The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-05-11
THE WORK OF EMOTION
Power of Sentiment In Political
Life.
1T MAY NOMINATE M'EINLEY.
1t stirred Congress Up In High Pitch In
Consideration Of the Armenian Question
and OF Struggling Cubs-In Fact. We Are
an Impuisive People.

and OF Struggling Cuba-In Fact. We Arc
an Impuisive People.
| WASHINGTON. May Q - special I'VE
don . talk much besides politics I'm the ma
tional capital now. Though the session Of
congress Is believed TO be coming tn an end
within the month, every eye is turned to-
ward the great national conventions 10
meet at st. Louis and Chicago The Nc
kinley managers are as confident as ever,
but it is noticed that the leading members
OF the opposition are keeping up their
nerve. Last Sunday night three of them,
by preconcerted arrangement, came out
with statements that Mr.. Mckinley did
not have enough votes To nominate him
and probably could not get them The
chief spokesman for the opposition was
Mr.. Clarkson, who is generally called GEN
eral Clarkson, though all his ways have
been those of peace. He was once first as
sistant postmaster general, and that hung
| the title To his name. No better man for
the task OF braoing up the dropping nerves
| OF the anti Mckinley men could have been
| selected Clarkson is "A remarkable inter
| viewer He knows just what TO say and
how tn say IL, and il he had been educated
for the law, which he was not, he could
scarcely have made better special plea
for guilty criminal than he made for the
rather shaky case of the opposition last
Sunday night. He has nerve, rhetoric, I'M
Outstanding of the little phrases which |
strike the popular Imagination and great |
powers Of generalization.
MIR. Clarkson's Phrases.
Clarkson has produced two phrases dur |
Ing the anteconvention campaign which /
are likely To live long after the year 1896 /
hns f,.,.
months ago, h0 described ex- President |
Harrison rs receptive candidate" he
produced phrase which has become i'm.
mortal. 1t was one of those apt sayings
which catch the popular Imagination,
which put in one or two words an idea |
which every one has understood but has |
not been able TO express, save with long, |
cumbersome sentences. For all time TO |
come, probably, this phrase will be used
10 characterize men who occupy position |
similar TO that which has been General
Harrison's concerning the nomination to
be made at st. Louis. In his interview
last Sunday Clarkson spoke of this as IAN
emotional campaign, and that phrase Is
also destined To have a long life. 1t is
conceded by every one, the Mckinley mon |
as well as the opposition, that it strikes |
the nail on the head. The Mckinley CAM
enough and has served TO yindcate the
accuracy of the statement which | have
often made In these dispatches that moth
ing is So strong a factor in our politica!
life as sentiment. 1t Is sentiment that 4
has made McKinley's name n household 6
word throughout the county, and any .
politician Will tell you that tnb same senti. |
inent is likely To make him president of
the United States.
This phrase reminds me that we have I
had an emotional campaign or two here in | /
washington. Congress went wild on the |
Armenian question and passed resolutions
asking the president to transmit to the | I
kings and emperors of European countries 4
the protest of the American people against
continuance of the horrors in Al static Tur-
Key. What became of those resolutionsy
They were pigeonholed in the state depart
ment by order of President Cleveland. |
They were mover sent to the monarchs
OF the OLD world, as cong fess had intended |
The Cause OF Free Cuba.
Then came the Cuban campaign. That Z
was emotional, too, and in direct response 9
TO public sentiment. So nearly unani. c
nous were the people of the United States | =
that something should be done To help the |
Cuban patriots that only half dozen votes
against the Cuban resolutions could be | o
mustered In the senate, and only an insig- b
nlilcant handful in the house. Yet moth.
ing has come of these resolutions, MIR
proceeding to make an effort to
mediate between Cuba and Spain and to
BRING about reforms in the colony in his g
own half hearted way. The worst OF it is j
he emotion appears TO have disappeared a
rom congress itself. The word Cuba"
5 now rarely heard in conversation with =
senator's and representatives. They are u
linking about other things, in which they
'r their constituents have n more direct |
interest. 80 far as the average congress
nan or senator Is concerned the CUBAN
esolutions which made so much noise a
ew weeks ago have now become almost a |
oke, and many men are asking them selves | L
Why II was they became so much excited cl
N that occasion. :.
We are an emotional, a sympathetic n |
entimental people, but our impulses are 1
early all in the right direction Among
he few public men who are still devoted |
o the cause OF free Cuba there is q great | y
cal OF dissatisfaction with the attitude | ri
ssumcd by the president. He has not as =,
ct done anything effective in aid of a set "
lement of the Cuban problem Every u
love he has made was after a full under.
landing with the representative of the
panish government at this capital.
'othing has been done that was offensive
D Spain IL is extremely unlikely that | ID
ny good will come out OF the policy of -
Relation and reform. ol
Poor Cubai al
Yet wholly trustworthy information
ONES hither that the outlook i'm Cuba is
u absolutely hopeless one. The rebellion nj
as gone SO far that peace can come To the |