St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-11-28
President Harrison Wears an
Expression Of Deep Sorrow
Over His Bereavement.
Writing Exhausts Him--He Is
Debating His Message to
a Stenographer.
An Intimation That He Will
Not Go Back on McKin-
leyiSm.
Many Buds to Make Their Ap-
pearanee in Capital City
Society.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 27. president
Harrison has followed new method of
work i'll preparing his annua! message
this year." says gentleman who saw
him at work on it. This message is of
particular interest, because it Will be
the last annual message which he will
send to congress. 1t has been the
custom of the president in past
years to write his message on
pad of memorandum paper,
sitting at his desk in his Office at the
White house or in his room, writing
when the fancy seized him, or when
some idea was suggested to his mind.
But this year," he says, 81 am doing
something l have never done before-I
am debating my message to a stenog-
rapher this vefr. | find that the physi-
cal effort of writing on this pad of paper
is eXhausting."
The president looked weary as he
spoke. There is not an unhealthy look
in his face, but there lies in it today the
expression of deep sorrow. 1t is scanned
with wrinkles. The visitor noticed,
too, that on the pad where the preSi-
dent had been writing the lines were
not straight and the letters were strag
Cling and Informed. Ordinarily the
presidents handwriting is as clear,
precise and neat as hat of
a woman. The great strain
of the long days of Mrs. HarrisOn's last
illness have told upon him. Before they
came he was man of tireleSS energy.
Work never seemed to exhaust him.
Particularly was this true of mental
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and steadily, and he grasps his subject
with completeness that is wonderful.
He used to sit for hours at a time at his
desk writing steadily, not changing
word or altering the position of comma,
so perfectly and so accurately did his
thoughts frame themselves.
II prefer TO write my message my
self,n said the president, continuing.
"My thoughts flow more freely from the
pencil and my words, as they appear
on the paper. are an inspiration to me.
But l find now that soon become eX-
hausted. L find, TOO, that | cannot
fix my mind on my subject so
readily when | am writing with a
pencil. My thoughts wander away
from the subject before | have written
down the words that come to me. l
would greatly prefer to write out my
message, for find that my language is
stronger, my sentences better rounded
when | put them OH paper myself.
Heretofore / have sat down at my desk
when l felt like working and worked
for a time. But [ found that
people interrupted me constantly
when | was in the middle of a
paragraph and so distracted me that |
have been obliged to set apart a certain
time for my work, and TO sit down with
my stenographer then and dictate to
him."
"The newspapers of the United States
are taking a great interest in what you
may say on the tariff question:" said
the visitor. at looks as though it were
McKinleysm that defeated the Repub-
lIcan party, and they are anxious to
know whether you will modify your
views on the matter in this question"
The president had thrown himself on
to his chair prepared to take up his
work again. He leaned back, and, look
ing his visitor squarely in the face, said:
1.-The newspapers Of the United States
ought to know me we'll enough to be-
Iieve that when i advocate system |
am not going to change my views merely
because of defeat in election"