Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1896-11-28
ncKINLEY A MODEL MAN.
BeIIigerent Silver Senators Con-
Nerts to Civil Service Reform.
(From Our Regular Correspondeni)

ease which has suddenly attacked
many men elected to the Presidency.
This disease has many names, but is
popularity and comprehensively known
as the big head One of the indi-
cations showing that Maj. Mckinley
has happily escaped an attack Of the
big head is that he has engaged in
auguration quarters for himself and
family at the same Washington hotel
in which he and Mrs. Mckinley made
their home during his entire con-
gressional career, instead of at the
more fashionable hotel which has been
made the Inauguration stopping place
of the Presidents elect and their fani-
lies for long period. This is a lit
tie thing in itself, but it means much.
1t means in the first place that he
considers what was good enough for
Representative Mckinley is good
enough for President. elect Mckinley,
and it incidentally makes known to
all that his elevation to the highest
place in the gift of the American peo-
pie has not caused and will not cause
him to forget the friends he had when
he filled the more modest position OF
one of three hundred odd members of
the House. This little incident serves
to emphasize one of the strongest
traits in Mai. McKinley's character,
loyalty-loyalty to country, loyalty
to party and loyalty to friends-a
trait OF which any man should be
proud.
All the indications are that Mr..
Cleveland is going to have hard sled
ding all this winter. The Silver
Democrats blame him for Bryan's de-
feat and they are determined to get
all the revenge they can in every way
that they can. Some of them want to
hang up every nomination sent to the
Senate by Mr.. Cleveland, and that
proposition will be made and advo-
Gated at caucus of Silver Senators to
be held as soon as Congress assem-
bles. Under the circumstances. the
Republican Senators cannot be ex-
pected to aid Mr.. Cleveland in any
fight that he may have with the Sill
yer Senators, even if they would not
by helping Mr.. Cleveland to get his
nominations confirmed be depriving
President Mckinley and themselves
of patronage. There will be another
and stronger reason for his not get
ting any assistance from Republican
Senators. 1t is generally understood
that Mr.. Cleveland will recommend
in his annual message to Congress
and will endeavor to get through at
this session internal revenue segisla-
ton which will furnish enough mon
ey to make up the deficit in govern
ment revenue. This he will do solely
for the purpose of trying to place OBJ
stacles in the way of tariff legislation
on protection lines by the extra ses-
sion of Congress which Republicans
nearly all expect President Mckinley
to call as soon as he is inaugurated.
1t is Mr.. Cleveland's idea that if the
needed revenue can be provided for
by internal revenue taxation at the
present session of Congress, the Re-
publicans will be deprived of one of
the strongest arguments in favor of
tariff revision and that business pres
sure can then be brought to bear upon
President Mckinley against calling
an extra session. Needless to say,
this idea is not shared by Republi-
cans. who, as a rule, believe that Pres
ident Mckinley and a Republican
Congress were elected to give the
country protective tariff and restore
the prosperity which has always been
enjoyed when our industries were
protected, and that protection tariff
law which will incidentally furnish
the revenue needed to operate the
Government will be the leading fea-
ture of the Mckinley administration
and of the Fifty fifth Congress.
The most pronounced spoilsmen
among the Democratic office-holders
have suddenly become the most ardent
advocates of the civil service reform
law. Even Logan Carlisle, Chief
Clerk of the Treasury Department,
who has been directly instrumental
in the discharge or reduction of more
Republicans than any other one man
connected with the administration,
has turned civil service reformer.