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All letters recommending candidates for office must be pald for to Insure their publication, This is a long-standing rule of ours. d Resolutions of respect to deceased members passed by socleties, corpora tions, associations, or other organiza tions, will be charged for as advertising ea tte 3 Sp UP-TOWN OFFICE, BROAD-STREET PHARMACY, 619 EAST BROAD BTREET. i MANCHZISTER OFFICE, 1203 HULL STREET. ol ____ con— co ee en THURSDAY...........APRIT: 20, 1899, ad Mail orders w It is the sense of the meeting thant the conference in Richmond should not he for or against any candidate, but rather strictly for the advances ment of a great cause dearer to the people than any man or men, ~Reso lution adopted by the Democrats of Southampton on Monday last, y The lucky: willba I j A COLDEYN OPPORTUNITY. The Danville Register says Lig glad €o note that the the Richmond Dispatch, the ablest advocate of the conference (10 be held here May 10th) has recognized at lagt that the movement must not be en tangled with perzonal aspirations, and Nas warned the conference against nominating or endorsing a candidate.” 3 |S pa i The words we have quoted from the Regigter otcur in an article in which our contemporary disclaims opposition to “popular elections of United States sena tors,” but contends that the present move ment is designed to advance personal fnterests, This, we believe, 13 a fair statement, in brief, of the Register's posi tion. _ ser i The Register's reference to the Dis patch, however, is so worded that it is capable of producing a wrong impression, Our contemporary says that the Dispateh has “recognized at last that the move ment must not be entangled with personal aspirations.” We acquit the Register of any intention to render us liable, to mis construction, but would say to it that our record on the question of senatorial elec tions by the people and senatorial prima vies shows that from the beginning of the agitation of that question we have recog nized that the great principle invelyed ghiould not be entangled with or vitiated by the element of personal aspiration. =r cond it it fe J The callers of the conference sel forth that it was called for— “The purpose of adopting such measures as may be deemed best to promote the election of the senators of the United States by the direct vote of the poopie, and until that result is accomplished, the selection of parjy senatorial candidates by some popular method.” him Here, in our view, the signers of the document turned their backs on all sug gestions that personal considerations would, or could, have any standing jn the conference. Here the way was barred against the entrance of personal aspira tions. And this view i8 accentuated by the resolution of the Southampton meet ing, which meeting assembled at the in stance of five of the signers of the con ference call, from that section. That resolution declared it to be the scnse of the meeting that the conference in Rich mond should not be for or against any candidate, but strictly for the advance ment of a great cause, dearer to the peo ple than ayy man or men. i f I amr EE 5 1 ft y 3 The paragraph we reproduce from the confercnce call crystallizes a principle the Dispatch has long advoca’ed, and for that reason, and that alone, we endorsed the movement for the May gathering. The Southampton resolution contains the essence of all the duty of the conference as the Dispatch saw it when the call was issued, sees it now, and had seen it whenever anticipating that the movement would, at some time, take practical shape, that 2 Te J We regret, exceedingly, that the per sonal aspiration question bas been drag ged into the discussion of this issue. Or, rather, we should say, we regret that it has heen made an issue on which with some the triumph of the principle threat ens to go off, And certainly we do not propose to discuss the issue except in fts broadest sense—that is to say, except as divorced from personalities in the spe t RN i ow cific meaning of the term, We have only to do with the issue in so far as discus slon_of it Is germane to tho quesilon whether the conference can or will go be yond the purposes for which it has been called, BA TR a ai 8 i} i on EE We do not believe, and have never bes lieved, that there is the slightest danger of an attempt on the part of the May gathering to make a nomination, With due deference to our contemporaries who think differently, we are of opinion that the declargtion of the callers of the con. ference as to 50 purposes. puts the for mer absolutely on the defensive as to this matter. Further, we are of opinion that, considering the history of the passage of he thampton resolution, that resolu. Th bsg be 4 ia, w; ul con _ position still more un Riad ihn gt We ahs Has we are aware, endorse the principle of election of Fenators by the people. in sue of Sunday last we said: our he wg say the least, we should consider it utwise, and we belleya, the leaders of e Rorament would rier itt unwise, the conference ‘made a nomination.’ an an attempt could only be possible when the meeting was rw the sway of wild senthusiasm, and we believe would ad frowned down." Since then our convictions on these polatg have strengthened. But if, per chance, we are a surely it would ‘geem that our contemporaries who “agree wiih the princighe,” but fear an attempt at nomination, are acting a strange and fficonsistent part in not contributing to the prevention of such an attempt. This they could de by urging Demoerats who ocenpy the same position they do to at tend the conference with the determina tion to keep it to the letter and the spirit of the call and the Southampton resolu tion. The doors of the conference will be open to any and all delegations of Demo ¢ratg, and any and all individual Demo crats who favor its purposes as defined in the call. When that Is remembered, certainly it would appear that doubting Thomasges have a golden opportunity for insuring the triumph of both principles for which they stand—that of trusting the people to elect United States senators, and that of keeping the conference from becoming by any chance a personal con vention. Se, we. NINTH VIRGINIA CAVALRY. General R. L. T. Beale, who for the greater part of the civil war commanded the Ninth Virginia Cavalry, left at his death, in 1863, a manuseript history of the regiment, based on notes which he had Ba taken during the war, The narrative is an “orderly, accurate, and graphic ac count of the encampments, marches, stir ring raids, and battles in which the regi ment took part. A Tull Foster of the affi cers and men of the geveral companies has been added, and the casualties in battle noted, as far as they could be as certained.” «vg$ With the consent of Lieutenant Beale, who has edited hig father’s MS, an ap pendix has been added, giving the ac count of Dahlgren’s raid, which was pre pared by Captain Pollard, of Company H, a short time before his death, Arrangements have been made with B. Johnson Co., of this city, to pub lish this book at bare cost. The profit, ‘if any, arising from ite sale will be given to Lee Camp Soldiers’ Home, or returned to the subscribers, if they prefer. The Hon. Josiah Ryland, Jr. Second Auditor of Virginia, who was an officer in Company H, has undertaken as a labor of love to look after the publication, and particularly wishes to be placed in communication with each survivor of the Ninth. We are assured by him that General Beale's book is one of thrilling interest, He is convinced that it will not only be a precious production for every family that was represented in the Ninth Regi ment, but will prove to be a valuable contribution to the general history of the oitvil war By this time President Ingalls, of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Company, doubtless has learned that he has smooth edd down our City Council the wrong way in his interview. If the union depot here has not been built, no fair-minded man, who is familiar with the facts, can put the blame upon our Council, The charter granted about three years ago the company permitted to expire, without action upon its part. The new franchises it will get as goon as it places the required information before the Com mittee on Streets, Give our councilmen their due, The Philadelphia Bureau of Health has been asked to investigate the death of Miss Annie Howell, a trained nurse of great skill, who died a few days ago un der circumstances which indicate that she was a victim of the Christian Scien tists, In many respects the passing of the young woman was similar to that of Harold Frederic, the American author, who died some monthg ago in London under the treatment of members of this sect. From a psychological standpoint Miss Howell's case is much stranger than Frederic's, Some years ago she studied medicine at two well-known medical col leges, and though her health broke down before she could obtain her degree, she was as well informed as the average phy sician. This knowledge, combined with her training as a nurse, made her a fa vorite in the sick room, and for a time she did a splendid business in Philadel phia. A few ycars ago she joined the Christian Scientists, and since then she has been almost a fanatic on the sub ject of their doctrines. Mer collegiate training was thrown to the winds, and ghe besought friends and relatives to dis pense with the services of physicians and place themselves under the treat ment of her brethren, In March Miss Howell fell sick, but she positively refused to allow a physi cian to treat her. It ‘was not until her condition grew alarming that her friends took it upon themselves to procure the services of a doctor. When he found her it was too late to check the fever from which she suffered, and she soon died. From letters and memoranda found her effects it is evident that she was a firm believer in the principles of the Christian Scientists, i she had been under their treatment, a 1] If our friend, the Progress, continues to see in the effort to change the Federal Constitution a danger which is not obvi ous to the chairman of the naitonal Democratic party, and which seems not to have impressed our congressmen from “the Black belt,” we hope it will not be deterred from advocating the nomina tion of white Democrats or by ‘some other popular method.”—Richmond Dis patch, Surely the friends of this great move ment for popular rights are not going to exclude the colored Democrats! The Charlottesville Progress, You are quizzing us, BE Czar Reed has concluded, it is said, to accept the proffered guarantee of $50,000 a year to practice law in New York, and will accordingly soon resign his scat in Congress and change bis residence to the metropolis. He will in the immediate fu ture, however, make a tour of Fucope. So goes the story. Reed himself has so far declined to say anything on the sub TPERTS It is reported that Senator Jones, of Arkansas, will soon resign the chalrman ship of the Democratic Nattonal Com mittee, continued illshealth being the rea S11 J it is rumored in Paris that Edmond Rostand, the author of “Cyrano de Dergerac,” is insane, and is now in an asylum on the Mediterranean coast, THAT DIEPOT. THE RICHMOND DISPATCH--THURSDAY, APRIL 20, 1899. If Mr. Mills really proposes to champion an ordinance requiring ladies to remove their hats upon entering places of amuse ment here, he would do well to fortify himself with a great array of facts and figures to convert the pubiic to his views, In the tourney which he threatens to enter, he should be armed cap a ple, as ft were, and have his lance rested secure ly, else he may find himself discomfited and overborne. But if his proposed ordinance be a good thing for the theatre-going public, we should like to know why it wouldn't be a good thing for the church-going public? It is pos=s