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Show I La Pollctlc auuounccs tlial be "will not retire frqm the Presidential vhec. " But what's tbe use? He's already retired. re-tired. . Wc do not. notice Unit any movement is sprung to raise a defense Xmul for Clarence Harrow. What's the matter? Doesn't 1m deny bis guilt? A Washington report is that silk slockingi? arc no longer popular. But how doc? any one ever tell what is fash, iouable or popular in stockings! Mrs. Belmont is to fouud a newspaper newspa-per for women. cinplo3"ing women only to get it out. Let us hope that it will ' at least have a "Department for Revolver shooting is said to be one B of the events in the Olympic games this year, to be held in Stockholm, Sweden. I But revolver shooting as an Olympic event would seem somehow not lo fit the tradition. President Ilibbcn says that the average aver-age Princeton student is worth six dollars dol-lars a" week when lie leave? college. But he ought to be worth moro than that before he goes to college at all, if lie is hcalthv and has fair use of his hands. The Senate has agreed to vote on tho ratiCeatiou of tho arbitration treaties on March jith. Indications point strongly strong-ly to ratification with the Hoot amendment, amend-ment, which withholds from arbitration tho 'Monroe doctrine, and a. few other points chiefly of local concern.. The opponents of the treaties concede their jjrobablo ratification. The dictaphone has done good service to two innocent negroes who were in jail at Gastonia. X. C. on I'nnvir.tioii of murder. Three -wore convicted, but the phone demonstrated by their recorded conversations in the cells where they were "held, that but one was guilty. And thus an ingenious appliance again served the eausp of .-justice. The outbreak about the officials of the U. S. Department of Agriculture in their work in the "Florida .Everglades but Fcrvca to reneu- the focusing of attention at-tention on tho incompetence of Secretary Secre-tary Wilson. An efticient head of that Department must long ago have reduced re-duced the disorderly elements to sub-iection sub-iection or kicked them otit. Andrew C'nrneqic says that the Xa-tional Xa-tional Banking law fosters tho concentration concen-tration of money in Xcw York. But it would be more exact to say that it cannot can-not prevent it, for its terms arc against such concentration. And that would be tbe way of it under the Aldrich currency cur-rency scheme: the money would go to 2sew Yorkj where its employment and profitahlo uso arc sure, just as is the case now. Hfl The Native Sons of Utah am ineou- EB esistcnt in their unqualified declaration fl of preference to Utah citizens iu all D that pertains lo the construction of the Hj S'tatc capitol, their board of governors WM declaring for this, and refusing to qual- IH ify tho declaration by including the words "when all other conditions are equal," or words to that effect. Yet in the fame declaration they favor tho use of Utah materials "wherever suitable." suit-able." Why . this invidious difverimi- nation against Utah materials? Tf Utah mm men arc to be used, -whether suitablo or not, why not also Utah materials? Judge Hook is getting a dose of ap- flara pointivo politics that must bo as do- j5M cidcdly distasteful to him as it ia clear- Vgffl lv humiliating and unfair. "Day after Iflff imv " xvas P;ir,dcd as the President's ES inflexible choice for appointment to the ff Supreme Court bench to succeed Justice Wt Harlan, deceased. The ups and downs of tho fight for nnd against him were 9 detailed at length, and the probable cf- H feet upon tho President 's campaign for 1H re-election was volubly and seriously ;9 discussed; and yet his appointment was i H proclaimed as sure. Now all nt once, Ml ho is dropped, and another is named as Hi the favorite, with u coyote-like war H on him. We submit that this is no IK way to treat a man of high character DkB and eminent standing. There ought to jHt be inor'f rc5erc and delicacy about that sort of business, and mnu lit for so high u position should not thus bo put to open shame. |