clothes is now s
lax that It itlidtild not needlnssly b
overstepped.?New York Tribune.
MOItE IMPORTANT THAN POLITICS
TIiousHudN of Men Hetiirii to the I'lHs
burg Indimtrle*.
Whlle the most exclting news ot th
day comes from I Denver, the mos
Important comes Ifrom Plttsburg. I
Denver they are thrashlng ovor ol
straw; in Plttsburg they are gettln
down to work. According to pres
reports, 50,000 men ln that clty an
1 vlclnlty returned to work to-day, afte
i a long lay-off owlng to buslness dc
presslon. Threo of the Cnrnegle mllli
whlch have been operatlng on ha
tlme, returned to full tlmo and n nuiii
ber of other iron and stocl mllls wl
put addltionai men lo work. Anotlu
encouraglng featuro of the suuatlo
is that railroad companles havin
headquarters at Plttsburg havo ordei
ed repa.r shops on doublo tlmo in oi
der to koep paco wlth the deman
causqd hy the resunvption of busines
Of Itself. standlng alono. Plttsburg
rehowed aotlvlty would not be pai
tloularly slgnlflcant, but the repon
sont out fvonv thoro aro dupllcatcd I
many other cltles. WUh . the assni
anca of good crops, thore Is every ror
son to hopo for a stoady Inoroaso I
business activlty. The railroads wi
have all they can do to haul tho grei
wheat crop already mado In tho Wo:
nnd the great oorn crop thnt ls pvon
Ised. U takes tlme, of courso. to r.
c'ovor from the treniendous backsi
eaused by the tlnanclal panlc, but, ui
less all slgnt. fall, tho country ls raPh
ly getting back to Ita normal oond
tlon.?Baltinioro News.
Au, Autu.my ou tlie Demoerney.
Apparently tlio Democratic party hi
forgotten that It qvor had prlnclples .
lts own; that it ever had a mission .
ts own; that lt over hnd a hstory- .
Ita own: that lt is over llkely aga
lo itnvo a ilestlny of IU,qwit, Iho gre:
leaders- who put tho Democraey on I
toot aftoi* the Clvil v/nr aud alt
reconstructlon aro now ln tholr Bray.
The ilttlo leadors who blastod lt sM
il. Ponullat and Boml-Hociailsm ??avo. st
ln1 ho saddlo. The poor old- Dam
cratlo pai'ty!-New York WoyHl <???
OCl'ftt..
STATE PRESS
Jlew to tlie Llne.
Thero Is but ono tnak for tbe Deiivor con?
vention, and thnt Is tho plntform; nor ahould
that be a, dlrrioiill tnsk. Tlie prlnclplea of
Domooraoy woro lald down when tho pnrty
was born, nnd thoy hnve never chanso.l. All
that tho convention wltl have to do will bo
lo dcolnre them exactly, torseiy, eourage
ously? nothing aupprcsslng, nothing ojt/on
ti.itltn,, nothlntr dovliitlng. Cllve us u Slnion
puro Domocrnllc platform, nnd. there will ho
no occatlon for npolagy or tlefcnge. Olvo IW
a Slmon-puro Domocratlo platform nnd tbo
party cnn ninkn an aggresslva wnr on Re*
lihbllcnniHin wlth every proapect of suc
Ccas. But thero rmtal bo no liiddlnnr for thn
vtito ot l'opullets, or negrooa, or uny nllens
who aro not naturally aftlllaterl wlth tho
Democratic party. Tho Democraey I*
Hiii.nueat ln Its Intesrlly. That fact ahould
bo kopt well ln mlnd hy tho convention.?
Newport Nows Tlincs-llci-ald.
L1JCCN tlie Oullltie.
Of eourae, no voter ahould compromlflo or
.ut-rendor on any questlon whlch .ooini to
hlm to he vltnl or of fundninontnl Iniporl
nnee, but If he Ivdlspoced to qulbbie over
trlflna or Immnterlal nintters for moio prliln
of opinlon, he will flnd nn congenlnl place
In nny polltical pnrty, and, ns l.uiidreary
would say, Hhoulcl floelc by lilmeelf, and not
?llHturb tho harmony nt roasonuble men who
hnve ?ena* enough to agrco to dlaagrcc.
1'rom tho outllno of thn proposed Demo?
cratic platform no publlshed wo draw the
epcouraglng Infcrcncn thal it wlli bo broad
enough for every Democrat to atand on
without aacrlllce of convlotlon or of aolf-rc
Bpect.-?Petersburg Indox-Appcnl.
Or.nl Slnke**.
It Is wlth the Democ.atle convention ln
ncccpl tho opportunlly thua so invltlngly
offered. It wlli name a candidate whoso
character aquarea with every rcqulromtnt of
loft.v. pntrlotlc eltlzenahlp?nntl whose at
t-lnmonta In the flcl.l of atatonmnnshlp nre
rocngnijed aa of dlslingulshed and l.iilttnr.t
rder. All that Is needed now la tn aco to
lt that tho Denve. plntform b? aucli aa t?
c.>mmitnd Iho aaaent of ti.oiiu.itf.il eltlnens,
and abovo all, reprcsant thn raal hreath and
*oul of Demncracy?of that Democraey
whlch since ita blrth hns vlood Inflexibiy
true to the prlnclplea of popular aoVOr
^.Ignty and good government.?Lynchburg
News.
Brynn Ihe Doctor.
If Mr. Bryan doea not flll the Democincy*.
appenl wlth llrework*, as ho fllled hia Marll
aon Squnrci speech two years ngo; If bo
doea not unnecossorlly alarm ln.ctll_.ant!
voter* who are anxloua to turn agalnst the
Itcpuhlleart pnrty: If he tiaca hls nll-poweTful
Infliience in favor of the cholce of a vlce
presldentlal candidate whoao record com?
mnnd* confldence?then thero wltl be th?
be.t chance alnco Cleveland'* dny to de?
feat the party In power.
XVe can do no moro than expr.AB the hopn
tnat Mr. Bryan will rlso to the occaslor
properly. nnd not permlt hlmaelt to be ex
-itcd or Irrltaled to tho extent of commlt.
tlng nny aerloua bltinder. Hc !s thc doctor
-Norfolk Landmark.
Buying tbe Hearst Whlstle.
Perhaps wo do Mr. Heurst injuntlce. Ii
so. and he provea It by hls actlon. we slano
teady to make compiete apology. Ttls careei
has beer. replete wlth surprlres. Mnybe ln
Pna one of an agrccable nature (n atoie foi
hls former party colleaguea. But our doulu
la etronger thnn our hope. Nolhlng thal
can b? sald lu th?ao columna now cnn hav.
nny effect on tho eventa whlch are progreaa.
Ing _.ouo mllea away. NeverthelosJ, we fee
called on lo say that. even should Mr
Bcarst bc In a mood to bargaln, it will b>
very easy to pay too hlgh a prico for the all
of himself nnd hls cohorts. Such recrull.
may bo obtalnnble only on auch terma a:
will Induce tho dearrtton or paralyzing dls'
content of a larger number of scusor.ei
lerana. Caveat Empior.?Norfolk Vlr
tlnian-I'llot.
Thnt I>**e_.t.ul Falrbanks.
Vlco-l'rosldont Palrbank*. apeaklrig al An
dcraon, Ind.. on tho I'ourth. mndc a plec
for a hlgh moral coclo In pollllrs. V. t Mr
I'atrbanks lesi than ntx weeks ago took ad
cantago of h bllnd L'nlted State. i?enator nn.
played a polltloaM trlck In the K.imt.? whlcl
mado the old-tlmers gaai>.?Alexandrla Ga
zette.
.TEDDY nK.-IlS SI.l'JIP.
Dropplnc. Ont nf Ituoacvrlt Itrlnt?"
ti.MTii Mnrket on ilenr*.
Since tho polltical dolngs nt Chlcngc
last month, concernlng which some?
thing has appeared ln the newspaper..
Teddy bears, ll seems. have been con
stanlly slldfng down In the market
The>* nre Mt 11. going ilown. and It ha;
come tn such u pass that lawsults are
growlng out of the trouble. Thls lsn'i
weather foi* bears. anyhow.^
Maurice R. and Dnnlel W. Blumen
- thal, of No. 35 Nassau Street, uttor
>.neys for Rudolph Flclsehcr, a makei
i of toys. iiifiiitut.il suit In me Cit>
? Court yesterday agalnst Stelnfolt
_;Brothers, of No. 620 Broadway whole
, salo denlers in toys. for tuiflllmont ol
f thelr contract to take 525 dozen Teddj
, bears.
. "It was thls way."* explained Danle
i?W. Blumenthtil yesterday: *-Beforc tln
'?Ropnbllran convention ut Chlcagi
1 IHelnfold Brothers were so confiden
that Presldent lloosevelt would bc ro
nomlnated, and that Teddy bears,woul<
be booming again. that they mado i
contract wlth Mr. Fleischer to furnisl
them 525 dozen.
?'Mr. Flel.scher went rlght ahead
Stelnfeld Brothers had taken nbou
twenty dozen when the conveniior
nomlnated Secretnry Taft. Teddy bear
went sllding downward and thc Steln
foldH Khowed a reluctance to lond u:
I wlth them.
t "Various excuses havo been glven t>
k*ep off tho many otlier dozens o
Toddy bears whlcli Jir. Fleischer hu
, made, and will keep on maklng. Nov
wo havo Instltuled proceedings to com
pel Stelnfeld Brothers to throw opoi
thelr doors to the full contracted mim
bor of Teddy bears."?New York Tlmes
?J
1. FIHST PARTY COXVK.VriOX.
n
Vlce-Prcaldeney n Polltical I'roblcn
Over n Hundred Vear* Ako.
It was unqucstlonably the though
of thc Constitution framcrs that th
man who secured the second numbe
ot votes should bo the Vlce-Preslden
II and not until after George Washlngto
y had been elected twlco dld party or
ganizatlon munlfost itself sufficlentl
to placo "a vlce-presldonllal candldat
dlsllhctly in the fleld. The flrst sem
blanco of a convention was tho con
ferences of the Foderaliat and Demc
cratlc-Republica.n members of C'ongret
ln 1800, i-osiiltlr.g in the proposal re
spectlvcly of John Adams and Charle
Pinkney and ot Thornaa Jefferson an
Aaron Burr for the presldentlal offlce
by those two partles. When in 181
John Langdon. ot New Hampshlre, wu
!{ nomlnated foi* Vlco-rsesldent by th
? Republlcans In caucun In this clty Jtla
12th, he decllned to run, nnd a secon
caucus wns held Juno Sth, when 13
bridgo, Gerry was nominated, and wo
aftorward elected with James Madlsoi
In the oloctlcin ot 1821 four candidate
were presented, no party having plaoc
dlstlnct nomlnations before the ooin
try. Though Andrew Jackson had th
largest' number of votes ln tlio ole.
toral college, no ehoiec was effeetc
and the olectlon was thrown into tl
House of Representatlves nnd -loh
Quincy Adams was olectod Presldoi
und John C. Calliourn Vlce-Preslden
he having recelved tho majorlty of tl
oloctoral colloge for that offlce agalni
the flold of six candldatos. The no:
campalgn polltical partles showed tl
dlstlnct allgnment that: later lod l
tho prosent custom of party convei
tions nnd nomlnations.?Washlngto
(D. C.) Star._
,t Stcniner R?cc? Wlth Whulew.
,t Raclng wlth a school of big whah
foi* nearly flfty mllea was the unusui
experienco- of tho German frelgl
stenmshlp ?Baroelona, which arrlved i
Mystlc wharf yesterday from Hambur
1- Captaln Fullev declarod that ho nev
1- saw 'whnloi so bolU. Thoy complete
siifi-ounded tho vossul, swlmmlng alon
wlth hor ancl evldently greatly onjo:
Ing her company.
The Bai'coloua ls makitig hor flr
af trlp to Dostop for sovornl months. Cai
ot taln Fulloi* sald ho loft Hamburg Jui
of 11th, and had flno weather tliroughoi
In tho pnssngo. No leu wns seen, althoug
at thu weather was porfectly ctetir i
tlut track.'
Tho Baroelona brought ln an enorn
ous cargo, conslstlng ot 7,000 top& ?
tli l.ninlt, erockery, toys, muslcal InBtr
III ments, niaohinory, caso gnods and gui
eral frelght. . Part of thls cargo w
he landed here and tho balance tale.
to Bt\Ulmoro.--Bostoii Journal.
Voice of the People
Tlie Cottven.-Ot. nnd the Prltrinif.
Kditor of Tho Tlmes-DtnptttCh'
Hlr,?Vour edltcirlttl, "A Primorj*
Convention Comblnatlon Plan," ln
Sunday's Isstlo soems lo requlro of m?
somo further oxplanntion o( ono or two
fri:itur..H uf tho suggested schcme.
You ask: "What Is tho real objootlon
to referrlng tho matter agaln to the
peoplo In a sqcond primary, which
shall bo held Immediately uftcr the
flrst ono, wlthout a dollar npont for
further campalgnlng hetweon them, and
to whlch only tho two highest candi?
dates shall bo cllglble?"
A second-dny Stnte primary could
not bo hold until Humclcnt tlme hnrl
olnusotl nfter tho flrat to allow tho re?
sult thereof lo be canvassed and dla
semlnated throughout tho Common
woalth to itw most romote and Hceluded
proclnctH. Thls monns at lonst two
wooks If things went r.moothly, nnd
posslbly three, tour or flvo woekB if
there were determined contests. In
any event, thc hclghtenod interest
eaused by iiarrowlng tho lleld could bo
reiled on to IncroaHO rather than sun1
pend the nctlvltles nnd expenses of tho
renutlnlng candidates. The expense of
holdlng the sccond-day primary places
an ud.lltlonal rcslriction upon tho poor
candidate. Already tlie expense to can?
didates for a one-tlny primary has be?
come so great '.hat tho TJemocratlc
party passed resolutlons looklng to
somo rellof. Many people scom to be?
lleve that lf the State pays the cost
of the primary all objectlon on thls ?
ground will bo removed. But for rea?
sons which cannot noWsbo~*-glven, the
"legallzcd primary" ls not tho slmple
solution and unrnixed blosslng that lts
advocates secm to thlnk. Aslde from
Its expense and its posHlbilltlcs tor
trlckery and comblnatlons, a second
dny primary mny be cxtrcmely unjust
to some of the candidates. Snpposo
thero are flvo candidates for Gover?
nor. A receive*. 18,000 votos, B 15,001.
C 15,002. D 1.5,00. aiid E 15,001. Is lt
Jupl to B and C to be frozon out of
tlio second-day primary when an Jn
flnltcslma! fractlon of A's vote would
mako elthor have as many or more
votes than elthor D or E? If there
wero more than threo candidates It
would requlro a th.rd or fourth or even
a flfth-day primary to detormlno who
In fact would receive a majorlty of
the votes of tho people. This Is im
practlcoble.
From what h?s Just been sald you
can easlly flnd my answer to another
of your queries?when you ask why
thls plhn allows a candldato who hns
been dropped by tho convention on one
roll-call to bc put back In nomlnatlon
t'ln the next ballot but onc. Suppose
[ tho primary resulted ns abovo indf
catod. Now transfer all further ballot?
ing to delegates or agents of the peo?
ple In convention asaombled. A would
be dropped in the second ballot. and
hls strength may go to B. C and "D tn
sucli proportlon lliat on the thlrd bal?
lot E would bc dropped. Jfow E's stip
port'ors may, a.s a second cholce. favor
A. and so mlght the supporters or B,
C and T>. ?o fhatyJh the end A. who
hn,| tho fowest flrst cholce votes, mny
become tho nominee. because he ls least
objectlonable or because of party har?
mony or a thousand othor reasons
whlch play important parts in practical
polltlcs.
Just here let mo emphaslze the im
portnnce of requlring a majorlty of
tlie votes of tho people or of their dele?
gates to name tho party's candldatfs.
and of glvlng the pooplo or thelr d-*le
gates some real cholce In the selectlon
of the party's nominee. One of tl.r
greatest weaknesseK of the prlmai-y
plan is that the party or thc peopl-.:
have no power to chooso a candldau%
They have only the powt'r to chooso
between self-appolnted candidates. It
may bo true thnt none of tho wolt-to
do. self-appolnted candidates who
can vass thc State wlth no, platform.--,
vnumtiiig themselves In self-aggran
dizement nnd blnckgunrding by sug
goHtlon and Innuetido the per.onnl
characters of thelr Democratic oppon?
ents, Is tho renl cholce of Virginia
Democraey. Yet. under our present
plan thc least objectlonable Is chosen
by a bare plurallty. Under tho plan
suggested should such a contlngency
arlso the convention, having dropped
each candidate. once nnd thus demon
stnited that none of the candidates is
acceptable to a majorlty of the people,
Is glven power to repudlato the wholo
flold and sdect for itself a candidate
who can lead tho party to victory.
Whlle such a contingency ls seem
Ingly rernoto ln Kaslern Virginia,
where tho party's majority makes it
careless In its cholce of candidates, it
not only may occur. but has occurred
In Southwest Virginia. whero a strong
cundldtttc, one who can receive tho
united vote of thc party. ls requlred to
meet the party's enemy.
I am glad to know that The Times
Dispatch agrees wlth mo that there
are other functions to be performed
by a party thnn the choice of candi?
dates. To mo this Is the Inherent
weakness of our present primary
plan?we have no organlzatlon tb fight
battles nor to olect our candidates
aftor they are chosen ln tho primary.
This is the'only "sense" I tried to
knock into the head of The Tlmes
Dlspatch. Whlle you may no*- know
of nny movo "to take these (executlve)
duties from the pnrty convention or to
uboilsh thal institutlon altogether as
superfluous," uevertheless, by roason
of our present primary; plan, w.hlch
has an eye slngle to tho cholce of can?
didates, tho convention has, in tho
language of our recently departed
leader, fallen into "Innocuous destto
tudo," nevor to bc revived until thc
convention Is mado compulsory and
lts delegates given somo voice In thc
cholco ot* candidates. Except In thc
Ninth Dlstrlct. where, for reasons
horein polntt-.. out, tho primary plan
has beon nulliflcd, there has not been
a dlstrlct or State convention hold In
Virginia for tlio purpose of building
platforms. providlng mnchlnory . foi*
tho electlon of nomlnees, etc, since tho
primary party law wont into effect,
We havo ceasecl tn hnve a party organ?
lzatlon in thls State; tho ordlnary citi?
zen has no voice ln framlng tho pollcles
of his pnrty nnd no means to chooso
for himself the candidates for hls.
pnrty's nomlnations. Tho candldato
seaks the ofllce, nnd tho offlco no longer
s'eeks the "man. The Democratic party
hns dpgenerated into a horde of hun
gry ofllco-soekers, wlth no prlnciples,
no platforms. no policlos, no organiza-'
tlon, and wlth scant means provlded for
tho porpetuntlon nf party offlcers?all
hits boen sncriflced in tho mad scram
ble for offlce, ' yvnivs vai'.v trulv,
ROBT. W. WITHERS.
Suffolk, Va., Julv 7. 1008.
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two necessary eloments whlch aro rieoa
ed to supploinent the nltro_on.