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AMERICAN PRESIDENTIAL Nothing came, or could have NOTES "AND
ELECTION.
come, of the suggestion "until about a year ago, when the Naw
COMMENTS.
Jersey Demoorate, anxious to sp Watching the Money-Changer. pear respectable and not doubting In a Colony such as Hongkong, that a college professor, untutor the money-changer is a nejossory ed in the ways of "practical evil; we say evil because he has
METHOD PURSUED in arriving at THE RESULT, politics, would be thoroughly a little habit of "doing any and
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amenable to professional guidance every body he can. In these days and control, offered Mr. Wilson of fluctuation in the value of the the nomination for the Governor dollar, he has to be very sharply ship. The "machine" was so watched if he is to be prevented tainted and disreputable that from making more than his due many Progressivo Democrats in the matter, of discount. The could not be convinced that Mr. oldest resident Knows that on, Wilson was not standing ns the say, a five-dollar bill," at "one candidate of the interests." It money-olangor's he may get took only a little while to nn- several conts less discount than decoive them; it took only a little at another's; and we are all no- longer to make the bosses realiso quainted with that other little that in this untried amateur they trick of the changer, ofton played had mot their match.
on ignorant visitors, of waiting Entry Into Public Life. to see if any discount at all is ex- Mr. Wilson's campaign was of pected; if not, none is given. In a character unique in American the interests of the public, wo electioneering. There was none of have a suggestion to make. It is the usual party claptrap and vitu- that it be a condition of a money- peration, no effort to keep alive changer's licence that there be meaningless party lines and tra-exposed, in a prominent place on monditions, no dealing in sonorous his stall, a tablet setting forth, yrs. generalities. From first to last boldly, the current rate of dis
Mr. Wilson appealed to reason I count on subsidiary coins for the and to conscience. He discussed day; or the number of cents per nothing but specific and ponder-dollar to which the public has a able issues, and on each one of right. In this way the cheating them he showed just where he so widely practised at present stood. In language that the most could be stopped once and for ignorant could understand and all.
Now that the result of the Am- 1789 George Washington erican Presidential election hon
(Fed.)...8 yrs. 1797. John Adams do...4 been made known, it is interest-
1801 Thomas Jefferson. (Rep.)...8. ing to note the method pursued to-in, arriving at a decision. The 1800 James Madison do 8 law prescribing the method of 1817 James Monroe do 8 olection of President and Vice 1825 John Quincy Adams
(Rep.)...4. President was not always asit now 1820 Andrew Jackson
(Dem.),... 8 is. Originally the electors were required to meet in their respec-1837 Murtin Van Buren
(Dom)...4 tive States and to vote by ballot
1841 William Henry Har- for two parsons, of whom one at
rison (Whig)...1 least should not be an inhabitant 1841 John Tyler (Dem.)..3 of the same State with themselves 1845 James K. Polk do 4 They were then required to make 1849 Zachary Taylor
(Whig) 1 a list of all to persoas voted for and the number of votes for each; 1850 Millard Fillmore
do...2 which list they had to sign and certify, and transmit to the Pre- 1853 Franklin Pierce
(Dem.)...4 sident of the Sonate. Tho Pre-
1857 James Buchanan sident of the Serinto, in the pre-
do...4 sence of the Senate and House of Representatives, was required to 1801 Abraham Lincoln
(Rep)... to open all certifiontos and the At the Police Court, this morn-voles wero ihop counted. The 1865 Andrew Johnson
(Rep.)...3. ing, a man was fined $107 by Mr.
person having the greatest num C. D. Melbourne for being in un ber of votes was then declared 1880 Ulysses S. Grant
(Rep)...8 opium.
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CONGKONG, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1912. -
MR. WOODROW WILSON,
Mr. Woodrow Wilson's victory in the fight for the American Presidency is an event of profound importance to the United.
majority of the whole number of electors appoiu təd
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the most fastidious could appre- More Suffragettism."
ciate and be stirred by, with The Suffragists seem to require innumerable happy side-flashes but little excuse for one of their of humour and illustration, amiable outbreaks. According to keeping always to a high elov-last night's wire, because an ation of thought and feeling and amendment to the Homs Rule practicality, Mr. Wilson laid bare Bill was defeated, thes enter the abuses of New Jersey politics prising ladies have elected to and industrial organisation, break twenty-six windows in West No Parcel Mait." :
The connection clearly outlined his programme End shops. (Rep) 4 The Post Office notifies that the
for their reform, and asked from between votes for women farseilles failed to make the cou-efectors, shall meet in their re- 1881 Chester A. Arthur The presont mode of electing a 1881 James A. Garfield parcel mail from London via President is as follows-The
(Rep)...G mon. all who cared for the good name and "the smashing of the of their State to give him the windows of respectable trades- hence arrive by the next English Monday in January) and vote by 1885 Grover Cleveland nection with tho Assaye, and will
(Rep).. 3 yrs support that would enable man is too subtle for the mere. spective States. (on the second
him to carry it ont, masculine brain to trace. But Democrats seemingly the "saffragettes" have Republicans" and (Dem.)...4
flocked to the meetings of this a logic of their own into whose University President who saw mysteries the males of the human and spoke so clearly, and stated herd are not to be allowed to what he proposed to do so frankly pry. and modestly; Repablicans and Special Constables Wanted.
We don't want to see these Democrats joined on polling day (Rep)...4
in electing him by a triumphant women roughly handled, but we majority:
wish, as we once before. hinted, When Mr. Woodrow Wilson that a body of special constables became Govornor, New Jersey could be enlisted from among the was one of the most depraved and robuster members of (say) the reactionary States in the Union. charwoman persuasion, who would It was faroical even to speak of deal firmly with the window-
'mailboat.
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ballot for President and Vice- "Dangerous.", A man who was carrying ten,
President, one of whom, at least, 1889 Benjamin Harrison catties of gunpowder, nt Wastahall not be ao inhabitant of the Point, without having the word same state with themselves; they 1803 Grover Cleveland
dangerous" affixed, was fued shall name in their ballots the $10, by Mr. F. A. Trving, at the person voted for as President, 1897 William McKinley
and indistinct ballots the Police Court, this morning.
person voted for as Vico 1901 Theodore Roosevelt President; and they shall make
Lost Bangles.
A woman named Marion West; of 52, Hollywood Road, has re. porter to the police that she has lost four bangles whilst riding in a motor car. They are valued at
(Rep)...7
(Rop)...3)
distinot lists of all parsons voted 1908 William H. Taft for as Vice-President and of the
number of votes of each, which of the past presidents only Mr. lists they shall sigu and certify Taft and Mr. Roosevelt are still Abraham Lincoln was and transmit sealed to the seat of alive.
$70 aud aho is offering a roward the Government of the United'assassinated on April 14th, 1865; it as a government of the people, breakers. Soands like that which
of $25 for their return.
Interesting Engagement.
States, directed to the President President Garfield was assassinat The "London and China Ex-of the Senate. The President of or on July 2nd, 1881; and Pre- press" announces that a marriage the Senate sball, in the presence sident Mc Kinley was assassinated has been arranged between Wil of the Senato and House of Re- on September 6th, 1901, liam Edward Leonard Shenton, presentatives, opon all the certi-
MR. WOODROW WILSON. Hongkong, eldest son of the Inte ficates (on the second Wednesday!
A New Force in American Mr. William Shenton, of Win-in February) and the votes shall
.. Politics. chester, and Erica, eldest daughter then be counted. The of Mr. and Mrs. Albert. Denison, having the greater number of Mr Woodrow Wilson, the vietor Hongkong.
votes for President shall be Pre in the fight for the Presidency of sident, if such number be a the United States," has made for We learn with regret of the majority of the whole number of himself a quicker and more
Death of European.
admitted to
Soiree.
Fire.
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person
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by the people, for the people. It took place in Wales recently, was government of the people, when a woman was stripped and half killed by a crowd of raffiaris, by the Bosses, for the Trusts,
To-day thingsare very different. make one's blood boil; but there Pressing the prerogatives of his is no earthly reason why women offics to their fullest limits, but police should not be appointed never overstepping those limits, to keep these creatures in Governor Wilson has contrived order. A judicious slapping from to pass through a Democratic such police would do more good Assembly and Republican than all the imprisonment. If, Sonnte a whole series of benefi- every time the suffragists break cent reforma.
the law, the damage were made
The "Telegraph" and the Elec-
tion Result... By the courtesy of the "Tele-
and at
death of Mr. Brown, late bar-electors appointed; and if no per- brilliant name, and by quieter One gets, in talking with Mr. good by heavy fines, enforced by States and of profound interest to the world at large. The return manager of the Hongkong Hötelson-havo such majority, then from means, than any American of our Wilson, that sense which politi-distraint, and the damagers were of this scholar, this man of clear and commanding intellect, will not Mr. Brown, who had been in fail- the persons living the higheat day and generation. He stands cians in America are all too rarely treated to a little private caning greatly surprise observant people. Months ago, when Mr. Champing health for some time, was numbers not exceeding three on out to-day by far the strongest able to impart the sense of nor smacking by the heavier hand Clark and Mr. Underwood withdrew in order to make Mr. Wilson's Civil hospital a fow days ago, and sident, the House of Reprontatives put forward.
the Government the list of those voted for as Pre- man that his party could have solid, mellow backround of read-ed members of their own sex, WO ing, culture, and philosophy. His should soon come to the end of the present craza; and, then, if "nomination unanimous, it was recognised that never, during the died yesterday afternoon of heart shall choose, immediately, by A writer in the "Daily Mail" politics are the politics of idens last fifty years, had the Democrats had a better chance of electing failure...
ballot, the President. But in Hays of him-Indeed, to read and measures, not of personalities women have a rational political the American President. They could hardly have made 'a' happier
choosing the President, the votes Mr. Wilson's speeches, to study and committee-rooms. For all his grievance, the Government might The Lusitano Recreation Club shall be taken by States, the re- his acts, and to talk with the years in the lecture-room there is be disposed to give the saner choice than Mr. Wilson. He came into prominence as President of is giving a grand soiree at the Club prosentation from each State hay-man himself is to be filled with nothing "donnish about him. meter rape and Princetown University which he tried to democratise by breaking Lusitano on Saturday, from 5 pining one vote; a quorum for this a new hope for American poliis manner is utterly unproton- down the fraternity houses which are dividing the students of for which invitations have been rurpose shall consist of a member tics. It is not often they attract tious, even in its geniality; his America into privileged holots. He failed to get his way, but that issued. This will be the first soiree or members from two-thirds of the best type of men they have rich, clear flow of talk is flecked graph" the news that Mr. was not his fault so much as the fault of the system which pute the Philbarmonica will be in attend the States shall be necessary a man of Mr. Wilson's type be- whole bearing speaks of alert turned for the presidency of the of the season. The band of the the States, and a majority of all never to my knowledge attracted with spontaneous humour; bia Woodrow Wilson had been re- American Universities under the control of the money power. But auce, under the popular conducto choice. And if the fore. He is a phenomenon newness, zest, and confident energy. United States was displayed last his experience there was invaluable to him. It may fairly be said torship of Mr. J. da Costa. House of Representatives eball to American experience. He be- In appearance he curiously re-night at the Hongkong Club, and of many American public men that they have never been grounded
not choose a President whenever longe, in fact much more to the sembles Mr. Joseph Chamberlain, was announced at the Theatre "A fire broke out in the servants the right of choice shall devolve class of public men we
One might describe his features Royal; at the Bijon, and in the fundamentals of political science. Mr. Wilson is a student who quarters and the laundry of 44 upon them, before the 4th day of accustomed to England than as a lengthened, Americanised the Victoria Theatre. It was has got to the bottom of things and a professor and writer who has Lyndhurat Terrace yesterday and March next following, then the to the class that has hitherto edition of Mr. Chamberlain's. received with most enthusiasm. applied his knowledge to the discussion and criticism and illumina- in consequence the rear of the Vice President shall act as Pre- pretty well dominated Ameri- The mouth is a shade more son at the Theatre Royal where, tion of current ovents. There lios. one source of his strength. Yet, premises were partly gutted. The silent, as in the case of the death can affairs. He is nearer to sitive and mobile, the eyen a trifle of course, with an American com pany playing, there was more again, as President of Princetown University for eight years, he brigade turned out and after play-or other constitutional disability Lord Morley, Mr. Balfour and Mr. larger and more charged with
ing on the fire for an hour exting, of the President”
Bryce, to Walter Bagehot and mirth, the lower jaw appreciably than a sprinkling of Americans gained un all-round experience of administrative work. The head uished it. The cause of the fire There are similar provisions the late Professor Butcher than longer; but the general contour present. And how they cheered I of such an inglitation may or may not be a scholar or a man is not at present known. regarding the appointment of to such typically American pol- and effect are virtually the Quite evidently Mr. Wilson, strongly intellectual, though Mr. Wilson is both, but he must be an
Election Day.
Vice-President, it being provided iticians as Cleveland, McKinley, same, with the advantage perhaps whether or not men agree with When the returns of the that no person constitutionally or Bryan.
of a more businesslike air his political views, is ʼn man who
· organiser, a diplomat, andyan administrator. In a variety of ways, American Presidential Election ineligible to the office of President That is to say he is primarily of precision on Mr. Chamberlian's commands the respect of all. By then, such a post forms useful apprenticeship to public life. begin to come in on election day shall be eligible to that of Vice a scholar, a student, a writer, a side and of a greater charm and the way, Mr. Ferris Hartman Mr. Wilson entered politics, and his ideas widened as his ardour in the United States every tele-President of the United States. political philosopher, a vigorous, reflectiveness on Mr. Wilson's must be given a word of praise grew. He was elected Governor of New Jersey where he had a rapid graph and telephone company in It should be noted that the illuminating, and untrammelled There are other and more im- for the neat way in which he but complete course of instruction in actual American politics, the country lends its services free Electors are chosen in the follow-oritic and observer of govern-portant points that the two men made the announcement. He is His excellent administration added to bis reputation. He of charge to the public for the manner Each State appoints, meats and institutions, rather have in common. Both see with pomedian, of course, and the man- made many inquiries, visited the western states, and frankly transmission of messages relating in such number at the Legiala than what Americane, with un- a piercing distinctness and both ner in which, when Mr. Roose withdrew his former criticisms of certain devices and methods to the returns. No attempt is sure thereof my, dires, à number conscious irony, are pleased to are equally intolerant of shams, velt's name had to be mentioned, intended to make democratic government work directly and honestly made to estimate what the cost of Electors, equal to the whole call a practical statesman," haziness, and the specious forme he produced the well-known The result of his training is that he represents something of a new would be it a charge were made number of Senators and Repres Of his fifty-five years, thirty have and aspects of things that pesa caricature smile of the ox Presid- type in American politics. The scholar, in the fullest sense of the for the service. The wireless entatives to which the State is been passed in the lecture-room. muster as realities. word, the man of strong academic training, has not been a can- companies make special efforts, entitled in the Congress; but He has written the best History Baseball. didate for the American Presidency for many decades past without charge, to notify all ships no Senator or Representative or of the American People that It is urgently requested that
It is worth noting what the result may mean to the Philippines. at sea, what the results of the person holding an office of trust has yet appeared.
prospective candiates for the All The Filipinos, it is not too much to say, have been praying for the election are. A President is sleo or profit under the United States, return of Mr Wilson; from the Democrats they hope for self-govern- tied once in every four years. The can be appointed an Eleotor,
It was, I believe, Colonel George American Hongkong Baseball Harvey, the keen-eyed editor of team notify their intentions of ment. But Mr. Wilson has never voiced his approval of such a step, election is held on the first Tues-
"Harper's Weekly" and the North playing. and the most that can be said, at all definitely, is that his return day after the first Monday in Below we give list of former American Review who was the The game on Sunday was will mean a searching enquiry into the position of the Filipinos, November. The inauguration of Presidents, with tire year of their first to designate Mr. Wilson as a sad farce, as so few men came. and quite probably, the granting to them of a greater measure of the President takes place in the qualification, their politics and man preeminently qualified for Do the Americans in the Colony solf government than they now enjoy
Maroli following.
length of service:
party leadership and pablic office,I wish to play, or do they not?
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Former Presidents.
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ent, was very clever and quite without offence,
M. Casenave.
M. Casenave, the French ropre- sentative in the Soxtuple Group, will leave Teking at an early well dinner by the members of date. He will be given a fare-
the Peking Club in the nepr
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