Show Webster Davis ought to be looked after by his friends He Is evidently gelling paresis His last bugaboo Is that at the time the Boer envoys called upon Secretary Hay last winter the British Embassador was concealed within hearing This has not been equaled since he shot his own hat to pieces and declared he was fired upon by Roman Catholic assassins When the Boer commissioners called upon Secretary Hay here wets slenograph ers pr sent everything that was said was reported and the substance of It all was that while the United States s sympathized with the South African Republics tho Government could not interfere In their behalf that It had I been an Inviolable rule from the beginning begin-ning with our Nation There was not no-t concealment no thought of conceal I incut The whole business wafc open and the babble l of Webster Davis that I the British Embassador was in concealment I con-cealment but In hearing is Worth Just las t much a that assertion of the Welser I Signal that the reason S20QOOOOJ was I I paid for the Philippines paid as one condition ot the treaty with Spain was that some New York bankers had some Spanish bonds and demandod the money The campaign seems to > have its usual stock of lars and theyseem I to be trying to earn their little stipend but their cTorla arc so plllablc as to excite s sympathy |