San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-11-27
CLEVELAND'S HARD ROW
HE WILL HENOEFORTH BE ON A
BED OF THORNs.
Mckinley Hasen't Got the Big Head
Since His Election and Has Engaged
Modest Inaugural Quarters.

Washington, d. c., Nov. 27.-(Spe-
D-President-E Elect Mckinley is free
from the disease which has suddenly
attacked many men elected to the
presidency. This disease has many
names, but is most popularity and
comprehensibly known as the big
head" One of the indications show
ing that Major Mckinley has happily
escaped an attack of the "big head
is that he has engaged Inauguration
quarters for himself and family at
the same Washington hotel in which
he and Mrs. Mckinley made then
home during his entire congressional
career, instead of at the more fash
ionable hotel which has been made
the Inauguration stopping place of the
presidents-elect and their families for
a lang period, This is a little thing in
itself. but it means much. 1t means
in the first place that he considers
what was good enough for RepreSen-
tative Mckinley is good enough for
President-Elect Mckinley, and it in
cidcntally makes known TO all that
his elevation to the highest place in
the gift of the American people 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 Major McKinley's character, loyal
ty-loyalty to country, loyalty to par
ty 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 Dem
ocrats blame him for Bryan's defeat
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 advocat-
ed at a caucus of silver senators to be
held as soon as congress assemblies.
Under the circumstances the Republi-
can senators cannot be expected to
| aid Mr.. Cleveland in any fight that he
| may have with the silver senators.
even if they would not by helping
Mr.. Cleveland to get his nominations
| confirmed by depriving President Nc
Kinley and themselves of patronage.
There will be another and a stronger
reason for his not getting any assist
ance from Republican senators. 1t is
generally understood that Mr.. Cleve-
land will recommend in his annual
| message to congress and will endeay-
| or to get through at this session in
ternal revenue legislation which will
furnish enough money to make up the
deficit in government revenue. This
he will do solely for the purpose of
trying to place obstacles in the way
of tariff legislation on protection
lines by, the extra session of congress
which Republicans nearly all expect
President Mckinley to call as soon as
he is inaugurated. 1t is Mr.. Cleve-
lands idea that if the needed revenue
can be provided for by internal reve-
nue. taxation at the present session of
of congress, the Republicans will be
deprived of one of the strongest ar
guments in favor of tariff revision and
that business pressure can then be
brought to bear upon President Nc
Kinley against calling an extra SEES,
sion. Needless to say, this idea is not
shared by Republicans, who. as q
rule, believe that President Mckinley
and Republican congress were elect
ed to give the country a protective
tariff and restore the prosperity which
has always been enjoyed when our
industries were protected, and that
a protection tariff law which will in
cidentally furnish the revenue need
ed to operate the government will be
the leading feature of the Mckinley
administration and of the Fifty-fifth
congress.
The most pronounced spoilSmen
among the Democratic office-holders
have suddenly become the most ar
dent advocates of the civil service re-
form law. Even Logan Carlisle, chief
clerk of the treasury department. who
has been directly instrumental in the
discharge or reduction of more Re |
publicans than any other one man
connected with the administration, |
has turned civil service reformer. Lo- |
gan does not probably hope to re-
main in Office himself, but he has a |
large number of Democratic friends |
whom he had promoted to places tax
en- from Republicans and who are
drawing salaries in excess of their
merits as clerks whom he hopes to
see kept in office. But the Republi-
cans, who, Notwithstanding their
good record, were reduced to make
higher places for Democrats are not
without influential friends, and while
no Democrats in the classified ser
vice are likely TO be dismissed solely
for political reasons, it is extremely
probable that many of them will get
copious doses of salary reduction ear
ly in the coming administration.
1t is already evident that the at
tendance at the Inauguration of Pres