Honolulu Republican, Volume IV, Number 503, 22 Ianuali 1902 — POLITICAL POINTERS. [ARTICLE]

POLITICAL POINTERS.

There is an appropriation in this year’s budget of $1,900 for rents for public buildings in the borough of Richmond, in addition to the sum of $339,711 appropriated for the payment of rents in the greater New York and of $17,500 for rents for the Department of Buildings in Manhatten, $2,500 for a like purpose in The Bronx $l,OOO in Richmond and 100,000 for rnts for temporary school purposes, $12.2(»0 for rent for rent for New York hospitals, $4,500 for rents for the Department of Charities in Brooklyn and Que ns an° miscellaneous items of rent, which bring up the total to over $OOO,OOO. representing, at 5 per cent., a total capitalization of over $12,000,000. • • • Encouraged by the election of workingmen to the office of Mayor in ran Francisco and Bridgeport, Conn., and by the success of Golden Rule Jones in Toledo, the trade unionists of Chicago are preparing to enter politics as an independent party. • • a Comptroller Knight, elected for a two-year term by a majority of 124. 000 in 1900. is Mayor-elect of Buffalo. Mr. Knight's predecessor as Comptroller was William J. Morgan, a resident of Buffalo, and Mr. Morgan's predecessor was James A.Rob trts, another Buffalonian. elect'd in 1893. The office of Comptroller has been held by Buffalonians ince that year, and it is said by many of them that the Comptrollership is a Buffalo office. The present Deputy Comptroller is a resident of Buffalo. The . ffice of Secretary of State has been held usually by an Albany man and ften the office of Attorney-General • a resident of Syracuse. The ‘’■■mptrollcr receives a larger salary ’iian any of the other State officers. « • * The State of Geoigia, now one of the few States in the South which have not adopted disfranchising methods for reducing the vote of the colored citizens by Constitutional , provision, has under consideration , the calling of a Constitutional convention for the submission of a new suffrage amendment to the voters. At present the Georgia method of 1 iX( hiding colored voters from the 1 franchise is by the enforcement of a i poll tax. Georgia is one of the States i (New York and Massachusetts are -two others), which adheres to annua! , sessions of the Legislature, and that of Georgia convened this year on * Oct. Ik at Atlanta. A statute dis franchising the colored voters with--1 out recourse to the Constitution has been J.

4 * * "There are weighty reasons of moral that ought to compel ns to treat Cuba with the greatest consideration and do all in our power to promote her prosperity, - * asserts the Chicago Journal (Rep.). “We have given her independence. L.t ns not rdd to it poverty and bankruptcy. -- • 9 • ‘TV raocratic Holyoke’s election cf a K >pnb!h an Mayor four succ'scive times is fully offset by Republican New Bedford's election of a Demo -ratic Mayor sis successive times. - ' rot-' the Springs- id Republican llnd.j. “This speaks well f. r independence in municipal voting in iiaseach. use Ua,” 9 9 9 “The estimate of Ii.JWd.dOO for army posts in the Philippines is such a trifle that it will probably be pass ’ by Congress without debate.” satii. illy remarks the Philidelphia L< g*>r ; Rep.l. “If it were for some such work as deepening the Delaware Channel now. thsr might b. some objection to IL' 9 9 9 The Charlotte fix' C ' Observer iDem.) agrees with the New Orleans Times- Democrat (Dun.) that “the South is not represented in Congress by her best and most representative men. - * 9 9 9 The Virginia Constitutional Convention has rejected. 36 to 15. a proposition to give local school boards

1 1 discretion in the disposition of local school revenue. The purpose wa? to f appropriating aH of tie rev < cue to white schools, 5 j • • • ■ j "Pre-{deE.t Roosevelt is th- firs: ■ ■ master of the White Haase »4o adds, '■ to a long rast record of civ;l-s*'rvice~ f • -v . . i ref'ns championship, words and eed r compiet ly cons -•-nt with : a:!v growing indications that his ’ ionsisten-y wifi be per>.'*rct ’ ob- ) serves the Boston Advertiser «Rep) 11 ... The Philadelphia Evening Bui tin ■ Rep.; thinks it “not improbable that a good many of the cm who voted for the Philippine Tariff Bill felt a cf sympathy f t the position assumed by Representative McCall of Massachusetts, in his eloquent and : forceful speech condemning the poii <y of maintaining a costiy army in the Philippines, in order to enforce the submi-sioa of th-ir people.” It ' notes that “the former disposition to 1 speak jubilantly of the annexation | of the islands as a master-stroke of ; statesmanship, which promised incali ulable benefits to this country, has largely disappeared.” * * • To the cry cf “Don't touch the tariff " the Poughkeepsie Eagle <R-p.) : retorts: "It certainly will be, and : that b-fore long. The question is ; whether it c ha!l be done by R-publi-Icans. who belic-ve in tne principle of j rrotection and will preserve it intact while they make the necessary revisions, or whether they will refuse. until the people lose patience and repeat the tremendous foliy of 18M, by giving the work into the hands of those who are enemies to I our present system, and who will break down and destroy that which we can just as well preserve as not.” ... “Cuba is one of the most fertile spots in the world.” premises the San Francisco Chronicle ißep.). “If Cu i ans cannot make money raising sugar, let them raise something else. If. in the face of the rapidly increasing output cf sugar, plant rs have run recklessly in debt for machinery, il is their misfortune and that of their creditors. -Our .sugar-beet growers are not to blame for it. and should not be compelled to pay the penal ty.” ... As the Jacksonville (Fla.) TimesUnion and Citizen sees it, the passage of a bill to reduce Southern representation in the House, ‘‘while acting to some extent as an expression of disapprobation of the course of the States that have adoptedd qualified suffrage plans, would, at the sam time, ratify their acts to thq extent of accepting them. It would inflict the penaltv, and with the acceptance of the penalty the whole matter would be ended.”