The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-01-17
IT NIGHT HAVE BEEN.
BUT Mr.. CLEVELAND DID NOT CON
SUIT OTHERS.

4 "a Hypotheti caI Hawaiian Cass-A DEM
ocratic senator Gives HIS views of the
President-His Strength, Wisdom, Cour-
age an.a weakness.
WAsHINeToN. d. C.. Jan. 17.-fspeciaI H.
Tt was Democratic senator known 9arand
wide for his shrewdness. both as a politi-
clan and money maker, who today com
mented on the Hawaiian policy 81 the adj
ministration ia the following language
President Cleveland made "a tremendous
mistake in his method of applying the re-
storative policy even if we grant that that
policy was wisely chosen Had he decided
TO take counsel in a quarter that counsel
was worth having, there would be q differ
emit situation today in the senate. Sup
pose the president, having virtually decid-
cd Oh the restorative business had called
Senator Morgan to the w hite House,
showed him the Blount report and the
Gresham letter and said to him.
% Morgan, tell me what you think of it,
"ln all probability Morgan would have
fenced a little TIL he could ascertain what
the presidents views were. AS soon as he
had found out that the president was
favor Of the queen Is restoration, doubtless
he would have endorsed that view. Then
he would have returned to the senate an
advocate of the presidents policy instead Of
being inimical or at least Indifferent there
to.
He blight, but He Didn't
'This might have made all the difference
in the world. Mr.. Morgan would at once
have begun to talk to the rest of us in
guarded way. of course He would have
taken senator after senator down t0 lunch
with him, and without giving the presi-
dents intentions away at all would have
prepared the ground for q favorable recep-
ton of the news. AS able and careful a
man as Mr.. Morgan would have had great
influence upon the whole senate By caus-
ing man after man to look at the matter
from little different point of view tile
whole temper Of the senate could have been
gradually brought into more or less sympa-
thy with the president view
This is the way ia which q really astute
president would have prepared the ground
i'm the senate He would have done the
same thing in the house too. Through SEN !
ators and Representative. who are in daily I
contact with more than hundred newspsi-
per corresp ondents, the country would have
been reached. don't mean with argu-
nents or open announcement Of the policy
or anything of bat sort. 5ut with the little
things-fragn entary interviews the ability
to see both sir es of the case-gvhich are con
tagious among any body of men and with
the public
He Took the Responsibility
s'But Dir. Cleveland did not do this He
did not take the chairman of thesenate for
eign relations committee into his conf I
dence, nor the chairman Of the house for (
eign affairs committee
'.He might safely and with great ALL
vantage have done SO in both instances. Z
The only mem Der of either committee who I
was c0nfded ia was Senator Gray. and ha /
was not consulted early. Besides it IS unVrise {
to pass by the chairman of q committee and T
cOnfide in a mere member. 1t always breeds I
bad feeling 1t IS a poor policy. Instead Of /
consulting with men who could have helped I
him Mr. Cleveland preferred to spring His 4
Hawaiian policy AS complete surprise