Governor Hanly graduated from the common school to school teaching. He early developed great power of public address, and served a term in Congress in 1894. He is a champion of the people's rights, and unless all signs fail is to play a still larger role in national politics It is not every man who can make a success in comic opera and then pass into legitimate comedy. Mr. Wilson, however has achieved this success. Mr. Wilson is not merely an actor. He is the author of a number of books, and has a remarkably fine collection of Napoleonana and material dealing with the French revolution Mr. Fish is the son of Hamilton Fish, Secretary of State under Grant. He began his career as a railroad man when, as a boy of twenty, he became a clerk in the New York office of the Illinois Central Railway. Since then his rise has been steady, and in 1887 he became president of that road Mr. MacVeagh has built up one of the largest wholesale grocery houses in America, but he has found time to hold important positions in different reforms ever since 1874, when, as President of the Citizens' Association of Chicago, he helped to bring about a better situation in the municipal affairs of that rapidly growing city. He is president of the Chicago Bureau of Charities and the Municipal Art League, and has taken part in national polities We publish on another page certain facts relative to the Japanese occupancy of Korea. The account is Japan and frankly partisan, but there Korea can be little doubt that information in the case has been to a considerable degree suppressed by the Japanese. On November 18, however, it was announced in a detailed dispatch that Japanese troops surrounded the imperial palace and compelled the emperor and his ministers to sign a treaty by which Korea surrendered independence. Hereafter a Japanese minister will govern Korea under the Emperor, and there will be other Japanese administrators at Korean ports. All matters of Korean diplomacy will be conducted at Tokio, and Korea agrees to make no arrangements with other powers except with the consent of Japan. It is charged that some of the ministers who consented to these demands were bribed and several of them committed suicide. The Portsmouth treaty gave Japan rights in Korea which might jus tify this high-handed treatment of the little empire. That treaty recognized the preponderant interest of Japan in the Empire of Korea and agreed that Russia would not oppose any measures that Japan might deem necessary to take in Korea in conjunction with the Korean government. No country could ask for larger latitude. Japan is emulating the action of her new ally, Great Britain, in Egypt. When the Russo-Japanese War broke out we affirmed that Japan as well as Russia was inspired by an ambition for self-aggrandizement. This treatment accorded Korea confirms the justice of this view. |