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Colo, by Hamilton & Kendrlck. &-912 Seventh street. TODAY'S WEATHER Occasional rain; cool er; brisk to high southerly winds. PORTLAND, MONDAY, XOYKMBER. IT Missouri's paradox of the 48-cent dol lar and anti-expansion. In one hand and Its Louisiana purchase exposition in the other Is now quite eclipsed by an appeal addressed by Southern cotton manufacturers to Secretary Hay. The South has done all it could to throw Mr. Hay out of office, and has Insulted him by accusing him of sacrificing his country's welfare to a disastrous alli ance with England, and now it has the effrontery to appeal to him to save it from the logical application of its own theories. All Bryan's electoral votes but thirteen came from the South. Till man, .of South Carolina, read the Kan sas City platform, while Jones, of Ar kansas, and Stone, of Missouri, and Richardson, of Tennessee, managed Bryan's campaign. This Kansas City platform, to which the South gives its almost unanimous indorsement, op poses every means by which we can protect its menaced cotton trade In Asia. It wants us to retire from the Philippines; it insists on our rigid ad herence to the Monroe Doctrine and our keeping out of Asia. Every sane man knows that diplo macy, to, get serious regard, must be backed up by force, and yet the South, through its Kansas City platform, not only denounces greedy commercial ism," an uncomplimentary reference tp the business spirit which now moves it to appeal on behalf of Its cotton trade, but it wants the Army reduced to a small National Guard in the several states, and wants us to get our trade rights in Asia "through a high and honorable example." The South's pre scription for promoting trade is to plunge the country to the sliver basis eo as to destroy the home market, avoid friendly relations with Great Britain, which Is our only way to get help for "the open door," and seek without Army and with Impaired Na tional prestige to offset German and Russian aggression In China by means of the National Guard and "a high and honorable example." Secretary Hay will doubtless feel in duty bound to promise his Southern enemies, advisers and suppliants to do everything in his power to help them out. The Admin istration will go on doing In Asia Just what the South pleads with It to do and denounoes it for doing. "We shall oonserve the Interests of the South's cotton trade In Asia until the South Itself is able, by accession of a few more electoral votes In the North, to prevent us from doing so. Secretary Hay's contention for "the open door" in China, formulated and manfully sup ported long ago, when the South was doing all it could to discredit him and malign his co-operation with Great Britain to that end, will be adhered to, not because the South asks It, but be cause It is demanded by the welfare of the whole country, against which, as against its own, the South is unani mously and strenuously arrayed. How stupendous is the task those who propose reorganization of the Democratic party have undertaken is discovered in the pregnant remark of Senator Harris, that, "although Bryan may not be the man, Bryanlsm and what Bryan represents mu6t be the oardinal principles of the Democratic party." Senator Harris here alludes to the hold that Bryanism has taken on the party, and his observation is full of truth. The reorganization needed, obviously, is not so much one of the leaders as of the rank and file. The doctrines of Bryanlsm, financial, Indus trial and soelologic, have been preached so sedulously and unremittingly that masses of the party have come to be lieve them. In this memorable work the Bryan leaders have had efficient aid from Republicans. Men who knew bet ter and didn't care for the truth, or were Ignorant and didn't wish to learn, talked silver and socialism so long and earnestly that they made Republicans as well as Democrats believe there was something In them. This betrayal of truth reacted heavily upon many Re publican politicians, because when their party finally was forced to declare for honest money and protection of prop erty, the masses could not be swung Into line so readily as the more pliable leaders. But the heaviest loss fell on the Democratic party, whose complete curreader to Bryanlsm not only drove out of It nearly all Its brains and char acter, but now renders almost hopeless a redemption of the party to right prin ciples. It Is possible for the Demo cratic party to shake off Bryant but tea't Senator Harris pretty nearly right when he says it oatt't shake oft Bryan lsm? Secretary Gage's Columbian Law School leoture on banking reform dis closes the same attitude toward .the present currency system maintained In the campaign by Bryan, but the vari ant conclusions reaohed by the twe Caen presents an lpstruotive contrast. They agree that a security system Is faulty, and should be viewed as tem porary. Bryan denounces a perpetual debt, and Gage says the debt should be paid. They are both right. But their remedies are divergent and there the demagogue is readily distinguish able from the statesman. Bryan would supplant the security system with flat currency, disapproved of experience; Gage would supplant It with a scientific banking currency, approved of all ex perience. It Is to Mr, Gage's credit that he neither expects nor counsels sudden changes. A practical banker as well as a student, he knows the perils of revolutions, as his conservative ad ministration abundantly attests. It is not unsafe to predict that the currency legislation of the future will be more of Gage and less of Bryan. Twenty years of monetary discussion have eradicated much of the financial errors that once prevailed. The greenback is removed from politics, even if It remains rigid at Its present volume, and as the cur rency supply grows from coin and bank notes, the idea of inflation through Gov ernment Issues will gradually disap pear, except as demagogues shall ex ploit It In times of financial stringency. Sound currency will slowly take pos session of public sentiment, and coinage and banking problems will be left to those who understand them. It Is un likely we shall ever see another Na tional election turn on a question of mintage. AX EXAMPLE ITT BALTIMORE. The annual report of Mayor Hayes, of the City of Baltimore, a copy of which has been furnished us through the courtesy of a State Senator-elect from Multnomah County, presents a most impressive exhibit In economical administration. Mr. Hayes was elected with the aid of independent votes, to give the city a business-like method of government, land to this end he ad dressed himself. The Baltimore char ter wisely centers a great deal of power in the Mayor, giving him responsibly lty and holding him accountable for the departments under him. It also enables him to exact the same respon sibility and accountability from his heads of departments. They are re quired to show the desired results; and if their subordinates do not render effi cient service, they can supplant them with better material. Here are the con ditions of successful administration, provided the Mayor's purposes are right and his discernment true. Economy and efficiency, then, were the watchwords of the new administra tion. Mr. Hayes organized his advisory board of the heads of departments, and gave them his instructions. He was determined to cut down all superfluous expenses and to make the city's em ployes either earn their money or get out for those who would. He ordered a searching investigation into the esti mates of the various departments. He secured the abrogation of exemption of city fundB from interest when on de posit with banks, obtained penal bonds from the banks to the amount of their municipal deposits, and kept the depos its from exceeding in any individual case the amount of the bond. He ob tained new ordinances from the Council and new enabling acts from the Legis lature. He compelled every head of department to advertise for bids for all supplies, and forbade commissions to subordinate officials on palnof in stant dismissal from the city's service. He -made Inquiry into salaries of every city employe, and had salaries reduced in every case where more was being paid than the same service could cqm mand of business firms. The result of this fearless and vig orous business man's administration has been to save the City of Baltimore over three-quarters of a million dollars In the fiscal year just closed, and to reduce the city rate of taxation from $2 on the 5100 to $1 67 on the 5100. The pending ordinance of departmental es timates was scaled down 5290,000; in the water board the saving was 5245, 000; In lamps and lighting, 5200,000; In salaries, supplies, etc., generally, $60, 000; and the Mayor, refers to the ex hibit with pardonable pride as "ample proof of the wisdom of the application of strict business principles to the adi ministration of municipal government." The conclusion is certainly warranted by the evidence submitted, and the showing Is respectfully commended to the people of Portland and to the Mult nomah members of the Legislature, with tlie suggestion that what is good for Baltimore ought to be good for Portland. REDUCTION' OF "TAXES. It Is impossible that the business men whom the Democratic party has driven out of It should not secure recognition at the hands of the Republican party where they have been welcomed a fact clearly recognized by the announced session of the House ways and means committee, which convenes in. "Wash ington November 30. A continuation of present financial and Industrial condi tions enables us to consider tax reduc tion. Hard times would have the oppo site effect. "We couldn't buy abroad merchandise that would pay large cus toms duties, the postal service would run behind, and decreasing consump tion would be reflected in shrinking in ternal revenue. As it is, surplus rev enues are Increasing. A year ago now the surplus revenue was 55,000,000, but by July 1 It had risen to 5S1.000.000. "With the exception of the Chinese diffi culties, no extraordinary expenses have been Incurred, and even this is so off set by augmenting income that the sur plus is now larger than it was a 'year ago. There is no reason, then, for sup posing that the surplus for 1901 will not exceed that of 1900, for the revenue, being derived mainly from Imports, from whisky, beer and tobacco, and from the volume of business transacted, is highly susceptible to improved con ditions of business. A conservative es timate, therefore, puts the surplus for this fiscal year at 5S0.000.000. Expert opinion has been Blow to ap prove reduction of the stamp taxes, for they are not excessively burdensome, and the peril and annoyance of a defi cit is to be avoided at all hazards. Mr. Tawney Indicates, however, that this course will In all probability be taken. The abandonment of stamp taxes would reduce the revenues about 540,000.000 a year, and thus at one stroke wipe out half the acorulng surplus. This would not touch the tax on tea, which is fa vored by a good part of the trade for reasons other than that of public reve nue, nor the tax on whisky, which was not increased by the war revenue law, nor the taxes on tobacco and beer, which were increase of existing taxes. Although the brewers are complaining bitterly sf the increased beer tax, the .Increase in the amount of -beer tased shows that the aggregate has not been curtailed. The political effect of abrogation df the stamp taxes would be excellent and profound. The disappearance of stamps on bank checks, drugs and negotiable Instruments would come under the ob servation of the whole people and. inure to the popularity of present monetary and fiscal policies. It would be diffi cult to- overestimate the beneficial in fluence of any measure that tends to allay the feeling of discontent and class envy so industriously fomented by Bryan In the recent campaign. REWARDS OF CONTINUITY. It has taken Secretary Long almost the entire four years of his administra tion to reach a satisfactory adjustment of the armor-plate difficulty with the manufacturers. The exasperating and costly delay Is not altogether or perhaps to any considerable extent chargeable to himself, for Congress has been un reasonable and the companies have oc cupied attitudes contradictory, impol itic and discreditable. Of the conflict ing Ideas responsible, the most perni cious has been the unreasoning dread of a Government armor plant. The Government makes its guns and pro jectiles, It might Just as well make Its armor. The theory that we shall soon have no more warships to -make and no further need of armor is simply childish. It is noteworthy that a set tlement followed authorization of the establlshmentof a Government plant as an alternative if bids continued un reasonable. There Is one other reason for sus pense hitherto and decision now, and that is the election. Factories and de partment alike are assured of a con tinuity of policy. "What would have happened If Bryan had been elected and a Bryanlte made Secretary of the Navy nobody knew. Our new Navy is so Inseparably bound up with the Administration's policy as a whole that application of the gospel of isblation and retirement might result In suspen sion of present plans and abandon ment of those In contemplation. It was dangerous to make arrangements that might be impossible of execution. Herein lies the grievous disadvantage under which the Democratic party puts itself In antagonizing so comprehen sively the whole course of the McKln ley Administration. Perhaps a Juster, more conservative and less dangerous attitude toward existing relations and undertakings, private and public, will have to be adopted before the Demo crats can hope to come into power. Another illustration of this arrested and imperiled progress Is afforded in the resumption of Anglo-American ne gotiations toward settlement of vexed questions. It Is easy to go ahead now, because governmental attitudes, not only in the United States and Canada, but in Great Britain as well, remain undisturbed. "We know what we can depend on. This reluctance to change men and parties In critical times large ly accounts for Laurler's return as well as McKinley's. In this country espe cially, the proposals of the opposition looked toward radical reversal of poli cies, not only monetary, fiscal, indus trial and military, but in the field of foreign relations as well. It Is no won der the certain shock and tmsettlement promoted dread. A party that cannot felicitate the country on its prosperity, guarantee continuance of active manu facturing, flourishing .trade andsound"' finance, and promise to maintain the National honor and dignity at home and abroad, insures itself at once a powerful antagonism whenever settled conditions are desirable. This is the sort of reorganization the Democracy needs. The death of the Czar of Russia would be widely deplored at this junc ture of affairs In European politics. Not that Nicholas II is a very able man, but as the head of a great and aggres sive empire he is a stable factor in the world's tranquillity, the equilibrium of which Is so easily disturbed. The heir apparent is a consumptive young man who cannot live in the rigorous atmos phere of St. Petersburg. The four in fant daughters of the Czar do not count, and even were a posthumous son born to him, a long regency always a contingency that is regretted would follow his untimely demise. H1b mal ady, typhoid fever, ended the life of- the Prince Consort ofEngland in his early manhood; the life of the Prince of "Wales was at one time despaired of from the same disease, and the Duke of Clarence, heir apparent to the Brit ish throne, died from it after a short ill ness, nine years ago. Hence, though it is a common and well-understood dis ease, and one through which thou sands pass to recovery, it is dreaded of royalty, and all Europe will be in a fever of anxiety until the crisis has been safely passed In the case of the Czar. It Is to Mrs. Stanford's credit that one of the redoubtable cranks and quacks that have from time to time broken into the faculty of her great university has at length been gotten rid of. Freedom of speech, or Professor Howard's agitation over subservience to corporations, has no place in this dis cussion. Independent thinking is one thing, economic error is another. The vagaries of Professor Ross are as ob jectionable in an Instructor of the young as were the financial fallacies President Andrews entertained at Brown. A man Is no more entitled to teach free silver or socialism under the plea of freedom of thought and speech than he would be entitled to teach that the world Is fiat and the moon is made of green cheese. Those who control the policies of our great Institutions of learning have a heavy responsibility to the state, that Its fu ture citizens be not nurtured in eco nomic and sociologlc error. Stanford Is a safer place for boys and girls than it was with Ross in Its faculty. Royalties have their full share of mar ital troubles, and though Queen "Vic toria frowns sternly upon divorce and will not permit it in her family, what ever the cause, a number of her grand children chafe at the matrimonial bonds that have been forged for them and long to be free. Conspicuous among them Is the Grand Duchess Ser gius of Russia, a daughter of the late Princess Alice of England, who, owing to the Indignities put upon her by her imperial spouse, is said to be the most unhappy woman In Europe. Her brother, the Grand Duke of Hesse Darmstadt, and his wife, who is also his cousin, and another grand-daughter of the Queen, have given loud voice to their marital miseries, but have not been allowed to separate. Now the daughter of Princess Helena of Eng land, finding it Impossible to live in peace and safety wlUi her German hus band, Prince Aribert of Anhalt, has been permitted to withdraw from his house and return to her father in Eng land, though strictly forbidden to thins: of divorce. Queen Victoria persists in her determination not to allow a di vorced woman to be presented at court, and to avoid excluding any of her own family, insists upon all abiding by the letter of the marriage contract, how over flagrantly its spirit is violated. To the American Idea, which In this in stance may be considered the common sense idea, this position is absurd, and receives the scant respect that is due to a hollow mockery, even if that mockery is that of an uncongenial and repulalve marriage. Another periodical announcement of the increasing size of the Great North ern's trans-Pacific steamers Is out. This time we are told that work has actually begun on the vessels, and that this lat est set of dimensions is correct. The figures given are quite large, so large. In fact, that there are but two or three ports in the far East where the vessels can enter with safety. Old established Oriental companies who were studying ocean transportation.and operating Ori ental steamships when Mr. Hill's ma rina experience was confined to Red River steamboats are still making money in that trade, but these big com panies like the China Mutual, the Pen insular & Oriental and a few other firms of similar prominence, have learned by actual experience that a 9000-ton cargo steamer 1b about the limit for eco nomical operation in a big country of "mites and atoms," like the Orient, where the freight Is gathered from a hundred ports which can be entered by steamers of from 3000 tons to 9000 tons' capacity, but not by larger ones. If Mr. Hill can find business enough in Hong Kong and 'Seattle alone for his big steamers to load them both ways, they may he operated at a profit Fall ing in this, they will be at a disadvan tage in competition with smaller boats, which can pick up cargo at porta which will not pay tribute to Hong Kong on one end of the line or Seattle on the other. Wherever businesses produced, steamers will go for It. The Pension Commissioner announced recently that 34,000 applications have been made for pensions on account of the Spanish-American "War. This num ber of 34,000 represents the full num ber of soldiers we actually had In the field in Cuba and Porto Rico. Shafter took 17,000 to Santiago, which number Was subsequently Increased to about 2(5,000; but from those about half of General Miles 6000, with which he took Porto Rico, were subsequently with drawn. Merrltt had 11,000 or 12,000 for the taking of Manila. There were some 160,000 in addition in camps In the United States; but the number which actually got Into the field did not ex ceed the 34,000 claims for pensions. Probably a good many of these claims are filed by the fellows who never left the United States for the seat of war. Griggs retires; so there's a place for Ned Wolcott. Politically speaking, "Wolcott Is entitled to something, and he cannot rise far above or fall far below the standard of Mr. McKinley's Attorneys-General. His corporation connections are against him, and it is whispered he would rather go abroad, where his excessive social qualities would have free course. It is regretta ble, in some respects, that Colorado went for Bryan, as It unloads "Wolcott upon the Nation at large. "What an unpatriotic thing "Wolcott did, to be sure, when he declined to bolt the party In 1896! Some good man might have had the place he will hold under Mc Kinley. Imports from the United States into Canada have Increased faster than im ports from Great Britain since the adoption of the preferential tariff by which British Imports are admitted at 33 per cent lower duties than imports from the United States. The Canadian Journal of Commerce says: We regard It as a question well worth the serious consideration of Parliament, whether it would not be well for Canada to give the United States a taste of its own fiscal sauce by raising our duties on American Imports of manufactured goods to the same height as the American duty on Canadian manufactures. Insistence upon an open door in China is hardly consistent with Ameri can policy. It is conceivable that there are Infant industries in China yet in their swaddling clothes, and that Chi nese workmen need protection from the pauper labor of Europe and Amer ica It Is to be regretted that Mr. Croker engages passage for Europe instead of staying at home to lead in person the war he has declared on vice. Tammany fwlll hit vice as crushing a blow as it did the Ice trust. Vest says that Bryan is a back num ber. Then why does he, and why do all the men of brains In his party, stay at home from National conventions and let the Bryanltes run them? The coas.t Is clear for the Nicaragua Canal, say the Washington dispatches, and they specify all the obstacles re moved but the main one. That one Is C. P. Huntington. Colorado thinks It ought to lynch ne groes, and perhaps it ought. Political ly, If not geographically, It belongs to the solid South. The royalists win in Hawaii. Well, well, well! Is Hawaii to be our Ire land? Baden-Powell. Major Griffiths In Fortnightly Review. As regards Baden-Powell, the present Idol of so many enthusiastic worshipers, there Is little need to emphasize his prow ess; the presumption approaches to cer tainty that he .will continue to illustrate and add to his record. Few men have ex hibited more of that rare but invaluable quality in a leader, imagination; this was the secret of his unfailing resourcefulness in the defense of Mafeklng; It gave him his secure hold upon the small garrison who stood by him so plucklly to the very last. His versatile powers, his many ac complishments, his unfailing good humor and buoyancy, all mark him out as born to exercise mastery over his fellows, to in still into them much of his own fine spirit, and spur them on to the highest ondeavor. Senator by XUgrht of Purchase. Hartford Courant. As- for Clark, the Montana multl-mll-llonalre, there Is no such word as fail In his checkbook. The word from Montana is that be has bought for himself a nice, new, 20th-century Legislature, and that he will return to Washington from Butte next Winter with a set of credentials that are positively silt-edged and that even Uncle George Frisble Hoar, of Mas sachusetts, will not look twice at before marking them O. VK. Of such la the king dom of 'boodle. - . DISFRANCHISEMENT AND CONGRESS St. Paul Pioneer Press. The Pioneer Press has never objected to the constitutional amendments adopted by North Carolina and other: Southern Btates providing for an intelligence qualifica tion for the exercise of the elective fran chise. On the contrary, when, after the. Civil War, the country was confronted with the problem of reconstructing the state governments, of the South, and It was proposed to extend universal man hood suffrage to the negroes of the South, the Pioneer Press foresaw that great evils must result from vesting the control of those governments in the masses of the Just emancipated slaves, and therefore ad vocated an intelligence qualification for all the male citizens of the South, whether blacks or whites. If this princi ple had been adopted as the basis of re construction It would have saved the Southern States from all the evils of the negro domination under carpet-bag gov ernments which It was destined to under go for more than a decade. The vital objection to the Southern con stitutional amendments prescribing an Intelligence qualification is that, by virtue of other provisions exempting all native bora white inhabitants from its opera tion, they are made, to apply exclusively to the colored people of the South, while even Intelligent negroes are practically excluded from tho suffrage by the fraud ulent evasion of the 'statutory terms in the practical operation of the election ma chinery. Add to this that the means and opportunity of free education are largely denied to the colored people of the South, and we have In these amendments, all the essentials for the permanent establish ment of a white man's oligarchy In those states. To an Intelligence qualification, impar tially applied without regard to race or color, with such adequate guarantees for the fnee education of all that all have a free and equal opportunity to fit them selves for the exercise of the elective franchise, there Is not only no valid ground of objection, but it would be eminently desirable if the right of suf frage was limited by this condition in every state of the Union. But as applied J in ine Boutn it is flagrantly subversive of the fundamental principles on which our government Is founded. It wsb the ap prehension that the Southern whites, es pecially In the cotton states, would re sort to measures for depriving the colored people of all political rights, which in spired the adoption of the 15th amend ment, providing that "the right of citi zens of the United States vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States, or by any stato, on account ot race, color or previous condition of servi tude," and of the 14th amendment, pro viding that: "When the right to vote at any election for the choice of Electors foe President and Vice-President of the United States, Representatives in Congress, the execu tive and judicial officers of a state or the members of the Legislature thereof Is denied to any of the male inhabitants of said Btate being a years of age and citi zens of the United States, or in any way abridged, except for participation in the rebellion or other cause, the basis of rep resentation therein shall be reduced in the proportion which the whole number of such male citizens shall bear to the whole number of male citizens 21 years of age in such state." This Is the Imperative mandate of the Constitution. When the new apportion ment bused on the census of 1900 comes before Congress It will, therefore, be Its duty to exclude from the representative or political population of North Carolina, Mississippi and other Southern States in t question all that portion of the male adult population which has been disfranchised. Every consideration of right and Justice demands the performance of that duty. There is at any rate no escape from It. It will make a large reduction In the repre sentation of the South. How large will be seen by the following, statistics from the census of 1S90, for that of 1900 will not materially change the ratios. The two last columns show the ratios of the white and black Illiterates respectively to the whole number of illiterates: tf trs: go gp STATES. Alabama Arkansas Florida Georgia Louisiana ...... Mississippi North Carolina South Carolina Tennessee Virginia Texas 1,009.615 787,113) 41.0 18, 16, 11. 69.1 53.6 50.6 67.3 72.1 60.9 S0.1 64.1 26.6 27.8 1.302. 39. &M16, 79-1.683 902.C2S 1,147,446 802,406 1,276.631 1,211.934 1,664,755 45.8 20, U. 23, 17, 17, 13, 10, 40. 35.7 45.0 26.6 154.2 30.2 57.2 46.1 19.7 The Illiterate whites, it will be observed constitute from a fifth or a sixth or more of the whole number of Illiterates; in North Carolina nearly a quarter, but these, with the exception of the small fraction of foreign-born whites, are ad mitted to the franchise. The bulk of the illiterates are negroes at which the dis franchising provisions are exclusively aimed. In Alabama they constitute a third of the male adult population; in Louis iana more than a third; In Mississippi more than a third; In North Carolina 22 per cent; In South Carolina pearly 3S per cent. The representation of Louisiana could, therefore, be reduced from six members to four; of Mississippi from sev en members to five; of North Carolina from nine members to seven; of South Carolina from seven members to five or four. These are the only states which have thus far adopted the disfranchising amendment, but it is so generaly favored In Alabama, Georgia and Tennessee that In all probability they, too, will adopt it, unless they shall be checked by a threat ened reduction of representation. If the disfranchising provision was extended im partially to both white and black illiter ates. It would make the percentage of re duction considerably greater, as shown by the first column of percentages In the above table. On the other hand if the intelligence test was applied to all the Northern States the percentage of Illiteracy Is so small In all of them that it would not operate to reduce the representation of any of them. For while the percentage of Illiterates in the South is from 26 to 45 per cent, in the North it ranges from 3 or 4 to between 6 and 7 per cent, and nearly the whole of this illiteracy is among the foreign population. In 1890 Minnesota, in a population over 10 years of age of 862 0, contained E9.057 illiterates over that age. or the unusually high percentage of 6 per cent, but of these 49,854 were foreign born. So that there are not more than 14,000 voters in the state who could not read and write, too small a number to affect the representation if they were dis franchised, and too small, perhaps, to make it worth while to exclude this small percentage of illiteracy from the polls. This Is true of every Northern State. , , Ancient Knights of Windsor. London Express. The Military Knights of Windsor are the modern representatives of an order Which is as ancient as-that of the Garter, With which it was intimately connected; hence the name Garter House, given to the center of their quarters at Windsor. The Knights were -originally 24 in num ber, and elected by the Garter Knights, and their name underwent various modi fications from the time of Edward III, who established them, until the present designation was decided upon by William IV. The Knights have been as many as 28 and as few as 12. The number oi Knights at 'the present moment ls'18. THE SOUTH IS SICK OF BRYAN. Macon. Telegraph. L The generally accepted verdict Is that Mr. Bryan is oonipletsly discredited as a leader. From one calamitous defeat he has led us to another even greater. It would bo Insane to think of the con tinued leadership of a man who had twice railed to carry his own .precinct, not to say the country. It is well enough to pass around the usual kindly words hoard at a funeral, but It must and it will end there. Not only this James K. Jones to a fit subject for a home for the feeble-minded. He kept claiming the election of Bry an In 1896 -until the inauguration the fol lowing Spring. At last accounts he was declaring that he did not know how th election this year had gone that he was waiting for returns. Stone of Missouri, in charge of the National headquarters in Now York, is little better off. He confessed Tuesday njlght. after the whole world knew how tho whllrwind of ballots had gone, that he could not "think," and didn't, know anything about it. It is Just to say mat he knew as much then as he did at the beginning. The fatal error of committing a great party to a dogma of finance discredited by all civilised peoples was followed up by booting out men like Bayard, Carlisle, Wilson, Olney, and Turner, and substi tuting -Jones, Stone, Altgeld, Weaver and Croker a motly aggregation of incompe tents and moral Idiots. It is painful to confess these things, but it is time that the manhood of the South should rise and repudiate them, and if we cannot shaka them off we should secede from them. Mr. Croker and Mr. Stone have attempt ed to pour a soothing lavement upon our wounds, and we have been urged to be patient and" good and stand yet a while longer, waiting, watching and fol lowing the bidding of these incompetent Northern brethren. Ever since the Civil War, Southern Democrats In Congress and in our Na tional conventions have been given back seats our Northern friends furnishing the platforms and the candidates, and we of the South tho votes. Eight times (since reconstruction) we have gone up to the electoral college and cast practlcx ally a solid Yote for a Northern Demo crat for President. Except on two occa sions (when Cleveland was elected in 18S4 and 1892) our electors met there prac tically a solid North against a solid 'South. This year again we go up to vote for a Northern man who would not vote for Crisp for Speaker because ho (Crisp) was an ex-Confederate, and we find again, as we found four years ago, our own columns (but broken) arrayed against a solid North. n. Where do our Northern brothyen appear in the game? Bryan could not give us his home precinct, and scarcely his state after a fusion with the Populists. What have Croker and Hill. Altgeld and Har rison. McLean and young Thurman and tho rest of the brethren done for ue in the electoral college? And Stevenson, like Bryan, failed to bring up his own precinct. Is it not time for Southern manhood to cut loose from the body of this death? Southern Democrats' furnish the votes, why not furnish the candidates? Morgan of Alabama; Daniel, of Vir ginia, or Turner, of Georgia, could at least have carried the South. Any of the three could have reclaimed Mary land, Delaware and West Virginia, and made Kentucky sure. Hasn't the tail been wagging the dog long enough? The days were when Toombs and Cobb and Stevens and Yancey and Benton and Jackson and Clay and Calhoun and Jeffer son and Washington and a long list of Southern, statesmen stood at the very forefront in the council of the Nation, not to say In the councils of their own political parties. Where are we today? Our Southern leaders are groping about in darkness. They have been following blind leaders of the blind trailing first after an Eastern Democrat and then a Western Populist. Lo here, lo there, lo in the ditch! Sometimes we very seriously doubt whether we really have any Southern leaders worthy of the name. Think of Toombs following an Altgeld, ot a' Stev ens playing second fiddle to a Croker; think of Yancey or a Cobb drinking down the election forecasts of a Jim Jones and learning political wisdom at the feet of a Weaverl But there is manhood In tho .South; there is ability here. We do not lack courage. A thousand fields and forums have demonstrated these facts. Surely the rich fed blood of our sires has not paled and congealed in the veins of their sons. From a race of giants we have not fallen to a race ot pygmies. in. Unless we get out of the rut we have fallen into, the South, which has been an empire 'within itself, will continue to wane until our natural political power will be snuffed out! The stupendous blun der of 1896, followed by the almost delib erate suicide In 1900, is more than likely to cost us a large percentage of our representation in Congress and in the electoral college. Already the plans are made for the forging of our bonds. It is a part of the scheme of the dominant party to reduce our political power to the minimum, and we expect to see it at tempted In the next Congress. Who havo we to blame but ourselves? The editor of tho Telegraph has long held to the Idea that the South should go into the electoral college Independent of any party of the North, at least un til they repeal the Fifteenth amendment, and there make terms. We are a peculiar people. Wo have peculiar environments. Our conduct of our political affairs should be a bit peculiar. So long as the cloud of black aliens is above and about us, put there by Northern Demlcrats and Republicans alike, it would be the part of wisdom and common sense to stand apart, select our Presidential Electors apart, and then go into the electoral college demanding terms. This cry that comes up now from our "leaders" urging us of the South to "be patient," to "be of good cheer," to "stand In, line, we'll get 'em next time," ia like throwing a nubbin to a" dead, horse. It mocks our misery and our poverty and insults our Intelligence. Whom the Gods Love. Mrs. Julia C R. Dorr. I. "Whom the Gods lave die young" ? Nay, rather say With bated breath, "Whom the Gods love die old!" Shall the morn pale ere it hath coined Its gold? The sun so down while it Is yet full day? The -statue- sleep unmolded In the clay? , The parchment crumble ere It be unrolled. The story end with half the tale untold? Tho song drop mute and breathless on the way? Oh. weep for Adonais when be dies With all youth's lofty promise unfulfilled. Its splendor lost in sudden drear eclipse! With love unlived and dreams half dreamed, he lies. An the red wine from life's gold chalice spilled. Ere Its aright tfrlm hath touched hla eager lips! II. Whom the Gods love die old! O life, dear life! ( Let the old sing thy praises, for they know Bow year by year the summers come and go Each with, its own abounding sweetness rife I They know, though frosts be cruel 'as the knife. Tet with each June the perfect rose shall blow, ' And daisies blossom and the green grass grow. Triumphant still, unvexed by storm and strife. They know that night more splendid Is than day; That sunset skies flame In the gathering dark, And the deep waters change to molten gold; They know that Autumn richer Is than May: They hear the night-birds singing like the lark, t , Ah life,-sweet lifel-whom the Gods lore die o;ai KOTfi AND COHUSXT. After the deluge another on. The Bryanlte party wants to. slough, off Bryan. But can. the leopard change hla spots? The Passton Play seems to be provok ing a good many' grand-stand plays In the pulpit. General Buller has got a Christmas dlnaer oomlng at Pretoria this year, hasn't he? The Dewey arch in New York has been torn down. And it was all the work of a woman. Agulnaldo Is not so eager to be made the paramount Issue now as ho was be fore election. It is an unwritten law that no Presi dent shall serve three terms. Hanna has declined to bo President In 1905. Tho death of Marcus Daly has of course exerted a bear Influence on the price of members of the Montana Legislature. The Galveston disaster set a hot pace for the football players, but they hope to equal It before tho season is over. A huge Joke of Halloween is still re verberating. But the youngster who was shot does not stand for tho humor of It. Bryan says ho will continue- to talk to the people. Well, he cannot ba blamed. They did treat him rather shab bily. Most of tho Chinese, Princes have been sentenced to prison for life. They must have been having a Kentucky day in old Pekln. M. Gaston Deschamps, of Paris, will de liver lectures in America on French dra matic art. Some delicate ones among us prefer he would not. Roosevelt now has an opportunity to prove himself truly great by getting men tioned in the papers once in a while after he has been elected Vice-President. Obscurity has no misgivings for Adlal. He does not have to accommodate him self to circumstances. His functional adaptation to environment le automatic It seems to be a longer haul to Astoria by print than by railroad, and the only common point along the route appears to be the failure of the disputants to match arguments. Cyclone Davis, Web Davis and Blchard Harding Davis are respectively different personages. And there are more Davlses. Therefore, do not account the others with the sins of the one. Well, of all things! Alger has been elected a vice-president of the old Army of Tennessee. It is explained, however, that in Civil War times embalmed beef was not a closed incident. Croker will adjourn to England and there breed bulldogs and nurse bis feel ings. He has ordered that New York City be purged of vice while he Is gone. His absence wiU help his plans Immensely. An epidemic of smallpox has broken out in Paris, due probably to the massing there of Arabs and other people from the East during the exhibition. Notices havo been posted by the police warning per sons who havo not been vaccinated within six years to be vaccinated now. . , The -determination to keep the local Democratio party together on a working basis shows commendable personal sacri fice. However, tho centrifugal forces are considerable, even If it is desirable to Ignore them. If the past ta a horoscope of the future, it will be something of an achievement to accomplish homogeniety of a skewbold, crazyqullt aggregate. Some friends )f Archbishop Whately, after dlnlnz wit i Jiim, asked him to show them a specimen of Irish wit. Taking a stroll In tho street, he Inquired, of a cross ing sweeper which of the two the devil would take If he was obliged to secure one of thorn. "Plaza, ycr riverence, ask Father Malony yonder." "No; I want your opinion." "Och, yer riverence, Tm sorry to say he'd take ma" "And why so, Terence?" "Och. because hea Bure of yer riverence at any rime. "I have two mats for my two "boys, says a Philadelphia man, "one new and expensive, the other very old and ugly and Worn. They own these suits In common, and the boy who gets up first in the morning wears the- good one as a reward. Both boys are fond of dress, and bo this scheme works well. The min ute I shout, "Boys, geT-up,' they spring out of bed end make a rush for the jww suit. Sometimes they reach It together, when there will be a hot fight over who's to wear it, and X have to'come up and restore order with a hairbrush." Not ono of the 13 Senators from New England was a Democrat In the last Sen ate; not one will bo in -the next. New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware, the Atlantic seaboard group, will have eight Republican Senators. The senatorial delegation from Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, North Dakota, South Da kota, Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan will be solidly Bepublican. On the whole Pacific Coast there will be but one soli tary Populist survivor of Bryanlte fusion (his term expires in 1003), and there re mains to the Democratio party in the Senate only its representation from the former Confederate States and a handful of members from those mining constit uencies of which Colorado and Montana are the chief. PLEASANTRIES OF PABAGRAPHER8 Her method Mistress Bridget, I hope you don't light the fire with kerosene! took Dlvll a bit, mum! 01 wets It down wld kerosene- and lolghts it wld a match. Judge. Not disappointed Bo your teacher Is going to be married. Then you won't marry her when you grow up? No; and neither would the other fellow. If he'd ever been In her class. Fuek. Sooiety reluctance Dlekey, did yon go up and tell pa that Mr. and Mrs. Jones were here? "Tes, ma; he said he guessed he'd have to oome down, but no didn't want to." Indian apolis Journal. Reconsidered He You need not fear, I shall do nothing desperate Just beeause you have re fused me. "Then, darling, I repent. It was only the thought that yeu might do something, romantic that made me refuse you." Life. Value ot music Mrs. Maternal I am sorry you are going back to Germany. Had X not better get another music teacher for my daughter Professor Boa Note Id ees nod nec essary. She knows enough museek to get mar ried on. New York Weekly. Brlggs So the passengers in the car discov ered that Caudle and his wife were newly mar ried. In spite of the efforts of both of them to keep It dark? Griggs Yes; but It was his fault He spoke to her several times during the trip Boston Transcript. Hostess Why. Mr. Smith, rve hardly seen you all the evening! Now, I particularly want you to eeme and hear a whistling solo by my husband. Smith (whose hearing la a trifle indistinct) A whisky and soda with yew hns .bendr Well, thanks,. I dea't care stl detTt Adjust one! Punch,