TOPICS OF THE DAY.

Press, Volume LVIII, Issue 11153, 20 December 1901, Page 4

TOPICS OF THE DAY.

~ ■ Everybody Jtnowa tkitUiMcewairded anany taeritoriom deeds GifclJantry. done in etftaon*-** 60 ! per cent., according to • Donitlfl MacdoaaW, the war correspondent — xri)> neTer rewarded, at. all. Sometdmea. the V«al merit of the ease is not fully ap-_ preciated, but anore' often' it is entirely overlooked. Jn « recent iesna of the Melbourne "Argus'! ! Mr n*rrated an KBcident wfyioh: is probably typical of <; th,« way in which deserving oases have gone unrewarded -through reconmiendajtionß for valour being- mislead and forgotten. ; 3>ariittg the d;*termin«4 β-ttaoh; nusd* by the Boers on Waggon HiU,. before tfhe relief oi Ladyemiih, Br. Rxipert Horoabrook, : of wid Pr. Wood, of the Man- • Chester Regiment, were kept busy Attend■ing to the wotocted on-the field. Both oanpiod on tiieir wwrik trodw fire, and ' J>oth were wounded while gallwnitly doing; their duty. "Tina fir* was trensend- i ously heavy at tie time," writes Mr Mac-1 donaild,. "and it was while Kome-brook was dressing a Highlandier'e wouiidg that hie waa Itnocked over, aawi for a time disabled > bj a «jhtot ithptmgih <tii4 side, after a first Ibnlleli 3a*d toin/tibirough- the shoulder of Ibda CDot." T&e doctor's" orderly, a man n&me4 R«dpath, vbo bad been assi«ticg bka on the field, wanted to .attend to fcie wouedied «hief, but Dr. Homabrook e&w tbat th«re waa more urgent work to be done. He therefore asked Eedipath to carry, a message to Colonel Royeton, explaining t}wt the officers in the firing line at -that point were nearly «Ji down, and that * determined awault by the BoeTB juefc might be attended with eerious oooMqUienoee. Under a Jfoeavy fire K«dpatih oam«d tfbe message to tiWe Colonel, wjnd" the eeoesßwry mnforoemente were Irorriod up, xmt bafoye ; <£hey were nrg«tttly needed. Sojne time after the siege of Ladynmith 2>r. . Homabrook sent jn a. rspopli mentioning Mn orderly's conduct, and though thds was included in General I>airtnell'a d«spatabee, notiung wore waa heard of it, ijntil it tawnepired ttot the reporii had been simply «rent on to Pietermaritasburg, aaad th«repigeonrsw>led. Olonel Hyslop, the doctor's aurperior ofl&cer, sent a eeoifiQd report, eulogising the services of several medical men who liad esrved under him, feu* of Hm also notMng more was beard: Moved te indngnation, Dr. Hornabrook wrote persooaUy to Lord Roberts, mentioning Bedpat&'a case, and explaining the eubsequen-t dreamstances. Th'e result, jjajs Mr Ifacdonald, was immedieitely satisfactory, and after eighteen month* 1 Sghtiwg Bectp*tb wae a,w&rd«d the distingni«hed conduct medal It ie to be feared tfaob internal ntiostaeageinent of tiiia sort l«d to xnany tfeswrring capest meeting with »o wwa4?d.' / The feature of the great The campaign jn. 2Tew York Overthrow whidi «nd«d in the over-1 of Tammany. thirow of Tanunany and tJia electioa of a 3iighmindecL bwdotaa mm. and edho-lar, Seth Low, as Mayor of New York, waa thia appearanea in the arena of municipal politics of Judge Jerome, * maa ol whom Clje Am*-

■ rksan 'corpesponder* of «&* "Argae* in the highest tonne. It a prohaibile but for bhia one man's eserrtions the CTails.l' , city would (have been haasded ovee fo* ; 'f iaaothftr four yeaw to tJve appallingly ««m^. j nrpt influenoes of Tannnanyiem. Even ib was, tba fight was a close on*. J^;' Low ..osdy beat Tsmmany'e ooudicb**, gg," Shepird, by 30.000 votes out of a total *|"- -560,000, for Shepard, whom Croker, tie jCananany "Boss," haxj by some meaaa in: ( ~ duced to oome forward as the representatiTij ■ of id* stid©, had been, known for yearn , on ardent reform leader, and even in hii unexpected cHamqter as tlif» Tammany eaa» didate, ihe drew many (reform votes. Wyols the Mayor, who hiad been decteiftj : by Ifhe Bar Association of New York v ■ "couspicuouely unfit for judicial office, , !-", hsd feeen nominated by Croker for position of Judge of the Supreme CoufS,' wliile. Tamraany's candidates for the \ of District Attorney {t he city prosecutor), ''■ and Oomptrollor, were respectively "an (fa; '"■- ---ooura fellow who wspresfinted the giunbleirff■-•'• ring" fwkl Croker'a own clerk. TJie eJec« ; tion of would in «U •hfeive put these men in of Bee. But tfo* ■Iwiur brought the man. Young Judge Jerome pursued a canvass of »ueh rwnuefc,. "■'' «ble vigour tliat the reform pa,rty cvk never be euffloiently grateful to him. lot*. ing alone th« corruption and bribery, the • shameless iniquity, of Tammany'b mefcbodi, Judge Jerome took as the chi«f feature ia his indictment of t]ie hideous rule tb*t oppressed t3w city the fact that ■ • revenues were largely derived from «]* ; uajJewful protection and licensing of vi«. His fiercest inveotives, were reaerwii for its protection of «od paxtnerebip in tbeeye. , tern by wihjch, vnepeakable wetohes luwd '. the daughters of the poor to destruction. * ! Tho police openly supported th«» 1 scoundrel ajjd. Jerome's b»«t»«jg -~ speeohea Awoke the sl«n*bering mowl ■ sense of the people and <$tot* ' then> to revolt. Of Jerome' eelf, the correspondent cannot say enough. "Hejpe;" h«i says, "ia a JaM ,of Roosevelt of the Democratic party, Months a,go Jib was leading raiidjng Wto iproteot«d gombling-houees and hold, ing oourt in the rooms where titye violators of the law had 'been caught. Throughout ■ thie campaign h* has right and,' i left, dsenouncing th« Tammany i n*nw, aibtaoking snb*«rvknt» judges 4jw} - grand juries, upbraiding ti'a rich for thjdi ' ; io4ol«ft<se and lack, of cjvic interest, as 4 - picturing, with pWs languaga the nwet <flw>eki»g phaeeg , of prot<*>ted vioe. H« has sharply denounced the' puWie fna* chisQ corporatione, and (iby aam»). tbtiir chief stockholders as corruptors of public ' life. Bβ attatsked S««ij4tor the leader of the Republicans, who ']i?a4 come to the support of himself and the reform ticket." 'Pla/tt ?s wi& to fr&v* deserved aH tihat was said of hum,. In the end Jeronie .. not only caiTJed %« reform to vjo. " toiy,- bijit himself was elected Dietriot .torney by »n ovenrhelming America has not .heard th)e last of thii young wa,n. ..