To one accustomed to judge quickly, and, therefore, rashly, it would appear that the outcome of the Chicago convention is determined in advance, and that, indeed, it is all over but the shouthing. We believe, however, that such a conclusion would be an error. The "Literary Digest" may have proved that the Grand Old Party does not want the Colonel, but this by no means indicates the party will not get him. The Colonel has a little way of his own to meet such contingencies, as he revealed four years ago, and is revealing again today. Already he suffers it to be known he will lead another forlorn hope in the event that Root receives the Republican nomination. It will be so with Hughes, or anyone else. When a messiah is being looked for, the Colonel has "one first choice and no second. He is for himself.
If he doesn't succeed in bludgeoning the Chicago convention into nominating him, the Colonel and The Times-Dispatch will be surprised—and pained.
If Justice Hughes is not the nominee of the G. O. P. convention, our luminous contemporary, the Boston Transcript, will be kept right busy for some time in explaining how it came to make such a blunder.
Georgia Aboard the Wagon
GEORGIA'S new copper-riveted prohibition law, which is into effect, today, is expected to do great things for the racket Commonwealth. Under the old law prohibition has been something worse than a farce. In the large cities—especially in Savannah and Augusta—there was  Scarcely any pretense, of enforcement. 