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REPUBLICAN NOMINATIONS.,
STATE.
Oovcrnor-WILLIAM A. BTONB.
Lieutenant Governor J. P. 8. U0I3IN.
Secretary of Internal Affairs JAMES W.
LATTA.
Judges of Superior Court-W. W. POIl-
TER, W. D. rOHTEU.
Congressmen - at - Largo SAMUEL A.
DAVENPORT, GALUS1IA A. GROW.
COUNTY.
ConsMSft-WILLIAM CONNELL.
Judgc-F. W. GUNSTEIl.
Coroncr-JOHN J. ROBERTS, M. D.
Surveyor-GEORGE E. STEVENSON.
LEGISLATIVE.
Senate.
Twentieth Dlst.-JAMES C. VAUGHAN.
House.
First Dlstrlct-JOHN R. FARR.
Second Dlstrlct-JOHN J. SCHEUER, JR.
Third Dlstrlct-N. C. MACKEY.
Fomth DIstrlct-JOUN F. REYNOLDS.
COLONEL STONE' PLATFORM.
It will be my purpoto when elected to
so conduct myself as to win tho respect
nnd 'ood will of those who have opposed
mo as well as thoso who have given mc
thc.r support. 1 tihull bo the governor
of the whole peo.pl; of the state. Abuses
have undoubtedly grown up In tho legis
lature wlin h are neither tho fault of one
pnrty nor the other, but rather tho
growth of custom. Unnecessary Investi
gations have been authorized by commit
tees, resultlrg In unnecessary expense to
tho state. It will liw my cure and pur
pose to oonvtt-these""nnd other evils In so
far as I have the power. It will be my
purpose while governor of I'onnsyhanla,
ns It has been my purpose In tho public
posltl-ins that I havo held, with God's
help, to discharge my whole duty. The
people arc greater than tho parties o
which they belong. I am only Jealous of
their favor. I shall only attempt to win
their approval nnd my experience has
taught mo that that can best be done by
an honest, modest, dally dlscbargo of
puhllc duty.
If Scrnnton hail an economic and
Tiuslness-like city Government to put
nlnngsido Its other advantages It could
multiply very rapidly Its Industries and
Its wealth. Rear this In mind when
thinking about the next mayor.
Scandal Mongers.
The Commonwealth, of Harrlsburg,
the principal dally Journal of the Dr.
Swallow movement, defends the course
of the New York Voice In prlntlnc a
maliciously scandalous libel on Sena
tor Quay by pleading that substantial
ly the same thing was printed In the
New York World a number of years
ago and passed by without answer b
those at whom It was aimed. This
excuse Is Insufficient nnd to our recol
lection It Is not altogether true.
The World nrtlcle, If we remember
correctly, attacked Quay's public char
acter but did not outrage the privacy
of home life by retailing back-door
gossip purely personal In Its nature.
Legitimacy of criticism of public acts
Is not disputed anywhere, provided
reasonable accuracy and fa'mess be
Bhown and false accusations In the
long run defeat themselves: but we
Bubmlt that when the Rev. Dr. Isaac
X. Funk prints In his family nowspa
per, and the Rev. Dr. Silas C. Swallow,
on the stump and by means of his
home organ endorses, an invasion of
private life that broadcasts filthy and
obscene charges affecting private mor
als, they disgrace their cloth, affront
public decency and merit severest
reprobation.
In saying this wo do not constltuto
ourselves a special champion of Sen
ator Quay. He Is thoroughly compet
ent to take care of himself. We mere
ly protest, in the name of decency,
against the wanton peddling In a gub
ernatorial campaign of antiquated pri
vate scandal which doctors of divin
ity, of ;.ll persons, ought to be the last
to engage in If true to the proprieties
nnd to tho ordinances of their sacred
calling. Such a ghoulish Invasion of
the homo circle in the interest of a
particular candidate for high olllce,
who apparently applauds the nasty
business and takes unctuous delight
in its ura'i.dlng stench, ought to havo
the effect to illumine his essential un
fitness for any place within the gift
of self-resptcting men.
The new president of the American
Social Science association, Dr. Simeon
K. Baldwin, of New Haven. Conn., is
a cousin of Senator Gcorgo F. Hoar,
of Massachusetts, but lie is also an
expansionist. Here's hoping that
Cousin George will yet acquire more
of Cousin Simeon's gumption.
The Dream of Universal Peace.
What nttltude should the United
States assume if invited to send dele
gates to a congress of the powers con
vened In furtherance of the czar's sug
gestion of a general disarmament?
ThW question is one certain sooner or
later to coma up for consideration.
Anterior to glancing at tho Ameri
can aspects of this problem it should
be borne in mind that disarmament by
Europe is no more to be expected un
der conditions now prevalent there
than is the success of perpetual motion.
No basis of agreement toward this end
Is conceivable. One power is stronrr on
land but weak on the sea; another is
weak on land but strong on the sea.
The conditions which compel the main
tenance of a large naval force aro usu
ally the opposite from those that ne
cessitate a large land force. Reduc
tion of ono l.ind of armament without
reference to thu other kind would on
the face of It be preposterous; reduc
tion of both kinds In respect to a fixed
ratio, obviously impossible. Germany
would not disarm unless France would;
and France will nst while Germany
keeps the territorial loot of 1870. To
ask England to ptop building ships
while Russia steadily presses down up
on English influence In China and Ens
llsh sovereignty In India would be to
exhibit distrust of English intelligence;
and to expect of Russia such a rever
sal of traditional characteristics as to
Justify the weaker powers In her vic
inity in dismissing defensive precau
tions would bo to sacrifice prudence to
sentiment. No congress of tho powers
can dlsurm Europe until the millontum
welds differing European races and
racial characteristics Into uniformity
and perfection. Tho dream of disar
mament Is pretty but It Is yet a dream.
The United States, occupying ti
sphere of Influence in most things sep
arated from tho Jenlouslcs of Europe
and entertaining no ambitions calcu
lated to bring It Into conflict with nny
other nation tavo in defense of Its own,
has no direct Interest In tho problem
of Ejropean disarmament. It wishes
Europe well; It recognizes thut the
milltirlsm of Europe Is a great and a
grievous burden, for which the un
righteousness of European statesman
ship alone Is responsible; nnd It would
bi willing on humanitarian grounds to
forego the economic ndvantnges which
it now posserses when brought into
competition with the debt-burdened
nations of Europe. In other words, Its
sympathies nnd its moral Influence are
on the side of pence and civilization;
but thh, fact does not call for partici
pation in a congress to which our In
terests are foreign, nor would our ab
stention from such participation Justi
fy the charge of indifference to hu
manitarian alms.
While European publicists have been
dreaming their dream of universal
peace tho United States by means of
its annv and navy has been going a
great way toward facilitating such an
enviable consummation by licking tho
stuflinfj; out of a European system of
mIs.;overnment that tended to disturb
the peace Wo armed, not for aggres
sion, but for righteousness; and we
shall continue to arm until we feel able
to Keep the peace wherever It Is threat
ened by foreign disregard of our
rights. If tho powers of Europe nre
einrere In wanting peace, let them turn
their guns and warships over to us and
name tho United States as tho world's
officer of tho peace. Then tho peace
that would ho enforced would be a Just
peace.
Pilose loqnaclous reformers who aro
daring Senator Quay to sue for slander
may be treated to a surprise ono of
these days. Quay is not a safe man to
fool with.
A Frenchman's Testimony.
Tho Revue de Paris in recent Issues
printed and the New York Sun of yes
terday translated the diary of a French
naval officer stationed on tho warship
Hrulx which lay In Manila bay when
Dewey's squadron entered. Tho diary
covered tho events of the first month
of Dewey's blockade and Is full of In
sulting references to tho Americans.
French as well as German sympathies
were avowedly with Spain and this
officer could find no words of objur
gation strong enough to voice his con
tempt of the European statesmen who
permitted America to assert herself In
that neighborhood. For, said he, In one
place:
"Manila Is the key of the extreme
east. The Island of Luzon Is tho geo
metrical centre of all those points on
the globe whose possession is the most
Important to those powers who have
Interests to protect In tho Pacific.
Taking Manila as a centre, a circle
whose radius Is five days' ordinary
steaming will Include all the great com
mercial water lanes and nil the lines
of communication between Europe and
the extreme cast and between the ex
treme east and Australia and Amer
ica." In another place he thus quotes
a French resident of Manila who was
asked if the Philippines under a wise
government would be a profitable col
ony: "Marvellously so. Their wealth
Is Immeasurable, their position un
rivalled; they produce rice, sugar,
hemp, tobacco and precious woods;
they possess a wealth of minerals and
a marvellously rich soil not yet half
cultivated."
These tributes to the importance of
our future Asiatic possession are tho
more Interesting because undoubtedly
sincere. They afford another reason
why what has been honorably won in
war should bo held In peace.
Thomas P. Ryder died in tho line of
duty. He is as reverently to be re
membered as if a bullet had laid him
low In battle.
England, Germany and China.
Great results are predicted In case
Fngland and Germany really do come
to an agreement, or, as the continental
statesmen would say, an alliance. Tho
New York Sun says:
Hy the withdrawal of German oppoil
tlon England will bo enabled to purchnso
Delagoa bay ficm Pcrtugal, nnd thus
wall off the Transvaal republic from tho
bca. Henceforth encysted within Urltl&li
possession?, tho Boers mu3t be, eventual
ly, merged In a South African confeder
ation. On tho cast coast of Africa, tho
Influence of an Anglo-German coalition Is
likely to become so preponderant that tho
Intrigues of Franco and Russia in Abys
sinia will be brought to naught. At
Teheran, also, tho representatives of
Russia will loso their present ascendancy
the moment it Is known that Russia will
fear to resort to war, being unable, In her
present financial situation to make head
ngalnst the combination of England with
the Triple Alliance. No less striking will
be tho change observed at Constantinople.
The role of vassal to tho czar, Into which,
of late, tho sultan has seemed drifting
will be exchanged for complete subserv
ience to A.iglo-German dictation. It is
probable that to Germany will be con
ceded tho protectorate over Syria, to
which France has long aspired, together
with rights of colonization on tho sea
coast of Anatolia. With England's nld,
tho project of a marriage between tho
young Queen Wllhelmlna of Holland and
a German prince would be almost cer
tainly carried out, und tho Joint pressure
of the coalition might even Induce the
Netherlands to become a constituent
state of the German empire, which would
thus acquire In tho Dutch Eenst Indies a
splendid colonial domain. In China, a
combination of England and Germany,
backed as it surely would ho by Japan,
and morally strengthened by tho goad
will of the United States, could dispel
forever tho Russian dream of dominating
the Middle Kingdom, and In ono way or
another keep tho markets of China per
manently open to tho world.
This forecasting of possibilities Is In
teresting nnd Instructive: nnd there
is to be said for It that Germany has
really much mora to gain by siding
with England than by playing second
fiddle to tho czar. Rut If we were giv
ing ndvlce to the state department nt
Washington which, by tho way,
doesn't need any these days we
should suggest that it not place too
much rellanco upon other powers 1b
the campaign for an open trado door
Into China but that it lay Its wires
with a view to going It alone, If neces
sary for the ultimate safecuardini; of
American commercial Interests., Eng
land nnd Germany and Japan will not
pull all our chestnuts out of tho fire,
for nothing. They may be willing to
pull a few out, for diplomatic pur
poses; but tho wny to innke sure of a.
good Job Is to superintend it yourself.
Wo shall havo to tnke back some
thing recently said about Governor
Black of New York. It was announced
that ho proposed to keep hands oft
while tho people settled tho question
of selecting his successor, and wo gavo
praise accordingly. But now it seems
that Black and his friends, ignoring
their original promise, are using nil
their power to force Black's renomlna
tlon ngalnst a practically unanimous
popular call for the nomination of Col
onel Roosevelt, and also threatening
to make trouble in case they aro de
feated in convention. Tills is an Inde
fensible course, and thoe who havo
pushed Black Into It have done him
serious injury.
Not all the fault for army red tape
belongs to tho ofllccrs in charge. It
was congress that wove it in the first
place. Harper's Weekly mentions an
instance. Once a ship took fire along
side a wharf stocked with valuable
government property. Tho olTlcor in
charge of that property hired a tug to
tow the ship out to sea and saved tho
property. But he had to pay the tug
owner out of his own pocket, for under
tho law his contract was Invalid be
cause ho had not advertised for bids.
It is this sacrifice of common sense to
routine formalities that has turned our
successful war into a national scandal.
Major Hopkins, the military secre
tary to the secretary of war,
estimates the deaths in tho
army, outside of those In battle, at
1,034 in four months, while in the Dis
trict of Columbia, which has a popu
lation nearly equalling the size of tho
army, in tho same period 2,049 deaths
were recorded. This comparison, how
ever, proves nothing. The men in the
army were ricked specimens of phys
ical soundness. The death rate among
them tells eloquently of bad manage
ment. Tho fact is not lost upon the coun
try that while the president, General
Alger, General Wheeler and the rest of
the high authorities aro publicly pro.
claiming the superiority of Camp
WIckoff they are privately busy or
dering tho soldiers to leave it as soon
as possible.
Ussons Learned
in a Dear School.
From the Philadelphia Press.
EFORE tho present agitation is
) over and in particular when an
D adequate Investigation Is ordered
J Into tho condition and conduct of
army, as ono should be, this non-
mllltary country Is likely to learn bow
complex a machine an army Is and how
necessary are skill and training In nil Its
parts If Its men nro to be kept In health
and strength and t-aved from disease. Tho
vaguo idea and loose conception which
underlies tho public Indignation nt kho
condition of tho army Is that sold'ers
tuko care of thenifelves and officers havo
nothing to do but teach them to drill, to
thoot and to lead their men with brtuvry,
whilo tho "War Department" Is respon
sible for all tho rest. But as a matter of
fact an army Is a vast complicated ma
chine. In which the skilled personal caro
of men, company by cempany, regiment
by regiment and brlgado by brigade, is
Indispensable. Unless this skilled caro
exists trouble Is sure to follow.
o
Camp Thomas, at Chlckamauga, haB an
evil reputation, justly earned. The con
dition of the n'en thero and their Illness
show most serious lacks in their care.
Among many other lacks for which oth
ers aro responsible the Chattanooga
Times describes theso In a recent edito
rial letter: "Riding through the camp,
but a wejk ago, tho writer saw bedding,
on tho ground, under tho dog tents, on
which bedding mold had grown. It must
havo been thero at least a week and men
wero sleeping on It. We saw kitchens and
sinks within 10U feet of each other. We
saw wholo regiments, from the tents or
which not a rac of clothing or bedding
had been removed for an airing, at noon
of that day. In fact, wo saw, in some of
tho commands, every provision for mak
ing tho men sick, and wo marveled that
tho companies were ablo to turn out a
sergeant's squad apiece. These aro no
new facts. They have been stated a hun
dred times In our columns, in many
forms, and tho secretary of war admits
their truth."
Who Is responsible for this particular
lack of caro? Tho officers In immediate
command of tho men. Neither tho war
department, from Secretary Alger down,
nor the staff In all Its departments can
preserve tho health of soldiers If their
regimental and company officers havo not
been trained In tho care or men In tho
field nnd do not enforce compliance with
regulations on points like theso. When
1,200 men, fresh from comfortable homes
and In tho habit of eating thrco good
meals a day, aro camped for three months
on the same pleco of ground, highly
trained skill Is needed to prevent disease
or fever, and tho brief experience of a
week's annual camp cannot give this
skill. Etch when, as in tho regiments of
this state, special effort had been made
for years to train olflcors, In moro than
ono instance tho health of a carefully
watched Pennsylvania regiment has been
put in peril by regiments from other
states with careless officers.
o
Tents must be aired, bedding must be
sunned, tho camp must be kept strictly
policed, latrines must bo looked after,
garbage must bo disposed of, the con
duct of Individual soldiers must be
watched and guarded and tho preparation
and cooking of food by the private sol
dier must bo followed day by day with a
vigilant eye. A good company command
er In a. French or German army is ex
pected to bo ablo to know and teach all
theso things. Ho knows In what condi
tion the feet ot his men aro and his pro
motion will bo stopped by footsore and
limping men on tho march. Ho can teach
tho company ccok how to make the most
out of a meager ration, and duy by day
In active service ho watches tho uni
forms nnd has them kept in condition.
An ill man In his company for any cause
he could havo prevented gets tho officer
Into trouble, and tho excessive brutality
of the drlll-grourd Is matched by minute
caro of tho physical well-being of each
soldier. Unlens this manifold core ex.
tsts camp fovcrs follow, typhoid runs riot
nnd a camp becomes, as Camp Thomas
did, uninhabitable Hut tho trade of tak
lng caro of men In camn and under tho
conditions of military scrvlco is a trade
that has to bo learned as much ns any
other. How many regimental oftlrers in
the volunteer regiments organized last
spring could teach their men how to
cook UHr rations?" How many had
learned from instruction nnd experience
the manifold precautions as to tents,
bedding, blankets, shoes, clothing, sink,
irarbago and waste of all kinds Jndis-
pensablo If camp fever is to bo prevented
nnd men In camp kept wc.ll, well-fed and
strong?
There wera next to no such officers,
With 210,000 raw volunteer troops tho
country needed 12,0X1 to 14.V00 trained
ofllcers, not merely for drill but to keep
the men well. The country did not havo
such officers. Tho olflcers commissioned
had to lenrn their duties In tho field as
best they cctild, ond they havo mastered
(hem with a rapidity, an efficiency and a
cal which doe b them Inflnlto credit. But
too often their efforts for their own men
havo been neutralized by the routine or
tho blunders of start and general ofllcars
unfamiliar with tho work of caring for a
largo force or kwamped by rcd-tapo nnJ
"regulations." In a vast, complex ma
chine like a. modern army It Is puerile to
Imaglno that when tho machine breaks
down and men nre 111 by hundreds nny
ono man Is nlcne refporMble. What Is
needed Is careful, minute, expert Investi
gation nnd Ir.qulry to distribute personal
responsibility nnd point the wny to reor
ganization and reform, to exposure and to
punishment.
SOME VIEWS ON A LIVE TOPIC.
England, Japan nnd Uncle Sam.
Truxtun Bealo In September Forum.
Terhaps there will never come a time
when wo shall be In a stronger position
thnn now to enforce our demands In ah
international oongreis. Our naval
strength has stnrtled Europe. England's
Interests aro Identical with our own. She
Is preaching tho doctrine of open ports,
and has shown her willingness to flgnt
for them. Japan, with her efficient navy
and Important strategic position, has Just
been robbed of the fruits of victory by
tho three powers who will most strongly
oppose us. With Japan to nld tho Anglo.
Saxon alliance In diverting a certain
amount of naval strength, wo could, with
tho assistance of tho naval stations ot
England In tho Mediterranean, bottle up
tho Black Sea nnd, perhaps, the Mediter
ranean Itself. With our own western
frontier resting on tho shores of the Pa
cific, nnd with our Hawaiian and Philip
pine naval stations to co-operato with Ja
pan and tho fortunately situated British
Islands of Hong Kong nnd Singapore, wo
could effectually cut off the communica
tions of Etiropo with tho Far East. In
deed, it Is a question whether an alliance
having so many points of strategic ad
vantage In all parts of tho globe could
not shut oft the continent of Europe from
every other part of tho world. In cither
case, all their colonics would fall Into our
hands.
o
A Critical Moment.
Whether wo capture and hold the Phil.
Ipplnes, or Spain shall successfully resist
our efforts, on the one hand, or war shall
not bring us face to face with tho specific
problems outlined, tho truth remains, be
yond question or quibble, that now is tho
critical tlmo when tho United States
should strain every nerve and bend all
her energies to keep well to tho front
In the mighty struggle that has begun for
the supremacy of tho Pacific Seas. If we
seize tho opportunity we may become
leaders forever, but If we are laggnrns
now we will remain laggards until tho
crack of doom. The rule of tho survival
of tho fittest applies to nations as well as
to the animal kingdom. It Is a cruel, re
lentless principle being exercised In n
cruol, relentless competition of mighty
forces and theso will trample over
us without sympathy or remorse unless
we aro trained to endure nnd strong
enough to stnnd the pace. From "Tho
Troblem of the Philippines." by the Hon.
John Barrett, late United States minister
to Slam. In North American Review for
September.
o
Impossible to Sell People Like Sheep.
It seems to mo Impossible for the Unit
ed States to hand back to such n colonial
rulo as that of Spain poulatlons who have
been emancipated from that rule by the
action of tho Brent republic, or by the
chances of war. It seems to mo almost
as Impossible for the United States to sell
peoplo llko sheep, and to bo a party to ar
rangements which, for example, would
hand over the Philippines to another
power nsalnst tho wish of their Inhabi
tants. It Is probablo that tho Inhabi
tants of the Phlllplpnes would prefer the
rulo of tho United States, or a United
States protectorate, to British or German
rule and, further, the handing over of the
Philippines to any other country would
bo attended with Immense risk of general
war. From "Tho Problem of tho Philip
pines," by Sir Charles Dllkc, Bart., M. P.,
In North American Review for September.
o
New Employments for Capital.
For tho means of finding new produc
tive employments for capital It Is neces
sary that tho great Industrial countries
should turn to countries which have not
felt tho pulso of modern progress. Such
countries have yet to bo equipped with
the mechanism of production and of lux
ury, which has been created in tho pro
gressive countries by the savings of re
cent generations. They have not only to
obtain buildings and machinery the ne
cessary elements In producing machine
made goods but they havo to build their
roads, drain their marshes, dam their
rivers, build aqueducts for their water
supplies nnd sowers for their towns and
cities. Asia and Africa aro the most
promising of these countries. China, Si
beria and tho Islands which havo lan
guished so long under Spanish Inertia,
aro likely to follow, perhaps with more
halting steps, In the footsteps of Japan.
The opening of railways and canals will
afford employment for the masses of cap
Ital piling up In Europe and tho United
States, which will be profitable If the
merchandise is fourd to feed tho now
means of transportation. Existing com.
modltles now Imported from tho interior
of theso countries at great cost will bo
swept on paths of steel to tho sea-coast,
with the result of reducing their cost, in
creasing their consumption, and benefit
ing at once both producer nnd purchaser.
From "Tho Economic Basis of 'Im
perialism,' " by C. A. Conant, In North
American Review for September.
Cuba at the Parting of the Ways.
There is ono wny, tho one way only, in
which tho Cubans can acquire, now and
forover, perfect freedom of access to
American markets for their natural pro
ducts, and that Is by tho admission of
their island to the Union. There would
bo no end to tho development of Cuba's
natural resources under such stimulating
conditions. Nature has done moro for
her than It hai done for Java, which is of
almost exactly the same size; yet, In the
short space of a century, tho population
of the latter Island has Increased from
two to more than twenty millions. Cuba
is Btnndlng, in this crisis, at the parting
of the ways. If sho chooses, a destiny
more splendid than Java's may bo her3,
for sho may unite the dignity and free
dom of American citizenship with a more
than Javanese prosperity. If, on tho
other hand, the Cubans shall cling to tho
barren honor of complete political inde
pendence, they will find that It means for
them commercial backwardness and ceo.
nomlo Isolation; that American capital,
emigration nnd enterprise will go else
where, nnd that, soon or late, American
tariffs will foster the agricultural indus
tries, not of self-centered and self-de-pendont
Cuba, but of our own tropical
domains. From "What Is to Be Bono
with Cuba?" by Mayo W. Hazoltlno, in
North American Review for September.
A MODERN SPAKTAN.
Rochester Post-Express.
History portrays no more patriotic type
than tho Spartan mother. She was cast
In heroic mold, and her grim "with It or
upon It," as she gavo her son tho shield,
has been tho Inspiration of countless
bards und bardllngs who havo commem
orated her stern virtues In hcxametric
Terse. That the Spartan spirit has not
died Is proved by a little Incident at New
Haven last week. When the first call for
volunteers was made, a young man rf
that city enlisted. His mother gave him
the usual maternal God-speed, and ho
rrnn
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marched away proudly to tho measures
of martial music and the cheers of en
thusiastic onlookers. This part of war
was pleasant enough, but it did not last
long. His company did not go to Cuba or
Porto Rico, and the rigors and priva
tions of camp lifo wero not to his taste.
Ho stood it until last week, when he stolo
through tho lines and made his way
home. Tho return of tho private was not
auspicious. His reasons for the step
didn't slzo up with his mother's objec
tions to it, so, after chasing him Into tho
yard and breaking several clothes poles
over him sho led him to tho police sta
tion and gave him up us a deserter. Whin
asked why sho did this thing, this fin da
sleclo Spartan replied that she would
"own no son who was a skulker or a cow
ard," which, wo submit, is about as fine
ns tho reply of tho other Spartan woman
when her son complained of tho bhort
ness of his sword. Tho maternal reproof
ran; "Tako a step nearer your enemy
to make up for It.'
A MOMENTOUS ELECTION.
From tho New York Sun.
Tho coming election will be of graver,
moro momentous consequence than any
other election in tho history of this gen
oration. Slnco tho foundation of this re
public there will have been none of larger
nnd moro permanent Importance. Tho
congress to bo elected next November will
havo beforo It tho high und pious duty of
supplementing and completing in civil
legislation tho triumph achieved by tho
prowess of American arms In war. Be
foro that Fifty-sixth congress meets
peace will havo been concluded, and tho
territory conquered from Spain will be
In our military possession. In order that
none of the gain obtained by so great and
patriotic self-sacrifice may bo thrown
away, it Is necessary that congress shall
work harmoniously with tho president In
carrying out his purpose of garnering it
all for tho benefit of this nation and of
civilization.
At the election in November a full
houso of representatives Is to be elected,
und tho composition of about one-third of
tho senate will depend upon It. The solo
Issue before tho people In this state and
In all the states will bo thnt growing out
of the war. The people will be Interested
In no other, and no partisan trickery can
divert their attention to any other. It
will dominate overy election In every
state. The victory achieved by arms will
be repeated by peaceful ballots. More
over, for tho first time In American his
tory this republic will bo united and thor
oughly nationalized. Wo shall' all pull
together; sectional politics will be dis
carded; geographical lines which meant
much once will mean nothing then: parti
sanshlp, created by sectional prejudlca,
northern or southern or western, will
cease. The only emulation will be In the
determination of all to make use of tho
gulns and the opportunities brought by
war to enhance the glory nnd magnify
the power of the nation.
THE REAL TROUBLE.
From the London Spectator.
Tho United States Is learning with In.
dlgnatton the details of what its troops
had to endure beforo Santiago, and is In
clined to make a scapegoat of Sir, Alger.
Obviously Mr. Alger Is not a Carnot, but
it is hardly fair to put all tho blame on
him. Tho real cause of the misery nnd
muddlo was the absurd belief, so widely
entertained in America, that you can
make war without preparation. Amateur
soldiering, especially amtaeur transport
and commIssarlatt Is cruel .work,
last,
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