firm Beecher in some slander. 66 All he seemed to want after 1884 was health. He was fascinating, indeed, and his favors to others were long regardless of personal consequences. Many women admired and even loved him. Husbands trusted his friendship for their wives. If any of his sons were erring he loved them the more. You could no more drive Ellen Terry out of the domain of love than Blaine. He was indulgent to the young men who filled the seats of Maine in the Senate when he might have desired them, but he went instead and wrote a long book, the doing of which, under a time contract, gave him the gout and a slight paralysis, and then he gave all the proceeds of the book to pay the deficit of his campaign, he whom they said was a corruptionist. BLAINE AND THE PRESIDENCY. grown." nature he silently suffered under a hatred | gestive, and searching interest in the mate- Conventions of their respective parties, held which appeared to have studied his pangs, and rial affairs of his country; in versatility, schol- only a short time before their death, and the He had arship, and finish, he was fifty years in advance ended ambition had sworn never to let him escape. struggles of when not one, but a hundred Roger Chillingworths, of his equals. the great destroyer had already marked each the more implacable from having had no Redeemed by weaknesses which hurt no one them for speedy gathering to the unknown injury to whet him on. Said Mr. Sherman, but himself, and by a volatility which is the beyond; and both were crucified by deour Consul to Liverpool, who was long Blaine's Creator's best gift to the earth, and gives feat. They had both "lagged superfluous clerk: "Was there ever such hate of so kind a it alternation of sun and dew and atmosphere on the stage" of politics, and pity mingled man? It will never let up on him, either." to breathe and sustain life, and set the hues of with the blow that fell upon them. Clay No, as it has been said of one before," He was cloud and rainbow, Blaine is the sunset of his returned to the Senate in the feebleness of his driven like a lamb to the slaughter, and he time, the still, starry closing of a noble day. three-score years to battle with gnawing disapopened not his mouth." But those gibes make pointment, and before half the Presidential the tears to-day which will long moisten the term he had struggled for was ended he had fallen in the race. Blaine was smitten at Mingrass upon his grave. Henry Ward Beecher, who was called fouler names than Blaine, and Murat Halstead in the Brooklyn Standard-neapolis as Clay was smitten at Philadelphia, with the corners of more Mulligan letters stick- Union, Jan. 28.—It was the apprehension that and thereafter he was unseen and unfelt in ing out, thought it some relief to get up and the Presidency would kill him that caused his the struggles which he once led as the Plumed abuse Blaine in 1884, and to summon a rail- letters from Florence and Paris, and his tele-Knight of the conflict. A feeble utterance that road President from Michigan to the judgexhibited only his decay was his single record grams from Scotland, that prevented his nomment seat of God because he refused to con-ination in 1888. He believed he could be of the late national battle. He was already waiting, elected then, but doubted his ability to endure broken in health and hope, and was the office, and he was certain, as Cleveland had only waiting, till the shadows are a little longer opened the fighting, Harrison might win on the business issues. His judgment was justified. There grew up between Harrison and Blaine, as they became associated, a great mutual respect, and the differences that arose were of minor matters, that were magnified by individuals misled by emotional anxieties or that were not themselves important. Mr. Blaine was aware of his own disability in health, and entirely sincere in his Clarkson letter, but the thought that influenced friends still to use his name for the Presidency was that it might be easier to speak words of command than of advice. The President and Mr. Blaine were drawn together by their personal sorrows as well as their sympathies and mutual He was not well off when first elected Speaker, but he took a house befitting his station, and respect and regard last summer, and there is no more sincere and tender mourner for Blaine there I saw him providently assist the butler than Harrison. The glamour of the Presiwith the wine for a press reception. In the dency long ago faded before the keen eyes of time of general jobbery, with land-grant railJames G. Blaine. He was beside President roads absorbing great domains, all that was Garfield when he was shot down, and saw all brought against him was a miserable parcel of the misery of his lingering death-the nightFort Smith stock, while jurist Senators were mare scenes in the White House. He realized taking the public time to argue railroad and the weakness as well as the strength of the patent cases under the roof of the Capitol for position; the stings of disappointment only the lordly fees. He made no money until after deeper on the highest place. He was not a Garfield's death, when his reputation drew him candidate at Minneapolis, but permitted his into some mining and Virginia railroad opera- indifference to be firm when his candidacy was tions. Mr. Elkins told me that had he been proclaimed. He had two misgivings-that the reared to business he would have been a great Tariff Law was too radical, and so far regarded business man. Mr. Henry Davis said that excessive that reciprocity could not save it, and when Mr. Blaine built his huose at Washing- that it was an error to have made so much of ton he became so embarrassed that Davis went the impracticable Force Bill; and he saw the and borrowed some money for him to see him coming of other cyclonic agitations noting the through. Men who in Cabinet places turned ominous fall in the political barometer, porover to their employers kingdoms of the pub-tending an enormous area of depression. lic land, newspaper correspondents who became Trusted friends told him his name had salvamillionaires on secret and early information, tion in it, but he believed not in the efficacy of shrank from the man of similar faculty, whose the prescription, and yet had not the heart to nervous apprehensions led him to write, "Burn this letter," a thing of no more account than when he has said to me, after long and hearty talks, "Now, I never want to see one word of this in print.' refuse. Philadelphia Evening Telegraph (Ind.-Rep.), Jan. 27.-It seemed like the most extraordinary of political accidents that the Republican nominee, in the memorable contest of 1884, should have been defeated in the manner he was; yet it is simply a part of the history of the time, which must now be admitted by all fairminded men, that the whole country accepted this result with the most suggestive equanimity. Mr. Cleveland was an untried man in national affairs, wholly unknown in this respect. His unsuccessful rival had been known all too well. He had been tried, weighed in the balance of sober, considerate judgment, and found-wanting; albeit, under the stress of party demands, he had been reluctantly supported. Thousands and tens of thousands of Republicans sustained Mr. Blaine for the Presidency with the severest mental reservation, under the most vigorous protest. Many were dazzled by his brilliancy, fascinated by his charm of manner, yet wholly unable to give him that complete trust which is the highest honor. All this was manifest to careful observers, and yet, strange to say, Mr. Blaine himself was not an open candidate in 1888, but solely was not yet ready to give up the struggle. He because of the abounding fear on his own part that he might again fail, and of the conviction, more firmly embedded than ever in the minds of many of those who had once supported him, that his candidacy would be politically inexpedient. He stood aside, but only to utilize the fruits of the victory of his party later on, in the highest manner possible. The wonder is that Mr. Blaine remained in the Harrison Cabinet as long as he did, and when he retired it was manifestly for the purpose of bringing to a culmination the still uncurbed desire to be recognized as the real leader of his party. It was a most unhappy miscalculation for him; a fortunate escape for his party. could have been no stronger in the campaign than Mr. Harrison; in many respects he would have been much weaker; the popular verdict undoubtedly would have been the same. He Philadelphia Times (Ind.-Dem.), Jan. 28.Mr. Blaine will go into history as one of the two greatest popular leaders of the Republic. I think his timidity was abnormal, and in- No two men won such idolatry from the people vited slanders and suspicions, but he investi- as Henry Clay and James G. Blaine. They gated no man and questioned no man's right to were in fact the "leader of leaders" in their his own conscience and acquisitions. The tes- respective parties, and both were fated to drink Washington Evening News (Ind.), Jan. 28. timony of private correspondence is the testi- the cup of bitterness to the dregs in their fail--The folly of the friends of Mr. Blaine, in mony of a receiver of stolen goods, and ure to reach the Presidency. None were wor- endeavoring to nominate him for the Presidomestic correspondence could condemn Car- shipped with such enthusiasm in their day and dency at Minneapolis last June, is now evident lyle, or Washington, or William the Silent. generation. In all the sad mutations of pol- to all men. It was evident to most, intelligent His epitaph was written by the Democratic itics which marked their illustrious careers, men at that time, and it is difficult to underNational Convention which last nominated there never was a time when the mention stand how the very intelligent men who were Mr. Cleveland at the passing of a resolution of of their names did not make hearts leap moving heaven and earth to nominate him sympathy at the death of Blaine's son. The with enthusiasm and eyes brighten as the could have persevered as they did in their implacability of his party's Pharisees was shouts of affection went out to the world. undertaking, knowing, as they must have drowned in the inquiry of Pilate and the There is a strange, sad parallel between the known, what_the_condition of Mr. Blaine's Romans: "Why, what harm hath he done?" achievements and the failures of Clay and health was. For two years past or more Mr. The golden affluence of the period he and Blaine. Clay was set aside by his party twice Blaine has been a hopeless and incurable Grant commanded, from the driving of the-in 1840 and in 1848-when its candidate for invalid. This has been an open secret. golden spike in 1869 to the power of our soci- the Presidency was elected, and nominated in have hesitated to say so publicly, but the fact ety to stay the devastation of Baring's failure, 1844 only to be defeated by one who was not has been well and widely known in political is the reply. his equal in national fame. Blaine was set circles. The Blaine leaders at Minneapolis We are rich, and he was broken-hearted. aside by his party twice-in 1876 and in 1880 knew it, and still they allowed the Blaine boom The sections which the policy of Grant and -when its candidate was successful, and nomi- to proceed, and if the Harrison forces had not his advisers would have divided Blaine com-nated in 1884 only to be defeated by one who been exceptionally strong and well organized posed. In this he resembled Henry Clay was unknown in national statesmanship. And the invalid ex-Secretary would actually have pressing the Missouri Compromise in 1820. the painful parallel does not even end here. been nominated for President of the United In cultivation and address; in a wide, sug- Both were candidates before the last National States. Under the circumstances this would Men have been a gross fraud upon the Republican | ment of his brother Christians of all denomina- and presenting their wreaths of willow and ivy party and upon the people of the United States. tions. He was too big a man to be imprisoned at the grave of an ecclesiastic.' Suppose that Mr. Blaine had been nominated, in a prelatical robe, and too broad a man to be and suppose, also, that he had been elected last November, wouldn't there have been a pretty state of things in American politics at the present moment! Mr. Blaine's Presidential aspirations he would Detroit Free Press (Dem.), Jan. 28.-But for go down into history as a successful man. He had high honors and accumulated considerable wealth. It is certain, however, that he did not regard himself as a successful man; and the world is prone in such matters to take a man at his own estimate. He is likely to be remembered in the future, as Webster is, or Clay and more conspicuously than either-as a disappointed man, one of the saddest remembrances the world can have of one who has filled during his earthly career so great a space in the public eye and the public mind as has James G. Blaine. BLAINE'S MAGNETISM, St. Louis Globe-Democrat, Jan. 28.-The thing that was of most advantage to Mr. Blaine throughout his long and remarkable career was his faculty of making and holding friends his personal magnetism, as the gift is called for want of a better term. No other political leader in our history, with the possible exception of Henry Clay, had such a devoted and determined following under all circumstances. This was partly due, of course, to the brilliant and attractive nature of his public services. He understood the art of making the most of opportunities of dramatic and sensational display, and his methods of statesmanship were always calculated to please the multitude. But his surpassing power was manifested in the way of winning men by direct and individual contact. It was never difficult to approach him, and he never missed a chance to be useful to a person who might sometime in turn be useful to him. He had a marvelous memory for names and faces. When he once met a man he seemed to know him ever afterward, and to treasure even the most trivial recollections of their acquaintanceship. It was not his habit to wait for men to seek favors from him, He anticipated their desires, and doubled their obligation to him by doing voluntarily what might have been delayed for solicitation. That gave him the kind of popularity which outlasts defeat and resists all ordinary influences of criticism and hostility. He could always count upon a certain measure of unflinching and unconditional support, whatever forces happened to be arrayed against him; and he changed bitter enemies into zealous friends with a facility that was a source of constant surprise and wonder. PHILLIPS BROOKS. fenced in by a chancel rail. Grand as were his discourses, his Christian manhood bulked more grandly than any speech or sermon that he delivered. I have read with great profit and delight nearly all that he has ever pubwith him was that he was not more clearly lished; and the only fault that I ever found outspoken upon the great fundamental doctrines of the atonement, regeneration, and the work of the Holy Spirit. Just a little more of Spurgeon "Dr. Samuel H. Virgin-Bishop Brooks doubtless belonged to the Episcopal Church, but Phillips Brooks belonged to Christendom, indeed to the whole world. In his opulent life everybody had a share. His treasures of thought were lavished freely upon all, and the tenderness of his heart often led him to bestow very choice portions upon the lowly and the obscure. Some men hold their theological opinions in such combative shape that difference with them provokes a debate, often a fierce attack; but while one might differ with Phillips Brooks theologically, all conflict was held in check by the superb purpose of his life, the strong spiritual uplift that accompanied his words, the beauty as well as the largeness of the moulds in which his thought was cast, the genuine Christliness of his influence. There is a sense of loss which only the assurance of the higher service in the spiritual realm can relieve." ever a "Dr. William N. Donnell-Did The Christian at Work (Feb. 1) prints many sweeter, purer, or more kindly light flash out tributes to Bishop Brooks from prominent under a murky cloud at the close of day, than clergymen of all denominations. The follow-that which bursts through the sense of our pering are specimens: sonal and national bereavement at this time? The general, almost universal expressions of "Dr. Theodore L. Cuyler-The whole sorrow, aye, of grief, from 'all sorts and conpublic career of Bishop Brooks has been mag-ditions of men' and from organs of all schools nificent, but perhaps the most heroic chapter and shades of thought and opinion at the death in it belongs to his ministry in Philadelphia of Bishop Phillips Brooks, have manifested to while he was the rector of the aristocratic us as perhaps nothing else could do how sponHoly Trinity Church,' on Rittenhouse Square. taneously the general impulse recognizes genIt was during the exciting times of 1860 and uine worth, and how closely, after all, the 1861, when the conflict over slavery was up to great common heart of our people is in touch fever heat. The prevailing spirit in Philadelphia with the everlasting truths which find their was for compromise with the slave power, but expression at the lips and their definition in the Dr. Brooks stood up before his influential and life of such an apostle. The homage to the conservative' congregation and boldly spoke living pastor hinted at it, the tearful, loving out in the same strain that Charles Sumner had reverence to the departed saint emphasizes it. spoken in the Senate Chamber-for freedom to I doubt if ever before this people, which pessithe bondman! A more fearless man has not mists in their haste stigmatize as careless and stood in the American pulpit in our times. irreligious, have with such unanimity evinced This thoroughly independent spirit manifested their instinctive recognition of Christian worth itself in his manners, his dress, and his treat- and Christly power by mingling their tears ble The Churchman (Prot. Epis.), Jan. 28.What a brief and pathetically fragmentary episcopate it seems! Yes; but how fine and strong in those best qualities which most ennoany episcopate. Phillips Brooks was not rate appeared, to see things from their point of always patient with those who differed from him, nor cared greatly, as it sometimes at any office and tasks, he showed himself, from the view. But when he came to the Bishop's very start, a true shepherd. One gracious intimacy, that with Father Hall, taught him what rare qualities there might be in men and schools from which he was farthest removed, and he never forgot that lesson. And then his infinite anxiety to fulfill the demands. of his new work in every least detail, to learn its methods, to honor its opportunities, to use worthily his high office. No one who saw him, day after day, in the last General Convention, constant and punctual in his place in the House of Bishops, so unused to its detail, and with his habit and temperament so necessarily irked by them, and yet so attentive and alert, and, as always, direct and outspoken, will ever forget it. It was a fine illustration of the words: "He that is faithful in the least is faithful also in the greatest.' And so he moved forward into his newer labors and his larger field, men's hearts gladly and hopefully following him, until suddenly the end came, and as he said to his faithful servant: "I shall not need you any more. I am going home." Boston Republic (Rom. Cath.), Jan. 28.-A great churchman,a broad and liberal Christian, an eloquent, earnest expounder of the gospel, and a cultivated gentleman was lost to the world when Phillips Brooks died. Respect for his transcendent virtues and his many sublime qualities of mind and heart was not circumscribed by the narrow limits of sect or creed; it was as universal as his own love of humanity. The Christian community which mourns his death may console itself with the reflection that his good deeds will live after him, and that the shining example which he set will be an incentive to men to seek higher ideals and loftier purposes in life. Golden Rule (Christian Endeavor), Feb. 2.When one but looked upon his gigantic frame, his noble features, his kingly and yet modest bearing, the irresistible impression made was of heroic manhood. This impression was deepened by every word of his eager, burning, masterful speech, swift as a battle charge, yet heavy with serious thought. And every one who saw him or heard him was certain that the spirit back of the form and the words was as simple and noble and strong as they were. To and, indeed, all who ever came under the spell the truth of this his personal friends testify; of his presence and his speech, though they never have conversed with him a may minute, find it hard to realize that they have not held familiar intercourse with him. It is difficult to assent to the providence that cut off such a magnificent life Brooks left behind him no unfinished work, after only fifty-seven years, and yet Bishop however varied and important were the labors so sadly interrupted. A man who is always doing his best leaves behind him, whenever he dies, a well-rounded life. Even with those who and to themselves, and mourn most truly for feel most deeply the great loss to the world the twenty or thirty years that might have been, the chief thought must be one of gratitude that such a man has lived upon the earth. He made the world much richer to those who knew him, and now he has even made heaven richer for all who hope to meet him there. The Observer (Presb.), Jan. 26.-Gigantic not only in his physical proportions, but also in the breadth of his mind and soul, he was eminently fitted to do a great work for mankind. He was an all-around Christian, with no place for envy or the little meannessess which disfigure so many otherwise beautiful The United States warship Boston, lying in ashore. lives. His theological views were not after control and management of public affairs and | and with all the powers of the Presidency in our sort in all of their details, but his noble and the protection of the public peace, to exist his hands, exhausted those powers in the enbeneficent Christian work, and his unselfish and holy living put the best of us to shame. He until terms of union with the United States deavor to annex San Domingo to the United States. Public opinion was against it so decidwas the best kind of a churchman, one who of America have been negotiated and agreed edly that he failed. He split the Republican placed duty to Christ above all the technicalities upon." party, but accomplished no other result. No of ecclesiasticism, and had grand and noble European Power cared a straw whether we conceptions of what the Church ought to do, took San Domingo or not. We decided that not for itself, but for the human race. Scholarwe did not want it. Has there been any marked ship, doctrine, ritual, were valuable only as change in the public mind since that time as to means to something greater and more importhe acquisition of distant islands? We are not tant, the regeneration of individual lives and aware of any. the uplifting of mankind. He was hopeful, almost an optimist, nd his whole course of thought and preaching and living was helpful and inspiring to those who believe in and strive for the good and noble and holy. He had not time for denunciation and criticism and gloomy forebodings. Too much positive evidence of the goodness of God and the brother-patched Commissioners to the United States to hood of Christ came into his great soul for negotiate a treaty of annexation. him ever to despair of the work of God's love and mercy upon mankind. The Advance (Cong.), Jan. 26.-Were all churchmen, of all names, like Phillips Brooks, the recognized unity of Christendom might speedily become a glorious fact. It is truly a mysterious providence that has taken him hence. And yet who shall say that his power has gone? The paradox is true; he has gone and yet he stays, having transfused of the essence and living spirit of his own faith in Christ into so many other lives, the self-duplicating ministry of his own life remaining a perpetual gift to the world he loved. The Queen offered no resistence to the revolutionists. She issued a proclamation announcing that she submitted for the time being -that she yielded to the superior force displayed by the representatives of the United States Government. New York Sun (Dem.), Feb. 1.-It is said that the components of the mixed Hawaiian population include, besides the native Hawaiians, Chinese, Japanese, and Portuguese, who are not qualified to enjoy democratic instituOn Jan. 19 the Provisional Government dis-tions. It will be for the Hawaiian Republic to exercise the right which belongs to each of our The representatives of all foreign Governments in the Islands, excepting England, promptly recognized the new Government. Most of the prominent newspapers of the United States, in discussing the question of Hawaiian annexation, show a conservative dis. position. Some influential journals speak decidedly for annexation, but the majority are inclined to question the expediency of the step, or, at least, advise careful consideration. States, the right to fix for itself the conditions far Boston Advertiser, Jan. 27. Yesterday New York Times (Ind.-Dem.), Jan. 31.Boston witnessed and participated in the great- We shall be very foolish if we do not set about est, most impressive, most instructive funeral this study of the Hawaiian problem with open service that this city has known for many and minds and a desire for full enlightenment. It many a year. No description can do justice to will be well to get rid of any illusions, preposits solemn grandeur, no teaching adequately sessions, and prejudices that may impede right unfold its deep and lofty lessons. He whom judgments. For instance, there is no question New York Tribune (Rep.), Jan. 21. As to Boston buried yesterday was neither statesman involved of delivering an oppressed people Hawaii, we have said distinctly and without a nor military commander. He had held no from bondage. The Hawaiian revolution was disputing reply to England, France, and Gercivic office, had achieved no martial glory. a business operation purely. Then we want to many, that it indispensably belongs to the AmHe was a simple citizen of the nation, the be sure that we are not bamboozled into erican system, and that if the movement of Commonwealth, and the city; in that respect taking the point of view of these thrifty events renders its independent station no no more or less than each of the thousands planters and traders as our own. They longer possible, the rights of trade and the upon thousands who gathered in the beau- want to make something out of us. Can necessities of politics alike require that it be tiful temple so closely associated with his we make anything out of them? Finally, left to our jurisdiction. It is not likely that name, or thronged in the spacious square old-fashioned prejudices against territorial in front, in order that if it were possible enlargement, the traditions, wise and sound they might gain one more glimpse of that be- in general, about avoiding entanglements, loved face, or failing in that, join their voices and such precedents as the San Domingo in the hymn to be sung out of doors-"O God, fiasco, should not be allowed to stand in our help in ages past!"—and bow their heads the way of a good stroke of business. and weep when the great preacher should pass What is it if not a business matter? What is for the last time out of the sanctuary whose the use of putting it on any other ground? We consecrated walls had so often echoed to the should annex Hawaii, if at all, as we should buy sound of his voice in sermon and in prayer. He a ham. Let us first determine whether we was only a citizen, as were the countless multi-want it or have any use for it; then whether it tudes who, compelled by the day's duties to is worth the price, and thirdly whether the remain away from those sacred scenes, no less sincerely mourned an irreparable loss. The sublimity of the tribute paid by the people of Boston to the memory of Phillips Brooks was in its simplicity. That is true of the tribute which is true of him in whose honor it was rendered. POLITICAL. HAWAII. On Jan. 15 Lilioukalani, Queen of the Hawaiian Islands, attempted to promulgate a new Constitution depriving foreigners of the franchise, abrogating the existing House of Nobles, and authorizing her to appoint a new House. She took this action against the advice of her Cabinet. The foreign element rose, appointed a Committee of Public Safety, and held a mass-meeting, which authorized the Committee to take any steps that might be necessary. On Jan. 17 the Committee issued a proclamation which declared that the monarchical government was abrogated, and appointed a provisional Government "for the pretended owners are the real owners and can New York World (Dem.), Jan. 30.-While New York Evening Post (Ind.-Dem.), Jan. 31.-Twenty years have passed since General Grant, at the height of his fame and influence, this time-honored position will in the present situation be amended, nor that England, with its presence in Egypt to defend, will seriously question our right to give such an answer to the Hawaiians as may best commend itself to our duty and convenience. New York Mail and Express (Rep.), Jan. 31.-There are said to be no international treaty provisions in the way of the incorporation of Hawaii with our country. Every consideration of safety, of great interests, now and hereafter to exist, points to annexation as a The time is short, but if it be necessary step. possible President Harrison may be expected to crown his Administration with the preliminary steps for the acquisition by our country of as fair a region as there is on earth, and one of our essential outposts in time of war. New York Morning Advertiser (Rep.), Feb. I.-Our policy has always been to encourage and assist the peoples of the Western world to reach out after and attain the blessings of free government which we enjoy. In some cases this help has been extended without undertaking for ourselves the responsibility of government. In the case ol Texas it was thought, however, that annexation would best serve the purpose. Hawaii. So also it seems in the case of Brooklyn Citizen (Dem.), Jan. 31.—We shall not look for any of that hurry in this business by which the persons who, in defiance of law, overthrew the Government of Hawaii, and, here, hoped to overwhelm all opposition of with their aiders and abettors of the press common sense by a flood of wretched sentiment about "manifest destiny," etc. We shall take time to think about it, and we shall want to know in what we are to be benefited by annex ing Hawaii before considering the request the slightest probability of its doing anything | versatility to believe that he will fill the part even of its people and its lawful Government more. with distinguished success. If he succeeds in for annexation. Detroit Tribune (Rep.), Jan. 30.—Acquisi- gaining admission to the Senate it is not unWashington Evening Star (Ind.), Jan. 30.— tion of foreign territory is a policy on which likely that he will be reëlected in two years, Should the only question be as to whether the the American people are by no means agreed, since the present State Senate will hold over. islands are to be ruled by this Government or and certainly anything we attempt in that diLeavenworth Times (Rep.), Jan. 27.-The England, then there is but one course to pur-rection will excite the jealousy of Europe. foolish Kansas City Times says that the elecThat Hawaii will prove a desirable ac- Nevertheless we should either annex Hawaii tion of John Martin in Kansas is "like the fall quisition is in many senses improbable. Writ- or secure a controlling foothold upon Hawai- of a big tower in the wall of Protection and ing of King Kalakaua's territory, a little more ian soil. paternalism. And yet John Martin was elected than two years ago, and just after a visit to by the People's party, the most paternalHawaii, the editor of the Star said: istic of paternal parties that ever acquired importance on the American continent, and he was nominated by that party after saying to their caucus: sue. As regards annexation, the United States with its present bellyful of crude citizenship, taxing its powers of digestion to the utmost, is not likely to hanker for the job of assimilating the 19,000 Chinese, the 8.400 Japanese, the 12,000 Portuguese, the 37.500 Kanackas (natives), of the islands, offset by only 3,000 Ameri THE CONTROL OF THE SENATE. The Senatorial contest in California resulted in the choice of Stephen M. White, a Democrat. In Nevada Senator William M. Stewart was In Kansas the Populists, with the aid of the Leaving these States out of consideration, Boston Advrtiser (Rep.), Jan. 31.-All that is needed is for President Harrison and President Cleveland, duly supported by Congress, if Congressional action prove requisite, to warn Great Britain and the rest of Europe that the independence of Hawaii must on no account becided. assailed; that self-government shall be main. tained on those islands in the future as in the past. There is not the least danger that the warning, if given with dignity and all necessary plainness of speech, will go unheeded. That is the policy of honor and safety. It is a policy in keeping with the principles laid by the founders of our Republic. It is a policy that is consistent with all our best traditions, and whose wisdom the experience of years has demonstrated. We do not for a moment doubt that the sober sense of the American people will prompt to a steadfast adherence to that policy in spite of native buncombe and transplanted jingoism. Rochester Democrat and Chronicle (Rep.), Jan. 31.-The idea of waiting until some other Power attempts to seize the islands is ridiculous. When that time comes the islands would go to the other Power and our protest would be vain unless force be used. Now there can be peaceful annexation. Neglect of the opportunity would be the greatest blunder of the Richmond Times (Dem), Jan. 31.—The true solution of the problem is to allow the Hawaiian Islands to establish their own Government and take care of themselves, but to enter into a treaty or alliance with with them which will fully protect our interests on the islands and guard them from the danger of falling into the hands of any other nation. If we will do this, we will settle the difficulties surrounding the present situation, and, at the same time, maintain our established policy of non-extension of territory. Detroit Journal (Rep.), Jan. 30.—It has not been the policy and probably is not the interest of the United States to govern distant territory. But the Hawaiian group is an exception. They are an American colony, and they fall into the arms of the United States most naturally, loyally, and ardently. No conquest would be necessary. Few hostile elements would need to be conciliated. The obvious, the inevitable end of the present complications is either absolute annexation or some direct and close alliance or protectorate. England may protest. But England need not be heeded. No English interests or English rights are being invaded. If that nation opposes, it is only because of its chronic habit of meddling with other nations' foreign affairs, and having a finger in every pie. If the people of the United States decide that the annexation of the Sandwich Islands is the best for this country and the best for the islands, England will take it out in growling. There is not -Two I am a Democrat, but believe in your platform and, if sent to the Senate, will do my best to secure the reforms you demand. At first glance it would appear that the Judge contradicted himself in this utterance, but he did not. He knows the Democracy and knows that he can be a Democrat and at the same time advocate the paternalistic "reforms" demanded by the Populists. He will train with the Democratic party in apportioning the spoils, and that is all that will be demanded of him. Outside of that he can be anything. He Washington Evening News (Ind.), Jan. 27. |—This plain, unadorned, unobtrusive John Martin is a man who can distinguish a hawk He can always tell which way the wind blows. from a handsaw at a distance of forty rods. He was a Democrat for a good many years, but not an uncompromising Democrat. would always yield a little when crowded into a corner. When the People's party swept over Kansas like a cyclone and gathered fury as it swept plain John Martin decided which way the wind was blowing, and governed himself accordingly. He adopted an original platform. It was of such a character that nobody could tell whether this unostentatious man was a Populist or a Democrat or a vegetarian. He has received his reward. Whatever Upon the Lupercal at Topeka he has been offered a kingly crown, He was just and he will not refuse it thrice. the man for the Senatorial emergency. Cleveland Leader (Rep.), Jan. 26. THE RESULT IN KANSAS. New York Evening Post (Ind.-Dem.), Jan. 31.-Judge Martin, who has been elected United States Senator by the Kansas Populists, is worth less than $25,000, and lives with his wife and two children in a one-story cotis a type of the old-school Southerner, punctage in Topeka. By birth a Tennesseean, he tiliously polite, and hospitable to a fault. is a man of scholarly tastes, and even his political opponents say that he will make a creditable figure in the Senate. He Chicago Times (Dem.), Jan. 27.-Only a few years ago Kansas disputed with Iowa and Pennsylvania the party honor of being the banner Republican State of the Union. How entirely the mighty have fallen is demonstrated in the fact that within two years both Republican Senators from Kansas have lost their seats, one of them having been taken by the John Martin politically we are unable to say Martin, a Democrat, though his election results Topeka Capital (Rep.), Jan. 26.—For Judge Populist Peffer, the other just filled by Judge anything to his credit. For the sake of an from the union of Populists and Democrats in office he has been willing to bring what seems the Assembly. The Republican party has lost to us to be a shame and an irretrievable dis- not only power, but also prestige. And, lackgrace upon his State. No man in Kansas caring the strong vitality which exists in the ries a heavier share of responsibility for the Democracy, it will be unable to survive any anarchy over which Governor Lewelling so further even brief period of distress. majestically presides at the State Capitol. John Martin as a neighbor and as a straight Democrat has been another person, for whom this community has always had respect and affection, and whom it has frequently honored. There are few men in Kansas who possess equal gifts both social and intellectual. As a straight Democrat representing doctrines of government that have and always have had a large and respectable following in every State in the Union, he would be an accomplished Senator and an ornament to the State. The difficulty which he will find somewhat laborious to overcome lies in his Jekyll-Hyde character as a Democrat at Washington and a Populist in Kansas. Yet we have enough confidence in his agility and " New York People (Socialist), Jan. 29.-Was the game worth the candle? Surely not! ExJudge Martin left no doubt as to where he stood. "I am a Democrat," he said, "but I am in favor of that part of your platform which declares for the Sub-treasury system, or something better, THAT IS, I WANT SOMETHING BETTER! As the People has more than once foretold, and as the Populist Indianapolis A'onconformist itself now puts it: "It will soon be the story of '78 over again by the Democratic party swallowing up the whole shooting match, socks and all." The procession down the belly of the Democratic capitalist class is now welt under way; first in Illinois, two years ago, then California; now Kansas! Next!! Darwin (Charles), Life of. B. O. Flower. Arena, Feb., 12 pp. Gould (Jay): Character Sketch. Rev. of Revs., London, Jan., 18 pp. With Portrait. Hawthorne's Daughter (Mrs. Lathorp).-Clever Daughters of Clever Men. Liszt (Franz). Camille Saint-Saëns. Century, Feb., 8 pp. Illus. A critical estimate of the great pianist. Men of Letters. James Realf, Jr. Californian, Feb., 9 pp. With Portraits. Sketches of distinguished authors. Newman (Cardinal).-Second Paper. Robert M. Lovett. Harvard Monthly, Jan., 10 pp. Parsons (Thomas William). Richard Hovey. Atlantic, Feb., 6 pp. Rumford (Count). George E. Ellis. Atlantic, Feb., 7 pp. Taylor (Bayard), The Wife of. Alice G. McCollin, Ladies' Home Jour., Feb. With Portrait. EDUCATION, LITERATURE, ART. Art-Impetus in Turkey. The Rev. John P. Peters. Century, Feb., 14 pp. Illus. Descriptive of the Imperial Museum of Stamboul, etc. Art in Childhood, Three Degrees of.-The Finest Art of Expression. W. K. Wickes. Childhood, Feb., 3 pp. Bacon vs. Shakespeare. Part II. A Brief for the Defendant. Dr. W. J. Rolfe. Arena, Feb., 11 pp. Browning's Philosophy of Art. D. Dorchester, Jr. Andover Rev., Jan.-Feb., 15 pp. Cambridge (The English) in Winter. Albert Gillette Hyde. Atlantic, Feb., 9 pp. Descriptive. Colleges and Universities as Factors in a Nation's Life. R. Q. Mallard. Pres. Quar., Jan., 8 pp. Columbus, The Value of the Discovery Made by. Edward Everett Hale. Harvard Monthly, Jan., 5 pp. Calls attention to the books of the Abbé Raynall, 1770, and the Abbé Genty, 1788, on the advantages and disadvantages of the discovery of America. Education (Natural)-The Constructive Period. Edward P. Powell. Childhood, Feb., 2 pp. Education (The New) and Character-Building. Prof. Joseph Rodes Buchanan, M.D. Arena, Feb., 11 pp. A statement of industrial and vocal methods of the new education. Ethical Ideals (Low) in Our Higher Educational Centres. Editorial. Arena, Feb., 6 pp. Notices especially the baccanalian revels in modern university life. Fair (the), Preliminary Glimpses of. Clarence Clough Buel. Century, Feb., 10 pp. Iceland, Books and Reading in. William E. Mead. Atlantic, Feb., 10 pp. Insane (the), Specimen Literature of. Daniel Clark, M.D., Medical Supt., of the Provence, An Embassy to. Thomas A. Janvier. Century, Feb., 10 pp. Experiences among the Provençal poets of Avignon and other towns of Southern France. Religious Instruction in Public-Schools. N. S. Burton. Andover Rev., Jan.Feb., 12 pp. A broad discussion of the question. Salvini, Leaves from the Autobiography of. Acting with Ristori-Service under Garibaldi-Estimate of Rachel. Century, Feb., 13 pp. Illus. Shakespeare and Copyright. Horace Davis. Atlantic, Feb., 8 pp. Copyright in the time of Shakespeare, etc. Tennyson, The Voice of. The Rev. Henry Van Dyke, D.D. Century, Feb., 6 pp. Reminiscences of a visit to the poet; critical comments. World's Fair (the), Europe at. I. The British Section, Sir Henry Trueman Wood, Sec'y to the British Commission. II. The French Section, Theodore Stanton, Commissioner Resident in Paris. N. A. Rev., Feb., 10 pp. POLITICAL. Free Coinage, Boons and Banes of. I. In the Interest of Shylock, The Hon. R. P. Bland. II. A Warning to Savings-Bank Depositors, J. H. Rhoades. III. A Depositor's Point of View, by a Depositor in a Savings-Bank. N. A. Rev., Feb., 15 PP. Gerrymander (the), The Courts versus. Norman T. Mason. Amer. Jour Politics, Feb., 6 pp. Decisions of the Appellate Courts of New York, Michigan, and Wisconsin, etc. Nicaragua Canal (the), Government Aid to. Senator John T. Morgan, N. A. Rev., Feb., 9 pp. Favors the project. Reciprocity (American) and What It Means. Samuel M. Davies, A.M. Amer. Jour, Politics, Feb., 8 pp. Representation (Proportional). W. D. McCrackan, A.M. Arena, Feb., 8 pp. Its progress in Switzerland; declares it to be necessary in the United States before we can have a real Democracy. Russia, A Voice from. Pierre Botkine, Sec'y Russian Legation in Washington. Century, Feb., 34 pp. A statement of the attitude of Russia toward its political prisoners and its Jewish population. South Meath Judgment (The). Lyceum, Dublin, Jan., 71⁄2 pp. State (The), Has It Abdicated? H. L. Wayland, D.D. Am. Jour. Politics, Feb., 14 pp. The point made is that the State does not enforce her laws. Suffrage. Edward Everett Hale. Cosmop., Feb., 5 pp. Suggests important questions bearing on Suffrage. Tariff (the), How to Revise. The Hon. W. M. Springer. Chairman of the Ways and Means Committee. N. A. Rev., Feb., 7 pp. The summing-up of the paper is that the principles which governed in the construction of the Walker Tariff of 1846 furnish the basis upon which the Tariff may now be revised." Briggs (Professor), The Case of. Andover Rev., Jan.-Feb., 3 pp. Church (the) of England, Changes in. The Dean of St. Paul's. N. A. Rev., Feb., 11 pp. An account of the Oxford Movement. Christ, The Divinity of. VII. The Satisfaction of Humanity in Jesus Christ. Andover Rev., Jan.-Feb., 8 pp. Christianity (Applied). Who Shall Apply It First? Charles W. Clark. Andover How Far Is a Person Responsible for What Is Called the Tendency of His Noachian Deluge. Part II. The Rev. J. A. Zahm, C.S.C. Amer. Eccles. Rev., Old Testament (The New). The Rev. John Chadwick. Arena, Feb., 8 pp. A plea for a New Old Testament. Orthodoxy (the New) and the Old, The Contrast and Agreement Between. George A. Gordon. Andover Rev., Jan.- Feb., 17 pp. Paul's Purpose in Writing Romans. Melancthon W. Jacobus, D.D. Pres. Quar... Presbyterianism, Some Popular Misconceptions of. Samuel M. Smith, D.D. Presbyterianism in History. W. J. Lisle. Pres. Quar., Jan., 25 pp. Reason, The Supremacy of, in Religion. The Rev. T. E. Allen. Area, Feb.,. 8 pp. The author asserts that "the key-note of twentieth-century Theology is to be-God speaks to man solely through his reason." Saints (The Old Testament). The Very Rev. J. Hogan, D.D. Amer. Eccles. Rev., Feb., 6 pp. Tennyson's Indebtedness to the Bible. The Rev. Samuel P. Rose, D.D. Meth, Theological Education in Universities. Robert Price, D.D. Pres. Quar., Jan.,. SCIENCE AND PHILOSOPHY. 6 pp. Columbus Relics-The Question of Genuineness. Century, Feb., 2 pp. Imagination (the), Uses of. John C. Molloy. Pres. Quar., Jan., 15 pp. Insanity, Causes of. Selden H. Talcott, M.D. Childhood, Feb., 3 pp. Treats especially of hereditary causes. Inspiration and Psychical Phenomena Among Our Latter-Day Poets. Editorial. Arena, Feb., 7 pp. Life of the Unborn Child. Alexander Wilder. Childhood, Feb., 4 pp. Neurasthenia, Certain Phases of, The Electrical Treatment of. W. F. Robinson, M.D. Jour. Nervous and Mental Disease, Jan., 6 pp. Plant-Life, Marvels of. Charles Frederick Holder. Californian. Feb., 8 pp. Illus. Polio-Myelitis, Muscles Which Have Been Completely Paralyzed from, The Restoration of. Græme M. Hammond, M.D. Jour. Nervous and Mental Disease, Jan., 6 pp. Spinal Cord (the) of a Spring-Halt Horse, A Study of. T. L. Bolton, M.D. Jour. Nervous and Mental Disease, Jan., 6 pp. Sugar from Sunbeams. H. S. Adams. Cosmop., Feb., 8 pp. Illus. Descriptive of the beet-root sugar-industry. Thermotaxis in Birds. Isaac Ott, M.D. Jour. Nervous and Mental Disease, Jan., 6 pp, Tobacco, The Influence of, on Vision. Dr. F. Dowling. Quar. Jour. Inebriety, Jan., II pp. SOCIOLOGICAL. Arbitration (Compulsory National). Rabbi Solomon Schindler. Arena, Feb., 6 pp. Urges the formation of a Court of Arbitration for labor troubles, etc. Capital and Labor, The Relations of. The Rev. W. C. Selleck. Am. Jour. Politics, Feb., 8 pp. Points out remedies for the unfortunate conditions of things. Capitalization (Fictitious Corporate), The Vice of. James A. Logan, LL.D. Am. Jour. Politics, Feb., 8 pp. Criminal Law in France. Madame Adam. N. A. Rev., Feb., 11 pp. An insight into the working of the French law. Drunkenness as a Defense. Clark Bell, Esq. Quar. Jour. Inebriety, Jan., 3 pp. The law in England and America, etc. Gambling, in Its Relation to the Public Welfare. The Rev. J. W. Riddle. Am. Jour. Politics, Feb., 11 pp. Home (a), The Hope of. Erastus Wiman. N. A. Rev., Feb., 9 pp. The advantages of Building-Loan Associations. Immigration Problem (the). A Solution of. William H. Jeffrey. Am. Jour. Politics, Feb., 3 pp. Suggests a new law. Am. Jour. Immigration Question (the), The Other Side of. A. A. Halbrook. Inebriates, Criminal Responsibility of, Recent Judicial Evolution as to. Clark Inebriates, the Responsibility of. Some Questions Concerning. Drs. M. Molet and Vetault. Quar. Jour. Inebriety, Jan., 12 pp. Papers read before the International Congress of Mental Medicine in Paris. Inebriety, The Equitable Responsibility of. T. L. Wright, M.D. Quar. Jour. Inebriety, Jan., 13 pp. "Magdalens" (The) of Society. The Rev. J. W. Sproull, D.D. Am. Jour. Politics, Feb., 10 pp. The question is: "How shall the social evil be treated?" Malay Peninsula (the), Life in. John Fairlie. Century, Feb., 11 pp. Illus. Descriptive. Monetary Conference (The): Were We Ready for It? Frank W. Hackett. Am. Jour. Polities, Feb., 4% pp. |