THE HOUSE HUNTERS (BRYAN, TAFT, AND FAIRBANKS). BRYAN: "That house looks good to me, if the present occupant really expects to give it up." A candidate who, unlike Theodore Roosevelt, will keep his mouth shut, whatever happens. SOWING THE WIND, TO REAP THE WHIRLWIND. Public opinion assures Governor Hughes, of New York, that a day of reckoning is coming. From the Saturday Globe (Utica). THE FRANCO-JAPANESE AGREEMENT LEAVING THE KAISER OUT IN THE COLD. BRITISH COLONIAL PREMIERS: "You are just in time, General Botha; your experience will be invaluable to us in discussing Imperial Defense." From the Owl (Cape Town). IF F the size of the delegation and the emi- bar, the other a statesman who with eminent nence and varied accomplishments of the success and delicacy represented us at Paris individual delegates themselves be a fair test, during the trying times of the Spanish war. then, measured by the men they send to the We also send an accomplished scholar-ausecond international Peace Conference, which thor-diplomat, a scholarly lawyer, a scienassembles at the Dutch capital on the 15th tific, highly cultured soldier and sailor, and of this month, the Government of the United several expert attachés unusually well versed States and the American people are more in- in not only the theory but the practice of interested in universal peace and more desirous ternational law. The main facts in the cafor its realization than any other government reers of these gentlemen, which we give or people on earth. We send to the great below, will quicken the pride of every Amerinternational council two statesmen of am- ican citizen, particularly of those who have bassadorial rank, one for many years the in the past so often, and only too justly, been |